✦ RAN GVILI IS HOME!! ✦ ✦ !! I AM A MINOR !! ✦ ✦ i bite ✦ audhd ✦ ✦ they/she/he/היא (+ fem nouns) ✦ pjo lover ✦ ✦ hate is not activism ✦ ✦ #2 jason grace defender (second to lilac) ✦ ✦ “inej fell, twisting in the air the way she had as a child, searching for her wings.” ✦ ✦ life is beautiful ✦ ✦ i <3 my AMAZING partner ✦
intro post?? idk, this feels kinda silly but… 🤷♀️
hi! you can call me star or australili* (they/he/she)
*p.s., australili is the name i put as the watermark on my edits
p.p.s., i sign my art with my irl initials (nas)
[pt: *p.s., australili is the name i put as the watermark on my edits
p.p.s., i sign my art with my irl initials (nas) /end pt]
most reblogs are queued, my queue is 10 posts a day (not always filled though) and set to 24 hrs—so no, i’m not awake at 4 in the morning every day, i promise 😭
i am a queer ethnic jew, and i am israeli american. no i don’t support displacing, hurting, or killing anyone. however i do support you shutting the fuck up if all you're gonna do is lie about me and my beliefs
not all of my posts on this blog have to do with israel, but being israeli is an intrinsic part of who i am. if you don’t like it, don’t interact. i’d just appreciate it if you’d hate me in silence and keep it off my blog. thanks <3
i am a proshipper. if your immediate reaction to that is thinking i’m horrible, i highly recommend taking a look at this. ship and let ship
this is my main blog! i have a few others, i’ll make like a master doc or smth at some point
socials masterlist
tag index
big post about my 3 different soc aus (+ it has the tags for all 3 of them, so you can click on those to see the rest of my posts about them)
more abt me below the cut :)
books i like: six of crows, shadow and bone, pjo, hoo, toa, mgca, kane chronicles
shows i like: stranger things, shadow and bone tv, hilda, toh, arcane, heated rivalry
movies i like: kpop demon hunters (2025), me and earl and the dying girl (2015), whip it (2009), the princess bride (1987), zodiac (2007), jojo rabbit (2019), the prince of egypt (1998)
music i like: the killers, florence + the machine, kate bush, ofra haza, le tigre, emei, lorde, katseye, nep, wolf alice, pj harvey, charli xcx, conan gray, dead kennedys, janani k jha, the crane wives, chappell roan, suki waterhouse
musicals i like: next to normal, hadestown, hamilton, epic the musical, heathers, rent, nerdy prudes must die, the lightning thief musical, six the musical
i connect with robin buckley, max mayfield, and nancy wheeler on a spiritual level. trust me when i say they're ALL me in another life
omniromantic, acespec, nonbinary, arospec (but happy taken 💜); very neurodivergent (adhd, ocd, generalized anxiety disorder, autism); super social; i like to read, write, draw, and hang out with my friends :)
last books i read: siege and storm, with the fire on high (school)
currently reading: ruin and rising
next books: diary of a young girl, things i've been silent about, king of scars
books i started reading a while ago but i put them down before i finished them: court of the dead, the virgin suicides, utopia
random facts abt me:
- i skipped 5th grade
- i loveeeee epidemiology!
- i’m currently making a fictional disease for a book that me and my friend are writing together
- i <3 pins!!
- i have a pink american flag with chappell roan on it + a french flag that has a stock image of a man working at a desk both hanging on my bedroom ceiling
- my stuffed animals take up (significantly) more space in my bed than me
- i’m 5 feet tall </3
- i’ve played 3000+ hours of the sims 4 and i have 200+ files in my ts4 mods folder
- i own a copy of almost every book rick riordan has ever written (including daughter of the deep) except for a few (less than 5, i believe)—i can’t seem to get my hands on camp jupiter classified but i’m working on it
- i play the flute!
- milk gives me the ick in every way
- lavenders are my favorite flowers but jasmine is my favorite scent
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if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"
How is BDS meant to work if Palestine’s economy is tied to Israel’s economy? Do they just not know that Palestinians also use the shekel?
They don't know and they don't care - but the deeper problem is that BDS isn't aimed at anything that would actually matter even if it worked.
You're right that Palestinian workers depend on access to Israeli markets, Israeli employers, and the shekel. A successful BDS campaign that seriously damaged the Israeli economy would devastate Palestinian livelihoods first.
The people pushing BDS the hardest have not thought about this because thinking about it would complicate their performance.
The one time BDS claimed a clear win - pressuring SodaStream out of its West Bank factory - about 500 Palestinian workers lost their jobs. One of them, Ala Al-Qabbani, had been earning around $1,500 a month on the line; afterwards he was selling produce from a street cart for a quarter of that. The BDS movement called the factory closure a victory. (Haaretz coverage of story)
Efficacy, though, isn't the point. BDS is a performance.
The targets it actually goes after (academic conferences, SodaStream, Airbnb) don't touch any substantial part of the Israeli economy.
The Israeli economy runs on defense exports, semiconductor fabrication, and agricultural technology. Intel, NVIDIA, and Google have R&D centers there because Israeli engineers are world-class, s-tier brilliant at what they do. You're not going to get the world to boycott a major source of its own innovation, and nobody in the BDS movement is seriously trying to make that happen. I mean...if they were sincere, they'd stop using all the Israeli technology in their phone and laptops.
So...why do they bother?
The point of the performance is to cast Israel as the new South Africa*.
They know that If they repeat the same lies often enough, gullible western leftists will embrace the lie as gospel despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Apartheid South Africa was genuinely vulnerable. It was isolated, had no powerful allies, was dependent on a single major trading partner, and was economically fragile enough that any capital flight actually hurt.
None of that applies to Israel. BDS has built a tiny lever and pointed it at things that will never move. Waving the lever around dramatically is the point - not what it is purportedly supposed to do.
So when BDS 'succeeds', Palestinian workers lose jobs and Israeli tech exports are unaffected - but the participants in the western movement gets to feel like they did something. Nevermind that they themselves actually do live on stolen land and do reap the benefits of the settler-colonialists states they live in.
As usual, they're not actually interested in producing social change, they're engaged in a performance that makes them feel better about themselves.
More on BDS:
Comparison with South Africa
State Laws re: BDS
Boycott PHP?
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*It's a variation of the "Israel are the new Nazis" schtick
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YouTube is so exhausting these days. all my favorite video essayists drop "it was promised to them 3000 years ago" jokes at random. I watch videos about genuinely terrible people (rapists, pedophiles, murderers, etc.) and the creator is like and they support Israel which makes sense for such a deplorable person, obviously. shut up shut up shut up shut up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I think that we as a fandom don't put enough emphasis on the fact that pjo characters aren't human. We treat them like they are but they're literally half god, divine beings. The books don't really expand on this either which is sad because I want more of demigods being just slightly off. They look completely normal at first glance but if you look closer their eyes are just a bit too intense, they're smiles just a bit too bright.
Let Athena kids have big owl-like eyes, let them rotate their heads further than usual and other owl-like mannerisms.
Let Apollo kids pick up random objects and gift them to their friends and families like crows.
Let Ares kids have an intense aura around them when they get angry. Let them have stupid good eyesight that can pick a small detail up from far away like vultures.
Let demigods be stronger and faster than the average human. Let them make feats no normal person can do or survive. Let them struggle with being in that in-between, not gods, but not humans either. Let demigods be half god.
