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I don't think people truly understand the gravity of Rafah being bombed.

There is nowhere left to go.

The lowest cost is $5,000 USD to flee to Egypt. There has been people paying over $10,000 USD.

That is the only option

Pay or die.

Rafah was the only place in Palestine promised not to be bombed. That promise is broken.

1.5 million people have nowhere to go!

Reminder, if possible, please donate to the PCRF, ANERA, Islamic Relief, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Medical Aid for Palestinians, Defense for Children International - Palestine, Doctors Without Borders, and all other trusted organizations.

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“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”

— D. H. Lawrence

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there’s a dazzling haze, a mysterious way about you dear

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Between the Two of Us ~ Chapter 12

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Summary:  Jurdan High school AU. Rivals Jude and Cardan are forced to partner up  for a history project, and drama ensues. Filled with banter, pranks, an unhealthy amount of pining, and Jude being clueless as usual.

Warnings: Mild cursing. Please let me know if there’s anything I missed!

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A/N: Quick note, Corona does not exist in this world because I said so. Okay, now continue.

Since Lili was too busy with her school to help Jude plan for her date, Jude swallowed her pride and barged into Taryn’s room. Taryn looked up from where she lay sprawled on her bed. She pulled out an earphone with an exasperated, “What?”

Jude shrugged. “I need your help.”

Taryn raised an eyebrow skeptically.

“For what?”

“My uh…” she trailed off before shrugging. “My date with Cardan.”

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Between the Two of Us ~ Chapter 11

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Summary:  Jurdan High school AU. Rivals Jude and Cardan are forced to partner up  for a history project, and drama ensues. Filled with banter, pranks, an unhealthy amount of pining, and Jude being clueless as usual.

Trigger Warnings: Mild cursing. Please let me know if there’s anything I missed!

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Jude never struggled with her poker face as much as she did when Locke walked in more than twenty minutes late to their history class Monday morning. She pointedly avoided looking at Cardan, but she didn’t know if that was because it would make her blush or because it would make her laugh at Locke’s predicament. Maybe a little of both.

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Between the Two of Us ~ Chapter 10

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Summary:  Jurdan High school AU. Rivals Jude and Cardan are forced to partner up  for a history project, and drama ensues. Filled with banter, pranks, an unhealthy amount of pining, and Jude being clueless as usual.

Trigger Warnings: Mild cursing. Please let me know if there’s anything I missed!

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A/N: This chapter is even longer than the last one, at 4k words. Also, you’re welcome in advance.

That Sunday was one of the busiest at the café. Students were streaming in to work on all their assignments before Thanksgiving break, and by the time they caught a break, Jude was out of breath.

“Damn, I don’t think it’s ever been this busy,” Lili said, wiping her forehead.

“No wonder no one else wanted this shift.”

Lili groaned. “I have to go home and write not two, but three essays. I know I shouldn’t have procrastinated, but it was my birthday week.”

“I’ll help you edit them if you want,” Jude offered. For some reason, she actually enjoyed editing essays, and Lili had definitely taken advantage of that in the past. “And you know it’s called birthday, not birth week,” Jude snarked.

“Shut up, Ms. I-made-googly-eyes-with-Cardan-all-night.”

“I did not.”

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Between the Two of Us ~ Chapter 10

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Summary:  Jurdan High school AU. Rivals Jude and Cardan are forced to partner up  for a history project, and drama ensues. Filled with banter, pranks, an unhealthy amount of pining, and Jude being clueless as usual.

Trigger Warnings: Mild cursing. Please let me know if there’s anything I missed!

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A/N: This chapter is even longer than the last one, at 4k words. Also, you’re welcome in advance.

That Sunday was one of the busiest at the café. Students were streaming in to work on all their assignments before Thanksgiving break, and by the time they caught a break, Jude was out of breath.

“Damn, I don’t think it’s ever been this busy,” Lili said, wiping her forehead.

“No wonder no one else wanted this shift.”

Lili groaned. “I have to go home and write not two, but three essays. I know I shouldn’t have procrastinated, but it was my birthday week.”

“I’ll help you edit them if you want,” Jude offered. For some reason, she actually enjoyed editing essays, and Lili had definitely taken advantage of that in the past. “And you know it’s called birthday, not birth week,” Jude snarked.

