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it's the last day you can rb this

I’m with the janitor. I think they’re time travelers.

Everybody stop what you’re doing RIGHT NOW and celebrate the last Out of Touch Thursday of 2020

RD Possession AU Intern (Aka Mal Prachett’s terrible horrible no good very bad day)

Mini Fic under the cut

It had been a couple days since the beginning of the possession epidemic. Having lost Ada yesterday, Ian had come to accept his lot in life as the final girl. The Intern had been working seemingly without sleep for days to help those afflicted with little progress. Their robotic proxy made them much more resistant to attacks than Ian, thus making them the perfect scout while Ian toiled away in the lab trying to figure just what the hell had befallen Middlesea Hospital. A knock at the door told him they were back. That, or one of the possessed was trying to trick him again. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Ada do a cartwheel towards the lab entrance. Apparently she could do cartwheels? Cool? He cleared his throat, attention still glued to his laptop screen. “Can you please make sure your not letting someone like Lucky in?”

“You mean Unlucky?”

“That seems like kind of a mean nickname for your tastes, Ada.”

“His face and arm and brain are broken. Pretty darn unlucky if you ask me!”

“I guess. If it is him can you at least try not to piss him off even more?”

“No promises!” Ada winked and gave her purple clown nose a little honk. At least her reality-defying slapstick powers made her a surprisingly competent guard dog. “Who’s there?~” In response, she got a series of short and long beeps. Morse code. Thankfully, Ian knew it well enough to decipher on the fly. Normally Ada wasn’t fluent at all, but the cartoon logic she was now ruled by dictated that she understood them just fine.

<Intern.>

“Intern who?”

<Query: Is there another intern at this facility?>

“Um um- Ian can you think of a pun? Well’s run dry here!” Ian had joined Ada by the door now. Something about the way the Intern was talking caused a pit of dread to form in his gut. Please God please not them too. He braced himself as the heavy metal door slid back. He was immediately flashbanged by the Intern’s entire screen being lit up in bright purple. With a small yelp he slammed the door right back shut.

“NO NO NO! ADA! How am I supposed to do this alone?!”

“What am I, chopped liver?” Ada gave her nose another honk as Ian practically melted onto the floor. It was all over. They were all screwed. Smile wavering faintly, Ada sat next to him. No sincere words would come to her, so she instead laid a hand on his shoulder. It was fun to be possessed, sure, but she didn’t need fun right now. She needed to help Ian. It was just so hard not to get distracted. Even now energy coursed through her. She wanted to get up and run laps around the building and bounce off the walls. It took every ounce of the little restraint she had left just to keep her mouth shut. After a few moments of self-imposed torture another knock came to spare her mercy. She popped right back up like a jack-in-the-box and cupped her hands together giddily. “Who is it?~”

<It is still the intern.>

“It is still the intern wh-“

“Go away.” Ian’s face was buried in his arms. His voice was muffled, hoarse, and maybe a tad bitter.

<I have succumbed to possession.> There was a pause for a response, but none was given. Soon enough, they continued. <I am unable to access my emotions. I have been reduced to pure logic. My running theory is that the entity responsible for this epidemic enjoys ironic twists of fate, as most patients assume me to be a robot upon first contact.> Ian had covered his ears by now. Ada, however, seemed to have debated whether they passed some unknown vibe check. <My alliances and goals remain intact. I can still provide aid.> With that, the door opened once more. Ada waved, her hand on the button.

“Be on your best behavior, Sparky. I’d hate to look like a clown for letting you in.” She snickered, then moved to give the Intern a lookover. Ian cowered, half-heartedly accepting his incoming tragic fate. He’d really thought they’d be immune. Did the possession really get them through internet connection? This thing could take over the entire world if it wanted. His spiral was cut off by a gentle pat on the head. He flinched as Ada and the Intern loomed over him. “My friend here could use a hand, or a leg I guess.” Against his better judgment, Ian’s eyes made their way down the Intern’s metal torso. Although their posture was perfectly rigid, at about where the knee would be, their left teg had been completely torn off. Wires hung loose and oil dripped slowly from the jagged wound. Next, his eyes jumped to the Intern’s extending arm. Their hand gripped the broken leg tightly. Oil covered their silicone fingers. It was almost grizzly to look at.

