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The story of Ballora in FNAF..
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#fnaf fanart#ballora#ms afton#william afton#fnaf sister location#silent hill#silent hill 2#MRS AFTON FINALLY MENTIONED AND DESIGNED!! 🔥🔥#I wish I was playing the silent hill 2 remake#but it’s so expensive in Canada rn lmao maybe if it goes on sale#BUT the Maria/mary comparison to Ballora/Mrs Afton is a cool one..#cause I think definitely Ballora is inspired by Ms Afton here#the thing Ballora says and sings about is so directed at William#I gotta know there’s some connection there#and in a way we could see that Ballora is an idealized version of his wife#something he can control with more ease#I HOPE truly yall like Mrs Afton’s design too#I’ll hopefully draw her a lil more from now on 🩵
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Do you see viktor and elsa’s relationship as platonic or romantic?
Okay so how long do you have
My personal interpretation is that they have feelings for each other... I go back and forth on how to contextualize that but I don't feel limited to one interpretation either, it's fun to consider different scenarios and I think their relationship is pretty ambiguous regardless. I love their characters and history and the way they seem to share a really unique and meaningful bond so I enjoy it any way you spin it, but I think them having feelings for each other adds this additional layer of tension and tragedy
I almost see them being friends as too straightforward and I don't think they're the kind of people who can have uncomplicated relationships. Even if Elsa wasn't married, with the circumstances of Viktor's separation from his wife I can't imagine him with a healthy attitude about having any kind of romantic feelings let alone being in a "normal" relationship again. But at the same time I think she would naturally fall into that hole in his life like how Ivy did for his daughter. Whereas even though Elsa has her husband and brother I'm not sure if she shares that "common ground" with them that she says she has with Viktor
My vision is that they seem to connect in a way they don't with other people and they care about each other a lot but in a way that can never be fully realized. Anyway to answer your question: Yes
#my readmore keeps breaking when I edit this post I hope it stays#viktor vasko#elsa bastion#lackadaisy#fanart#art#the other thing I think at risk of getting too speculative#I could imagine Elsa almost pitying Viktor in a way that makes her feel a little better about herself#or I guess the nicer way of saying that would be that their bond eases some of the potential shame surrounding her situation#bc I would think she has feelings about the fact that Bobby and Abelard entered into a life of crime to take care of her basically#but the ways in which viktor is a mess she can connect with. or even help him#ANYWAY
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Childe listens.
he will listen to your problems, your woes. he will sit next to you, take you in his arms, and soothe you merely by allowing you to speak. you've done the same for him, countless times- it is only good that he returns the favor, and he wants to. Childe wants to hear about everything that makes you angry, everything that causes you to weep. he cannot fix them, but he can treat you gently, kindly, let you know you're cared about.
and inevitably Foul Legacy will emerge, overcome with joined sorrow for you. he tries to keep his tears under control as he purrs, stuttering and nudging against you. he takes the droplets of your frustrations and wipes them away, flicking them into the air and making tiny whales swim around you so perhaps you can laugh and smile again. your Abyssal monster gathers you into his arms, resting your head on his lilac fluff and trilling gently, in reassurance and affection. no longer will you have to mend other's troubles while having everyone ignore your own.
with Childe and Foul Legacy, you are not invisible anymore.
#genshin impact#childe#tartaglia#gi ajax#foul legacy#foul legacy childe#genshin tartagalia#genshin childe#genshin tartaglia#genshin x reader#childe x reader#agh sorry mothlings my emotions have been weird lately in terms of connecting with people#i have a thought that i'm really just a starting point#someone to ease people and support them#and then they find better people and forget about me#or i end up talking them through their problems and i don't get to talk about my own feelings#which i do like helping people don't get me wrong#but man. it can get a little rough#anyways enough sadness#wifi's brainrot#short scenario
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it does kinda make me want to cry like suguru saw these vengeful women and accepted their anger & hatred / chose to become One with them . in a sense. gojo is the only person strong enough to bear the curse that is Suguru Geto but suguru himself is the only one with the ability to bear the suffering of curses …. and many of these curses are conveniently women . his strongest ones. like okay ……
#metaposting on this fine evening#but its true !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#his fixation on women …. i do wish there was more evidence other than . between the lines#bc i do think suguru treats women / girls very deliberately#i think he is very aware that he is a Man and that he is intimidating… i think it’s a big part of why he’s soft-spoken#like he wants to put people at ease . we know this lol#… i don’t know . but i do think he is very connected to womanhood in particular#and i will make it a mommy issues thing#ari noises ✩
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Hello!
