#the north sea

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

The North Sea (1955)

-Patrick von Kalckreuth, Germany (1898-1970)

[postcard-from-the-past]

Battle of Heligoland Bight, the first Anglo-German naval battle of the First World War, fought on 28 August 1914 in the North Sea

French vintage postcard

[poeticnorth]

Some general ramblings about one of the holidays I created for my practiced

[amkalus]

Inspiration for The Sea Whisperer

It has been a long-time wish of mine to write about the sea. I wanted to create a story that was personal, with characters who are close to my heart and who I hoped would resonate with others the same strong way they do with me. And so came the idea for The Sea Whisperer.

I want to start by telling you a little something about my ideas for the settings in the story.

I was born in an Eastern European coastal town on the Black Sea, and wandering the beaches barefoot and climbing rocks long after sunset is not unfamiliar to me. Surely, no man who has ever seen and felt the fearsome might and vast beauty of the sea can ever love any other natural phenomenon as much.

At least that was the case with me, ever since I was a child. The taste of the sea was constantly on my tongue, the stone-cracking zenith heat of the sun on my skin, and the briny scent of dried seaweed in my nostrils. (And yes, roasted mussels are not just my main character’s favorite, they’re also my favorite.) But it was not just during the summer. I was on those shores every season.

The Black Sea was called that because metal objects from ships, dead plants, and animal matter that sunk deeper than 150 meters for a long time became covered with black sludge due to the high concentration of hydrogen sulfide in the sea. Or they called it that because of the severe black-clouded storms that occur there. Either way, the name has an ominous sound. It didn't stop me from loving it, though.

I was blessed once, for having been so close to the sea in my childhood and then second time, when in 2019 I was accepted at a university in another coastal town, in the far windswept northeastern UK, and thus never had to part with the sea.

And oh, the North Sea is so fierce and dark that they had to build solid seawall defenses to contain it and prevent it from devouring the entire coastline of the town. Even so, the rumbling waves utterly destroyed half of the wooden groynes last winter, and the wind whispered and howled for days.

No wonder the Danes called this sea The Old Gray Widow-Maker.

Here's a short video of mine to show you what a majestic thing it is.

[northgazaupdates]

Heartbreaking news out of north Gaza today

We write to inform you that renowned journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul and cameraman Ramy El-Rifi of Al-Jazeera were murdered just a few hours ago by the occupation. They were going out to document the scene of another bombing attack, when they were deliberately targeted by the occupation. Footage provided by journalist Osama Al-Ashi in the immediate aftermath of the attack shows that Ismail and Ramy were murdered with targeted precision weaponry, meaning the occupation watched them, waited for them, and executed them in cold blood (warning: graphic footage).

Ismail and Ramy have been documenting the genocide at immense personal cost since the 7th of October 2023. They were previously kidnapped and tortured by the occupation, but survived and continued to remain in north Gaza and document crimes against humanity. They have had many narrow escapes, and today, the occupation was finally successful in its illegal goal of assassinating these prominent journalists.

When western journalists hand-wave their suppression of the IOF’s atrocities in Gaza by claiming no journalists are “allowed” in to report, remember these men. Remind them of these men. These men who lost friends and loved ones, who suffered immensely, and yet chose to remain and continue documenting the genocide against their people. They join the ranks of more than 150 Gazan journalists who were murdered by the occupation to hide its crimes and retaliate for speaking the truth.

حسبنا الله و نعم الوكيل

أنا لله و أنا اليه رجعون

God suffices us and he is the best disposer of affairs. We belong to God and to Him we shall return.

Keep fighting for Gaza. Don’t stop talking about north Gaza.

[manga-and-stuff]

Source: Vinland Saga ヴィンランド･サガ

by Makoto Yukimura

[ixlander]

cows & crows, today

[sugas6thtooth]

Her smile is so beautiful! I would love to see a smile as bright on the face of all of the children in Palestine. 🇵🇸

[killjoygem]

Just found out people on tiktok are scared of the North Sea and that's like. That's literally just my Sea. That's what I grew up paddling in. I swim there in the summer. I can see it from my childhood bedroom

[poeticnorth]

I love when the sea is like this.

It's also making me want to write a full devotional book to Rán and/or Ægir as well as the Nine Waves

[amkalus]

More inspiration for The Sea Whisperer

Everything around me is history here. Below my apartment is a 220-year-old pub whose regular customers sometimes sing drunken songs, but I don’t usually mind. The singing is as much part of the town as are the old buildings and cobblestone streets. None of it helps ground you much in reality, really.

