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two linocuts from my first year of printmaking class

it is our legacy / and our tomb.

tumblr just deleted a huge swathe of palestinians who were on here trying to fundraise. if you've been helping any of these fundraisers please take this time to 1) check in with palestinians you're in contact with 2) help them submit support requests if needed 3) keep these campaigns circulating while the beneficiaries are being silenced. these campaigns are life or death, this isn't just social networking. do not let these fundraisers languish.

It has been 8 months and counting now, but every day I choose to be shocked and scandalized and rendered speechless by the utterly brutish, utterly horrific atrocities committed by Israel every single day. It should never become a new normal to know a whole country’s being genocided and to choose to distract ourselves w other things instead. It should never be standard to look at fundraisers of families suffering and choose to ignore them, to look the other way, to write them off as scams to alleviate any sort of guilt or gravity or moral implication that comes with ignoring these fundraisers. They should never ever be things we are okay with because it’s “just what Israel does now” “it’s just how people are” “it’s just racism.”

Do you know if happilygeneralhideout is a scam? I'm suspicious because of the three word randomly generated name, pfp that looks similar to that of someone you did say was a scam, suspiciously low goal and no verification, but I couldn't find them on your list and their blog activity does look plausibly like that of a real person.

(Same anon that just asked about happilygeneralhideout) I take back what I said about them posting like a real person, they have a lot of reblogs about Palestine but all of them are timestamped exactly 19 hours ago

Yeah, this is the same scam who sends out asks with, and uses, a stolen paragraph from an actual GoFundMe, which you can find here instead:

gofundme.com

Donate to Gaza emergency: Help evacuate my family in Gaza., organized by Judy Shahin

Hello, I am a Palestinian from Gaza living in Portland, OR. Organizing th… Judy Shahin needs your support for Gaza emergency: Help evacuate

It's only about 10k$ away from it's goal!

YUKI ISSUE 1 | yuki tsunoda's magazine, a birthday special brought to you by @theworld--isyours. This is part of the #YukiFest so check the tag to see more from our artists and Yuki-enjoyers 🥰❤️

Icarus, Icarus, Icarus.

I suppose this would be my contribution to the society🛞

角田裕毅 for alpha tauri x bandai namco

i’ve watched this all day

reblog and put in the tags the name of one of your Spotify playlist with no context

Happy birthday! Hope you have a great day

thank u so much!! i hope u have a great day as well <3 <3

Happy birthdayyy

tysm!!

Happy birthday! ❤️❤️❤️

thank u so much!! <3 <3

Photographed by Lee Eun Bok

SF9 for INDEED :: ROWOON

SF9 for INDEED :: CHANI

same Chani, same 😂😳

[SCAN] Vixx ‘Ker Special Package’ Commentary Book - Hongbin (x)(x)(x)

reblog if you like girls, you’re constantly sleep deprived, or both :-)

arthur/eames in the year 2021 thats right

seonghwa’s reaction to ending fairy jongho

TVXQZONE MAGAZINE (VOL 2 ISSUE 2)

fiiiiighting 💪

some older kpop related scans 💕

taemin confirmed my apple theory today (210511)

taemin: where's the idea about "the forbidden apple" in want from? it's from the old testament where adam and eve ate the forbidden apple, eve tempted adam to eat it, it's about temptation

taemin's never gonna dance again trilogy tackles his complex relationship and feelings towards fame. in criminal, the criminal in question is fame and taemin sings about his extremely contradictory emotions towards its impact on him: "i know well that you're bad for me ... but being brainwashed, all i can do is nod. so elegant, a criminal who hurts me. it's okay, you soothe me just to torture me again." it's akin to stockholm syndrome, as taemin has been lured in by the glitz and glamour of fame but is frustrated by its toxicity, the ways in which it has wounded him. there's an added layer of irony as taemin further perpetuates his fame by singing about it, selling albums that contain stories of his misery. the harder he fights, the deeper he falls. it's an incredibly genuine and honest side of taemin, making himself vulnerable to the public eye through his own art.

the theme of fame continues in idea, as fame is "the dangerous dream that swallowed me," taemin's self proclaimed messiah that kills him softly. something that immediately stood out to me was how often taemin stands with his arms outstretched in the music video, mimicking a crucifixion pose (we also see this in criminal). this could allude to the way taemin's been viewed as a god, given the title "idol of idols" in reference to how many other individuals in the industry have stated taemin as their primary inspiration behind dancing. this bears an extreme burden on him, viewed as their otherworldly and untouchable creature by so many when he's nothing but an ordinary human being. the crucifixion pose simultaneously elevates and grounds him. the key visual motif in idea are shadows, notably the metaphor that shadows represent the uncertain, the darkness that taemin wishes to escape even if he's unsure of what he's running away from in the first place. "the shadow holding the night is getting darker ... beyond the limit of realization, your shadow i finally found. at this moment i've become to trust everything that is invisible." the final lines almost feel like a moment of catharsis: "on the night that i cut you from my heart, (killing me softly, killing me softly) finally i open the eyes." taemin thrusts himself into the darkness of the shadows, but he is now in control. his eyes are open to the way he lives his life through contradictions, but he is living on his own terms. fame can be dangerous, but taemin is determined to take back his own life, his own humanity.

