As I Kid, I Wanted To Be A Savior, Trailblazer, The Prophecy Child. I Wanted A Big Life, With Ups And

As I kid, I wanted to be a savior, trailblazer, the prophecy child. I wanted a big life, with ups and ups like the breasts of mountains and lows like the depths of valleys full of forgotten debris. I was convinced the great flood was knocking at my door, beckoning me to become someone bigger. A juvenile fantasy, a hazy dream.

I'm 19 now. It's not a grand big life, I'm no hero. I love my friends and sunday mornings. I like cats and strawberries. No flood, no rapture, no calamity- just quiet weekdays and sleepy weekends. But oh my days, I am full, finally.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

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1 year ago
[id: digital comic of a child laying flat on their back amongst rubble, their eyes lifeless and glasses broken. the text says, "I'm dying."

"Cute cat": a fluffy cat stares up, residing outside a scratchy, rough building on a sidewalk. 

"Barbed wire.": two children look up a wall with barbed wires, a ball caught neatly in between. 

"Is my life flashing before my eyes?" is written out in white text against a black background.

"Severed hand": the person looks down, their shoes peeking from the bottom of the panel. in front of them, a child's severed hand lies on the ground, blood splattered from beneath the rubble. 

"Crying baby": a parent smiles to comfort their crying child on a hospital floor. behind them, a doctor walks past. 

"Smug soldier": a soldier stands, resting their hand on the butt of their rifle, looking down. their eyes are blocked out by black scribbles. 

The remaining panels are in plain text, reading: "I'm sorry, body. I'm sorry arms, legs, eyes and heart. I couldn't give you enough. They didn't let me give you enough."

In red text: #strikeforgaza

Grey text: #freepalestine 

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GLOBAL STRIKE FOR GAZA BEGINS TODAY!!!
GLOBAL STRIKE FOR GAZA BEGINS TODAY!!!
GLOBAL STRIKE FOR GAZA BEGINS TODAY!!!
GLOBAL STRIKE FOR GAZA BEGINS TODAY!!!
GLOBAL STRIKE FOR GAZA BEGINS TODAY!!!
GLOBAL STRIKE FOR GAZA BEGINS TODAY!!!
GLOBAL STRIKE FOR GAZA BEGINS TODAY!!!
GLOBAL STRIKE FOR GAZA BEGINS TODAY!!!

GLOBAL STRIKE FOR GAZA BEGINS TODAY!!!

To participate:

During the 21st - 28th of January...

Do not shop/online shop

Skip school/work if you are able to

Be present & active on social media and uplift Palestinian voices

Draw, write, sing, create art for Palestine

Repost & boost Palestine related content on social media

Educate yourself about the issue

We have been asked to strike during these days by the lovely & hardworking journalist Bisan from Gaza. Let's all try our best for a people being tested with the harshest conditions imaginable. The occupation must be held accountable.

We're in this together!!

4 months ago

btw now is the best time to keep boycotting. the israeli economy has never been weaker. don't stop the protests or the demands for divestment. keep supporting organisations like the Hind Rajab Foundation and the Accountability Archive. ofc don't stop boosting and donating to Palestinians as Gaza is still uninhabitable.

