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reclaiming the title baby girl | carlybenson69 | lansangprincess (multifandom)

[leeknowpegger]

robby’s stupid bike got more screentime than mohan oh my god 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[girlwhateverdawg]

supriya ganesh we will get you that emmy

[petitemaman2021]

Reading in Perfect Days (2023), directed by Wim Wenders

Cinematography by Franz Lustig

[g698]

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

The most terrifying part of having memory issues is when you can feel something from 5 seconds ago be thrown out the window and there's an empty hole where it once was. You remember that you forgot something.

[lansang-princess]

Dear Supporter,

I hope this message finds you and your family in good health and high spirits. My name is Rakan Zaqout from Gaza.🍉 I am reaching out to seek your urgent help in spreading the word about our fundraising campaign. I lost both my home and my school, my parents lost their jobs too, due to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and we are now facing catastrophic living conditions.💔

I kindly ask you to visit our campaign. Your support, whether through donating or sharing, will help us reach more people who can make a difference. Thank you for your continued support for the Palestinian cause. Your dedication brings us closer to freedom.🕊

Please note, our campaign has been verified by @90-ghost and @aces-and-angels.☑

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[somepositivityforyou]

It’s not up to anyone else to tell us how we are allowed to feel. Our feelings are valid, even if others don’t understand them.

[fridgebride]

a poem from gazan writer nadine murtaja featured in an edition of WAWOG’s “new york war crimes” in march. she dreams of becoming a dentist, though her schooling was interrupted by the current aggression and genocide.

please donate and share nadine’s campaign to evacuate herself and her family.

Donate to Help my family and I evacuate Gaza, organized by Nadine Murtaja

I'm Nadine Murtaja, a 20-year-old writer from Gaza, and I'm reaching out to you with… Nadine Murtaja needs your support for Help my family a

[dykesbat]

[ID: A photo of a section of a newspaper titled, "Poetry from Gaza: Nadine Murtaja" It reads,

"I am Nadine Murtaga, I am 21 years old. I am a dentistry student, but the war prevented me from completing my studies due to the destruction of universities by the Israeli occupation. I have been practicing my hobby, which is writing, since I was 16 years old. My goal in life is to striveto live by all means and to defend the Palestinian cause until my last breath in this life."

Beneath this is her poem, in both Arabic and English. The English translation of the poem is as follows:

And if the death does not suffocate me the smoke will carrying memories, screams the remains of families from years ago

smoke that announces the burial of a new civil record into a mutilated grave

I now fear counting I fear numbers will turn in my head

I count stars only to realize

they are warplanes delivering souls to their final abode.

When my mother saw a bright white light, she told me tenderly what a dazzling star it was.

Until the light departed, stealing more voices from the streets."

The poem ends. An acknowledgement at the bottom says, "Translation by Fatema". End ID.]

[leejihye-deactivated20241210]

[additional image id: the original arabic,

وان لم اختنق من الموت فسأختنق بالدخان الذي يحمل ذكريات وصرخات وآثار عوائل منذ سنين دخان قد أعلن بدفن سجل مدني جديد داخل قبر مشوه

أصبحت أخاف العد، أخاف أن تدور الأرقام في رأسي فأبدأ في عد النجوم وأخطئ مرة أخرى حين أدرك بأنها زنانة آخرى قد سلمت أرواحا الى المثوى الأخير

حتى حين رأت أمي ضوءا شديد البياض اخبرتني بحنو كم هي نجمة لامعة

حتى رحل الضوء سارقاً أصواتاً. أخرى من الشارع

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[literallyaflame]

there is a huge difference between criticizing an institution and criticizing individual behavior. i can criticize the makeup industry without criticizing the 14 year old girl who uses concealer because she’s self-conscious about her acne; i can criticize the plastic surgery industry without vilifying the woman who decided to get a nose job after two decades of pointed comments and bullying. it is intellectually dishonest to respond to an institutional criticism as if it were a personal attack; on the flip side, it is cruel and unnecessary to leverage personal attacks in the name of institutional criticism

if i see one (1) more person respond to a perfectly reasonable beauty-industry-critical sentiment with “but i personally enjoy eyeshadow. why are you attacking people who like eyeshadow :(” or “exactly, all women who wear makeup are miserable and brainwashed” i am going to climb a tree and bite the top of it

[assignedmale]

Eighty Percent

[olg6328]

[ID: A comic by Sophie Labelle (@assignedmale).

