no one ever warns you about this about adulthood but no one tells you how important surfaces become to you. like it’s a perpetual struggle to get enough surfaces in your life and then in turn keeping those surfaces clean
it’s been established that I like characters with martyr complexes, who jump at any opportunity to sacrifice themselves for the greater cause. but what about UNWILLING martyrs. people whose biggest wish is to be safe and survive but doesn’t scream or struggle when they’re led to the sacrificial altar. takes the hand offered to them to help them climb up the platform. leans into the knife so that they could feel someone’s hand on them before oblivion sets in. they didn’t want this to be their purpose but in the end, they don’t think they matter enough to choose for themselves.
Yara Eid’s interview with skynews and, much like most Western media, they used a misleading framing and downplayed Palestinian lives. But she refused to let them get away with it.
my official stance is a pregnancy is whatever the pregnant person wants it to be. if it’s a 4 week old clump of cells and they want to call it a baby it’s a baby. if they’re 20 weeks and they want to call it a parasite it’s a parasite. if they’re 39 weeks and call it a fetus it’s a fetus. “why are you so sad about miscarrying at 6 weeks it was literally just an embryo” because that was their baby. “how can you get an abortion at three months” because that wasn’t a baby. hope that helps.
