Nasir rubbed his hands together as he walked through the hospital with an air of ease about him. At this point, everyone knew him, as he was there so often. "Hey!" he said walking past a few nurses that buzzed him through the doors so that he could get deeper into the hospital. They shouldn't have let him through so easily, but again, he was a regular. He made his way towards Sunday's office, slapping hands with a few doctors and other medical staff as he did.
Seeing her door open, he grinned and walked right on inside. He plopped down in her chair and spun around twice before he grabbed a ball off her desk and began tossing it up and catching it.
Kiana pushed through the door of Swede Things holding a large canvas wrapped in gift wrap for Agnes. The woman had been so helpful in offering her pictures and various details of her home for Kiana to paint that she had to do something as a thank you. Sitting the canvas against the wall, Kiana walked around the place a bit, looking for Agnes. On her search for the woman, she got side tracked, picking up a beautiful piece of blown glass to admire. Glass blowing wasn't a talent that she'd picked up. Drawing, yes; painting, yes; ceramics, yes; sculpting, no an extent; glass blowing, a hard no. Maybe one day swede things would hold a class so that she could learn.
who: open to all
where: the bay community park
Xavier tossed the ball across the green, watching as the beautiful golden retriever sprinted after it. The dog, Ace, ran after the ball, snatched it up and trotted back to Xavier, dropping it at his feet for another go. Scooping the ball up, Xavier let it fly again, this time maybe giving it a little too much gusto as it almost hit an innocent bystander. "Shit," he muttered as Ace of course chased after the ball regardless, invading all type of personal space. "Ace!" Xavier called before he jogged over. "Sorry!" he apologized quickly, grabbing Ace by his harness to keep him at bay. "Guess the old arm's still got some power," he chuckled out jokingly.
Billiards weren't the only game they could play. There was beer pong, darts, and four quarters. Unless they wanted to get creative, kick things up a notch and take the stakes someplace else. River knew a place but, it could get pretty fucking gory. "There's a ring about a block from here. You could fight me for it. That is, if you don't mind getting a bloody nose." River's partaken in a few matches. He's probably won one out of the four total he's participated in. It was never about obtaining the title for him, though. He joined in mainly to feel something. "You in?"
"The show's not over until the mockingjay sings," she said.
"The mockingjay?" He laughed. "Really, I think you're just making these things up."
"Not that one. A mockingjay's a bonafide bird," she assured him.
"And it sings in your show?" he asked.
"Not my show, sweetheart. Yours. The Capitol's, anyway."
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location: beach creek oyster bar and grille
Sometimes after a long day at the school Nasir liked to go straight home, crack open a beer and just watch some bad tv. Other times, like tonight, he wanted to be catered to. So, he found himself at the Beach Creek Oyster Bar and Grille. Taking a seat at the bar, he took his cap off his head and rested it in front of him before he ran his hands down his face in exhaustion. The kids wore him clean out. Reaching over the counter, he grabbed a menu and began to look though it before he looked up and waved Jette over. "Hey JJ," he hummed out tiredly. "I'll just take the usual tonight. Whatever's on the tap and a burger."
closed — @swedethings
location: agnes' converted barn
Kiana hummed softly to herself as she approached the barn with a bouquet of flowers from Fleur en Fleur in hand. Agnes had told her that she didn't have to bring a thing, but she couldn't resist. So, flowers seemed like a decent compromise. They weren't too flashy and she wasn't showing up empty handed. A win was a win. Tucking her locs behind her ears, she knocked on the door to the converted barn and waited with a bright smile plastered across her face.
on twitter, a viral thread started where people around the world shared their translations of “If I must die”, the last work of Dr Refaat Alareer also known as "the voice of Gaza". A beloved poet, teacher and life-long activist for Palestine, he was recently assassinated along with members of his extended family by a targeted Israeli air strike. His loss leaves a hole in the heart of palestinians all over the world.
Below the cut, I’ll be posting the translations of his poem, with links to the original posts. Unfortunately, tumblr limits posts to a maximum of 30 images. I will update when I can.
Buffy season 6 is insane. It’s like what if someone you loved died a meaningful and accepting death but you couldn’t live without them so you brought them back. And against all odds, they didn’t come back wrong, but they didn’t WANT to come back at all, and now they have to learn to live in this world again while resenting their friends and family for taking the death they willingly chose away from them. And existence is hell compared to death because in life they never get a break and never get to rest because they’re constantly needed by everyone. And they can’t chose to die a second time because they know what it would do to their loved ones who still never got over the fact that they died the first time. And also there’s a musical episode.