Please Remember That Almost Everyone Around You Is Traumatized. I Didn’t Understand This When I Was

The Last Summer by Dmitri Pryahin

The fact that Dante created the most popular image of the afterlife with absolutely no theological basis for it will still be the funniest thing to me

“humanity is inherently selfish and bad” bbbrrrghuhjfkg. humanity is seeing a stranger’s grocery bag break open on the sidewalk and harvesting fruits and veggies from the branch-like cracks of the asphalt for them, just because you can. humanity is helping a lost child find their mother on a crowded beach, looking for the ladybug-patterned parasol with their hummingbird-small hand in yours. it’s an elder’s fingers wrapped around your arm as you help them up the stairs because the elevator is broken, and feeling like you’re doing exactly what you’re supposed to be doing, like this is what you would’ve been doing had you been alive centuries or even millennia ago. there will always be a heavily pregnant woman who will smile at your when you give up your seat, a nice blind man in the fruit aisle who will ask you to please pick the riper plantain for him, a tired cashier whose face will light up when you compliment their tattoo sleeve. humanity is connection

vetted palestinian fundraisers from my inbox, part 8

these are from dec 2-6

bolded campaigns are under 20% of their goal

@khismael - fundraiser - vetting (6% raised)

@supportgaza - fundraiser - vetting (64% raised)

@nouraayman - fundraiser - vetting (11% raised)

@tahseenfamily - fundraiser - vetting (58% raised)

@yazan-familly - fundraiser - vetting (38% raised)

@tahani-family - fundraiser - vetting (1% raised)

@anasb3 - fundraiser - vetting (46% raised)

@hebanaseif - fundraiser - vetting (12% raised)

@alihelles1997 - fundraiser - vetting (5% raised)

@mohammedayyads-blog - fundraiser - vetting (23% raised)

A Woman Sitting On The Edge Of The Bed - Spanish School, 19th Century / Adèle Haenel in House Of Tolerance (2011) / Ashley Graham for Vogue Paris (2018)

today is a good day to support trans authors

Les films rêvés (2010) dir. Eric Pauwels

Broche “Pensées” de René Lalique en or, émail et diamants (circa 1903-04) à l'exposition “Végétal” orchestrée par Chaumet à l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, juin 2022.