Regarding your recent post on Alessandra, did they meet at college or University? I’m pretty sure Peter had a thought or brought it up at one point either with Dick or during his thinking moments.
yeah they met in college! they didn't start dating until a couple years of friendship, and they don't have peter until they're 32 and 31. they're one of those annoying couples who make other people believe in love at first sight and soulmates. really gross (beloved). this was in chapter 13, when peter learned that dick is dating wally in this universe (and he still knows nothing about his mom in this universe)
#peter only knows she's there and that he has a little sister#but he's kind of nervous to see his mom being happy without him#he was eased in for the Bats and already had that connection#but for his mom if he goes to see her he's gonna be sort of jumping into that#and there's also the fear that if he goes and talks to her he REALLY won't want to leave#alessandra parker#peter parker#dick grayson#leap of faith catch me if you can#leap of faith ao3#ao3 fanfic#peter parker in gotham
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thoughts on dave and aradia (<>)?
day 356
BIG fan tbh. in this house we love and respect timerails
truly yall read this log and tell me theyre not cute
#day 356#year 4#dave strider#aradia megido#aradave#homestuck#she really saw this kid and was like OH YOU HAVE ISSUES WITH YOUR MORTALITY?? :D#boy do i have some relevant life experience and wisdom to impart on THAT ISSUE SPECIFICALLY#and then she just. very gently and kindly makes the subject more approachable for ghostdave#the pesterlog i linked is literally my FAVORITE aradia moment. to me it is THE character defining moment for god tier aradia#yes she is being kind of ominous and trickstery at first#but it VERY quickly becomes clear shes got genuine concern for this kid she's had very little to do with up until this point#she really wants to connect with him over their shared time aspect stuff#and she really DOES care about how he feels about everything. she wants to help and she wants to put him at ease#because she KNOWS from experience that being dead and having to cope with what that means for you is like VERY UPSETTING AND TRAUMATIC#shes not just like. 'hee hee i think death is great and awesome because im edgy'#shes like 'no dude being dead is scary if you dont have anybody to explain this shit to you. so im going to explain it-'#'-and hopefully by the end of this conversation you will have some new things to feel relief and maybe even joy and excitement about'#'not just in spite of the death thing but BECAUSE of it'#i know shes spooky and has weirdgirl swag and we all love that about her but like#at her core she is a very KIND person. she may occasionally struggle to connect to people through the Death Special Interest Haze#but she WANTS to and when she DOES she is like. a genuinely very warm and comforting presence for her friends#ANYWAY. if andrew hussie or i guess james roach now want to give me an honorary doctorate for my 12+ years of intensive aradia studies#i will be here waiting patiently#timerails
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if you don’t get them it’s your loss… don’t speak on them


#ballerina x torturer OHHHH YOULL ALWAYS BE LOVED BY ME#the two most insane face cards to ever grace television#text#shannon rutherford#sayid jarrah#sayid x shannon#shayid#lost#chemistry was off the charts#beauty off the charts#thematic connections off the charts#their relationship devours the shows themes with ease like PLEASE#calling them random…. is crazy#naveen worked hARD TO GET HIS HOT LOVE INTEREST#you better put some respect on my man’s name#the only thing Lost was missing was 6 seasons of the two hottest people who only had eyes for each other fcking like crazy
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Those latest Beast!Ganon concepts are really, REALLY Cool! One of my favorite aspects is that they diverge a bit more from the usual "big boar monster" design tropes that we see in canon and incorporate other elements. The wide, flat tail that almost looks amphibic or aquatic is a personal fave, together with the feet being rather wide, and the whole profile being long and low (relatively^^) to the ground makes almost look like some aquatic monster or dragon that rises out of some cursed swamp or something.
Great vibes all around, kudos!
