No One Quite Psychoanalyzes Like Daughters Do When Looking At Their Mothers

no one quite psychoanalyzes like daughters do when looking at their mothers

Since Becoming King

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.

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sir thomas stanley holland,

let me fucking b r e a t h e

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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:

[Screenshot of IG post. Photo of a curly haired young woman in a black hoodie, holding her camera phone far away enough to see the completely flattened buildings behind her. Her face is grim, drawn and pale.

Caption: I no longer have any hope of survival like I had at the beginning of this genocide, and I am certain that I will die in the next few weeks or maybe days. I have been sick with severe viral infection for days and cannot move from the mattress!
I suffer from nightmares that are so closely resemble reality that I no longer differentiate between reality and dream.
I live in a world other than the one I claimed to be building! I am a community activist who lived on the fantasy that the world was free and just, and I sought to bring rights not only to my people, but to many men and women in third world countries!
I was shocked that I was not from the third world! Indeed, we are the most humane and moral! Yes, because the world approves, supports, and finances the genocide we are being subjected to, legislates it, and gives reasons for for 58 days! While we are a people who have been living on occupied land for 75 years and are still searching for our rights and communicating our voice to the world!
My message to the world: You are not innocent of what is happening to us, you as governments or peoples that support Israel’s annihilation of my people. We will not forgive you, we will not forgive you, humanity will not forgive you, we will not forget, even if we die, the history will never forget .
A Message to friends: Thank you and the supporters around the world. You have been compassionate and very strong. We ask you not to lose hope, even if the world seems completely unfair and your efforts have not yet resulted in a ceasefire.

Saleh Aljafarawi posted:

Picture of himself wearing a press vest and phone in hand, standing among the rubble of Gaza.
Text:

يشهد ربنا اني تعبت جدا وبكابر على كل أوجاعي وعلى كل تعبي عشان بعرف كويس انو كتيير ناس بتاخد قوتها مني ولازم كمان ما اضعف لانو فلسطين بدها ياني لسا، بس والله شفت كتييير شغلات لدرجة ببكي كل ليلة قبل - ماا انام ولدرجة بحلم بكوابيس ولدرجة انو صرلي 58 يوم 2 ما بعرف اشي عن اهلي وما بتواصل معهم ومع ذلك مكمل في النشر، بس يبدو العالم خلص مش حيستجيب

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:

Picture of Motaz Azaiza in his press jacket carrying his camera. The caption reads: "It's about life or death now. I did what I could. We are surrounded by Israeli tanks."
The block of text below in smaller font is in Arabic.

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:

Screen shot of IG caption.
byplestia: Rough translation of what @motaz_azaiza posted on his story..
FYI Gaza Strip is getting divided into 3 parts the north of Gaza, the middle area and Deer Al Baleh, and Khanyoonis and Rafah.. the movement is becoming nearly impossible, and of course there is no safe place and people just don’t know where to go.

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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.