You're more than welcome. ♥ I am so into this that I've been bookmarking literally hundreds of links to read. The least I can do is share the ones that stand out to me. ONTD_P has been doing some liveposts, which I enjoy, but they can get so massive so fast that they're hard to follow if you don't have much time. So I wanted to make something a little smaller. :) Glad it's useful!
I saw it on Facebook several days ago--maybe around the time it first showed up, I'm not sure--and the uploader had labeled it with, "too soon?" And one of the first commenters said, "No, it's perfect." I agree. ♥ It gives me chills every time I come across it, and someone even had it taped to some posterboard at the protest I went to. :D
Thanks for the links! It's fascinating to me that this is happening at a time when more than one of my TV professors have been talking about things like Tienanmen Square and the Rodney King riots; makes me think that someday, maybe I'll be in front of a classroom of students explaining the media's role in this.
I would love to be in that class. Fuck, it's so crazy to think that I am literally watching history here. This will be in books someday. (When I took my first college history class, we did a project comparing Pearl Harbor to 9/11. Very bizarre to deal with 9/11 in a history class, since I was alive and all...)
re: Tiananmen Square, I just saw a couple of reports that make me think it might have just gone that direction somewhat. :( I'm gonna check it out and probably make another post tonight. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I HAVE TO LEAVE FOR AN HOUR, ffs
IMO, the army/protesters dynamic is one of the most fascinating things about this.
Army dude/protester dude original fic? :D?
But seriously, I'm paying attention too. My favorite part about this is that it's all peaceful, and no one is putting up with anyone who's trying to make it violent. It's just people saying "hey, we're done with this now. Time to change." And it's the world listening. I love it.
AHAHAHA. ...well, there's already been a post in boy_touching about protestors hugging each other, so, um. (eta: oh hey there's an underscore in that, okay)
YES YES YES. LOVE. I got home just now and was SO WORRIED because I was seeing rumors of the protestors getting attacked, and I thought maybe the army had snapped or something, but it looks like it was actually a group of "pro-Mubarak demonstrators" (I bet lotsa money they were actually police or something) attacking, and the army made them stop. Still trying to figure out wtf happened in the little tiny hour that I was gone.
I love to see 2 million people hanging out and not fighting each other and helping each other out. Gives me hope. My city has half a million people and the whole metro area has 2 million, after all.
I know $mycity has a WAY different culture/dynamic/everything than a giant city in Egypt, but still. That's a fucking lot of people generally getting along in very stressful times. It's beautiful and I keep getting chills. ♥
I want to go to Egypt so badly right now. well, uh. Not RIGHT now. But when stuff settles, I wanna get in there and hang out with people and go to THE LIBRARY. Me/library, OTP!
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Although I'm hearing some disturbing rumors, so there may be another post today... :(
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re: Tiananmen Square, I just saw a couple of reports that make me think it might have just gone that direction somewhat. :( I'm gonna check it out and probably make another post tonight. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I HAVE TO LEAVE FOR AN HOUR, ffs
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Army dude/protester dude original fic? :D?
But seriously, I'm paying attention too. My favorite part about this is that it's all peaceful, and no one is putting up with anyone who's trying to make it violent. It's just people saying "hey, we're done with this now. Time to change." And it's the world listening. I love it.
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YES YES YES. LOVE. I got home just now and was SO WORRIED because I was seeing rumors of the protestors getting attacked, and I thought maybe the army had snapped or something, but it looks like it was actually a group of "pro-Mubarak demonstrators" (I bet lotsa money they were actually police or something) attacking, and the army made them stop. Still trying to figure out wtf happened in the little tiny hour that I was gone.
I love to see 2 million people hanging out and not fighting each other and helping each other out. Gives me hope. My city has half a million people and the whole metro area has 2 million, after all.
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I want to go to Egypt so badly right now. well, uh. Not RIGHT now. But when stuff settles, I wanna get in there and hang out with people and go to THE LIBRARY. Me/library, OTP!
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