#orphans — Public Fediverse posts

Mobile Suit Gundam Iron - Blooded Orphans - Opening 4

https://video.sadrarin.com/w/wvyiCSqRfwLS4ApB1fTuja

#anime #bot #gundam #blooded #orphans

#israel #palestine : #gaza / #civilianwarvictims / #children / #childhood / #orphans

„While humanitarian associations’ coverage of Gaza focuses on how to provide food, medicine, and shelter, another devastating consequence of wars is the loss of childhood itself. According to various reports and estimates, tens of thousands of children have been killed or injured in Israel’s war on Gaza, and many more have been affected by the loss of one or both parents.“
https://truthout.org/articles/some-in-gazas-youngest-generation-may-not-even-know-what-toys-are/

Mobile Suit Gundam Iron - Blooded Orphans - Ending 2

https://video.sadrarin.com/w/tm8qL8g4ftAdLbdkco9avn

#anime #bot #gundam #blooded #orphans

#childrenofgaza #orphans #homeless #charityfundraising #mutualaidrequest #gaza #palestine #gazasurvivors

David Hine, founder of Shelter Feed Gaza, is building camps with his team on the ground to house 200+ orphans and provide basic necessities like food, hygiene, education, and medical care. These children are living on the streets in horrible and dangerous conditions. He can't do this without community funding him. Please help him.

https://shelterfeedgaza.org
https://chuffed.org/project/160801-shelter-and-feed-gaza

Recently added titles (July 2026)

Building upon the titles listed for July/August, September, October,  November, and December 2021, and January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December of 2022, and January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December of 2023, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September,  October, November, and December of 2024, and January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December of this year, and January, February, March, April, May, and June of this year, this post notes recent titles with libraries or librarians in popular culture which I’ve come across in the past month. Each of these has been watched or read during the past month. No films, animated series, or other entries with libraries (or librarians) to add for this past month, but I did come across some in webcomics and anime. There may be spoilers for these series, so be aware.

Animated series recently added to this page

None for this month.

Anime series recently added to this page

• I Want To Love You Till Your Dying Day, “Friends” (s1 ep 3)
• I Want To Love You Till Your Dying Day, “Accomplices” (s1 ep 4)
• Detective Conan aka Case Closed (s2 ep 22)
• You and I Are Polar Opposites, “Dilemma of a Winter’s Night” (s2 ep 2)
• You and I Are Polar Opposites, “New School Term” (s2 ep 4)

While Ascendance of a Bookworm continues into a second cour (with no more episodes with libraries or the protagonist Myne as a librarian), Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia (set in the 13th century) has the protagonist aiming to get back her book of Eucidlis from an arrogant imperialistic Mongolian princess, and Draw This, Then Die! has the protagonists cleaning the room of a manga book store on the second floor to become their club space, in the second episode of season 2 of You and I Are Polar Opposites, “Dilemma of a Winter’s Night”, Yamada meets Nishi in the middle of winter break as a pretext to see her. While he doesn’t confess his feelings, and nor does she, he wrongly thinks the library doesn’t have a “nice” atmosphere, even though it does. They choose between going to the study room where talking, food, and drink are forbidden, and a free space, with Yamada going with the latter.

Otherwise, in the episode, Nishi admits she comes to the library “quite a bit,” which Yamada finds commendable, and admits he can’t study at all, at home, as it is far too distracting. He admits that inviting her there was just a pretext by accident while she admits that she comes there every day, and has finished all her homework. He is shocked, she admits she wanted a pretext as well, and he stops himself from saying they should date, feeling it isn’t a right place. He ends up being quiet during their date-not-date while studying.

There’s another library scene in the episode “New School Term”. Even the description on Crunchyroll indicates this, saying, “Suzuki takes Yamada to the school library, with an ulterior motive in mind. Nishi is happy that Yamada came, but anxious that others might find out about their relationship.” Shenanigans ensue, while Nishi and Taira work as library for their student library duty. At one point, Taira even wants to process the book returns, while Nishi isn’t sure how to handle Yamada there, and Suzuki offers to help Yamada with reshelving books at another point. She also came to see Yamada. Funny enough, no one else comes into the library except them which seems strange (and they comment on this later, saying few people come there anymore), because this is the school library after all! I also like how Taira helps out Nishi and even gives Yamada a book recommendation, showing he is a true friend. I liked how Yamada and Suzuki enjoy reading books in the library, while showing the library duties, like checking in and out books in a way that seems relaxing, making it seems like something you do every day. There is a cute moment where Yamada and Nishi say each other’s full names.

