growing younger

a log of wasted potential

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" في قلبي حدائق بابسة كثيرة و ، انت يا الله رب المطر“

"I have so many dry gardens in my heart and, Oh Allah, You are the Lord of rains."

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“How’s life?”

Me:

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❝Do not weep from a life that made you heart weep. Just say oh Allah compensate me with good in this life and the hereafter. Sadness departs with a sajdah and happiness comes with a sincere Du'a.❞

—Ibn Al-Qayyim رحمه

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Jef Bourgeau

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Porch Swinging Spirit: A Hauntingly Peaceful Scene.

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art by the.gauntlets

gofundme for the family

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happy fourth of july to the philippines ONLY

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link to article

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absolutely genius of rf kuang to elaborate on virtually nothing about speer's culture. the only things said about speer are "speerlies are mindless savages" and "speerlies are most definitely not mindless savages". there are no deep dives, no explanations of their way of life, nothing beyond the glimpses that disproves nikan's belief that they are nothing but a violent group. we saw that they had leaders that cared about their people and children. we saw that they are people who found joy in life. but that's really not much.

this emphasizes the horror of genocide. millenia of culture and history, individual lives filled with love, pain, and passion, just completely wiped away. there were only two surviving speerlies. one of them was too young when he was taken away, and probably doesn't remember much. the things he did remember was also probably buried under years of abuse and drugs people were plying him with. the other one didn't even know she was from speer until the last few months of her life, and there was really no one around to teach her about their culture. and if there was, life as she knows it was falling apart. learning about her dead people's culture probably didn't even cross her mind.

without saying any of these things and by intentionally leaving readers in the dark about what speer was truly like, rf kuang said so much about the horrors of genocide. by not saying anything, she said everything. she did the "show me, don't tell me" tip for writers and it was brilliant.

we will never learn most of speer's culture and history and that was the point.

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Jane Crowther

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to be loved is to be held!!! print

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You guys who have not read The Poppy War need to know that the main character gets her first period and immediately decides to have her womb removed and then she proceeds to bring that exact energy to everything she does for the rest of the series