Among the Clouds

submissive in the way a livestock guardian dog is submissive to the sheep it kills wolves for

Further context: Mohamed Hadid’s parents left their home for a couple days because Mohamed’s mother gave birth to him. When they arrived home with a newborn they found that the locks to their door had changed. The Israeli family they hosted told them that the Hadid’s home is theirs now and everything inside it. Mohamed’s mother begged for at least a blanket for her newborn, but the Israeli family refused. Homeless and without any money, food, or belongings they and thousands of other Palestinians became refugees. Gigi and Bella’s father spent the first days of his life in his mother’s arms walking from Nazareth, Palestine to Lebanon. They then settled in Syria.

Patient happened to be under the effect of the pharaohs curse at the time

fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism

disabled people should not have to pay to live their lives like everyone else. and in the case of insulin, disabled people should not have to pay to Not Fucking Die

I’m thinking about how my grandma had this guy who was super into her, enlisted in the army and sent her pictures of himself laying on his bunk staring at her picture moodily. She was not into him in the slightest. But it’s the funniest fucking picture of all time. Teenagers do not change. He’s someone’s Pappaw now. That’s crazy to me. He probably thinks of my grandmother as the foxy one that got away.

The fact that she kept it for 58 years is even funnier. I was like “Who the hell is this?” and she let out an exasperated sigh and was like “That was [NAME]. He was in love with me.” Feelings very much not reciprocated for soldier boy.

I think this incident is so funny to me because it reminded me of girls my age screenshotting cringy conversations with horrible horny men and posting them in the group chat for everyone to see. I think of all those extremely horny and verbose historical love letters in museums dating back as long as humans have been able to write. I wonder if there was a caveman who made cave art to impress a possible mate but it was so bad she made a point of visiting the cave every year to show her friends and laugh at it.

Before my grandmother passed away, we were going through some old pictures and there was a man there that I had never seen before in a photo with my grandmother and then another photo of this man in a military uniform. I asked her who it was and she laughed, and said "Oh! That's a boy I knew in school! He wrote to me when he joined the service." She then leaned in conspirator style: "He would tell people I was his girl so they would leave him alone. He had a boyfriend you know." My grandmother was someone's beard back in the day.

That last addition made my day.

whenever this comes up i like to remind people that harry going back to the abusive dursleys every year was treated by the narrative as something necessary and good because they're his family after all, and percy jackson gave his mom medusa's head so that she could turn her abusive husband to stone and sell his remains as a sculpture to pay for her degree and that was framed as a good decision without remorse. and that's the difference between hp and pjo as stories i think

Rick Riordan received the Stonewall Book Award while rowling's friends are nazis, if that helps

"Oh but without sex or romance the characters are just boring" without even getting into the array of existing wonders outside of interpersonal relationships, the modes of affection I have seen real aspecs invent for eachother would humble you.

Op i appreciate the context but i was going to rb anyway no questions asked