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"the magnus chase fandom is dead/dying" as if @green446004 had not just posted *another* phenomenal Magnus Chase piece of art for the 142nd week in a row

REAL, everyone say ty @/green446004 for the food 🙏

btw journey to find mimir is so fire, love one welsh to another🙏🩷🔥

shrIEKING LOOK AT HIIIIIIMMMM

EEE she’s so beautiful!!

i love her everyone look at inge best hulder 🙏💕🐄

ft the fact that i plan on having a combination of rick's design of olympus & everything being in ny, but also keeping the mythology with its people (tho that's a bit nebulous, but whatever)-

aka camp half-blood stays in long island, yeah

camp jupiter? - still in california

but also: the world trade centre holds an entrance to olympus which is still on mt. olympus and the people do not need to leave their home continents to go to a safe place- olympus is still on olympus, the mountain, rome is still rome, etc- it's just the gods are no longer restricted, they are everywhere-

also kinda just like. rick did this for the egyptians and the norse??? why couldn't the greeks and the polytheistic romans (as compared to the christian/catholic romans) have multiple places of existence???

like. i'm also getting rid of the place-specific things, like álfheimr (alfheim) and niðavellir (nidavellir) not resembling boston and shit but also valhǫll (valhalla) and ásgarðr (asgard) being. like where they were modelled after in norse mythology-

also bye-bye bifrost bc that Did Not exist b4 like snorri sturluson-

actual norse mythology is super interesting, like immensely so-

rick did freyr & freyja so dirty- like, yeah, odin and thor were important, but. uhhhh ppl worshipped freyr & freyja as MUCH bc they were the FARMING gods and important

i feel like this post does a bit to establish my love for sociology, psychology, and anthropology- i love learning abt ppl it's amazing-

omg this this this this this-

words cannot explain how dirty Rick did especially the álfar in Magnus Chase. i love you MCGA but come on, they’re one of the most mysterious beings in Norse mythology and he turned them into the American 1% 😭😭 and i know we obviously can’t explore the culture of the other realms beyond what Magnus sees, but man. no explanation for why the álfar don't (can’t?) tolerate imperfections; we're just told they're all bigots and move along. meanwhile, the dwarves' culture is explained during our visit to Niðavellir, and while we hate that Blitz was ostracised for liking fashion, we get positive aspects of the dwarves' mixed in; they're a multifaceted culture with both values we appreciate and flaws we don’t. but Hearth is the only álf that isn't awful. even though, gotta be honest, he is kind of a snob.

Hearth is literally my fav, but i can see he is lowkey a snob in how he treats his own culture. he rants to Magnus about his people not appreciating nature anymore and 'not working and being on their phones' and i gotta be honest- why does it matter if they don't work? isn't the point of extreme wealth to get to do what you want without having to work? the end goal of most people is to get to do what you want (and for some, that may be their job, but not for all). and then, instead of meeting the álfar and having positive facets to them and their realm... Hearth is proved entirely correct; the álfar suck and are horrible. but the way he lumps in 'laziness' with ruining their environment rubs me the wrong way, it gives off a youngun hating their culture cos it treated them badly and only seeing that it’s awful while not appreciating the complexity of people and culture (which he kind of is: he’s 20 and angry at the world). it’s even worse, because Hearth’s complaint is that his people are lazy, not that they enslave the hulders and use the nøkker; he doesn’t bring that up in his rant, even though it is way worse than being slothful. Hearth is displayed as tho he feels superior to the rest of his people, because from how he describes them, he is. and then when we meet them, he is, once again, a better person than all the álfar we meet- but that’s not hard.

we meet cops, who ofc are gonna suck if the whole place is ableist and our narrator was a homeless youth with a Deaf person, but also the back of the cop car is lavish. so the álfar treat their criminals well? Magnus says this but sarcastically, but really doesn't that imply something about how the álfar treat each other? even when they break the law? but then there's the whole thing where the hulders are servants (slaves), and we get told this and we just accept it and move on as the álfar being even more awful; we have no idea what pixies are treated as, Hearth implies they're treated similar to cats, the nøkker are 'security spirits' but they're not that in mythical lore. so what is the deal with Álfheimr? why is every other sentient/potentially sentient species lesser to the álfar? svartálfar are made fun of because of the whole fashion/beauty and receipt thing, we get a reason for the dwarves looking down on their sister-race, but we don’t for the álfar.

