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i see her all the time,

But today,

Today was different.

Seeing her made my lungs compress,

My knees weaken,

My eyes water.

I wasnt ready,

She was just there,

Existing.

Without having to think about what she did to me,

What happened that night,

Why i feel like this.

She can just exist.

Why can´t I?

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i have drawn!

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The comic version is better imo

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Kate Clayborn, Love Lettering

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

V. E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Neil Gaiman

Anne Sexton, The Sermon of Twelve Acknowledgements

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-matthew prior (1664-1721)

i <3 matthew prior

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— Mahmoud Darwish

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rodrick👍

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everyone is obligated to know what’s happening and try to fight for what’s right. ukraine is in crisis. the climate is in crisis. life as we know it is in crisis. our generation must rise. we must be involved. we must make our voices be heard. the world is shit, but it’s gonna be our shit eventually.

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Hate to be that person, but WW3 trend on TikTok is not funny at all, especially your stupid POVs. Because no, Jessica from Chicago, you won’t have to hide in the basement to avoid being nuked and no, Kyle from LA, you won’t get drafted to the front lines. 

You again missed the whole point and managed to make this situation all about yourself, so I’m going to assure your stupid ass - this war is not going to affect you in any way, but you know who it’s going to affect? Actual people from Ukraine, who are going to lose their lives and be displaced from their homes, just like for the past 8 years. 

So congratulations on your stupidity, because it’s not about “I need a way to cope 🥺🥺🥺”, it’s about you celebrating and making fun of other people’s death.

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As a Ukrainian-American it’s actually deeply disturbing to watch many of my fellow American/western progressives uncritically swallow Russian propaganda and promote Russian imperialism, while my family in Ukraine lives in terror every day that Russian soldiers will show up outside their house.

 It’s like some of y’all realized “Western imperialist propaganda is bad” and instead of coming to the conclusion that it’s imperialism that’s bad, you decided that because the West is bad any imperialism, murder, genocide, and bigotry are fine as long as the people doing it also don’t like the West. It should not be difficult to understand that the American government being bad does not automatically make anyone opposing the American government good. 

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truth

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Men in power rise and fall like kingdoms of saints and sinners but it's the common man that reeks of tragedy. He toils under the sun every day only to have his crop ravaged by war and his hopes and dreams crushed under the boot of imperialism and greed. How do you go home at night when your homeland was robbed from under your feet? Evil disguised under a coat of laws and guarded by uniforms is still evil, still twisted and morbid and cruel.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from Notes on politics and war in the age of the internet

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I didn't realise how much anxiety and fear I had been harboring until I was all alone at home, with no one to distract myself from me. Suddenly the air became thicker, almost as if it was crushing me, the pain in my chest grew and all I did was stare at the screen for 2 hours.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

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“Pay attention to your experience in this moment. Thoughts and feelings seem to arise out of nothing and dissolve back into nothing. And yet this nothingness is the very thing that is aware of everything. It’s the reality of consciousness, and it can only know itself directly. So whatever you’re up to right now, spare a moment to marvel at this: As a matter of experience, you are identical to what is perhaps the greatest mystery in the universe.”

— - Sam Harris, echoing Schrödinger.