now I understand how alice felt when she got upset about her growing size and cried an ocean just to drown in her own tears after she shrank down again
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!["massacre"
4-panel comic, ink and colored pencil
panel 1: a mass of black against a field of red, silouettes of crying faces, bloodstained hands reaching up helplessly as the dead sink into the ground. caption: in under a month of protests, the iranian government has killed ~4,000-40,000 people. there's a total internet blackout, so there's no exact number. there are no words to describe this. [the last sentence is highlighted in red, with "no words" colored in hard]
panel 2: the faces and arms recede into the soil. a tree comes into view. blue sky starts to encroach from above. caption: "there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again."
panel 3: as we zoom out, the bodies melt into a rough-looking patch of ground. the red is only clinging to the surface, like a heavy vapor. haloed against the blue sky, a bird alights on the tree. caption: "everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds."
panel 4: closeup on the bird, which is revealed to be a nightingale, the bird from "morgh-e sahar" or "bird of dawn," an old and powerful protest song from iran. caption: and what do the birds say? all there is to say about a massacre, things like:" the bird finishes the quote by saying, "poo-tee-weet?" in the arabic script, which farsi (or persian) is written in. caption ends with quote attribution: - kurt vonnegut, slaughterhouse-five](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hqrskpki4r7q7d3xbjy47p7v/bafkreighaboa2cumiiljjrqrgwjuuazoblixfl43mu3shq7yvegm4b44l4)