(tho i also appreciate the idea of Álfheimr and Niðavellir as symbolic of the differences between rich white oppressors and poor POC communities @ that one tumblr post i can’t remember who by so sorry🙏, i just want more from world-building if you’re going to try and go all in on the ‘all these people are bad people bar the main character because’ shtick)

and hard agree, don’t get me sTARTED on how he treated Freyja… the scene with the walnut at the end? where she makes a comment about not liking them? and Freyr is like ‘haha sister you are so dumb and stupid this has Loki in it obviously’… literally disgusting don’t ever treat a feminine woman like she’s stupid in front of me for making a related to the conversation but slightly off topic comment. 

and i kNOW her mountain of earrings but asking for more is like ‘gods are greedy and don’t value things’, but let women enjoy jewellery please?? not having earrings to match the vibe you're going for, even if you have 100 pairs already, is not that crazy, even if it is a very first-world problem. we meet Freyja and everything about her feels so lavish and wasteful, but then Freyr?? sits on a wooden throne with a deer antler as a staff and he’s so super chill and a good dad despite being even more absent in Magnus' life than Freyja was in Blitz's. 

why is the goddess of love and SEIDR, amongst other things, treated like some frivolous idiot? all because she likes shiny things and has a lot of one-night stands that result in kids? as if the dwarven men she marries aren't just as guilty? like i'm sorry Blitz feels like a receipt and i get his mommy issues, but we can see his mother loves him in some way because she rushes to him at the end of the last book. but because she's an absent mother, like every other god, who had kids in exchange for jewellery, she sucks? as if every dwarf that wants to spend a night with her doesn't know she will leave them as a single parent but do it anyway and thus are also responsible for their kids feeling like receipts. Blitz's dad clearly loved him, and Blitz loves his dad, but are we really going to sit here and act like Bíli is blameless in his son feeling like he was a receipt for earrings? just because Blitz's conception was transactional, suddenly it's wrong. the woman is to blame for the marriages being shallow because she wanted something material out of it, as if the men she married didn't just want to sleep with her. the kids feeling like they don’t matter beyond being a receipt is the absent mother’s fault when the present fathers had their child’s whole development to assuage that insecurity. 

and the treatment of Inge… all she gets to be is Hearthstone’s old best friend who likes him in the second book, and a damsel in distress in the 9 from the Nine book. She was his one person on his side in his childhood after his brother died but she’s reduced to having a crush on Hearthstone, she gets no personality beyond a bashful crush that wants to help and a nervous disposition around her enslavers. Hearth left her with his parents, and he isn’t to blame for getting out of an abusive household and not coming back, but we could have explored Inge from that point of view: she was left behind. she doesn’t get to get out on her own, Hearth has to release her from service (which he only does right before they leave, which i kind of hate even if i get it), and then when she is captured again, he has to go and save her. Inge is just a plot device for Hearth; she only exists to flesh out his story, which i hate because i adore her, and while it’s okay for background characters to exist purely for the development of the main, she deserved more.

we meet NO álfar women because Greta is dead and is just a plot device for Alderman's cruelty to Hearthstone, and we also meet NO dwarven women (if i’m wrong on that, then they were so unimportant that they didn’t register in my memory which is just as frustrating). the fandom even ignores Greta the way Rick does. i get it, Alderman is an active character in the books, but everyone forgets she was one of Hearth’s abusers too, she was awful to him too, but no one mentions that, she is pushed aside and forgotten because we never meet her. but we meet Hearth’s brother. 

