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aroace ☕ lame 🐻‍❄️ mentally ill poet ⛄ my gender is space; everything and nothing

[whimsigothwitch-deactivated2026]

More pretty stained glass windows

[shakespearesdaughters]

~the moon and the stars~

[eggsdoodz]

⭐️🌷⭐️

[urgetocreate]

Jeffrey T. Larson (Minnesota 1962), Yellow and Blue, 2005, Oil on canvas

[landsccape]

[hauntedeggoafstudent]

I am 17 again today and my doctor said I've got scoliosis, and I'm lying in bed googling wtf scoliosis is, and all I know is that it's painful and I have to wear braces for my back, and that's even worse than wearing braces for my teeth, cause I've got glasses and I read newspapers and encyclopedias for fun, and when people say that they read they definitely don't mean labels and instruction manuals for things they'll never build, and braces for my teeth would fit me but I've got stupidly perfect bucktooth teeth, and I've a stupidly crooked spine, and I see people with scoliosis, and I'm scared cause what if I'll never run cause my lower back is already cracked, and I've never liked running anyway, ask anyone and they'll say I've never been a runner, and they'll say it's not fair cause I've got long legs and a thin body, and I'm wasting it, and you should never waste god's talents but I haven't believed in god since Catholic school, and I'm young but I feel old, and I've been thinking of dying since I heard of hell, and my back hurts and I'm sleepy...Are you there god, it's me your lost lamb. I'm not coming back, I just wanted to say I'm trying. Don't look anymore. I've just started being acquaintances with life and I'm not sure if we'll ever be friends but I'll write when I have time.

This is all because I had a bit of back pain today...

[zooophagous]

I have been a sheep caretaker for like two days and already I'm like. Wow. I get it.

I get why these were some of the earliest mammals to ever be domesticated. They look up to humans with this sort of dumb but all at once innocent and pure and trusting expression. They're happy to see you. They follow you around. They like to be rubbed under their chins. Maybe its just some latent Scottish highland shepherd DNA I still have in me but I look at my sheep charges and suddenly I see why the love of God for humanity is so often described as a shepherd and his sheep. I'd fight a wolf for these guys. I'd go way the Hell out of my way for them. I'd carry their young for miles on my own back.

[upward-bound]

nearly 80k reblogs and how many of you eat lamb

[zooophagous]

The ancient shepherds I'm referencing also ate lamb lol

[bonnettbee]

It’s good, to love what we eat.

[k-eke]

🍉

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Thinking about... Grieving the undead.

[misscrazyfangirl321]

You aren't dead, but you're moving 12 hours away.

You aren't dead, but you're leaving our friend group.

You aren't dead but you've moved to a different state and now we text twice a year.

You aren't dead but you blocked me.

You aren't dead but we stopped talking, not on purpose but so long ago that I wouldn't even know what to say to you now.

You aren't dead but you're a stranger to me now.

You aren't dead but we lost touch and now I don't even remember your username.

You aren't dead but I ended things with you and now we never speak.

You aren't dead but I still have to grieve you. Whether I'd change it if I could or not, you're still a presence that I'm used to and now you won't be there anymore.

And so I grieve.

[spitblaze]

do *you* think with your dick?

I think with my packer

[spitblaze]

[homoidiotic]

TOP BOYS by @QUEERGARDEN

[atlxntic-wxlf]

I feel personally wronged by the fact my body language is so limited. No pointy ears to flatten. No tail to wag. No hackles to raise. No sharp teeth to bare.

[rusirius967]

[angeliquemarquisedesangesprivate]

The kiss and the fight for love

June 2022

Picture by J.Konrad Schmidt

[hauntedeggoafstudent]

Someone dare tell me this isn't Harry and Voldemort in Welcome to the world of grey!! Tell me this isn't the perfect encapsulation of their complex messy relationship. Tell me that Harry isn't the one saying this, and that voldy is the collector, and that he fell into his heart and never left, and Harry betrayed him but he never hated him, and he is always angry but Harry is always gonna wait and want him in his life despite it all!! Tell me I'm not going mad and crying over a relationship that is so messy and nuanced and utterly utterly beautiful than I'll ever be able to state!!! Searows has killed me once more!

