#araq

[oldschoolfrp]

No Elves -- Ad for the Talislanta RPG system from Bard Games, Dragon magazine 135, July 1988, featuring PD Breeding Black's illustration of an Araq from A Naturalist's Guide to Talislanta

[just-dbs-things]

Gods of Destruction and their speculative name meanings!

Iwen = Wine

Helles/Herres/Jerez = Sherry (Jerez means sherry in Spanish, Jerez is pronounced like herres)

Mosco= moscato

Quietela = tequila

Arak = arak (anise flavored alcohol)

Champa = champagne

Beerus = beer

Liquir = Liquor

Sidra = Cider

Rumoosh = Rum

Vermoud = vermouth

Jin/Geen = gin

Note: spelling and meanings may change as the official English translations are made available!

[ba7raltawil]

حببتي

give me love and araq and a bottle of wine

maybe paper or a phone

let me tell you of horrible things and of the wonder of

imagine self containedness and love

imagine finding yourself in the other

idfc who the other may be

jews and christians. a muslim woman

we’re sitting in a room really living really living

another room a different room. with my friend a hijabi a palestinian woman in a color coordinated outfit and khalid is in the back eating mehshi on his phone and hassan is smoking outside but alarabiyya news is on in the background or it’s that one sheikh with the volume

off and the two ouds in their bags above the mantel and the love of humans and the human generosity and i wanted to hug you and ask you to tell me of every loose pebble in the town where you grew up but i couldn’t and to my

friend the word home means ramallah at night when the lights are only ones left in 2008 and the houses become layl become night and dark and this rich thick waterthin darkness becomes all you are

i want you to tell me what that means to you

i want hou to tell me about each family you know abouthow my friend has relatives in my own home neighborhood about how if i go to the mosque (if i wear a hijab and follow through on what i told you, john, if i do what i should have done) and ask i will find her distant cousins and find her and help her create what home means for her (does home mean a small village left in 1927 does home mean thursday does home

mean a robins egg couch and all three major abrahamic religions and half the levant sitting in a room half crying half joyful about you and you and you and you and your found-out family? does home mean a place you can’t go to anymore?)

what about someone with a last name that doesnt exist that is immediately foreign depsite it whose mind is clogged abd fuzzy sentimental with araq whose hands are fat who needs people to feel real what will you do with her????????? god help me i want love not even like that i want things i know are impossible i want so badly want has become the foundation of my being please for the love of god cure me of thie eant and give me a good want a whole want a want for home a want for a name not this desperate want for self containment i cant do that anymore !!! give me a name god!!! give me a name that fits without a millimeter or atom or cell of strangeness

give me a bame that feeks right and send your righteous People to their home and give bring about peace because i cant take this anymore man thank you and hang tight and rock steady and surf well and ride the wave until it breaks thousand and tiny pieces stay safe and keep love and lose not hope friend for it is all we can have at the end and end and end of days now and forever may we not lose hope ameen

[thetravelsplanners]

#Iraq al-Amir or #Araq el-Amir, is the name shared by a town and nearby #caves, within the #municipality of #Amman in the #Jordan #Valley. Located about 15 km southwest of the town of #Wadi as-Seer, it has a population of about 6000 people, mostly members of the tribe of Abbadi (at Iraq Al-Amir) https://www.instagram.com/p/BttX99rhT6v/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1uwcoolf6l8xz