In Gaza š even the queues have disappeared You no longer see the lines of people stretching out at the doors of the takayas or in front of the bakeries Not because hunger has ended, but because the food has run out The flour has disappeared and the bakeries have closed and with it disappeared the last remnants of hope in a loaf of bread to relieve families of the pain of hunger, the pain of accumulated hunger More than 2 million and 4 thousand people are exposed to systematic starvation A complete crime carried out by the occupation through a comprehensive siege and the closure of the crossings for more than 83 days and preventing the entry of food, medicine and fuel 42 days without bread, without ovens, without what satisfies their hunger This is not a shortage, a weapon of starvation and systematic pressure to strangle Gaza until the last breath The queues have not ended, but have turned into silence screaming in the face of the world Save Gaza
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Hospital Security Cameras Captured the Unthinkable. Civilians were thrown into the air from the place or buried inside the missile crater.
And now, orders have been issued to evacuate all hospitals, universities, and schools in Gaza.
This is not war. This is extermination. They are erasing every trace of life, every pillar of society, every safe space and the world is still silent.
If you can help, even a small donation could mean food, water, To my family in Gaza.
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Draco looks at Harry with a glint in his eyes, he only ever looks at Harry as if he truly despises him yet he can't stay away from him. There's a constant need for the toxicity that they bring each other like no other. He knew it wasn't healthy nor would anyone approve yet he still craves the energy that they can only bring to each other.
Okay I wrote this on a whim and my friend says it's good so I wanna ask on here if I should continue it as a fic?
Hello my supporting friends
I would extend my deepest gratitude and thanks for being supporters of people who are in dire and bad need due to the shortage of all living necessities. š„š„š„
My family has been undergoing all forms of humiliation and oppression for almost ten months . Being jobless, my father is suffering much because lots of our basic living necessities can't be attained. š¢š¢š¢
Living circumstances are getting harder and harder, and this makes our daily life tragic and disastrous. Getting the basic needs has become our biggest challenges, leaving behind our dreams and aspiration. Our daily sufferings have become too great for us to bear. ,š„š„š„
A photo taken for the same girl before the war and nowadays.š¤Æš¤Æš¤Æ
A photo of our beautiful house taken after the invasion of our neighborhood. Much destruction and rubbel have taken place. Nothing has been left for us to live in. Our belongings and possessions were completely destroyedš„š„š„
The life inside the tents under the hot weather is another tragedy. Such a life of sufferings and hardships is adding to our pain and sorrow. But with your support and standing by us, you have been lessening our loads lifted on our shoulders. So please keep helping us by donating whatever you can, sharing as much as you can and reposting messages to help get the campaign promoted.
My name is Basel Ayyad, a 28-year-old Palestinian from Gaza. My family of eight was forced to flee our home in northern Gaza, which was destroyed by the war. We now live in a small tent in Rafah, struggling daily to survive without shelter, food, or medical care.
The most heartbreaking struggle is watching my daughter, who suffers from a rare disease, worsen due to the lack of treatment. We urgently appeal for your support with food and essential aid. Even the smallest donation can make a difference and save our lives. Please help us.
People see you, your family and you are incredibly courageous. I hope that your daughter can find the treatment she needs and deserves, as well as food and shelter for all of you.
Please donate, however way you can. Share the message of Basel Ayyad, their family, and the others suffering in Palestine. Reblogging and sharing Basel Ayyadās blogs (posts) to friends and family could do wondersš
The situation here is beyond tragic. The closure of the crossings and the lack of aid entering Gaza have led to food shortages and rising prices. Death is not only from bombing, but also from hunger. Donate even a small amount; it would mean a lot to me. Thank you all for your support of me and my family. Don't let us down and abandon us in these most difficult times.
