no one quite psychoanalyzes like daughters do when looking at their mothers
It be like that sometimes. by Sage, 2019
Paint on the backside of an artist’s canvas
Okay fuck it if this post reaches 666k notes by the end of 2023 I'll practise basic self care
Why 666k? Because it's funny and impossible so good fucking luck
Tedros’ shoulders are broader and his lips are thinner. His hair looks more brown and his laugh is deep in his chest, ratting the bones of those around him. He appreciates sunsets and sunrises; He gets up early every morning to watch them. He eats more— a meal fit for a king is an actual thing (kings tend to eat a lot). His clothes show less sweat stains are more grass and dirt stains; being the hardhead that he is he can’t help but get really into sparring lessons. His footsteps are lighter and his voice is deeper. His eyes somehow kept their unreal blue pigment and his teeth remain sparkling white. He blinks more. Each passage of thick eyelashes is a slide throughout his life and it’s all one big motion picture he can’t put into words. Still arrogant with others and handsy with his love, Tedros hasn’t really changed much.
sir thomas stanley holland,
let me fucking b r e a t h e
Israel has been making the population of Gaza evacuate to the South for the last month as they carpet bombed the North into dust (while also bombing the South every other day to mix things up). Most everyone had gone to Rafah as they had specified. With the ending of the truce on 1st December, they immediately began bombing the South. Yesterday they bombed Khan Younis, the Southwestern point of Gaza which was supposed to be safest, reducing eleven residential buildings to rubble. The new thousand families displaced have nowhere else to go.
The most popular and famous journalists who have been reporting from Gaza are now posting what feels like goodbyes.
Bisan posted:
Saleh Aljafarawi posted:
Translation:
God bears witness that I am very tired and I am grieving over all my pain and all my fatigue because I know very well that many people take their strength from me and I must not be weak because Palestine wants me still, but I swear I have seen so many things that I cry every night before - I cannot sleep and to the point that I have nightmares to the point that I have 58 Day 2 I don’t know anything about my family and I don’t communicate with them. However, I continue to post, but it seems that the world has finished and will not respond. God willing, you will wake up when we are all annihilated and cease to exist.
Motaz Azaiza is arguably the most famous journalist in Gaza right now. The freelancer rocketed to popularity for his kindness, dogged good cheer, ability to find rays of hope amid constant disaster and death threats. Middle East GQ put on their cover while he was begging the international community for help as he covered Israel's atrocities and watched his friends die one after the other.
He posted hours ago:
Translation:
"The stage of risking everything to bring you the news has ended, now begins the stage of trying to survive. I've brought you enough news, as god is my witness, in order to save my country. We are now facing an internal siege. We can't move north or south. Israeli tanks surround central Gaza on both the northern and southern ends. Our situation is more dire than you can imagine. Remember: we are not content for you to share. We are a people facing genocide, we are a cause attempting to stay alive, alone."
Plestia Alaqad reposted his story to her own Instagram and added:
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No one who hasn't been following them understands how devastating this is to witness. They've become like family to all their millions of followers. The first thing I do every day is check if Hind, Motaz and Bisan are alive and ok. I'm not remotely exaggerating when I say these are the most heroic, indefatigable, determined people most of us have ever seen in our lives. I pity everyone who hasn't had the privilege to follow them. I don't believe in a God and yet the force of their faith has me praying that they survive too.
Things I want to do:
Sleep for a week
Kiss a cute girl
Eat mac and cheese
KEEP EYES ON SUDAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DONT LET THEIR SUFFERING GO UNSEEN OR UNHEARD OF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!