I am well aware there is something peculiarly timeless in the landscapes and coasts of Scotland, and everyone who has laid eyes on this country can feel that this ethereal quality has permeated everything. But here on the peninsula, with the coasts littered with fishing towns, pretty harbors, and low cottages, it’s almost as if the Age of Sail never ended.

It is a daily tradition of mine to leave the apartment, cross the harbor, pass by the Old Roundhouse, and walk the beach alley, each day in contemplation of a different painting of waves, sea-line, and sky. While the scenery is rarely boring, there is one thing that remains always the same: the lighthouses. Lighthouses are structures of wonder and have enough philosophical charge for me to build an entire novel around them. It’s always delightful to hear their eerie fog calls on cold rainy days.

Scottish people have a specific word for this miserable, wind-filled, misty weather: dreich. And you slowly learn to appreciate dreich weather. When I first came to Scotland, I wasn’t very fond of soaking and changing shoes and socks all the time, but now I don’t mind that too. I go out for a walk in any weather. It’s the closest I would ever feel to what the lives of mariners crossing the dreaded North Sea were, casting lines and folding sails in those stormy waters and under those sullen skies.

Inspiration did not just find me in this place, it ran up to me and begged me to write.

[rosechata]

chevergreen

[northgazaupdates]

EMERGENCY!🚨Please do NOT scroll!

This is Alia and her son Yasser. Yasser, his mother, his 3 siblings, and his grandparents were displaced from north Gaza after their home was destroyed by the occupation several months ago. They are currently in Rafah, which is now under heavy bombardment by the occupation, and ground forces are closing in.

Alia, Yasser, and their family have been struggling with hunger and sickness for months. Now, the occupation has illegally launched an aerial and ground offensive on Rafah.

As part of this attack, they bombed the place where Alia, Yasser, and their family were sheltering. A chunk of shrapnel pierced the thin wall of the tent in which all 7 family members are living and struck Yasser in the torso, seriously injuring him. He had to have major emergency surgery to remove the shrapnel from his small body.

Photo 1 shows where the shrapnel entered the tent, photo 2 shows where Yasser was struck, and photo 3 shows the piece of shrapnel after field surgeons recovered it from his torso.

Due to the destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure and the worsened food crisis, Yasser’s recovery is heavily stymied. Medical infrastructure in Gaza has been almost completely destroyed, and the last functioning medical centers in Rafah are operating at minimal capacity. Yasser cannot get the treatment he needs, and he is in poor condition.

Alia, Yasser, Alia’s other children, and her parents are trying to evacuate Gaza so that they can reach safety and Yasser can get the treatment he needs.

Rafah Crossing is still closed, but once it reopens, we want Alia, Yasser, and their family to evacuate. However, they are still very far behind their goal.

Please help this family find safety. If you cannot support them directly, please reblog this post, and repost this link (https://gofund.me/328c6d35) across your social media accounts.

Alia provided a full breakdown of costs on the campaign page.

Thank you

Thank you to @el-shab-hussein for verifying

[antifainternational]

August 7, 7PM, UK - Refugees welcome! – Stop the far right, defend asylum support centres!

Fascists have told their terrorist supporters to ‘mask-up’ and attack immigration lawyers. We will not let them succeed in their plans. Counter-protests to defend the targeted asylum support services have been called for Wednesday 7th August across the UK at 7pm. Let’s make these protests massive!

Check the images or the link for more info. The counter-protests are in the following cities/towns: North Finchley Southend-on-sea Liverpool Northampton Cheadle Portsmouth Aldershot Waltham Forest Brighton Oxford Birmingham Paisley

Get as many people together as you can and come out to defend our communities! Stop the far-right! Refugees welcome!

[alaa-pales]

Urgent medical evacuation needed for Inshirah, a cancer patient‼️👇 🔴🔴 Donate as much as you can to let her evacuate safely to Egypt.👇🔗

Donation Link👇🔗

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We still very far from the goal. I hope everyone will donate even a little. I am confident that you will stand with me and support me until I reach my goal and remove my family from the danger of war. Share my story. Pin my story to your page. Everything helps.

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[ranibra71]

PLEASE DON’T SKIP!

The beneficiary has created a campaign for me on PayPal because my previous campaign was closed, and all the funds were refunded to the donors. Please support me in this new campaign. I was devastated after working so hard to gather the required amount, and now I feel hopeless.

My family and I are displaced to the south, lacking basic necessities and proper shelter. We have lost a lot of weight, and we sit together as a family, filled with uncertainty. We wonder what to do and what are our chances of survival, but there are no satisfying answers or solutions for our dignified selves that refuse to flee yet want to escape at the same time.

I would like your help to raise the money again and achieve my goal. Your support would mean a lot to me and would restore my hope. Thank you very much for your understanding and support.

DONATION LINK