Sif is treated like a moron when we meet her, Blitz refers to her as ‘Thor’s wife’, which yes, she is, but she is a goddess in her own right- it’s just as stupid to bad mouth her in her own house as it is to bad mouth her before meeting her husband. yet, Blitz goes with the latter and frames her respect as dependent on her husband’s threatening nature, which i find ironic because he comes from a matriarchal society (which we don’t get to explore even though the concept of Blitz getting massive culture shock from the patriarchal realms would have been so interesting). Samirah’s grief with Sif is fair, the same goes for Alex, but only really Hearth actually respects her. 

anyway, this is an essay and i got carried away and totally took over this post-

i love you diversity in Magnus Chase but you do nOT pass the Bechdel test and it makes me so mad that the Norse mythology-centric series treats women like this when the Norse treated their women with respect and a fair amount of freedom prior to Christianity

i know everything is biassed and not a full story because it's all through Magnus' lens but loooooord sometimes Rick's worldbuilding frustrates me

so fun fact: i covered my anger at the way women are treated in the riordanverse in another post- and i agree with fucking everything you've said bc uh. yes. it's here btw- i just. hate how women were portrayed in the series-

like, i also have some pet peeves of how alex's gender was treated (the use of fucking it for a person who doesn't use it and as derogatory and magnus complete lack of understanding of being transgender bothers me so fucking much)

just. it's so bad

i'm afab and genderqueer and it's just fucking bad

no cos you're completely right cos the way rick is hailed as great for diversity when there is so much covert sexism makes me gnaw on the bars of my enclosure TT

as a fellow afab that's agender and uses it as a pronoun🫡, yeah that's so fair,,,

i get that he was trying to show the kind of transphobia that trans ppl deal with,, but some of the ways he handled it miss the mark I feel. like the Islamaphobia when Magnus assumed Samirah would be transphobic just cos she's religious

and Halfborn continuing to call her argr despite being told not to by Alex but somehow? they r super chill friends at the same time :,) (coming from someone with friend groups who reclaim slurs at each other)

the only one i let off the hook is Jack cos he's been asleep for hundreds of years (unlike the Valhalla lot), i don't remember him being told off for it, and not once in my memory did he use it as an insult (plus reading him yell and twirl his hair about how much he loves argr people makes me giggle and filled me with joy abt how he loves us)

he's also a sword and personally i feel like a weapon would have different understandings of people esp considering basically everyone treats him like a sword rather than a person but that's a different post-

ironically, in Rick's attempts to portray the oppression and un/conscious bigotry and bias of people, he literally portrays it in his actual writing and I'd applaud him for that it I thought it was an intentional meta analysis of human nature rather than just a guy falling into his own traps lmao-

What happened to the damn ceasefire everyone believed would happen?

ft the fact that i plan on having a combination of rick's design of olympus & everything being in ny, but also keeping the mythology with its people (tho that's a bit nebulous, but whatever)-

aka camp half-blood stays in long island, yeah

camp jupiter? - still in california

but also: the world trade centre holds an entrance to olympus which is still on mt. olympus and the people do not need to leave their home continents to go to a safe place- olympus is still on olympus, the mountain, rome is still rome, etc- it's just the gods are no longer restricted, they are everywhere-

also kinda just like. rick did this for the egyptians and the norse??? why couldn't the greeks and the polytheistic romans (as compared to the christian/catholic romans) have multiple places of existence???

