#I'm tired of repeating this and my followers are prob tired of seeing it

[hussyknee]

People seem to think this is fake because it's written in English. Apart from the racism in believing that Arab doctors and nurses aren't fluent in English (a second or official language for half of Asia), Palestinians have deliberately been addressing their audience in English on every social media, from journalists to children, because they know speaking English to Westerners immediately makes people more human in their eyes. Because language is one of the ways the imperial cultural hegemony conditions us (yes, everyone in the world) to see who qualifies as "people" and who are simply a mass of bodies who were always made to suffer and die. Gazans know this deeply, which is why they have been using English to beg and plead through social media, "We're not numbers! We're not numbers! We're people like you, we speak your language, we deserve to live!" all the while they're systematically slaughtered.

Israeli forces also encircled Al Shifa Hospital yesterday and bombed it for several hours while shooting dead anyone trying to flee including medical staff moving between buildings. Not sure whether it's still continuing because WHO lost all communications with its staff there a few hours after. The last new report said that thirty-nine babies had been removed from the incubators before the power went out. It's extremely unlikely they will survive.

Please understand that these atrocities depend on the war of attrition between governments and public attention. The momentum of public outcry is difficult to sustain through repeated stonewalling and bureaucratic intractability. When we're flooded with these reports and a sense of futility and despair replaces the anger, it allows compassion fatigue to set in and the violence to become normalized. Massacring hospitals, killing sick children and openly targeting humanitarian aid workers (Netanyahu just declared the UNRWA is in league with Hamas) will become simply more news articles that fade into the background, and open genocides will soon become part of the "lesser evil".

Take care of yourselves how you can, take distance where needed, but please never tune out and give up on the two million people for whom we are the only witness and hope. Never stop boosting and sharing the news and posts you find, never stop getting out there and joining every protest you can, however small. Anger burns out, which is why activism must depend on an immovable sense of justice and uncompromising value for human life. It's not just about Gaza, it's about the kind of evil our generation will be coerced into accepting as unchangeable and inevitable hereafter.

#but also like it's a lot about us and especially you in the West #every bomb dropped on Gaza brings us closer to the brink of‚ if not a world war‚ an eruption of regional conflict #with devastating economic and environmental effects across the world #I'm tired of repeating this and my followers are prob tired of seeing it #but someone has to #war of attrition like I said #free Palestine #tw child murder #tw child death #tw baby killing #tw ableism #disability justice #war crimes #gaza genocide #save gaza #gaza under attack #palestinian genocide #israel is a terrorist state #knee of huss

[orie-ology]

A sliver of hope

Fandom: Arcana Twilight

Pairing: Vega x OC/Reader

Warnings: bad grammar and spelling, not proofread, OOC character, mild spoilers for Vega's backstory

Author's Note: Henloooo, this is my first time writing for this fandom, heck even writing on this platform in general. Anyways, I had Vega and my OC in mind while writing this. This is a snippet on how Vega and my OC gradually opens up so if some parts doesn't make sense I apologize for that heheh :>>

story under cut

It was one of those nights, one where your thoughts wouldn't let you sleep.

You've been tossing and turning in bed for the past few minutes trying to get some shut eye, but you simply had too much stuff in your mind.

Ultimately, you decided to get out of bed and go for a quick walk. The night air is chilly, but soothing nonetheless. You found a place to sit then gazed up at the night sky. You've always found the skies of Bound Arlyn to be a sight to behold, especially at night.

Whilst you were busy stargazing, you failed to notice a figure watching, observing you. He didn't plan to follow you, in fact, he was about to rest after a tiring mission. Well, when it came to you, he can't help but worry. But why hide? he asks himself. Maybe he didn't want to get caught, or maybe he still finds it hard to face you. After all, it's been quite a while since he last saw you. The pain of that day, when faith decided to seperate the both you was still fresh. Adding the frustration he felt after knowing you remembered little to nothing of your childhood together (or so he thought) simply made it difficult for Vega to approach you. But seeing you restless and looking lost he can't help but worry, wondering what he can do to help.

While Vega was lost in his own thoughts, he heard you let out a particularly loud sigh. That's enough hiding, he told himself as he made his way towards you.

"...Summoner"

"GAHHHHH!! Oh, it's you."

In your defense, you weren't expecting to meet anyone this late in the evening, especially not Vega.

"What are you doing out here? You should be sleeping."

"Hmm I'm just simply stargazing, that's all." Opting not to say that you couldn't sleep.

"I see..."

