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I’m no longer active for various reasons, but I understand how difficult it is to both write good fic and run a blog consistently.
So while I can appreciate @chenfordfanficquotes' labor of love, I’m not sure that interpreting anon’s comment in bad faith as “blaming people for spreading love” is promoting the desired “space for everyone.” And everyone else dogpiling on anon’s respectful observation is proving anon’s point exactly.
It feels unfair for an account to be defensive towards someone pointing out an understandable bias respectfully when, from my cursory review, there’s only been one call for submissions thus far and most of the ideas are admittedly self-generated. That’s how a bubble is created, accidentally or not. But I’m giving everyone involved the benefit of the doubt.
Constructive criticism might not always be positive in tone, but it’s never a personal knock. After all, how else can you see what you can’t see, and hopefully do better next time, if you never receive feedback?
The quote posts don’t say what the project is about at a quick glance. As an easy fix, it would be nice to see a call for submissions right under the last line in italics. Something similar to, “Help us feature more of your fave fics by submitting quotes here (link to your box)!” would suffice. Hitting shuffle in the queue might boost variety, too. (Diversity is a different topic.)
And for anon or any of our new friends checking in, I’m sorry that you’re noticing this early in your fandom experience. Keep posting your observations and add a call to action at the end to make it easier for others who share your opinion to keep the conversation going. You’d be surprised by what happens when you take that leap and/or reach out to others on your own.
#the rookie#chenford#my commentary#i see you anon dw#my box is always open#but i'm really not here much anymore#enjoy the fandom while it lasts too#s7 might be our last at this rate
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Ramadan is coming up and I can’t stress enough how much Palestinians have never got the chance to experience one normal Ramadan for 75years
You may not have been subjected to this, but as a person from an Arabic country, every Ramadan from every year there’s always headlines of Israeli iof soldiers or Israeli extremist settlers attacking Palestinians during Ramadan, especially Palestinian worshipers trying to pray in the al aqsa mosque
It’s happens almost every single year
Ramadan is suppoused to be Muslim people’s month of worship, of Baraka and it is very important to Muslim people
But Palestinians never ever experienced a normal Ramadan because Israel attacks them Viciously
Almost
Every
Single
Fucking
Year
And I will dare and say that Israel does it on purpose, it does it every Ramadan on purpose
And now, this year, with Ramadan being only a few weeks away, I doubt that they’ll have a normal Ramadan, not in the West Bank, and not in Gaza
All what I have to say here is that Israel will still follow this trend, something bad is gonna happen this Ramadan, keep an eye on Palestine during Ramadan
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haven't been here in forever, but if you sent me that ask on 06 feb, and you still wanna know, slide into my DMs and i'll tell ya
#suits#darvey#i can't publish that bc published posts get indexed#aka they can be searchable on google
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I can't stop thinking about the news out of Palestine. Israel is sieging al Shifa hospital. Videos of people's limbs being severed off are haunting (graphic video tw). The hospital has ran out of fuel and 39 babies in incubators are fending for their lives by themselves, because Israel has stationed snipers around the hospital and is shooting all medical crew that walks into their sight.
First, the narrative was Israel would never bomb hospitals. Now, the hospitals are Hamas bases. Then, we respect journalists. Now, we have a fucking kill list of journalists because they are Hamas collaborators. First, we are not letting fuel in until the hostages are released. Now, we are not accepting the hostages back because that would stop our ground invasion and let Hamas win. And I could go on about every single lie they're making up. If you look up "Hamas rape" on google, the first link leads to Times of Israel saying Israel has found no forensic evidence of sexual violence, and only one eyewitness testimony out of 3.5k people attending the rave. If you Google "Hamas beheaded babies" the top links say they have no evidence for the claim besides word of mouth from extremist soldiers. Israeli extremists think about the ugliest goriest scene they can make out in their sick heads, tell that to a international journalist and they run away with it like it's gospel.
