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i can turn you into poetry but i cannot make you love me.

(creds will be added in a hot sec! my bad y'all ;p)

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some of you just cannot accept that “i just don’t like it” is a complete reason to not engage with media or a facet of media

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when I see something dated 2019 I think “oh that’s not too long ago” and then I remember that 2019 was not only five years ago but those five years have somehow contained several lifetimes

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verso books has made books on palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions free to download on their website

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The latest numbers coming from Gaza state that there are about 77,575 injured Palestinians as of April 28, 2024.

I honestly see this number as a very humble one, but regardless, I said this in 2014 and it bears repeating: considering the types of weapons Israel is using in Gaza, the overwhelming majority of these injuries are severe and critical. So when we say that well over 77,000 people are injured in Gaza, we're talking about tens of thousands of people who have ended up with a lifelong disability. Thousands of amputees with no proper care. Thousands who will not be able to walk or see again. Many won't be able to go back to school or work again. Burn victims without the means to reduce or take the pain away. Many on life support and many more who will not even make it.

So many open wounds, both literally and figuratively, that we need to keep present in our conversation about Gaza.

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"why does writing take so long" because 60% of it is coming up with a sentence, realizing that sentence doesn't work the way you want it to, and staring at a wall

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People are like “it’s so beautiful no clouds at all” it could use a little clouds if I had to be honest.

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Winter Stranger, Jackson Holbert

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i love u concept albums i love u relevant track order i love u recurring motifs in lyrics i love u music as a narrative device

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the 10th doctor + relationships

olivia laing / w.s. merwin / richard siken / red valley / ann packer / unknown / anna haifisch

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*emerges from the other room covered in blood* you should see the word document

#💀 it does

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So... all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will - where do you want to start?

DOCTOR WHO + RAINBOW

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Doctor & Donna + platonic tropes

#and thats on soulmates

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i think its so funny that alumni from schools like harvard and columbia that were there during the protests in the 60s-80s are expressing support for students currently protesting against the genocide in palestine, and random zionists that were NOT at these protests in the 60s-80s have the never ending audacity to tell these alumni "well thats different, what you protested was good and what they're protesting is bad." as if protesters against the vietnam war and apartheid south africa were not also demonized, arrested, brutalized, and even killed for their activism. history only remembers them fondly after the damage has already been done.

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someone said we had more fun in childhood because we didnt have any past memories to linger on and it has stuck with me ever since

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Donna Tartt, from The Goldfinch (2013)

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