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"My problem isn’t just what I lost… It’s what I’m still carrying." — Abdelmajid | Gaza

I won’t start this with “I lost my home” or “we’re under attack,” because you’ve probably read that a thousand times already. Let me tell you something different:

At first, we counted the days. Then we started counting airstrikes. Then we counted who didn’t make it. And after a while… we stopped counting anything at all.

My name is Abdelmajid. Just a regular guy. I used to work, go home, help my mother, joke with my brothers… I was just someone trying to live a normal life.

Now? Now I sit beside a tent, hearing updates from others, and I wonder: Will I ever have a normal day again? Not a perfect one — just normal. A day with a quiet breakfast, a safe roof, and no drones in the sky 🏚️.

I’m not writing this because I’m strong. Not because I’m brave. I’m writing because I’m afraid we’ll disappear in silence — and no one will know that we were trying… trying so hard to simply continue.

I’m not asking for much. I’m asking for a chance. A chance to live again — not just for me, but for the people still standing in this place.

If you’ve read this far, thank you. 🤍 And if you can share, donate, or pass this on to someone else — you’ll be part of something that truly matters. ✨

There’s never enough to say. But I’m still breathing… and that means I still believe in something.

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So, I was unfamiliar with Monogatari Novels until I reblogged that last post and shared in a Discord server with friends that I'd heard this news and was excited.

I am. far less excited now. They are dicey at best, awful at worst, and I'm definitely going to be watching their releases with a great deal of skepticism.

I don't have time to do as thorough a blog post about this as it really deserves, but I did want to gather in one place the receipts that were shared with me, so that if others didn't know, they could learn more about the company we're dealing with and make their own decisions about whether to buy from them or not.

First: I noticed myself, and thought it was odd, that a place that primarily publishes Chinese fiction would use the name Monogatari, which is a Japanese word. Further, tho I hadn't noticed, it's actually worse: they use a rising sun as their icon, which is. uh. A choice. A pretty fucked up choice, given the history between Japan and China. When this was pointed out to them, they said repeatedly they just didn't know/didn't realize, which is a fucking weird thing for a company that things they have the expertise to translate these books to say about the history of the country they're translating books from. Like. It makes me think they don't actually know jackshit.

They also have a bad record regarding who they're picking as translators and their understanding of copyright law. (I recommend you use the links, the tweets often have more info in the replies)

(one of those mistranslated lines is so basic that even I, with my less than 2.5 yrs of studying, could have translated correctly.)

Basically: they are sus af. They've also apparently said on their Spanish-language twitter that they've been lying on their English-language one to appease US fans.

I was really excited a couple hours ago. Now, I'm EXTREMELY wary.

Just...be on the look-out, y'all.

To be clear: this doesn't mean that their subsequent publications will be a cluster. They might have learned! They might be doing better! Or, they might just have picked better, more trustworthy partners for specific projects! I don't want to say "do not support under any circumstances." But I know... I'd rather know all the above than not. And I figured other people would want to know too.

(research shared with permission from the person who shared it with me.)

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est “compos non menti” tu grammatica est malum

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moodboard for when a girl you don’t know compliments you

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Qijing

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them as that one meme 😭

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twitter absolutely ate these up so heres some moshang sketchies

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red lantern

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sorry to everyone who knew me post my tumblr 2024 😓

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URRMMM SO WHAT

So i decided to make the great decision to start vampire knight ( im just rlly bored. So im 3 episodes in and its alright i like it so far Zero is very interesting and i wonder if he was turned into a vamp when his parents died?

But 1 thing thats bothering me just a little bit is Kaname im assuming he's the main love interest WHY DOES HE LOOK SO SIMILAR TO YUKI

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GO REVISE.

So i decided to make the great decision to start vampire knight ( im just rlly bored. So im 3 episodes in and its alright i like it so far Zero is very interesting and i wonder if he was turned into a vamp when his parents died?

But 1 thing thats bothering me just a little bit is Kaname im assuming he's the main love interest WHY DOES HE LOOK SO SIMILAR TO YUKI

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(240503) Growing Pain ✙ Act: Promise in Seoul

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watch watch, gotta watch watch me, yeah — for @ashxxgyu

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day four - kiss