(kept this ask around bc i wanted to add some more concepts for the fight but then id have nothing truly new to put into the big ganondorf post so uuh this is an answer in text now)
Thank you! admittedly, other than taking calamity ganons .. or just its cloud like form really, as inspiration (somewhat beast ganon from twilight princess too, which is my favorite of his canon forms), i think alot of its design is really just ... a "me" thing, i love auqatic animals and the shapes are typical for my monster designs xD (i did want it to be both familiar and different though)
while i cant possibly make an entire attack pattern for him my idea does involve motions like 'swimming' through the ground (turning the ground into malice and swimming through it? straight up burrowing but hes so strong solid stone and earth is like water to him? move this phase to a sandy area so its also a mimic of moldoras? (closest to the forgotten plateau, which is where the end fight is, would be the taobab grassland, which isnt fully sand but more similar, might do soemthign else with that place though, maybe a big horse research site))
(i also dont want all his magical moves, both in beast form and all his other ones, to depend on malice, malice is what fuels his life now, the rage and unbreakable spirit to live, to resist, to not succumb to the schemes of the queen of hyrule of his time, to not fall against this one last descendant of her, he is much more than just hatred but it is what keeps him alive even when he should not be- so as he is skilled in wielding magic, perhaps skills that have since gotten rare (like your friends being the few ones to learn some) he will AT LEAST make use of lightning, if not perhaps even more, perhaps even mirroring what your friends can do directly, just like he will mimic links shiekah tech arm once he 'reforms' his missing arm via malice/taking it from the beast form- ......... and here i go rambling about stuff that will go into the big post ...)
#ganondoodles answers#ganondoodles talks#his ability to wield lightning with ease also implying direct lineage connection to riju?#even though i much prefer everyone is able to learn how to wield magic#if its gotten rare over the dumbass thousands and thousands of years (the time frame is just stupid sorry)#then riju being a distant descendant of him and thus making her learning it more possible is a neat idea#like i want his connection to her be only subtext through that#its not directly said but this and him having had children back in the day is supposed to be a hint#unsure yet if i should bring in direct flashbacks or leave it entirely up for sublte discovery#... maybe i can do a poll about that too at some point lmao#anyway thanks for the ask nhfjkdnfvdjknkdfj#(i do feel like i have posted that design way too mayn times by now .... oh well- gotta try and make some new stuff for it now)
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Elain being an introvert doesn't mean she can never come alive when surrounded by the right people.

What is said of Elain in ACOMAF:

Introverts display extremely introverted behavior when not surrounded by people they feel they can connect with on an emotional level and that's why she's a shell of who she once was.
Despite Elain finding friends in the NC, we've yet to see this version of her there:


The version where we see Elain shine, not the one she is in the NC where she needs to default to a more introverted state because she doesn't have that deep connection with anyone.
Just like that rose necklace, Elain needs to be exposed to light for her true colors to be visible.
#elain archeron#anti e/riel#pro elain archeron#Speaking from experience#I'm extremely introverted#There's only certain people I truly feel at ease with enough to drop my guard#If we've never seen her shine around Az it's because he's not someone she feels at ease with#Even introverts can become outgoing around loved ones who they connect with and spend time with#Az has had a free pass to get to know Elain yet they act like strangers. That's not her being introverted#That's them being like strangers
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I have made an AO3 account (• ▽ •;) apparently I really wanna read some fics
#i probably won't post my stupid comic there tho#or maybe one day I get too bored and too curious and try posting shit there anyways#i just like having the comics in one spot you know?#like. I'm not arrogant enough to think that people might want to read them#but as someone who hates it when the next part of the comic is hard to find-#(not that it should be easy. post however you want. you don't owe others ease of access to your works.)#i want my dumb comic to be easy to find.#this is partly why I usually just reblog the additional comic stuff. it's easier to find all the connected stuff.#although apparently it's gonna be an annoying long post.
