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THAMK YOU SO MUCH FOR 2022 EVERYONE HAPPYINEW YEAR MAY 2023 BE GOOD TO ALLBOF US💖💖💖🥳🥳🥳

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#tyvm Hal for enlightening me to tartaglia I needed this today 😓🙏#( art ) — ★#( Tartar sauce ) — ✩#hmm I should change his tag this is a bit too silly It should probably be changed to Hal's husband #genshin

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HOYOFAIR : The engines are heated, and we have our racers, technicians, and a... poet!? 2 days left, stay tuned to HoYoFair2024!

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Starting a Q & A ! And for our first question;

What would Childe work as if he wasn't a fatui harbinger

➜ Well, the only answer plausible is that he would be a PE teacher !

Special credit to @l-tora-l for her help in this decision !

#thank you thank you #I'm right as usual obviously #( Tartar sauce ) — ✩#genshin

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Thinking abt childe PE teacher canon vibes

- 🌼 (this is me now I need anonymity)

PE teacher Childe is the most canon thing ever and since he's number 11 of the harbingers, here's 11 reasons why :

Hes ginger

Hes cute

He's nice to kids

He inspires them and doesn't let them get hit in the face with a basket ball *cough cough*

He's good at physical activity because he's a fighter

He's cool, and his sports equipment can double as a real weapon when he's in the duelling mood

Because I say so

Because hoyoverse said so

Because me and hoyo are best friends and I'm their portal to fictional characters — the fictional character whisperer ! ( perks of being Australian ( a British spy ) )

Because there's a chibi sticker of him with a baseball bat ( refer to the image below ;0 )

Because it'll be the perfect segue into that early 2000s movie trope of some girlie ( 🌼 anon this is you you're the girlie ) falling for that one teacher that teaches some child she's associated with somehow

#🌼 anon #OKAY ILL STOP BUT I CANT BELIEVE YOU PLS 😭#resorting to anon fbiekesms #you should've chosen something orange 😔

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THE POWER OF PASILYO GUARANTEED ME A NAVIA HAVER ❕❕❕

#screaming crying throwing up #etc etc #SHES SO PRETTY BROOO #PLUS PRETTIEST VISION 🥹❕#all geos are so pretty fneksks #except itto I'm an itto hater /j #my pulling luck is so bad bro #pretty sure i got her at at least 70 pity #n e ways my girl is home 🥹#I had that mother instinct I KNEW she was coming home i felt it in my vitamin d deficient bones #navia #genshin

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MERRY CHRISTMAS TRIS 🥹🫶

Merry Christmas, Tora. Merry Christmas, Hal. Merry Christmas, Rie. Merry Christmas, Ares. Merry Christmas, Kat. Merry Christmas, Nana. Merry Christmas, Mai. Merry Christmas, Kru. Merry Christmas, Nyx. Merry Christmas, Gyuu. Merry Christmas, Rae. Merry Christmas, Buddy. Merry Christmas, @/tardigrade. Merry Christmas, Mekah. And Merry Christmas to all the lovely ppl who follow a loser like me. Ily all. Thank you for making my year so beautiful (t~t) > ♡

#( metoclopramide ) — 🕊️#the pictures is us being friends in every universe btw ^-^#<333

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"A Child’s View from Gaza" was an art exhibition showcasing drawings created by the children of Gaza.

"The captioned illustrations were created by Palestinian children who lived through the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in 2008-09. The pictures were drawn as part of an effort to help children deal with the horrors they had experienced. A Bay Area nonprofit, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), arranged to display a collection of these pictures at the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland, California. However, under pressure from the Jewish Federation of the East Bay and other organizations, the museum backed out of the agreement at the last minute."

#children often say or convey things as they are #the fact they drew this says it all #Palestine

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#baizhu #genshin #( art ) — ★

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@animangacreators Challenge #27: Villains

Turn Around: Make an edit of a character who goes evil throughout the main story.

#attack on titan #aot #eren yeager #( gif ) — ★#OMG?? this is amazing !!

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Why did you kill Emma?

#Tokyo revengers #emma sano #izana kurokawa #( colouring ) — ★

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when he did this in the trailer i died and exploded and screamed and cried. if you even care.

#wriothesley #genshin #( art ) — ★

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Fallen Knight

#capitano #genshin #( art ) — ★

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4.3 || Roses And Muskets

#I SAW PUPPY LOVER FOR TWO SECONDS 👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️#puppy lover is ayato 😭#CHIORI IS SO BEAUTIFUL THO #AND FURINA?!??! I THOUGHT SHE WAS GONE??#anyways glad she’s here 💞#( gif ) — ★#( furina ) — ✩#( ayato ) — ✩#I uh rlly just hope that aether harem doesn’t do anything stupid now that ayaka is here ;-;#like leave my girl alone !!!

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geto is sooo magical girl coded

#jjk #( art ) — ★#gojo satoru #geto suguru #the only magic he’s doing is depression 😭#BUT THIS IS AVSOLUTELY GORGEOUS BTE #BTW*#ABSOLUTELY *

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God of Contracts 🔶

#zhongli #OOF THIS IS TOO PRETTY JDOWSK #( inventory ) — ★#( art ) — ★

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A pro-Palestine Jew on tiktok asked those of us who were raised pro-Israel, what got us to change our minds on Palestine. I made a video to answer (with my voice, not my face), and a few people watched it and found some value in it. I'm putting this here too. I communicate through text better than voice.

