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maybe.

im BACKKKK

What do you think of that, L?

heavy-handed metaphor

this is what really happened in episode 25

you tried, Light…

muehehehehe

Book series that get u all scrambled up

my warm spring 🌱

what if they just kissed and nothing bad ever happened

Satoru Gojo's soul knowing otherwise Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Episode 9

JJK suffering increases every week but at least we still have Yuji Itadori.

How sharing bed with gojo satoru feels like

baby boy

first and last warm spring of youth

Scooby Doo taught us that cops don’t do their jobs and it’s up to America’s youth to unmask the greedy old white guys that are terrorizing society.

ummm so i was listening to taiyou ni korosareta and this just happpened

also atsushi sakurai is gender

crying in the club rn

Ok so as much as I love Fitz and the Fool’s relationship for everything it is, I am of the firm belief that authors are trying to tell us something with their work. Robin Hobb didn’t sit down and go “I’m going to write sixteen novels and 10,000+ words over the course of twenty years about this couple because I think it would be cute.” There’s something she’s trying to say with these characters that I think is very deliberate. And I’ve been thinking about it ever since I first read these books. I haven’t seen any posts talking about this, and so I wanted to make one myself. 

We’re all aware that Fitz and the Fool are clearly two sides of the same coin: King’s jester/assassin, comedy/tragedy, prophet/catalyst, mind/matter, white/black, etc., and that they make each other “whole,” and I really think that it actually goes a step further.

I think Fitz/the Fool’s relationship is a metaphor for Fitz’s relationship with himself, and in a thematic sense, a metaphor for your relationship with yourself. 

Fitz’s entire emotional storyline revolves around the fact that he is never capable of showing others his true self. Most of the time of course it is because there is a life/death risk for Fitz if people know who he really is. He can’t let people know about his heritage, his job, his magic, and these become parts of himself that he hates; he wants nothing more than to just let all of it go and live a normal easy life. It becomes impossible for him to form genuine connections with others because every relationship is based on lies on lies on lies. 

The only person throughout his 70 odd years of life who truly knows everything about him is the Fool. The Fool knows everything about Fitz and loves him for it. And this is terrifying for Fitz. Because if Fitz were to embrace the Fool’s feelings for him, that would mean embracing all of the things he hates about himself and has been trying to run away from his entire life. 

This is also shown narratively by the Fool’s presence/absence in Fitz’s life. With the Fool gone, Fitz has faked his death and lived alone as a hermit in the mountains for 15 years, running from his problems. Then the Fool returns, and Fitz’s story continues. The Fool leaves Fitz, and for 30 more years Fitz is left living a stagnant, superficial life in Withywoods. And then the Fool returns to him again, and finally their story gets its conclusion. 

And as support/some honorable mentions, you can see this dynamic mirrored in almost every other character. Althea, Wintrow, Malta, Sedric, Alise, Bee…all of their stories center on the idea of self discovery and coming to terms with their existence. And of course the greatest story of self discovery would be told through the two main characters, when Fitz and the Fool are finally reunited, and immortalized as a Whole being in the stone. 

Even in their names…..everyone has their faults and hates themselves in some way, but the self is also something that is indescribably precious. Sometimes you’re an idiot who makes mistakes, but you’re still something to cherish: the beloved. And that’s what’s so important to me about this metaphor. We find out that the Fool’s real name is Beloved at the exact half-way point in the series. For Fitz, this is a journey from self hatred to self preservation and acceptance, and it’s why he struggles so much with defining his feelings for the Fool.

And in the quotes with the two of them, just imagine for a moment that this is a letter that you are reading to yourself:

“Beloved, 

Was a time when I knew peace in your presence. Though, to be truthful with myself, there were as many times when your presence plunged me into deadliest danger. Or pain. Or fear. But the peace is what I remember and long for.”

How incredibly tender is that? It is such a powerful message of self love. To fear living as yourself, but cherishing it all the same. This is what it has always been for Fitz.

And again, when Fitz uses the Fool’s name for the first time. It is only after three entire books of Fitz/the Fool literally masquerading as other people (pretending you’re something you’re not) and going through the stress of never being able to drop their pretenses. Just like…..appreciate the tenderness and what it would feel like to say this to yourself

“‘You said once that I might call you Beloved, if I no longer wished to call you Fool.’ I took a breath. ‘Beloved, I have missed your company.’”

im soft………

Photography by Rafał Milach

Yesterday in Warsaw (Poland) many LGBT activist was arrested.

