#the tiny journalist

[dk-thrive]

My friend, dying, said do the hard thing first. Always do the hard thing and you will have a better day. The second thing will seem less hard. She didn't tell me what to do when everything seems hard.

— Naomi Shihab Nye, from "Advice" in The Tiny Journalist: Poems (BOA Editions, Ltd, April 9, 2019) (via Read a Little Poetry)

[dandelion-network]

[ID: Two photos. The photo on the left is the poetry collection The Tiny Journalist by Naomi Shihab Nye lying in a keffiyeh. The photo on the right is of a page in the collection of the poem called "Peace Talks". The poem goes "Talk Talk Talk Talk Talk Talk Trouble Talk Talk Talk Talk Talk Talk Nothing.]

I started and finished The Tiny Journalist by Naomi Shihab Nye today, a poetry collection about her perspective as a Palestinian American and how she inspiring she found Janna - a girl known as the "Youngest Journalist in Palestine."

What can I even say about this collection that would do it justice? 5/5

[libraryleopard]

Poetry

Inspired by Janna Tamimi's documentation of anti-occupation protests in Palestine and the author's own Palestinian family

Favorite poems: "Exotic Animals, Book for Children," "Janna," "Separation Wall," "In Northern Ireland They Call it “The Troubles”," "For Palestine," "ISRAELIS LET BULLDOZERS GRIND TO HALT," "Gaza Is Not Far Away," "No Explosions," "Mediterranean Blue"

Palestinian American author

[goldfish-or-smthing]

behind every gay person is a gayer, more evil gay person

[crimeronan]

i go down a lot of youtube rabbit holes bc i love wasting my own time. the latest is a channel called "beirut explosion angles" that has over 900 recordings of the 2020 beirut explosion, all attributed to their original sources. it's one of the most comprehensive and fascinating pieces of archival work i've ever seen. where it starts to get strange is that it appears to have been created by two 13-year-old siblings (now 16-17ish) who simply hyperfixated on the event so strongly that they became the premiere journalistic sources on this topic. i guess they must have started the project together while home during quarantine lockdowns?? they currently have an instagram group chat for people from beirut who have been uncovering more footage even in 2024. and they made a weird unscripted video where the boy asked people who are here for the archival stuff to follow his gaming livestream channel with less than 10k subs.

the kids are alright. i guess.

and also. so fucking weird.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Bonus tell us why in the tags!

[smol-soop-spoon]

imagine being the guy who supposedly inspired Henry's character and discovering thousands of complete strangers on the internet are violently thirsting over your fictional alter ego

[frida--y]

daww... i like him.

[reliably-derogaffectionate]

behold! scribbles of my various flondon guys (gender neutral)

featuring:

- the reflected silverer (don't question why his reflection is indistinct) - the indiscriminate disaster (oh he of poor common sense and worse taste in men) - the stoic hunter (exhausted, depressed, and keeping aforementioned disaster alive) - lord f__ (awful rich man makes terrible decisions, more at 11) - young lady f__ the curious sharpshooter (who would rather thank you Not to associate her with her father, please) - the benevolent rogue- i mean, the amiable honey-sipper (who definitely isnt that robin hood-esque master thief, what a silly concept) - the indignant servant (recently fired, but she's found something new to devote herself to...)

[3416]

never got to see a game at the mullett... hold on i'm going through it

[mintytealfox]

When will Tiny Alice turn back? She is cute as a small hamster 🥺🥺 I can imagine Norton tricking her pretending give her some small candies and then eat it instead 😂

AAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWW AW AAAWWWWWWWWWW AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

him teasing her like this is so NAUGHTY. BAD NORTON 🤣🤣🤣 BAD GIVE HER CANDIES LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLL

BUT THE IMAGE OF SMOL ALICE WITH HER REPORTER GEAR:

-Alice with magnifying glass, she definitely doesn't need, as she looks up at Norton: "you're looking awfully stressed, Mr. Campbell" -Norton concerned on her behalf cause SOMEONE has to have concern around here: ".....and you're awfully calm considering your situation, Miss DeRoss....." -go-go-gadget-can't-help-but-keep-smalls-safe activate LOL-

as for the whole 'will Alice turn back' YES LOL the answer is YES its probably like a whenever the drug wears off thing LOL maybe she will stop sniffin drugs now PFFF

[telephonicsonnyboy]

Sketchy wips

[temporary-dysphoria]

Finished binge watching Lord of the rings feat Squish dog using the remote as a pillow...it's safe to say I'm no longer in charge of my emotions and I'm a lil bit feral. Might speed read the books + the silmarillion on the weekend it's not like I have shit to do...

