#and I nearly burst into tears

[overcaffeinated-ginger]

Have you ever been so touch starved that any time someone accidentally brushes up against you it feels like a little electric shock? That's where I'm at.

[slothquisitor]

Finally made it to winter break despite the fact this past week was definitely trying to kill me.

Invisible String will update this weekend (or Monday, we'll see). My anxiety was the worst it's been since starting my new medication and it made doing anything this week utterly impossible. But it's the weekend and I have slept and cuddled my dog and I have nothing else I need to do besides go support my friend at her Christmas market tonight.

I've got art and fic plans and feeling like it's probably time to make an updated fic masterlist.

I need to reread Mrs. Dalloway ahead of teaching it in January, but that's like...a single afternoon activity. And we hired a teacher, and it was the sub who was already there, so me and the other department chair don't have to do *anything*. We've made it.

[artinandwritin]

I'm making a lil paper animation with the concepts of stopmotion for school based on the httyd books! All I gotta add in now is Toothless jumping onto the rock but I have to do that digitally sadly. It's a pretty fun process ngl and the result is looking great to me

[satyrn-exe]

SPOILERS FOR TF1

well he certainly did try.

[morganas-pendragons]

*slides this into the chat* I am BEGGING the lord of the rings girls to PLEASE listen to this and cry with me

[oktobearfest]

my entire twitter feed is full of people discovering piglet's big game for the first time bc of how creepy the music and some of the levels are. meanwhile im here like. that was one of my core childhood games i played the fuck out of that when i was younger

[himbeaux-on-ice]

so. confession time. i am on an adventure.

[dizzy-hat]

i ❤️ death wish!!

[palms-upturned]

Al Jazeera correspondent receives threat telling her to leave her home

Oct 30th, 11:50 GMT

Youmna ElSayed, reporting from Gaza City

Our reporter in Gaza City has been told to leave her home. She made this live broadcast from inside her building as explosions from Israeli air attacks were going off all around her.

The phone call that we received was from a private number. The caller addressed my husband with his full name and told him that “This is the Israeli army, we are telling you to evacuate south because in the coming hours it is going to be very dangerous in the area where you are at.”

My husband told him that we know there were tanks is Salah al-Din Street, that’s the main street linking northern Gaza to the south, and he said, “I can’t answer you on which route you would take but the main street could be relatively safer, you should find out yourself but you need to move now”.

In the midst of all this bombardment, I don’t know how safe it would be to actually take our car and leave and drive under this heavy bombardment. It’s very risky, it doesn’t seem safe at all; in the past days, we’ve been seeing videos of cars that were directly targeted while they were on the street going to the south.

So it’s really a very tense situation, I don’t think that if I risk my life and the life of my kids to take this journey that this could be a right decision. And at the same time, they called us directly and warned us telling us to leave now but the bombardment is relentless, how are people like me and others are going to be able to leave? I don’t know what options we have right now.

There are seven families overall in this building. Some of them have their relatives living with them as well, so there are about 100 people in this building. None of the other six families got a warning call from the Israeli military, like we did, so this was a direct threat just to us, to our family.

Listen to Youmna ElSayed report on this live on air while bombardments can be heard nearby

Oct 30th, 12:00 GMT

Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh, who is in Gaza City right now, says heavy smoke can be seen in the area and Israel is carrying out air strikes using white phosphorous on civilian houses.

(emphasis mine)

Evacuation warning to AJ correspondent ‘very worrying’: Media watchdog

Oct 30th, 12:30 GMT

We reported earlier that the husband of Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza City, Youmna ElSayed, received a threatening phone call from the Israeli army telling the family to leave their home immediately, as explosions were going off all around their neighbourhood.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Khadija Patel, chairperson of the International Press Institute, described the call as a “very worrying” development.

“This is an indication of deliberate targeting of journalists, something that we are concerned about as part of a trend that we are seeing within this conflict,” she added.

“We want to … urge the Israeli forces to protect the lives and work of journalists in this war.”

[baeshijima]

girl i don't even go here but your duke sunday fic has me in a chokehold so bad i read it every once every week and i downloaded hsr because of it

HELLO THIS IS SO ????? cries im happy u enjoy the duke sunday blurb sm and even downloaded hsr bc of it hello ???? 😭 im actually in the midst of making it into a series rn !! writing at least some chapters beforehand bc i know otherwise i wont get very far with it 🫠

[fairyofshampgyu]

How is beomgyu even a real person like 😭😭 I swear I have just never seen a prettier person ever he’s so beautiful I can’t even I don’t even what how why is he so fucking handsome HOW

[dreaminofu]

BIG DAY TODAY FOR ME AND I JUST WANT TO SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS ❤️

[daniclaytcn]

ANDRE BRAUGHER???

[bisexualfemalemess]

And Another thing season 3 needs to provide: Penelope saying she prefers Mrs. Bridgerton wether it’s because colin or eloise call her lady whistledown post reveal or anyone else still calls her miss Featherington, i do not care i just need her to correct people and say “actually, it’s mrs Bridgerton.”

[matineemonsters]

I am having. A day. and so I truly cannot overstate how grateful I am to the universe that I have a large bathtub in which I can soak like a disaffected, chain smoking, 1920's Parisian socialite

[tunastime]

We be reading ^-^

HELLO!!! OH MY GOSH!!!! WE DO BE READING!!! :O