To All Palestine Supporters 🙏

GREEN

i am green green green down to my breath and blood and bones.

green with envy for all the beautiful things in the world that i cannot hold in my hands or press against my lips or swallow down whole.

green with sick all festering hurts i don't know how to heal and spreading poison i don't know the antidote for and hand-me-down aches i don't know the names of.

green with greed, the yawning void deep in my belly that wants and wants and wants and wants and wants from the day i was born screaming with want.

green with permission: yes please, come here, do as you please. i never did learn how to say no and mean it.

green like plants, like spring growth and summer leaves like basil and mint on kitchen counter tops like haworthia and pothos and monstera.

i am green green green down to my breath and blood and bones—

but maybe someday i will learn to hold the whole rainbow in my body.

All that pain and misery. And loneliness. And it just made him kind.

UPDATE FROM GAZA

edit: 6/12/23

The official death toll has reached 16,248

7,112 of which are children

4,885 are women

7,600 people are still missing

that brings the grand total to almost 24,000 gazans lost

there have been 1550 massacres

40,652 gazans injured

1.9M gazans displaced (80% of the population)

still think there shouldn’t be an end to occupation? still think this isn’t genocide? isn’t ethnic cleansing? still think this is self defense?

CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND DEMAND AN END TO ISRAELI OCCUPATION

As a fic writer, i need every reader to know that:

I don’t care if your comment is coherent. I know what you mean and i love you

I don’t care if you ramble. I read every word and i love you

I don’t care if you leave a comment on a fic from four years ago or leave comments/kudos on like ten of my fics in one go. This isn’t IG, pls stalk my AO3. I love you

I don’t care if you mention the same thing in your comment that four other people have already mentioned. It’s actually really useful to know what resonated with people and I love everyone who takes the time to tell me they liked a particular turn of phrase

I don’t mind if your comment is super long or just a couple of sentences, i love them all

I love you

70 years of Israel bombing Al-Shifa Hospital

An IDF solider posing next to a fallen mosque minaret in Gaza with the message written on it:

"The temple shall be built soon."

Destruction of a place of worship with the intention of replacing it with another from a different religion is a war crime under international law, it violates the provisions of Geneva Conventions, Hague Convention, and the Rome Statute.

جندي من جيش الاحتلال الإسرائيلي يقف بجوار مئذنة مسجد تم هدمه في غزة مع رسالة مكتوبة عليها:

سيتم بناء المعبد قريبا".

يعد تدمير مكان للعبادة بقصد استبداله بآخر من دين مختلف جريمة حرب بموجب القانون الدولي، وينتهك أحكام اتفاقيات جنيف واتفاقية لاهاي ونظام روما الأساسي.

I think it applies to mostly East Asians, though, I could be wrong.

In the Philippines, the wife takes the husband's surname, as well as her children. In India, in 'patriarchal tradition' the woman is supposed to take the husband's surname in order to be apart of his family. In (South) Korea, the women does not take their husband's surname, although their children will have it at birth (this may also involve the country Malaysia).

If you're a writer, your own research would be appreciated if you strive for realism and accuracy. :)

Hey, I read somewhere that Asian/ some Asian wives don’t take their husbands name, does anyone know if this is true and can anyone point me in an appropriate naming character resource?

Dear friends 🫂🫂

When we resorted to asking for urgent assistance, we resorted to it because of the difficulty of life we ​​live, whether psychological, physical or material 💔

We are a Palestinian family of seven people. We were living a decent, stable life and had our dreams. Suddenly, our situation changed because of the devastating war that caused us to lose everything we owned and negatively affected my children psychologically, educationally and otherwise 😭😭

Therefore, we became in dire need of help so that we can continue living 💔

Today, after approximately 330 days of war and five months since the start of the fundraising campaign, we have reached 19000€ / 35,000€, and I am confident that you will help me reach the goal as soon as possible - I hope that everyone who sees my message will donate if possible and share it widely 🙏

Thank you very much

🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸❤🤍💚🖤

Your brother / Mohammad Ayyad

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Saleh Aljafarawi