by Langston Hughes
This is for the kids who die, Black and white, For kids will die certainly. The old and rich will live on awhile, As always, Eating blood and gold, Letting kids die.
Kids will die in the swamps of Mississippi Organizing sharecroppers Kids will die in the streets of Chicago Organizing workers Kids will die in the orange groves of California Telling others to get together Whites and Filipinos, Negroes and Mexicans, All kinds of kids will die Who don’t believe in lies, and bribes, and contentment And a lousy peace.
Of course, the wise and the learned Who pen editorials in the papers, And the gentlemen with Dr. in front of their names White and black, Who make surveys and write books Will live on weaving words to smother the kids who die, And the sleazy courts, And the bribe-reaching police, And the blood-loving generals, And the money-loving preachers Will all raise their hands against the kids who die, Beating them with laws and clubs and bayonets and bullets To frighten the people — For the kids who die are like iron in the blood of the people — And the old and rich don’t want the people To taste the iron of the kids who die, Don’t want the people to get wise to their own power, To believe an Angelo Herndon, or even get together
Listen, kids who die — Maybe, now, there will be no monument for you Except in our hearts Maybe your bodies’ll be lost in a swamp Or a prison grave, or the potter’s field, Or the rivers where you’re drowned like Leibknecht But the day will come — You are sure yourselves that it is coming — When the marching feet of the masses Will raise for you a living monument of love, And joy, and laughter, And black hands and white hands clasped as one, And a song that reaches the sky — The song of the life triumphant Through the kids who die.
*puts all your WoF tribes in colorful squares*
In order: Nightwing, Silkwing, Seawing, Icewing, Rainwing, Leafwing, Sandwing, Hivewing, Mudwing, Skywing, Beetlewing, Allwing
After the ICJs ruling on provisional measures, the headline you would have expected is that western countries ceased funding and arming Israel.
Instead, they are pausing funding for a UN agency for Palestinian refugees, when there are almost 2 million of them in Gaza who are in dire need of humanitarian assistance as acknowledged by the ICJ itself!!!
All because of Israel allegations that 12 out of 13,000 of the agencies employees MAY have been involved in Oct 7th.
Even IF this were true, this amounts to #collectivepunishment of Palestinians in Gaza and failure to abide by state’s obligations to prevent acts of gen0c!de.
Please consider donating directly to unrwa so they can continue their life-saving work. You can find the donation link in their instagram account or webpage.
Please also make your voice heard; demand your government resumes\/continues funding unrwa and don’t stop speaking up for Palestine.
In our thousands, in our millions we are all Palestinians!! 🇵🇸❤️🍉
Striped burrito for febroary!
Btw, I have open print order form and there are a lot of art to choose from! -> CLICK HERE
A redraw of a 2022 design that’s below the cut
(please don’t follow exclusively for wof content, hardly make it)
here's some of my headcanons for the Tallman AU. I am SO picky modern aus because I feel like they almost never take canon dynamics into account enough, so I tried to do that as much as I could!!!
The main reason it's a tallman au is because I needed Izutsumi and Chil's daughters to go to the same school and I wasn't invested in the worldbuilding enough to figure out the logistics of how school would work with races that age at very different rates. also the existing tallman designs are fun lol
More little guys. Colored and marked with glow scales.
Brown
Hello, I am not sure if this is appropriate for the blog.
I am part of a multi-animator project, involving many animators from FSU countries- we have collaborated together to do a fan tribute to the classic of soviet animation “Ух ты, Говорящая рыба», by the legendary Armenian animator Robert Sahakyants.
Right now we are trying to get as much word out for out project as possible and we would be honoured if you could share a link to it on your blog and give it a shout out.
Apologies if this is out of place
https://youtu.be/fvUqBZ-aQR8?si=OKBh4V7YWORyGd-J
This is amazing and I'm happy to give it a boost!!
One of my favourite cartoons, too. ❤
"Pangur Bán and I at work, Adepts, equals, cat and clerk: His whole instinct is to hunt, Mine to free the meaning pent. More than loud acclaim, I love Books, silence, thought, my alcove. Happy for me, Pangur Bán Child-plays round some mouse’s den. Truth to tell, just being here, Housed alone, housed together, Adds up to its own reward: Concentration, stealthy art. Next thing an unwary mouse Bares his flank: Pangur pounces. Next thing lines that held and held Meaning back begin to yield. All the while, his round bright eye Fixes on the wall, while I Focus my less piercing gaze On the challenge of the page. With his unsheathed, perfect nails Pangur springs, exults and kills. When the longed-for, difficult Answers come, I too exult. So it goes. To each his own. No vying. No vexation. Taking pleasure, taking pains, Kindred spirits, veterans. Day and night, soft purr, soft pad, Pangur Bán has learned his trade. Day and night, my own hard work Solves the cruxes, makes a mark."
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