i just want to kick someone in the stomach right n

due to relentless bombing for more than 40 continuous days, much of our cities and villages in Artsakh have been destroyed. houses, buildings, streets, churches, cultural centres. on top of the destruction and death this war has brought to my people, we are struggling to cope with covid - number of new cases have been steadily increasing since the war broke out, for obvious reasons. Armenians of the diaspora have been donating since the war broke out (and even before that, because it is with our donations that we built Artsakh after the first war 30 years ago). we are a small country, with limited resources, and this war and pandemic has put a strain on us. we were struggling before, but now we need all the help we can get.

donations are desperately needed - you can donate here: himnadram.org or here: armeniafund.org

other ways to support:

https://helparmenians.carrd.co - a really useful page with plenty of resources, you can learn about armenia/artsakh, there’s petitions to sign, and donation pages

@armenianblog​ also has a lot of posts with helpful infographics to educate yourself and others on the subject.

you can buy System of a Down’s newest album - proceeds are going towards the armeniafund (alternatively, you can stream the songs on Spotify or Youtube)

watch this YouTube video (beginning to the end, don’t skip ads, don’t mute the video, don’t play it on a loop) all proceeds are being donated

Armenian jewlery maker, all proceeds are being donated

Armenian creator on Etsy, all proceeds are being donated (link to tumblr post you can reblog)

My redbubble shop - all proceeds for November and December I will donate to himandram.org (redbubble is currently having a sale of 20-60% with the code GIFTS60, fyi)

Telo Jan, all proceeds made from their ARTSAKH IS ARMENIA, DEFEND ARMENIA and RECOGNIZE ARTSAKH designs are being donated (and at least 10% is being donated from everything else). There are other items where 100% of the proceeds are being donated (shown here*), but if you go through their Instagram or Facebook page other items may have been included since that October 13th post. (*UPDATED)

TruVibe, all proceeds made from the Armenia Collection will be donated to the ArmeniaFund.

Armenian artist gazellian on Etsy, all proceeds made from the ARTSAKH prints collection will be donated to the Hayastan All Armenian Fund.

Armenian creator dvinojewelry on Etsy, all proceeds made from the Artsakh necklace will be donated to the ArmeniaFund.

MidoriMTL on Etsy, all proceeds made from the Artsakh Strong stickers will be donated to the ArmeniaFund.

Armenian creator legendoftamar on Etsy, all proceeds made from the Artsakh Strong stickers will be donated to the ArmeniaFund.

Huile sur papier

35x25cm

Novembre 2020

Victor Marqué

“I’ve spent most of my adult life using sex to deflect from the screaming void inside my empty heart,” she says flippantly but truthfully in therapy. Detachment and deflection are hard habits to break. “Forget heroin,” the novelist Edward St. Aubyn wrote in the final Patrick Melrose novel. “Just try giving up irony, that deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.” The people who come to care for her try to anchor her in the present: “Look at me,” an older woman tells her, taking Fleabag’s face in her hands. “People are all we’ve got,” she says. “Get out there.” The implication being, of course, to get out of her head, where we live, her rapt, adoring audience. Her pathology is our pleasure.

In 12 episodes, we don’t see a character being built up through scenes in the conventional way. We see the opposite. We see her dismantled, speaking less, becoming more opaque, pushing the camera away until the final scene, when she walks away from it and forbids us to follow. The happier she is, we come to realize, the more the show must come to an end; she must extricate herself from an audience, from performance. There is no dialogue in this scene. Without uttering a word, a show vaunted for frankness and wild outspokenness makes its powerful case for privacy.