Then there’s the awful news that Crunchyroll removed Black Lagoon, along with other series like Blood Blockade Battlefront and Grimgar, Ashes and Illusions, as has been reported elsewhere, without any warning. I have an account on that streaming service and the history (which shows what anime series I have watched) doesn’t even mention it at all! I mention this here because that series has a library scene as I noted in my post on here on July 2nd, in the episode “The Succession” (s1 ep 20), first saying that in the episode “Yukio is reading a book by Martin Heidegger as shown in the 20th episode (“Succession”) of the classic crime thriller anime Black Lagoon, which is replete with having girls with guns, particularly hothead Chinese-American Revy.” I went into further detail, saying:

…Yukio is reading a book by Martin Heidegger, as she tells her friend Maki, in the school library, calling the book philosophical and “very powerful.” In contrast, Maki says she likes skincare guides and modern horror books, with Yukio saying she remembered Maki saying she liked Anne Rice. They talk a bit more with Yukio saying she sometimes feels like she is caught inside of book worlds, and viewers see some of the library bookshelves. She says she doesn’t like Stephen King and Maki says she thought Yukio would like Edgar Allan Poe. She says she doesn’t like the ones that imagine the night, and she does not like the world as it makes her scared, that it is not romantic at all.

 

There is a second scene in the episode in the reading room where Yukio is thinking about the gang war between the Russian mafia and Japanese yakuza, and does not listen as much to what Maki tells her and decides to not tell her troubles. The reading room is shown briefly in the next episode, but not enough to mention it here. It is worth noting that Heidegger was directly involved with the Nazis from 1933 to 1945, and even banned from teaching after the war until 1949 (when the ban was lifted). He also never expressed remorse for being involved with the Nazis, which is funny because Hannah Arendt, who became known for her political theory against authoritarianism, including Nazism and fascism. I’m not sure why Heidegger was mentioned (in the manga as well), except to possibly indicate that Yukio was intellectual, nihilistic, and his existential philosophy was appealing. At the same time, I seriously doubt she was a Nazi as there was an earlier plot line in the series where the protagonists stole loot from a submarine filled by wannabe Nazis/neo-Nazis and killed a bunch of them, but rather a bit of a mob boss, if I have to guess. At the same time, during his life, Heidegger had intellectual contact with Japanese scholars like racist Hajime Tanabe (who later regretted defending claimed Japanese state and racial superiority) and pro-militarist Shūzō Kuki over the years, influencing his work, according to Reinhard May.

This all comes when I came across recently this video of an anime fan expressing anger it was removed (along with Crunchyroll locking their anime store behind a paywall effectively), along with this video on the fading, yet important, legacy of the series:

A late entry here is the third episode of I Want To Love You Till Your Dying Day. In that episode, Sheena Totsuki goes to the library of her school-of-sorts/orphanage/training institute, to study. She had wanted to go with Mimi Kagari, but she is unable to so because Mimi left to fight enemies. While there she meets her school friends, Lizzy Seiran and Ali Maud who are a couple themselves, and she reveals what Mimi’s guardian (Fran) told her. Later in the episode, however, Mimi reveals her secret to Sheena, shocking her beyond belief. In the scene itself, you see the wonder of the library which is well-used by students, and seems like a place to relax (and study), with wooden tables, and all the books you’d like to read.

There was an additional library scene in the fourth episode of that same series, with flashbacks to Sheena thinking of Mimi, and a new scene of Mimi balancing books on her head, while Sheena is learning about resurrection magic, and is surprised by Airi and Seiran. One of my favorite parts (shown below) is when the bell rings and breaks Mimi’s concentration, annoying her, as she almost trying to show off a bit by balancing books on her head.

Last but least is episode 50 of Detective Conan (also known as Case Closed), “The Library Murder Case” / “The Book Without Pages”.  I have been looking forward to watching this episode for a long time, but I finally got to watch it this month, at long last, an episode which fulfills so many stereotypes when it comes to fictional librarians and libraries. I’ll write a whole post on this, but to give the quick and short version of this, Conan Edogawa, a kid detective (wasn’t always a kid) works with his school friends of sorts to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of a librarian, and soon suspect the library director. They learn that there are fake books in the children’s section where drugs were being stored, and this is why the director murdered that librarian. He even tries to kill all of them too, but they turn all the bookshelves into dominos so they fall on him, allowing the police to come in and arrest him, taking him away, while they find the body (which was on top of an elevator). It’s gory, but also feeds into many stereotypes, which, perhaps, is not at all a surprise for an episode that came out on March 1997. Some even put some parts of the episode as one of the top scariest moments in the series!

