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"I am Youssef, an 18-year-old young man, and my dreams and hopes vanished in an instant. My family’s house in Khan Yunis was destroyed, and I found myself and my family living in a displacement camp in Deir al-Balah, under the scorching sun, inside a tent swaying in the wind. I wake up every morning to the sounds of waves crashing on the shore, but they no longer mean anything to me—they only remind me of the freedom we lost and the life we once had..."

Hello everyone! As of writing this, Youssef is at $3,877 out of his EXTREMELY ACHIEVABLE $15,000 goal. He has only gotten eight don@tions in the past day. Youssef is asking for $15,000 to support himself and his family, mainly for medicine, shelter, and food, which are hellishly scarce as a manifestation of Israel's genocide. He is only 18 and he is responsible for his family's SURVIVAL. Please take the time to read Youssef's own words on his GFM page, as well as on his tumblr account, @yousefjehad3 . Read them, stare at them, process them. Let them truly sink in. Then, go to his fundr@iser and DON@TE. Every single coin you can spare counts, because everyone's small contributions will snowball into a massive one. None of these fundr@isers reached their goal because of one loaded don0r. It was always a group effort.

And, whether or not you're able to d0nate - SHARE, with your family, your friends, your groupchats, your tumblr followers, so that someone who can will have the chance to see it! If you are on Tumblr, you are able to reblog.

Don't ever think your contributions are useless. They provide material help and are expressions of care during impossibly dire times. Palestinians quantifiably cannot afford your apathy.

Youssef's GFM is vetted. He is shown on line 255 on the Vetted Gaza Evacuation Fundr@iser List by @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi.

(btw, I've heard that it's not a good idea to tag posts like this with terms such as correctly-spelled 'don@tions,' which is why I'm spelling things as such. I encourage you to refrain from tagging your reblogs with these terms just in case..)

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"Even the best dogs have bad days."

Granny Aching

The Wee Free Men

Terry Pratchett

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This is what I mean when I tell people to read Terry Pratchett.

Reading a Terry Pratchett book is literally just: Here's a funny little joke Here's something that you can tell is a joke but don't get and will only figure out five years later Here's a surprisingly cool fantasy concept Here's a unique and well written simile Here's a lil guy Here's something that has aged depressingly well into the modern day Here's something that has aged remarkably queer into the modern day Here's a character that you can barely understand what he's saying Here is the most terrifying and deeply disturbing concept you have ever heard, casually mentioned Here is the dumbest fucking pun you've ever heard but in the best way Here is a quote so profound that it makes you view morality and the world in a different way Here is a plot twist that you can't tell if it's genius or stupid Congratulations! You've finished the book! It has fundamentally changed you as a person and you will never be the same!

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Been thinking about Monstrous Regiment again, as you do, and damn, Terry Pratchett really did do a whole ass thing about some fuckers thinking the titular Regiment, currently women disguised as men disguised as women, are actually just men disguised as women SPECIFICALLY because Tonker, which may I remind everyone is a masc coded cis literal lesbian, wasn't convincing enough for them, forcing one of them, who is pregnant at the time too BTW, to straight up having to show her genitals to prove she's a woman uh?

This book is so fucking evergreen I swear, and it came out in 2003.

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The entire original discworld audio book catalogue

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Moist Von Lipwig and Adora Belle Dearheart are an ADHD/autism couple and I will not take any questions in this matter

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The vulture capitalist hedge fund that bought and subsequently destroyed Toys R Us now owns Overdrive/Libby.

They have already begun making it worse/less usable and they have a chokepoint monopoly on the delivery method of ebooks borrowed from public libraries in the US.

A fun thing about capitalism is that rich people can buy something a lot of people love and depend on, and then destroy it for fun and profit, and there’s not really anything we can do about it.

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I can’t recommend the Tiffany Aching books enough.

Therer are 5 books that span the preteen to young adult events of a young witch from a barren play outside of Ank-Morpork. These are lesser known gems that I cherish deeply. They were written with young readers in mind, but they’re absolutely comfort food (particularly if you were raised by a Scottish granny like me- listening to Stephen Briggs read the Nac Mac Feegles make me homesick). They were all available via audio book from my library app (libby).

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“I always think one should lie to policemen, it is so very good for the soul, and indeed - good for policemen!” -Solomon Cohen

Terry Pratchett, Dodger

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The view is a little more clear from down here

Terry Pratchett on the subject of prostitution. Dodger, published in 2012.

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My husband had been telling me to read Terry Pratchett since way before he was my husband. He told me there was a book called Good Omens that he thought I’d like so I waited, like, 10 years and then I read it and he was right. Then I read The Colour of Magic and was like hmm, okay, interesting, but I wasn’t blown away and I BARELY remember reading it so I went on with my life and read a ton of Neil Gaiman and Margaret Atwood and a lot of other things, but no more Pratchett, no more Discworld.

Maybe I just wasn’t in need of it yet but when I was going through a hard time I decided to try again and I think I read Reaper Man and fell in love with DEATH, and then because I mostly read whatever is available at the time on Libby I grabbed one of the Witches books and decided that I wanted to BE Granny Weatherwax when I grew up (ha) but in fact was 80% Nanny Ogg and 20% Magrat (no complaints, and I’m Granny when the situation calls for it) and so I read every single Witches book. I’ve been hooked ever since.

I didn’t think I’d love any of the characters more than the witches and thought hey, people love the City Watch books but different strokes for different folks, I’m sure they’re still lovely, I just won’t love them as much and I was SO wrong because Pseudopolis Yard and Ankh Morpork feel like home and I’d kill for Vimes and Carrot and Angua and Vetinari and Colon and Nobbs and all the rest. I love them. I’m reading that series in order and just finished Jingo (my favorite so far) and I’m waiting for The Fifth Elephant to be available. I cannot wait.

Anyway, long, rambling post to say how much I love Discworld and all the people on it and my family is probably getting REALLY sick of hearing about it but phooey on them. And now I’m off to spend some time with Tiffany Aching and the Nac Mac Feegle. I love them too.

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I can’t recommend the Tiffany Aching books enough.

There are 5 books that span the preteen to young adult events of a young witch from a barren place known as The Chalk outside of Ank-Morpork. These are lesser known gems that I cherish deeply. They were written with young readers in mind, but they’re absolutely comfort food (particularly if you were raised by a Scottish granny like me- listening to Stephen Briggs read the Nac Mac Feegles make me homesick). They were all available via audio book from my library app (libby).

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Lessons learned from the witches of Discworld