- Are you drinking Listerine?

- No, man, Blue Curaçao.

DAY 3 - DEVOTION "Inviting the Citizens of the Brink to Devotee hosted Buffet &  Conversation! Speak your mind! Ask questions! Reach out! (Every Friday, 11am - 3pmZone 7 / Section 23 / Room 114)"

pretty proud of this honestly. i’m still on the road to palisade (3 more episodes!) but im very happy i could do sth orbital game related here.

(also shoutout to this piece by @wereshrew-admirer, which was an obvious inspiration here... i <3 clouds)

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PABLO SCHREIBER as Zeke Tilson & ERIC LADIN as Glenn Taylor 2015 • The Brink • Political Satire • TV 

welcome to the brink! last rest stop for…. well, you’d better go while you can

Day 22: JOMPBPC: Books And Socks

Four beautiful books and two pairs of fun socks!

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You'll hear her in your dreams Hey, you wanna get out of here? Don't you wanna dance? When you came to life, boy On distant train I had no reason, reason to stay Here in this world I never found someone

The Brink

By Holden Sheppard.

Design by Imogen Stubbs.

The Brink by Holden Sheppard

(2022)

From the Publisher:

A group of school-leavers: free at last, ready to party, expectations high.

A remote island on the Western Australian coast wasn’t exactly the plan, but they’re not going to let that hold them back.

Leonardo, geeky, asthmatic, shy and prone to anxiety, has landed with them. He’s terrified—he’s definitely not part of this cool gang. Super high-achiever Kaiya is trying to forget her frustration with her drug-addicted sister as well as dealing with pressure from the popular girls to lose her virginity. Mason, footy jock with the physique to match, is coming to terms with his secret desire for his best mate, Jared. And Jared wants a week off from his relationship with Val so he can have sex with as many girls as possible.

But the party takes a dangerous turn when Val is drugged and a man is later found dead on the beach. Blame, fear, mistrust, coverups, power plays and dark secrets tear the group apart and expose the deadly tensions beneath the surface. And each teen is forced to confront demons that will lead them either to devastating tragedy or transformative triumph.

Whoever survives the week will never be the same again.

The Brink is a raw, powerful novel that pulls no punches in its authentic exploration of masculinity, sexuality, mental health, drug and alcohol use, relationships and sex. Holden Sheppard takes the teenage experience to the next level.

Goodreads

People seem to think this is fake because it's written in English. Apart from the racism in believing that Arab doctors and nurses aren't fluent in English (a second or official language for half of Asia), Palestinians have deliberately been addressing their audience in English on every social media, from journalists to children, because they know speaking English to Westerners immediately makes people more human in their eyes. Because language is one of the ways the imperial cultural hegemony conditions us (yes, everyone in the world) to see who qualifies as "people" and who are simply a mass of bodies who were always made to suffer and die. Gazans know this deeply, which is why they have been using English to beg and plead through social media, "We're not numbers! We're not numbers! We're people like you, we speak your language, we deserve to live!" all the while they're systematically slaughtered.

Israeli forces also encircled Al Shifa Hospital yesterday and bombed it for several hours while shooting dead anyone trying to flee including medical staff moving between buildings. Not sure whether it's still continuing because WHO lost all communications with its staff there a few hours after. The last new report said that thirty-nine babies had been removed from the incubators before the power went out. It's extremely unlikely they will survive.

Please understand that these atrocities depend on the war of attrition between governments and public attention. The momentum of public outcry is difficult to sustain through repeated stonewalling and bureaucratic intractability. When we're flooded with these reports and a sense of futility and despair replaces the anger, it allows compassion fatigue to set in and the violence to become normalized. Massacring hospitals, killing sick children and openly targeting humanitarian aid workers (Netanyahu just declared the UNRWA is in league with Hamas) will become simply more news articles that fade into the background, and open genocides will soon become part of the "lesser evil".

Take care of yourselves how you can, take distance where needed, but please never tune out and give up on the two million people for whom we are the only witness and hope. Never stop boosting and sharing the news and posts you find, never stop getting out there and joining every protest you can, however small. Anger burns out, which is why activism must depend on an immovable sense of justice and uncompromising value for human life. It's not just about Gaza, it's about the kind of evil our generation will be coerced into accepting as unchangeable and inevitable hereafter.

PABLO SCHREIBER as Zeke Tilson & ERIC LADIN as Glenn Taylor 2015 • The Brink • S1·EP5 • dir. J. Michael Muro

Freedom We all should have known I forget myself When freedom's alone Power We've more than we need If the feeling is right We'll take 'til it bleeds

What have I done? How did I sink? From the holiest high To the direst brink