Comics recently added to this page

• The Burning Scheme, Issue 4
• Literary Link [issues 1 to 11]
• My Awkward Princess, “|CH 12| Library Hours“
• My Awkward Princess, “|CH 13| Routine“
• My Awkward Princess, “|CH 14| Almost Everyone“
• Pinky Promise, “Episode 15“
• Pinky Promise, “Episode 16“

In the fourth issue of The Burning Scheme, the protagonists, Vera at Sierra Verde Preparatory School, go to the library together, for a group project, with one of them, Calliope, saying the other (Vera) is “pretty.” Vera doesn’t like this closeness and leaves shortly thereafter, to the disappointment of Calliope.

In the episode “CH 12 | Library Hours” of My Awkward Princess, Alice Evelyn and Luna Charlotte do library service together, with Luna annoying Alice, and Luna getting “tamed” by someone else when they give her a lollipop. At one point, Luna catches Alice when she falls, to her annoyance, saying Luna just wanted to touch her, when in reality she just wanted to make sure she wasn’t hurt. And Alice thanks Luna. All this time she is giving instructions to the student vice-president who is relatively incompetent.

Otherwise, in the episode “|CH 13| Routine”, Alice is overworking herself in the library, feeling it will get better the next day and that there cannot be any distractions because the student council depends on her. She feels that she is almost perfect. One day, Luna is with her in the library, believes with Alice believing she should not slow down, and that she has keep working. She pushes it off, despite blood coming out of her nose, saying she isn’t her problem, telling her to stop distracting her, while Luna is deeply worried.

In the episode after this, “|CH 14| Almost Everyone,” Luna goes to the library to read, with Alice asking her why her section of the library isn’t organized yet, and starts bossing her around. Luna finds Alice, who she calls “puppy,” entertaining, and thinks back to when Alice thanked her for catching her, saying that doesn’t happen. Later, in the stairwell, Alice gives her cookies and tells her to show up the next day on time, making Luna blush because Alice gave her sweets (remembering that she likes them), and calls her “dangerous.”

The new version of Literary Link is finally out! That series focuses on libraries at its center, as noted in the series description: “Delinquent Faye Scott just wants to keep her head down and get through her latest sentencing — finish her community service and make it across the graduation stage as unscathed as possible — but her old enemies aren’t letting her go without a fight. However, a certain library volunteer might be the one to show Faye just the kindness she needs to change her life for the better.” I wrote a review about this series a while ago, saying:

Literary Link Review

I was going to add in some issues from Love and be Loved, but I had already added that into a posting I did on recently added titles in April, so I nixed that for this post:

Recently added titles (April 2026)

Lastly, there are two issues of Pinky Promise. In the first of these, the protagonist, Eva, tries to remind the school group to stay on task (picking books for their presentation), as they work together in the school library, and threatens to tell their teacher, Miss Cielo, that they are wasting time. Another classmate tells Hallie that Eva is too serious about school, asking her to convince Eva to not report them. Through it all, Eva is worried about Hallie and the group she is a part of, and when admiring her, she thinks back to a sexy dream she had, leading her to begin blushing. After her fellow classmate believes something may be wrong, Eva denies it, then gets up to find a book. Following this, Hallie gets up to follow Eva.

In the next of those issues, Eva thinks about her reaction and how embarrassing it was, while she starts to look for a book. Hallie comes behind her, startling her, when all she wants is to check in on her. Eva keeps blushing and denying that anything is up, saying she had been different since that morning, after Hallie spent the night at her place. She notices that Eva has been avoiding her, with Eva literally turning her head away, as she stands in front of a library bookshelf. She ends up admitting she can’t look her in the eyes because of a dream she had, where Hallie was touching and kissing her. Even after she says she is embarrassed and shouldn’t have dreamed about it, Hallie teases her about it, saying she is being “naughty,” with Eva saying it is only because she has been teasing her so much lately. Hallie gets close to her and says she is cute every time she teases her, something Eva thinks about later.

Films recently added to this page

None for this month.

