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all the palestinians i know are celebrating but also braced for the indiscriminate bombing that will take place until the ceasefire goes into effect on sunday. i don't know if you know this but israel has always bombed the most indiscriminately right before a ceasefire up until the very last second, just to kill a few hundred more palestinians. this was once considered one of its worst war crimes because it is demonstrably utterly unjustified. now it's considered par for the course because the vast majority of the bombing of the past year has been unjustified (even militarily, israel's bank of targets ran out long ago.) but between now and sunday people who have survived 476 days of genocide are going to be desperately hoping to make it until the ceasefire. the bitterness and fear of losing friends and family right before it is a psychological torture of its own.
over the past year i think a lot of people around the world have been sickened by the awareness that a trapped people are being starved and bombed to death as they go about their day. personally i haven't been able to truly enjoy anything without the awareness that for almost every half hour of the past year a child in gaza was killed. a lot of people in gaza have said they haven't had a proper night's sleep since october 7th. this is the smallest demand of humanity and the first thing a ceasefire means, and why it has been so wretched to have to scream and beg for it for over a year. people will be eating and sleeping again. let's just get there, on sunday, and then we can talk about everything else we need to do.
You should only write in present tense with extreme caution.
not because it's bad or anything but because if you do it even once you're going to be editing the bits where you shifted tenses out of your writing for the rest of your life
if u write in present tense enough times in a row, you can switch this problem around & get confused when your present-tense narrator is talking abt something that happened in Their past. I recommend this bc it keeps u on ur toes
guys i made my first blackout poetry
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Palestinians are celebrating the ceasefire because this is their own victory. This is a victory not only because Israel did not achieve a single one of its stated goals, from its intent to destroy Hamas all the way to imposing total military control over Gaza, but primarily because Israel was hellbent on annihilating them but it continues to fail to.
the decision in the peter jackson trilogy to make éowyn the first thing théoden sees when he wakes up from saruman's spell and his eyes clear and also the last thing he sees before he dies and he tells her that he recognizes her I'm fine it's fine
YOU can write whatever you want whenever however forevrr. i have to write something perfect and earth shattering and i have to do it perfectly the first time or else
men with longer hair if you hear a voice that tells you to cut it that's the devil talking. you have to ignore it at all costs im not joking
the ultimate winter experience
Some Gazan bloggers can be overenthusiastic in your inbox, if their requests for boosting bothered you, just ignore the messages. Keep in mind, they're literally teenagers. Don't give the mods a reason to terminate their accounts. Please.
On top of this I want everyone to remember that 1. Many people do not speak English or don’t have a good grasp on it and are using a template or copy pasting things they’ve seen (this is often why so many messages are similar and use a lot of the same words and phrases), there’s already been notable incidents of people copy pasting thinking they’re saying something very different from whatever they’ve pasted and being labeled fraud etc over it 2. Imagine what you yourself would be saying if you were in this position for even a second
i ❤️ not learning my lesson