“Oh-Oh my God. What happened?”

<Mrs. Stevenson’s denchers are of exceptional quality. My aluminum chassis were of no match.>

“Jeez- ok- I can help. You promise not to turn on me?”

<I am currently unable to lie. My alliances and goals remain intact. I can still provide aid.>

“That’s good, maybe. I don’t know. Get on the table. That has to hurt.

<I cannot feel pain.>

“I mean, yeah, but…” Ian trailed off. The screen was still glowing purple. The Intern’s camera feed hadn’t been playing at all. He had no idea what this all looked like on their side. “Can you… turn off the rhythm doctor program? Maybe you can get some rest while I fix up your proxy.”

<Negative. I am trapped.>

“What do you- Intern are you in the robot? Did the possession do this to you?!”

<Negative. It did not.>

“Intern, what does that mean?”

<Low power.>

“Intern?! What do you mean by trapped?!”

<Entering sleep mode.>

“Intern!” The robotic body siezed and stiffened. The screen slowly flashed the black outline of a low battery symbol. Mouth agape, Ian looked to Ada, then back at the body. Despite her best efforts, she couldn’t help but speak up.

“Hmm. Do they take double As?” In response, Ian slammed his head on the metal table. He really shouldn’t have gone to med school.

Super last second Christmas drawing with the Handtern, featuring @pokeblog123 and @lolatulips interns Mal and Marie! I wanted to draw more holiday RD stuff but unfortunately I’ve been super busy with gift art for people 😅. Hope y’all have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays though!

You there, tumblrina, what day is it?

Cranked this out for @pokeblog123 and @nightmun just in time for Christmas! Including of course Mal Pratchett and The Handtern respectively. Enjoy the Middlesea Hospital Christmas Party y'all!

Marie is there in spirits, so to speak.

Need to get this out desperately

nice.

Y'all seemed to like Marie so here's a little low-effort comic that I digitalized from a paper sketch. Might've been a little funnier in my head but lolol enjoy anyways!

Also enjoy Marie's Patented Button Pressing Finger and Nicole stocking up on smokes during her break so she doesn't have to do it on the job.

Hey guys bad news I go here now-

Meet my Internsona! Except not really a sona and more an oc lolol. Her name is Marie Sanglante, she's from Paris, and is just a wee bit of a meanie cakes diva and tryhard.

I figured it would be a fun idea to have an Intern with the ability to save and reload time who uses that power to get S+ rankings in every single level. She strives for perfection at every angle and, from the outside, she seems eerily perfect at everything she does, though the rest of the staff and the patients she works on can't shake the feeling of deja vu they get whenever she provides aid to someone “for the first time”. She also uses this ability to get a full night's worth of sleep when she seemingly only had very few hours to do so. Simple as saving, sleeping in, turning back time once you wake up, heading into work and pretending like three hours was all you needed!

I also thought it would be funny to make an Intern who is very much not outwardly nice and is Helpful in only the most direct definition of the term. At least the patients are kept healthy, but still. She lets it be known to everyone that her time could very much be spent elsewhere doing better things. All of this is just a game to her, a score to improve upon, why should she care about any of them as people?

I have been able to do nothing but think about her all week, hope y'all enjoy her! :D

hey i like your intern design. mine is a drone with a facecam bc of the camera angle.

Thank you so much! I like your idea. Very cute, imagining it whizzing around and helping people. Hopefully you don’t mind if I use this as a bit of an excuse to ramble.

I’ve always loved robots, so finding out the RD community is chock full of robot-intern headcanons was like stumbling into a goldmine. I’ve been in a really bad artistic slump after a hard year, and all the wonderful creativity I’ve found here has been like a second wind. I’m doodling and writing fics again thanks to these intern ocs and sonas.

I have a lot planned for my intern oc, and I’m slowly but surely finding the energy to bring their story to life. They live in the USA and have limited mobility thanks to a genetic disease called E.D.S. Middlesea Hospital is all the way in Canada, so the whole Rhythm Doctor Program worked out for everyone involved. Of course, it’s not perfect. They can’t connect to the patients and their coworkers, which can get pretty isolating. They can’t help nearly as much as they want to. A worrywart and a workaholic, it was only a matter of time before the line between human and robot blurred. Does that make them part of the robo-tern gang? No idea. Maybe halfway?

