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a story unchanged and yet slightly altered

Cain says to Abel, Brother come with me to the forest, I have something I want to show you.

Abel almost says yes. But then he notices the rock hidden behind Cain's back. And he remembers that Cain always calls him Abel. Never brother.

The rock behind Cain's back is both an omen and a prayer, both holy and bitter, it is a baptism of saltwater, a broken piece of a much larger stone.

The shake in Cain's hand foretells the moment of invention. The moment of creation. Abel does not realize he is Cain's first test subject. Right now, Cain does not realize it either.

If Cain got to choose, would he choose his brother? Does Cain fully understand what will happen when he leads his brother out into the field and bashes the rock against his head?

Does anyone?

In that moment, Abel does.

He does not know what death is, and yet he is sure he is going to die. That whatever he is experiencing will soon have an end. That it will be Cain's fault.

I am tired, Abel complains. Because he is worried. Because for the first time in his life, he is afraid. Stay here with me. Let's not go into the forest.

Cain replies brazenly, If you will not come with me, I shall go alone.

There are very few things Abel gets to choose. His brother is not one of them. The answer to Cain's reply, however, is.

I'll go with you, Abel says and he is afraid. He does not show it. Let me go with you.

Cain follows Abel's gaze to the rock behind his back. Why? To Cain, his words sound vicious. To Abel, his words sound small.

Where you go I follow, Abel tells him. The rock is sharper now, digging into Cain's palm like a thorn.

But why?

Because you are my brother. Abel says it plainly. If I am not your keeper, then who is?

If Cain got to choose, would he choose his brother?

When Abel got to choose, Cain was the only option.

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-despite everything, there is still love

@arthoesunshine/ @artsheila/ @daisies-on-a-cup/ @gayarsonist / @hjarta/ @yunawinter on twitter/ @bakwaaas/ @death-born-aphrodite/ anon on gentleearth/ @classicnymph on twitter

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I came across the original video of the seagull meme! What a glorious day! I never realized it was a video, let alone a full throat and hearty evil villain laugh!

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Biblical Parents 002.

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the pariah // "fuck your idols; we make our own fate"

a webweave for an npc from my sci-campaign who never wanted to be saving the universe but she wasn't going to sit around and wait for some bs chosen one

blythe baird, if my body could speak | kim dorland, night swimming | adrienne rich, planetarium | josé saramago, cain | susie benes, from blood, wings | ocean vuong on earth we're briefly gorgeous | susan smith, wych elm | tory adiksson | becca stadtlander | ask polly | richard siren, war of the foxes | esa/hubble & nasa, m. sun, hubble views an active star-forming galaxy | euripides (tr. anne carson), grief lessons: four plays by euripides | fyodor dostoyevsky, the brothers karamazov | @/inkflowergarden, eclipse | anne carson | mira lightner, when i met you | neon genesis evangelion | tennessee williams, notebooks | amy schmidt, abundance | @/astrono71153462 | fadwa tuqan

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Biblical Parents

unknown ( if anybody knows the source please tell me!!!), Rabbi Hyim Shafner, Amatullah Bourdon

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Jason Todd and Bruce Wayne

Lyra Wren // Batman Annual #25 // Origin Story - Desiree Dallagiacomo // Batman Annual #25 // And My Father's Love was Nothing Next To God's Will - Amatullah Bourdon // Batman #424 // User: petrichara // Batman #683 // Family Line - Conan Gray // Batman: Under the Red Hood // The Pain Scale - Eula Biss // Batman: Under the Red Hood // Woodtangle - Mary Reufle // Red Hood and the Outlaws V2 #24 // Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong - Ocean Vuong // Red Hood and the Outlaws V1 #19 // Georges Bataille // Red Hood and the Outlaws V2 #25 // The Sun Is Also A Star - Nicola Yoon // Task Force Z #6 // Episode 100 - Just Roll With It // Batman and Robin V2 #20

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if you're over on twitter, i and loads of amazing creators (artist and writers) will be participating in DC Gotcha For Gaza!

if you donate to any valid palestinian gfm or esim and then send proof to the google form, you will receive some fanwork! at a minimum of only $5 USD!! please consider donating!!!

if you can't donate, please still share this post/the tweet linked! thank you!!

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🍉 DCU Commissions for Palestine Creator Masterlist 🍉

We have a bunch of writers and artists ready to create DCU fanworks for you in exchange for donations to support Palestinians! Each creator has their own commission sheet with their own prices, which can be soon below. Once you've decided on a creator, you can donate to one of these causes we are supporting (or any verified GoFundMe supporting Palestinians) and submit proof in this form. Every time you commission a creator, you will also get an entry into our raffle! If you want more info on how the donation process works, check out our donor guide. Commissions close on August 10 and some creators have limited slots, so be sure to get a commission while you still can!

