Me at age 13, exhausted at school after staying up all night to read fanfic: I can’t wait until I’m an adult and I can stay up reading without any consequences!
Me, an adult, exhausted at work after staying up all night reading fanfic: Fuck.
Israel has done what we all predicted and warned about. Simple, pure evil. They pushed Palestinians by carpet bombing everywhere till they all had to go to the least bombed place (No, Rafah was never completely safe. They were bombed there, too, to a horrific degree), and then, after cramming what nears a two million civilians with about 600 thousand children, they are asking them to leave… to where?! Nowhere. They are just saying leave. So then, when they kill them all, they can say ‘Oh, we warned them’
It was all predicted, and no one did a thing
Rafah is now the most densely populated place in the world, with a population of about 1.5 million and prehaps more in 64 km2. About 25 miles squere.
25 miles squere
A marathon is 26 miles straight. You can at least run through Rafah in length once and in width twice and pass the 1.5 million Palestinians. That’s how crammed it is. With no where to run
Edit: For those wondering, this is from a 70s nsfw sci-fi zine called “alien brothers” (more specifically, page 83). This little paragraph was right above a k/s smut fanfic written by this lady.
I actually own a copy of Alien Brothers, so I had to go see who this was. Turns out she was an award winner & highly respected early writer of Kirk/Spock! https://fanlore.org/wiki/Jenny_Starr
This is why an increasing number of libraries are adding a requirement to their challenge policies that challengers must be residents of their service area.
When you despair of all these things you see, remember it’s not the world against you. It’s a dozen losers with no hobbies or friends who love them enough to tell them when to stop.
Children in Gaza can tell an F-16 from an F-35 from a drone. They know a whole litany of things that are beyond their years. Things that they shouldn’t have to know.
Over 10,000 children have been killed in Gaza.
The children who have survived have seen their families, friends and neighbors killed by the Israeli army. They have seen near-death by starvation and death by suffocation, under the rubble and by explosion.
Children in Gaza do not have the luxury of death being a mystery. It is a daily presence.
If a child in Gaza is hungry, they know not to throw a tantrum. They have become used to feeling hunger. The same is true of the cold. Every child in Gaza now knows what it is to be unhoused, to sleep in a tent or on the streets in winter.
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