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Abd Al-Wahhab Al-Bayyati, tr. by Sargon Boulus and Christopher Middleton, from Modern Arabic Poetry: an anthology; “The birth of Aisha and her death”

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“Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.”

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the whole argument that “it’s just tumblr rp” so it doesn’t matter if the community is inclusive and diverse is such bs. yeah this is just a hobby and we aren’t professional writers with novels on the new york times best seller lists or whatever BUT INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY DO MATTER HERE TOO.

not everyone lives in places where there’s a diverse population. the amount of friends i’ve made in this community where i’m their only friend of color or the only muslim they’ve met is insane. the first time i learned about people who identify as nonbinary or gender fluid is on this website within this community. tumblr taught me preferred pronouns way before it started being integrated in the real world. fictional characters have ALWAYS played a part in humanizing communities that are normally othered or only shown in a horrible light. that’s why you read stories like the house on mango street, to kill a mockingbird, bud not buddy, the boy in striped pyjamas, their eyes were watching god, the kite runner, etc in school. through fiction people are allowed to glimpse into lives and experiences they haven’t lived themselves. that’s important! fictional characters are important! 

when people say representation matters, they don’t mean just for the people the story is representing. i don’t know how i can stress that enough. 

representation matters because my bff from high school ashley never questioned her conservative parents expecting her to marry inside her own race until she developed a crush on scott mccall from teen wolf. ( she’s white & currently happily married to a biracial man ).

representation matters because i had a friend tell me they didn’t “get” the whole “black lives matter” thing until poussey washington from orange is the new black was killed during a protest that happened in the 4th season. she was a character they really liked and when she died senselessly all of a sudden my friend just understood. 

representation matters cause another friend of mine told me he didn’t notice the lack of representation in hollywood until he took his asian girlfriend to go see crazy rich asians in theatres and she couldn’t stop smiling & gushing about it the whole ride home. 

representation matters because the amount of white / nonblack poc / some black people themselves who didn’t know about the tulsa race massacre until watchmen came out is insane? but it was through fictional characters that they were able to be taught history they didn’t know.

representation matters because one time in a group i was playing a latina character and while plotting with another member ( who was white ), they told me they didn’t know latinas could be so nice???? like they genuinely thought i was doing something groundbreaking by having my camila mendes character be shy & sweet. they didn’t mean it offensively and tbh that kinda made it worse.

i could literally keep going but i’ve already written enough. diversity matters. seeing characters of color be brought to life matters even if those characters are just on tumblr dot com and not in published literature or in television shows / movies. there are people in this community who don’t know any people of color or people in the lgbtq+ community or people from religions that aren’t christianity in their real lives. their only exposure is through this “hobby”. THAT’S WHY REPRESENTATION MATTERS! no one is saying you aren’t allowed to play white muses or to even limit the amount of white muses you play? we’re just asking that you branch out of your comfort zone and bring more range into the community. do the work, help us carry the load. it can’t just be up to the minority to diversify this space we all occupy.

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    They rose from the depths of chaos and depravity, the most powerful vampires upon the face of the earth; and beneath their lethal jurisdiction the rest bowed in bitter TERROR.

                                    THERE IS NO IMPUNITY

      Blood pays for blood. The Most Divine House of Day and The Most Unholy House of Night have ruled over the world for millennia – a hundred thousand years of fear, a hundred thousand years of majesty and sin so sacred that it burns. Their courts are shrouded in darkness, their empires expanded through terror. Beneath them, there has been beauty, awe; cruelty, m a s s a c r e .  And like gods of the unholy divine, they kiss and conquer and destroy; bathed in vainglory and draped in lace. They are immortal in splendor; as is their legacy, shining with the radiance of a thousand black suns. And as the heavens rain darkness, the masses fall at their feet: and in their wake the ground grows slick with blood, tasting of carnage as primal as the birth of the world. Death courts them, desolation trembles at their name.         Languidly, they reign in their palace of crystal chandeliers and scarlet silk – and in those shadowed courts of smoke and fury, prepare to devour all which lays before them. Cruelty is an artform, and killing a sport. They strike their enemies down like lambs at a slaughter - with such exquisite grace that it could almost be called b e a u t i f u l . They have ruled the world since the beginning of time. And what could stop them now?

                                 IN THIS HOUSE OF G O D S

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literature family: nikolai lantsov for @amiramahmood​

“Nikolai,” he corrected. “But I’ve also been known to answer to ‘sweetheart’ or ‘handsome’.

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Injuries Reference List

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Anne Carson, from Red Doc>

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Wale Ayinla, from “Portrait of a Boy with Grief”

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six of crows; inej ghafa

❛  HER SILKS WERE FEATHERS AND SHE WAS F R E E…

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– my balance.

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salt & vinegar chips are snacks for fucking masochists. literally the entire flavour of the goddamn chip is “acetic acid, which will hurt your tongue, and then just salt on top of that to hurt it worse”. it’s brutal. this chip is designed to hurt you

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part of becoming confident with yourself is just… posting it anyway. writing it anyway. even if you feel like it won’t be recognized, the process is just as important as the results. if you like what you do and who you are that validation will come naturally. shit won’t feel forced either.

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KETTERDAM - Fictional Postcards 1/?

“People point guns at each other all the time in Ketterdam. It’s basically a handshake.”

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Supernatural beings:     Angels

In fine art, angels are usually depicted as having the shape of human beings of extraordinary beauty; they are often identified using the symbols of bird wings, halos, and light.

for my angel Farah @lvdybird, Happy birthday ♡

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Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923–1927

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― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince