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are y'all breathing.. because i'm not

左然 / artem - android

夏彦 / luke - werewolf

莫弈 / vyn - vampire

陆景和 / marius - devil

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the stuff people are quoting this with has me losing my miiinnddd

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins

“The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst

“Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby” by Donald Barthelme

“Hunger Daughters of Starving Mothers” by Alyssa Wong

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson

“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe

“Haunted House” by Virginia Woolfe

“The Husband Stitch” by Carmen Maria Machado

“The Resling-Bowe House is Haunted” by Yah Yah Scholfield

Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut.

Symbols and Signs by Vladimir Nabokov.

“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell

“The Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen

“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison

Yesterday, Israel bombed one of the biggest bookshops in Gaza. The Samir Mansour bookshop was one of the few publishing houses in Gaza as well. I saw a video of the owner of the bookshop fighting tears and talking about how much this bookshop meant to him and how he used to skip meals to be able to save money to get this bookshop going. This bookshop was part of the Kahil building which had various stores and offices.

In another video that was circulating, a guy from Gaza was explaining why Israel targets these buildings and towers. Every day you hear about a building targeted and leveled. He explains that these towers have been the main destination for the youth of Gaza as they usually contain coffee shops, bookshops, restaurants, educational and learning centres. So by destroying them, Israel is destroying memories and any potential for communal relationships. 

This is what we mean when we say Israel is not only committing a full blown genocide as we have been witnessing publicly for days now, with over 200 deaths in the span of a week (as of May 19, 2021), but also this other form of incremental genocide that has been ongoing for decades; even when Israel isn’t bombing Gaza on a daily basis, there has always been an effort to erase Palestinian history and culture, from appropriating tatreez and the Palestinian cuisine to destroying literary works.

Highly recommend watching The Great Book Robbery documentary for more on that as it goes into the details about Israel’s appropriation of Palestinian books during the Nakba.

listen i dont know why we're pretending classism is only 'billionaires vs everybody else' and how they are the only people who benefit from their wealth but im so tired of this. i mean it SHOULD be. but thats not how the "well off" operate. people need to focus this energy on getting the "well off" to align with the poor. Because they benefit from the poor's oppression too and they think they're closer to billionaires when they will never be.

poor people dont need to be "reminded" that children of wealthy families shouldn't feel guilty about their families' wealth. the children of the wealthy and well off need to be reminded that the poor are human beings who deserve not to be exploited and treated like subhuman. that the system made them poor and keeps them poor, not bad choices or bad decisions. there's no morality in being poor. they aren't bad people and shouldn't be judged based on how much labor they produce. the well off need to fuckin put in work to dismantle classism and fight against exploitation.

Do I stop watching the news for the sake of my mental well being?

Or

Do I suck it up and continue watching because what makes my feelings matter more than their pain?

This is not a new tactic, it's one that actually predates the creation of the state of Israel entirely. I'm told that in WWII the US would fire-bomb civilian populations in a process that was called "strategic bombing" because they saw the potential in terrorizing civilian populations and disrupting their daily lives. This was also called Morale Warfare for its ability to harm the morale of the Japanese fighting force and the citizens who supported them.

Today Israel employs these same tactics on the Palestinian population, creating as much death and mayhem amongst civilians they have access to so as to completely demoralise Palestinians and their supporters everywhere, to wear them down until they're little more than frayed neurones, only able to recognise the pain they are feeling.

touch starved

my parents never told me they are proud of me

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im so fucken tired please god just let me rest for 5 minutes