Other robo-intern ocs from @sirwow and @herosplatling-replica

I don't go here but I gotta say that I absolutely adore how much love and heart and passion the devs put into Rhythm Doctor and how visibly contagious that seems to be for those who've played it.

Contagious.

Like a good Rhythm? Like a good Beat? Eeeey?

What happened to character ask blogs where you’d draw the answers…. You guys used to love that

5/11/23 updated resource post with links to all the content

The Big Damn List Of Stuff They Said You Didn't Know

Spotify

The Story of Palestine, Part 2: The Nakba

Listen to this episode from Cocktails & Capitalism on Spotify. Continuing the story of Palestine, Leeh outlines the Great Arab Revolt and th

Al Jazeera

Palestine and Israel: Mapping an annexation

What will the maps of Palestine and Israel look like if Israel illegally annexes the Jordan Valley on July 1?

Decolonize Palestine

Home | Decolonize Palestine

Welcome to Decolonize Palestine, a collection of resources for anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine.

Five free eBooks by Verso

Three Free eBooks on Palestine by Haymarket

Pluto Books Free Palestine Reading List 30-50% off

Haymarket Books on Palestine

The Cambridge UCU and Pal Society Teach Out Resources

Palestine 101

Intro to Palestine Film + Art + Literature

Resources for Organising and Facilitating)

@palipunk's Masterlist of Palestine Resources (more streamlined than this one although this one has a lot of sourced content).

LGBT Activist Scott Long's Google Drive of Palestine Freedom Struggle Resources

Recommended Resources Compiled by Dr. Kiran Grewal:

Academic Books (google drive folder)

Rosemary Sayigh (2007) The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries, Bloomsbury

Ilan Pappé (2002)(ed) The Israel/Palestine Question, Routledge

Ilan Pappé (2006) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, OneWorld Publications

Ilan Pappé (2011) The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel, Yale University Press

Ilan Pappé (2015) The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge, Verso Books

Ilan Pappé (2017) The Biggest Prison On Earth: A History Of The Occupied Territories, OneWorld Publications

Ilan Pappé (2022) A History of Modern Palestine, Cambridge University Press

Rashid Khalidi (2020) The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance 1917–2017

Andrew Ross (2019) Stone Men: the Palestinians who Built Israel, Verso Books

Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir (2012) The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine, Stanford University Press.

Ariella Azoulay (2011) From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, Pluto Press

Jeff Halper (2010) An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel, Pluto Press

Jeff Halper (2015) War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification

Jeff Halper (2021) Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State, Pluto Press

Anthony Loewenstein (2023) The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the Technology of Occupation around the World

Noura Erakat (2019) Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, Stanford University Press

Neve Gordon (2008) Israel’s Occupation, University of California Press

Joseph Massad (2006) The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians, Routledge

Edward Said (1979) The Question of Palestine, Random House

Memoirs, Novels & Poetry (Google drive folder)

Voices from Gaza - Insaniyyat (The Society of Palestinian Anthropologists)

Letters From Gaza • Protean Magazine

Raja Shehadeh (2008) Palestinian Walks: Into a Vanishing Landscape, Profile Books

Ghada Karmi (2009) In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story, Verso Books

Fatma Kassem (2011) Palestinian Women: Narratives, histories and gendered memory, Bloombsbury

Mourid Barghouti (2005) I saw Ramallah, Bloomsbury

Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011) I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, Bloomsbury

Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke (eds)(2015) Palestine Speaks: Narrative of Life under Occupation, Verso Books

The Works of Mahmoud Darwish

[Link To All My Palestine/Decolonization Gdrive Folders]

Human Rights Reports & Documents

Information on current International Court of Justice case on ‘Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem’

UN Commission of Inquiry Report 2022

UN Special Rapporteur Report on Apartheid 2022

Amnesty International Report on Apartheid 2022

Human Rights Watch Report on Apartheid 2021

Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ 2009 (‘The Goldstone Report’)

Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, International Court of Justice, 9 July 2004

