every day Mohammed's young nieces and nephews are enduring a childhood that most of us are lucky enough to find personally unimaginable. this is the childhood that US weapons bring.
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Same model, same photographer, 26 years later.
Brennan’s talked before about how as a poor young adult he lived in New York and struggled with food security. He tells a story of going to frozen yogurt places for free samples and a cheap dumpling spot because it was a lot of food.
His opinions on food and his described behaviours around food make a lot of sense in that context. He may be successful now and can be assured he can eat again when he’s hungry, but it appears he has legitimate trauma around his experiences with poverty because what he’s humorously describing is a trauma response. His mind hasn’t gotten rid of the anxiety of “I’m eating now so I better make it count because I don’t know when I will again.”
Because he’s a comedian he manages to frame it as a joke, but there’s certainly an underlying sadness. It also informs Evan Kelmp’s characterization. Capitalism is the root issue here and poverty is state-sanctioned economic abuse.
Anyway, I hope he’s doing well and taking care of himself.
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also. feeling normal about this
[Aminata] said aloud what she wished she had cried out to the world as she leapt into the dueling circle. She said it and it felt more right than duty.
“I … stand for Baru Cormorant.”
–Monster, ‘The Black Emmenia’
[Aminata] fled the room. She fled the thing which frightened her most, which was wanting something more than her duty.
–Tyrant, ‘Tooth Bomb’
what the hell. let’s do another one
Baru sniffled and smiled. Look, the later ones came from the Lieutenant Commander Aminata isiSegu, Annalila Fortress, Isla Cauteria. Lieutenant commander! She’d been promoted, and so young! Aminata always wanted to be an admiral. She was closer now.
–Monster, ‘The Lightning in the East’
Only—only—Aminata had told Baru, told her so often, that she wanted to be an admiral. She’d said that on the last night they spoke, when they got drunk and beat up one of Xate Yawa’s spies.
–Monster, ‘Interlude: The Llosydanes’
In that moment, against all reason, Aminata felt like she was in a fleet of two, a navy of her and Baru: she had just been promoted to Grand Admiral, captain of everything she had ever wanted.
–Tyrant, ‘Victory’
i think we should all start using arabic words and phrases more often because its a beautiful language and also theres not really. english equivalents that have the same vibes
theres also the comedy potential of it. you guys dont know the joy of having your muslim friend text you "hopefully the racists in our city will all get sick and cant go to the protest" and you, as a pasty white guy, responding with "inshallah they get covid"
its a one hit KO every time. its fucking hilarious. theres no english word that has the same effect.
he also once texted me that he got over a mysterious illness he came down with (i think? i cant remember the exact context) and i responded with "subhanallah he is cured"
again, one hit KO. he lost his shit.
what im saying is we gotta normalise arabic. its just a language like any other, and it has some great words. its just like saying "thank god" or whatever, but theres so much variety and nuance. its beautiful
what do inshallah and subhanallah mean so I could potentially use em in the correct situations? And potential words I could use?
OK LETS DO THIS
disclaimer i am not arab or muslim and i dont speak arabic but @frogofalltime has explained these words to me and says im using them correctly lmao
inshallah - "if god wills it". like an "i hope this happens" kind of thing. remember the finding nemo poster "inshallah they find him" meme if that helps. used in future tense.
mashallah - "god has willed it", used when something good happened. can be used to denote awe about an event or person. used in past tense.
alhamdulillah - essentially "thank god" or "praise be to god". like mashallah and inshallah but stronger, and can be used in any tense (i think). he will be baked soon alhamdullilah
subhanallah - "glory be to god". like alhamdullilah but stronger. used for when something almost miraculous happens!
those are all the ones i remember off the top of my head im sure binya can add more (and also confirm whether ive got my translations right)
mashaallah robin my faithful student you translated and explained all of this so well :0
there's also astaghfirullah which means "i seek forgiveness in god" which you use when you or someone else does something haram (forbidden / sinful / wrong). tbh we use it in a lot of jokey contexts like if someone swears in a conversation you can call them out like "astaghfirullah haram !"
and bismillah which means "in the name of god" which you can use before doing something, we often use it before doing a difficult thing like when you are struggling to open a bottle or something lmao. or you can say it when someone falls or drops something or gets injured. idk
appalachians need this they will be unstoppable
There’s definitely something to doing a mix-and-match with semantically-similar rural-American colloquialisms. I think “Inshallah and the creek don’t rise” has a nice ring to it.
Lord that rolls off the tongue so good 😭
"Adaine will outlive her friends" "Fig as an Archdevils will outlive her friends" wrong, all their friends die and they demand to go to hell. They spend their afterlives in the Bottomless Pit surrounded by moshpits. Adaine swings by once a week for movie nights. She livestreams their funerals and they rank their eulogies.
Fig makes a studio album called ALL MY FRIEND ARE DEAD and each bad kid features on the song about the story of how they died bc NONE of those mfs are going out without a bang.
adaine’s track is actually a skit at the end titled STOP TELLING THEM IM DEAD. the skit has a house party remix within an hour of the albums release
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fantasy high @ game changer pt.2 i cant tell you how many times i had to stop drawing for a second just to pull back and laugh I SWEAR shjdlhfsdkfjhsf anyway angry siobhan from this ep is literally adaine to me i hope yall see the vision too
guillermo del toro’s pinocchio is a beautiful film but my god no one has adapted that story like neverafter. you can never look at it the same way again after listening to lou wilson, a black man, explaining that he chose to play as pinocchio because it’s a story about a little boy who isn’t allowed to make mistakes. that in pinocchio's story, he is fundamentally barred from childhood at once upon a time. he must earn something that everyone else is granted from birth. the other boys get to tell lies and play and get into trouble, but when pinocchio does the same thing there are grave and violent consequences. his pinocchio is trying to understand why the world is so unfair, why the rules are so different for him, why everyone else gets to be a real boy.
and I think about it every day.
someone needs to take my pen away from me. ive contracted terminal hades art style fever
lucy, you're coming back to us too, right? to me?
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