Other entries recently added to this page

None for this month. However, there was the recent news that…

• HIDIVE will be streaming The Dangers in My Heart: The Movie on July 14th [English dub]
• The Apothecary Diaries Anime Film’s Trailer Reveals Title, Cast, December 11 Opening

The first of these has libraries as central to the series itself, with library scenes in 16 episodes (“I Was Stolen Away” (s1 ep1), “I Died” (s1 ep 2), “I Want To Hug You” (s1 ep 3), “I Have A Problem” (s1 ep 4), “We Split Up” (s1 ep 5), “I Melted It” (s1 ep 6), “We Swapped Places” (s1 ep 7), “I Had A Dream” (s1 ep 8), “Karta 9: I Hate Yamada” (s1 ep 9), “Bonus Dangers” (s1 OVA), “We’re Searching” (s2 ep 1), “I’m growing up” (s2 ep 2), “Yamada Likes…” (s2 ep 4), “We’re Overflowing” (s2 ep 7), “I Want to Be Closer to Yamada” (s2, ep 10), “I, We, Fell in Love” (s2 ep 13, series finale)), as it is a key meeting place of the male and female protagonists, Kyotaro and Anna Yamada respectfully. As for second series, there’s one library scene I briefly described in a post last year:

In terms of a place of knowledge, consider the 10th episode of the drama/mystery/romance entitled The Apothecary Diaries. In the latter half of the show’s 10th episode, entitled “Honey,” Gaoshun, an assistant of Jinshi, tells Maomao that he will search the court library for information about past events in the rear palace. Later, an assistant behind the information desk helps him. He finds a relevant book and he gives it to Maomao. In it, she learns about events in the past, and that a baby was delivered by Doctor Luomen (her dad!), moving this story in an interesting direction!

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Another view: Graham had no protege. He was always posing as the junior, attaching himself to reactionary political influencers. Without the advice of McConnell or the other senior GOP members team trump has eliminated, the party needs a jejune placeholder until they figure out what to do.
#LindseyGraham #JohnMcCain #Senate #orphans #elections

#orphans #camp #fundraiserforpalestina #foodinsecuritychildren #HousingInsecurity #Gaza #Palestine

Shelter & Feed Gaza is attempting to gather up and provide safety and sustenance to street orphans in Gaza. These are children who have no one to provide care for them. Tents, meals, education, and love are waiting for them if we can get the funds together. A new camp is planned and the fencing started, but finishing everything waits for funds. Please help these kids.

https://chuffed.org/project/160801-shelter-and-feed-gaza

topic of harry and meghan’s visit to australia came up… along with some comments about a documentary they apparently made for netflix about a ugandan orphanage… and how australian media re ignoring this.

but my reply has become a rant.

as i still need to vent but would rather not hijack someone else’s timeline, have retreated to my own
——-

australian mainstream media are not interested in diversity of any description, you would think from the churn of regular topics the target demographic is still anglo christian heterosexual allistic etc — the greater the distance from australia or britain, the less important

it’s easier to to import/ re-sell racist rubbish from USA/UK (meghan was a cow to some maid in the palace) than come up with original commentary on harry and meghan. the topic of many articles is not actually harry and meghan themselves, but the hating harry and meghan industry. but i ask you — are they really any worse than other people with w⚓️y values? yep, too many air miles, too much to spend on whatever… but isn’t this what our whole mass consumer culture is about? i don’t get it, personally, but when i go to the hairdresser and flip thru old magazines, each issue is built around flogging pointless and obscenely overpriced crap. it can’t be wrong only when harry and meghan are into it.

the entire royal family are clueless twats. tho’ i don’t think they are necessarily hateful.
what about william presenting as anti-racist and pro-conservationist? for generations their family engaging in wholesale slaughter of animals on safari, they now own a swathe of land “for conservation purposes” it has never occurred to them that if they gave some of that land back, the original owners would be perfectly capable of protecting bio-diversity themselves.
let’s not pretend harry is the only one who is clueless

poverty porn and white man’s burden porn (about failures in the global south) sell. it’s not the content, but the condescension that matters. and really, we would rather reserve our criticism for other countries than look in our own backyards.

as for orphanages — anglo culture especially has no respect at all for human life, and children have always been considered non-people, or potential labour at best.
for a long time australian orphanages overflowed with what joanna penglase called “orphans of the living” because there were too many un-cherished children for a foster system to cope. but why would we rather remove children than provide parents/ single parents with a decent world to live in — real job opportunities, real housing affordability, social supports? cos our culture is built on divine right, — the rich man in his castle the poor man at his gate, it’s somehow against god’s will to help poor people.

yep. our media really doesn’t look at what matters, at all
#Auspol #Royals #HarryAndMeghan #Orphans
https://archive.is/2021.03.13-151647/https://www.tmz.com/2021/03/12/prince-william-and-kate-carried-on-throne-by-people-of-color-in-2012/

MENA Highlights 12 Mar. ‘26 Zuhur News on: #Gaza #Iran #Palestine #Iraq #Italy #ISIS #Syria #Lebanon #Spain #UAE #Oman #Israel #Kurds #Mehri #Cyberwarfare #Orphans Please consider subscribing. #press

