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From “Broad” to “Sweetheart” …

bonus:

…and my personal favorite

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"donate to gaza" "humanitarian aid to gaza" "raise money for gaza" and egypt, gaza's neighbor that has the only border through which aid can get through, cannot currently get aid through to gaza because israel is refusing to let the trucks pass. the gate was supposed to open three hours ago in a deal struck between egypt and the US to let foreign gaza nationals out and humanitarian aid in. now israel is denying it. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement: "There is currently no truce and humanitarian aid in Gaza in exchange for getting foreigners out." and this is after israel bombed the border crossing three times in the past week. this is the reality that's happening right now. the tonnes of aid that countries are donating, the money the EU is promising, all of this is NOT GETTING THROUGH TO GAZA. if egyptians cannot get through to gaza, nobody can!!!!! the only fucking way this happens is through international pressure to hold israel accountable and that is currently not happening!!!

this is genocide. israel is a fascist state with genocidal maniacs in charge, and they want gazans obliterated, they want gaza gone. this is genocide happening right in front of us. and the entire first world has sanctioned it.

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The state of affairs in Palestine, 10/23/23

Conditions on the ground in Gaza continue to deteriorate. Gaza has no fuel, electricity, or clean water, and it remains under constant bombardment.

Humanitarian aid is beginning to make its way through the Rafah border crossing (Gaza's border with Egypt) but the current quantity is completely insufficient. There have been two convoys. The first convoy of 20 trucks contained enough water for 22,000 people, or ~1% of Gaza's population, for a single day. It's unclear what was in the second convoy, but it only had 17 trucks.

Israel continues to gear up for a ground invasion of Gaza. It's unclear what exactly they will do or what the end result will be, to the point that the US is calling on Israel to publicize its goals.

In the meantime, Israel has aggressively increased its air bombardment of Gaza. [CW for the header image on the red link: wounded young girl] This, along with the lack of fuel and supplies, is causing the complete collapse of the Gaza hospital system.

There is a very real risk of further escalation of the war. Israel has repeatedly raided and airstriked the West Bank and targets in Syria, continuously exchanged volleys with Hezbollah on the Israeli border with Lebanon, and hit the Egyptian border (allegedly by accident).

Protests around the world are rallying to bring attention and support to the Palestinian cause.

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NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT!

THE BLOODY AND THE DAMNED (Spring 2025) is a YA fantasy about Val, a deadly assassin wrestling with their suppressed heart of gold, who will do anything to get their sisters back from a notorious gang of outlaws they double-crossed, even if it means teaming up with their ex-childhood-best-friend who broke their heart. It's my love letter to siblings, human connection, genre mashups, and the question of what wouldn't you do for those you love. 🗡💜

This book has been a hell of a journey. Val is both ace and grayromantic and I wrote so many pieces of my own ace identity into them years ago, without even realizing what I was doing. My very first draft of this poured out of me in 2014, and I didn't come to know and identify as ace until a few years later. Discovering it was like finally cracking a cipher to a code; so much of who I was and my experiences made sense. And Val made more sense too. I can't wait to share them with you. 🖤💜🤍

#ya books #queer books #fantasy books #queer found family #morally grey characters #its arcane meets firefly meets dagger dagger dagger

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Felt that it’s important to share videos like this too.

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this is going around bluesky and threads and i'm dropping it here as well for those who want to make calls/write letters/etc. but don't know specifics on what to push for

#gazaunderattack #free palestine #free gaza

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Art by Mandyland 👻 🍂

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1st anniversary of Love Between Fairy and Devil appreciation post (1/?) Favorite filming angle: overhead shot.

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@userdramas event 04: love | love between fairy & devil + romance tropes ↠ (in/sp.) 

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Happy Ostara! Using this rainbow of crystals to give me some good energy this week. Healing for my lower back injury (again *sigh*), good news in my inbox, good health and good weather overall. I'm ready for spring and all the planting I have planned in my gardens. 💐 . Wherever you are, I hope you are safe and well, and know that you are valuable and loved. 💜 . #authorsofinstagram #ostara #springequinox #crystals https://www.instagram.com/p/CqBMXgALxmw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#authorsofinstagram #ostara #springequinox #crystals

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shoutout to the lord of the rings lighting directors. bold move to let the audience see what's going on in nighttime scenes. i miss that.

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So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.

AI art bros are big mad about it.

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big big BIG fan of couples who are a package deal but in an evil way. ur not getting one without the other and that's a threat

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Video Source

The French president Macron is trying to raise their retirement age from 62 to 64 (and 67 for some?). French people have protested peacefully for 2 months but yesterday his government went ahead and invoked an article in their constitution that allows them to force the bill past the National Assembly without letting its deputies vote on it. Now Paris is burning ☺️

The trash collectors have gone on strike and so 7000+ tons of garbage has been piling up in the streets, then they get set on fire by protestors at night ☺️

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If you’re wondering - “Retirement age at just 64 and they’re burning shit down? In my country I can’t retire until 65/67/70+!!”

French people have kept it low BECAUSE they burn shit down if it’s threatened ☺️

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I’ve seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context.

The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well.

Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead in the eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.”

She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable”. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”

Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly “Your empire will fall. And I will help it along.”