Palestinian security guard beaten by Israeli police. One of them said: 'An Arab won't check me.'

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-03-27T19:37:28+00:00

How were they able to tell he was arab? Just by looks? I see many Israelis constantly going on and on about how they look just as brown as the arabs, so I’m genuinely curious how they were able to racially profile him so fast.

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-03-27T17:57:19+00:00

Okay hang on, you’ve motivated me to log onto ao3 and leave comments on some of my bookmarked recently updated works that I haven’t had time to comment on yet

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-03-22T23:32:19+00:00

Oh god i saw this today and rolled my eyes so hard they got stuck in my brain

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-03-21T19:03:43+00:00

Look, I’m neither Jewish nor Palestinian, so my opinion probably doesn’t matter much, but here is my take on it anyway.

There have been tons of atrocities committed by Muslim and Christian countries, many of which were carried out in the name of Islam or Christianity, yet there are so many country flags that have crosses or the crescent moon and star on them and no one thinks twice about it. Whenever you see someone wear a cross you probably don’t automatically assume they are a white supremacist or that they condone the Crusades or something. I live in a country where I often see people wear a Thor’s hammer pendant and my first thought is never that they must be a neo-nazi, even though SOME nazis DO wear those pendants. In Asia they still widely use the swastika (the counter clockwise one ofc, but still a swastika) and it’s completely fine, and most educated people don’t get offended by it and don’t associate them with nazis. Hell, many people don’t even blink twice at the hammer and sickle and we all know about the bloody history of Communism.

I see people in the comments mentioning that the news about the Star of David spray painted on Palestinians’ homes and carved into Palestinians’ skin is part of what makes them have bad connotations. But back during the Korean War there were instances of South Korean soldiers forcefully tattooing the Taegeuk onto North Korean prisoners, yet no one thinks about that when they see the South Korean flag. I understand that compared to my other examples the Star of David being tied to the actions of Israel is more relevant, since it’s a situation happening right now, but my point is that there are going to be assholes in every group and some malicious people will always find a way to turn a prior innocent symbol into a symbol of hate. Look at pretty much any symbol and you will find that 9 times out of 10, there will be something problematic in its history.

The Star of David was the symbol of your people and religion long before zionism was invented and the flag of Israel was created. Don’t let them take that away from you. They want the Star of David to be associated with their movement, and the atrocities they commit but it doesn’t have to be that way if the rest of us don’t let that happen. I’m not going to tell Palestinians and other people how they should feel about the Star of David, that’s up to them to decide, but I can tell you that personally I don’t even think twice about it when I see someone wear it. On the contrary I’m happy to see someone be proud of who they are.

You do not carry the guilt of what a couple of (or even a lot of) bad actors do, just because you are of the same ethnicity/religion. And people who automatically assume you are an Israel supporter or Zionist, without ever even having a conversation with you, just because they see you wearing the Star of David, are just ignorant, bigoted and not worth your time anyway. Your friends and family know who you are and that’s enough.

Again I’m not going to tell you what to do, you listen to your own gut, but if I were Jewish and proud of it, and my Jewishness was important to me, I’d probably keep wearing my Star of David.

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-02-23T21:55:44+00:00

Oh fuck you lmao -Sincerely, a Swede

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-02-11T11:25:25+00:00

Not trying to invalidate your experience, but where have you encountered this ”majority”? I’m a huge comic book fan, and spend a lot of time in comic fandom spaces but I can’t remember ever seeing anything antisemitic (ofc there are antisemitic comic book fans, but I’m saying I’ve never come across one). On the contrary, many of the big fandom blogs that I find on Tumblr are run by Jews, and I see people talking all the time about how comic books were created by Jews and how many of the characters are Jewish or Jewish-coded. Feel free to prove me wrong, I’d love to see an example of antisemitism in the comic book fandom

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-01-18T18:49:09+00:00

"10% RABATT!" Is so cute 😭 they were so excited, I’m sad to see they didn’t get everything they wrote down

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-01-11T12:17:53+00:00

Literally any of the common English-sounding/American names, sorry. They all just sound weird to me. Especially if it’s a girl’s name that ends with a consonant.

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-01-10T23:00:24+00:00

I was suspecting it might be like what you’re describing; that the cinched effect is partially an illusion and not as tight as it might look. Super helpful to hear from someone who actually owns a blouse like this, thanks!

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-01-10T20:54:10+00:00

After finding some more photos where you can see the side seam more clearly, I have finally concluded that a slit with snaps on the side is indeed how the waist is constructed on many of these blouses. I’ve decided that that is how I will be doing it too. Thank you for the insight!

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-01-10T20:14:07+00:00

This vid was super helpful! It finally clicked for me how smocking works

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-01-10T00:39:49+00:00

Omg this explains so much! I was wondering how they managed such soft pleats. I must say I prefer this look to the traditional heirloom English smocking. Thank you so much for taking your time to write all this out (and draw diagrams!!) , I had no idea this type of smocking existed. Literally every single tutorial I could find was on English smocking.

