don't loose hope, there is love in life, there is community. people are coming together to protest all over the world, people are finding solidarity with each other even among the horror, people want to help. over the course of hours i saw hundreds come together from all over the world online to buy e-sim cards for the gaza reporters (they've succeeded in getting internet access to key online press reporters and are working to connect more), i've seen stories of people coming together in their grief and joy. despite the darkness there really is love. and i do believe that it is fundamental to the human condition.

Palestinians prepare food for the displaced families in the south of Gaza Strip. 10-28-2023

Anyways, if you want to do actual direct action to stop something like this happening. Whether again to the Palestinian people or to another group in the global south then you have to start joining local labour movements where they exist. Local socialist groups where they exist. You can not wait for the genocide to begin to start thinking about these things. Most people on this website I believe are under the age of 25, probably averaging around 23, so this really should be your awakening moment to get up and do something within the local community and connect with the radical movements of other local communities around you. If you create these networks now, build up the forces necessary to bring the economy to a screeching halt then this will not happen again. It will truly be never again.

But we can not wait for ethnic cleansing to start. We owe it to every victim of genocide from Namibians in 1910 to Palestinians today to stop another event like this and all others from happening.

What you can do for Palestinians right now at this moment in time is mass communication, protests, boycotts and withhold your vote from those who have enabled this when the time comes to vote and most importantly, keep the momentum going. Do not fall to despair. When a ceasefire is reached, do not falter, do not let this sink into the back of your mind. Keep putting pressure on corporations, on local politicians and representatives and use this momentum to do something about the system we're all suffering under to greater and lesser extents.

i don't know how long would it take for usamerican citizens to understand that they would never get any basic wellfare as long as usa empire exists. usagov isn't even bribing it's working class properly heavily relying on fooling them with illusions of electoralism and usa exceptionalism. and you know why? because usa acts like vanguard of global capitalist system therefore it has to prioritize it's huge military spendings over anything else. if they stop doing it usa empire would fall it's the matter of this cancerous entity's entire survival. and it's only going to get worse for usamerican proletariat no matter what president since the peak of usa hegemony passed and empire would need to use more and more recourses to maintain itself.

Hundreds of thousands of people came out today in London to March for a Free Palestine. Hundreds of thousands of people disagreeing with the current government stance on the war. Don’t let the media fool you, people in the UK stand with Palestine.

Out of an abundance of caution: Do not search your name, or the names of people you know.

There’s rumors about the website tracking the names that get searched, so you could put yourself or other people under scrutiny if you do so.

here is a thread of anti-doxxing resources

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Room for Love — Masterpost

Room for Love

— a TOG modern AU comic and fic about Joe and Nicky.

Featuring: forced cohabitation, snark, idiots in denial, increasingly stupid excuses for s€xual favours, miscommunication and pining of epic proportions and—of course—falling in love.

The story is complete and includes 30 pages of comic and roughly 9k written words.

Rating: Explicit! 🔞

You can find the whole story on Ao3

Art on tumblr

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Reblogs are always welcome. ❤️

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D24. Staying in shallow waters

Some sleepyheads for @theartguard lottery event!

We were challenged by a randomly selected pose, character (for me it was Andy) and color palette. I maybe cheated a bit by also adding Joe and Nicky, but once I started, I couldn't stop myself 😂

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Just asking y'all to stop this bs PLEASE

It's come to my attention that this post might have upset (??) some people. Or they might just be confused but either way, to clear up something that really shouldn't need clearing up: No. We are not referring to when the poc of whichever ship "tops". We are referring to the fetishization of people of color by portraying them as big, aggressive, and domineering while their palm colored counterpart is portrayed as thin, pale, and waifish. Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. And unfortunately, not all of us have the luxury of simply ignoring it unless we wanna find ourselves having to have this conversation again.

However, I do agree that no one should have been tagged. This post wasn't to attack anyone specific. These fandoms, as a whole, need to do better and it's not just one person that should take the blame. I am asking everyone to exercise some civility. We ALL know which artists are guilty of actually doing this constantly and implore y'all to use the block button. Sending the wolves out was never the point of this post. Don't derail the conversation with a personal vendetta.

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Ngl I've definitely met some couples I wanted to have a threesome with.

@creatorsofcolornet event 12: one year celebration | idols
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To all of the nerdy girls out there who hide behind their sketch books, don’t be afraid to tell your stories to the world! You’re gonna freak people out but you’ll probably connect with them too, and that’s an amazing feeling to have.

im sorry but when DECOLONIZE PALESTINE DOT COM, which is RUN BY PALESTINIANS, affirms that a one state solution and the end of ethnonationalist government in the holy land does NOT mean the jewish population should be expelled, you as a white westerner look really, really silly saying it does. and this goes for both paranoid zionists and antisemitic leftists who are thrilled at the concept

This is also very similar to what indigenous people on Turtle Island (North America) have been saying about #landback. From what I learned from my Indigenous studies classes, #landback would mean ceding power over the land back to Indigenous people, not kicking you personally out of your house, or making you go to Europe or something.