#having been a child myself once

[elizeshiro]

i read about this story when it first came out, hours after the incident on the live updates page

the instagram post doesn't cover it, but she had an elder sister, layan, 15 years old who survived with her at first, and was on the phone with a red crescent operator as they were flanked, stuck in the car between tanks.

she's not mentioned as missing in this post because she was gunned down while on call. the recording is available online, and i don't know if her screaming or her screaming stopping suddenly was worse.

her 6/7 year old sister, now the only survivor, was on the phone with the operator for 3 hours, constantly asking to be taken away because she was scared. (I'm not sure why this article says she's 4, all other sources I've seen have mentioned her as 6 or 7.)

I've seen some genuinely fucking horrible things about this story from people who don't even want to believe the war is real. i hope she is alive, at peace, and in safety with the red crescent team that was dispatched to her.

her mother and grandmother are at a gazan hospital, waiting for her. they've conducted interviews.

“She is a little girl, her only dream is to be a doctor and treat people.”

The girl’s grandmother, Hind Hamada, said she was “hopeful” that her granddaughter would be returned “without delay.”

She said Hind had called them from the car saying, “Come and get me, I want to go home, and I want my family.”

“We want to take Hind to a hospital to treat her because she was injured,” the grandmother said.

Although the family hope that the PRCS rescue crew are taking “care of her” daughter, they couldn’t say so with any certainty.

“Every time I hear the sound of an ambulance, I go to the door and think my daughter is coming,” Hind’s mother Wissam told CNN.

“Every time I hear the sound of any strike, any shell, or a bullet my heart hurts because I think of this bullet being so close to my daughter. Any hit, I feel it’s coming to my daughter.”

the prcs frontline responders, volunteers, are donating their own blood to help patients due to lack of medical resources and equipment to store the blood needed for transfusions properly.

if you will not believe in the war, if you will not support those in need, if you don't even care, just... don't make it worse, at least. seeing those horrible things said about people actively being shot at and bombed — is this how far we've come?

maybe no one was in the right, but no one deserves to die like this too.

They moved heaven and earth for five dead billionaires. Not a sound for children under mortal danger.

Where is Hind?

[seasicksilver]

good old times

[hyakunana]

"Anyone can find happiness. That's the world we're striving for!"

[ickypuppi3]

thinking about the way billy smiled when he saw that it was steve outside the byers and how quickly it all changed when he realised steve was lying to his face

[dootznbootz]

This might be my asexualness speaking but simply putting your faces together, nuzzling, and quick pecks on cheeks/forehead/nose/etc. will ALWAYS be more loving/intimate than kissing on the lips.

To me, those "smaller" acts of affection are more intimate as it's simply a physical reminder of "Hey, I care about you" and/or "I love being close to you".

I've seen so many people make out just to make out even with folks they don't know (Good for them! I do not care what others do as long as everybody involved is okay!) and I think for Allos, the act of kissing each other's lips is a way to gain physical "pleasure" as well as there are a lot of nerves on the lips.

But lil kisses elsewhere? Your skin isn't touching their skin enough to GAIN any pleasure for yourself other than a happy "I'm just letting you know I care" sorta thing you know? And if it is prolonged nuzzling/closeness, it's still just very "soft". You're doing a small physical act of affection for THEM. And idk I just really love that. Little reminders of love for THEIR sake, you know?

[orcelito]

Actually, on the topic of the baby fever. God it's so frustrating. Bc when I was like 14 ish I was Adamant that I never ever wanted kids. And my dad said smth around the lines of "that'll likely change" (probably from his own experience with this) and I was like NO. it WONT.

And then eventually, age 21-22 ish, I admitted that Okay, I still don't want to have my own kids, but someday maybe I'll adopt...

And Now, 27 years old, I got the general baby fever on occasion. It Did fucking change. And I don't know if I actually WILL bother with having my own kid (I still don't want to go through the hassle and massive body changes). But god. I do see a fucking baby and feel that stab of longing. It's almost like my damned hormones betrayed me or smth. Maddening!

I shall simply write fanfic about it.

[seaslimes]

Conversations with another, smaller, weaker self.

[nautilusgays]

Hey guys I know most of y'all are in a different time zone to me but im gonna be spending a lot of time in an airport today (I hate airports*) so if anyone wants to send asks or drabble prompts I would greatly appreciate the distraction!

*also known as: Sensory Hell

[friendly-neighborhood-furry]

had another weird-ass dream last night and since this apparently a pattern now, there was a new rob design in it.

so it is with great honor that i now present to you all…

“robsune miku”

(my boyfriend wanted miku to be saying this lol)

he (she?) actually called himself (herself??) that in the dream. no idea how my brain came up with that or why “robsune miku” was half dragon but okay. cool. thanks brain.

she (i’m just gonna say she cuz its miku) was actually pretty cool in the dream. i think i had to fight her at some point and she became fully dragon halfway through the fight. it was super kickass and i think she killed me

drawing this also reminded me of how much i like miku! what a marvel of engineering! how far we've come since the IBM 7094! and how poetic is it that when setting out to make a digital person, humanity first gave it a voice!

[echo-s-land]

It's insane how most of the time I don't get how ppl interact and I also Don't Fucking Care

[cuteniaarts]

Completely outside of my usual drawing niche, but yesterday I was talking to my sister and she showed me an old drawing I made for her in 2021 that I had deleted and completely forgot about. There was a period of time when my sister was absolutely OBSESSED with Wings of Fire, so I drew a humanisation (I can barely draw humans, man, I would actually combust if asked to draw a dragon) of a pre-canon younger version of one of her favourite characters, Peril, who I also have a soft spot for because, you guessed it, I found a way to link her to my main obsession :’) And when I saw that old piece, I just knew I had to redraw it

+ The original, low quality bc I screenshotted my sister filming her tablet screen over video call, under the cut to save myself some embarrassment 😅

[holedyke]

of course the night i need to get to bed at a reasonable hour bc i have a early rise is ruined by my own brain working me up into a complete meltdown 😵‍💫 i am a prisoner to myselfffff

[astral-catastrophe]

me and the generic extra strong Tylenol and the pure rage in my system

[outlying-hyppocrate]

as i've made it increasingly clear with my therapist i am completely unaware of how to categorize my feelings. i can recognize them fairly adequately but most of the time it is as though they are not there. and sometimes i feel like i am only putting on a show of emotion because i am "supposed to". even when i am brought to tears by something that disturbs me (which is not very often and becoming even less so) i do not "feel" anything but the knots in my throat and the dampness of my face. often i think i should go have a look in the mirror instead.

[iras17514]

i love studying childbirth because it just reaffirms my resolve to never ever do that ever ever ever

[sacredpit]

have y’all seen that tweet that’s like “i’m probably nonbinary but i have a job so idrc about that rn.” that is so heavily kakyoin coded