The First Thing Klaus Took From That Box Was Dave’s Dog Tags And They Just Don’t Talk About It. Viktor

there’s a girl in there

natalie portman behind the scenes of the phantom menace (1999) / angelita mallows

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"My name is Bilal from Gaza, I narrowly escaped the horrors of war, and we had to pay a large sum of money to escape. Today, I and some of my family members live in Egypt, but life here is very difficult and expensive, and we do not have a residence permit. Most of my family and loved ones are still in Gaza, suffering from even harsher conditions. I have set a goal to raise 000 pounds to secure our basic needs, and only 440 pounds are left to achieve this goal. Your support now is not just a donation, it is real relief for humanity in need, and rescue for a family that is only a little help away from tragedy. Be a reason for changing our lives for the better, and open the door of hope for us. To help us, please donate via this link: https://gofund.me/ba5b76e9."

you're laughing. The umbrella academy's final season destroyed every character's personal growth and semi-healed traumas, left huge plot-holes, completely abandoned some of it's most beloved side characters that were crucial in previous seasons and you're laugh-oh. You're crying. My bad. Go ahead. Let it out. Understandable.

A little girl died from hunger in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, despite being in the area where aid trucks are distributed. Another family in the north in Gaza city was forced to eat a donkey, which for many in Palestine is inconceivable culturally. Bisan says there isn't even water (clean OR dirty) for them to drink or wash with.

Extract from Refaat Alareer's course on English poetry in 2019:

"Of course we always fall into this trap of saying, 'she [Fadwa Tuqan] was arrested for just writing poetry!' We do this a lot, even us believers in literature. [We say] 'Why would Israel arrest somebody or put someone under house arrest, she only wrote a poem?' So we contradict ourselves sometimes; we believe in the power of literature changing lives, as a means of resistance, as a means of fighting back, and then at the end of the day, we say 'She just wrote a poem!' We shouldn't be saying that. Moshe Dayan, an Israeli general, said that 'The poems of Fadwa Tuqan are like facing 20 enemy fighters.' Wow. She didn't throw stones, she didn't shoot at the invading Israeli jeeps, she just wrote poetry. And I'm falling for that again—I said she just wrote poetry.

And the same thing happened to Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour. She wrote poetry, celebrating Palestinians' struggle, encouraging Palestinians to resist, not to give up, to fight back— She was put under house arrest, she was put into prison for years. And therefore, I end here, with a very significant point: Don't forget that Palestine was first and foremost occupied in Zionist literature and Zionist poetry.

When the Zionists thought of going back to Palestine, it wasn't like 'Oh, let's go to Palestine.' It took them years, over 50 years of thinking, of planning, politics, money and everything else. But literature played one of the most crucial roles here.

Palestine in Zionist Jewish literature was presented to Jewish people around the world... [as] Palestine is a land without a people for a people without a land. Palestine flows with milk and honey. There is no one there—so let's go. [but] there were people—there have always been people in Palestine. But this is an example of how poetry can be a very significant part of life." [13:05-14:40]

credits to @/protosemite on X for the transcription.

Prof Refaat Alareer was killed by an israeli airstrike that targeted his house 2 days ago.

percy and annabeth heal each other btw,

annabeth being disconnected from the human world and helping percy with the mythical one.

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percy helping annabeth reconnect with her humanity because that's what he's known most his life.

death comes to me again, a girl by Dorianne Laux

the ache of nostalgia