like. i'm also getting rid of the place-specific things, like álfheimr (alfheim) and niðavellir (nidavellir) not resembling boston and shit but also valhǫll (valhalla) and ásgarðr (asgard) being. like where they were modelled after in norse mythology-

also bye-bye bifrost bc that Did Not exist b4 like snorri sturluson-

actual norse mythology is super interesting, like immensely so-

rick did freyr & freyja so dirty- like, yeah, odin and thor were important, but. uhhhh ppl worshipped freyr & freyja as MUCH bc they were the FARMING gods and important

i feel like this post does a bit to establish my love for sociology, psychology, and anthropology- i love learning abt ppl it's amazing-

omg this this this this this-

words cannot explain how dirty Rick did especially the álfar in Magnus Chase. i love you MCGA but come on, they’re one of the most mysterious beings in Norse mythology and he turned them into the American 1% 😭😭 and i know we obviously can’t explore the culture of the other realms beyond what Magnus sees, but man. no explanation for why the álfar don't (can’t?) tolerate imperfections; we're just told they're all bigots and move along. meanwhile, the dwarves' culture is explained during our visit to Niðavellir, and while we hate that Blitz was ostracised for liking fashion, we get positive aspects of the dwarves' mixed in; they're a multifaceted culture with both values we appreciate and flaws we don’t. but Hearth is the only álf that isn't awful. even though, gotta be honest, he is kind of a snob.

Hearth is literally my fav, but i can see he is lowkey a snob in how he treats his own culture. he rants to Magnus about his people not appreciating nature anymore and 'not working and being on their phones' and i gotta be honest- why does it matter if they don't work? isn't the point of extreme wealth to get to do what you want without having to work? the end goal of most people is to get to do what you want (and for some, that may be their job, but not for all). and then, instead of meeting the álfar and having positive facets to them and their realm... Hearth is proved entirely correct; the álfar suck and are horrible. but the way he lumps in 'laziness' with ruining their environment rubs me the wrong way, it gives off a youngun hating their culture cos it treated them badly and only seeing that it’s awful while not appreciating the complexity of people and culture (which he kind of is: he’s 20 and angry at the world). it’s even worse, because Hearth’s complaint is that his people are lazy, not that they enslave the hulders and use the nøkker; he doesn’t bring that up in his rant, even though it is way worse than being slothful. Hearth is displayed as tho he feels superior to the rest of his people, because from how he describes them, he is. and then when we meet them, he is, once again, a better person than all the álfar we meet- but that’s not hard.

we meet cops, who ofc are gonna suck if the whole place is ableist and our narrator was a homeless youth with a Deaf person, but also the back of the cop car is lavish. so the álfar treat their criminals well? Magnus says this but sarcastically, but really doesn't that imply something about how the álfar treat each other? even when they break the law? but then there's the whole thing where the hulders are servants (slaves), and we get told this and we just accept it and move on as the álfar being even more awful; we have no idea what pixies are treated as, Hearth implies they're treated similar to cats, the nøkker are 'security spirits' but they're not that in mythical lore. so what is the deal with Álfheimr? why is every other sentient/potentially sentient species lesser to the álfar? svartálfar are made fun of because of the whole fashion/beauty and receipt thing, we get a reason for the dwarves looking down on their sister-race, but we don’t for the álfar.

(tho i also appreciate the idea of Álfheimr and Niðavellir as symbolic of the differences between rich white oppressors and poor POC communities @ that one tumblr post i can’t remember who by so sorry🙏, i just want more from world-building if you’re going to try and go all in on the ‘all these people are bad people bar the main character because’ shtick)

and hard agree, don’t get me sTARTED on how he treated Freyja… the scene with the walnut at the end? where she makes a comment about not liking them? and Freyr is like ‘haha sister you are so dumb and stupid this has Loki in it obviously’… literally disgusting don’t ever treat a feminine woman like she’s stupid in front of me for making a related to the conversation but slightly off topic comment. 

and i kNOW her mountain of earrings but asking for more is like ‘gods are greedy and don’t value things’, but let women enjoy jewellery please?? not having earrings to match the vibe you're going for, even if you have 100 pairs already, is not that crazy, even if it is a very first-world problem. we meet Freyja and everything about her feels so lavish and wasteful, but then Freyr?? sits on a wooden throne with a deer antler as a staff and he’s so super chill and a good dad despite being even more absent in Magnus' life than Freyja was in Blitz's. 