You, your family, and everyone else in Gaza deserve so much. You all are incredibly strong and braveš
Please donate if you can, they should never be abandoned, especially at such difficult and scarring times. If you are unable to, please reblog and share with friends and to those close to you
š«Please stop and listen to my story. Don't ignore me.š
I am Yousef, 35 years old, married
Please take two minutes of your time and I hope you stand by me and help me save my family from the war
They were deprived of their most basic rights as children, their right to education, play and live safely like the rest of the children in the world. They were terrified and very afraid of the sounds of missiles. Our house was bombed while we were inside it and some of us were injured, but we miraculously survived. My house was completely destroyed in Khan Younis and I headed to the displacement camps on the beach. I had a beautiful house and I had clothing stores, but they were completely destroyed during the brutal war on the Gaza Strip, which was a source of income for us. The tent we live in now does not protect us from the heat of summer or the harsh cold of winter and rain. I want you to help me so that I can be with my family again
I have suffered from the war for more than a year and a half. I lost part of my family, my home and my work
We have nothing left here
I lost my dreams and ambitions after I drew a beautiful future
This war is cruel and brutal, we cannot provide the most basic rights
We have been suffering from famine for months and we are still patient
I also need to travel with my family if the crossing opens at any time in order to save our lives
One person needs to pay coordination to the Egyptian side from $5,000 to $8,000, this is a large amount
But I know that thanks to your support we were able to save our lives from death
Your donation is enough to save our lives from death
Things here are more difficult than you see
I hope you do not leave us here aloneš«
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@talus-the-brokenĀ iām not gonna keep harping on this on someone elseās post because iām not going to be rude to the op, but yeah, letās get into it
popular nonacademic ideas about mythology donāt define what greek mythic tradition is. there might not be a difference to the āgeneral publicā because they donāt know what the difference is, and taking their definition of mythology as just as legitimate as the accepted academic definition of mythic tradition is blatantly anti-intellectual and ridiculous. you and other people making this argument are reifying the idea that humanities arenāt a legitimate discipline. accepting the idea that thereās no meaningful difference to the layman so anything that anyone claims without any citations or background knowledge (even to a basic level!) can and should be given equal weight is simply justifying the spread of misinformation about ancient greek culture, history, literature, and religion. maybe that doesnāt seem important to you, but again. blatantly anti-intellectual and destructive to the perception of history as a disciplineĀ
thereās no denying the way that ancient mediterranean studies as a field has a long history of reinforcing regressive social standards, perpetuating racism, sexism, homophobia, etc to this day. itās a huge problem. itās also, in my experience, what you discuss on day 1 of an intro classics course. itās also been written about and widely discussed since the 80s with the beginning of the black athena movement. right now, itās a subject of much controversy and debate about how to progress as a field.Ā also, i have to ask: what field of study doesnāt have a history of and is still impacted by systemic oppression and bias? there are problems of accessibility in every discipline of academia. including science, if we continue the comparison. biology has been used to legitimize racism for hundreds of years. do we reject biology as a field or do we reject the scholarship that is entrenched in bigotry and work to do better going forward as a field? you need to learn critical thinking skills and recognizing legitimate sources of information, if youāre taking everything (anything!) at face value, youāre a bad historian. and of course much information has been lost to time, but that is not the same asĀ āmuch of history is lost.ā thatās a fundamental misunderstanding of history as an academic field, especially one as interdisciplinary as and covering as long of a timespan as ancient mediterranean studies. although we only have like, what, 1% of the literature spanning all of the time that we call antiquity? thatās still more writing than any person could even come close to reading in their lifetime. it doesnāt mean we donāt know anything and modern historians are just making shit up. not to mention archaeological evidence lolĀ
on the question of separating the ātrueā from modern fabrication, or what you call āfanfiction of the myths,ā for the layman: look at the texts from antiquity that we have. we donāt have to wonder what these stories were because we have them. we have the text of the iliad. we have the text of hesiodic poetry. we have the text of many greek tragedies. and guess what? they are translated! they are free online! there are resources to understand these texts free online! there is no excuse to post unfounded opinions based on misinformation when you could just. not. you could read the work that you want to say something about before making baseless claims about it on the internet lol and the way you talk about sources of mythology, i have more than a modicum of doubt that you have read anything beyond bulfinch and text posts on tumblr.edu, so i can hardly count you as a reliable source of information on the topicĀ
so. you say that the differences between adaptations is time. that is part of it actually! but what arenāt you getting about āa mythology that is no longer naturally developing over time doesnāt include works written thousands of years after the culture itself doesnāt exist anymore.ā thatās an incredibly important distinction because if you give equal weight to these stories as part of ancient greek mythic tradition, you are once again supporting the spread of misinformation about ancient greek culture, history, literature, and religion. and it is so egotistical and entitled to act like we can be equal contributors to the history, literature, and religion of a culture that we donāt belong to. that doesnāt exist anymore. and if youāre so concerned about people using mythology to justify racism and imperialism, maybe you shouldnāt be reifying the propaganda that all āwestern cultureā is derived from and has a stake in and overlaps significantly with ancient āgreco-romanā culture, that we are a part of this tradition and lineage, because weāre not. modern greek culture is not. also, to say that these stories were written by ārandom writersā is to once again show a fundamental inability to understand that greek mythic tradition developed orally over centuries and was a part of everyday life and culture. homer isnāt a ārandom writer,ā itās a name that was assigned to a figure who is essentially mythological in his own right, and itās still used today as shorthand attribution and as a way to talk about the many aoidoi who established and continued the stories of epic tradition across generations. homeric epic was written down somewhere in the 8th century BCE but existed in oral tradition well before that. the mythic pool of traditions developed the same way. this shit doesnāt exist in a vacuum. itās not like writing fanfiction for a fucking marvel movie in the year of 2022 CE
