This is the reality we live in. Also I had been in the same bomb shelter FOUR TIMES and it's not even in my neighborhood, I just had weird luck I guess. I now know all the people living there. I know the mom with her two years old baby. The teen that 'doesn't want to stay the full ten minutes in the shelter' and 'after you hear the boom you can go outside' and his parents begging him to come inside and not get hit by fragments. The three five years old boys that love playing cards and their parents that love watching them smile. The girl with the giant brown dog and her brother that likes to make stupid jokes she say she hate but obviously secretly love. The four years old boy that cries when you hear the rockets and his parents that put his favorite snack in these so he'll feel better. The parents with the mentally disabled girl that doesn't understand why she has to be there, and her parents that hug her and make her feel as comfortable as possible while forcing her to stay for her safety. The man who knows how to tell if a rocket was hit in the air by the iron dome or hit the ground by sound, and makes everyone feel a bit better when they know no one was hurt, because it was in the air. The woman who just works in this apartment building and doesn't really know anyone, but learns to know them with me, and smiles.
Petting a street cat. Helping an old woman that dropped her bag in the bus. Complimenting a Haredi girl with a really cute handmade bow. Asking an Arab girl for directions, and her explaining in extreme detail. Pulling a random boy from the road before he will get run over. Translating between the English speaking lady that wants to buy coffee and the Hebrew seller that can't understand a word of English. Crying, and a Haredi woman comforting you without knowing who you are or what is going on. Helping a family of tourists to get to the old city. Helping to comfort a kid in a bomb shelter in a neighborhood that isn't yours. Street libraries. Helping a woman in Central Station pay with her phone for the metro. Benched with names of people who loved this city. Decorated pavement that someone made years ago and somehow stayed intact. People who aren't always nice, but are always kind.
This is Jerusalem.
I got pertussis when I was 7. I was vaccinated. The vaccine is not 100% effective, so I got sick. I was a little sick for about a week and then I got better. This is the difference between a vaccinated and an unvaccinated child.
Vaccinate. It saves lives.
Do it. Write the fic. We will all love it
Look Daredevil vs Kingpin is a classic and it's great but imagine how infinitely funnier it would be if it was Kingpin vs Jessica Jones. Just imagine how helpless Fisk would be against her. She is a not a vigilante since she has a private detective licence so she is legal. He can't intimidate her because she is a depressed alcoholic with super strength. He can't threaten her loved ones because the only person she ever truly loved is her sister who is in the most high secure prison on the planet way out of Fisk's reach. He can't besmirch her reputatation and set the media against her because she doesn't have any repuation. He can hold the most eloquent passionate speech denoucning her and when the media finds her passed out in the garbage in front of a bar and asks for rebuttal she will just call him a prenteious cocksucker and New York will immediately side with her. Also as a private detective not only is she used to digging dirt but the dirt she digs is legally admissable so will immediately take down quite a few of his minions And worst of all at the end of the day Fisk is a brawler. He dreams of nothing more then to fight Daredevil one on one and beat him but he can't do that with Jessica because she has actual super strength and she can knock him out with one punch....if she is holding back. If she is not holding back hat one punch would burst him open like meat pinata. He is physically impotent against her and this would enrgae him to an insane degree
this is the saddest fucking thing. wheres that post about when you cant even write a poem about it because its just there already
Octopus filmed changing colours while sleeping.
וואו קיבלתי את כוח 12 באירוע לבני ובנות מצווה בעבודה של אבא שלי והייתי כזה: מה אתם מנסים להכריח אותי להיות דתיה?
אז תרמתי את הספר ושכחתי מקיומו עד לרגע הזה עכשיו
ספר ישראלי אהוב?
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"The notion of Palestine being Arab emerges, really, only in the 60s. because... what did Israelis do? the colonial era is over; the Ottoman Empire is gone, finally the British are gone, and the Jewish people finally, having outlived all these empires, going back to the Roman Empire, finally restore their sovereignty. What do they do? they do what every self-respecting people in history did when the colonial people were gone- they call the country by their name, right? so Siam becomes Thailand, and the Gold Coast becomes Ghana, and Palestine becomes Israel because Palestine was the colonial name and Israel is the original, indigenous name.
Once the Jews call the land Israel... in order to present the Jews as foreign, [...] thieves, interlopers, Arabs began to hijack the name Palestine, to say, actually we are Palestine, whereas previously everyone understood it was Jews. and I love it, because sometimes you see on the internet, oh look Palestine existed, and they show, like, the Palestine football team and if you look closely all the names are like [...] all Jewish [...] because this was the Jewish football team of the Jewish state in the making, and the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra was the orchestra of Jewish exiles that became the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. So, this is a classis [...] hijacking of the Arabs of something that was very Jewish, in order to present the Jews as thieves, rather than the original owners."
-Einat Wilf (source)
So close! That's actually called antisemitism BECAUSE it is antisemitic. And so are you.
Saying a people don't have a right to have their own country is racist. Comparing the biggest trauma in Jewish history to something else/using it against jews is antisemitic.
Claiming Israel is an "ethnostate on stolen land' is just wrong. Jews are an ethnicity, but non Jews also live in Israel. About 20% of Israeli people are Arabs. Also, Jew is an ethnicity. Where does this ethnicity come from? The land of Israel, so it isn't stolen.
So yeah. Canada for writing a law against antisemitism, you are just antisemitic
Grian be like:
If there's one thing that humanizes me to my fellow productive member of society, it's that I love a good button. Elevators, jukeboxes, medical equipment: if you make a quality button, I will push the hell out of it. I've bought tons of things on impulse, just because the buttons were of a high quality.
What that device is does not really matter to me. Like I just said, I'll buy anything if it's satisfying to push. And lots of high-quality, expensive stuff just... isn't. There's no excuse for why your hugely pricey stereo system feels worse to jab your finger into than any given Fisher-Price toddler toy.
I didn't know much about buttons at all when I was a kid. Just took them for granted, like you do for so many other things: gravity, breathable air, the option for grandpa to hide you from family services when they start wondering why your mom and dad are off auditioning for the circus again instead of feeding you. Buttons, though, have a long and fascinating history. And you won't read about it here, because we have things to do.
So if you're about to throw something away that has a satisfying button on it, pry that button out and keep it. You'll wish you had it the next time you encounter something with a button that sucks. And it's not like the police can really get you for "vandalism" just because you pried out that bullshit touch screen from your apartment elevator and crammed a nice Otis part in there. At least, not if you do a good enough job of wiring.
It's a metaphor for being Jewish. Not for whatever minority you wish it to be. Magneto is literally a holocaust survivor. It can not get more obvious than that. Stan Lee was Jewish so he wrote about Jewish experiences.
Being a mutant in the X-men world is just a metaphor for being neurodivergent/gay. The whole Charles vs Magneto conflict? "You can't just kill people" autistics vs "you cannot deny deez nuts" autistics. And they all are gay.
I bet octopuses think bones are horrific. I bet all their cosmic horror stories involve rigid-limbs and hinged joints.