Nothing is more devastating than this. The UN World Food Program has officially suspended aid delivery to northern Gaza, citing violence and lack of safety as major reasons the aid trucks aren’t getting through. Israeli officers are liberally shooting at Palestinians who try to approach the trucks in hopes of getting even the smallest morsels of food, despite the fact that Israel has allowed only one crossing for the already woefully low numbers of aid they’re permitting entry. Reportedly this number has fallen from 140 a day in January to just 60 a day this month, and now 16% of all Gazan children under 2 are “acutely malnourished.” Meanwhile, the US vetoes a call for a ceasefire for the third fucking time. It’s so inhumane in its cruelty it’s actually shocking to see it being allowed to go on and on, and on an international level no less.
Wanted to let you guys know that Let’s Talk Palestine has just launched fundsforgaza, an initiative created for the purpose of highlighting families in urgent need of emergency funds. This list highlights families who’re trying to evacuate Gaza, but which aren’t getting enough attention. Please donate if you can—and whether or not you can, spread this to as many people as possible. The delay between this second and the next could make a difference in whether a family gets to live or not.
Israel has been making the population of Gaza evacuate to the South for the last month as they carpet bombed the North into dust (while also bombing the South every other day to mix things up). Most everyone had gone to Rafah as they had specified. With the ending of the truce on 1st December, they immediately began bombing the South. Yesterday they bombed Khan Younis, the Southwestern point of Gaza which was supposed to be safest, reducing eleven residential buildings to rubble. The new thousand families displaced have nowhere else to go.
The most popular and famous journalists who have been reporting from Gaza are now posting what feels like goodbyes.
Bisan posted:
Saleh Aljafarawi posted:
Translation:
God bears witness that I am very tired and I am grieving over all my pain and all my fatigue because I know very well that many people take their strength from me and I must not be weak because Palestine wants me still, but I swear I have seen so many things that I cry every night before - I cannot sleep and to the point that I have nightmares to the point that I have 58 Day 2 I don’t know anything about my family and I don’t communicate with them. However, I continue to post, but it seems that the world has finished and will not respond. God willing, you will wake up when we are all annihilated and cease to exist.
Motaz Azaiza is arguably the most famous journalist in Gaza right now. The freelancer rocketed to popularity for his kindness, dogged good cheer, ability to find rays of hope amid constant disaster and death threats. Middle East GQ put on their cover while he was begging the international community for help as he covered Israel's atrocities and watched his friends die one after the other.
He posted hours ago:
Translation:
"The stage of risking everything to bring you the news has ended, now begins the stage of trying to survive. I've brought you enough news, as god is my witness, in order to save my country. We are now facing an internal siege. We can't move north or south. Israeli tanks surround central Gaza on both the northern and southern ends. Our situation is more dire than you can imagine. Remember: we are not content for you to share. We are a people facing genocide, we are a cause attempting to stay alive, alone."
Plestia Alaqad reposted his story to her own Instagram and added:
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No one who hasn't been following them understands how devastating this is to witness. They've become like family to all their millions of followers. The first thing I do every day is check if Hind, Motaz and Bisan are alive and ok. I'm not remotely exaggerating when I say these are the most heroic, indefatigable, determined people most of us have ever seen in our lives. I pity everyone who hasn't had the privilege to follow them. I don't believe in a God and yet the force of their faith has me praying that they survive too.
Eventine have multiple Palestinian documentaries (and 2 feature films) available to watch for the next 72 hours (fyi: if you unlock the film before the cut off point, you get an extra 72 hours to watch it). The majority of the films are available worldwide but there are a few that are only available to watch in USA.
To build a Home by intothesilentland (@norestwithoutlove)
Rating: Mature
Word count: 383k
Twenty-three years of head-over-heels, devastating devotion and love, love, love for the man with bright eyes and dark hair. Fourteen years of friends, best friends, of always together. One moment of rejection.
Nine years of apart. Nine years of heartbreak, nine years of continents away, of not speaking, of no acknowledgement, no interaction, no closure, no peace. No happiness. Nine years of Dean’s life entering motions, going through them, constant, cold and mechanic, like clockwork. Nine years of alone.
God. Nine years. A lot has changed. And yet Dean still loves Cas just the same. Even if his heart hurts all kinds of different.
On the day of Jimmy Novak's funeral, Dean sees Cas for the first time in nine years. He adored Castiel the moment he met him, at only four years old. But after fourteen years of friendship destroyed by one moment of heartbreak, and after nine years of silence, Dean is convinced Cas will want nothing to do with him. And it's killing him.
Dean and Castiel meet when they are only four years old and they become best friends instantly. They do everything together, and they are everything to each other for fourteen years. Until everything is ruined in a single moment. A single moment after which they both have to pick up their broken pieces and try and live their lives, apart this time, with the whole of the Atlantic Ocean between them. Until Castiel's father dies, and Castiel returns home for the funeral. And Dean and Cas meet again.
In this gorgeous story, we follow Castiel and Dean through their lives. Told in alternating timelines, we see the before the incident and the after. How Castiel and Dean grew up together and became inseparable, how they broke apart, how they came together again, and everything it took to finally work through their shit and figure out they're meant to be. The moment you start reading you won't be able to put it down, and you will cry. There will be so much crying, just be prepared for this and do what you gotta do.
It's a story about soulmates reuniting, but it's also so much more. It's about grief and fathers. About family, both biological and found. About death and goodbyes, hellos, and welcome-backs. Mostly, it's a story about redemption and forgiving, especially when the one we have to forgive is ourself.
thought you might like to know this person is bashing you and TBAH by name and all aus on twitter. https://***twitter.***com/rupertgayes***/status/***1629194684919578625?s=***20
she’s literally saying she didn’t know it was an AU fic please break down to me how that is bashing it. nowhere is she making any value judgements and all she’s said is that she didn’t know it was an au.
and now break down for me why would you send someone a message like this. why would i want to know if someone WAS hating on something i wrote as a teen.
“We haven’t seen a lot of stories like Bertie’s before,” Robinson told LGBTQ Nation. “Someone who is a person of color and non-binary, we don’t see those stories in history often. History has been whitewashed and straightwashed but these characters existed. These people existed. I felt so honored to be a part of telling these stories and telling a story similar to mine for a person like Bertie.”
Lea Robinson as UNCLE BERT⸱IE
A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (2022)