why is the goddess of love and SEIDR, amongst other things, treated like some frivolous idiot? all because she likes shiny things and has a lot of one-night stands that result in kids? as if the dwarven men she marries aren't just as guilty? like i'm sorry Blitz feels like a receipt and i get his mommy issues, but we can see his mother loves him in some way because she rushes to him at the end of the last book. but because she's an absent mother, like every other god, who had kids in exchange for jewellery, she sucks? as if every dwarf that wants to spend a night with her doesn't know she will leave them as a single parent but do it anyway and thus are also responsible for their kids feeling like receipts. Blitz's dad clearly loved him, and Blitz loves his dad, but are we really going to sit here and act like Bíli is blameless in his son feeling like he was a receipt for earrings? just because Blitz's conception was transactional, suddenly it's wrong. the woman is to blame for the marriages being shallow because she wanted something material out of it, as if the men she married didn't just want to sleep with her. the kids feeling like they don’t matter beyond being a receipt is the absent mother’s fault when the present fathers had their child’s whole development to assuage that insecurity. 

and the treatment of Inge… all she gets to be is Hearthstone’s old best friend who likes him in the second book, and a damsel in distress in the 9 from the Nine book. She was his one person on his side in his childhood after his brother died but she’s reduced to having a crush on Hearthstone, she gets no personality beyond a bashful crush that wants to help and a nervous disposition around her enslavers. Hearth left her with his parents, and he isn’t to blame for getting out of an abusive household and not coming back, but we could have explored Inge from that point of view: she was left behind. she doesn’t get to get out on her own, Hearth has to release her from service (which he only does right before they leave, which i kind of hate even if i get it), and then when she is captured again, he has to go and save her. Inge is just a plot device for Hearth; she only exists to flesh out his story, which i hate because i adore her, and while it’s okay for background characters to exist purely for the development of the main, she deserved more.

we meet NO álfar women because Greta is dead and is just a plot device for Alderman's cruelty to Hearthstone, and we also meet NO dwarven women (if i’m wrong on that, then they were so unimportant that they didn’t register in my memory which is just as frustrating). the fandom even ignores Greta the way Rick does. i get it, Alderman is an active character in the books, but everyone forgets she was one of Hearth’s abusers too, she was awful to him too, but no one mentions that, she is pushed aside and forgotten because we never meet her. but we meet Hearth’s brother. 

Sif is treated like a moron when we meet her, Blitz refers to her as ‘Thor’s wife’, which yes, she is, but she is a goddess in her own right- it’s just as stupid to bad mouth her in her own house as it is to bad mouth her before meeting her husband. yet, Blitz goes with the latter and frames her respect as dependent on her husband’s threatening nature, which i find ironic because he comes from a matriarchal society (which we don’t get to explore even though the concept of Blitz getting massive culture shock from the patriarchal realms would have been so interesting). Samirah’s grief with Sif is fair, the same goes for Alex, but only really Hearth actually respects her. 

anyway, this is an essay and i got carried away and totally took over this post-

i love you diversity in Magnus Chase but you do nOT pass the Bechdel test and it makes me so mad that the Norse mythology-centric series treats women like this when the Norse treated their women with respect and a fair amount of freedom prior to Christianity

i know everything is biassed and not a full story because it's all through Magnus' lens but loooooord sometimes Rick's worldbuilding frustrates me

