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Urgent update my little brother is dying 😭

Today we took our little brother to the hospital because he suffers from an infection that affects his breathing and causes him pain. I hope that every living conscience will help us save our young son’s life and donate any amount you can.

Unfortunately, there is no treatment in the hospital for my little. Help us before it is too late.

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verified ways to donate to gaza directly

Donate to a Palestinian family directly:

gazafunds.com - Donate directly to a Palestinian family in urgent need of evacuation, medical treatment, daily necessities or more. Site run by Palestinians, all GFMs verified (full list here). Spotlights 1 stagnant GFM at a time. (*If you can't decide who/where to donate, just go to gazafunds.com & donate to the 1 GFM they show you!)

masterlist of 200+ verified Palestinian families' GFMs: Operation Olive Branch

Help provide tents:

The Sameer Project: Currently providing tents & transport for families in Rafah who urgently need to evacuate to Deir Al Balah. Has a team on the ground in Gaza who have supplied tents to 1% of the displaced population in Rafah. Run by Palestinians. (paypal) (gfm)

@helpgazachildren: Currently helping Palestinians in a refugee camp in Rafah flee the Rafah invasion to Khan Younis. Funds go directly to Hussam, a Palestinian in Rafah who hosts a refugee camp. Funds will cover the cost of tents & transport fuel. Managed by a Palestinian @.fairuzfan. (gfm)

Food:

Care for Gaza: Palestinian charity on the ground in Gaza distributing food, cash, medicine & other essentials to displaced families. Proof of their work found on their Twitter. (paypal) (gfm)

We Feed Gaza: Team of Palestinian volunteers in the heart of Gaza distributing food & water to 344+ families. More details & proof in their gfm. Vetted & promoted by LetsTalkPalestine on IG. (gfm)

Direct Aid for Gaza: A Palestinian activist on the ground in Gaza distributing food, cash & other essential supplies to displaced families. Proof of their work found on their twitter. (paypal) (gfm)

Water (*urgent and crucial!)

Gaza Municipality: The official Municipality of Gaza is doing vital, life-saving work to rebuild the water pipes in Gaza City to restore access to clean water & waste management services for the people of Gaza.

eSIMs (highly needed):

guide to buy & send esims to gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza: donate any amount to this team of volunteers who pool funds to buy & maintain gaza esims regularly (see their financial accountability document).

Medical Aid:

Gaza Wound Care (urgent): Palestinian doctors in central Gaza treating injured/sick children & mothers in neglected displacement camps far from hospitals. Facing a severe shortage of medicines, equipment, and medical supplies. Currently raising funds to support their efforts to battle infectious diseases in refugee camps. (gfm) (paypal) (gogetfunding)

international charities: Palestine Red Crescent Society, Palestine Children's Relief Fund, Medical Aid for Palestinians

How to help if you can't donate:

Share & amplify Palestinian fundraisers in your irl & online circles

Organize or help to run an online/irl event to raise funds for Palestine

Boycott

Get involved with a protest/strike/direct action in your area

Contact your reps

Educate yourself & others both irl & online

Daily clicks on Arab.org

(you can even adopt 1 fundraiser campaign to regularly boost it & make materials promoting it online, or print posters/flyers about Palestinian fundraisers to encourage others to donate. (poster/graphic about gazafunds.com: here, flyers about esims: here, flyers about gazafamilyfunds: here)

(longer masterpost of all ways you can help)

updated 3/6/2024 with Gaza Wound Care & We Feed Gaza. I wanted to focus on Palestinian-run grassroots initiatives that will actually reach Gazans on the ground, so all of these except eSIMs, PCRF, MAP are by Palestinians. i have verified them but please feel free to do your own vets for your peace of mind.

Remember small donations really do add up. Any amount counts, even $1!

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ayakaze sakina, who appeared on a poster for takarazuka music school that said "you will become someone's dream", ayakaze sakina, who watched over the snow troupe for 3 years, ayakaze sakina, who stood up for herself and her troupe in front of the theatre company's management last winter, ayakaze sakina, who danced for what felt like forever in the rose of versailles finale with a smile on her face the whole time............tomorrow she'll stand on the stage of the takarazuka grand theatre for the last time...........ayakaze sakina..........

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"Do I want to be her or be with her" has never made this much sense

last mission visuals

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Lupin III/Fancy Guy! NOW ON STAGE: jfc, Chigi

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I'm gonna miss her so much 😭

ayakaze sakina in odyssey -the age of discovery-

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Sometimes it slips my mind that Takarazuka is all-female, not that I forget, I just don't remember.

But then I see a picture of the otokoyakus in their tailcoats on the grand staircase all coordinated and pretty and I look at them and remember that they really all all women, and the feeling that follow is just pure ecstasy.

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This is not a natural disaster. This was not inevitable. They didn't grow up like this. It was inflicted on them by the vilest sadists on earth.

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Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

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I bet she smells like an early summer forest

Costume design for Lily of the Valley for the opera "Snegurochka" (1881)

Mikhail Klodt (1835-1914)

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That being said one horrifying realisation about adulthood is that most problems are just one phone call away from being solved.

You didn't know that you had to sign an electricity contract before you moved? No but I know love, I know friendship, I know what it's like to pray in front of a still ocean and hear God in the waves and the birdsong

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You didn't know that you had to sign an electricity contract before you moved? No but I know love, I know friendship, I know what it's like to pray in front of a still ocean and hear God in the waves and the birdsong

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Hadestown is the best take on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, because all over the internet I see people say, "You're not supposed to think of how he could have succeeded! That misses the total point of the story. Everyone was doomed and there was no way anything could have worked out alright. If you're imagining a scenario that didn't end in tragedy, you're just an arrogant fool. Just shut up and be sad about it"

But Hadestown says, "please please please think of how it could have been. Orpheus would have never looked back if he just had hope, please have hope, he would have wanted us to have hope. If you don't walk out of this theater thinking of how it could have been, we have failed you. go have hope, go see the world in the way it could be, so help us"

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But also so fascinated that I'll be creating my own home, with teacups and a worn sofa and a dinner table where no one leaves because someone else starts talking, laundry that I can wash whenever and with whatever soap I want, and walls that can surround laughter and song and guitar tunes.

A home is a promise and I am making it right now.

Moving into my first apartment and I am absolutely petrified

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Moving into my first apartment and I am absolutely petrified

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This is a dream come true btw

And JURI!!!

Official poster for In the Amber-Hued Rain/Grande Takarazuka 110! (Moon Troupe, 2024)