terroristiraqi1-deactivated2023

has anyone payed attention to the stuff going down in ethiopia or are we just Miscellaneous Blacks to yall

terroristiraqi1-deactivated2023

earlier today (june 2) addis ababa police killed three muslims after friday prayer as retaliation from the protests of last week. the protesters were speaking out against the demolition of over a dozen mosques for (what every sane person knows is) our prime minister's new city—sheger city—made only for people of oromia decent at the expense of literally everyone else.

ethiopians of every ethnicity (except oromia bc this government benefits only them) are protesting this city. this is not the first time the ethiopian government, specifically our [redacted] of a prime minister, has intervened in religious affairs. earlier this year, he tried to intervene in the ethiopian orthodox church. fortunately those efforts have seemingly paused (for now).

as expected, there aren't many sources on this matter that aren't in amharic and unfortunately i can't translate. here's what i have so far (source 1) (source 2) please lmk if you find anything else, i'll add it to the list

terroristiraqi1-deactivated2023

as of today (june 4) the number of demolished mosques has risen to 22. there is a complete news blackout, people are still being arrested or killed by police for protesting. my mom's been calling family to get updates but there isn't much information at the moment.

danikatze

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Dunno if Nimona and Ambrosius would ever get along, but Bal loves them both and they both love Bal <3

aliziafinola

shuhada sadaqat, the world is a cruel and difficult place to be in but you lived a life that honored truth bodily & spiritually. i'm pretty sad that you're gone, but i hope that there's an afterlife that provides joy & comfort for women like you. thank you for being a light & for sharing your gifts and experience, and i'm sorry life was so painful sometimes. it's none of my business why you died but i am grateful to live in a world that you lived in.

إِنَّا ِلِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ

madamethursday

[Image description: A photo taken on a snowy city sidewalk at night time. In the foreground is a yellow diamond shaped pedestrian crossing sign with a walking figure in it and the yellow square "AHEAD" sign beneath. The pedestrian sign is tilted at about 90 degrees so that the figure inside looks as if it's laying down and not walking.

In the background, on the snowy sidewalk, is a person imitating the tilted post of the pedestrian figure with one leg and one arm raised.]

yellowplumfruit

cute, innocent merrill

(click on it for better quality)

floralprintshark

[ID: a digital full-body drawing of Merrill from Dragon Age 2. She is holding onto her staff with both hands, blood dripping from them down the staff. There’s a faint circle of light surrounding her head. An amorphous shadowy figure makes up the space where Merrill’s shadow should be. The rest of the background is grey. End ID]

orwellsunderpants

[image description: tweet by Netchimen’s Reverie that reads “Tolkien describing places that are evil: no trees grow there” /end description]

This is doubtless because of his experience of the trenches in the Great War.

Like, this is what things looked like to soldiers who fought in that war (image in black and white of a solitary soldier walking across a muddy wasteland pocked with puddles):

Here’s Delville Wood, the site of a battle in 1916 (sepia image of a wasteland dotted with broken and dead trees):

Here’s an image from the Battle of the Somme, in which Tolkien participated (image of soldiers standing above and inside a trench or earthwork in a grey wasteland; smoke from artillery is on the horizon)

So yeah: no trees = evil was Tolkien’s own direct lived experience. It’s precisely why Mordor and the wastelands around it look like they do in his books.

brunhiddensmusings

the plateau of gorgoroth, the heartland of mordor, is described as being scarred by countless pits dug by orcs

the true seat of evil is full of foxholes and trenches

khantoelessar

There’s a lesson to be learned here.

purlturtle

I hope Tolkien would be happy to learn that a hundred years on, trees grow again here:

From The Atlantic.

nightbringer24

I think that Tolkien would be very happy to see that.

themodernmaccabee

The trees have reclaimed the land in which hell had been brought

tiktoksformyfriends

[video by video.cameras. caption: the only advice you'll ever need]

pointed-in-a-crooked-line

Video captions: ”So I just went on this on-ramp, there’s no signs blocking it off and I thought I was high. That’s just a pit! On the on-ramp! What the fuck? They don’t have this shit blocked off or nothin. Watch, this guy’s coming. There’s a guy coming behind me. (Automated tiktok voice) Ay Yo. (The new car passes the speaker and stops.) Yeah! Ooh is he gonna fuckin go? (That car carefully gets into the right lane avoiding the pit) Ooh. Ooh. (A second car repeats the action) Holy shit! Oh, it’s water! I AM high!”