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posted a fanfic for the first time in years AHHHHHH why am i nervous this is so dljfdslkfjdl it's not the secret history but i just needed to scream into the void

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Orientalism by Edward Said should be a mandatory read for every single student in the west.

#for real.

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– Read About Palestine –

⚡️Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky

⚡️On Palestine By Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe and Frank Barat

⚡️The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

⚡️The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

⚡️The Way to the Spring Life and Death in Palestine by Ben Ehrenreich

⚡️The Question of Palestine by Edward Said

⚡️Except for Palestine The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick

⚡️Palestine A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha

⚡️Where the Line Is Drawn by Raja Shehadeh

Israeli-Palestinian Discourse // Quotes

Artworks: Palestine', c1930s by Donald Mcleish // Masada on the Dead Sea, Palestine, 1859 by Edward Lear // Jaffa, Recruiting of Turkish Soldiers in Palestine, 1888 by Gustave Bauernfeind // Gourds Grown as a Vine in an Arab Garden, Palestine, 19th Century // Hishams Palace, West Bank, Palestine by Vivienne Sharp // Palestine', c1930s by Donald Mcleish // Palestine, from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, Plate, 1570 by Achille Cattaneo

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"Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice."

- Orientalism by Edward Said

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Random writing thought: the best stories are often the ones that only you could have written — but also the ones that you could only write at this one moment.

I couldn't write All the Birds in the Sky from scratch now if I tried. But the me of 2013 couldn't have written The Prodigal Mother either.

#i agree so much

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hey dumbass 2014 was 10 years ago. how does that make you feel. 552 was 1,472 years ago but i bet you don't care about that as much

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― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

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― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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The only acceptable ads should be shit like "groceries on sale" and "free event at the local library"

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average lib rly thinks if hamas pinky-promised to stop then palestine would be free but refuses to confront that palestinian dispossession and death has never stopped for a single minute since 1948 and that israeli soldiers and policies do not discriminate between Good palestinians and Peace loving palestinians and Mean palestinians and Babies and Militants

confront israel before talking about palestinian behavior. human rights were never contingent on how the oppressed behaves, but palestinians have already tried everything these small and stupid brains are suggesting

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i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’

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Felt that it’s important to share videos like this too.

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This is the paramedic who found his family among the dead victims. I thought it was only his mother who got killed, but I was mistaken. But his sister seems to have survived only.

They're telling him to calm down but he fell to the ground saying: My family. My family.

The man consoles him saying: We're all one family here. Each one of us has lost their family. Look, my sisters are in there. We have to get back up. You're strong.

Share this. Call israel on their crimes.

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I can't believe I only just noticed that Henry's last name is Winter, and the concept of winter is a repeated fucking theme in The Secret History?!?! Like I've read this book so many times y'all

Henry is compared to Hades with Camilla being Persephone, as in he's the mythological figure who causes Winter to happen?? And the winter scenes where Richard is freezing in the hippie's house, where Henry is the one who saves him? Henry even talks about how beautiful winter in Hampden is, he romanticizes how people get snowed in and are trapped in their houses to starve 💀

So like winter is coded as deadly but beautiful, as in beauty is terror???

And Henry says later in the book that he felt dead until he killed the guy, with spring symbolizing him coming to life???

And Bunny's body was covered by SNOW

YOU GUYS?!?!?!!

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“And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.”

— Edmund “Bunny” Corcoran, 20th century poet 

#no bc he slayed

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