And children are being killed in the name of these lies. Thousands are being displaced in images that remind me of the pictures of Tantura 75 years ago, with their hands up so the tanks don't shoot them. Amputees are leaving the hospitals in wheelchairs hours after their surgeries because they are being shot at. Elders who survived the Nakba on 48 are having to walk towards Southern Gaza on foot (imagine walking from one end of your city to the other on foot), displaced again. People are cheering for the haunting images of white phosphorus bombs being dropped over Gaza. Gazan workers who were arrested in the West Bank are being thrust back into the bombings wearing numbered labels.
This is not normal. We are seeing the early stages of the settler colonial genocide of an indigenous population. Native leaders who have visited Gaza say its refugee camps look eerily like reservations. We can stop this. For the first time we are able to see wide scale accounts from the hands of the people suffering the genocide, and Israel is so scared of it they have cut all communications in Gaza.
This is our litmus test. I think we have never seen more clearly, with Palestine, Armenia, Congo and Sudan how colonialism has made our world a rotten place to live in.
The South African apartheid collapsed due to boycotts. We have to do everything in our power to stop Israel's hegemony. Even talking to a group of friends about Palestine changes the status quo. There's no world where we can live peacefully if Israel accomplishes their goals.
Educate yourself. Read into Palestinian history and the occupation. You can't common sense people out of decades of propaganda. If your arguments crumble when a zionist brings up the "disengagement of Gaza", you have to learn more.
Read Decolonize Palestine. They have 15 minute reads that concisely explain the occupation (and its colonial roots) and debunk popular myths, including pinkwashing.
Read on Palestine. Here's an amazing masterpost.
Verso Book Club is giving out free books on Palestine (I personally downloaded Ten Myths about Israel by Ilan Pappe).
Keep yourself updated and share Palestinian voices. Muna El-Kurd said every tweet is like a treasure to them, because their voices are repressed on social media and even on this very app. Make it your action item to share something about the Palestinian plight everyday. Here are some resources:
Al Jazeera, Anadolu Agency, Mondoweiss
Boycott Divest Sanction Movement
Palestinian Youth Movement is organizing protests and direct action against weapons factories across the US
Mohammed El-Kurd (twitter / instagram)
Muhammad Shehada (twitter)
Motaz Azaiza (instagram) - reporting directly from Gaza.
Hind Khudary - reporting directly from Gaza. Her husband and daughter moved South to run from the tanks but she stayed behind to record the genocide. The least we can do is not let her calls fall on deaf ears.
You can participate in boycotts wherever you are in the world, through BDS guidelines. Don't be overwhelmed by gigantic boycott lists. BDS explicitly targets only a few brands which have bigger impact. You can stop consuming from as many brands as you want, though, and by all means feel free to give a 1 star review to McDonalds, Papa John, Pizza Hut, Burger King and Starbucks. Right now, they are focusing on boycotting the following:
Carrefour, HP, Puma, Sabra, Sodastream, Ahava cosmetics, Israeli fruits and vegetables
Push for a cultural boycott - pressure your favorite artist to speak out on Palestine and cancel any upcoming performances on occupied territory (Lorde cancelled her gig in Israel because of this. It works.)
If you can, participate in direct action or donate.
Palestine Action works to shut down Israeli weapons factories in the UK and USA, and have successfully shut down one of their firms in London.Some of the activists are going on trial and are calling for mobilizing on court.
Palestinian Youth Movement is organizing direct actions to stop the shipping of wars to Israel. Follow them.
Educate yourself. Read into Palestinian history and the occupation. You can't common sense people out of decades of propaganda. If your arguments crumble when a zionist brings up the "disengagement of Gaza", you have to learn more.
Read Decolonize Palestine. They have 15 minute reads that concisely explain the occupation (and its colonial roots) and debunk popular myths, including pinkwashing.
Read on Palestine. Here's an amazing masterpost.
Verso Book Club is giving out free books on Palestine (I personally downloaded Ten Myths about Israel by Ilan Pappe. If you still believe in the two states solution, this book by an Israeli professor debunks it).
Call your representatives. The Labour Party in the UK had an emergency meeting after several councilors threatened to resign if they didn't condemn Israeli war crimes. Calling to show your complaints works, even more if you live in a country that funds genocide.
FOR PEOPLE IN THE USA: USCPR has developed this toolkit for calls, here's a document that autosends emails to your representatives and here's a toolkit by Ceasefire in Gaza NOW!
