sighhh having a secret double life is so hard. especially when by now most of your friends know about the second one so you have to make a third, even more secret life that people only hear about in the bits and pieces you thought were objectively the funniest. which is exactly how your friends started hearing about your secret double life. damn
i HAVE to stop looking at shelter cats until i'm moved but BUNNY
Happiness Will Come To You.
I am so fucking scared. I feel that... you know it's not about death. I'm not so scared of death. I'm so scared of being displaced. I want to go back to my home--and I'm so near, by the way... Gaza is so small. But I can't go there because the Gaza Strip is cut into pieces, and vehicles and tanks are in the borders between these pieces so I just can't go anywhere inside my homeland. My place. And... it's unacceptable. It's unimaginable. You know I have never imagined before that one day someone would just grab me from my... my homeland. My place. And just throw me away and prevent me to come back.
By the way, we don't know if we could go back. If we could go back again. Ever. And I'm so scared that they could displace us from Gaza Strip to the desert. [Bisan's voice breaks, she breaks into tears] We will die in the desert because of hunger. They displaced us to Egypt. To the north of Egypt, to Sanari desert. People just die. We will die.
[Sob] I don't know why do you guys are watching without doing anything to end this. Just in the... just stop it. Just stop it. Stop it in any price, stop it in any cost. Just stop it for anything. Just stop this. It's a nightmare. I can't continue just thinking about the displacement more and more. It's a nightmare. And I can't-- I can't keep it alive while thinking of being displaced more and more.
I just wanna go back to my home.
-- Bisan in a heartbreaking voice memo on Instagram, 2.14.2024
>Morning shift
>Customer is angry that we disabled his card
>calm him down because it is a security measure
>We had to block his card because he spent 5k on Genshin Impact at 4AM and almost drained his entire bank account
>The instant we unblock his card he spends 200 more dollars on Genshin Impact
wild how we have a medication that is super effective at treating a debilitating disability but its controlled to hell and back because What If Someone Takes It For Fun like i have an idea who gives a shit
having to draw someone leaning in for a kiss at a backwards 3/4ths angle is the worst thing, i’ve decided
ok but legitimately i think the reason why kids aren’t taking internet safety seriously is because the people who are telling us not to put our personal information out seem so out of touch. no one acknowledges the possibility of meeting very real teenaged friends online, they always say that everyone you meet is a 40 year old white man in disguise. because they aren’t acknowledging things we know are true, it becomes a lot easier to dismiss the rest of what they’re saying as well. internet safety lessons absolutely must keep up with the times and acknowledge the internet’s capacity for good if you want kids to take to heart warnings about its capacity for bad.
video essays i love and think about a lot (mainly in relation to pop culture):
aaliyah, britney & the apathy of lifetime “biopics”
baby phat enterprise: how kimora lee simmons pioneered 2000’s fashion
whiplash vs. black swan — the anatomy of the obsessed artist
born sexy yesterday
parasite — the power of symbols
hilary duff, lizzie mcguire, and the teen idol pigonhole
why this font is everywhere
it’s time to talk about the r@cism in dan schneider’s shows
a legally blonde fashion analysis
ghost singing: jennifer lopez’s stolen vocals and songs
the late capitalism of kpop
jennifer’s body and the horror of bad marketing
let’s get sad: a last of us video essay
video vixens got paid like rappers
how midsommar brainwashes you
beyonce’s voice is changing (part one, part two, part three)
explained: smoking and the voice
here’s what we missed on glee
how one netflix movie broke the entire internet
naughty dog’s game design is outdated
jeffree star faked everything about… well, everything
how we failed megan fox
mariah carey’s voice
token black girl: how tyra banks vs. naomi campbell was orchestrated by the industry
colorism in your favorite black sitcoms
that 80s show and the limits of nostalgia
‘us’ and the american dream: what it means
unraveling the madness of kanye west
life is strange: the worst best friend
I didn’t know cheetahs meow I’ve always thought they roar my whole life has been a lie