think it's a deep consolation to know that spiders dream, that monkeys tease predators, that dolphins have accents, that lions can be scared silly by a lone mongoose, that otters hold hands, and ants bury their dead. that there isn't their life and our life. nor your life and my life. that it's just one teetering and endless thread and all of us, all of us, are entangled w it as deep as entanglement goes. v neat i think.
Costume details from the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005)
because i am not sure there will be a next life, i owe it to myself and the miracle of my existence to pursue that which i desire Now
you and i are morally, ethically, and spiritually obliged to try to have a good time. that's what's in my heart
As a Black South African, watching these horrific events unfold, I cannot but reflect on my country’s own violent past. I recall the relentless planning and violence that accompanied the last decades of white South Africa’s attempts to make apartheid work. I remember the fears that grew among white South Africans as they put their trust in a sophisticated military capability, a conscription army, a nuclear weapons capacity and steadfast friends in the West, particularly the United States, Britain and France. It was the height of the Cold War and South Africa claimed to be the only democracy in Southern Africa, protecting “civilisation” from the encroaching threats surrounding it. Its military might and expansive police force were accompanied by a series of policies designed to maintain white minority rule. Each attempt to impose new such policies failed in the face of mass resistance. The more they failed, the more brutal the violence meted out by the military and the police with the encouragement of white politicians and a terrified white electorate. The “terrorists”, as the national liberation movements were referred to, could not be crushed by the mightiest army in Southern Africa. By mid-1985 a significant section of the white electorate and some in the ruling party realised that the problem of Black resistance was not going to go away. Something more drastic was going to be required.
. . . continues at Al Jazeera (16 Nov 2023)
I'm reading about how Israel, in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 Nakba, deliberately replaced olive trees and other indigenous flora with European plants. This ecological disaster, which is now proudly hailed under the banner of 'making the desert bloom,' was done to 'de-Arabize' the landscape, and to cover up - often with fast-growing European pine trees -the ruins of Palestinian villages that were destroyed by Zionists forces.
And I just need everyone to read this passage from Pappé, because the symbolism of what happened to those European pine trees in the desert speaks for itself:
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé (2006, p. 227-228.)
Let’s celebrate September with a cozy Fives ♥️
The Criterion Collection’s official cover for Blue Beetle
I think it likes me.
BLUE BEETLE 2023 | dir. Angel Manuel Soto
Gree and Barriss for @anstarwar !! Commissioned by @imrowanartist <3 <3
Gaara sketchdump
some barefaced Kankurou sketches + sibs
Chapters: 4/? Fandom: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Colin Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington, Penelope Featherington & Other(s), Penelope Featherington & Edwina Sharma, Eloise Bridgerton & Penelope Featherington Characters: Penelope Featherington, Colin Bridgerton, Edwina Sheffield | Edwina Sharma, Portia Featherington, Philippa Featherington, Prudence Featherington, Eloise Bridgerton, Bridgerton Family (Bridgerton), Sharma Family (Bridgerton), Original Characters Additional Tags: Slow Burn, like really slow but we will get there...eventually, Penelope Featherington centric, Completely Indulgent, Penelope learns to grow outside of the bridgertons, little women 2019 inspired (somewhat) you'll know which parts once you read them, youngest daughter rights, family expectations, Regency, Angst with a Happy Ending, Introspection, like HEAVY heavy, Featherington family drama, Featherington family mystery, Penelope makes friends with her staff, follows season two but this is not a season three speculation fic, Penelope runs and Colin chases (not literally but also literally) Summary:
Because while Eloise is allowed to feel her emotions, Penelope can only move on and continue until she knows that the worst is over. So she continues. And continues. And continues. ____________________
Or, Penelope decides to no longer dwell on dreams and instead chooses to make her own way in the world, and, in turn, discovers more than she bargained for.
some old star wars art for may the fourth
[id in alt]
Detective au?
Fox and Thire and my specific lil hc that when quick notes need to be taken down, like with witness reports or something, Fox will force whichever brother had to come with him to the scene to take the notes while he does the fun part of asking questions. They all complain about it as if scribbling shorthand on a datapad is the most grueling task ever
okay hear me out. corrie guard yearbook
Fives doodle from trying to get back in the art groove