also i donāt get why you keep harping on the validity of modern adaptations that deviate from the āoriginalā story. i donāt care about that at all and i have actively enjoyed adaptations that are wildly different from their mythological basis (autobiography of red for example). so. i will try to say this as clearly as possible to avoid further confusion: modern adaptations of mythology matter because of what it says about our society. itās a legitimate part of our canon of literature. we should be critical about it based on what it means for us, what they changes the author chooses to make means for us. it is not part of the ancient greek canon for the reasons i have already stated multiple times. it is distinct from greek mythology. if you want to call it fanfiction because you canāt engage with literature in any other way, fine. but writing in general is not fanfiction (again: modern original fiction) and mythology is not fanfictionĀ
and so we come to the ludicrous idea that any piece of writing can arbitrarily be called fanfiction because it is ābased onā something, meaning any aspect of reality (biology is just fanfiction of animals! physics is just fanfiction of the forces of nature! history is just fanfiction of the past! if you canāt see why thatās stupid, youāre a lost cause). you still have not defined āfanfictionā in a meaningful way, but apply the term to whatever literature you feel like. hereās a definition for you: fanfiction is a genre of writing developed in the late 1900s at the advent of the internet, referring to works written based on another authorās work, existing outside of that workās canon, as a way to further explore the characters, setting, or themes of a story (addendum 1: often written by nonprofessionals and then self published, addendum 2: often, but not necessarily, of a sexual nature). that is what i mean by āfanfictionā and i believe it aligns with most peopleās definition of it. donāt take my word for it, though! always demand those sources! hereās the definition and graph of use over time from the oxford dictionary:
to sum up. basically your argument is: 1) the layperson makes no distinction between oversimplified mythology or adaptations vs the actual ancient greek mythological tradition, so we shouldnāt either. 2) scholarship around mythology and derivative works have been influenced by bias and prejudice, so it doesnāt matter how we talk about mythology. 3) we donāt really know anything about these made up stories written by random people in antiquity so made up stories written by random people in the modern era should have equal weight in the discussion of the ancient greek pool of traditions. anything i missed? because i believe i have covered why each of these points is extremely flawedĀ
and i still havenāt seen an answer on the following:Ā why do you guys insist on taking the idea that fanfiction isnāt inherently garbage to the most radical opposite extreme possible? do you think youāre somehow legitimizing fanfiction? or do you think youāre making history and literature more āaccessibleā by dumbing it down until itās unrecognizable?
anyway, you said it yourself:Ā ā[F]or all practical purposes, to the general public there IS no difference. Thatās not to say there shouldnāt be.ā i agree! there is a difference and there should be a difference and we should not reify the idea that there is no difference even if it seems like it doesnāt matter, because somehow it has become a popularly held belief that engaging with mythology as if it is a fandom on the internet is just as legitimate as rigorous scholarship on the same subject to the point that the most common interpretations of these myths are based on misinformation and defended with anti-intellectual rhetoric, much of which is steeped in socially regressive views, and that speaks to a bigger problem of media illiteracy and anti-intellectualism that extends beyond shipping discourse or what have you on this shitty ass websiteĀ
sorry about the bulfinch/bullfinch inconsistency though, i liked theĀ ābullshit mythologyā punĀ
(Credits to @Pulse.fm on Tiktok for coming up with this originally)
Anyways, enjoy my probably terrible rant about Aphrodite and her connection to Girlhood and that great feeling of childhood innocence!
(Yes I should be asleep, how did you guess?)
The first time I saw this, I didn't think much about it I see a lot of this on my Pinterest regularly. But I stumbled upon this again while working on something else and it really resonates with me.
Probably, because yeah, I relate to this. I went through puberty very, very young and I didn't know what was happening and it wasn't explained until those awkward talks at school did I actually learn what was happening.
And every day since I actually became aware I'm growing up, I've wished I could go back. I still do. I wish I could be a little girl again, but I can't, I don't have the option to go back. I can do things, that make me feel like a little girl again but I will never be a little girl again.
I think this is something every girl can relate to, growing up too fast. We were always expected to grow up fast and be the mature ones at school,
"Girls mature faster then boys."
It's not just a coincidence or a random thing people say, we do because it's expected of us. Girls are expected to be responsible somewhere around elementary school, boys don't have to care until middle school, because that's the appropriate time to grow up.
I think this entire thing allows girls to connect with Lady Aphrodite. She probably understands, growing up too fast, being forced to take on the weight. Struggling with a new changing body, a new world, eyes staring from every corner, aware, and unable to be a little girl again.
She understands that struggle, she understands that we can't go back to being little girls, but she wants you to help feel like a little girl again. She gives you the feeling again.
When you find a cute stuffed animal, when you do a new makeup look for fun, when you rediscover a picture book you used to love, when you play in the bath... Anything that makes you feel like a little girl again.
She's there and she understands
She loves when you feel that childhood innocence again, when you experience childhood joy again, when you go back to that feeling of innocence, that's what she loves!
Sorry this was so long, I should be asleep but this just made me so passionate that I felt like I needed to type this up now. So anyway what do you guys think about this? Also please remember this is my personal interpretation based off of the photo at the top.
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