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A few days ago, I shared my plan to provide food parcels for small families in the camp for Ramadan. My goal was to inspire those who’ve received support to give back to their brothers. Unfortunately, I didn't reach my goal, collecting only €40. I used the funds to buy food for #orphans &have since ended the initiative. I just wanted to keep u all informed. Even though it wasn't what I hoped for, I’m glad I could provide a small gesture for those kids.
#gaza #palestine #genocide

It's Friday again, so it's #coffee Friday challenge ✨️✨️🥰

Simply , it's about donating the price of your cup of coffee to help the #children and #orphans of #Gaza. It may seem like a simple challenge, but its impact on our lives and hearts is immense✊🏻.

I'm so excited to see how many people will participate this week, starting from $5❣️.
#gazagenocide #gazamutualaid #socialmedia #mastodon #human
#PalestineAction

Yesterday, I managed to read the whole #Orphans adv. for the #Mothership #TTRPG in about 20-30 min. Although I would like to see a little more structure, as a fan of #LogSeq & #Markdown, I think the very accessible structure is a step in the right direction. #DeltaGreen is welcome to imitate this.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xdjqpqlccq57rplc6ulr73rp/post/3meoq75osec2r

#Mothership #TTRPG: #Orphans – 20 p. that are easy to read and ready to play, hinting at a very nice #Scifi #Cosmic #Horror #Adventure that can probably be played in one or two game sessions. I'll offer it to the Saturday #COC group as an appetiser in between. Could be bloody fun.

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‘Orphan’ Prequel From Dark Castle Acquired By Republic Pictures
#Acquisitions #Orphans #RepublicPictures

https://deadline.com/2025/12/orphans-orphan-prequel-1236643675/

A Series of Unfortunate Events #9: The Carnivorous Carnival: A Great Fall & Halloween Read for Kids "inside some terrible place with little chance of escaping safely" Sale: $16 to $4.99 by Lemony Snicket Rating: 4.6/5 (1777 Reviews) #Childrens #Books #Mystery #Halloween #Orphans #Foster #BookSky

A Series of Unfortunate Events...

@neil
Annd a means of transport potentially used by persons who have, carelessly or otherwise, lost both parents.

#orphans #horse

ORPHAN 3 Gets Official Title As Filming Begins

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.fangoria.com/orphan-3-begins-filming/

World Orphans Day.

#worldorphansday #woc #olympiad #orphans #teameo #englisholympiad #english #englishmania #orphansday #inspiringleadership #helpinghands #orphan #hrtechsummit #hrtechnology #hrtech #unicef #un #hrtechworld #recruitments #recruitment #eventoftheday #supportthemovemnt #infographicdesign #infographic #january #day #worldwar #todaysevent #orphansafrica #world Today is World Orphans Day. This day is celebrated every year to uplift orphans. If we look…

https://itsmostamazingindia.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/world-orphans-day/

The Israeli army has closed a Palestinian charity that provides care for thousands of orphans in the city of Hebron.

The Islamic Charitable Society is one of the most prominent nongovernmental organisations in the occupied West Bank, supporting more than 6,000 orphans.

Israeli attacks have escalated across the occupied West Bank since October 2023, killing more than 1,056 Palestinians and injuring 10,300, with more than 20,000 others detained

#WestBank
#children
#orphans
#photography

Video ~ Minister, Niger Speaker Trade Words Over Attempt To Marry Off 100 ‘Underaged’ Orphans – Parents Killed By Bandits As Constituency Project ~ OsazuwaAkonedo

Minister, Niger Speaker Trade Words Over Attempt To Marry Off 100 'Underaged' Orphans - Parents Killed By Bandits As Constituency Project ~ OsazuwaAkonedo #Abdulamlik #Bnadits #Child #Constituency #KennedyOhanenye #Mariga #Marriage #Niger #Orphans #projects #Sarkindaji #Speaker #Uju Nigeria Federal Minister…

https://osazuwaakonedo.news/video-minister-niger-speaker-trade-words-over-attempt-to-marry-off-100-underaged-orphans-parents-killed-by-bandits-as-constituency-project-osazuwaakonedo/09/10/2025/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/opinion/population-climate-progress.html

There is this absolutely #weird #obsession with #population #degrowth when #global #poor are left to die in the #heatwave #drought #flood #storm #hurricane #starvation all the time by the #oligarchy #plutocracy #billionaires

First #save the #orphans around the world before talking about #depopulation #fertilityrates etc.

#climate #climatechange #climateaction #climatecrisis #justice #equality #adaptation #migration #humanrights #equity