So I feel repetitive for saying this at this point, but I grew up in the West Bank settlements. I wrote this post to give an example of the extent to which Palestinians are dehumanized there.

Where I live now, I meet Palestinians in day to day life. Israeli Arab citizens living their lives. In the West Bank, it was nothing like that. Over there, I only saw them through the electric fence, and the hostility between us and Palestinians was tangible.

When you're a child being brought into the situation, you don't experience the context, you don't experience the history, you don't know why they're hostile to you. You just feel "these people hate me, they don't want me to exist." And that bubble was my reality. So when I was taught in school that everything we did was in self defense, that our military is special and uniquely ethical because it's the only defensive military in the world - that made sense to me. It slotted neatly into the reality I knew.

One of the first things to burst the bubble for me was when I spoke to an old Israeli man and he was talking about his trauma from battle. I don't remember what he said, but it hit me wrong. It conflicted with the history as I understood it. So I was a bit desperate to make it make sense again, and I said, "But everything we did was in self defense, right?"

He kinda looked at me, couldn't understand at all why I was upset, and he went, "We destroyed whole villages. Of course we did. It was war, that's what you do."

And that casual "of course" stuck with me. I had to look into it more.

I couldn't look at more accurate history, and not at accounts by Palestinians, I was too primed against these sources to trust them. The community I grew up in had an anti-intellectual element to it where scholars weren't trusted about things like this.

So what really solidified this for me, was seeing Palestinian culture.

Because part of the story that Israel tells us to justify everything, is that Palestinians are not a distinct group of people, they're just Arabs. They belong to the nations around us. They insist on being here because they want to deny us a homeland. The Palestinian identity exists to hurt us. This, because the idea of displacing them and taking over their lands doesn't sound like stealing, if this was never theirs and they're only pretending because they want to deprive us.

But then foods, dances, clothing, embroidery, the Palestinian dialect. These things are history. They don't pop into existence just because you hate Jews and they're trying to move here. How gorgeous is the Palestinian thobe? How stunning is tatreez in general? And when I saw specific patterns belonging to different regions of Palestine?

All of these painted for me a rich shared life of a group of people, and countered the narrative that the Palestininian identity was fabricated to hurt us. It taught me that, whatever we call them, whatever they call themselves, they have a history in this land, they have a right to it, they have a connection to it that we can't override with our own.

I started having conversations with leftist friends. Confronting the fact that the borders of the occupied territories are arbitrary and every Israeli city was taken from them. In one of those conversations, I was encouraged to rethink how I imagine peace.

This also goes back to schooling. Because they drilled into us, we're the ones who want peace, they're the ones who keep fighting, they're just so dedicated to death and killing and they won't leave us alone.

In high school, we had a stadium event with a speaker who was telling us about a person who defected from Hamas, converted to Christianity and became a Shin Bet agent. Pretty sure you can read this in the book "Son of Hamas." A lot of my friends read the book, I didn't read it, I only know what I was told in that lecture. I guess they couldn't risk us missing out on the indoctrination if we chose not to read it.

One of the things they told us was how he thought, we've been fighting with them for so long, Israelis must have a culture around the glorification of violence. And he looked for that in music. He looked for songs about war. And for a while he just couldn't find any, but when he did, he translated it more fully, and he found out the song was about an end to wars. And this, according to the story as I was told it, was one of the things that convinced him. If you know know the current trending Israeli "war anthem," you know this flimsy reasoning doesn't work.

Back then, my friend encouraged me to think more critically about how we as Israelis envision peace, as the absence of resistance. And how self-centered it is. They can be suffering under our occupation, but as long as it doesn't reach us, that's called peace. So of course we want it and they don't.

Unless we're willing to work to change the situation entirely, our calls for peace are just "please stop fighting back against the harm we cause you."

In this video, Shlomo Yitzchak shares how he changed his mind. His story is much more interesting than mine, and he's much more eloquent telling it. He mentions how he was taught to fear Palestinians. An automatic thought, "If I go with you, you'll kill me." I was taught this too. I was taught that, if I'm in a taxi, I should be looking at the driver's name. And if that name is Arab, I should watch the road and the route he's taking, to be prepared in case he wants to take me somewhere to kill me. Just a random person trying to work. For years it stayed a habit, I'd automatically look at the driver's name. Even after knowing that I want to align myself with liberation, justice, and equality. It was a process of unlearning.

On October, not long after the current escalation of violence, I had to take a taxi again. A Jewish driver stopped and told me he'll take me, "so an Arab doesn't get you." Israeli Jews are so comfortable saying things like this to each other. My neighbors discussed a Palestinian employee, with one saying "We should tell him not to come anymore, that we want to hire a Jew." The second answered, "No, he'll say it's discrimination," like it would be so ridiculous of him. And the first just shrugged, "So we don't have to tell him why." They didn't go through with it, but they were so casual about this conversation.

In the Torah, we're told to treat those who are foreign to us well, because we know what it's like to be the foreigner. Fighting back against oppression is the natural human thing to do. We know it because we lived it. And as soon as I looked at things from this angle, it wasn't really a choice of what to support.

#Palestine #this is actually quite interesting #interesting to have an insider perspective

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