Genuinely cannot begin to fathom what postpartum is like in Gaza. I was beyond blessed to have doctors and nurses present and I still suffered so much not only during labour but afterwards, and for months and months after. I cannot imagine doing that while also trying to survive genocide. Literally cannot imagine going through postpartum in a tent. I cannot imagine having to heal after giving birth in the heat of the summer with no electricity or a sip of cold, clean water. The fact that most mothers are malnourished and maternity care is almost nonexistent because of Israel is devastating to just think about. And I'm sure most of the care items needed postpartum are unavailable due to the blockade and to Zionist lunatics preventing aid from getting in.

I shared these campaigns earlier and I couldn't stop thinking about them since, please share/donate to expecting families and to families with newborns and DM me any campaigns that you come across of expecting families please.

today is Nakba day, the 76th anniversity of the 1948 Nakba. About 15,000 Palestinians were killed during the Nakba in 1948. Since October 7, Israel has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza, and 1.7 million people have been displaced — more than double the number of Palestinians displaced in 1948.

8,745 arrests have been made since Oct 7, including 292 women, 615 children, 75 journalists (49 of which are still imprisoned), and 18 who died in detention. it's important to note that this number excludes detainees, who are estimated by prisoner rights groups to be in the thousands.

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One of the things I love so much about hoa is how clearly defined the plot is between *mystery* plot and *high school drama* plot. And what I love even more is Nina’s rock-hard determination to stay in mystery plot land and go nowhere near where the other side of the house is “doing whatever it is they’re doing.”

Season 1 of HoA, basically:

genuinely one of the worst things that’s happened to television in the last few years (exacerbated by streaming services) is death of Filler. going from 20 episodes to 8 because “we didn’t really need that episode where the main characters went to the beach right? it had no long lasting effect” but we DID!!! we needed to see how they act without the Big Bad Plot and to establish the dynamics between the characters and lay in the sun (do they forget sunscreen? how do they react to a thieving seagull? do they get buried in the sand or do they do the burying?). the plot isn’t everything. the action doesn’t hit as hard without the quiet moments. give us character development and our little scenes back

sarah’s revenge really was nina swooping in and being better than victor at literally everything

sometimes i think about s2 and how hilarious the sibuna plot was bc of the fact that victor knew what they were doing, they knew what victor was doing, and both sides refused to acknowledge this

which led to hilarious scenes like the one where nina bumps into victor making him drop the zodiac, and she grabs it, locks herself in the bathroom and makes amber take a pic of it, before just giving it back to victor. and they both just pretend like she did that for no reason like i can’tttt

nobody will ever understand the bond I have with house of anubis like idc that it's cringy or whatever that show is my entire childhood and it shaped me as a person I am today

I'm sure you've seen a ton of posts like this by now but if you're able to, please check out the Operation Olive Branch spreadsheet.

They currently (5/7/24) have a list of 848 families that need funding to escape Gaza. Anything you can donate will help no matter how small. It all adds up significantly, especially the more people that share and donate.

If you're not in a position where you can donate then please at least share. The more people that do, the better chance there is for these families to get help.

Don't stop talking about Palestine

[image description: screencap of a tweet from Deep Space Fine @thisismewhatevs Feeling absolutely insane about the fact that I've watched actual Nazis march down main streets chanting about how they were going to kill Jewish people but it's only when students challenge the military industrial complex that we send in police to do anything /end id]

the thing that gets me about the ‘luke was actually right’ take is that the point was that in trying to take down the gods, he became JUST LIKE THEM. like the parallels between luke and the gods are literally insane!! he tried to kill percy at age 12 bc he could POTENTIALLY be a threat in the future. the gods had multiple convos where they considered killing percy bc of the prophecy!! he manipulated so many demigods (annabeth in ttc, silena, that one bitch named evan?? ethan???) for his own cause. i don’t even need to explain how this relates to the olympians.

throwing a grenade and then immediately throwing myself on top of it to save everyone

i completely miss the grenade and everyone in the room dies including me

Democrat political strategy

a real one died tonight and her sacrifice will not be forgotten, blimey ✊😔

you are cassandra. in the middle of being possessed by the spirit of your vengeful, undead domain and feeling the world split apart with the festering carcass of your ex-lover being restored to grandeur only so she can be devoured completely, someone familiar approaches from the deck of a flying ship in active battle. your vision is warped, you're barely conscious, you don't know how it's possible that you're still alive, the figure blurs further and splits in two. one calls out to you, the same voice that has been reaching out for you all along, the same voice that called out your name the very first time and brought you to life. you ignore her. the other - clothes a little tighter, some subtle makeup, a pair of bicycle shorts patterned with a flag not known to this world. she opens her mouth - her teeth are horrible. 'blimey', she says, and you feel again. you feel something that crushes against your bones and shocks still your rotten heart. something cuts itself loose from your chest and escapes with a virulent tear of pain through your throat. lightning, bright and sharp, gushes from your screaming maw to its true purpose, and then she's gone. it's over. 'blimey', it whispers into the ethos, a memory as much as a promise to the tragedy of a dying star that may die forever. but you feel something else, you remember something or perhaps you are only now recognising it that nothing can be done. something else that lived in that void of space, you think. nothing more than a collection of cells yet, and still the weight pushes you to your knees. two lines on a stick, you reason, perhaps not even a choice to be made at all. surely not a life to be lived, you tell yourself as the memory of possibility dissolves and the void envelops the very space that baby might have occupied.

'blimey', the whispers consume what's left of your aching heart. 'blimey', you echo.

you're laughing. kristen's straight british clone (recently accepted to hudol, possibly pregnant) just encountered the divine embodiment of nightmares, said "blimey", and got immediately obliterated for it and you're laughing.

breaking news: famous dungeon master brennan lee mulligan has come down hard on the stance that all simulacrum test postive for pregnancy. more at 10.

remember when we died?

remember when we were fourteen and starting fresh at a new school and everyone seemed to think we were freaks and we died before we could change their minds? remember when we fought for our lives on the first day of freshman year and almost never came back?

i think it’s happening again.

i think we’re falling again. i think we’re losing a game we could never win. i think maybe this was rigged against us from the start.

it’s always us, isn’t it?