Julia, the girl on the photo was one of them.

She was lucky that one of Polish politics, Magdalena Filiks helped her.

Using force she get the police officers off her and covered her with her own body. Thanks to immunitet they couldn't hurt her.

It's terryfing what is now going on in Poland.

I am absolutely terrified of what's happening in my country.

TW: police brutality, violence

Photos from yesterday's protests in Poland

On two of these photos there are polish deputies, Magda Filiks and Magdalena Biejat. Both of them had to stay up to late hours trying to help people who were illegaly catched by police and arrested.

Magda Filiks (the first picture) says: "Next to me there was a girl thrown on the ground. In next 5 seconds police officers were standing on her: one with the foot on her head, second on the foot on her back. (...) I covered her with my own body because they couldn't stand on me."

Girl's name is Julia.

Soon we will have to remember many many more names than Milo who killed themselves because they couldn't stand the hate anymore, Margot and Julia who were illegaly arrested. There are and will be more.

By now, some of you might have heard about the situation in Poland. The following text was posted on FB by a Polish friend of mine following the events of 07. August 2020 in Warsaw. It describes what happened, and the context of what led to the events of yesterday. Please reblog and share this post to spread awareness about the current situation.

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For a very long time it has not been easy for me to write and talk about my country. Publicly, for a very long time I haven’t. Disagreeing with most of what the current government stands for, that would have become a full-time job. Feeling that one is powerless, one can easily become indifferent and either emigrate abroad or immigrate inside to the bubble of like minded friends, trying to just go on with life regardless, to wait out the storm, to hope for the world to change one day on its own. I am guilty of doing both. But yesterday, I believe that Poland came to its turning point. We went to sleep in a troubled democracy and woke up in an authoritarian country that uses the full force of the state apparatus to oppress and unjustly prosecute members and allies of the LGBT+ community.

No good person can stay indifferent facing these circumstance.

General context:

👉 It all began members of the activist collective “Stop Bzdurom” (eng. Stop the Bullshit) spray-painted and cut the tires of an anti-abortion van. This van was taped with graphic images of dead fetuses and frequently driving through the streets of Warsaw. While the activists spray painted the van, the driver intervened and it came to a light physical quarell with pushing and elbowing. This is the video of this altercation: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1324521857722944&id=137358556439286

👉 On the basis of that, the Public Prosecution (which is under total political control in Poland - the Minister of Justice IS the Attorney General) decided to press charges of violent assault and destruction of property against one of the members of the collective - Margot. Margot identifies as a non-binary person (it will be important later in the story). Under those charges Margot could face up to 7 years in prison.

👉 Some weeks ago, Margot was dragged out of her apartment by police in civil clothing. At that point, police refused to give any information about her whereabouts or charges. It took many hours to establish that she was taken to the prosecution office for interrogation and to provide her with a lawyer. The prosecution filed for two months of arrest, awaiting trial. The court initially denied prosecution’s request and released Margot. At that stage, this story could have ended as yet another, relatively harmless episode in our disfunctional democracy - unjust and infuriating of course, but at the end smoothened out by the somewhat independent parts of our judiciary.

👉 In between that and yesterday, the same collective hanged rainbow flags from monuments in Warsaw. One of those was a statue of Jesus. This was follwed by a wave of arrests under the charges of “desecrating monuments and offending religious feelings”. The arrested were charged while our prime minister and president were visiting desecrated monuments and placing commemorative flowers.

And then yesterday happened:

👉 The prosecution appealed the court’s denial to put Margot under arrest. Another court, for reasons still unclear, reversed the decision and decided to put Margot in jail for two months before any trial. There could not possibly be any reason to make such a decision legitimate. Margot is a special case because Polish arrest and correctional facilities are an extremely dangerous place for a (visibly) queer person like her.

👉 When Margot learned of the decision, she happened to be in the office of the biggest Polish LGBTQ+ NGO - Kampania Przeciw Homofobii (eng. The Campaign Against Homophobia). With the police on the way to arrest her (quite symbolic, isn’t it), a few NGO’s asked people to gather in front of the office in a demonstration of solidarity. A few hundred people and plenty of journalists showed up, including multiple members of parliament from left and center opposition parties.

👉Margot decided that if she has to go, she won’t just go quietly but as publicly as she can. She walked through the demonstration up to the police officers, offering herself to be taken away. They refused to arrest her. We thought they got scared of the public support and the cameras. It looks like we couldn’t have been more wrong.

