at me too someone is looking

she/they • b

[anka-dm]

My illustrations the most based poem about tigers by Nael, age 6

Every time I read it I feel space inside my chest expand in very *emotion* way.

[paper-wounds]

[firstfullmoon]

Something big happens. Something bigger than you. My mother marches at a student protest in 1984, wearing suede boots, the sun rising over the mountain. Or, seventy years earlier, Kafka wakes up and learns that Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. Sunlight moves through the water glass on the nightstand. God comes down to Moses and tells him to refuse to golden calf, to take his children out of Egypt. My great-great-grand-father leaves his tribe on the Iranian border and settles in Afghanistan and says the Shahada. A whistleblower sits in a courtroom, his gaze turned towards a blue book that contains the sentence that will define his fate. Trials are held. The world spins. We send rockets into space, robots that take pictures of planets we have never been to. We write down the law, we amend it, and we define who is good, who bad. Documents are classified, hidden for years. Exile. War. Terrorism. A girl brushes her hair and plants a bomb in a café in Algeria. I felt no regrets. I did it for my people, she will say from her prison cell. Apokalypsis, which means revelation: the bride removing the veil, turning her face in the direction of the grainy wind. Sand fluttering in her eyes. You watch the news; everything you feared is true: They hate us. You belong, you understand, to the others. You think of Celan’s “Todesfuge,” the image of graves in the sky. You think of Palestine. And then, as always, there is loneliness. A loneliness as old as your childhood.

— Aria Aber, Good Girl

[voiceofaboud]

The whole world has forgotten us in Gaza.

WE NEED YOUR PRAYERS. WE NEED YOU.

[voiceofaboud]

Unfortunately, I may die after being diagnosed with anemia and severe malnutrition.

[voiceofaboud]

My siblings have no one but me. If I die, they will have no one left.

Please donate and don’t leave them after my death.

Chuffed – PayPal – Verified

[martindykewood]

please please help my friend aboud and his family!!

[drilanime]

[dantexxorihara]

[coolxatu]

in the cambrian period the ocean was shallow and the sun never set. every day was sunday morning and there was never any dark. the world was a watery wonderland and air didnt exist yet. animals had just invented eating eachh other and it was really funny. having eyeballs was all the rage

[softhe4rted]

to begin with, the sweet grass by mary oliver, from “devotions”

[pwlanier]

Palestinian craftsmen, Model of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, 18th century. Olive and pistachio wood, mother-of-pearl, camel bone.

Courtesy Alain Truong

[rosieandthemoon]

Jazep Drazdovich

[milksockets]

daniel ost: floral art + the beauty of impermanence - paul geerts (2015)

[havingapoemwithyou]

Jenin by Nathalie Handal

[yuqqy]

TWENTY OVER LIMIT, 2023, handwoven by Alexandra Jean Auger

24″ x 19.5″ acrylic and wool yarns on cotton warp 

[havingapoemwithyou]

Provision by W.S. Merwin

[bloglikeanegyptian]

in the past 24 hours

IPC formally declared famine in Gaza

Israeli article shows internal IDF documents confirm at least 83% of Palestinian casualties are civilians, making the civilian to combatant casualty ratio equivalent only to that of genocides such as Rwanda or Srebrenica and taking it far outside former conflict ratios

Previous State Spox Matthew Miller admits Netanyahu told them the war would go on "for decades" and that he had known Israel was the primary obstacle to the ceasefire negotiations for the past two years, despite publicly blaming Hamas for not accepting ceasefires

these are all things that we already knew, things i have repeatedly fought with users here on, things that are being confirmed now that it matters less

[archatlas]

Revealing the Hidden Patterns of Birds in Motion

Dennis Hlynsky, a film and animation professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, creates videos at the intersection of art and science. Hlynsky transforms ordinary footage of birds and insects into ethereal illustrations by digitally tracing the paths they travel. 

Hlynsky’s work is typically featured in galleries, where the video is projected on large screens with recorded sound. To see more videos from Hlynsky, please visit his Vimeo channel. 

GIFs by ARCHatlas Text + video via

[mouthbrood]

having withdrawals from. the river