he smiled, and his face was like the sun.

youssef | arab | 26 | he/they

[64mpg]

i can’t wait to be saved miraculously and get out of all of my predicaments

[uncensoredhijabii]

five broken cameras (dir. by emad burnay & guy davidi, 2011)

[hirsuteandcute]

I'm just going to say it - body hair (and beauty standards in general) is truly one of the final frontiers of women's issues in the West. Too many women just love their gilded cage too much. It shocks me how virulently women will defend it. I barely open my mouth and the "well I like how it feels. it just makes me feel cleaner. sensory issues. I do it for me. feminism is about choosing (to conform)." brigade come rushing in by the dozens.

Well I don't like how it feels. I don't feel cleaner without body hair. I don't prefer not having body hair. But who will advocate for women like me, but me? For women who do like hair removal, they are advocated for every time they step out of the house and see 99% of the female population also conforming to that standard, or when they watch a movie and see all the shaved actresses, or view an advertisment, or open a magazine, or watch a music video, or scroll through social media, or walk down the streets without receiving insults and glares for having a completely normal bodily feature.

You genuinely can't even point out that hairlessness is a man-made standard without women losing their shit and acting like they are totally immune to propaganda they've been exposed to from birth. I'm so tired.

[herpsandbirds]

[probuccalfat]

i am going to freak out! and not in a way anyone finds endearing or relatable

[i-am-a-fish]

I just want to love and be loved. why is lunch twelve dollars now

[redstonedust]

funny thing about anxiety is sometimes it kind of breaks your sense of danger. like i am known for repeatedly putting myself in situations that make my friends go "bro you couldve died. werent you scared?" and the answer is 👍 yjeah. i did it scared. i do everything scared. i didnt know that was the actual important kind of scary because i usually have to ignore my fears to function in society. it will happen again. watch out.

[paperclip6]

everythings a joke now and its all funny as fuck too but sometimes it makes me sick to my stomach

[hyperions-fate]

Mahdi Amel, Lebanese Marxist philosopher, writing shortly after Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982.

[crabussy]

it's such a friday thursday today. everyone I've spoken to keeps thinking it's friday. did something thursday happen when we were all distracted

[fadeintoyou1993]

someday you will ache like i ache

[juno-infernal]

sometimes the tragedy of distance is very simple. i want to get groceries with you

[hometoursandotherstuff]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydx34kzlvo

[runcibility]

"Vanderhorst had been under the influence of MDMA and three litres of vodka she had consumed on the night of the offence last September, her lawyer Michael Hill told the court."

three. liters.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

i support women's wrongs

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

[gremlinnddraws]

📚 If we were villains

“Were you in love with him”.

“Yes, I was”. It’s not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I’m in love with him still”.

[welcome-to-the-shit-library]

extremely funny that Oliver spends the first 2 acts of iwwv like “I’m the most regular 🥺🥺🥺🥺 I’m the least attractive among these extraordinary talented people 🥺🥺 honestly I’m super unimpressive and meh” while the book establishes that the two most hottest people in the school want him So Bad it makes them look stupid

[meanbuddhist]

just identified a behavioral pattern within myself

[aropride]

opened my wip and didnt immediately write a thousand new beautiful and perfect words so i'm going to smash my laptop with a hammer