#twelve.

little gull (overwinter chapter twelve)

landoscar | 12/18 chapters | ~100k complete

“Excited?” Oscar asks when they’ve separated. He looks it himself, eyes warm and smile bright.

Lando nods and leans in for one last kiss before holding the door open to let Oscar into the flat.

“You ready?” he asks in the entry, voice low.

Oscar gives him a tight, determined nod, so Lando says, “Emma, Oscar’s here,” and herds him into the kitchen, into view.

Growing international distress at the conditions for 2.3 million people trapped under the heaviest air strikes Israel has ever unleashed on the Mediterranean enclave led major powers this week to call on Israel to allow such pauses to get aid in and Israeli hostages held by Islamist militant group Hamas out.’

If it wasn’t already clear, the Israeli government does not care about the hostages.

Agreement on these points could lead to more focus on lowering the violence in southern Gaza to let aid enter, the EU official said.

An average of 12 trucks a day have entered Gaza in recent days, down from 500 a day prior to the conflict, Guterres said on Friday.

Israel says any respite from fighting benefits Hamas, which it is determined to destroy, and which it says diverts aid such water, fuel, food and medicine to its fighters.

If it wasn’t already clear, the Israeli government sees all loss of Palestinian life as acceptable.

"A ceasefire means giving Hamas time to rearm itself, so they can massacre us again," Israel's U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan told the General Assembly on Thursday, calling it "an attempt to tie Israel’s hands."

If it wasn’t clear already, the Israeli government is literally framing this as ‘we, the invading force, are actually the ones being genocided. To prevent this we will commit genocide. (Except it’s not genocide when it’s Palestinian life).’

Rowena Macleod and Dean Winchester

“I was terrified they would desert me the moment they found out what I was. But of course they worked out the truth … And they didn´t desert me at all. Instead they did something for me that would make my transformations not only bearable, but the best times of my life. They became Animagi.