I feel like I could eat the world raw

Bri - 20 - Scorpio

[plumpydoll]

It’s hard to imagine what the people of Gaza are going through in these times. There are children who want to play and go to school, and parents who wish to see a better future for their children when they grow up.

[plumpydoll]

It’s easy to feel powerless from afar, but every small action makes a difference. Every share, every dollar donated, every voice raised contributes to hope. Support fundraisers, spread information and resources, reach out to officials, and be there for those in need. Hope is what someone feels when they know that people care about their life, even from afar.

[plumpydoll]

Palestinians need more than our sympathy—they need our determination and persistence. Keep standing by them, and remind them they are not forgotten. Hope is not just an idea; hope is the food delivered, the medicine funded, the lives saved. Hope is us refusing to stop caring for people in desperate need.

Zeina is one of the many people you can help. I implore you to try 💜

[zinaanqar07]

Share Please

[kuttithevangu]

Type of thing a professional historian WOULD say, admittedly, but part of why I care about historical accuracy in fiction is that I think it’s kind of disrespectful to assume everyone has the same experiences you have. Which of course leads to the second part, that is, I think it’s good to practice thinking about people who do not experience the world the way you do

[sowedpearls]

[pettydemon]

[heraldic-thunderbolt]

trying to get my life together or die in a gas explosion whichever don't care

[lesbinewren]

we need to make using chatgpt embarrassing bc sorry it really is. what do you mean you can’t write an email

[tami-taylors-hair]

The big discourse on twitter right now is ‘you can’t say Columbus was a racist monster because no one knew racism was bad in 1492,’ except Isabella I (yeah, that Isabella I) threw his ass in prison for being a racist monster. There are multiple contemporaneous accounts of Columbus in the Caribbean that are basically like “holy shit, this guy is a legit, Texas chainsaw massacre psychopath.” He was considered bad even then.

When there’s documentation that the queen who got the Spanish Inquisition rolling thought Columbus was bad, I feel like it means we can all feel good about establishing another holiday for mattress discounts in this country.

[kereeachan]

Yep. Contemporaneous accounts of him and De Soto often have the writer essentially going “what the FUCK are you doing, why are you like this.” People AT THE TIME knew it was fucked up just fine.

[citizen-zero]

His crew wanted to mutiny and kill the man and we are all worse off for the fact that they didn’t.

[trilobiter]

In 1511, only 19 years after Columbus’s first voyage, a Dominican friar named Antonio de Montesinos said this to the Spanish colonists on Hispaniola:

“Tell me by what right of justice do you hold these Indians in such a cruel and horrible servitude? On what authority have you waged such detestable wars against these people who dwelt quietly and peacefully on their own lands? Wars in which you have destroyed such an infinite number of them by homicides and slaughters never heard of before. Why do you keep them so oppressed and exhausted, without giving them enough to eat or curing them of the sicknesses they incur from the excessive labor you give them, and they die, or rather you kill them, in order to extract and acquire gold every day.”

“Racism” was an unknown word (coined in the early 20th century) and perhaps a difficult concept to explain to 15th and 16th century Europeans. But they were fully capable of understanding that marching into some one’s country, and then immediately killing and enslaving them, was wrong. The fact that they did it any way is their own responsibility, and it’s not inappropriate for us to judge them for it.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[flowrrs4u]

I am good. I am loved.

[godstiel]

i blog for girls who are umm relentlessly tormented. By the misery

[dogrotpdf]

Could I request: codependency/ like-souled monsters in love/ ~I love you so much I would want to die by your hand [something similar to 'bury me, beloved'] please?

IF I LOVE YOU, IS THAT A FACT OR A WEAPON?

phoebe bridgers / outcrying / richard siken / helene cixous / sarah kane / jeanette winterson / richard siken / emma rebholz / venetta octavia / yves olade

[cryptblood]

[oatmilkcore]

"Greetings to the Universe in 55 Different Languages", a poem arranged out of messages from the Voyager spacecraft

[wintryblight]

can i request some poems about rain?

hi anon, of course! rain is among my top 5 favourite things. here are some rain-soaked poems & i hope you enjoy reading!

e. e. cummings, “somewhere i have never traveled,gladly beyond” | nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

Ocean Vuong, “Immigration Haibun” | How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet.

Andrea Gibson, “I Sing the Body Electric, Especially When My Power’s Out” | You are so full of rain / There is so much that is growing

Conchitina Cruz, “Alunsina Takes a Walk in the Rain” | Today, the news tells me you are scheduled to be lonely.

Elizabeth Bishop, “Sestina” | She thinks that her equinoctial tears / and the rain that beats on the roof of the house / were both foretold by the almanac

Tatsuji Miyoshi, “Great Aso” | Rain is falling. Rain is falling. / In hushed silence rain is falling.

Octavio Paz, “As One Listens to the Rain” | listen to me as one listens to the rain, / without listening, hear what I say / with eyes open inward, asleep

Hayan Charara, “Ode to an Abandoned House” | May you live forever, / may you bury me.

[brothfan1997]

[mephistopheles]

my three girlfriends. and YES they prophesy the death of the king of scotland

[grosskei]

dnayzja and desiignerbb shot by limonhotcheetos

[gendernewtral]

*missing the charging port on my phone* don’t think about it don’t think about it don’t think about it