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woke up like 40 mins ago at like 4:30 unable to fall back alseep so im once again thinking about ragatha and pomni as The Ocd Havers. its everything to me. oh whoops i ran out of tags on this post
#i also saw a good post abt moral ocd followed by a wildly bad resoonse to it#like 10 mins after waking up#so im esp thinking abt ragatha moral ocd#i like giving them versions of ocd that are unpleasant and not cute and that people have a hard time even acknowledging as real forms of ocd#its probably me giving myself too much credit or holding myself to very silly idras but like#i wanna be able to depict the two or even just characters in general having ocd#in a way that could potentially help someone get a better idea of the different ways that ocd presents...#the amnt of ppl who responded to my ragatha ocd posts w 'wait i do this' is like its not necessarily GOOD to relate but also#i dont think all facets of ocd are well represented so its hard for people to figure that sorta thing out...#so in my heart im like maybe it could help to depict characters in a way i find cathartic and important bc then some ppl will Find Out#esp as someone who only even got diagnosed w ocd once it got bad enough that my therapist was concerned for my safety when i was like 18 ish#(true story... if youre thinking 'how could someone having ocd put their safety at risk'#research magical thinking ocd. andalso responsibility ocd and try connecting random dots and you might find it 👍#but also i think id need to add like 400 tws to this post if i actually elaborated)#point being. ragatha ocd and pomni ocd are dear concepts to me as someone with a very unfun version of ocd#ragathas themes to me are like. moral and responsibility. and yknow what maybe aprinkle in magical thinking too#pomnis themes to me are existential and sensory motor and a little bit of magical thinking too and harm ocd#i think they both would have other themes. after all ocd usually doesnt manifest as Just having a few themes and thats it#ppl usually have a Little Bit of most possible themes and then have some more prominently#and even then themes can shift over time...#i also think both of them have early onset ocd is good because i do too and i like it#ocd thats characterized by it worsening over time!!!!! thats them...#to me human younger pomni spent so much time with just right ocd compulsions#i also generally interpret pomni as having Some Sort Of Issues with anxiety or panic pre entering the circus already#so it relates to that . in my mind#and i do think the circus has made ragathas obsessions so much worse...#bit i think they did exist before the circus. just peobably got more extreme w trauma :(#bc the evil thing abt ocd is that it teams up w trauma. ypu WILL get obsessions related to trauma#ptsd already has unwelcome thoughts abt ur trauma as a component so ocd compounds it and gives you#fake new ways you come up with to ease the fear that if you dont do a compulsion itll Happen Again
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the way Zerith describes it, the Second Era sounds like it was the Golden Age of Tamriel, and that's with all the war, interdimensional invasions and general nonsense going on. Things just got so much worse after the Septims came along
#eso#zerith-var#i know its because in other games you're staying in one place while eso spans the whole continent#but it really does feel like the provinces are more isolated in the third and fourth eras#they're far off lands you only hear rumours about. you don't know what's actually going on there though#whereas in the second era everyone was just travelling everywhere and forging bonds and connections across the world#whether it was because of guilds or tribute or whatever the reason#i just imagine that tiber septim really worked to destroy that ease of movement#its easier to control an empire if people can't travel wherever they like whenever they want#and if you can divide people amongst themselves they're not all focused on you#...yeah the septims and the empire in general really did ruin tamriel huh
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লিখি লোৱা, মই এজন মিঞা ("Write Down 'I am a Miyah'", 2016) by Hafiz Ahmed, translated from Assamese to English by Shalim M. Hussain, began a movement of resistance poetry among Assamese Muslims of Bengali descent, referred to as Miya Poetry after a slur used to describe this community. From Abdul Kalam Azad, for Indian Express ("Write...I am a Miya", 2019):
This poem went viral and other young poets started responding to him through poems. The young poets also started reclaiming “Miya”, a slur used against us, as our identity with pride. This chain of Facebook posts continued for days, reiterating the violence, suffering and humiliation expressed by our community. As time passed, more poets wrote in various languages and dialects, including many Miya dialects. The nomenclature ‘Miya Poetry’ got generated organically but the poets and their associates have been inspired by the Negritude and Black Arts movements, and queer, feminist and Dalit literary movements, where the oppressed have reclaimed the identity which was used to dehumanise them. The trend transcended our community. Poets from the mainstream Assamese community also wrote several poems in solidarity with the Miya poets while some regretted not being poets. Gradually, this became a full-fledged poetry movement and got recognised by other poets, critics and commentators. The quality and soul of these poems are so universal that they started finding prominence on reputed platforms. For the first time in the history of our community, we had started telling our own stories and reclaiming the Miya identity to fight against our harassers who were dehumanising us with the same word. They accused us of portraying the whole Assamese society as xenophobic. The fact is we have just analysed our conditions. Forget generalising the Assamese society as ‘xenophobic’, no Miya poet has ever used the term ‘xenophobic’ nor any of its variants. The guilt complex of our accusers is so profound that they don’t have the patience to examine why we wrote the poems.
Amrita Singh, writing for The Caravan ("Assam Against Itself", 2019), detailed the political backlash against Miya Poetry, in particular the above poem.