[bastetwastaken]

Double Exposure update

Rating: Mature

Chapter Summary:

Following his conversation with Yugi about his past, Atem is struggling to sleep. He's restless, confused, and just all around frustrated with himself. On nights like these, he craves something he shouldn't.

Luckily, Yugi is there to pull him out of his downward spiral, but Atems life has never been easy, and it would seem that there are more difficulties in store for him.

This chapter contains references to the death of a close family member (mother) and to past substance abuse.

[revrads]

Not me writing another multichapter fic when I haven't continued my Faith DBH AU 💀

Anyway, here's a Midnight Mass AU series/fic where Paul/John never brought the angel back to Crockett and was given limited stock of blood!

[schoolhater]

answering a couple questions i got on this post since i realized ppl genuinely wanna know:

tl;dr:

israel lets very, very little aid get into gaza. even the UN can't get in as much as they want to. funding individual families, gazan led initiatives, and mutual aid collectives operating out of gaza ensures gazans can provide for themselves and pay for the extremely expensive aid that is available.

with all the civil infrastructure destroyed by israel, the situation on the ground has devolved into unrestricted capitalism, driving up the price of aid (that should be free!). this makes it more urgent for people to have funding for daily survival.

the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.

as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.

the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.

ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.

and the municipality of gaza itself is fundraising to rebuild water infrastructure.

all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!

long answers under the cut!

if you wanna donate to a charity that's absolutely fine, but the thing is most charities (and even the UN!) are unable to make it into gaza in the first place, leaving aid rotting at the egyptian side of the border or subject to israeli settler attacks

not to mention, charities and nonprofits also maintain a paternalistic colonial relationship with the indigenous people they are trying to help, determining what aid they need for them instead of returning power to them and letting them make their own choices

i'm not here to say that one option is better than the other, just that they achieve different things and are equally legitimate. there's an attitude among people who question the legitimacy of these gofundme campaigns that somehow the people promoting them are telling them not to donate to charities. nobody is stopping you from donating to charities. we are just asking that you do not dehumanize the very real gazans in your inbox just because their method of asking for aid is more direct and risky.

unfortunately that's exactly what has happened. because israel destroyed all of gaza's more formalized infrastructure, it seems that organized crime and rampant inflation has taken its place. aid is supposed to be free, but in order to save for evacuation or the cost of living, people have started selling them at an inflated price. and aid that is truly free attracts intense, large crowds that are dangerous to navigate.

this was posted on abc a few days ago

it's pure, unrestrained capitalism. i've had multiple palestinians describe this situation to me confidence. that's why everything's so expensive now. why people have to rent out tiny plots of land for their tents to sit on, why my friend @siraj2024 still has to buy tarps to cover the broken windows of the overpriced bombed out apartment he rented, and why a bag of flour can cost a thousand bucks in the north.

even before israel closed and then bombed the rafah crossing, the egyptian hala travel agency was only allowing people to cross the border if they paid a hefty $5000 USD per adult / $2500 USD per child bribe. it denies doing this, but the hundreds of stories from palestinians say otherwise.

with regard to the economy, here in america we saw something similar happen in the wake of hurricane helene and milton. the podcaster margaret killjoy describes how she saw dual economies rise after asheville was fully cut off from the rest of the country - some people offered each other supplies for free in a sort of mutual aid honor system, and some people required payment when they lent supplies because they themselves needed to buy stuff for their families. these dual economies exist in gaza too. and this means they all still need money to survive.