#war loss /

[feral-ballad]

Mosab Abu Toha, from Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

[asoftepiloguemylove]

KNOW IT'S FOR THE BETTER // ON THE LONELINESS AFTER ABANDONMENT

S.A. Khanum "Rome Falls," Kingdoms in the Wild // boygenius Not Strong Enough // Fleurie Love and War // unknown // Sleeping At Last Mother // Catherynne M. Valente Deathless // @heavensghost // pinterest // Mitski I Don't Smoke

[stealingpotatoes]

Kanan after going through life-altering trauma: my nose scar is better than yours

Cal, who is just glad Kanan isn’t depressed as fuck still: I had mine first

Kanan might’ve had the cooler (pronounced: traumatising) knighting ceremony and facial scar, BUT CAL HAD IT FIRST

omg yes (just HAD to one up cal...)

(commission info // kofi support!)

[burr-ell]

What I love about Spy x Family's recent chapters concerning Martha and Henry—two secondary characters with little direct connection to the plot as we've known it—is that Endo's taking the opportunity to once again hammer home what the story's actual stakes are. The idea of potential conflict between Ostania and Westalis isn't just window dressing for a wacky wholesome badass family gimmick—the previous wars are real events that various characters lived through, and all of them are in some way affected by it and have good reasons to want to avoid another one. This is primarily an action-adventure/slice-of-life manga with a lot of sendups to spy movies and pop culture of the 60s, but I think those things hold much more weight with the thematic underpinning of the horrors of war and the ruin it leaves behind.

[workersolidarity]

🇮🇱⚔️🇵🇸 🚨

MASSIVE LOSS AND DESTRUCTION IN THE GAZA STRIP TALLIED BY AL-JAZEERA

📹 Footage from the widespread destruction evident after 8 months of war and genocide against the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip, including a tally of the economic losses suffered in the enclave.

Beginning with an estimate of $33 billion in economic damages inflicted on Gaza, the Israeli occupation forces have completely destroyed 138,400 units of housing.

Similarly, 110 schools and universities have been completely obliterated, while another 321 schools have been partially destroyed.

The Israeli occupation also obliterated 206 heritage and archeological sites, while 604 Mosques have been completely destroyed and another 200 have been partially destroyed.

The occupation has also targeted and destroyed 3 Christian Churches.

Similarly, 33 Hospitals and 55 healthcare centers have been put out of service by the occupation army as a result of the blockade of Gaza and the occupation's bombing.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[lightasthesun]

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a gift for my codywan besties cilly, tea, kasey, aixa and lauren🫶

[archerygun]

It’s always so heartbreaking to me that every time we see Owen display how he really feels about Luke in canon (the books, and Kenobi) Luke is never there to hear it.

When Owen faces down the inquisitor and declares that Luke IS his son, Luke is already way out of earshot (even though I do sort of consider the Kenobi show non-canon). When Owen talks to Beru after the argument with Luke on the day they die, telling her he feels bad about having to squash Luke’s dreams and wanting to find some way to make it up to him, he never hears it.

Owen’s relationship with Luke WAS complex, and it was rocky sometimes. I’ve always read this as Owen having difficulty being emotionally open, at least as far as the ANH novel and Kenobi show have shown. Owen loves Luke DEEPLY, right to his core. But he doesn’t know how to put that into words. He’s an awkward man! He’s been raised on nightmare hell planet where becoming too attached to someone might end up in them being killed or sold into slavery and you being miserable! Look at what happened to both of his mothers!

When someone you love dies, you look at all their actions with a new light and deeper introspection. Can you imagine the absolute world-shattering thoughts Luke must have had after Owen and Beru died?

Realising he was more deeply loved than he could have ever realised, even if Owen had a harder time showing it.

And Owen’s parental anxiety is shown in Kenobi! Owen Lars, one of the most dedicated fathers in the galaxy, probably died wondering if his son would ever know how much he really loved him.

