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The DimashAli Creative Center announces a new concert by Dimash Qudaibergen:

On November 12, 2025, the ‘STRANGER’ show will take place at OVO Arena Wembley in London.

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Tickets go on sale TODAY AT 10AM.

Kerk is on a fic-writing roll. Here are two Buffy fics:

Fics for 2025 #003 ~ Dear Mama, (BtVS)
Notes: The title originates with one of the episodes of Jet Wolf's Buffy continuation where Kennedy & Tara are on a road trip; discovering a mixtape of Tara's, and also discovering that Tara's music taste is far removed from what she assumed.

Buffy POV.

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Fics for 2025 # 004 ~ Thru October, until Forever
Notes: Dawn/Lisa. At this point they are somewhere between Homecoming, when they were seventeen, and the second half of their Senior year when they are both eighteen

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Also a beautiful multi-performer song that I have no context for, but there are four main singers and the whole thing is gorgeous (China for sure gets the 'circuses' part right):



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And a truly delightful Tumblr thread about How we are the Fae.

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Also does anyone have any recommendations for alternatives to Facebook? Having done some looking around I came across MeWe, but I have literally never heard about it before. Is anyone familiar?

How to make S.O.S better... add cello:

Dimash Qudaibergen & Hauser - S.O.S d'un terrien en détresse

Oh the wonders of Friday evening with a G&T. <3

Dimash just released this new song, very mellow and autumn-y:

Dimash Qudaibergen - Ризамын тағдырға | Grateful to Fate (Mood Video)


From the blurb on youtube:

Dimash performed the song "Rizamyn Tagdyrga" ("Grateful to Fate") on October 15, 2024, at the Opening Ceremony of the Almaty Open ATP 250 tennis tournament in Almaty. The composition was written by Kaiyrgali Kozhanbaev with lyrics by Alua Zhaimambetova back in 1993. The song was first performed by Dimash's mentor, Marat Aitimov.

Apparently he and his friends filmed the video a few days ago in a local park.

And it made Sir Hairless cry! <3 (He is one of my favourite reactors.)

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Ways to help Dead Boy Detectives:

Petition on Change dot org: Save Dead Boy Detectives

Save Dead Boy Detectives website

Save Dead Boy Detectives Tumblr <- full of updates. :)

https://savedeadboydetectives.carrd.co/ <- Carrd (useful links)

And the intersection between DBDA and Palestine:

DBD Fundraiser for Palestine

Palestine links:

Medium: Mainstream Media: Killing Israelis is Terrorism, but Killing Arabs is Genius!

BBC: ‘I say bye to my kids, in case we don’t wake up’ – two Gazans film a year under attack by Israel
^This is the thing that keeps getting to me. It's all unfolding in real time. We are watching a genocide in real time. *hands*

Well, this post ended up in a very different place than it started.

Anyway, don't forget your daily click:

https://arab.org/click-to-help/palestine/

I love fandom. It's rallying round and doing the best it can. Am collating useful links here:

Petition on Change dot org: Save Dead Boy Detectives
(Pls sign? It takes like 10 seconds and is v helpful. 🙏)

Long post detailing all the ways fans can help/organise.

And customer service contact for Netflix

Lovely & useful poster to share (from here):



Also generally good advice to make a noise on Twitter/Insta etc, since Tumblr is not really noticed in the wider world...

Also, of course I think everyone should watch it, because it's just such a good show. As it happened I stumbled upon the post that made me watch it (SPOILERS for how Charles - one of the titular Dead Boys - dies), and I want to go heap blessings upon the OP's head. What riches I found.

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I know I've not been around (and have been disabling comments), but work has (as always this time of year) been spectacularly awful and I have zero spoons left for talking to people. And tomorrow we're taking the Cherub down south to start uni! (That seems impossible, she was an 'LJ baby' and my flist organised a virtual baby shower... <3)

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Anyway, have a new Dimash performance as well. This is from a Chinese show called 'Singing With Legends' (article here from 2019), and it's a duet between Dimash and Di Mahi Huang Xiaoyun called "Red Moon Rules" (I hope that's all correct). It's a really unusual and gorgeous performance.

Just a lovely performance, if you need something beautiful for the end of your week. You can't see it in the thumbnail, but there's a children's choir! <3

Dimash Qudaibergen - You Raise Me Up (Beauty and Harmony, CCTV-1, Сhina)

Genocide at the Eurovision Song Contest

The video is very instructive - we never watched the 2019 Euovision (because Israel), so I had never before seen their happy little 'Ignore all the apartheid and the killings, look you can do some great shopping!' song, which made me absolutely speechless. (No, I am NOT exaggerating.)

If you go direct to the video there are instructions of how to contact your broadcaster.

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Refuser Solidarity Network provides an international base of support for Israeli war-resistance.

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ETA: Managed to forget this!

debunking the conquest narrative
facing one of the hardest narrative arcs in the Bible armed with the truth of what really happened
by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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And I have posted this before, but it's important context: Vox: the Story of the Nakba

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Onion article from 2018: IDF Soldier Recounts Harrowing, Heroic War Story Of Killing 8-Month-Old Child

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And finally, Dimash's The Story of One Sky (I wonder what would have happened had they played THIS at Superbowl...):



Dimash Qudaibergen’s 12-minute work is dedicated to the unity of people on our planet. We are all divided into races, nations and religions, but we are all children of one planet and live under one sky. Life is the highest value.

No sacred book calls for the destruction of people. We must learn to be friends; it is impossible for a few adults to cause millions of children to suffer. The future of our planet, the future of people is in our hands, let there be peace in the world.

We are children of one Home, one Earth and one Heaven

It is painfully relevant. I have a post here digging into the story & the layers etc, but mostly I want to quote something Dimash posted on Instagram two years ago:

"Nowhere has it been that millions of adults suffer because of children, but millions of other people, including children, suffer because of a couple of adults.

Dear initiators of war and the slaves of billions of blood money interested in this, look at this photo [of planet Earth in space] and think about what your real greatness is before the Almighty."

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Actually, let me finish with (utterly heartbreaking) poetry from Palestine:

Poem by Marwan Makhoul

Poem by Khaled Juma

ETA2: Crips for eSims for Gaza <- a simple way to help

Another song from the Virtuosos competition, this time featuring several singers, although the star is Amelia Anisovych - the little Ukrainian girl who sang 'Let it go' in a bombshelter. (I'm sure you remember her.) <3

'Heal the World' by Dimash Qudaibergen, P.Domingo Jr., E.Miklósa, E.Nechayeva, P.Čulič, A.Anisovych


And here is another video featuring her more prominently, including a short interview:

Literally just uploaded this afternoon! ^_^

Dimash - Dudarai (CCTV-1, China)


On October 5, 2023, Dimash Qudaibergen performed the famous Kazakh folk song "Dudarai" in a program on CCTV-1, China

This song does not go where you expect!



( Other versions under the cut )

Dimash & Wei Wei Duet song released ❤️”Join Hands” Golden Panda Award

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ETA: Live performance 20 Sept:



Lookit! Jackie Chan is in the audience! ^_^ And oh, the vocal runs... ♥)


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And - on a completely unrelated note - Good Omens 2 continues to take up all my available brain space. I give you THIS proof that Michael Sheen is the most feral shipper of us all. <3 (Spoilers obvs) ^_^