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ontakingnotes · 5 days
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journalette · 9 days
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Journal scan pt. 1
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ritterum · 5 months
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i never keep journals, because the prospect of writing to a nameless "diary" strikes me as a waste of time when, honestly, not many details in my day matter that much, and the ones that are worth remembering will (more or less) be remembered. When I do keep journals, it is with the expectation that "posterity" will read them - whether I or another reader does not matter, just that it will be the future, and I must appear presentable. So I do! I tidy up my writing and censor my thoughts, and in so doing, violate the one inviolable precept of journaling, which is: Always Be Candid. When that happens, I can journal no more, so I put the book away until fancy (or hubris) strikes me anew, and I pick up the pen once more - rinse - repeat -.
Blogging isn't quite the same, though, is it? Blogging is long-form tweeting; it is screaming at the void, daring it to scream back in return; trying not to flinch when the reply you taunted shows up at your door, hatchet in hand. Blogging is the attempt to reach out to a world that only knows how to offer knives; it is grasping the proffered blade and hoping that it draws however little blood, because even that is better than the (nothing). Because what the (nothing) obscures, Reader, what fills that pregnant, ever-begetting silence is the harsh sting of your imagined judgment; the split-second decision whether the blog post was worth it, (was it not worth it, after all). O, how different your gaze is from posterity's, Reader! How vast the distances between! And all of it - almost all of it, (until it isn't) purely in - my - head -.
Do I write this now for the void, or for posterity? Reader, you (as always) decide -
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blackbackedjackal · 11 months
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We failed as a society when everyone stopped wearing headphones.
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mysharona1987 · 6 months
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machineryangel · 7 months
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grabbing every 13 yo girl by the arms and yelling "YOU LOOK FINE !!!!!!! DON'T SPEND UR ALLOWANCE ON CONCEALERS GO SEE A BAD MOVIE INSTEAD !!!!!!!!!!! BEAUTY IS POETRY AND SONGS AND LAUGHTER W FRIENDS AND COLORFUL LEAVES !!!!!!!!!! GO READ A MARY OLIVER POEM AND YOU'LL BE OK!!!!!!!!!"
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notyourtoday · 5 months
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wearenotjustnumbers2 · 5 months
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Bisan's recent post. I think it's important for you to read it. Tonight 03.12.23, journalists in gaza share their last messages. There are no words to describe the horrors unfolding in gaza right now.
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I no longer have any hope of survival like I had at the beginning of this genocide, and I am certain that I will die in the next few weeks or maybe days. I have been sick with severe viral infection for days and cannot move from the mattress!
I suffer from nightmares that are so closely resemble reality that I no longer differentiate between reality and dream.
I live in a world other than the one I claimed to be building! I am a community activist who lived on the fantasy that the world was free and just, and I sought to bring rights not only to my people, but to many men and women in third world countries!
I was shocked that I was not from the third world! Indeed, we are the most humane and moral! Yes, because the world approves, supports, and finances the genocide we are being subjected to, legislates it, and gives reasons for for 58 days! While we are a people who have been living on occupied land for 75 years and are still searching for our rights and communicating our voice to the world!
My message to the world: You are not innocent of what is happening to us, you as governments or peoples that support Israel’s annihilation of my people. We will not forgive you, we will not forgive you, humanity will not forgive you, we will not forget, even if we die, the history will never forget .
A Message to friends: Thank you and the supporters around the world. You have been compassionate and very strong. We ask you not to lose hope, even if the world seems completely unfair and your efforts have not yet resulted in a ceasefire.
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genuinelyshallow · 4 months
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In WWII, in 6 years, 67 journalists were killed
In the Vietnam war, in 20 years, 63 journalists were killed
In Gaza, in 70 days, 89 journalists were killed
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chillyfeetsteak · 8 days
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little thingy from the other week, stuff on my mind
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k9effect · 23 days
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Reblog for a larger sample size!
No "show results", if you're not a fanfic writer just be patient.
I saw a post about an anon saying it was embarrasing to have an ao3 account in your 30s (it's absolutely not), so I want to do a poll and see what the age range actually is.
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ontakingnotes · 6 days
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ashsdumbbrain · 2 months
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emwheezie · 1 month
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A life without collecting trinkets is no life at all
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mournfulroses · 1 month
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Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath,"
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mysharona1987 · 3 months
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