[palipunk-deactivated20260328]

Palestine Masterlist 

Introduction to Palestine: 

Decolonize Palestine:

Palestine 101

Rainbow washing 

Frequently asked questions 

Myths 

IMEU (Institute for Middle East Understanding):

Quick Facts - The Palestinian Nakba 

The Nakba and Palestinian Refugees 

The Gaza Strip

The Palestinian catastrophe (Al-Nakba)

Al-Nakba (documentary)

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 (book)

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (book)

Nakba Day: What happened in Palestine in 1948? (Article)

The Nakba did not start or end in 1948 (Article)

Donations and charities: 

Al-Shabaka

Electronic Intifada 

Adalah Justice Project 

IMEU Fundraiser 

Medical Aid for Palestinians 

Palestine Children’s Relief Fund 

Addameer

Muslim Aid

Palestine Red Crescent

Gaza Mutual Aid Patreon

Books:

A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine

The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge

Hidden Histories: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean

The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem until 1948

Captive Revolution - Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System

Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of The Palestinians 1876-1948

The Battle for Justice in Palestine Paperback

Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom

Palestine Rising: How I survived the 1948 Deir Yasin Massacre

The Transformation of Palestine: Essays on the Origin and Development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

A Land Without a People: Israel, Transfer, and the Palestinians 1949-1996

The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood

A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples

Where Now for Palestine?: The Demise of the Two-State Solution

Terrorist Assemblages - Homonationalism in Queer Times

Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East

The one-state solution: A breakthrough for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock

The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians

Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians

The False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine

Ten myths about Israel

Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question

Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, New and Revised Edition

Israel and its Palestinian Citizens - Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State

Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy

Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine

Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History

Palestinian Culture:

Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture

Palestinian Costume

Traditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution

Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora

Embroidering Identities: A Century of Palestinian Clothing (Oriental Institute Museum Publications)

The Palestinian Table (Authentic Palestinian Recipes)

Falastin: A Cookbook

Palestine on a Plate: Memories from My Mother’s Kitchen

Palestinian Social Customs and Traditions

Palestinian Culture before the Nakba

Tatreez & Tea (Website)

The Traditional Clothing of Palestine

The Palestinian thobe: A creative expression of national identity

Embroidering Identities:A Century of Palestinian Clothing

Palestine Traditional Costumes

Palestine Family 

Palestinian Costume

Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, v5: Volume 5: Central and Southwest Asia

Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure

Documentaries, Films, and Video Essays:

Jenin, Jenin

Born in Gaza

GAZA 

Wedding in Galilee 

Omar

5 Broken Cameras

OBAIDA

Indigeneity, Indigenous Liberation, and Settler Colonialism (not entirely about Palestine, but an important watch for indigenous struggles worldwide - including Palestine)

Edward Said - Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

Palestine Remix: 

AL NAKBA

Gaza Lives On

Gaza we are coming

Lost cities of Palestine 

Stories from the Intifada 

Last Shepherds of the Valley

Voices from Gaza

Muhammad Smiry

Najla Shawa

Nour Naim

Wael Al dahdouh

Motaz Azaiza

Ghassan Abu Sitta

Refaat Alareer

Plestia Alaqad

Bisan Owda

Ebrahem Ateef

Mohammed Zaanoun

Doaa Mohammad

Hind Khoudary

Palestinian Voices, Organizations, and News 

Boycott Divest and Sanction (BDS)

Defense for Children in Palestine

Palestine Legal 

Palestine Action

Palestine Action US

United Nations relief and works for Palestinian refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA)

National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)

Times of Gaza

Middle East Eye

Middle East Monitor

Mohammed El-Kurd

Muna El-Kurd 

Electronic Intifada 

Dr. Yara Hawari (suspended on X 10/25/2023)

Mariam Barghouti

Omar Ghraieb

Steven Salaita

Noura Erakat

The Palestinian Museum N.G.

Palestine Museum US

Artists for Palestine UK 

Eye on Palestine (suspended on Instagram 10/25/2023)

[feral-ballad]

Ghassan Zaqtan, tr. by Fady Joudah, from Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: And Other Poems; “Black Horses”

[Text ID: “All died in war, my friends and classmates . . . / and their little feet, their excited hands, remained / stomping the classroom floors, the dining tables and sidewalks, the backs and shoulders of pedestrians . . . / wherever I go / I hear them / I see them.”]