theory: what if want and famous (released the year prior) fall into this overarching narrative of taemin's precarious relationship to fame? want is ultimately a song about a relationship between slave and master, and could symbolize the ways in which fame has seduced taemin into submission. taemin is incomplete without fame and he talks about how he craves it, how fame leaves him thirsting for more. the way fame has broken him down is one that is slow, deliberate. it's engrained into him in such a way that is difficult to unravel the impact it has had on him. he's been in the industry since he was 14, spent more than half of his life in the spotlight. fame is a parasite yet he cannot fathom what it would be like to live without it because this is all he's ever known.

the line "the sweetness of the forbidden apple tempts you" particularly stands out, as one of the key visual motifs in famous are apples. there are several shots in the music video where taemin is lying on the ground, surrounded by apples, each one with a bite taken out of them. (i also enjoy the biblical allusion to eve, especially how apples symbolize indulgences of the utmost unholy kind.) famous is the visual representation of taemin giving into the erotic, sweet pleasure of fame: however, this is something he will later have to fight against in criminal.

taemin's never gonna dance again trilogy tackles his complex relationship and feelings towards fame. in criminal, the criminal in question is fame and taemin sings about his extremely contradictory emotions towards its impact on him: "i know well that you're bad for me ... but being brainwashed, all i can do is nod. so elegant, a criminal who hurts me. it's okay, you soothe me just to torture me again." it's akin to stockholm syndrome, as taemin has been lured in by the glitz and glamour of fame but is frustrated by its toxicity, the ways in which it has wounded him. there's an added layer of irony as taemin further perpetuates his fame by singing about it, selling albums that contain stories of his misery. the harder he fights, the deeper he falls. it's an incredibly genuine and honest side of taemin, making himself vulnerable to the public eye through his own art.

the theme of fame continues in idea, as fame is "the dangerous dream that swallowed me," taemin's self proclaimed messiah that kills him softly. something that immediately stood out to me was how often taemin stands with his arms outstretched in the music video, mimicking a crucifixion pose (we also see this in criminal). this could allude to the way taemin's been viewed as a god, given the title "idol of idols" in reference to how many other individuals in the industry have stated taemin as their primary inspiration behind dancing. this bears an extreme burden on him, viewed as their otherworldly and untouchable creature by so many when he's nothing but an ordinary human being. the crucifixion pose simultaneously elevates and grounds him. the key visual motif in idea are shadows, notably the metaphor that shadows represent the uncertain, the darkness that taemin wishes to escape even if he's unsure of what he's running away from in the first place. "the shadow holding the night is getting darker ... beyond the limit of realization, your shadow i finally found. at this moment i've become to trust everything that is invisible." the final lines almost feel like a moment of catharsis: "on the night that i cut you from my heart, (killing me softly, killing me softly) finally i open the eyes." taemin thrusts himself into the darkness of the shadows, but he is now in control. his eyes are open to the way he lives his life through contradictions, but he is living on his own terms. fame can be dangerous, but taemin is determined to take back his own life, his own humanity.

theory: what if want and famous (released the year prior) fall into this overarching narrative of taemin's precarious relationship to fame? want is ultimately a song about a relationship between slave and master, and could symbolize the ways in which fame has seduced taemin into submission. taemin is incomplete without fame and he talks about how he craves it, how fame leaves him thirsting for more. the way fame has broken him down is one that is slow, deliberate. it's engrained into him in such a way that is difficult to unravel the impact it has had on him. he's been in the industry since he was 14, spent more than half of his life in the spotlight. fame is a parasite yet he cannot fathom what it would be like to live without it because this is all he's ever known.

the line "the sweetness of the forbidden apple tempts you" particularly stands out, as one of the key visual motifs in famous are apples. there are several shots in the music video where taemin is lying on the ground, surrounded by apples, each one with a bite taken out of them. (i also enjoy the biblical allusion to eve, especially how apples symbolize indulgences of the utmost unholy kind.) famous is the visual representation of taemin giving into the erotic, sweet pleasure of fame: however, this is something he will later have to fight against in criminal.

Happy birthday to the most handsome bean in the world !