On 10 July this year, Pranabjit Doloi, an Assam-based journalist, filed a complaint at Guwahati’s Panbazar police station accusing ten people of indulging in criminal activities “to defame the Assamese people as Xenophobic in the world.” Doloi claimed that the ten people were trying to hinder the ongoing updation of the National Register of Citizens, a list of Assam’s Indian citizens that is due to be published on 31 August. The premise of Doloi’s complaint was a widely-circulated poem called, “Write down I am Miya,” by Hafiz Ahmed, a school teacher and social activist. “Write. Write down I am a Miya/ A citizen of democratic secular republic without any rights,” Ahmed wrote. The police registered a first information report against Doloi’s complaint, booking all ten persons for promoting enmity between groups, among other offences. [...] At the press conference, Mander emphasised that people in Assam are in distress because of the NRC’s arbitrary and rigid procedures. “One spelling mistake when you are writing a Bengali name in English … that is enough for you to be in a detention center, declared a foreigner,” Mander said. “If you are not allowing this lament to come out in the form of poetry, then where is this republic of India going?”
Ahmed's poem is influenced in structure by "Identity Card", a 1964 poem by by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish which uses the symbolic figure of the Palestinian working man to confront Israeli occupiers. Darwish's identity card, a symbol of Israeli subjugation transformed into a cry of Palestinian national identity, is reshaped by Ahmed into the National Register of Citizens for Assam and the accompanying fear of statelessness and disenfranchisement for the Miya people.
This solidarity between writers from oppressed groups is, of course, not one that ends with Darwish and Ahmed, nor with the Black, queer, feminist, and Dalit influences of Miya Poetry. As long as there is oppression, there will be companionship and recognition reflected in art and activism. On December 13, 2023, Black Agenda Report reprinted Refaat Alareer's "If I Must Die", acknowledging the connection between Alareer's poem and "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay, written in 1919 in response to the Red Summer white supremacist riots. In 2000, Haitian community activist Dahoud Andre translated "If We Must Die" into Kreyòl, and the Black Agenda Report editorial honors Alareer in a similar way, reprinting "If I Must Die" with an accompanying Kreyòl translation. (POEM: If I Must Die, Refaat Alareer, 2023.)
Transcripts under the cut.
[Hafiz Ahmed Transcripts (Assamese and English):
লিখি লোৱা, মই এজন মিঞা
লিখা, লিখি লোৱা মই এজন মিঞা এন. আৰ. চিৰ ক্রমিক নং ২০০৫৪৩ দুজন সন্তানৰ বাপেক মই, অহাবাৰ গ্ৰীষ্মত জন্ম ল’ব আৰু এজনে তাকো তুমি ঘিণ কৰিবা নেকি যিদৰে ঘিণ কৰা মোক?
লিখি লোৱা, মই এজন মিঞা পতিত ভূমি, পিতনিক মই ৰূপান্তৰিত কৰিছোঁ শস্য-শ্যামলা সেউজী পথাৰলৈ তোমাক খুৱাবলৈ মই ইটা কঢ়িয়াইছোঁ তোমাৰ অট্টালিকা সাজিবলৈ, তোমাৰ গাড়ী চলাইছোঁ তোমাক আৰাম দিবলৈ, তোমাৰ নৰ্দমা ছাফা কৰিছোঁ তোমাক নিৰোগী কৰি ৰাখিবলৈ, তোমাৰে সেৱাতে মগন মই অনবৰত তাৰ পিছতো কিয় তুমি খৰ্গহস্ত? লিখা, লিখি লোৱা মই এজন মিঞা গণতান্ত্ৰিক, গণৰাজ্য এখনৰ নাগৰিক এজন যাৰ কোনো অধিকাৰ নাইকিয়া মাতৃক মোৰ সজোৱা হৈছে সন্দেহযুক্ত ভোটাৰ যদিও পিতৃ-মাতৃ তাইৰ নিঃসন্দেহে ভাৰতীয়
ইচ্ছা কৰিলেই তুমি মোক হত্যা কৰিব পাৰা, জ্বলাই দিব পৰা মোৰ খেৰৰ পঁজা, খেদি দিব পাৰা মোক মোৰেই গাঁৱৰ পৰা, কাঢ়ি নিব পাৰা মোৰ ��েউজী পথাৰ মোৰ বুকুৰ ওপৰেৰে চলাব পাৰা তোমাৰ বুলড্জাৰ তোমাৰ বুলেটে বুকুখন মোৰ কৰিব পাৰে থকাসৰকা (তোমাৰ এই কাৰ্যৰ বাবে তুমি কোনো স্তিও নোপোৱা) যুগ-যুগান্তৰ তোমাৰ অত্যাচাৰ সহ্য কৰি ব্ৰহ্মপুত্ৰৰ চৰত বাস কৰা মই এজন মিঞা মোৰ দেহা হৈ পৰিছে নিগ্ৰো কলা মোৰ চকুযুৰি অঙঠাৰ দৰে ৰঙা সাৱধান! মোৰ দুচকুত জমা হৈ আছে যুগ যুগান্তৰৰ বঞ্চনাৰ বাৰুদ আঁতৰি যোৱা, নতুবা অচিৰেই পৰিণত হ’বা মূল্যহীন ছাইত!