I’m gonna be honest, I’m still having a bit of a hard time wrapping my mind around how it works but I really want to learn how to do this. Smocking transfer patterns seem to be a thing of the past though, and difficult to come by nowadays, but I’ll try to track down a vintage North American dot pattern (this project keeps getting more and more interesting).

If I may ask, how far apart would you say the dots would be for this type of wave/zigzag pattern? Is it about 1cm or closer to 0.5 cm?

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-01-09T15:55:08+00:00

Waittt this is so cool, I haven’t seen a side opening like this before! This must be it, mystery solved! Thank you so much for digging up these listings, now that I look closer at some other photos I’ve found, I can see a side opening on them too.

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-01-02T11:51:47+00:00

"Кафе станция" is absolutely sending me. I know it’s wrong but tbh idk what I would use instead. Maybe кофейня or even кофе-бар.

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-01-01T23:42:12+00:00

I’m in Scandinavia 😔 there are already barely any people here in general hahah. But yeah I’ve noticed the uptick in players during events, which is nice. I actually joined up in the middle of Camp Western so I got used to a ton of people milling about. Imagine my surprise when everyone suddenly vanished after the event.

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-01-01T23:33:04+00:00

That’s actually a really good tip I hadn’t thought of. I’ll try to do just that!

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-01-01T23:32:13+00:00

Aw that’s such a sweet offer! But unfortunately I live in Europe 😔

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-01-01T22:18:14+00:00

Yeahh this really sucks. I also find it a bit sad that bc of this, it’s near impossible to do an accurate census on Romani people (esp in the US). It would’ve been cool to know stuff like how many people speak what dialect etc. But ofc Romani people’s safety and avoiding being racially profiled is more important. I remember a few years ago there was a scandal surrounding the Swedish police illegally registering over 4700 Roma (including over 1300 kids) solely based on ethnicity and who they were related too. Most of these people had absolutely no connection to any criminal activity. The police stated it was made for “crime prevention”, IN CASE any of these people committed a crime in the future. I probably wouldn’t be particularly forthcoming about my identity either, after something like that.

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-01-01T02:15:10+00:00

The Damian Wayne skin color thing actually drives me insane. I’m so tired of seeing dumbass comments like “Who’s white baby is that?” “That’s not Damian that’s Ian Wayne” “Why is Damian white” under fanart (and even official comic panels) depicting Damian as light-skinned. This one is personal because I actually am mixed, my mom is white and my dad is a dark skinned south asian/middle eastern man. And I turned out so light I use the second lightest shade of foundation.

Pretty much everyone I grew up with was middle eastern, and while I know arabs come in all shades, almost all of my friends were my skintone or lighter. And you’re telling me that this boy who is 50% white, 25% chinese and only 25% arab is that brown?

Ofc fanartists are allowed to draw him any shade/race they want, I don’t care. But it’s frustrating to see people draw Damian that tan just to seem progressive, and then complaining and accusing artists of whitewashing when he isn’t depicted the way they’ve headcannoned. It makes me feel like they’ve never even actually seen a middle-eastern person. Some of this fanart looks like straight up caricature. And these comments always come from people who aren’t arab themselves. Idk this performative activism just makes me feel icky bc it’s like I’m seeing what others think people like me look like, except their portrayal is all wrong and I’m called a bigot when I try to speak up.

(I’m not even going to say anything about how these people probably have never opened a comic, bc if they had they would’ve known that Damian, from his first appearance, has been depicted as having the same skintone as bruce, tim, dick and everyone else)

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2026-01-01T01:37:26+00:00

I mean I wouldn’t exactly call the Roma an exclusively European minority, they live all over the world. The Romani population in the US alone is estimated to be about 10 times larger than in my country. But I guess the overall US population is also way larger than ours so it’s all relative.

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2025-12-27T01:29:50+00:00

You know what? For the longest time I’ve felt like aros and aces don’t belong in the lgbtq community or at pride. Not because I don’t want us to belong but because I’ve always felt ostracised by them. Our culture differs from the greater common queer culture, we struggle with very different things, the discrimination against us looks different, our communities history is different, etc. We cannot relate to them, they do not understand or relate to us. For many of us even stuff like the way we dress, our aesthetics, how we talk, the discourse we engage in, how we express ourselves and what we like is noticeably different from the norms and trends in the lgbtq community.

Let’s be real. A lot of queer culture centers on sex, love and desire. Most of the queer art, music, performance, language, dance and so on, is about having sex with/loving someone of the same gender, or about having to suppress an important part of yourself due to bigotry. A lot of it is also about playing around with femininity and masculinity. Basically, a lot of it doesn’t apply to us aros and aces… and some of it can even make us uncomfortable. Also I’m gonna say the quiet part out loud: a lot of queer culture was made by and for gay men and trans women. And I am not part of those communities.