Films

Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story | Al Jazeera World Documentary

Lemon Tree (2008) (Full Movie, choose auto translate for English subs)

Where Should The Birds Fly (2013) (Trailer) (Full Documentary)

Naila and the Uprising (2017) (Full Movie)

Waltz with Bashir (2008) (Trailer) (Watch on Amazon Prime)

Omar (2013) (Full movie is on Netflix)

Paradise Now (2005) (Full Movie)

5 Broken Cameras (2011) (Full Documentary)

The Gatekeepers (2012) (Full documentary)

Foxtrot (2017) (Full movie)

Gaza Mon Amour (2020)

The Viewing Booth (2020)

Farha (2021) (Full Movie on Netflix)

Innocence (2022) - Innocence (2022) | IDFA Archive (Trailer)

The Village Under the Forest (2013) (Full documentary)

Palestine Film Institute's films on Gaza

Abby Martin - Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019) | Full Documentary | Directed by Abby Martin

Dan Cohen - Gaza Fights Back | MintPress News Original Documentary

The Promise (2010) mini-series directed by Peter Kosminsky (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)

Links are for YouTube, but most of them are available on Amazon Prime.

Sources

https://www.972mag.com/

https://jewishcurrents.org/

Jadaliyya ‘Gaza in Context’ Series

Jadaliyya “War on Palestine” podcast - The War on Palestine Podcast: Episode 1

Border Chronicle, Interview with Israeli anthropologist Jeff Halper

NGOs

B’Tselem

Breaking the Silence

Al Haq

Palestinian Feminist Collective

Yesh Din

DAWN

Amnesty International

Human Rights Watch

Gisha

Forensic Architecture

Jewish Voices For Peace

Instagram Accounts

gazangirl

mohammedelkurd

khaledbeydoun

motaz_azaiza

wizard_bisan1

etafrum

sara_mardini963

Twitter(X) Accounts

@PalStudies - Institute for Palestine Studies

@medicalaidpal

@middleeastmatters

@KenRoth - former executive director of Human Rights Watch

@YairWallach - Reader in Israel Studies at SOAS

@ PhilipProudfoot - researcher on development, humanitarianism and Arab states

@btselem - Israeli human rights documentation centre

@MairavZ - Senior Israel-Palestine Analyst at Crisis Group

@rohantalbot - Director of Advocacy and Campaigns at MedicalAidPal

@sarahleah1 - Executive Director of DAWN (democracy and human rights in MENA)

@alhaq_org - Palestinian human rights organisation

@FranceskAlbs - UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories

@Yesh_Din - Israeli human rights organisation

@sfardm - Michael Sfard, Israeli Human Rights Lawyer

@EphstainItay - Israeli international humanitarian lawyer

@saribashi - Program director for Human Rights Watch (Israeli living in Palestine)

@Gisha_Access - Israeli NGO

@_ZachFoster - Historian

Share widely!

(if any links are broken let me know. Or pull up the current post to check whether it's fixed.)

From River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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Edit 1: took the first video down because turns out the animator is a terf and it links to her blog. Really sorry for any distress.

Edit 2: All recommended readings + Haymarket recommendations + essential decolonization texts have been uploaded to my linked gdrive. I will adding more periodically. Please do buy or check them out from the library if possible, but this post was made for and by poor and gatekept Global South bitches like me.

Some have complained about the memes being disrespectful. Making fun of the Israeli government and Zionists is only disrespectful if memeing takes precedence over amplifying and helping Palestinians. If you've been living and breathing images and videos of the genocide for the last month, it's the only thing that stops you burning out.

Edit 3: "The river to the sea" does not mean the expulsion of Jews from Palestine. Believing that is genocide apologia.

Edit 4: Gazans have specifically asked us to stop fundraising and instead put every effort into pushing for a ceasefire. "Raising humanitarian aid" is an appalling grift Western governments are pushing right now to deflect from the fact that they're sending billions to Israel to keep carpet bombing Gazans. This is especially cruel because the blockades are still in place and nothing can get in, even the "humanitarian pause" is just a PR talking point they're dangling in front of us with no intention of follow through, there will never be enough aid for two million people, and all it will accomplish is getting them fed and patched up enough to keep getting slaughtered. Add to the fact that Israel is bombing Red Crescent ambulances, medical teams and UN workers. Aid is meaningless for Gaza without a ceasefire.