It's with a heavy but hopeful heart that I watch Palestinian families fundraiser on here, slowly accumulating the precious little money to go around that they need to survive. However, not everyone is so lucky. A lot of Palestinians that have not had that kind of luck, that did not get early verification, that did not get massive platforms behind them from large bloggers, have approached me in my inbox, asking me kindly to do what I can for them. It kills me that I have so little to give myself, but I've seen this platform collectively raise enough to change someone's life. I've made a list of Palestinian fundraisers that are extremely low on funds, in the hope that drawing attention to people who have not been lucky at all can help turn that luck around. I know most of us can't possibly give enough to get all of these families safe in one go. But please, reblog this list. Pick one or two fundraisers, give what you can, and then keep track of it. Slowly, collectively, we can make a difference in these people's lives. Share and donate as much as you can. https://docs.google.com/document/d/178EGDFKkHlh3y4TMVX82kqgITHsqtoMdNccI2f_94Os/edit?usp=sharing

since lists like these tend to gain more traction than if i just published the asks, i've once more compiled a list with palestinian survivors who've reached out to me. please donate if you can, and REBLOG FOR REACH. thank you!

Hello everyone..

I am Hadeel Mikki from Gaza, Palestine and this is my husband Waseem Mikki, my daughters Mira and Nadia, My mother Tahani Mikki, and my two brothers.

Here is our story - Ever since the morning of the 7th of October, none of our lives have been the same. Everything in our lives has been disrupted. The first night since the beginning of the war, our home got partially destroyed because of a very close Israeli strike.

Despite the damage, we stayed home for another two weeks until suddenly and without preparation, we were told to evacuate our homes and we’d be in danger. From this moment our endless journey of suffering and pain began.

Throughout this journey, we later Knew that our home of three floors where my family and my uncle-in-law family live. My uncle family of 5 members did not leave our home and it has got bombed directly and completely destroyed and all of them were martyred.

My father-in-law his heart could not bear all this pain and all this grief; so he got sick. He found himself living the darkest of realities and through the scarcity of medicine and lack of medical resources in the hospitals, he passed away.

My husband, Waseem, was very sad, and my daughters missed their grandfather, who used to play with them and bring them toys.

The situation was very difficult for my children, and my eldest daughter, Mira, kept crying and wanted to go and see her grandfather, and she did not realize that he had gone and would never return.

So we moved in with my husband, children, and I, full of great sadness, with my mother and two brothers, who are the only survivors of my family; They are all that I have left, and I hope that we will all escape with our lives outside of war and destruction, and that my children will survive. We do not want to lose them.

Our future has become unknown, our present is unbearable, unlivable by human standards. We’re stuck in a harsh reality each moment. We live in a constant state of sounds of explosions, bullets raining down on us, artillery shells, and warplanes dropping destructive missiles on us every day.

In addition to our ongoing suffering to this day: lack of resources, humanitarian aid, medicine, and food. We can barely find food for my girls, as they eat one meal during the day and spend the rest of the day crying.

This is my daughters enjoying a life before 7th October.

But now my princess Mira stay alone all the time remember her previous life, her school, her friends, our beautiful life, and all places we were visited with Mira and Nadia as a beautiful family and still cry I need my school, I need my friends, I need my toys.

This is the cry of a mother and father. We hope that our children will be given the opportunity to live in peace and security and have access to food and a safe life like the rest of the children of the world everywhere.

Now I am pregnant in the 4th month , and I don't know how I will get the baby, there is no hospitals , no pregnancy care , no food , no clean water, so I am worried about this pregnant with these circumstances.

Maybe this fundraising effort is like a beacon in the darkness, our sole source of hope that we hold onto tightly. I urge the world to listen to my plea and the sorrowful cries of my Gaza kin. We desperately require the helping hand that can dry our tears and lead us to safety.

Your contribution is more than just money; it's a chance to reconstruct life and illuminate a brighter future. Join us in shaping a tale of hope, as we rely on your support to begin afresh.

The purpose of the fundraising campaign

The objective of this fundraising drive is to secure the passage of my family, comprising my husband, two daughters, mother, two brothers, and myself, through the Rafah Crossing to Egypt. Presently, this journey necessitates £5000 per person. This campaign stands as our sole opportunity for survival, and I earnestly implore your aid during this pivotal juncture. Rest assured, I will furnish you with a detailed breakdown of the expenses, vowing transparency, and lucidity throughout.

