Today, my therapist was talking about how the smallest bits of self-care — even making yourself a mug of warm tea — are a way of recognizing your own worth, and how meaningful they are when you really dislike yourself. “After all,” she said, “I don’t know about you, but I don’t often make tea for people I hate.”
And that really hit me, especially because I’m an acts-of-service kind of person and tea is one of my go-to ways to show people that I’m thinking about them, care about them, and hope their day could be a little better. So maybe when I make tea for myself, I’m saying that to myself, too, that I’m thinking of my own needs, caring for myself, and trying to make my day a little better.
And that’s really important to me because a lot of days I struggle to do basic things to keep myself going and just feel like I’m self-destructive, only ever making things worse… but most days I still manage to make myself a mug of tea or two. And it’s good to know that that matters.
Israel is demolishing Silwan as we speak. Over 1500 people, most of who are children will be homeless in a city ruled by people that don't allow them to rebuild anywhere. They're making almost 900 children refugees.
There are 40 bulldozers in Silwan and heavy presence of the IOF.
They started with a butchery and arrested the owner of the shop and his two sons during the demolition. Here's a video of the IOF brutalizing the Al Rajabi family, owner of the shop.
Keep in mind this proccess might be long, and they might start with shops instead of houses to wait until the media has moved on. That's 1 out of 17 homes ethnically cleansed.
The IOF is throwing tear gas at the residents so they leave their homes. 13 were injured. While all this happens, the IOF is posting about their delegation arriving to help with the searches in Miami. I have no words to say how hypocrital and how angry that makes me.
There are palestinians right now live blogging their ethnic cleasing, their city being run down and the residents driven out so there's no cultural trace of them, so they can pretend Palestinians never existed there. It's brutal to think these people survived one ethnic cleasing in 1948 and they thought they'd be safe in their new homes, only to be invaded and be ethnically cleansed again years later.
It's a choice to be ignorant right now because several Palestinians in Jerusalem are being brutalized and traumatized to show you this. The best we can do is clog the zionist propaganda so they can't pretend they're not destroying homes, as they always do. I don't want a single zionist to have peace on social media today, and that counts for everything on the BDS list (Ben and Jerry hasn't used social media in over a month because people were commenting about their settlements and the boycott was stronger than ever, that's the energy).
Ask for people to speak because zionists are too comfortable, look what they did to Indya Moore just yesterday. They want palestinians to be quiet victims with no one speaking for them
[Id: tweet by Mohammed El-Kurd reading "I want to see protests in every damn city in the world against the ethnic cleasing of Palestinians in Jerusalem / end id]
Here's a constantly updating list of protests around the world. Show your anger and don't look away, not now and not in one month but until Palestinians can return home in peace.
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Dusk Diva Collection
Embrace the enchanting allure of the night! 🌙 Say hello to DuskDiva! 🌠
Inspired by goth fashion, this collection brings a total of 6 additional items! 📦
Every item comes with several different swatches.
Which Dusk Diva look will you choose?
DOWLOAD (Public 28/Jun/23)
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It's getting pretty #chilly around here and I'm see Iots of scarves and hats. Thought I'd share some of that inspiration with you guys. #markers #markerlove #warm #coldweather #cozy (at Tegucigalpa, Honduras)
- they’re not a farmer. Farmers tend to live in more rural counties, especially in the west of Ireland.
- a Dublin accent isn’t the Irish brogue that always appears in American movies. Listen to an interview with Brendan Gleeson or Colin Farrel. They’re Dublin accents.
- Dublin is not just one city. There are 24 areas, all just called Dublin One, Dublin Two, and so on. One and Two are the North and South of the city center. From then on, it’s mainly residential. Dublin Four has its own socio-economic identity, seen as very ‘posh’. The accent from here is also distinguishable from other accents in Dublin.
- public transportation has various forms; buses, the Dart, the Luas, and commuters. Buses go all over. The Dart is the localized train that runs from North to South. The Luas is more specialized regarding destination. Commuters go out of Dublin to other cities, mainly Galway, Newry, Rosslare Europort, and Sligo.
- there are three main train stations with Dublin city; Connolly (biggest one), Pearse (nicest one), and Heuston.
- there’s one airport with two terminals, just called Dublin airport. there’s no train line out there. everyone is mad about this.
- taxis are incredibly expensive, so no one really gets them. Leap cards are our version of metro cards.
- there is no subway! unlike America, Ireland doesn’t have a subway system anywhere (yet)
- unlike a lot of American cities, Dublin does not have a grid layout. It was not planned, it grew. Therefore if you were not raised there, good luck finding your way around. There’s hundreds of shortcuts but only natives would really know them well (like cutting through Trinity College to get to Pearse Station instead of walking all the way around).
- there’s three main colleges; Trinity College, University College Dublin (UCD) and Dublin City University (DCU). Trinity is the most central. UCD is a pain in the ass to get to.
- the nicest park to go to is Stephen’s Green. the biggest park is Phoenix Park. it’s the largest enclosed park in Europe, is twice the size of Central Park, and is bigger than all of London’s parks put together. this is where Dublin Zoo is, and concerts are usually held in the park over summer.
- no Dublin natives go to Temple Bar. It’s ridiculously overpriced and always overflowing with tourists. Must Avoid on Saint Patrick’s Day (which is shortened to Paddy’s Day, not Patty’s Day).
- the legal drinking age is 18. most people start around 16. buying cigarettes is only allowed at 18, but smoking them isn’t really illegal below this. it’s just really, really bad. And as an Irish person, I have to admit we do drink a lot. We drink for anything; weddings, funerals, anniversaries of any kind, drinking will be involved.
- we do not call every bar a pub. only certain bars are pubs. they must have friendly, chatty, old bartenders, a slightly run-down air, a darker-than-necessary interior, and old framed photos of Guinness ads or ads for cigarettes from donkey’s years ago to be considered a pub. “let’s go to the pub” = casual drinks. “let’s go out!” = let’s get absolutely hammered.
- if an Irish person asks you “how are you?”, you reply. If an Irish person says “how’s it going?” you do not have to reply. this is just a very casual way of saying ‘hello’. no one says top o’ the morning to ya. NO ONE.
- complaining about the weather is Irish culture. doesn’t matter what weather. it’s rainy. it’s too hot. it’s too cold. it’s too windy. doesn’t matter. but in the end, we’ll always miss the rain.
idek if people write irish characters a lot, but jesus, seeing American directors and/or actors absolutely butcher Irish accents/backgrounds is unbearable (see: Helena Bonham Carter in Ocean’s 8, or Gerard Butler in P.S. I Love You. Unforgivable.) if you’re just having fun writing, then go ahead, but if you want to have a realisitic irish person in your story, hopefully this’ll help! :)
Teddy Go Go Potty’s the new way for your toddlers to go-go, woh!
A new custom potty for TS4 that comes with 7 swatches (including a lil panda swatch, again hehe).
Download here!
also wanted to say thank you to those who’ve followed and downloaded recently! I hope you’ve enjoyed the CC so far \o/
I think she's complete. If anyone is interested I'd love to do a commissioned piece. I'll post some of my portfolio and if anyone is interested just let me know.