This blog will combine three things I love dearly: writing, talking about writing, and aesthetics. So if you have an amazing OC for which you crave an aesthetic moodboard or Instagram page - tell me all about them, and I will make you one! After all, every writer needs fanart.
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Sophia Loren / Unknown / @ ojibwa / Adélia Prado / Unmade Bed by Sally Strand / Paul Auster / Unknown / Lucille Clifton / Unknown Artist / Kaveh Akbar / Unknown Artist / Marguerite Duras / Claude Monet
Cira & Deza Muram || "It's harder to make friends when she's not here to be charming."
i think that sometimes the best thing that you can do is remind yourself that there are beaches. lakes, rivers, and ponds. there are forests. little woods and meadows. there are canyons. gullies and mountain cliffs. there are rainy days. dry spells and scorching blue skies. that the world turns. changes as much as it repeats. that feeling slow today won't stop tomorrow's high tide. won't make july's blackberries any less ripe
I am just like any motivated and loving life woman, who loves her family, and job and has a passion of serving people.
As a result of my outstanding grades in my study and the excellent performance in my job, I have been a holder of different scholarship. I am also active participant in many research visits and scientific missions in many countries like Canada, Malaysia and Egypt. The last scholarship I have awarded was at McGill University in Canada. I returned back to Gaza a month ago before the beginning of the genocide in Gaza. 💔
Again, I am one of the 22 women from the developing world who have been awarded OWSD- PhD fellowship to pursue my PhD study abroad. it felt as though I was holding a golden ticket to a better life than anyone who is currently living in Gaza. But fate seemed to have another plan
Despite the dire circumstances, the kindness and support from friends and people around the world have given me a ray of hope during the darkest hour. When you donate or share my story, I could stand up again to celebrate my success with you🍉🙏
Note: vetted by @90-ghost check here
Girlpool—Before the World Was Big // memorial bench quoting Toni Morrison's Sula // @inanotherunivrse // Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You // Zadie Smith, Swing Time // Fall Out Boy—The Kids Aren't Alright // Audrey Emmett // Mikko Harvey, "For M" // Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi) // Langston Hughes, "Poem"
The body will hold on Frank Turner, The Fisher King Blues // Don DeLilo, White Noise // Maurice Pirenne, Evening // The Crane Wives, How to Rest // Richard Siken // StarParkDesigns // Birdtalker, Heavy // Dan Clandenin, The Voice of God
if you are struggling with choosing which fundraisers to support, please consider donating to the following places providing medical aid, food, and other supplies to palestine at this time:
donate to doctors without borders here
donate to careforgaza here, providing food, medicine and clothing
donate an e-sim to gaza today
donate feminine hygiene kits for women in gaza
donate to the palestinian civilian relief fund
donate to the palestine children's relief fund
donate to the world food programme
donate medical aid for palestinians
donate to the united nations relief for palestine refugees
donate to healpalestine
if you are looking for individual fundraisers to donate to but are struggling to choose, gazafunds gives a spotlight to fundraisers that are not close to their goal.
instead of watching and supporting eurovision tonight, please instead boost this post & donate if you can. keep your eyes on rafah.
If you're feeling helpless, boost/share these links. Donate if you can
kaveh akbar, 'calling a wolf a wolf' // doc luben, 'love letters or suicide notes' // @/nutnoce, tumblr // 'my body's made of crushed little stars', mitski // @/ojibwa, tumblr // 'spring', mary oliver
george clausen / edward potthast / nicholas hely hutchinson / victoria vitalyevna samsonova / jeremy miranda / suzanne siegel
Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy // Suzanne Scanlon, Promising Young Women // Robin Roe, A List of Cages // Hayao Miyazaki, Kiki's Delivery Service // Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 // D. H. Lawrence, The Plumbed Serpent // Jennifer S. Cheng, "So We Must Meet Apart" // Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart // Alice Oseman, Radio Silence // Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena // Alain de Botton, Essays in Love // Eden Robinson, "Writing Prompts for the Broken-Hearted" // Chloe Liese, Always Only You // Anne Carson and Euripides, An Oresteia // Two—Sleeping At Last // Studio Bones, SK8 the Infinity // Trista Mateer, "is it okay to say this?" // @moodylilac // D. H. Lawrence, "The Rainbow"
“the ending is always the same”
war of the foxes - richard silken / waterloo - ABBA / euripides’ medea - the little theatre / anne carson / the three fates - luca cambiaso / the oresteia - aeschylus / road to hell II - hadestown / when i met you - mira lightner / andersen’s fairy tale anthology
@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks
On hoping for the worst Everything Falling Apart, John Tottenham // Welcome to Night Vale, Joseph Fink // No Children, The Mountain Goats // Grow Up With Me, Keaton Henson // 100 Bad Days, AJR // Bohemian Rapsody, Queen // The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure, Brian Larkin // Mad World, Tears for Fears // Donna, The Lumineers
decolonizepalestine.com is an easy to navigate website run by two palestinians which breaks down common myths about palestine and provides a reading list organized by a wide variety of categories ranging from history and culture to media and censorship. it’s a good starting point to use if you want to learn more about the modern day situation in palestine and understand the truth behind myths that have been perpetuated about israel’s occupation of palestine.
small monetary things you can do for palestine 🇵🇸
itchio currently has a bundle of 140+ games for only $10, and all proceeds benefit medical aid for palestine
click a button to send money to help palestine via ad revenue (free!)
ask for a commission from these artists, who are donating the funds to palestinian aid charities. the thread also has lots of places to donate.
other artists or creatives who are commissioning - here, here, here, here, and here
another thread of charities can be found here
devote yourself to living
gregory orr selected books of the beloved // buffalo sunrise: buson grazing at daybreak in grand teton national park // brianna wiest // rainer maria rilke letters to a young poet // @baronegan // https://www.theawl.com/2013/11/ask-polly-help-im-the-loneliest-person-in-the-world/ // susan sontag // the quiraing, isle of skye @carpe-noctvm // @beetlegarden // amy wollard laura palmer graduates
one of the reasons why "what if people went on a road trip and it was weird" is one of the oldest story types is that a lot of sense of personhood has been, historically, tied to place. the weird road trip says "what if we went somewhere else, where no one knows us, and tried out being a different person".
Odysseus, the famous liar, goes on a weird road trip & over the course of it becomes several different people, and then comes home & is all those people as well as himself, wearing the echoes of those other people
Because the story of your life // becomes your life
- Lisel Mueller
Phoebe Bridgers, I Know The End / Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed / Lisel Mueller, Why We Tell Stories / Sleeping at Last, East / Pat Barker, Silence of the Girls / Brandon Melendez, How to Write the Quantum Mechanics Uncertainty Principle into a Promise to Return Home / Lisel Mueller, The Story / Richard Siken, Litany in Which Certain Things are Crossed Out
theindianexpress / pascalchampion / hozier, ‘to noise making’ / titanic (1997) dir. james cameron / my chemical romance, ‘sing’ / abc news / dead poets society (1989) dir. peter weir / bertolt brecht
since nanowrimo starts tomorrow and I haven't seen that much about it on my dash, let's talk! who's participating and what are you excited about? ✨
Ilya Kaminsky, “Still Dancing: An Interview with Ilya Kaminsky”
Why do you study history