I Am Ready

You're allowed to look. I know it's kinda irresistible.

The Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) reported that since October 7, Israeli authorities have detained 640 Palestinian children from the occupied West Bank.

Currently, about 250 children remain in Israeli prisons, where they reportedly face abuse and torture.

On the first day of the Eid al-Adha holiday, PPS reported that Israeli authorities detained a seven-year-old child, Baha Kazem Haj Mohammed, from the town of al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah.

According to his family, Baha was detained while at the town centre with other children and youths.

PPS stated that he was beaten on his hands during detention and then released far from his home.

Israel is the only country that systematically prosecutes minors in military courts, which often accept confessions obtained by coercion.

An estimated 500-700 children, some as young as 12, are tried in military courts every year, the most common charge being stone-throwing, which carries a 20-year prison sentence.

Defence for Children International-Palestine (DCIP) also documented the widespread "routine" detainment of child detainees in solitary confinement.

In 1991, Israel ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) which states that children should only be detained as a last resort.

But a series of policy changes have created loopholes allowing the Israeli authorities to convict children.

this shit fucked me up

Lakan: this is my beloved daughter Lahan: this is my esteemed sister Maomao: I have no idea who these weirdos are, we are not related

will style be shooting someone????

ok so last night (the night before ep7 dropped) i made this post in which i speculated that style might end up killing someone at some point in the future. after having watched ep7 i'm not so sure style will be outright killing someone (idk if the series would go that dark), but i would NOT be surprised if we saw style shoot someone with a gun (injuring them at least, if not actually killing them)

here's why:

at the rock pub style came into fadel' world and had to do something to blend into that exact world

what else is fadel's world? a pretty big part of fadel's world? his hitman identity. i wouldn't be surprised if style would have to do something to blend into fadel's hitman world. and i have previously considered that the thing would be to shoot someone, and episode 7 just kind of strengthens my suspision

in fact, style might even embrace the hitman life:

but let me take a shot some time, too แต่มึงให้กูยิงบ้างดิ [dtàe - mueng - hâi - guu - ying - bâang - dì] but - you - let - I/me - shoot - some - [particle]

(the official translation is less on the nose: "But you gotta let me play, too.")

and then later in the episode we see him grab a (real) gun and threaten someone without any hesitation whatsoever:

not to mention how completely unafraid he was when fadel was pointing a gun at him, calling him his "teeruk-hitman":

the question is just....

will style be shooting a random person?? like, maybe one of fadel and bison's targets?

or will be shooting fadel?

or will he be shooting kant?

either way, there are a suspicious amount of references to guns and shooting around style

Maomao knows what it is to be loved. Luomen loves her. Her big sisters love her. Lakan loves her (though she has no interest & may not believe he actually does because of thinking he'd abandoned her & her mother). Those who love her aren't perfect, but they want what's best for her.

And then there's Jinshi.

He has no idea if the people who love him actually do, or if it's because of his position/title/looks. He doesn't have good reason to believe people's feelings about him, because there's almost always going to be a condition to it, or some intention to use him. Even people like Suiren, who do love him, can't love him fully because of who he actually is

And I think that's why he falls so hard and fast for Maomao. Here is this woman that has no interest in his flattery, no desire to climb the social hierarchy at all. She doesn't sugar coat things. Jinshi knows where he stands with Maomao. All the tricks of the trade that he knows don't work on her, but what does work is when he drops the facade & is genuine with her.

Think about the scene when he gives her the hairpin.

It's the first time she's really seen him be himself. There's even a line in it where she is startled by the fact he's being sincere. I think up until that point, she thought he was just a vain & shallow guy. He'd really given her no reason to believe there was anything else to him. She likes seeing him be himself, not some sparkly shell of a person.

Yes, Maomao goes hard with the denial, but she also does show him real feelings. She gives him a measure of grace & is willing to forgive. Most of the time the feelings he gets from her are frustration/aggravation. Other people don't give him that. When she tells him she'll keep his secret & that he'll always be Master Jinshi to her, he doesn't doubt it. He knows he can trust her. In fact, I think he trusts her more than he trusts anyone else in his life. He knows that no matter who he becomes, she's still going to know who he actually is, warts and all.

He is so desperate for real, human connection. So desperate for real love (not even necessarily romantic love, though that's definitely something he wants). I think he's smart enough to know Maomao may never love him the way he loves her. Knows that hoping she will may be little more than a fool's hope. He knows that whatever he does get from her is real, and knows how unlikely it is he'll find anyone else that will be that real with him.

Me the entire time I am watching this bloody show

Regarding the discourse on only friends, I think the fandom has to throw out the idea of who's the villain?.

There's no villain. There's no psycopath or evil mastermind. This is just a show a about 20 something students messing up their life's intentionally or unintentionally , making mistakes and learning from them. No one is right or wrong they are messy and that's the point.

This poor dude. I feel so sorry for him. Man didn't deserve to be left in the dust.

This is how everyone is about maomao and I love it