he's a violent man and his heart's decayed, he's a liar and i just can't stay away.

i know he'll kill me, but i love that boy to death.

and i've long since known that i'll die like a dog.

beautiful smile, pearly teeth, sinfully bloodstained gums between.

this isn't about you anymore, and maybe it never was. you realise not for the first time that he's not a god or a king, he's a man, he's a boy, and he's wounded just like you and desperate to fill that tortured hole, just like you.

i'm hungry and i'm hollow and i just want something to call my own.

sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how i ruined everything by saying it out loud.

you fool. you think ideals alone can change the world?! fine! then go right ahead and shoot me! come on!

i want to die. i must die. living itself is the source of sin.

and the cinematic parallels are still that Americans use grotesque displays of wealth and fashion to distract from children being killed on camera for the world to see

As for a ceasefire, he couldn’t restrain himself from praising Israel’s “extraordinarily generous” offer to pause its genocidal onslaught on the Gaza Strip for a few weeks, with mass killings resuming only after Israel safely retrieved its captives.

#Rafah | Update:

(1) - The IDF have taken control of the Rafah Crossing.
(2) - The IDF have advanced along a second axis towards Al-Bayuk.

(This update is preliminary and only based on reports. A satellite flies over tomorrow, and I will make a more accurate update then.)

you are the knife i turn inside myself, this is love.

i hunger / for meat / for massacre / but god puts me down / and makes me a feast.

congratulations. you have survived the war. now live with the trauma.

'but it made you stronger.' i was a child. i didn't need to be strong. i needed to be safe.

it's time to choose sides now. the stitches or the devouring mouth?

i'm trying to be better than my father, i am, but my mother says she can see his eyes in me.

get up. nobody is coming to save you.