I don’t have much time today, but I had to do a little something to celebrate a new YOI episode

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I’m fine.

No. I’m not.

spins him around trying to understand the pink mop he calls hair

@animangacreators Pride Month Challenge: A Canon LGBT+ Character

GRACIE ABRAMS X SPOTIFY (2023)

Mind less.

EMMA MACKEY photographed by Laura Jane Coulson for Pop Magazine Issue 49, Autumn/winter 2023

DUNE: PART TWO (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve

Tropic of the Sea (海帰線) // Satoshi Kon

Incredibly alarming that talks of “peace” in Gaza seem to extend no further than a ceasefire. How do you think they’re gonna start off where they left off themselves? Their houses are destroyed, so many have lost mothers and fathers and brothers and children, they still have no clean water and no food. Any area Israel withdraws out of is an area it already knows has been rendered inhospitable. There was even a direct quote by some IOF soldier gleefully stating how he “wasn’t sure Palestinians could go back to their homes.” So what happens when the US “succeeds at negotiating a ceasefire”? Who will be responsible for helping the Palestinians rebuild all that they’ve lost?

Palestinians are literally being treated as invalids & it hurts so much to see. It’s so heartbreaking watching footage of Palestinians walking the demolished streets of Khan Younis in shock, with some saying (with no emotion, bc they’ve been enduring this for months) that their homes are simply gone. There was nothing to come back to by the time Israeli troops left. These are whole, multidimensional human beings like you and me who no longer have homes they could live in. And there is literally no recourse. They’re supposed to just pick up the pieces all alone. It’s so dehumanizing I could cry about it.

So important to reinforce that advocacy for Palestinian rights doesn’t end at a ceasefire that has already come too little, too late. At that point it would be about advocating for Palestinians’ rights for quality of life, Palestinians’ rights to retribution, and most importantly Palestinians’ right to freedom. Although those numbers have certainly intensified since Oct. 7, the Palestinian struggle goes back decades. I don’t want to see anyone hanging up their hats when the US inevitably paints themselves as the western savior Palestine has needed all along, finally flying in on a golden chariot to broker peace. This is far from over when a ceasefire is declared, and it’ll be far from over until every Palestinian enjoys the quality of life any human being is entitled to.

we must work. we must make money. but more than that Bella, we must experience everything. not just the good, but degradation, horror, sadness. this makes us whole Bella, makes us people of substance. not flighty, untouched children. then we can know the world. and when we know the world, the world is ours.

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