currently reading htn and i just have a feeling this fanart is gonna circle back to bite me in the ass. Anyway.

like a rising comet 💫

love and freedom don’t coexist, warden

the coldest girl in coldtown by holly black

"You're so privileged for caring about genocide" is not a take actually.

But saying voting against Harris or Biden will end up in genocide significantly worse than what currently is happening is a take.

Don't be a naive idealistic idiot is the essential point. You reducing the point of the entire election down to a single talking point demonstrates a level of critical thinking at the same level as a 10 year old

yeah pretty idealistic of me not to want to vote for the people who participate in my people's genocide and asking people who vote for kamala/dems to acknowledge their culpability in participating in that genocide. that's definitely idealism. you got it.

again. not telling you *not* to vote for dems. you can do whatever you want. its just not a "better" choice for Palestine. and i need people to stop acting like it is.

it is better for Palestine if a Democrat gets in, for few reasons

yet again. this post is asking you to accept your culpability in voting for a person who is participating in genocide if you vote harris. you cannot argue your way out of the fact that she is actively participating in genocide.

Was gonna just say it in the tags, but nah I'm saying it here because I'm tired for the Palestinians and indigenous people I know screaming that both sides kill them. That is not fucking privilege, a Palestinian person saying over and over and over again that "we are dying under Biden" is not them telling you to not vote and you yelling back "don't be privileged" is the sheer definition OF privilege and white guilt.

Sorry but no. Not a single soul is saying "Trump is better". No one is saying that. No one is saying Trump isn't as bad. What we ARE saying is that people ARE CURRENTLY dying under Biden, Haris has allowed this and every other Democrat has continually been racist, genocidal pigs for over 76+ years. Having a pig of a man as a cop chief doesn't suddenly mean ACAP no longer applies. It means "this is exactly why the system is broken" and we shouldn't let any of these pigs speak for us and continue with their bullshit. Vote, sure, but if that's all you think you can do to stop this then please? Respectfully? Shut up.

It wasn't a white democrat or even a black democrat who "gave" an indigenous person the right to vote. Yes. Voting is important. It's a human right that MUST be upheld.

But that doesn't erase the capability and the necessity of holding these people accountable for the deaths that ARE on their hands as we speak. Biden isn't just "the lesser evil", he is a man who has directly caused the death of black and brown children. He isn't just a moderate who at least isn't going to introduce the horrors of Project 2025, he is a man who advocates for policies that CURRENTLY force black and brown Americans to LIVE that project 2025 while everyone else doesn't have to.

That is why it is privileged to be able to say "it's worse if Trump gets in". Yeah, it will be. But you can only say that because you haven't been living the constant "worse case" your entire life anyway regardless. We, as white people, can be scared of a "what if". We don't have to be afraid of a "right now". That's why it isn't even a question of "the lesser evil" because it actually doesn't matter if it's true or not, if you're not privileged enough to avoid it, you're already gonna be dead before Trump gets in.

That's why I'm so fucking tired of hearing you all whine. Yeah, project 2025 is terrifying and blatantly genocidal to many many different people. People will die because of that. Yeah, we should avoid it.

But not at "all costs" meaning "even he black and brown people already dying and suffering from what I'm scared to die and suffer from". Because it's now. It's not a "what if" for them. That is why, sure, vote. But you'd BETTER be doing more than that or YOU are the privileged idealistic brat here for expecting the black, brown and indigenous fight to be one THEY have to deal with and not you until it affects you personally. "But it'll be worse" yeah, but it's not better either way and the current is death, torture and rape. That's not a standard I want any of you to have for your siblings who are suffering as we speak. That is a standard you ought to refuse to have for any human being. Get it together and actually start organising, moving and doing something besides expecting someone else to save you. Get up and act, don't just vote; do more.

I want more people to know that while the Palestine Olympic team consists of only 8 athletes, at least 69 Palestinian Olympic athletes have been killed since October 2023. This includes athletes who were going to compete in these games and retired athletes such as Majed Abu Maraheel, the first Palestinian Olympian, who died of kidney failure in a refugee camp product of lack of medical treatment.

Remember them during these games.

Representative Rashida Tlaib (the only Palestinian member of the US Congress) holds up a sign saying "WAR CRIMINAL" and "GUILTY OF GENOCIDE" as Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress.

Hands up if you're sick of the IDF flying gay flags like they're doing this shit in our name

working title of my next book: Fundamental Techniques in Handling Your Overbearing Vampire Boyfriend

—Ilan Pappé, from The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

You should be furious that people trying to escape genocide in Gaza, Sudan, Congo all need raise an absurd amount of money just to survive

You should be furious at how these people went through atrocity after atrocity and still need raise tens of thousands of dollars to get away

You should be furious at this insidious thing that completely encapsulates how capitalism feeds off of blood

Edward's gaze fixated on the woman across the room.

Bella Swan was dead.

His eyes unmoving, unblinking, while his mind raced. Bella Swan was dead, and he had killed her.

It takes two... a voice inside him said, but he ignored it, shoved it back into the darkness. He already had too many voices intruding his mind. Instead, he stared at the woman and she stared back, eyes red.

He would never see Bella's beautiful brown eyes again; after a hundred years, eternity still felt incomprehensible, smoke scaping the grasp from his shadow. Her soft eyes, like calming pools, now stained red with blood, windows to her soullesness.

She smiled.

He mimicked her, for her sake.

Both Renesmee and Charlie had eyes like the ones Bella Swan used to have. But they were like hers, not hers. Edward was tired of things like her. They were mocking, taunting. An illusion, an allusion, nothing but a reminder to her likeness, not unlike a statue... it wasn't Bella. Not Bella Swan.

He blinked, not out of need but out of habit, and she was now in front of him. She was now faster than anything. She was now not one to trip nor fall. She was now graceful and flawless, perfection incarnate like the rest of them.

She was now a Cullen.

That's what was kissing him now. That's what he'll soon be making love to - because that's all they did now. Better than talking. Better than thinking. Better than confronting reality. Bella Swan was dead and Bella Cullen had stolen her face.

Cullen ripped their clothes, both more expensive than Bella's truck had been. She didn't hold back and neither did he. He could only mourn at the loss of her warmth, the loss of her taste, the loss of her soft skin, and mourn, most of all, the scent that drew him to her.

He was at peace, or a a cruel facsimile of the concept. A purgatory, for his thoughts and his thoughts alone. The other Cullens gave them space in times like this, so Edward was left to contemplate with no one worrying, no one watching.

Bella Swan now only existed in the memories of everyone that had known her. The times only Bella and he had shared, existed in him alone. To Cullen, her interactions were shaped by a hazy cloud, nothing had been real until she opened her eyes thirsty for blood. Her human life had been nothing but the time spent in a womb before she was born as a vampire.

He didn't know her, and yet she was one of them. For eternity, and after.

Perhaps, until death, had a been a warning. Because, beyond death, only a stranger awaits.

goodnight everyone (:

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