Some Dylans With Varying Levels Of Effort

“My story has so much gay rep in it!” Awesome. How are you treating your female characters btw

summer ~~

*through gritted teeth* every day i choose to be kind *barely restraining myself from violence* i choose to have compassion *tamping down the vicious bloodlust inside me* i choose to care and to be kind and to love

compiled some non-fiction and fiction recommended reads about palestine/by palestinian authors:

The Parisian - Isabella Hammad ; historical fiction

Ten Myths about Israel - Ilan Pappe (a Jewish, Israeli historian) ; non-fiction

On Palestine - Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappe ; non-fiction

Rifqa - Mohammed El-Kurd ; poetry collection

The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist - Emile Habibi ; satirical fiction

Justice for Some: Law and Question of Palestine - Noura Erakat ; non-fiction

Minor Detail - Adania Shibli ; historical fiction

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe ; non-fiction

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - Rashid Khalidi ; non-fiction

In Search of Fatima - Ghada Karmi ; autobiography, memoir

Where the Line is Drawn - Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine - Raja Shehadeh ; biography

Men in the Sun - Ghassan Kanafani ; novella, fiction

I Saw Ramallah - Mourid Barghouti ; biography

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement - Angela Y. Davis ; non-fiction, collection of essays, interviews, and speeches

Between River and Sea: Encounters in Israel and Palestine - Dervla Murphy ; travel literature

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick ; non-fiction

A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji Al-Ali ; graphic novel, non-fiction

jobs for girls who can't focus and are tired all the time and aren't rlly that good looking and get startled easily

it goes against so much of what i stand for to share "palestinians are humans, they have hobbies, they have pets, they laugh and cry" kind of posts because i've spent so much of my life and career completely rejecting the notion that we should humanize ourselves, that we should ever be defensive, that we should entertain this racism at all

but it breaks my heart when i have to share them from people in gaza, who are using their five minutes of internet connection, their 25% of battery charge collected from a macguyvered car battery, emotionally exhausted, thirsty and hungry, sleeping in schools that have turned into refugee shelters and still making the time to say "please, i am human too, i am still alive, please fight for me" in english to appeal to the only people who have the power to help

i shared a tweet from a jjk artist in gaza i follow about a bts photocard being found in the middle of the rubble. even the love of anime and kpop and sports is no longer just a hobby, but an appeal to humanity. what was once a source of joy is now proof of life.

the worst part is that you won't find this content in arabic. palestinians don't post like this in arabic. but when they translate themselves, they recognize that they must humanize themselves first. it's an unspoken understanding of dehumanization, one that has dictated a whole region's understanding of the value of human life. in arabic they speak with dignity, with anger, with sorrow. in english, they appeal for their existence.

i share these posts not just because we have to reach everyone we can, because im being asked to and i will not refuse. but i also share them because they're evidence of how deep the racism has run. at what dehumanization leads to. of war crime after war crime. this too i will not forget.

He's everything. The rest are just Ken. HAPPY MINGI DAY! (990809)

I just wanna say rick made a good choice there

who else agrees with me??say ayeee

wip

btw i drew my pfp, it’s one of my ocs if yre wondering<3

take your time, they said.

the words will come to you, they said.