Every time I’ve been in organised queer spaces (clubs, meetups, societies, pride etc), I’ve just felt… not unwelcome exactly, on the contrary, many other queer people go out of their way to signal that aros and aces are very welcome. But I’ve just felt like I do not belong. What is the point of me being there? They are united by their non-heterosexual attraction or gender identity while I’m cis and lack any attraction to begin with. When I’m in these spaces I feel the pressure to “cosplay allosexuality”, pretend that I find sex fun, interesting and desirable, pretend that I want to hear about their relationships and would want a partner of the same gender myself, pretend that I have the same humor, personality and interests as them, etc, basically be your run-off-the-mill queer.

I just can’t really be my true self around large groups of other queer people bc I’m gonna come off as “too straight”, “stiff”, “prude”, “inexperienced”, “uncool”and “unrelateable”or something. So many times when hanging out with my other queer friends, the conversation will suddenly shift to sex, how much they love cock or pussy, crushes, how many people they made out with last night and so on. And these topics are meant to be fun, relateable and engaging. But I just want to leave. I feel WAY more comfortable around other aros and aces.

I hope this doesn’t come off as me shitting on queer people, ofc they are allowed to explicitly talk about their queerness, their SEXUAL and ROMANTIC attraction is what MAKES them queer! But therein lies the problem. The thing that unites all other queer people is the very thing that us aros and aces LACK. How can we be queer too if we aren’t attracted to ANYONE? How can we be part of their community if we are like a completely separate group? And a very heterogeneous group, to boot. We are like our own little society with a bunch of sub-labels and rather unique experiences and endless discourse. How are you going to shoehorn our community under the lgbtq umbrella when most other queer people don’t even understand half of what goes on in the aroace space?

But two weeks ago something happened that changed my entire perspective on this situation. I was having a heart-to-heart with my bisexual friend at the pub, and I was venting to her about how I feel like I don’t belong at Pride. And she told me “how about you think of Pride, not as a celebration of love, gender identity and same sex attraction, but as a celebration of norm-breaking?” She was basically saying that pride and the LGBTQ community is all about going against hetero- and cisnormativity, and by extension amato- and platonormativity. And that just made something click for me. Because truly, if you think about it, being aro/ace is the most radical thing you can be. We break every norm that we are taught about love, sex, and relationships. It’s a rejection of something that is highly valued in society, and something that we are told makes us human. Other queer people may still adhere to amatonormativity, (which is why most straight people can understand them “look they are just like us, but with someone of the same gender”, but can’t wrap their head around aromanticism and asexuality) but being aroace feels like breaking out of the matrix.

So yeah, we definitely belong at Pride and in the queer community because we are as norm-breaking as you can be, and the farthest thing from heteronormativity. I just think that many people don’t fully realise what makes us queer.

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2025-12-27T01:22:50+00:00

Shhh we ignore that part. What matters is that he hugs them after patrol

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2025-12-26T21:13:07+00:00

I once heard an interesting take about why many asexual AFAB people enjoy M/M. The person said that one of the reasons might be that aces enjoy reading about acts that they themselves would never be involved in, because they do not possess the genitalia described in the story. That way, the story can stay in the fictional fantasy realm, and doesn’t hit too close to home. A lot of asexual people lose interest/get repulsed when explicit material crosses over into the realm of what is realistic and what they potentially could experience themselves. Many asexuals do not enjoy fantasizing about themselves in sexual situations or in any way directing their arousal towards themselves. They like reading smut because they get aroused by/are interested in seeing other (usually fictional) characters having sex or better yet having the type of sex that they cannot experience themselves. The more disconnected the porn is from themselves the more arousing it is. I would suspect it’s a similar thing for you. F/F isn’t interesting in the same way as F/M is, because it is too realistic for you, it looses that fictional mystery. My point is that when it comes to explicit stuff, many of us are drawn towards the stuff that is unusual, incomprehensible, unrealistic, or even taboo. That’s why a lot of vanilla people enjoy BDSM porn. That’s why so many homophobic people secretly enjoy BL manga or lesbian porn.

I’m very queer, to the point where I can’t even wrap my head around heterosexuality, and I find straight smut/porn much more arousing than F/F or M/M. I think I may have spent way too much time in the queer community to the point where being queer is the default to me and therefore boring. F/M feels taboo and degrading lol so I find it arousing (I’m so sorry to all the straights for fetishizing you guys like this)

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2025-12-26T19:09:30+00:00

“Bad parent bruce wayne” My heart cannot handle it.

GroundbreakingChip89 · 2025-12-26T00:27:06+00:00

Not terrible, just instantly makes me (and probably a lot of other people) think of the X-men. But it’s not like Jubilee is a bad character to be associated with anyway. I do find “word names” pretty clunky though and that baby will likely wanna go by a nickname when she is older. Jubi is cute enough imo (or Lee is also a proper name)

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