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Stanning Stray Kids is a really wholesome experience. Because sure, you get attracted by how cool they are on stage, by their good look, by their powerful dances, by their catchy songs. But then you get to know them, both as a group and individually, and you slowly discover the little things that made you love them even more. It’s like falling in love with a best friend; it’s slow and steady, and it made to last.

Like when you find out how Hyunjin likes to read, and how he cries easily watching a film, and you fall for how emotionally sensitive he is as a person. When you discover how Seungmin silently hold his friend’s hand when they cry, but also how he annoys people with his weird noises, and you fall for how human he is. When you hear that Woojin will silently listen to the kid’s story at night even when he’s tired, and how he scolds them for being unruly, and you fall for how he takes care of boys. When you find out that Jeongin likes the color pink, and has a bunch of cute accessories, and is very blunt to his hyung, and you fall for how despite being so young he is already so steady with how he thinks. When you discover Minho’s weird obsession with his cats, his small laugh, the way he refer to himself in third person, the confident way he carries his affection, and you fall for him for always being true to himself. When you see Changbin’s aegyo and brimming love for his family, the way he softly talk about them with love in his eyes, but also the excitement when he talks about the music he produces, and fall for how he loves so earnestly. When you discover Felix’s naivety, but also how he gives to the boys so generously, how he used to be anxious all the time and that’s why he would always cutely check his pulse, when you discover his endless perseverance; you know you are falling by how you want to protect him. When you look at Jisung, and his quick wit and interesting sense of humor, and then you realise he is so so young. And you notice the way he speak, the depth of his thoughts; the weight that his lyrics carries, and you fall for how mature he is inside. Then you see Bang Chan. Bang Chan and his curls, and his awkward laugh, and his Naruto-running. Bang Chan with his Aussie accent and his never-ending appetite. But also Bang Chan with the eye bags, and his worried self at 5 in the morning, and you fall because you want to be there for him. You want to be there for him, and all the other kids, all the way through to the finish line.

Stanning Stray Kids is a wholesome experience. You see them grow, and grow with them. You see them learn, and learn with them. It is a journey; and it’s slow and we stumble along the way. But hey, it’s gonna be worth it.

the visuals are insane actually

I finally figured out why the response from the global left made me so angry.

Jewish leftist, including myself, never hesitated to condemn the Israeli government and Israeli citizens for their treatment of Palestinians. for example- I know were I was in Huwara. I was calling out the brutality of the pogrom done by right wings extremeness, criticizing it, calling for punishment of the terrorists, warning that this escalation of violence would do nothing but continue the violence. we did not try and justify it as a neutral response for the murder of two people, no, I knew that this kind of behavior has no excuse.

and we did the same every single time. the Israeli left always knew where it was when the Palestinians were the victims of violence, we often stood right there next to them.

and the leftist of the world loved it. held us up to prove that they are right, "you see? even they agree! free Palestine!"

and we expected the same. we expected that if the horrors will come to us, the global left will support us. We knew that they struggle since Israeli missiles hit while Hamas/Hezbollah/Jihad missiles get intercepted by a system that costs millions to operate. but surely, they kept saying that they would have spoken out if the Jews are in danger, they will stand with us in our grief.

and then came October 7th.

and we were shown once again that we are nothing but a token.

people celebrated the attack, and even those who did notת hesitated to condemn it. It was people being butchered in their own homes, a fucking war crime! all while they were hurling hundreds of missiles at civilian targets! at homes, at playground, at hospitals!

and yet, if it was not celebrating, the global left was silent.

I read a colon by a Danna Frank she described how an Israeli women who study in Yell was shaken and crying the entire day, and no one asked for her well being. Frank herself received messages from friends abroad during that day, and one of them asked after the well being of Palestinian waiters in Ramallah and offered them prayers and not ask after her own fucking sake. Seeds for Peace, that always had what to say at the beginning of any Israeli operation, stayed quiet for days, when they did post something, it was to call against violence from both sides, not even mentioning the massacre. and there are so many more instances.

It hurt so much because it was a betrayal. a prof that we are only cared for when we are either a token or dead.

We stood up again and again and again for the rights of others, against our own deeds, and when it was our people left dead on the ground, the quiet was disturbed only by the sounds of celebration.

We should have known

The Israeli left and the Jewish left stand alone in the global stage.

We now know who are allies are.

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I don’t usually talk politics but you guys are such assholes but here it is:

I live in Sderot in Israel, my town this morning was taken over by terrorists my friends and neighbors murdered. Hundreds of innocent lives taken. I’ve read their texts as they begged for help that didn’t come.

Terrorism is evil, killings of innocents is evil. The ends don’t justify the means.I don’t justify it when Israel, America or any country fucks up- so stop justifying a terrorist group that wants to kill every Jewish person in the world, all Israelis and kills people for being LGBTQ+. As a Jewish gay woman they make it clear I don’t deserve to live. And have tried to kill me many times with rocket fire, and yesterday with invasion.

To all those who say it’s justified- America has done fucked up things in Afghanistan do all Americans deserve to die? To all British people deserve to die? Iran kills people, so does China- do all their civilians deserve to die?

You all have a double standard for Israel, and I’m calling out your bullshit. If you support a terrorist group that has oppressed the women and children and all civilians in Gaza for years, anybody speaking out against them is murdered. Fellow queers are murdered by Hamas- if you think they represent Palestine then you are an idiot. Free Palestine from Hamas.

I’m not justifying this current right wing government, so stop justifying an actual terrorist origination that believes woman are inferior, Jews deserve to die and LGBTQ+ deserve to die.

*I don’t fucking deserve to die*

I’ll say it again: I don’t fucking deserve to die. My wife doesn’t deserve to die, my family and friends don’t fucking deserve to die.

My neighbors are being brutally murdered as we speak.

Get your fucking ethics in order. You’re talking about me.

we all wanna be hongjoong

+ I shouldn't have to rely on an online translator because the word is not explained and/or translated and/or does not feature in the lil dico at the end of the book. A book that is supposedly destined to beginners.

me and a friend of mine have been criticising (read: insulting with no mercy) our chinese textbook, so i've got a question for you: what are your red flags in a language textbook?

i'll start with some of mine:

1. five tons of vocabulary per lesson

2. no revision at all: 5% of words from the previous lesson came up? consider yourself lucky

3. almost no audio

hi kpop stans, stop being stupid and anyhow cancel kpop artists because u don’t know the context & start cancelling artists who need to get cancelled (aka bp i am still salty)

anyways about hyunjin: in asian culture, what hyunjin did was okay because poofy hair = auntie’s hair (not related but older female) and big lips = gossiping lips (a lot of aunties love to gossip). so, next time when you guys start staning asian group, you guys should read up about our culture y’all 0 braincell fools.