Owen probably died with so, so many regrets. Owen probably died wondering if he deserved to raise Luke (which he DID) and if he had done enough to prepare his son for the world (HE DID).

Owen Lars has always been a heartbreaking character for me.

[chaiaurchaandni]

also remember that no form of resistance is ever acceptable to the colonizer. and that includes non-violent resistance (the great march of return) + non-violence is only successful against a force that has a conscience. but if your opponent had a conscience, he would not be oppressing you in the first place.

[panimoonchild]

Russian culture is erasing the culture of others

Today is the Day of Publishers, Printing and Book Distribution Workers, as well as Philologists. The Vivat publishing house published the names of the employees of the Factor Druk printing house who died as a result of Russian attack on May 23:

Photo: Yulia Orlova/Facebook ▪️Tetiana Khrapina, a printer-carpenter; ▪️Roman Strohyi, gluing machine operator; ▪️Svitlana Ryzhenko, brochure maker; ▪️Olha Kurasova, sewing machine, and automatic machine operator; ▪️Olena Ninadovska, sewing machine, and automatic machine operator; ▪️Hanna Mynaieva, operator of a completing machine; ▪️Dmytro Shilo, brochure maker.

Faktor has launched a fundraiser. All funds will be used to support the victims and restore printing life.

The details are on the Vivat website.

If you ordered anything online, please be patient, as shipments from the warehouse have been temporarily suspended and will resume after the investigation is completed.

[edwinisms]

you ever think about how edwin got like. no warning, no time time to process, nothing, when he reappeared on earth faced with the fact that virtually everyone he knew in life is dead. his parents? probably died in the 1950s or so (at best) almost forty years prior to edwin’s return. if any of his classmates were still around, they’d have been elderly, possibly senile, and in a few years they’d all be gone– except, of course, edwin. nothing looks the same, cars look like spaceships, there actually are spaceships, he can no longer see the stars, and everyone he knew is dead.

[feral-ballad]

Mosab Abu Toha, from Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza; “Hard Exercise”

[Text ID: “In Gaza, / breathing is a task, / smiling is performing / plastic surgery / on one’s own face, / and rising in the morning, / trying to survive / another day, is coming back / from the dead.”]

[asoftepiloguemylove]

on memory and loss

Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood / Call Me by Your Name (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Sea Wolf The Garden That You Planted / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Vladimir Nabokov / Theodore Roethke Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke / The Truman Show (1998) dir. Peter Weir / Amal El-Mohtar This is How You Lose the Time War

[solarisburns]

Have you ever considered that Mary had been Harry's godmother? That even at eighteen she had seen that this war was a death sentence and wanted nothing to do with it. That perhaps the first call Lily made when she found out she was pregnant was to the one person she knew could protect her son and raise him in peace? And of course Mary would have agreed, Lily was her best friend. They all hoped that it would never be needed. But then came the day it was, everything had fallen apart and with tears in her eyes she went to Dumbledore and asked where the fuck her kid was, because that what Harry was now her fucking kid. He told her no, that Harry had needed to go to Petunia who Mary had only heard terrible things about. Of course she would have protested but had no defense when told that was the only way to ensure his safety and the chance at a normal life. Have you ever considered that reason Mary obliviated herself was out of guilt? That after everything all her remaining friends were dead or as good as and she couldn't protect their son?

[folklorespring]

💔💔💔 (TW: MENTIONS OF PET DEATH)

[saffrongin]

Forget Heroes and Monsters

WIP, 101k, updates every two weeks

Tw: miscarriage

Abandoned to her own devices by the Order after losing 3 years' worth of memory, Hermione struggles to find balance, often using violence and revenge as a release. The only one at her side is Draco Malfoy. But can Hermione trust him long enough to be reminded of who she is to stop who she is becoming?

[moodyseal]

No other god has taken as many Ls as the twins have in the entirety of the Riordanverse