tapes on repeat

24 | white | they about | me

[catcrumb]

[segamascott]

[adz]

an Iraqi gamer's beautiful review of Disco Elysium

[fieldmoths]

been a nail biter literally my whole life and a month ago i decided once and for all i am DONE. gonna brag i have been super successful and my natural nails (except 2 who broke) are now long and really nicely shaped and my cuticles are hydrated and healing and wow i’ve never been able to actually get this far before! what is my secret you may ask?

well.

i stare at my nails for literally minutes at a time. literally checking out of conversations staring at them. they are so beautiful and a direct result of my hard work so ofc i am gonna appreciate them. but lately you can catch me staring into the gloss of my nails like i’m narcissus at the damn pond

[phantomrose96]

My two greatest fears are permanence and change

[phantomrose96]

Wait I forgot about the strong as fuck ice mummy

[depsidase]

[grendel-menz]

Hey y'all -- I'm making this post on behalf of Sami and his family, who are currently suffering in Gaza. You can find their fundraiser here. I think (especially) in a time where people are experiencing so much cruelty, it's our duty as humans living in the world to try to help others the best we can. We've all wished for someone to be there for us in a time of need, and we can be that for other people.

Sami's family has a lot of young children and I ask you to please consider donating if you have the means-- even something small-- or reblogging to circulate their fundraiser. Anything helps! Thank you so, so much for even reading. FUNDRAISER.

[hamza-only]

Donate anything to my family. Don't let us die while you just watch. Contribute anything.

[earthveins]

[radicallymaxton]

Misato and Ritsuko

[killyridols]

2.4 by hagan nguyen, 2022, hahnemuhle metallic rag

[unender]

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[xaoca]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Something really violent about eating a burrito. Biting a hole in that thing. A sandwich or a taco is different, it's already open, but a well-wrapped burrito is like a complete living thing in your hand, the taut skin protecting a complex network if internal organs. And you put a hole in it, maul it for sustenance, like a wolf on the open plain tearing the throat from a living gazelle. Or perhaps like a guy living in an infested apartment catching a white rat in his hands and just biting into it.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This post would not be gaining this much traction on a normal website

[umpireofpopculture]

[blistexenthusiast]

Monthly Flyer Club 025 by Sunroom

[transmechanicus]

*holds you in my mouth perfectly safe between my sharp teeth bc i love you*

[transmechanicus]

[targetedknowledge]

[schoolhater]

really valuable little piece from a 17 year old poet and writer in gaza about the reality and indignity of relying on foreign aid solicited online. this has been the reality for gazans since the beginning of the genocide when a lot of people lost their jobs. while a lot of discourse around online fundraising understandably centers the necessity of this aid (or, less sympathetically, the feelings of westerners who object to the knowledge of our position of power that gazan fundraisers reveal) i really think the perspectives of the palestinians who do the e-begging has been lost.

notice how his post never once suggests you should /stop/ aiding gazans through donations or even deprioritize it. what he is asking is explicitly solidarity, not charity. while it cannot undo the hierarchy inherent to the practice, radical charity is a thing and i think we owe it to people like yazan that we do not see gazans as a helpless population (or a horde invading our attention) but people in their own right using the tools available for them, as we use the tools available to us to help keep them alive.

this post was taken from @abolishtheusa on instagram, and yazan's instagram is @yazan._.mohammd. here is his chuffed fundraiser.

here is the linktree for the sameer project, a which also relies on donations and is running seriously low on funds

here is the website for workshops 4 gaza, which sells radical books and tickets to exclusive workshops in exchange for donations to the sameer project and other fundraisers