“Shut up, Ms. I-made-googly-eyes-with-Cardan-all-night.”

“I did not.”

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@romcommunist //Jenny Slate//Unknown-from Pinterest//Mary Oliver//Keith Haring

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all i want is to live in a high fantasy world where my life takes a turn for the better when i meet a few strangers in a tavern who will soon become my found family and we go on increasingly wonderful and magical adventures until we eventually save the world before retiring to a little cottage in the woods where we share a laugh by the fire every night. is that too much to ask

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That intimate moment between you and the book you have just read the last words of, where you sit there taking in the enormity of what you have just finished.

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Cultural Anatomy: Water Tribe Boats Pt. 1

Hold on tight, because this is going to be a monster of a post.

The boat that Sokka and Katara were on before finding Aang is called an umiak or anyak. Umiak are traditional Inuit/Inupiat and Yupik open skin boats that are used throughout the arctic, from Siberia to Greenland. Here’s a short description of the traditional umiak-making process:

A traditional umiak begins with a frame built from driftwood, whalebone, or a combination of both. The frame is pegged and tied together with sinew, and skin from a walrus or seal is stretched over it. Most umiak require multiple skins to be sewn together to create the boat’s buoyant exterior. Oil is added on to coat and waterproof the seams. Finally, the newly skinned and oiled umiak is placed out into the wind and cold to dry.

These details all match up perfectly with what we see of Sokka and Katara’s boat. For example, their vessel clearly uses a combination of bone and wood in its framework. The “spine” of the frame clearly uses some sort of bone— if I had to guess, I’d say it’s a part of a whale’s jawbone— while the ribbing, rim, and seats of the umiak are made of wood. You’ll also notice that there’s plentiful roping and tying on the boat (around the bone, along the rim of the boat, on the seat planks, etc.), as traditional umiaks are not put together using nails or bolts.

The meta of them hunting using an umiak is also interesting as well. In many Inuit cultures, primarily those residing in the Eastern Arctic (northeast Canada), the umiak is considered “a woman’s boat”. As the umiak was rarely used for fishing, its main purpose was to provide transportation for women and children, while the men primarily used kayaks. When a man was on board of an umiak, he was generally expected to do the steering.

When we first meet Sokka and Katara, they’re trying to spear fish aboard an umiak. This is not a traditional hunting arrangement. Under normal circumstances, Sokka would be hunting in a sleek and agile kayak alongside the men of his village. So where did the kayaks go? They were probably all taken by the men for the war effort. In turn, Sokka is forced to improvise and learn to hunt with neither the proper tools nor guidance; which builds on Avatar’s recurring theme of war forcing children to essentially raise themselves with less-than-stellar results.

Similarly, when the siblings run into some ice floes, Sokka is the one prepared to steer the boat by positioning himself at the front. He tries his best to guide the boat as his father would, but it really is unreasonable to expect an unsupervised 15-year-old to steer a boat with a passenger around such sharp turns.

The umiak being considered a “woman’s boat” also explains why Sokka even brought Katara fishing with him in the first place, despite his rather narrow idea of “women’s work”. It’s very likely that the umiak was sewn together by Katara and Gran-Gran to help transport the village’s women and children, meaning that Sokka was essentially borrowing Katara’s boat. It would also explain why the decorations on the boat look like designs Katara would think to put on it; the purple waves on the boat match the design on the front of Katara’s parka and the crescent moon is obviously in reference to her waterbending.

This also provides even more reason for Katara to be angry at him after his “leave it to a girl…” comment. Imagine your brother borrowing your car— which you designed and built with your grandmother— and then crashing it while you’re riding with him, only for him to turn around and blame it all on you!

I think anyone would be angry enough to break icebergs after that.

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Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married or own a house; as if life was some kind of grocery list. But nobody ever asks if you are happy.

— Heath Ledger

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I hate being asked what my goal in life is…. like.. idk…?? I want to have my own kitchen… and I want to know every poem by heart… and uhh.. I want to be kissed in the rain … etc etc .. my heart is very little and I dont want it to break

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Reblog and put in the tags: do you just search up and listen to whatever song you want, make a few general playlists like dance, happy etc or make a bunch of extremely specific playlists like ‘when the world is ending but you’re slow dancing with your enemy to save both your kingdoms from eternal destruction’

#super specific vibes only #or super general

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