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Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:54:32 -0700

lonewolfed: Teen Wolf - STEREK AU In which Stiles’ body is...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:47:12 -0700

lonewolfed:

Teen Wolf - STEREK AU

In which Stiles’ body is ready.

shatterstag: palestinianliberator: Hey Lexi! It’s a pretty...

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:04:51 -0700

shatterstag:

palestinianliberator:

Hey Lexi!

It’s a pretty messy and complex situation, in that there are factors dating back to Israel’s founding 64 years ago that continue to contribute to every aspect of the situation.

But I’ll do my best for a brief “What’s happening now”.

The Gaza Strip is a tiny 4 by 23 mile strip of land along the Mediterranean that is home to 1.6 million Palestinians, 80% of whom are refugees who were forced into that corner when they were kicked out of their homes during Israel’s founding in 1948.

In 2006, the US and Israel basically forced an election on the Palestinian people to decide what group would run the country, and the top two contenders were Fatah, which has a long-running history of aiding the Palestinian cause but have recently become nothing more than Western-Backed and funded cronies, and Hamas, which was basically a more radical group that was created as a response to Israeli aggressions and the lack of an armed, unified group to resist it.

The US and Israel were banking on Fatah winning, but instead, Hamas won, because it was basically an election of “The old and corrupt” against “The “not” old and corrupt”, and the Palestinian people wanted a change from the stalemate we had been stuck in with Fatah.

Because Israel and the US weren’t happy with the results, they funded and armed Fatah to “fight out” Hamas, who were democratically elected through an process that they pushed in the first place, which resulted in civil war, and Hamas being pushed into the Gaza Strip, where they currently rule, while Fatah retains control of the West Bank.

After the brief civil war, Israel imposed a siege on the Gaza strip, allowing no-one in or out, no medical/building supplies, food, clothing, or anything else without Israeli approval, which was never granted.

Fast-Forward, to 2012, the Gaza Strip is in shambled, people are dying of malnutrition, facing medical crises’ because they have no supplies, and are basically forced to merely “exist”, rather than to live as normal human beings. The siege is so severe, that Israel has literally set a calorie limit in which it dictated the amount of food that was allowed in that would keep people from just barely starving to death, with multiple reports stating that within 6 years, the Gaza Strip will be an unlivable region unless something drastic is done to save the area.

Last month, Israel “accidentally” killed a 13 year-old boy as he was playing soccer with his friends after a bullet struck his abdomen. Shortly after, they opened fire on a 23 year-old mentally disabled man who wondered too close to the “buffer zone” surrounding Gaza, and refused to allow anyone to treat his wounds, from which he could have been saved. He died shortly after.

In retaliation, the PFLP [another armed group within Palestine] launched a rocket attack on Israeli patrol forces near the border of Gaza, wounding 4.

That attack is what Israel considers the “start” of the current conflict, while ignoring the previous two killings.

Israel responded by assassinating one of the top leader of Hamas and the Gaza Strip, who had at the time been drafting peace-plans towards Israel, despite having a history of terror attacks.

Hamas then responded by launching many rockets into Israel, while Israel continued to launch relentless, punishing air-strikes on the Gaza Strip. Due to the fact that the strip is so small and so crowded, and due to Israeli use of massive missiles in their strikes, no where is safe within the strip, and no one is allowed to even leave. There are no places to seek shelter, no places to hide, and nothing to do but stay in place and pray that you’re not the next piece of “collateral damage”

In the last 4 days, 73 Palestinians have been killed, with early reports claiming 21 children, 9 women [two of whom were pregnant] and 6 elderly among them, with an estimated 700 injured [with injuries ranging from mutilations resulting in physical disabilities, broken bones, or other less extreme tragedies], of which 150 are children.

In the same time frame, 3 Israeli civilians have been killed from the same blast on Thursday.

While Israelis have an active missile defense system called “Iron Dome”, which shoots down rockets, along with sirens to warn of incoming rockets and when to seek bomb shelters to protect themselves from the home-made rockets of Hamas, those in Gaza are subject to shelling by land, air and sea.

There have been talks that the conflict could escalate and that Israel may send troops within the Gaza Strip, which is a source of great fear, considering the last ground invasion Israel launched resulted in the deaths of 1400 Palestinians, between 750 and 930 of which were civilians, while Israeli forces lost 10 combatants [4 to friendly fire] and 3 civilians.

I know this is a exhausting wall of text so I’m sorry about that, but I tried to cover all the bases of the conflict so that I can have this here for future reference.

I hope I helped you a bit :)

[Made rebloggable by request]

I’m always a little bit shocked by the level of Anti-Israel and the lack of Israeli support on tumblr, which is a site that holds shitty social justice values above all else.

Never mind the fact that Hamas is a terrorist group and has committed a long long list of human rights violations. Never mind the fact that the the “top leader” kidnapped and held hostage an Israeli soldier for 5 years. Never mind the fact that Israel traded 1000 captured terrorists for his realise. Never mind the fact that Israeli cities and children are regularly attacked and killed by suicide bombers during these wars.