FOR PEOPLE IN EUROPE: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace targeting the European Parliament and one specific for almost all countries in Europe, including Germany, Ireland, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Greece, Norway, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Finland, Austria, Belgium Romania and Ukraine
FOR PEOPLE IN THE UK: Friends of Al-Aqsa UK and Palestine Solidarity UK have made toolkits for calls and emails
FOR PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA: Here's a toolkit by Stand With Palestine
FOR PEOPLE IN CANADA: Here's a toolkit by Indepent Jewish Voices for Canada
Join a protest. Here's a constantly updating list of protests:
Global calendar
Another global calendar (go to the instragram of the organizers to confirm your protest)
USA calendar
Australia calendar
Feel free to add more.
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very very worried about palestinian journalists still... apparently the video motaz posted of the bombing on his instagram story isn't actually his, it was a repost, and he posted to twitter an hour ago, but no one has news about bisan or plestia… i'm very worried about bisan because the last thing she posted was that the isra*li infantry was 1-2 km away from her
#palestine#there's a girl named noury on twitter#she gives us lil updates on her life#she's an anime? stan#it's cute haha#but she hasn't posted in 3 days#when they lost connection for a bit last time#she stopped posting then too#but she was alive#now we're not so sure
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what's going on in the congo since there's also a genocide happening over there as well:
to sum it up, people in the congo are literally being worked as slaves to mine for this material called coltan, which is very valuable as its used for things like phones, laptops, just electronics in general. Congo is the number 1 producer for this material and the places behind this genocide is America, Britain, France, and Israel, wow what an absolute shocker. The worst places probably to ever exist benefit from a genocide. These places are funding Rwanda and Uganda military groups, to go into the Congo and kill MILLIONS of people. This has also been going on for YEARS. Many women have been SA'd and men are forced to work in INHUMAN conditions, resulting in their death and the colonizers are absolutely benefitting from this. 6 MILLION people have been killed and half of them are literally kids. Many of the Congolese people have also been displaced.
Please speak out about and raise your voice
#prev!!!#congo#rwandans are in congo#bc they committed a genocide on their own ppl#watch hotel rwanda with don cheadle
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Please share far and wide. Do not give any of your time and money to these companies.
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They forgot Starbucks in organic boycott targets
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#palestine#they targeted motaz this week too#while trying to buy water for his grandma#most of the insta/tt journos are younger than me#that's insane
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This is has been the way since forever. They see us as animals, they're given the green light. And as we're watching the atrocities they commit in gaza, Israeli forces are becoming more brutal towards every other Palestinian. Shooting us if they feel like it. People in Jenen are not leaving their houses because they most likely will get shot, no reason. You still want me to condemn Hamas? There is no hamas outside of gaza.
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This THIS is why workers of the world have to unite, we control the means of production, they cant do shit if we refuse, you ARE powerful in a group
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In a now deleted, reposted and edited post on X (twitter): " A leading Israeli settler and advisor to the extremist Minister Itamar Ben Gvir - who has written op-eds in the New York Times calling for a one-state solution with Jewish supremacy as the law of the land - is boasting openly about Israel’s reoccupation of the Gaza Strip saying Israel will stay forever on its ancient beaches.
This comes as Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting that there are talks among some in the government to re-establish Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip."
"Annexation is the goal. Ethnic cleansing is the means. Self-defense is the excuse.
The Israelis are no longer pretending it’s about eradicating Hamas anymore. These celebratory posts show that this genocidal war is and was always about expulsion & colonization."
Via aymanm
Ahmedeldin
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I've said it before and I'll say it again:
Israel is exploiting Judaism and the suffering of Jews and Holocaust survivors to justify imperialism.
Jews and Israeli Jews and descendants of Holocaust survivors who oppose the colonizing of Palestine do it because they know the truth and they know none of this is about religion.
The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with imperialistic gains that will only benefit Israel and the West. Please open your eyes and stop viewing it as a "conflict".
We've seen this before. Open your damn history books.
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israeli occupation soldiers subject Palestinian schoolgirls to humiliating body search on their way to school in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Shufat.
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