Ever Since I Was A Young Lad I Knew I Wanted To Be A Middle-aged Man With An Undone Tie Around His Neck

ever since I was a young lad I knew I wanted to be a middle-aged man with an undone tie around his neck who’s having a crisis so he goes to the bathroom to splash water on his face only to look up at himself in the mirror and wonder at the stranger looking back

sketch vs lineart hehehehe

Gay people can never just say i love you they have to (checks notes) keep trying to sacrifice their lives for each other again and again and again infinitely because "it's not your destiny to die" and "I'm meant to protect you" and "I will follow you right into a trap, willingly, over and over. I would follow you to hell and back without hesitation" or whatever. Christ.

Today is october 7th officially marking 365 days, 1 year, of the most well recorded genocide in history; of an occupation of a people which has been ongoing for 76 years. An entire year of constant israeli bombardment. Hundreds of thousands killed and missing. All the while, the people with the most power to stop the genocide continue to support and defend the politicians carrying out the slaughter.

Yet, it is also a year since the Palestinian resistance definitively proved to the world that israel is not only not the all-knowing state entity many believed nor that they were invincible or undefeatable. Over the course of the year, the resistance and its allies in Lebanon and Yemen have handed out defeats to not just israel but the west lead by the united states as well proving that those institutions and militaries are not invincible.

In israel itself, tens of thousands of bsuinesses are closing or have closed; its ports are under blockade; the settlers are fighting amongst themselves or leaving; it is a settler colony beginning to buckle under the simultaneousforces of its internal contradictions and of the Palestinian resistance. No doubt the struggle for liberation and against settler colonialism will continue until all the contradictions are resolved just as it were it rhodesia and south africa.

May we see a free Palestine in our lifetimes.

Now I know how Joan of arc felt… 🗡️🩸

anyway! golden age merwaine 🫶