Israels major cities are currently getting bombed and shelled. My housemate, who is Israeli, has to sit here in Australia and hope the best for her friends, her family, her people. Her brother, as a young boy, narrowly survived a suicide bombing in which people from his school were killed - the bus going the opposite route from his was the one that was attacked.

Nobody wants war, least of all the Israelis, and nobody wants people to die, but Israel has a right to defend itself.

I don’t understand why this post has so many notes when it is so obviously and drastically skewed towards Palestinian support. Like, frankly it makes me a little bit sick that so many people have antisemitism ingrained into them by the media (while the major countries of the world back Israel, might I add), and that posts like this which are EXTREMELY BIASED rather than OBJECTIVELY critical/tell both sides of a very very complicated war and history are going around as the end-all source about the war. Tumblr has such a history of eating up anything that smells like the underdog and not check the bias and history of posts.

What about the post you replied to is antisemitic? Can you at least address the points made and point out the lies which you obviously think exist? I’d like specifics.

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Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:46:48 -0700

reapersun: 30 Day OTP Challenge: Day 5 (Kissing) Day 4 - Day 6

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:46:17 -0700

reapersun:

30 Day OTP Challenge: Day 5 (Kissing)

Day 4 - Day 6

penrose-stairs: #during their downtime q and 007 have seductive...

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:39:56 -0700

penrose-stairs:

#during their downtime q and 007 have seductive sofa lounging competitions

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Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:35:02 -0700

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Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:34:13 -0700

bohemea: Fiona Apple postpones tour dates to be with her ailing...

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:25:59 -0700

bohemea:

Fiona Apple postpones tour dates to be with her ailing dog Janet

It’s 6pm on Friday, and I’m writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I am writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.
Here’s the thing.
I have a dog Janet, and she’s been ill for almost two years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She’s almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then, an adult officially - and she was my child.
She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.
She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.
She’s almost 14 and I’ve never seen her start a fight, or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She’s a pacifist.
Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact.
We’ve lived in numerous houses, and jumped a few make shift families, but it’s always really been the two of us.
She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.
She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me all the time we recorded the last album.
The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she’s used to me being gone for a few weeks every 6 or 7 years.
She has Addison’s Disease, which makes it dangerous for her to travel since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and to excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.
Despite all of this, she’s effortlessly joyful and playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago.
She’s my best friend and my mother and my daughter, my benefactor, and she’s the one who taught me what love is.
I can’t come to South America. Not now.
When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.
She doesn’t even want to go for walks anymore.
I know that she’s not sad about aging or dying. Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That’s why they are so much more present than people.
But I know that she is coming close to point where she will stop being a dog, and instead, be part of everything. She’ll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.
I just can’t leave her now, please understand.
If I go away again, I’m afraid she’ll die and I won’t have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.
Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes to pick which socks to wear to bed.
But this decision is instant.
These are the choices we make, which define us.
I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love and friendship.
I am the woman who stays home and bakes Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend.
And helps her be comfortable, and comforted, and safe, and important.
Many of us these days, we dread the death of a loved one. It is the ugly truth of Life, that keeps us feeling terrified and alone.
I wish we could also appreciate the time that lies right beside the end of time.
I know that I will feel the most overwhelming knowledge of her, and of her life and of my love for her, in the last moments.
I need to do my damnedest to be there for that.
Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I’ve ever known.
When she dies.
So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and reveling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel.
And I am asking for your blessing.

I’ll be seeing you.
Love, Fiona

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Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:12:07 -0700

I Never Joke About My Work: A Primer on Q Branch For Those Who Haven't Seen the 22 Other Movies

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:57:11 -0700

I Never Joke About My Work: A Primer on Q Branch For Those Who Haven't Seen the 22 Other Movies:

keptin-indy:

The latest addition to the James Bond franchise, Skyfall, was an excellent movie for a lot of reasons, and in my opinion MUCH better than the previous three Bond offerings, finally bringing the series back to the enjoyability of The World is Not Enough and most of the previous films. However, one feature of the film obviously stuck out enough to gain its own fairly large slice of the fandom, all the more unusual since Bond films are very much a one man show. Since you’ve read the title and want me to get on with things instead of writing a whole book about Bond fandom, you already know that Ben Whishaw’s young, computer genius Q stole scenes, gained fans, and is one half of the largest single pairing I can think of in this fandom. As I unashamedly read some of these fics, it became obvious to me that there are a lot of new fans coming in because of Skyfall, and there seems to be some confusion over what exactly the role of Q Branch is in the Bond mythos. And then, since no one asked my opinion, I decided to write a wall of text about it!

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daunt: Ahaha, first request from the livestream! For...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:36:31 -0700

daunt:

Ahaha, first request from the livestream! For IvyAdrena!

Sorry it’s very rushed and rough lol

We are still streaming!

http://www.livestream.com/dauntdraws (IT’S ABSOLUTELY NSFW & is nc-17 *COUGHCOUGH*)

pilot-star: Obvious jokes aside… Only because you’re my...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:25:20 -0700

pilot-star:

Obvious jokes aside…

Only because you’re my sister.

