i will love you as i choose

cinemasangel:

“You Don’t Know Anything.” And Other Writing Advice From Toni Morrison

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and-evenif:

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adaline keeps. she meets what she sees. her praying is

neat and

allowed, but powerful. she begins in “Demeter, do

work for my favor in found, let god’s accounting for

balance

accept us in sound.” crossed heart and,

“in confession’s

blooming stillness, i renown their subjection” then

brought him

carnation. he accepted it naked.

in silent study.

stared. she stayed hand extended.

their heads floating in ocean of moment.

bodies fold open.

lessons grow quickly. pressure

outside them approaches. yet

every peace between their meeting

seen, agreed, and unspoken.

(she did not spend him on open,

nor her heavenly summons

on his covenant mercy. she just

knew they would see.)

and hauntings roll backward to

leap. apparitions suspended in hyperreality’s fragrance.

such honesty without talking bleeds freeing their

madness.

amasses a disagreement, an argument between

spirits, for the keeping of

secret, the couple’s attempt on attention’s reduction.

and they indicate reasoned obstruction.

for two faces undraped, erupted,

they auctioned affair. the two in love gift

them a lesson they leave

undeclared: a fair for existence of invisible

forces upon them, impossibly moving the

miracle work of consequence,

of incident that carried this flower

from earthed to her now to him,

the fondness of journey acknowledged in paired

quiet.

red blossoms grew believed toward the

air between them, and

the rare phantom dared for the speaking of

seasons adjusted. demeter sends

beacons of kaleidoscopic floral clarity,

formed for stillness,

keeping her name as will for same.

not a

muscle consulted. eyes adjusted for frame, head

tilted in trusted, time climbed and

wisened in their cosmic collided

discussion of trace, “how long have you been

saving face with the darkness before

planting for me? praying to angels for sun?”

and the spirits, come around for their

stunned and confronted, are watched and entrusted with

humanity’s quiet constitution,

carried in love like a hidden protection —

they drift in unaware, the holded so

giving them breath, they find they’re

alive for a

moment — and cannot contend

to be evil at end —

they mumble in pen,

‘if you were there, if you had seen them — ’

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booasaur:

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The Rafah invasion would be so catastrophic that even Biden momentarily called it a red line, though of course he walked it back.

It’s hard to say something could be worse than what’s already happened, nothing I could say wouldn’t already apply, but this would massively increase the scale of this ongoing atrocity. Any pressure that can be brought to bear to stop it must be applied.

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laudanumat33:

“The nature of erotic things is secrecy, otherwise they lose their spell.”

— Björk

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zegalba:

Masanori Umeda: Getsuen Armchair (1999)

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tamarrud:

In a press conference held by the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza earlier today, they confirmed that they estimate 10,000 missing people remain missing under the rubble and that, with their very limited means right now, in order to be able to locate and exhume these bodies, the operation could take up to three years. Until then, these 10,000 are not counted among the casualties.

As summer approaches, the trapped bodies are going to be a major source of illnesses and epidemics are expected to spread. Already, there are 20,000 cases of hepatitis in Gaza.

All of this of course is made infinitely more difficult by Israel blocking fuel from entering while it continues to target civil defence vehicles. As a matter of fact, Rafah now has only 3 functioning fire trucks according to a Palestinian Civil Defence spokesperson.

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malnedott:

found this in the thrift store!!

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guava-maria:

NANA inspired bag I did a while back for my sister

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ellevandersneed:

a lot of the coverage of the Palestinian genocide is focusing on the US student protests and the narrative is constantly in danger of shifting away from what the protests are actually about and a lot of the language is now speaking in terms of police brutality, silencing of free speech, etc. It’s not a radical thing to say that this isn’t exactly helpful to the Palestinian cause if the actual reasons for the protests aren’t constantly front and center. A lot of people have already made this point. I do not think the genie can necessarily be put back in the bottle with how the protests and the police reaction to them are entering the public consciousness of the USian people. A lot of people are or will become aware of these protests through the lense of these simply being instances of police brutality, and police brutality is a critical issue that many USamericans are very passionate about thus making it difficult to reframe the context of these images of police slamming white professors into pavement towards awareness of Israels decades long illegal occupation and systematic and indiscriminate displacement and murder of Palestinians. What I feel needs to be done is try to reframe these images flooding the internet not *away* from issues of police brutality and homesoil fascism, but in the wider context of imperialist governments taking the lessons they learn oppressing “foreign peoples” and turning them inwards. That police brutality is not disconnected from imperialist mass murder. That the one thing connecting the assaulted USian protester and the trans israeli denied gender affirming care for refusing to serve in the fascist Israeli military and the Palestinian child buried alive for the crime of being Palestinian… the one thing connecting them is that, sooner or later, they are all victims of power. Our rights are granted to us inequitably, unevenly, and are just as quickly stripped away when we do not serve the interests of fascist power. We are either a tool of the state or an enemy of the state. The Palestinian, not the innocent or the guilty but the human being Palestinian, is murdered because she can not be useful to the state while she is still breathing. She can never have the “privilege” of being a tool. I’ll say it again: We outside of Palestine who can go to protests, who have families, who are able bodied, who can work, who can keep their head down or speak without immediate retaliation have the “honor” of choosing to be a tool of the state or an enemy of the state. The Palestinian has no choice.

There will always be an armed cop ready to arrest you and kill your brother as long as there is a bomb ready to drop on the heads of Palestinian children. Fascism trickles up and inward.

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sharkcloset:

wastedawayagaininmargaritaville:

papasmoke:

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He is also Palestinian. I hadn’t seen the video from this angle yet but I suspected from the one I saw that he was targeted based on how directly the cops came at him among many others. Now from this angle you can see the cop point at him directly and then they attack. Fuck STLPD fuck WUPD fuck mayor jones and fuck chancellor Martin

From a friend at the WashU encampment. There was lots of screaming plus there were kids around.

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madpunks:

i fucking love you if you’re someone with ADHD who can’t get proper fucking ADHD meds and medicate with caffeine, nicotine or other non prescription stimulants. so many of us do it without realizing it- you’re doing your absolute best and it’s not your fault what would actually help you is being held beyond your reach for petty reasons, be it poverty, or professionals refusing to prescribe ADHD meds, the system is doing its best to crush you and grind you into a paste but you are resisting and doing the best that you fucking can. i am sorry you’ve been put into this mess, but I want you to know that you’re not alone and if you have to medicate, you have to medicate. it’s worse than being miserable, unmotivated, and unable to function or even fucking move sometimes. i love you. stay strong