Write Down ‘I am a Miyah’ Hafiz Ahmed, 2016 trans. Shalim M. Hussain
Write Write Down I am a Miya My serial number in the NRC is 200543 I have two children Another is coming Next summer. Will you hate him As you hate me?
write I am a Miya I turn waste, marshy lands To green paddy fields To feed you. I carry bricks To build your buildings Drive your car For your comfort Clean your drain To keep you healthy. I have always been In your service And yet you are dissatisfied! Write down I am a Miya, A citizen of a democratic, secular, Republic Without any rights My mother a D voter, Though her parents are Indian.
If you wish kill me, drive me from my village, Snatch my green fields hire bulldozers To roll over me. Your bullets Can shatter my breast for no crime.
Write I am a Miya Of the Brahamaputra Your torture Has burnt my body black Reddened my eyes with fire. Beware! I have nothing but anger in stock. Keep away! Or Turn to Ashes.
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[Mahmoud Darwish Transcripts (Arabic and English):
سجِّل أنا عربي ورقمُ بطاقتي خمسونَ ألفْ وأطفالي ثمانيةٌ وتاسعهُم.. سيأتي بعدَ صيفْ! فهلْ تغضبْ؟ سجِّلْ أنا عربي وأعملُ مع رفاقِ الكدحِ في محجرْ وأطفالي ثمانيةٌ أسلُّ لهمْ رغيفَ الخبزِ، والأثوابَ والدفترْ من الصخرِ ولا أتوسَّلُ الصدقاتِ من بابِكْ ولا أصغرْ أمامَ بلاطِ أعتابكْ فهل تغضب؟ سجل أنا عربي أنا اسم بلا لقبِ صَبورٌ في بلادٍ كلُّ ما فيها يعيشُ بفَوْرةِ الغضبِ جذوري قبلَ ميلادِ الزمانِ رستْ وقبلَ تفتّحِ الحقبِ وقبلَ السّروِ والزيتونِ .. وقبلَ ترعرعِ العشبِ أبي.. من أسرةِ المحراثِ لا من س��دةٍ نُجُبِ وجدّي كانَ فلاحاً بلا حسبٍ.. ولا نسبِ! يُعَلّمني شموخَ الشمسِ قبلَ قراءةِ الكتبِ وبيتي’ كوخُ ناطورٍ منَ الأعوادِ والقصبِ فهل تُرضيكَ منزلتي؟ أنا اسم بلا لقبِ! سجلْ أنا عربي ولونُ الشعرِ.. فحميٌّ ولونُ العينِ.. بنيٌّ وميزاتي: على رأسي عقالٌ فوقَ كوفيّه وكفّي صلبةٌ كالصخرِ... تخمشُ من يلامسَها وعنواني: أنا من قريةٍ عزلاءَ منسيّهْ شوارعُها بلا أسماء وكلُّ رجالها في الحقلِ والمحجرْ فهل تغضبْ؟ سجِّل! أنا عربي سلبتُ كرومَ أجدادي وأرضاً كنتُ أفلحُها أنا وجميعُ أولادي ولم تتركْ لنا.. ولكلِّ أحفادي سوى هذي الصخورِ... فهل ستأخذُها حكومتكمْ.. كما قيلا!؟ إذنْ سجِّل.. برأسِ الصفحةِ الأولى أنا لا أكرهُ الناسَ ولا أسطو على أحدٍ ولكنّي.. إذا ما جعتُ آكلُ لحمَ مغتصبي حذارِ.. حذارِ.. من جوعي ومن غضبي!!
Identity Card Mahmoud Darwish, 1964 trans. Denys Johnson-Davies
Put it on record. I am an Arab
And the number of my card is fifty thousand I have eight children And the ninth is due after summer. What's there to be angry about?
