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"When the house falls, the voice remains"
— A message from Gaza, written by Abdelmajid ✍️
In a time where news is just numbers, and images pass in seconds,
there are faces that remain.
I am one of them.
My name is Abdelmajid.
I don't carry an extraordinary story — I share what has sadly become ordinary in Gaza:
Waking up to find no roof above me 🏚️, calling out to my mother and hearing no reply 💔, surviving a certain death… only to face the daily battle to live.
We used to believe war was a moment that would pass.
But we’ve learned it may begin… and never end.
It doesn’t just take homes — it takes childhood, voices, the faces we love.
Since that day, I no longer have a little world called my room.
No key. No quiet corner.
What remains?
Fragments of memory… and a flicker of hope I carry every time my niece looks at me and asks, "Why did this happen to us?" 👧
I’m not writing for pity,
nor for passing sadness.
I write because we need a voice — someone to carry our story back into the rhythm of this loud world 🌍
You may not be able to end the war,
but you can ease its cruelty on those who survived.
You can extend a hand to someone trying to rebuild from rubble 🤝
My name is Abedmajed Elderawi, and I live in Gaza with what remains of my once large and loving family.
Whether you donate, share, or simply read these words to the end — your action may go unseen by cameras, but it makes a real difference ✨
For authenticity, Abdelmajid is verified and listed as #537 on the GazaVetters trusted vetting list. ✅
From my heart, and from the heart of Gaza:
Thank you for still seeing the human behind the headlines 🕊️
Look y'all, this reveal means so much to me. So many times in movies these days there are big reveals for the audience’s benefit that mean absolutely nothing in the context of the story or to the characters in it. I’m talking the Thanos cameo in the Avengers’ stinger, I’m talking Benedict CumberKhan in Star Trek, I’m talking about every hackneyed “This character is actually this other character” when in universe nobody knows nor cares about their true identity.
But here? This reveal? This is a Big Reveal for us, Peter B Parker, and Miles, all on different levels. We and Peter both know Doc Ock is a portly dude, not a woman. We know the name Octavius… Otto Octavius. But when she says her name is Olivia Octavius we’re clued in to the fact that Doctor Octopus is a woman in this universe. And she has Peter captive.
Miles, if he was paying attention in science class earlier in the movie, would have known her name was Olivia Octavius, but that doesn’t mean anything to him, why would it? Liv has apparently been very good about keeping her supervillainy a secret. She’s in educational videos shown in high-schools. So to Miles, the reveal here is this scientist lady, who he knew enough about to know was the head scientist at Alchemax, is a supervillain. He gets the reveal a second or two after Peter.
And the movie? It was dropping hints the entire time, confident in our expectations blinding is to the truth. Olivia’s name was partially visible when Miles got to science class. Her glasses are octagonal. The lights in her lab are octagonal. We know she’s working with the Kingpin. Why wouldn’t she be a supervillain? Because she’s hot? Hell, Peter even says he needs to reexamine his internal biases. Maybe he was telling us that we should too.
It’s a reveal for us, and for our heroes. It means something, both in-universe and out. And that makes it infinitely better than other similar reveals.
now that i've watched quiet on set (2024), here are some of the people who submitted character letters defending convicted sex offender brian peck and asked the judge for a lesser sentence