how do you choose who to donate to? it always feels like such an awful choice, everyone needs it so badly but i can only give to a few people at a time with what i have. how does anyone choose who to help, or how much to give each person?
gazafunds.com loads a randomized fundraiser for people with this anxiety
you could also buy esims for Gazans or donate to Gaza Municipality Project
Kate Bush
i’m not faking my astonishment, honest by Paige Lewis
Illustrations by Sophie Margolin for Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
Francis Bacon, Head of Boy, 1960.
what is going on in these men’s lives
self important to even frame the understanding of no name in mutual's bio as supportive of them but something must be said to temper the natural but mistaken assumption that the choice is disliked when you bemoan the inability to check before you call them by name. ironic gesture of intimacy
sorry i don't mean to be pretentious It Is Known i love to rotate a blorbo as much as the next girlblogger but the thing is i grew up reading shit like arthur c. clarke and historical fantasy and latin american magical realism so to me the candy of characters was earned through the vegetables of plot (which i also really enjoyed. i remember crying a lot at the cosmic beauty of the end of 2001 space odyssey and till today my favorite writer is still julio cortázar) and then i read twilight when i was like 13 and i remember going "whoag this is all about the characters... is that allowed?!?!?" and i think that severely stunted what up until then had been an intellectually edifying reading habit. and imo that's why a lot of YA and booktok type stuff is looked down upon... there's a kind of genre novel where the plot is this pesky half assed thing that the writer has to drag their feet through to get to write about their OCs and you know it when you see it
esp. bad when the writer is coming from a background of fandom for something that's plot heavy and the fun of the fandom is actually getting to explore the characters, and they're trying to recreate the epicness (in the original sense of the word) of other stories in their original fiction through shortcuts because the point is ultimately to get to the character relationships to which the "plot" is there to add stakes to the interpersonal but done not very well, so you get this sense that you're reading fanfiction for some thing you didn't watch/read 💀
can't rb the black mold post due to being a pedant to whom blog aesthetic or w/e matters but truly when will it be my turn. destined to make a post like that can it just be sooner rather than later
hey man. nice regional dialect. mind if i apply some baseless assumptions about your personhood to it? i was also gonna prescribe morality to it as well. if that’s cool with you
okay I can already see where this is going so let’s try again
this happened months ago. i cannot keep it in any longer. a while ago i went on a porn site ive never been to and it asked if i was over 18 and i misclicked and said no and it automatically sent me to google images of puppies and kittens. i still cannot get over how funny this is.
spiderweb by Kay Ryan
Image Text: Spiderweb
From other / angles the / fibers look / fragile, but / not from the / spider's, always / hauling coarse / ropes, hitching / lines to the / best posts possible. It's / heavy work / everyplace, / fighting sag, / winching up / give. It / isn't ever / delicate / to live. end Text
enough of citations footnotes and bibliographies ! can it suffice to scrawl the name of the author at the bottom of the page and beg for release
it's kind of unbelievable. citations AND longhand do you never just get to pick a struggle
ya actually those arent typos i just spell words however i want to
ya actually those arent typos i just spell words however i want to
they're a volunteer mutual aid initiative of ghazzawi palestinians helping to get their own community through some of the darkest times they've ever seen. and they're doing it despite incredibly low funds.
most of us will never be in a situation where we will have to be brave and strong and patient enough to do the work these people do. but we can and should help. even a reblog is better than nothing.
I don’t know what to say… i know the fundraising landscape has changed rapidly ever since this october, since we’ve hit the one year mark of the u.s.-funded Palestinian genocide, since the u.s. election, but it still feels like a slap to the face to see Mohammed Ayesh’s fundraiser (@ayeshjourney) stagnate like this, especially since he dedicated months of his life to traveling to where families are to talk with them and verify them face to face.
Mohammed has stopped being online as much for health reasons (chronic lung spasms and more from his health care work) but also because he feels as if he is speaking to an uncaring crowd. People who have once promised him they will check in and boost his fundraiser has stopped responding, and so he withdrew because he did not want to be a burden.
I want to ask you all for your help. A few campaigns are doing exceptionally well because they are boosted daily by blogs with huge followings. Many families like Ayesh’s do not have this privilege.
Only 1 donation in almost 4 hours. Mohammed asked if we could help him get to 30k (halfway of his 60k campaign) soon, let’s rally behind him.
ppl are still reblogging this but donations have stopped again. please please continue helping.
I think one of the most important things you need to be able to write is a reasonable misconception. People being wrong can and often should emerge from their characterization - which shapes what you think is plausible! - but being wrong is not exclusively a trauma symptom or result of abuse or conscious deception from others; sometimes you just have limited facts which lead you to sensible-sounding, incorrect conclusions.
if you think the posts i make are bad you should see the thoughts i am thinking. in my mind