An awkward silence followed, not that you mind, it was Vega after all. You've been wanting to speak to him but just couldn't. A lot has changed about him after all those years and you fear that the person you once knew may no longer be there.

"Y/N" he called, startling you from your thoughts. He was seated beside you now, though with a bit of distance.

"You can come to me if there is something bothering you" Ahh so he saw right through you.

"Oh don't worry about it, nothing I can't handle."

Another silence. You wanted to say something, anything, just to keep conversing with him but where would you begin? As you were caught in your little dilemma you heard him speak.

"I missed this."

"Oh?"

"... Y/N there's so much I want to tell you but... where do I even begin?"

Oh. Oh. So he feels the same way?

"Same here"

He looks at you.

"How about we start small? There's no need to rush. We could get to know each other again" you said.

Again... Vega repeats that word in his mind, Hoping that you remembered all those times you both had together.

"That would be nice" he responded

Another silence followed, but this time it's a comfortable one. Maybe, just maybe you could go back to being close friends again, but for now being able to talk with him again is enough.

Well, this scenario looked better in my head. It's probs all over the place but i'll just place this here.

I may or may not continue and elaborate more on this but this will do for now

#orie's writing #arcana twilight #arcana twilight vega #arcana twilight x reader #arcana twilight x oc #arcana twilight x mc

[blackcoffeeandblankpagess]

did you follow a certain training plan or mileage split for your marathon? like - how many days a week did you run/cross train/strength train? hill workouts, tempo runs? other then the one long run a week I'm having a hard time mapping out what the rest of my runs should look like

I internally laughed when I read this because I consider my training for this race All Over The Place. I burnt myself the fuck out in undergrad with the insane amount of exercise I was doing and these past few months I have had a strong aversion to doing anything that I do not absolutely want to do because I associate it all with the anxiety of those months/years.

SO- what I DID was run 6 days a week- the most days per week I have run since I started distance running in 2016, I had previously opted for 4 coming back from injury and 5 tends to be my sweet spot. Usually in college I would do 5 days running and 1 cross training, or 4 running and 2 cross training and honestly I think I would go back to that in the future, or at least add cross training on top of the running. I felt like I was holding myself back with the volume I was running for so long because of my injuries that I just wanted to run as many days as I could. ALSO, in the fall we lived kinda far from our gym and I honestly don’t really like it as a gym (it’s a climbing gym primarily which is why we have memberships there, but the gym gym part is very old and confusing). I didn’t really feel a strong inclination to drive 20mins each way to the gym during the week and I didn’t want to pay for a membership at a second gym SO I was just like yolo I will just run mostly.

I did also do strength training 2 days a week but LOWKEY strength training. Again, in college I went off the fking rails with strength training (and it wasn’t like it was making me strong. fun fact! if you’re lifting like a crazy person and under eating you are essentially just tearing your body apart!) so, like I said, really did not want to do more of that than I absolutely felt I had to to stay healthy

I did a long run almost every week, around the holidays it was a little funky because of unplanned travel but for the most part 1 long run per week

I usually tried to do a medium long run in the middle of the week (7-10 miles) also. I did not really do any super formal speed work other than being like “I haven’t run fast in awhile I should probably throw a tempo in this week.” My go-to speed sessions would usually be a few mile tempo, honestly these usually happened kinda naturally on days I felt good. Or I would do a fartlek with 400 repeats or 800 repeats thrown in. Sometimes I tried to throw in a few speedier 400s at the end of a long run to practice running fast on tired legs for race day.

The most cross training I really did was climbing ~once a week with Jared and hiking sometimes because it’s fricken beautiful here.

Oh! Also! I got into yoga a bit and would do yoga youtube vids pretty frequently.

SO, short version! Per week (ish): 1 Long run, 6 days running, 2 strength sessions, sporadic cross training (climbing, yoga), one rest day ALWAYS.

BUT, in the future I would defffffff throw in more cross training (honestly I love swimming but my access to a pool rn is trickier than when I was in school), and more lifting, but I think I needed to give myself space from those things to see the why behind doing them rather than just doing it out of compulsion or habit.

Final thing- I would say a typical weekly mileage was 40-45ish but sometimes I ran long runs on different days of the week which would make the total weekly mileage a lil wonky, my highest mileage week was 50, but again, that was because I had run the previous week’s long run on the monday of that week so I basically had 2 long runs added up for that week.

*takes breath* that was prob much more than anyone needed 

I would honestly train a lot differently the next time, but I think it’s really exciting to know I have SO many places I could improve

okay now I’m done for real

#answered #nola marathon