Put it on record. I am an Arab
Working with comrades of toil in a quarry. I have eight children For them I wrest the loaf of bread, The clothes and exercise books From the rocks And beg for no alms at your door, Lower not myself at your doorstep. What's there to be angry about?
Put it on record. I am an Arab.
I am a name without a title, Patient in a country where everything Lives in a whirlpool of anger. My roots Took hold before the birth of time Before the burgeoning of the ages, Before cypress and olive trees, Before the proliferation of weeds.
My father is from the family of the plough Not from highborn nobles.
And my grandfather was a peasant Without line or genealogy.
My house is a watchman's hut Made of sticks and reeds.
Does my status satisfy you? I am a name without a surname.
Put it on record. I am an Arab.
Color of hair: jet black. Color of eyes: brown. My distinguishing features: On my head the `iqal cords over a keffiyeh Scratching him who touches it.
My address: I'm from a village, remote, forgotten, Its streets without name And all its men in the fields and quarry. What's there to be angry about?
Put it on record. I am an Arab.
You stole my forefathers' vineyards And land I used to till, I and all my children, And you left us and all my grandchildren Nothing but these rocks. Will your government be taking them too As is being said?
So! Put it on record at the top of page one: I don't hate people, I trespass on no one's property.
And yet, if I were to become hungry I shall eat the flesh of my usurper. Beware, beware of my hunger And of my anger!
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#it speaks!#re: the tag on my last reblogged post. decided to make that point its own post!#this is long obviously and im employing proper capitalization for ease of reading#obligatory im monolingual disclaimer & cant vouch for translation quality; i chose the johnson-davies translation because ->#<- it is the one i see most commonly spread. i take responsibility for any deficiencies.#going to use some tags because im personally interested in this poetic movement & connection & maybe other people will be too!#palestine#palestinian poetry#assam#miya poetry#political poetry#poetry#in translation
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I think we don't talk enough about the simple but genius fact that the eggs are played by admins.
Like with the ccs' characters, you're almost guaranteed that their death will be a choice form the cc themself, and will give some sort of satisfying conclusion to the character's story, even if them dying is sad.
But with the eggs? Being played by people who are not there to be the stars of the show but support the ccs? Death will always be brutal and accidental and unfair. It adds actual stakes in a world full of immortal characters who can just respawn infinitely.
Suddenly, there's a more important reason as to why you're playing and grinding for good gear, beyond just enjoying the game. You can't let your kid die. They WILL die if you don't take care of them. They WILL get killed by a random monster or The Evil NPC of the week if you're not careful. And once they're gone, they're gone.
Yeah, maybe if the admin stays an admin, you'll cross paths with them as another NPC, but it'll never be the same relationship again. You'll never see your kid again.
And that's suuuuuch a good tool for storytelling.
#qsmp#qsmp eggs#dont mind me it just struck me out of nowhere#that without the eggs the more serious part of the rp would have been sorta exclusive to the ccs qho actively enjoy rp#meanwhile with this system even the ppl who are less at ease with rp have a connection to the server's lore#and i think thats awesome
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I’m feeling deeply unwell about Dot and Cleo and their whole deals and their friendship today how are you
#got to Kinship and the larp episode in my rewatch and I’m SCREAMING#they are mirrors of each other!#they are so different and so similar!#this is their first peer connection outside of where they grew up#they have the capability to understand each other and ease one another’s burdens but they are both so new to vulnerability#cleo is tentatively but willingly reaching out while dot wants to but is ashamed of that wanting!#cleophee guilemoth#the granddaughter#unend#unend podcast#midst#midst podcast#eve watches midst
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I completely get Sakito not being that interested in the BBG. I think people forget that it's a year long race and Sakito likes being able to do his own thing, so being locked into racing for a whole year just wouldn't be for him.
#it's too confining and he wants to work on earth he wants to help people like him#he has a lot of room to discover how to do that and he can go at his own pace#i don't think people get how much trust is between sakito and taiya#sakito stays not only for himself and to connect his dream with taiya's#but he also stays bc he knows it's the push taiya needs#taiya won't just leave earth defenseless and he's not okay with someone not being there for the kids#sakito stays bc he wants his friends to reach their goals he wants to do his part in changing earth#he wants to make the world better and he wants to ease the minds of his friends#he wants to help his friends it's been established that he really does#and while he might like being with them his freedom and overall care for them reigns supreme#idk if any of this makes sense#boonboomger spoilers#boonboomger lb#super sentai lb#umbrella.posts#umbrella.thoughts
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