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Listen, I am also willing to accept this as a headcanon. Ilya playing up his BFFhood with Gritty and laughing at Shane being terrified, until one game when Gritty sneaks up behind Ilya, Traumatizes Him For Fucking Life, and after that, his eye twitches a little whenever they play Philly. Of course, Ilya stoutly insists he is not scared, not in the least. Unconvinced, Shane gets a mop, dyes it orange, thrusts it abruptly from behind a corner, gives Ilya a heart attack, and does not let him forget it for the next 10 years.

(Pictured: exclusive footage of Gritty in s2):

Let's go with DC again.

6. which ship fans are the most annoying?

This is... a really tough one. If I'm being really blunt there is a certain kind of Dick/Titan shipper who picks a Titan, usually Roy or Wally, and then centers that entire character completely around Dick without acknowledgment of the relationships said character has in their home book. And then will frequently accuse people who ship said character with someone besides Dick of doing that. You see this with Kori as well it's just not as immediately noticeable because she doesn't have her own book outside Titans.

Like, there's an entire segment of fandom who act like Joyfire/JayRoy/JayKori fans are the Scum Of The Earth not for any bad behavior on the part of said fans, or even just because they think Outlaws is bad, but because Kori and Roy somehow belong to Dick, and Roy can't have more than one friend and Gd FORBID Kori date someone else. Everyone probably knows I hate birdflash but in some ways I find them less annoying because frequently what's happening with birdflash is people just aren't familiar with Wally's own comics, whereas the Kori and Roy people will go out of their way to insist that these characters used to have good comics but can't evolve as characters. It kind of comes across not only as very misogynistic and amatonormative, but also extremely monogamy-centred, which is especially ironic given that Kori is canonically polyamorous as of the 90s.

Basically if you are centering Dick's relationship with Kori, Roy, or Wally as more important to who they are as people than their relationships with Kom, Lian, or Hartley, you are the most annoying person in fandom and I hate you.

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

Hello, my lovely! :D How are you?

Ooooh, do I! Man, you're gonna regret asking me this. XD Sorry, not sorry... So shall we start with Israeli/Hebrew kids' books?

Anything by Yehuda Atlas (יהודה אטלס), but especially And That Kid is Me (והילד הזה הוא אני). Short humorous stories, written in rhymes, perfectly capturing how baffling the world can be for a kid, and how silly adults can seem, or just what things can sometimes feel like for a child. It's one of those books that work, funny and essential, 'coz it's so true. He just gets kids.

Another one that I love, and am probably one of the few Israeli kids who even know this book, is Siamina and the Cats of Yemin Moshe (סיאמינה והחתולים של ימין משה) by Holocaust survivor Uri Orlev (אורי אורלב. He's more well known for his books about that period of time, which are also highly recommended, but I only dared read them when I was older). Jerusalem is known for its many stray cats, and the book is a love fest for cats and Jerusalem, with some historical sites becoming in the book the "homes" of the cats.

David Gershtein, who crafted the engravings for the book, is a pretty popular Israeli artist, and you can find some of his creations all over the country, and even entire shops dedicated to his works.

Last one ('coz I don't wanna burden you too much, but lemme know if you want more recs!) that I really loved as a kid, was Yael's House (הבית של יעל) by Miriam Rot (מרים רות). It was about a girl who has a home, but she wants a house that would be all her own. She tries all sorts of solutions, including taking over the space under the kitchen table... Not gonna lie, as a kid I was inspired to follow in her footsteps, but my parents were not impressed.

Now, as for Israeli musicians! You have stumbled onto dangerous ground, my friend, since I'm a music addict, and in love with the Hebrew language, so songs in Hebrew are something I can go on about for freaking years...

I'll share with you the link to two unlisted playlists that I made on YouTube. One is of some of my fave Israeli songs (though I started it years ago, so sadly, I see some vids have been deleted or made private, and there are literally hundreds of songs on the list, meaning I'm not sure which ones are missing), but also with a few thrown in 'coz I think they're good for people who wanna know Israeli culture and popular Israeli songs, and the other is one that I started making with songs connected in different ways to the current war we're in. They're not all faves, but I thought they capture a moment in time, so I wanted to have them grouped together. I'm actually not done with either list, the latter I really just started not that long ago, so you can expect them to grow.

If we're talking specific Israeli musicians, I find it hard to answer, I think almost every singer or songwriter has at least one good song to offer, and likewise whenever I wanna name one, I feel like adding, "Except for this song... and that one..." No musician is great all the time. But I guess some of my faves (where I like more songs than I don't) include Ivri Lider, Berry Sakharof, Yehuda Poliker, Ran Danker, Harel Ska'at, Chanan ben Ari, Narkis, Eliad, Amir Dadon, Avraham Tal, Marina Maximilian, Achinoam Nini (Noa), Sheila Ferber, Gilad Segev, Ofra Chaza, Meni Berger, Yardena Arazi, Natan Goshen, Keren Peles, Izhar Ashdot, Nurit Galron, and the bands Beit Ha'bubot, Ha'Yehudim, Metropolin, Ethnix, Mashina and Synergia.

I was thinking I should add at least one of these vids to my reply, and for whatever reason, the one that started playing itself in my head (where there is always music) was a song first released in 1993, אדמה חמה (Hot Earth) by Shlomo Gronich and the Shva Choir (Sheba is the English pronunciation of Shva). I love this song, I think the vid was very cool for its time, and I'm still never gonna forgive the MTV viewers who gave it last place in a video music awards. The song incorporates Hebrew and Amharic, both Semitic languages, the latter being the language spoken by Ethiopian Jews. You can actually listen to the whole special album (inspired by the story of the Ethiopian Jewish community's journey to Israel) here.

But just for the fun of throwing in a gay themed song as well, here's התשמע קולי (Will You Hear My Voice), a love poem for a man, originally written by an Israeli poet called Rachel (full name: Rachel Bluwstein Sela), but it's performed here by only men, and no one changed the pronouns, which makes it a mlm song to me. It's so pretty and sad (Rachel is believed to have written the poem to a former lover, a man she even thought at one point she would marry, but WWI tears them apart and they never meet again. She wrote this poem, after getting the news that she's terminally ill), it fills my soul at the same time as it tugs on my heart.

gelato!! have a picture of some DELICIOUS gelato i had a few years back as evidence of its superiority:

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Gingerrrrr! Thank you for this.