Fic writers

a-bio-hero-writer (@a-bio-hero-writer) - offering $5 fics! (also offering art)

aroveins (@aroveins) - offering fic for $1 per 100 words!

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Fanartists

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I was just talking to Ahmed @90-ghost (alongside Av, who might be reading this, idk if they’d like to be part of this post tho). He has given me permission to write a post about our conversation.

This whole thing has gotten Ahmed to the point where he admits he’s started to hate tumblr after 12 years of being on here. He has over 3k messages in his inbox and can’t handle it right now, his brother and other family members are still in Gaza and he himself doesn’t have the money to help them out. I’ve noticed that donations have slowed among palestinian fundraisers in general, before this whole debacle that a few individuals on this site started. this is anecdotal, but I know Ahmed gets like $30-$50 per week in donations at this point, and that barely makes a dent in his and his family’s needs. Remember that people in Gaza need to pay massively inflated prices for what basic necessities are available right now. I think things are looking pretty dire to the people who would like to flee Gaza but don’t have the money. It already was dire that Egyptian government, working in lockstep with Israel and the west, charges $5k+ to Ghazzawis. Hala Agency, Ibrahim Al-Argani, and the other scumbags running the Egyptian state are all demons and they’ve lined their pockets throughout this genocide. But I digress—it was dire already and now the enthusiastic aid that helped people like Ahmed seems to have run dry.

All that is to say: Ahmed can’t continue to verify peoples’ documents or promote their fundraisers at this stage. He’s privately talked to hundreds of Ghazzawis and looked at their IDs, and he was the only person doing it for a while (a very small handful of other Palestinian users on here were doing it, but they’ve also gotten overwhelmed and stopped). When he was in Gaza, Ahmed was displaced multiple times, left sleeping in tents or on the streets while in active physical danger, starving, forced to drink unsafe water, and often sick. It’s not an exaggeration to say that his body and mind have been pushed to the limit. When he told me he’s depressed all day after doing this work while attracting a ton of negativity, I told him he’s allowed to stop for the sake of his own health, because frankly he needs to focus on his physical recovery. There’s nothing selfish about that, it’s not sustainable for him to be doing this, particularly not when he’s still under the immense stress of his brother and other relatives remaining in Gaza and relying on him for help.

Since I know people will ask: I currently don’t know of anyone on tumblr who still vets fundraisers. Everyone I know of who did has had to stop. I don’t know about the inner workings of Operation Olive Branch, but they seem to be one of a few collectives with enough members to distribute this work. It IS work, and those of us who have tried to do it have done so with a low failure rate (el-shab-hussein and nabulsi’s spreadsheet had over 200 entries and they misidentified a scam as legitimate ONCE). I hope everyone will be more considerate towards the people at collectives like OOB.

This has always been a matter of personal discretion. The vetting process some users tried to implement on here is meant to help people who want to help and accept the risk of offering aid to strangers. If you don’t trust bloggers who’ve been proudly Palestinian on this site for years, that’s up to you—genuinely, it’s fair to think “I don’t know this person and I don’t know what standards they’re operating on.” In the future, anyone who has such concerns should consider asking good-faith questions to the people involved and to converse with them like adults before jumping to accusations, conspiratorial posts, etc.

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to be honest i think if my brother died his hair i would dye mine too just so people still think we're siblings without us ever having to say it

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TOMORROW BY TOGETHER 투모로우바이투게더 Can't You See Me? 세계가 불타버린 밤, 우린… / Chen Chen Nature Poem; When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities / I Origins (2014) dir. Mike Cahill (via @anamorphosis-and-isolate) / Christa Wolf Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / pinterest

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yes, there will be singing

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i am his. i could be nothing better.

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conflicting feelings about god

mary doria russel, the sparrow // contorno, hand in unloveable hand // ethel cain, sun bleached flies // @avainblue // billboard in ohio // ? // friedrich nietzsche // florence + the machine, girls against god // supernatural 10×16 // mary oliver, leaves and blossoms along the way // the last temptation of christ (1988) // @ponyoisms // frank bidart, the war of vaslav nijinsky // harley poe, I wanna die // sylvia plath // The Script, breakeven // pheobe bridgers, chinese satellite

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enduring love

e.m forster, a room with a view / atonement (2007) / thomas hardy, far from the madding crowd / portrait of a lady on fire (2019) / cassandra clare, city of glass / rainer maria rilke / giovanni gasparro / philip pullman, the amber spyglass.