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to anyone who missed it:

blorbo - a favourite character

glup shitto - star wars names are fucking nonesense

eeby deeby - youre going to hell

plinko horse - a horse that was stuck in a plinko board

scrimblo bimblo - super smash bro fans can be very angry when characters aren't in a game

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"I would kill for you. I would die for you" would you take a break for me? Would you sit down and rest? For a day, a week, a year? Would you let others take care of your needs for me? Would you let yourself be held for me? By me?

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#palestine #free palestine #free palestine 🇵🇸 #🇵🇸 #ceasefire #ceasefire now #gaza #PERFECT DEFINITION

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This is something I had to take off my chest as a Palestinian descent and fellow human.

I'm at a loss of words. I want to say so much yet the rage that my whole body and soul feels can't be properly expressed in words.

100 days. We have witnessed a GENOCIDE that has been BROADCASTED INTERNATIONALLY for more than 100 DAYS and people refuse to see what's in front of their noses.

Yes, it's rage inducing.

Yes, it's sickening.

Yes, it's unconfortable.

We are the lucky ones. We have the privilege of having a roof over our heads, food in our tables, clothes to dress, running water, potable water, electricity, medicine, OUR LOVED ONES.

Many people don't want to see, they don't want to accept that there is this level of cruelty of evil in the world, especially from people that call themselves' "God's chosen".

Would their God approve the massacre that is being commited in their name? Torturing and killing innocent people for a piece of land that was "promised to them"? How is it morally correct to say that this is something good?

Zionists mocking the refugees, soldiers killing civilians, Govenrments with all the power to stop this not stepping in...it hurts deeply.

We are doing our best as fellow humans and as regular everyday people: boycotting, striking, donating, keeping the voices of the people that can't speak and the sad reality is that few people listen.

Holocaust survivors are saying this is a genociede, wouldn't you listen to them, to the people that have survived that hell and recognize this is another genocide?

Sometimes I feel like this rage that I feel, this sadness comes from my ancestors and sometimes I feel like I'm not the one that has to say these things since I was born outside of Palestine to a family that ran away from war for the safety of their descendants and they were able to do so.

I have been told all my life by many that I'm not Palestinian, and that's right I wasn't born there but why can't I, a Palestinian descendant speak up and communicate all the pain that the stories that my grandparents, granduncles and granaunts told me growing up?

The only times I saw my grandmother cry where her speaking up on how all of her brothers had to flee via boat to escape military service and not know if they made it alive to another country and then all of the sisters and their mother had to sell all of their stuff and leave their homeland for an opportunity of living in peace.

How can I not be simpathetic when my granduncles told me about how they had to become the "men of the house hold" before turning 14 because their father disappeared and they never knew if he even made it alive?

How can I not speak up when my last grandaunt told me before dying that life had been rough but that they made it together as siblings and that she is proud of building their lives from the ground up after they had to leave everything behind?

How can I not feel empathy and sadness towards my family and what they went through as a result of war?

How can I not speak up about all of the stories that other people of the Palestinian community have told me about their parents and grandparents having to flee their country because of war?

How can I not speak uo about all the racism that they had to go through?

How can I not speak up about the pain that I feel every time I remember my grandparents, granduncles and grandaunts and how the situation they fled from keeps happening and is worsening?

How can I keep quiet when this is like loop that keeps happening?

How can not speak up when, in the past when the conflict of the Middle East came out and we as Palestinian descents spoke about the history and the atrocities out ancestors in the hands of Israel we were told that we were antisemitic?

We all saw this coming, we have always been vocal about this, we have always known something like this was bount to happen .

Alas, our concerns were never taken seriously.

Whenever I see pictures of the carnage that its happening over there I cry from impotence, from rage and from sadness.

So many lives lost, families destroyed, people clinging to any pinch of hope and it being crushed by the evilness in the world and still keep pushing forward.

How can this be such a well documented massacre and the deseased are still piling up at such a fast rate?

How can this be happening?

How can people be capable of such evil?

Of such indiference?

Of such cruelty?

Every time I see the people suffering in Gaza, I can't help to think why? Why is this happening? Why are human lives been taken like this?

Why just why?

My mom used to tell me that war is worse than hell, because you know that evil people go to hell but war takes everyone and its a sentiment that I carry so present.

I know that this rant isn't going to help in the grand scheme of things, not in a way that could save lives but I believe the first step into change is realizing that this is a very fucked up situation and that we have to keep raising our voices for the people that can't do it and for the people that can't speak anymore.