Linked externally because it’s too big for tumblr.

saucefactory: Daniel Craig & Ben Whishaw in Layer...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:24:23 -0700

saucefactory:

Daniel Craig & Ben Whishaw in Layer Cake

WHAT. I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS. HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS. HOW DID IT NOT KNOW ABOUT ME. HOW DID IT NOT CRAWL INTO MY LAP AND INTO MY BED. WHAT WAS IT DOING. WHERE HAS IT BEEN ALL MY LIFE.

FUCK.

helenish: therealallecto: that story where Stiles is Sabrina...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:29:41 -0700

helenish:

therealallecto:

that story where Stiles is Sabrina and comes home from Paris suddenly model-hot and Derek falls in love with him against his will, even though Stiles has been in love with Scott since he was just a little boy.

actually possibly dead at how right this feels.

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Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:28:35 -0700

Get cereal, Tony says. Get healthy cereal, Steve...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:28:05 -0700

Get cereal, Tony says.

Get healthy cereal, Steve says.

Pop-Tarts, Thor says.

Fuck it, this is the one Tasha likes. MOVING ON.

sagan-indiana:

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:00:09 -0700

sagan-indiana:

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Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:47:02 -0700

fandomspotting: Fandomspotting—Ep 007: FROM TUMBLR WITH...

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:37:00 -0700

fandomspotting:

Fandomspotting—Ep 007: FROM TUMBLR WITH LOVE

When: Sunday 11/18 5:00 PM UTC/GMT (see what time that is for you!)
Where: YouTube
What: Bond. James Bond, of course! and a full house of panelists

First off, here are all the things that we didn’t call this ep: License to Fic. The Spy Who Stanned Me. The Fan with the Golden OTP. Thunderballs. Fandomballs. OTPussy. Fandompussy. You Only Ship Twice. Shaken, not Stanned. Moonwanker. Goldfingering. Fandom is Forever. Stanning Never Dies. Moonwanker.

Right. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about Skyfall! Is it continuing the Craig-era rethinking of the series, or are we just back to shiny cars, shiny toys, and explosions? Is it a reboot of Bond’s masculinity or more of the same? Is Bond/Q the best thing since white bread or is Bond/M the ultimate OTP? Is it sexist, or are people who claim this missing the larger picture? What exactly does it mean to call Judi Dench a Bond Girl? And what about all the Bonds of the past: which Bond film / Bond / Bond villain reign supreme and which are the most sublimely ridiculous? Does anyone remember George Lazenby? Who’s the best Bond Villain of all? And are Ian Fleming and Arthur Conan Doyle somewhere having a brunch in the afterlife in honor of Heroes We Unsuccessfully Tried to Off Because Our Publishers Wouldn’t Let Us?

Make a very dry martini and join us for this Bondtastic episode of Fandomspotting!

Panelists:
Moderator: Lurrel - http://chibi-lurrel.livejournal.com
Hello Tailor - http://hellotailor.tumblr.com
Cthonical - http://cthonical.tumblr.com
The Oncoming Hope - http://theoncominghope.blogspot.com
Kickthebeat - http://kickthebeat.livejournal.com
Aja - http://bookshop.tumblr.com
Proctor: Deepsix - http://therealdeepsix.tumblr.com

You can send us your questions via Tumblr ask, email (fandomspotting at gmail), twitter, or the #fandomspotting / #fanspotting hashtag!

Don’t forget — if you miss Sunday’s ep, you can catch up later via YouTube or via podcast!

Related: Slash Fans Flock to Skyfall’s Bond/Q pairing

Thanks for watching/listening in, everyone! We hope to see you Sunday! :)

I’m actually not sure why Bond/Q fans were pandered to in this post (with both “Is Bond/Q the best thing since white bread or is Bond/M the ultimate OTP” itself and the link at the bottom ETA: and the 00Q tag). The only mention of the ship was the disparage it, so as someone who’s interested, that inclusion doesn’t make sense. As someone who has never seen a bond movie before Skyfall, has no real interest in non-Craig Bond, and who’s into 00Q and curious about Bond/M, I specifically made a point to tune in this week. It’s like dangling a treat to get me in the door, only to throw it in the trash and tell me how gross my taste is when I get inside. (Oddly enough, Bond/M was barely mention.)

Considering that the whole panel is part of Inception fandom, most (all?) of who ship Arthur/Eames, which is based on next to nothing, it was kind of funny that Bond/Q was bashed for being uncomplicated, with no base in canon, and for easy fans who like things dumbed-down. It started off with a silly fan question that everyone was horrified by and laughed at and went downhill from there. I always find it ironic when slash fandom makes these types of comments, and aja addresses that nicely at some point IIRC, thankfully.

If you’re interested in James Bond meta, nothing hugely pairing/fandom related, take a listen. If you’re a Bond/Q shipper who isn’t easily bothered by pairing bashing and would enjoy a great discussion on Bond canon, take a listen. If you’re a Bond/Q shipper that might be offended by being called stupid for liking what you like and not shipping Bond/Silva instead, maybe skip it.

Having said that, I had a lot of fun listening in on part one of “Give a Fan Enough Trope” and part two is coming up next week, so I look forward to catching that live if I can.