enjoy this moment but the work has not ended


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1 year ago

The original percy jackson series is about cycles of abuse and neglect, right. Were introduced to percy as a kid who has clearly been left behind by a school system that has given up on him, restless and unengaged and self-defetist because hes been given nothing that works for him and no one even tries to meet him where he is. Then hes told no, listen, your neurodivergence is amazing and you just need to be given something that actually utilizes your unique palatte. And thats obviously the uplifting idea rick wanted for his kids, right. But once we get to know chb the same cycles are happening there too. There are kids "left behind" there too for one reason or another, because their parents dont want to claim them, because their parents werent important enough to get a cabin. Do you get it, all the kids who dont fit the most common neurotypes get shoved into the same closet. Kids are being left in a cruel world to fend for themselves without the tools they need. Theyre dying because no one bothered to accommodate them. Its such an obvious parallel that the first chapter introduces a teacher whos written to be especially hard on percys disability and she turns out to literally be one of these monsters trying to kill him. Meanwhile sally jackson tells him she named him after Perseus because she wanted a redemption for a hero whos story ended in tragedy. Meanwhile every book in the series replicates a greek myth step for step until the moment they break the cycle. Annabeth, playing Odysseus, is talked down from her hubris and grounded by her friends. Percy, playing Heracles, meets someone wronged by the original Heracles and rights his wrongs by refusing to go down the same selfish path as him. Monsters are reborn because they are--as the books explicitly call them--achetypes. These kids are stuck inside the cyclical nature of mythology because thats what happens to mythology, it gets retold over and over again. But these are the kids who have to live it. The series ends with percy being offered immortality and he rejects it because he wants to use his godly favor to force them to break their cycle of neglecting their kids. The series ends with a declaration that we cant keep letting this happen. The very first book offees the same choice. It ends with percy refusing to keep the head of medusa as a spoil of war, refusing his heroic reward. He lets his mother have the head and use it to kill gabe. Isnt that fucking crazy for a kids book? Gabe wasnt a Monster. He wasnt going to Turn to Dust and Disappear in a narratively convenient way. He was a living breathing mortal dude and percy and his mom killed him without remorse. Break the cycle of abuse!!!! Dont let this happen again!!! Anyway thats why the original percy jackson series is Hey where are you going with our breadsticks

1 year ago

gonna post my entire stickman reaction pic collection

11 months ago

For everyone here on my Tumblr I need y’all to stop what you’re doing and really lock in to the genocide happening in Gaza right now. I will post as many links as I can but the best you can do right now is be loud as fuck! About this.

TLDR Isreal has cut off all water, electricity and telecommunications within Gaza in a complete blackout and Gaza has lost their voice. Israel has already threatened to bomb Al Shifa hospital, which is currently a shelter for around 50k-60k Palestinians. These are images of Gaza Strip from an HOUR AGO. They are literally slaughtering and wiping out generations of Palestinians as we speak.

For Everyone Here On My Tumblr I Need Y’all To Stop What You’re Doing And Really Lock In To The Genocide
For Everyone Here On My Tumblr I Need Y’all To Stop What You’re Doing And Really Lock In To The Genocide
For Everyone Here On My Tumblr I Need Y’all To Stop What You’re Doing And Really Lock In To The Genocide

Please I need to see y’all talking about this and being loud for Palestine. Your anime yaoi twink hyperfixation will still be here tomorrow but literally thousands of innocent people may not.


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11 months ago

T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land was a Gloomy Prophecy about Gaza?!

Millions of people are preparing to celebrate the festive Adha Eid soon, while Gaza is drowning in death, depression, despair, and pain.

Thinking about my family in Gaza desperately trying to escape death on a daily basis and the magnitude of destruction inflicted on beautiful Gaza, the melancholic whispering of T. S. Eliot's famous lines from his masterpiece The Waste Land echo in my head and shatter my soul. They go:

"Unreal city I had not thought death had undone so many"

What could be more hellish than living in constant fear for your life? Why should having food and water be a daily struggle? How could the world be desensitized to this extent? How did my beautiful Gaza turn into a Wasteland on the watch of the world as a whole?!

I am desperately trying to relocate my family to Egypt temporarily, hopefully, until the war is over. Your help saves lives.

Please Donate, reblog and Share with your friends.

Donate to Death chases my family in Gaza; help me save them, organized by Mahmoud Khalaf
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People say: "Family always comes First," and to that, I say: "Amen!".… Mahmoud Khalaf needs your support for Death chases my family in Gaza;
T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land Was A Gloomy Prophecy About Gaza?!

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1 year ago
Israelis snipers shot children aged 5-8 in the head. 

Gaza is no longer just a concentration camp; it’s a death camp. This is Nazi behaviour. https://t.co/wyMYT6azd6

— Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) February 17, 2024
Do people understand that snipers know exactly who they’re shooting and where? They are picking off children with headshots in front of their parents for sport, for the sheer cruelty of it, and because children are the future of Palestine. A fascist army, a colonizer’s hatred. https://t.co/GbCva42sFT

— they/them might be giants ☭ (@babadookspinoza) February 18, 2024
Opinion: I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn't war — it was annihilation
Los Angeles Times
As a surgeon, I volunteered at a Gaza hospital. The conditions were unthinkable. With a ground offensive in Rafah, people have nowhere to go
11 months ago

"I cant draw" then do it bad who gives a fuck.....

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