Panel 1 of 4: A random person tells Stephie, "We shouldn't allow kids to be trans because 80% end up detransitioning."

Panel 2 of 4: Stephie rebuts, "That number is from Kenneth Zucker's study from 30 years ago, in which he claimed to have "cured" some gender non-conforming kids of gender dysphoria with "reparative therapy"―a form of torture. Half of them never even expressed gender dysphoria!"

Panel 3 of 4: She continues, "The researcher's clinic was eventually shut down after he was revealed as a fraud, and his methods recognized as inhumane and unethical. His results were never reproduced.

Panel 4 of 4: She continues talking to the random person, "Actual, recent studies consistently estimate detransition rates to be between 1 and 2%". The random person dismissively replies, "Ok well I got my studies, you got yours. Agree to disagree."

End ID.]

[oneheadtoanother]

Ok now do NYT columnists

[dorkichiban]

already this has tags in the notes like “#anti ai” but... this is just real life with almost everything. this is like grifter 101 please don’t exceptionalize needing to be critical of chatgpt.

[clockworkdragonffxiv]

This is literally how job interviews work, by the way, and then everyone is surprised the super-duper confident guy is also an incompetent moron.

[digitaldiscipline]

This worked on Trump voters, with the added selling point that he's a piece of shit that gave them permission to be pieces of shit.

[neil-gaiman]

Talking to experts when I was young used to drive me nuts because I would say something self-evidently straightforward, and they would say, "Well, it's not actually as simple as that..."

And then I got older and learned things on the way, and found people asking me questions that were straightforward, but the equivalent of "Why isn't it obvious to everyone that there is only one right way of doing the thing...?" and I would reply, "Well, it's not as simple as that..." and watch them decide that I probably didn't know what I was talking about.

[trashboat]

all the “weird” content on tiktok feels so fabricated and performative. whereas on tumblr you’ll meet someone who will casually admit they eat paint

[trashboat]

this sort of sums it up perfectly

[neil-gaiman]

I know your ask box is probably full, so I totally get it if you don't get to this anytime soon, but I need some help.

I'm a sixteen year old aspiring writer with ADHD and anxiety. My writing patterns are horrible. I go months without writing then spit out a hundred pages. I've been writing since I was eight and I've never finished a story longer than a few thousand words because I physically cannot force myself to write in order, though I can eventually fill in the gaps (if I'm given a few months).

I'm trying my best, but it feels like my best isn't good enough for the world. Do you (or any other successful writers you know) have similar problems? Or is this something you overcome with time? Basically wondering if there's hope of me being successful despite these traits. Thanks!

You're sixteen. The reason why the world isn't filled with successful sixteen year old novelists is we were all (or most of us) trying to figure out how to do the writing thing in bursts and spurts and with dozens of beginnings and not a lot of endings, and we have some characters over here and some story over there and we can't work out how to make them align and work together. And so on and so forth.

You are not a failure if you haven't published a Hugo-award winning trilogy by the time you're twenty. You're an egg that hasn't even finished hatching.

Write. Read everything you can. Write more. Finish some short stories. Read more. Write more. Experience some life. Finish longer things. You'll get there. It's not a race. It's a way to learn.

[chxrchgay]

in hysterics

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

Is there any more authentic bisexual experience than thinking that your personal experience of being Bi doesn't count so you have to consult a more authentic Bi person?

[fairuzfan]

The ease in which Palestinian men are dehumanized. People saw those lineups of halfnaked men and there was relatively no international uproar. Is sexual violence against our men permissible for some reason as long as you write them off as "terrorists"? Humiliation is part of the colonizers' playbook after all. But this is a complex issue of two politically equal entities so don't worry about it.

That last line was sarcasm.

[azhdakha]

The issue of men's disposability as it is.

Source: IMEU

[nyiibat2]

Let me break it down for y’all;

Killing babies and children = No more future generations

Killing women and pregnant women = No more future generations

Killing men= No more future generations

Killing the elderly = Erasing history and culture for future generations

Killing journalists = No news coverage of what’s really happening so the opposing side can push propaganda.

Open your eyes the Palestinians that do survive this if a ceasefire doesn’t come will lose their culture and identity because Israel will force them to assimilate to whatever sick and twisted ideology they want. This is a genocide! The Palestinian genocide is directly mirroring the Native American genocide. Keep talking about Palestine, it’s a privilege you get to scroll away from dead children and adults.

[i-am-aprl]

Airstrikes caught on live television during an AlJazeera broadcast in Rafah. There is no where that is safe in Gaza.