thinkingthinking:

And that’s the cinema. Films play back the same way every time. We return to them over and over again, even when they reveal unpleasant truths — or pose insolent questions, the answers to which it’s up to us to formulate (not regurgitate), to construct with our own battered material. The movies are mentors: we keep coming back out of admiration for their moxie. They’re a conversation, a sitting for a self-examination. The ‘characters’ don’t have a destiny because they don’t need one. We do. For better or for worse, we are the cinema.

Craig Keller, “The War of Art (on Passe ton bac d’abord…)”

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khaledjehad:

Gaza Is Screaming—But Who Will Listen? 🌍💔

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I don’t know how to explain this pain in words. But if you’re reading this, I need you to listen. 25 of my family members are gone. The war didn’t just take their lives—it took our future.

We are still fighting to survive. With no home, no income, and nowhere safe to go, we are asking for your kindness.

💔 $5,000 for the father.

💔 $5,000 for the mother.

💔 $2,500 for Khaled.

💔 $2,500 for Intesar.

📌 The rest will help us hold on to what little we have left.

Even if you can’t donate, just sharing this post is a way to help. Please, don’t scroll past.

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Donate to Please Save Khaled and Nana’s Family In Gaza, organized by Jess Rapoza

Hello all, my name is Jess Rapoza from the USA. I am raising money on behalf … Jess Rapoza needs your support for Please Save Khaled and Nan

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soracities:

ALT

Dunya Mikhail, from “The Iraqi Nights”, The Iraqi Nights (trans. Kareem James Abu-Zeid) [ID’d]

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journalofsolitude:

Lee Seong-Bok

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junglejim4322:

junglejim4322:

Two things that I think are way more common than most people realize because few people want to admit to them is having a period of time where you have no friends & never having really dated someone well into adulthood. The second one is observation but I find when I tell people a few years ago I had no friends it ends up resulting in them telling me that they also used to have/currently have no real friends. When I first was getting social again and felt like a feral child raised by wolves while all my peers had moved on w their lives my therapist told me “most people are as lonely as you are” and at the time I was like okay cope 😑 but now looking back she actually could not have been more right

This applies just as much or even moreso to people who don’t seem to be this way at all in fact over the years I started to notice the people I put on a pedestal in my head because they seemed so confident/had so much social prowess and made friends so easily ended up being the ones to tell me I was their best or only friend. People, especially isolated people can end up in such a fortress of isolation idk some people who seem to have everything together do it as pure deflection of their fears. The thing I have learned through all of this is what will get you the farthest is being honest even if it means humility and taking chances even if it risks embarrassment.

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am-visual-diary:

A View from an Apartment, 2004-05 by Jeff Wall

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jukeboxjunk:

A Woman in Trouble

INLAND EMPIRE (2006) dir. David Lynch

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