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I am a writer. All I can offer you are my words. But I urge you - with alll kindness and compassion -to find a way to sustain yourself. If reading headlines and # about #Covid_19 is making you panic, stop reading them. We have an uncertain road ahead. Stay safe & take care of you
I don’t have access to any numbers or predictions. But it is highly unlikely this will be over in 2 weeks after which we all go back to “normal.”

So it is imperative that you try to avoid things that fuel panic and increase anxiety. Which is basically all news these days.
Being at home all day, I know that for me reading every news article does not make me feel better.

I have put a lot of thought into what does and I know that avoiding constant updates is the way.

I am not in denial. I am in take care of myself mode. Take care of you.
I have made a decision not to share the latest news about infection rates & deaths. It is readily available via media accounts.

I am a writer who wants to offer you ideas and words. I offer them with love and solidarity.

I always try to remember those who have less & hurt more
So please - if you are able to be at home right now - there are many who must be in hospitals and grocery stores and who provide other essentail services - give lots of thought to how you can best get through day to day.
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Mona Eltahawy
@monaeltahawy
These are two of my favourite poems and they pair well together:

Constantine Peter Cavafy and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Body, remember not only how much you were loved,
not only the beds you lay on.
but also those desires glowing openly
in eyes that looked at you
- Cavafy
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning;
- St. Vincent Millay
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Mona Eltahawy
@monaeltahawy
I told @rerutled that once my red hair colour fades, I’ll cut it all off. Buzzcut!

I dyed my hair red to say “fuck you, I survived” to the #Egyptian regime after its riot police attacked me.

Alex 👇🏽 my colourist & I want to survive #COVID19 & won’t be meeting again for a while
This was taken soon after I survived that attack by #Egyptian riot police and shortly before I went red.

I went red for defiance. I will find other ways to defy #COVID19

📷 Peter Hapak for TIME
While trying to heal, after riot police broke my arms and sexually assaulted me:

"I responded by reclaiming ownership of my body...dyeing my hair red...getting tattoos...I own this body, and fuck you...You didn’t kill me."

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Mona Eltahawy
@monaeltahawy
Today: I put on a bright red blouse that was a gift from a much-loved friend on my last day in Australia and blue glitter eye shadow.

Day by day. ❤️✊🏽💜
I woke up feeling like shit today. I had a terrible dream that I took a trip that seriously and unnecessarily jeopardized my life.

And I needed joy. So today it’s red blouse and blue glitter eye shadow.

Day by day ❤️✊🏽💜
We have a long way ahead.

I am trying to find ways to not break, but to bend.

Try to find some joy. Try to figure out how to make it day by day.

Remember those who have less and who hurt more.
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R. Houston Thompson
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If I was a lawyer, I would love to find a patient who has elective surgery tomorrow and then acquires #COVIDー19. I can already see the line of questions:

Lawyer: Did you remove a hydrocele from my client on 3/16/20?

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Everything depends on a context or frame of reference as they say.

When you watch the news the context is one way only: worst case scenario.

It’s good to be aware of that scenario, but it’s one side.

The key is to see all sides, then make your own analysis.
We have to think of others, because whether you admit it or not we are all dependent on each other to an extent.

The phone you carry was made by someone else, as an example.

But you have to take the data at hand (“good” and “bad”) and make your own intelligence product.
In other words how does the data relate to you?

Once you find that, you can help yourself, help others, and actually make a “difference” as so many say.

But the idea of sitting back and saying we should all be concerned, etc, makes no difference if you haven’t seen both sides.
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Thorki Viking AU w/ witch!Loki

Thor was only five years old when he first met Loki. He had heard tales in his village of a wicked witch who lived deep in the woods, that would lure in people and curse them. But some tales said the witch would help you in exchange for a price.
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He didn't know how long he walked, but he was exhausted and on the verge of passing out when he finally spotted a little cottage next to a river.
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The cottage felt very...loved and cared for.

It definitely didn't look or feel like a witch lived there.
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@T1gre9
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Tessa
@ClacesShadow
Shane is fangirling about meeting Rebekah and Kol, the Original vampires, and bragging about not being able to be compelled. Then Bex tells Kol to beat the location of the cure out of him. Lol. Imagine meeting your idols and they beat the shit out of you.
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"Dare." Damn that's brave.
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Sweetie, that's truth not dare, but I am here for this.
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@ryanstephens
[Thread]: 18 Things I Wish Someone Would've Told Me When I Was 18

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