oh! my friends all lie and say they only want the best wishes for me.
“Reporting and posting about what’s happening in Gaza, Palestine feels pointless,” Plestia writes on day 37, having regained access to her account after two days without it. “It feels like I’m posting movie scenes for people to watch, and whenever they get bored they watch something else.” It’s a good point, one that instills shame. At what stage do we become voyeurs? Are people just watching and not witnessing? To watch is to consume; to witness is to acknowledge, to bestow some degree of legitimacy. But what does it do to see it? Is empathy ever enough? “Compassion is an unstable emotion,” Susan Sontag wrote. “It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.” Earlier, I went to share a post and stopped myself. I thought of Motaz’s apology, his shame at filming Gazans in their worst moments. Will a picture of a girl who has lost 60 family members and the use of her legs inspire only empathy? Will it change anything, or will the bombing just continue, the number of orphans and murdered doctors keep rising?
– Zaina Arafat, Witnessing Gaza Through Instagram
"The show's not over until the mockingjay sings," she said.
"The mockingjay?" He laughed. "Really, I think you're just making these things up."
"Not that one. A mockingjay's a bonafide bird," she assured him.
"And it sings in your show?" he asked.
"Not my show, sweetheart. Yours. The Capitol's, anyway."
USAmericans who are celebrating thanksgiving today (11/23/2023) I encourage us all to find out which native tribe are the historic stewards of the land we're breaking bread on, and then find an action we can take to honor them. beyond buckskin is a great starting point for finding native-owned small businesses you can buy from. native movement has a resources list of various books, articles, podcasts, video panels and short films, etc to educate about decolonization -- not all these resources are available for free online but a good number of them are. you can always google your local tribe(s) and search for nonprofits & other social programming to support with donations of your time or money. please add links to this post if you have other resources to share!
don't keep quiet don't stay silent please please please. keep reblogging, retweeting, spreading pro-palestine posts. do not shut your mouth about it. please. its the least we can all do. they are being murdered as i speak. they have been cut off from the internet & all other communication so the israel gov can do their ethnic cleansing in the dark. please do not stay silent. please speak up. give support in any & all ways you can.
MELISSA BARRERA as SAMANTHA CARPENTER
SCREAM VI (2023) dir. Tyler Gillett, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
like it’s not surprising that a woman of color has to face consequences for speaking out against genocide while a lil white boy is outwardly racist and gets to keep his job wearing that fuckass bowl cut. but jesus fucking christ these whores are nasty!!
People being dropped form agencies and movie/tv projects left and right for supporting Palestine but Amy Schumer, Brett Gelman and Noah schnapp can just post incredibly disgusting, genocidal comments face no consequence
Lionel Boyce as Marcus in The Bear
— 2.04 "Honeydew"
Joe Keery attends FX’s “Fargo” Year 5 Premiere at Nya Studios on November 15, 2023 in Los Angeles, California
Keke Palmer as Emerald Haywood
• Nope (2022) dir. Jordan Peele
RACHEL ZEGLER attends the Los Angeles premiere of "The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes" at TCL Chinese Theatre on November 13, 2023 in Hollywood, California
has anyone considered that i don’t wanna
me w my paycheck:
happy ending myth; a steve harrington story
summary: steve never thought someone he had once ignored would come back into his life to fight the upside down. when you are 19 how can you even think of a future? but what if it didn’t matter what the future held if you were in it? and yet he couldn’t help but think maybe this was the one who would be his partner on that cross-country family trip with six nuggets.
pairings: best friend!eddie munson, close friend!max mayfield, slowburn!steve harrington
notes: this is a slowburn that i plan on expanding with a 6 month follow up after what takes place in season 4. this involves spoilers for stranger things. there is mention of parental abuse, anxiety, depression, all chapters have been marked for what is included. the reader has she/her pronouns, i’ve tried my best to not really describe her too much. smut will be included in this at some point so minors do not interact.
♫︎no refunds, no rewinding don’t lose sleep over the truth we can’t find it their happy-ending myth i’d settle for religion some champagne-popping bliss to remember♫︎
chapter 1: off the sidelines
chapter 2: pancakes & death
chapter 3: vecna’s curse
chapter 4: our saviour, kate bush
chapter 5: just a little bit of tenderness
chapter 6: riding in cars with steve
chapter 7: eddie at skull rock
chapter 8: snippet posted as of 10.13, full chapter soon!
chapter 9: coming soon! will be in two parts.
chapter 10: coming soon!
chapter 11: coming soon!
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