You WILL check out my HLVRAI ARG/Ask Blog... NOW! I am no longer asking! ÙwÚ ÒwÓ

Hey, is Samantha seeing the certified freak in the painting too, or are our boys just cursed?

"... "Certified Freak"...?"

Samantha raises her gaze, only for her eyes to grow wide and her face to grow pale upon catching sight of something. The boys, confused beyond all merits, turn to look directly behind them...

... and... catch sight of the "freak" you spoke of... It lingers, just long enough for them to see it, to watch the black sludge trickle down its fingers, and then it is gone, vanished back within the painting.

The boys both stare up at where the arm had been, both much too scared and put off to say anything for a good while.

It isn't until Samantha speaks up again that they are broken free from their petrification.

... She, however, proves much less than unhelpful for the current situation, acting as though nothing was there. Nothing had ever been there. Nothing is.

"... But you... you looked terrified..." Joshua managed to say despite how his own body shook. "D... That just happened, we saw you, how can you..." He continued, baffled at the current dismissal.

Above the boys where the hand had been rests nothing more than the painting that had been there prior, as if nothing at all had occurred.

Also I forgot to post these lolol They're from the artfight back during the summer and I never posted them.

Here they are! The whole gang! The ocs we have in order are: JayDoesStuffOnline's Mikey Zooper (With Benrey Attachment)

Pokemod123's Fr1tz

SoftenStar's Paradox Mooneatstheworms' Clementine and Lava Lamp

🕸🕷🕷🦇🦇🦇🎃🎃🎃🎃Splendid All Hallows Eve to everyone! Tricks and treats shall be awarded accordingly! 🎃🎃🎃🎃🦇🦇🦇🕷🕷🕸

Creativity, however, shall be awarded when energy can be found and sustained! Just bolt me up and shock my electrodes, Frankenstein! Bzzt Bzztt!! ⚡⚡⚡

Reblog to protect your blog from evil aliens >:(

Unmute !

Very very self-indulgent and literally only one other person will know what this is but I'm quite proud with how it turned out so you WILL pay witness to my art.

The easiest way to describe this is a witch seeks out and finds a fusion between a demon and an angel in the Faith universe. Kinda. Sorta. That is all anybody will know of this lol enjoy

was anyone gonna tell me Carrie White's Birthday, John's Botched Exorcism Day, and The Exorcist 1973's 2023 Re-release all took place on september 21 or was I just gonna find out for myself through people clapping and cheering online

Velcome... to this year's Artfight! Featuring your favvvourite spooky sack of bones!

Attack me and do thy wooorst, fiends and friends!

Love this years artfight theme

Well well well, guess who finally got these refs out! Just in time for pride and everything!

These two are ocs from my ask blog, @askjoshuafreeman and will be appearing shortly as permanent members of the main cast! They're also dating so all the more reason to celebrate, eh?

So yeah! Here they are! Tiff Pepper and Clera Belle! Here's to hoping we get to see a lot more of our Goth Punk and Pastel Princess very soon!!

This European Eagle Owl’s tippy taps

Source

PSA for Across the Spiderverse:

Do NOT see the new Spiderverse movie if you have any form of epileptic condition or conditions affected by bright lights and rapidly changing colors.

I will not be spoiling the plot or anything happening in it, but it is important that people know, because ohhh my god the AMOUNT of flashing lights and rapidly changing colors from beginning to end was so rampant that even I, a non-epileptic autistic person, got a severe headache and wild overstimulation. They do not give a warning in theaters at all that this movie is NOT epileptic friendly from the literal beginning with the beginning credits - which is so, so sad!

This is a beautifully made film, it's wonderful, it's amazing, but unfortunately, it's not a good time for anyone super affected by bright flashing lights in rapid succession, especially those seizure prone.

I wanted to put this out there BECAUSE there are no theater warnings. Idk if anyone else has put it out there, but it is SUPER IMPORTANT!!!

I wish you all a lovely day and hope they eventually have a remaster that will be much more friendly to epileptic and other people affected by bright, flashing lights.