platforming palestinian joy is just as important as sharing the suffering they're enduring during this genocide. despite continued displacement and bombardment, you cannot steal their joy and spirit. happy birthday to this sweet baby 馃枻馃嚨馃嚫 may they grow up to see a free palestine
romanticizing your life is such a powerful tool and it鈥檚 a shame that it鈥檚 mostly used by people on tiktok to justify the purchase of expensive breakfast smoothies when there are few better ways to force oneself through unpleasant shit than imagining a cinematic backstory for your extremely quotidian suffering
One of my favorite things about Jane Austen is that she knew the real fear wasn鈥檛 running into some terrifying Frenchman or finding your lover鈥檚 wife in the attic鈥t was having to spend time with someone who is slighter cooler than you are, or playing piano in front of a critical audience, or thinking a picnic will be the perfect time for your jokes but then it isn鈥檛
Communists and anarchists will spend all day talking about abstract concepts and structures like capitalism and the state, but willfully ignore the very real, tangible curse placed upon me by the foul necromancer