👉 The spontaneous demonstration moved to a nearby allegedly desecrated monument. There, peacful demonstrators were met by an excessively large police force seperating them from the monuments. And then someone has given an order to make an example out of demonstrators and turn the arrest into a show of power.

👉 First, an unmarked car approached. A bunch of police officers in civil clothing dragged Margot inside. For all that has happened later the crowd remained non-violent.

👉 Then, demonstrators sat down around the car to prevent it from leaving. (see Photo) The police attacked with an unprecedented brutality. Tens of undercover police officers arrived and together with their colleagues in uniforms they begun brutally attacking, beating, suffocating and throwing the demonstrators into police cars driving away with them. All that during broad daylight, in front of TV cameras. Without any shame or hesitation. Multiple photos of police brutality bellow. All questions about the basis of the detention were met with laughter. The protestors were not even called upon to disperse. Just faced with violence for the sake of power - no law, no order. TV cameras have caught police officers giving eachother orders to arrest “three random people from the crowd”. Bystanders and people passing by were also arrested.

Yesterday in Warsaw is was enough to be in a wrong place, wrong time. We witnessed a straight up round up.

👉To paint the picture of the excess of the police brutality in more detail, I’ll quickly describe one of the detentions. During that whole time, MPs (Member of Parliament) were present at the site. Now, they hold immunity from being arrested, but I don’t believe anyone in Poland ever imagined that this immunity would have to be used in such a way. Among the photos below, there is one of a blonde woman, holding her hand on the back of a demonstrator, who’s being pushed to the ground by the police. That women is an opposition MP who left yesterday’s protests injured by the police and described in detailes what had happened. She saw police officers throwing the protester in the picture to the ground and kneeing her down. Her head was bleeding on the pavement. The MP run torwards them screaming to let go and pushing the police away. She lied down on the protester to guard her with her own body. Only then the police let the MP to put her purse under the bleading head of the protester (seen photo) and take care of the head-wound. The protester was then taken away by the police to an unknown location. That story is just one among many horrifying stories from yesterday.

👉 Later, noone knew where exactly the detained people were taken. We guess that around 50 people were arrested.

50 political prisoners.

Police has been refusing any information. The demonstration has moved under the main police stations and the second wave of random arrests happen (you can see it on the video: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=295720058542451&id=107750507339408).

👉Members of parliament and attorneys have been present at the police stations all night trying to get any information and to provide legal help to the detainees. In order to prevent this contact, police has started to move the arrested people out of Warsaw- a tactic straight up from the harshest repressions of the communist times. On one of the photos below you can see two MPs standing in the way of a police van in the middle of the night to prevent that from happening. People were being dragged out of the police stations to the transport vans. They were shielded on the way to the car by other police vehicles to make identification impossible. Few of them managed to scream out their last name. Attorneys were immediately requesting access to their clients, and were met by police officers bluntly lying that such a person was never there.

👉 To paint the picture in more detail, again, of what was happening on the police stations- below you have a photo of a lady reading a piece of paper standing in a window with bars. That’s yet another Polish MP, reading a list of the people being held at that particular station to the desperate families searching for their loved ones.

As for today, we are still unsure about what is going to happen.

We know that the arrested people are being presented with bullshit charges, citing ”the participation in an illegal gathering with an aim of violently assaulting a person or a property". Those charges don’t stand on any grounds - not only we have photos and videos - the whole peaceful protest was on live TV.

We know that the Polish Ombudsman and the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture has started visiting the police stations.

We know that the first international institutions have started to speak out. Example is in the photos below. With the gravity of what is happening, I’d urge for more and sooner.

Poland is not living up to any standards of a free country. Poland is below anything, that should ever be accepted within the European Union. The long-standing aspiration of my country to become a part of the “West” has shifted towards countries like Russia in a matter of a night.

I will fight this, my friends will fight this. We will not let this go gently into silent night.

But I am not sure how much more fight we have in us.

I’ll end with asking all of you abroad for support. Let people in your countries hear about this. We in Poland may not be enough.

Reblog if you're gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, transgender or a supporter.

This should be reblogged by everyone. Even if you’re straight, you should be a supporter.

Reblog if you're gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, transgender or a supporter.

This should be reblogged by everyone. Even if you’re straight, you should be a supporter.