aen [he/him]

i am finally making the decision to remove a toxic interest from my life. i’ve watched eurovision since i was 13 and i don’t think my interest in the contest has ever been as intense as it was this year. i was basically lying to myself for months trying to convince myself that it’s fine that i’m following eurovision so closely because i’m ignoring israel and supporting pro-palestine artists

i guess the israeli delegation harassing everyone got me to take my head out of my arse and i boycotted the grand final. it’s just sad i suppose. those artists aren’t bad people but in the end they either did nothing or did some performative activism that didn’t result in anything, and even though israel didn’t win, they still managed to get enough attention and controversy on their performance that everyone ignored their assault on rafah. i even saw people on twitter talking about how this is a great victory but that they’ll still fight against israel’s inclusion, as if this year wasn’t the best opportunity to get rid of them and it was squandered

ultimately the only way to remove israel was to boycott eurovision and deal a financial blow to the broadcasters who enabled the european broadcasting union to keep israel in. but instead there were campaigns on twitter to “vote tactically against israel” by voting for croatia, switzerland, or ireland. im just disappointed in everyone i suppose. plus i feel like all of those eurofans who constantly talked about how important it was to ban israel and then went to the contest anyway just to boo israel when it was barely picked up on the stream anyway are hypocritical. there were countless other pro-palestinian events in malmo that were barely reported on even in eurovision fan circles

idk what to feel anymore about eurovision tbh, but im not going to follow it anymore

i only know this guy as the writer of harry potter and the methods of rationality, i forgot he did stuff other than write fanfiction

wouldn’t be eurovision without me hating our own entry

no

im super late to this but no fucking way did they make the red rage guy the israeli government spokesperson

where’s pluto’s charon?

not sure if this counts as an “international hit” since jessie ware is pretty popular already, but

“Begin Again” - Jessie Ware

this song is just eurovision ready in every way (actually a lot of the songs on her album would be good eurovision songs)

i actually love it now, i looked up the meaning behind the song and “zorra” means vixen but misogynists use it in a derogatory way against women. she’s reclaiming the word using the song

im way too eurovision obsessed… there were 7 different national selection shows happening yesterday and i spent hours simultaneously watching them and going on twitter to see what people were saying

my favoute song of the season won in norway though (it’s a really good rock folk song based on a 1000 year old folk song)

a very camp song won in spain that i kinda don’t get. it’s a grandma singing about being a bitch and dancing with two half-naked men. …actually that does explain why it won

also a song about eating bananas almost won in malta. and in ukraine, hundreds of thousands of people tried to vote on the miia app and they had to postpone the results until today because the app crashed. the hosts actually tried keeping the show going to see if the app would start working again and the english commentators sounded like they had given up 💀

smh, it should have been called Caelus but the guy who named it didn’t know uranus was greek

at least we didn’t keep calling it “georgium sidus” after george iii

interesting fact about bashar murad, his dad was part of a group trying to get palestine in eurovision

luxembourg’s representative for eurovision might be a zionist, since she said she “loves israel”, her brother is in the idf, and she dedicated her win in the luxembourg song contest to him… also the luxembourg song contest was produced by an israeli team, the same people who worked on the eurovision song contest in tel aviv in 2019

there are artists who called for their broadcasters and the european broadcasting union to exclude israel but they’re still not doing anything. recently it was 1005 artists from sweden that signed a letter for svt, but svt just said they’re “in dialogue” with the ebu, so i doubt anything will come of that either. it’s all expected but disappointing tbh, considering they never banned azerbaijan and the broadcasters forced them to ban russia against their will

there’s a palestinian artist competing in iceland’s national selection though, that’s pretty cool

kinda the plot of children of time by adrian tchaikovsky

a faction of humans creates a garden planet and then tries to infect monkeys with a virus to make them sapient, with the endgoal being a monkey slave workforce that sees humans as god

obviously it failed at the first hurdle and spiders accidentally get uplifted instead

I started resding Ten Myths about Israel by Ilan Pappé, it’s pretty interesting so far

i just wrote a haiku, hope everyone likes it 🥺

fuck. just pissed my bed
how the fuck do i clean this
adult diapers suck

among us

history is so goofy sometimes, like that time when the cardinals elected the pope but he was a bit of an arsehole, so they elected another one who moved to avignon, but the first guy didn’t resign, then they got tired of both of them and tried to elect a new guy, but the first two popes were still there, so now there were 3 popes all excommunicating each other

wait thats so funny, they captured king john, released him to raise his own ransom, then his son escaped so he put himself back in english custody???

history is so funny

I’ve almost finished reading The Jakarta Method and it’s so depressing…

Also I wasn’t expecting Obama to be in it

So I just checked the source, and I think this person is serious