Breakdown of Expenses

• Rafah/Egypt crossing: €5000 per person (a total of €25,000 for five adult family members)

€2,500 per child (a total of €5,000 for two children family members)

• Minimum living costs: €5000

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Thank you all for your kindness and support...

Hadeel Makki

@mohammedalanqer (#174 on el-shab-hussein & nabulsi's spreadsheet) has confirmed that he knows hadeel and that this campaign is legitimate

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as of august 12th, hadeel has raised €11,915/€35,000, about 1/3 of the total goal

amount left until €15k: €3,085

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amount left until €15k: €3,085]

Appreciative Rambling and Psychological/Social Connecting Analysis: Blitzstone Edition

Note: This is based on my personal interpretation of the relationship only.

Throughout my relatively short time of consuming media, I have found that I've connected most with relationships between characters like Hearthstone and Blitzen, from the trilogy Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard. I feel that in general, creators of content should pay more attention to relationships like this, especially now, because it can have a very good effect on children and teenagers.

Hearth and Blitz are more likely to be exposed to pre-adolescents and younger teenagers. This is perhaps when pressures and standards start to really take root, specifically for boys to act like this or— oh, no —they must be gay. Or for people to think, "So this is how friends act. If you act like this, you must be more than friends." Hearth and Blitz just break these standards.

Consider the scene where Hearth is reunited with Blitz after being apart and "[is] so excited he [can't] even sign. He rush[es] over and almost tackle[s] Blitzen off his stool" (Sword of Summer, p. 297). I think if we compared this to a "normal" two-guy relationship, it does look romantic, yes. This is not how most men seriously act with one another. But then again, how are men pressured to act? Toxic masculinity ideas can play a big role in how affection is expressed with guys, and on top of the stereotype that men who are sensual and feminine are homosexual (have we noticed that the terms are used interchangeably? A man can be wearing a skirt and someone will casually say, "That's so gay." No, it isn't, it is feminine, which is not the same as simply being attracted to the same sex. And even then, I have to acknowledge my own bias, because what makes a skirt feminine anyway? Who says? At its core, it covers the body, and that is all), then it is understandable to see how there are men out there who cry when you wash their hair or never forget when you give them an unsolicited compliment.

So, is this a case of someone (me, obviously) painting off another homosexual couple as just friends? Or is our main impression of Blitzstone only a product of our upbringing, and they actually are just friends? Or are they simply something we've yet to understand?

This is why the lack of clarity is so important to me... As is made very clear on this account. We were surrounded by these concepts as we grew up that friends act this way, and if it's different, it could be more than friends. And if it's more than friends, it has to be romantic, hasn't it? There's no in between, and anyway, romance is the end goal. Isn't it? Or else we'll die virgins and be alone for all our lives.

Even the phrase "more than friends" itself suggests that there is a hierarchy to relationships, and that romance is more... More impressive, more desired, more important than friendship. In reality, friendship and romance are on equal levels of value. They are simply different in nature.

I think this stems from our access to technology, where we are exposed to so much instantly gratifying media, and it makes us like these Big Moments and postable end goals with little regard for how long the journey is. So we like this idea of a happy life with a partner who is "our everything," who will never leave us, because this is how happily ever after is painted to be. And Blitzstone, as media for younger generations, introduces the counter idea that there is more to life than what we see. There's so much we can do and think if we stop letting this stuff limit us, and that is the Magic of Blitzstone, the absolute magic of their lack of definition. It leaves so much to discover on our own, wnd honestly, there's such a beauty to discovering stuff by ourselves instead of looking it up on the Internet. They're like a loose bar in a cage, and we bumped into one day, felt a bit of give, and realized that this. This one was different.

