Had a lucid dream two days ago where I deliberately broke some asshole's glasses for fun and just now my glasses broke for the first time of like fifteen years of wearing glasses. So from now I'll try to stay polite even in my fucking dreams I guess.
Palestinian poet, writer, literature professor, and activist Dr. Refaat Alareer was killed on December 7th, 2023, in a targeted Israeli airstrike that also killed his brother, his sister, and four of her children.
Dr. Alareer was a beloved professor of literature and creative writing at the Islamic University of Gaza, where he taught since 2007.
This poem has been pinned to his twitter profile since November 1st, 2023.
One day I'm gonna write a long-ass post about all the stuff I found on brmc's website's former versions / myspace. It's gonna be awfully detailed and fucking uninteresting to anyone who isn't me and it's gonna be a pain for you to scroll. I don't much about our future but this I know.
While standing in line trying to get some food in the southern Gaza Strip, he yelled at the journalist Fakri Ibrahim, saying: 'Send this picture to Israel and the world.'
Only could listen to five songs, I have to stop for today because it feels too much like a waste of time honestly .. only one song felt kinda decent, the other four were just bad like awfully written, actually it's kinda amazing that even someone who isn't fluent in english like me can easily see how dreadful the lyrics are. Also I'm quite surprised that the melodies weren't particularly good neither? I thought the songs would at least be catchy, on the principle that there must be something to like in her music since so many people like it? I won't even talk about the musical accompaniments of the songs or whatever you call it, there's simply nothing interesting about it lol. I'll still try to listen to the rest of the album at some point I think, but overall disappointing experience so far, coming from someone who wasn't expecting something good but who genuinely would have been happy to be proven wrong. But I liked the crazy experience of reading the admiring comments on youtube especially regarding the lyrics lol really shows you how your perception can be drastically different from someone else's.
gonna listen to this fucking taylor swift album because everybody is talking about it and because I've honestly been wanting to give an actual attentive listen to her music for a long time, like I kinda know i don't like her music but also I managed to avoid listening to any of her songs for a very long time so i feel like I should check again and not just hate blindly yk? And part of me wants to believe she deserves her success too. But lord I'm halfway through the first song and it's already so bad I had to take a break, "I'm not Patti Smith" girl you clearly aren't this is embarrassing