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It's not a life you're living unless there's a blog with tons of embarrassing content for you to think about at one in the morning.
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Rashida Tlaib has set up a petition to send to the White House to recognize and stop the ethnic cleansing and forced displacement happening in Gaza. If you’re a US citizen please sign. I have no illusions that this will change policy, but the public outcry against their actions must continue. We will not be distracted or discouraged from continuing to object to these humans rights violations.

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To this day people will cry over the knowledge and works destroyed when the library of Alexandria was burned down.

And yet no tears are shed as Palestinian archives and libraries are bombed.

Saint Porphyrius Church, built in 1150 and the 3rd oldest church in the world has been bombed.

It's not an accident.

Israel aren't simply killing Palestinians, they are trying to erase that there ever were Palestinians in the first place.

Destroying their livelihoods, trying to to destroy their culture and history and pretend this land was never there's.

It's easy to deny someone's existence when there's no record of them.

Which is why it's so important to look at the atrocities and bear witness to what's happening.

But to also recognise that Palestine is more than it's suffering.

There is a living breathing culture, of art, history, literacy which all come from the Palestinians.

Traditions they've carried for centuries.

So while we mourn the dead, we shall fight for the living. Fight for the preservation of their crafts, amplify their voices as they speak on their culture.

Palestinian history and culture is alive. And no matter how much the world wants to erase that, they cannot and will not.

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curls-cat

replacing my old glasses with an identical pair and keeping the old ones around just in case feels kinda like bluebeard. like my new glasses will stumble upon the corpse of someone identical to them only mangled and scarred, and they'll see this as the fate awaiting them

wanted to add that I snapped the ear-part of my new glasses a while ago and instead of buying a new pair, I took the old ears off my old glasses. so I basically robbed the corpse of my old pair in order to replace a limb on their identical twin.

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mechawolfie

GAH the WHOLE SHOW is about connection. about love. or devotion or whatever. even the antagonists, fucking wretched as they are, only do what they do because of their love. it makes me heart ACHE!!!!!! GRRAHHHHHHH

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so judging by how astonished people are by it every time we explain it to anybody, it seems like my wife and I might really be onto something here

during the pandemic, we invented something we call "astronaut time."

when it's astronaut time, it's like we are two astronauts wearing the big helmets, moving around the station on totally separate tasks. one of us is outside the space station and one of us is inside the space station. our radios do not work and we have no way of communicating with each other. we might see each other through the lil porthole windows, but we ignore each other because we both have different things to do.

"astronaut time" is how we get total privacy when we live in the same apartment. I will pretend you don't exist. You will pretend I don't exist. we have a nonverbal, zero-contact signal for when astronaut time is over (usually "I'll draw a smiley-face on the whiteboard in the kitchen when I'm done"). No talking, stay out of each other's line of sight, we are actively avoiding each other, unless you are currently experiencing a medical emergency goodbye.

it has been. a godsend. imagine living with your partner and being able to close every single tab in your brain related to social interaction. no fear of being interrupted by a "hey, quick question--" or "sorry to bother you, but do you know where the scissors are?" or "did you want something to eat, too?" Once or twice a month, we look at each other lovingly, hold hands, and say "baby I think I need some astronaut time tonight," and the other person goes "okay cool. bye! have a nice night!" and nobody's feelings are hurt and we both go and have a lovely evening completely by ourselves.

like idk it's a small thing but it's made our lives so much nicer, so if you and your partner/roommate are both people who sometimes need total privacy in order to recharge, maybe try it

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wizzard890

I'm the wife in question and I cannot recommend this enough. When I told my therapist about astronaut time, she asked if she could share it with the couples she councils, so even the professionals give it two thumbs up.

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jeraliey

In my observation, this is actually the only way New York City can exist.

People who don't know NYC talk about how rude New Yorkers are. But what they don't understand is that everyone is living on top of eight and a half million other people. The ONLY way it works is if everyone is having astronaut time by default.

Yay astronaut time!

As a new yorker, can confirm that even my friends and I have astronaut time. It's truly a godsend-- especially when we're all cramming for our exams/assignments.

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if kafka was born today i'd be his best friend and microdose with him

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adhoption

he's not even a day old... you want your best friend to be a newborn? you want to do drugs with a baby?

he's very mature for his age

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if you watch pantheon please reblog this post so i can find my people

our fandom is so small T_T i just binged season 2 and my life is in shambles. in a good way