Anyway, this is becoming rather drastically written, but I just love Blitzstone for this reason. They are so themselves and so caught up in their living and loving together that they can't even bother with the labels and the nonsense. They bring a whole new meaning to "It is what it is."

this is such a beautiful analysis of their relationship and honestly as someone who struggles with accurately labelling my sexual/romantic feelings I love this TT

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Saving Dr. Farhat's Family Towards Hope: A Call to Action

In the heart of war-torn Gaza, where destruction and loss are a daily reality, lies the deeply moving tale of Dr. Husam Farhat and his family. Amidst the relentless bombardment, Dr. Farhat faced an unthinkable tragedy: the martyrdom of his beloved sisters, Inas and Amal, along with their husbands and children, and his brother Mustafa. This devastating loss shattered not only their dreams but also their hopes for a peaceful future.

As the bombs tore through Gaza, Dr. Farhat's world was further shattered by the destruction of his beautiful home and his office—places that once stood as symbols of stability and success. The home, filled with cherished memories, and the office, where he dedicated countless hours to his work and aspirations, have both been reduced to rubble.

You can witness the extent of this devastation through the video below ⬇⬇ which shows some heartbreaking images of what was once his home and office.

The Campaign: A Beacon of Hope

We have launched a GoFundMe campaign titled "Saving Dr. Farhat's Family Towards Hope" to raise the necessary funds to provide them with a chance at a safer, brighter future. You can support this cause by visiting and sharing the campaign link:

👉 https://gofund.me/e9f9ce20

Why Your Support Matters

Your voice is powerful. By sharing this campaign, you help stand up for human dignity and compassion. Every donation and share brings us closer to providing Dr. Farhat's family with the safety they desperately need.

Today, we stand poised to make a difference. Our goal: $29,500 to ensure Dr. Farhat's family's safe evacuation and support as they rebuild their lives in Malaysia. This includes permits, transit fees, living expenses, and housing rent, according to the following details:

👉 https://gofund.me/e9f9ce20

Join Us in Making a Difference

We urge you to join us in this mission of hope. Let us come together to support Dr. Farhat's family and demonstrate that humanity shines through acts of kindness and solidarity.

Thank you for your compassion, your time, and your commitment to freedom and justice.

With deepest gratitude, Dr. Farhat's Family

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Hello, I am Ahmed. I am 22 years old. I study medical equipment engineering at Al-Azhar University in Gaza, which was recently destroyed due to the difficult and terrible war that Gaza City is going through.

I had one year left to graduate, but the war destroyed everything. I lost my education, my father lost his job and his small shop.

I hope that you will help me and stand by my side in saving me and my family, starting over, completing my education, and building my life and future after it was destroyed.

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“The tent was their only shelter. Its winter wall was made of threadbare fabric that did not protect them from the cold or the summer heat. Inside, they lay on a thin mattress, two beaten corpses. My father and mother still suffered from diabetes and high blood pressure. They woke up every day to The sound of chronic pain and dreams that relax with every breath.

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you're tellin me his parents made him live by the rules and mantras all over the walls of his room to pay for his brother's death and he dIDN'T internalise that as a form of ocd?? ok buddy sure...

you're gonna look me in the eyes and tell me he didn't develop responsibility, pure, n like 8 more different themes of ocd like a liar...

I never thought of that, but oh my goodness, that would fit. Specifically, I imagine he would check things over and over and over the most. And he would absolutely have this guilt factor added in, if we considered Alderman's verbal abuse throughout Hearth's childhood.

oh yeah, absolutely this. He'd definitely really struggle with all manner of checking compulsions, I feel like especially checking over his shoulder or behind him after Andiron's death.

I could write an essay on Hearth having ocd and the different ways it would manifest and look to and be responded to by everyone in his life :,)

I love this so well, and it goes with so many of the other Hearth headcanons I already have. This is amazing.

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You are so real on all Hearth's un-diagnoses... man would not attend therapy unless forcefully dragged kicking and screaming to the office.

Chat is now a good time to plug my Hearthstone going through his OCD journey fic I just published the first proper chapter for,,,,

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