We have to keep up the boycotts, the protests, donating. I believe that there is strength in numbers.

I have faith that this will stop and justice will be served.

From the river to the see, Palestine will be free.

#free palestine #palestine #ceasefire #everyday #always #never again had a meaning #never again for anyone

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From the river to the sea 🇵🇸

#CEASEFIRE #free palestine #free gaza #ceasfire now #I LOVE HOW SHINY THIS IS <3 #gorgeous art #art #shiny

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I’ve not seen anyone say this yet so I feel like I ought to:

even if the ICJ demands that Israel stop their military operations, we still need to keep talking about Palestine. Even if Israel actually fully honours this ruling and stops the siege (something that I, unfortunately, don’t think is very likely) we still need to keep talking about Palestine. Palestine is not free until the occupation ends; Palestine is not free until the illegitimate colonialist-satellite state of Israel is completely wiped off the map, and remembered only in history books for its crimes against humanity and the Arab people. Palestine is not free until it is free, from the river to the sea. Even when this bombardment ends, DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE.

If Israel is allowed to exist in its capacity as a settler-colonialist satellite state for the USA, it will commit genocide again. It’s not an if, it’s a when. Israel’s genocidal rhetoric defies humanity, and I fear defies all orders. It exists as an attack dog for the US, and will continue to commit war crimes for as long as it remains.

Heaping the pressure on is vital, at this point, especially if you live in the imperial core. It is our job now to ensure that Israel becomes a pariah state, rejected and sanctioned by the imperialist nations it once worked for. All future weapon shipments must be blocked, all Israeli products boycotted, and our governments made to pay for supporting their genocide. Even when the bombardment stops, continue to cry genocide, and continue to fight for a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.

#I don’t want to see anyone ignoring Israel’s continued human rights abuses once this current stage of occupation is over #they will not stop until we make them stop. they will not stop until the coloniser states of the so-called ‘free West’ are ground to dust #free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #palestine #fuck israel #from the river to the sea #ceasefire #endisraelsgenocide #icj #icj case #international court of justice #genocide convention #gaza #human rights #THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT

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Zionism 101

#gorgeous #magnificent #marvelous

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It has been long since I last made an ink illustration.

I love this red ink with the home made mix of green liquid watercolor.

It's an interpretation of Karimeh Abboud's photograph of a lady in Bethlehem, taken in 1928.

We used this photo in @sarahdyer_illustrator (on the camera app)'s drawing charity session, we found it in @hiddenpalestine (on the camera app) 's porfile (which, btw, is a gorgeous account with plenty of representation of Palestine's culture). The session was comfy and heartwarming, as we had an opportunity of talking about Palestine without necesarily discussing only the horrible things happening, and giving ourselves the space to appreciate the sociaty, the people and the beauty that we want to preserve when we say "Free Palestine".

This first image was one of their historical photos, which reminds me (very much like my own home, in Spain) how many cultures, religions, traditions, families... has Palestine seen grow and even begin to exist. How multicultural, how rich and just how much art and nature calls Palestine it's home.

In the call, we talked and learned about this lady's thobe and about the cultural and emotional meaning it must have had for her. This kind of garnments are inherented through a family and created generation after generation as every owner ads new embroidery. They learn this storytelling kind of cross-stich and embelish the piece with the next part of the family's story, making the cloth an ever work in progress wearable piece of art, history and storytelling.

As a garnmentmaker and artist, I can only hope to ever create (or take part) in something worth sharing that much.

Is with events like this that I fall in love again and again with making art, with the art that already exists, with the world and, of course, with Palestine.

#art #artist on tumblr #drawing #green aesthetic #palestine #palestina #bethlehem #clothes #culture #cultura #embroidery #bordado #gaza #traditional art #tradition #nature

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the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

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Someone said this on David Jenkins’ instagram post that he made today, and he liked the comment. It’s literally the only comment on the post that he liked.

Sharing this in case anyone needs a spark of hope that OFMD has a chance of getting picked up by another streaming service.

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When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on" 

When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.” 

When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“

#can I please stop crying? #just for a minute #just one #please #🥲

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When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on" 

When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.” 

When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“

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a day late to my 6 years on t anniversary ✨🏳️‍⚧️ a short comic about looking back

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ever since i learned about ghost buildings i haven't been able to stop thinking about them

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Happy Christmas!

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The picture of the Millenium   -  Tove Jansson , 2000.

Finnish, 1914-2001  

Een Gelukkig 2023!!!!!!  

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