hellow!! i don't think you remember me but i was the one who misspelled your series the social club into something else 'the social services'. I miss you lots 😭😭 can we get a heads up on when you may be planning to start writing the social club? i can't waitt!! love you lots 🤩🤩
hello!!!! this has been sitting in my inbox for so long, but i'm happy to let you know that i'm working on the social club again :) unclear when the next chapter will go up, but it's in progress!! thank you for your support <33
Of course I’ll be here when it returns! I’ll be waiting for it no matter how long it takes ❤️ Sending you lots of love!! ❤️❤️❤️
anon,
i wanted to let you know that you have actually motivated me to start back up w the social club again :') thank you so much for your interest and support. it may seem a little trivial, but it truly has shifted something in me. it's been over a year since i've really written, but i'm trying my best to just write what i can, and revise later!! for now, i still don't know how long it'll be before i post again because i want to make sure that it was worth the wait :)
thank you again <3 it means so much, you have no idea <3333
These two kids are Hamza (the oldest) and Qusai (the youngest).
Their mother shares this video and bids them goodbye. They were both killed by Israeli bombardment 5 days ago. She says:
[Two days before Hamza and Qusai were killed, hamza asked me: "mom, when we die, where will I go?" And I told him: "you will be a bird in heaven, my love." He said: "and Qusai?" "Just like you inshallah."
And indeed, two days later, he left and took his brother with him. It's like he was preparing me for saying goodbye to both of them. Heaven is more beautiful than any place on this Earth, habibi. We will meet and be reunited one day, me, your dad and you two].
Our kids don't deserve to die already thinking about what will happen to them, they don't deserve to die already terrified, anticipating their death because the world failed them and decided their lives mean nothing. We are not numbers. Remember their names and their stories.
Bisan's recent post. I think it's important for you to read it. Tonight 03.12.23, journalists in gaza share their last messages. There are no words to describe the horrors unfolding in gaza right now.
I no longer have any hope of survival like I had at the beginning of this genocide, and I am certain that I will die in the next few weeks or maybe days. I have been sick with severe viral infection for days and cannot move from the mattress!
I suffer from nightmares that are so closely resemble reality that I no longer differentiate between reality and dream.
I live in a world other than the one I claimed to be building! I am a community activist who lived on the fantasy that the world was free and just, and I sought to bring rights not only to my people, but to many men and women in third world countries!
I was shocked that I was not from the third world! Indeed, we are the most humane and moral! Yes, because the world approves, supports, and finances the genocide we are being subjected to, legislates it, and gives reasons for for 58 days! While we are a people who have been living on occupied land for 75 years and are still searching for our rights and communicating our voice to the world!
My message to the world: You are not innocent of what is happening to us, you as governments or peoples that support Israel’s annihilation of my people. We will not forgive you, we will not forgive you, humanity will not forgive you, we will not forget, even if we die, the history will never forget .
A Message to friends: Thank you and the supporters around the world. You have been compassionate and very strong. We ask you not to lose hope, even if the world seems completely unfair and your efforts have not yet resulted in a ceasefire.
Hi! Will you be continuing The Social Club?? I’ve read it and I really love the storyline and your writing style!! I really hope you’ll continue it! ❤️❤️
omg hiiiiii 💕 thank you so much for your interest in the social club 🥺 it's been well over a year since i've written for it, let alone anything else, and i hate to admit it, but my writing energy has disappeared :( that's not to say i won't ever finish, bc i rly rly want to!!! but it may be a while before i can come back and dedicate the time that it deserves.
i've been feeling the writing inspo return little by little lately, but it's still hard to find the time to rly just sit down and let go. but i hope you'll be here when i finally do get around to it 🥰
compiled some non-fiction and fiction recommended reads about palestine/by palestinian authors:
The Parisian - Isabella Hammad ; historical fiction
Ten Myths about Israel - Ilan Pappe (a Jewish, Israeli historian) ; non-fiction
On Palestine - Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappe ; non-fiction
Rifqa - Mohammed El-Kurd ; poetry collection
The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist - Emile Habibi ; satirical fiction
Justice for Some: Law and Question of Palestine - Noura Erakat ; non-fiction
Minor Detail - Adania Shibli ; historical fiction
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe ; non-fiction
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - Rashid Khalidi ; non-fiction
In Search of Fatima - Ghada Karmi ; autobiography, memoir
Where the Line is Drawn - Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine - Raja Shehadeh ; biography
Men in the Sun - Ghassan Kanafani ; novella, fiction
I Saw Ramallah - Mourid Barghouti ; biography
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement - Angela Y. Davis ; non-fiction, collection of essays, interviews, and speeches
Between River and Sea: Encounters in Israel and Palestine - Dervla Murphy ; travel literature
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick ; non-fiction
A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji Al-Ali ; graphic novel, non-fiction
lily!!! congrats on 3k hehehuhuhu 🥳 i know we just became moots, but can i also request a mb w cheol? 🫣 i am STILL thinking abt eat play love, it's seared into my brain!!! here's to another 3k!! :D
happy birthday seungcheol (pt. 2) !!!!! yes i made two portraits of him and they were actually done like a month ago because i was just so excited to celebrate him <333 you can find part 1 here !
no but tell me why that's also the EXACT reason why i love Matthew McConaughey too 😩 i feel a rewatch is overdue for the nth time now
hey hi hello i had to come back bc silly me forgot to add that how to lose a guy in 10 days is actually like my fav romcom ever and i was so delighted to see it mentioned. anyways, still thinking abt eat play love today and tmrw and always <3 such a masterpiece, lily!!!
STOPPPPPP like rlly the filmmakers need to be locked up for making me actually be attracted to matthew mcconaughey …… excellent choice in film