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your boyfriend is too small he got washed down the kitchen sink drain and and got stuck in the pipes. sorry

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commission for @calicorobin <3

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gonna post these in batches i think. first week of artfight yippee

characters belong to, in order: @cooldragongamer84 / https://artfight.net/~DragonDinolover84 | @neptunechromo / https://artfight.net/~neptunechromo | @tangerinemazks / https://artfight.net/~tangerinemazks | @shinyylocked / https://artfight.net/~shinylocked | @liysterr / https://artfight.net/~liysterr | https://artfight.net/~slade_the_wolf

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everyone give it up for year 8 of me doing this. come hit me with hammers

https://artfight.net/~pretz

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answering a couple questions i got on this post since i realized ppl genuinely wanna know:

tl;dr:

israel lets very, very little aid get into gaza. even the UN can't get in as much as they want to. funding individual families, gazan led initiatives, and mutual aid collectives operating out of gaza ensures gazans can provide for themselves and pay for the extremely expensive aid that is available.

with all the civil infrastructure destroyed by israel, the situation on the ground has devolved into unrestricted capitalism, driving up the price of aid (that should be free!). this makes it more urgent for people to have funding for daily survival.

the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.

as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.

the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.

ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.

and the municipality of gaza itself is fundraising to rebuild water infrastructure.

all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!

long answers under the cut!

if you wanna donate to a charity that's absolutely fine, but the thing is most charities (and even the UN!) are unable to make it into gaza in the first place, leaving aid rotting at the egyptian side of the border or subject to israeli settler attacks

not to mention, charities and nonprofits also maintain a paternalistic colonial relationship with the indigenous people they are trying to help, determining what aid they need for them instead of returning power to them and letting them make their own choices

i'm not here to say that one option is better than the other, just that they achieve different things and are equally legitimate. there's an attitude among people who question the legitimacy of these gofundme campaigns that somehow the people promoting them are telling them not to donate to charities. nobody is stopping you from donating to charities. we are just asking that you do not dehumanize the very real gazans in your inbox just because their method of asking for aid is more direct and risky.

unfortunately that's exactly what has happened. because israel destroyed all of gaza's more formalized infrastructure, it seems that organized crime and rampant inflation has taken its place. aid is supposed to be free, but in order to save for evacuation or the cost of living, people have started selling them at an inflated price. and aid that is truly free attracts intense, large crowds that are dangerous to navigate.

this was posted on abc a few days ago

it's pure, unrestrained capitalism. i've had multiple palestinians describe this situation to me confidence. that's why everything's so expensive now. why people have to rent out tiny plots of land for their tents to sit on, why my friend @siraj2024 still has to buy tarps to cover the broken windows of the overpriced bombed out apartment he rented, and why a bag of flour can cost a thousand bucks in the north.

even before israel closed and then bombed the rafah crossing, the egyptian hala travel agency was only allowing people to cross the border if they paid a hefty $5000 USD per adult / $2500 USD per child bribe. it denies doing this, but the hundreds of stories from palestinians say otherwise.

with regard to the economy, here in america we saw something similar happen in the wake of hurricane helene and milton. the podcaster margaret killjoy describes how she saw dual economies rise after asheville was fully cut off from the rest of the country - some people offered each other supplies for free in a sort of mutual aid honor system, and some people required payment when they lent supplies because they themselves needed to buy stuff for their families. these dual economies exist in gaza too. and this means they all still need money to survive.

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Sorry I haven’t posted for like 2 months my life has been weird. Anyway I just watched the ii finale and I want it on record that I predicted box being a corpse like a year ago

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ii 16 prediction

CLICK ON THE POST TO SEE THE OTHER THING I MADE:

Brian felt a bit silly

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A Cry from the Heart of Gaza: A Family Searching for Safety Amidst Destruction and Danger

Hello, my name is Abdulsalam Al-Anqar, I'm 26 years old, married to Aya Al-Batniji, and we have a little girl named Iman, who is one year old 👶. My family consists of seven members: my mother Iman (49 years old), my father Ahmed (54 years old), and my brothers Mohammed (14 years old), Nader (17 years old), and Omar (21 years old).

Due to the devastating war in Gaza, our homes were completely destroyed 🏚️, leaving us without a place to live. We were forced to flee south in search of safety, but that safety has been elusive. We have been displaced more than nine times, often finding ourselves in the line of fire, with military airstrikes occurring near our temporary shelters.

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We are trapped in southern Gaza, far from our home, which was completely destroyed, and we have no place to return to even if the war ends 🏠. Our most urgent need now is to escape the diseases and epidemics that are threatening us. After the World Health Organization announced cases of polio in Gaza, we feared for Iman's life and vaccinated her against this deadly disease on September 2, 2024 💉.

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i definitely didnt completely forget about davekat week what are you talking about

day 3: seasons [i picked summer. i do NOT miss it i think summer in texas would kill me stone dead]

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stop… making… her… a… MOM FIGURE !!! *my psychic powers throw everything across the room*

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do you know cursive?

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Please help me by donating and sharing. The situation for me and my child is very catastrophic. I want to meet the needs of my family and my child 🙏🏻💔

http://gofund.me/5b6f1940

This campaign has been shared by 90-ghost. Currently €1,675 raised of €45,000 target.

Samar and her husband Hashem have a 6 month old child born during the war. They are from a family of 8. Hashem’s father died due to the toll of being displaced, the bad health conditions, and his greif about the destruction of his home. They are trying to evacuate out of Gaza.

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Urgent Help 📣🚨🚨

I'm Mahmod From Gaza

help me and my Family 😭To escape gaza from the fierce war

We have been suffering for more than 11 months.

MY campaign has been vetted by @beesandwatermeoln #190 here

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Urgent!!!!!🚨

Hello , Iam nour aldin from gaza , l am 22 years old, l lost everything due to war , l know want to help me , its very simple just put like, share, comment and donate if you can , Be our voice in the world we depend on you, the link in the bioooo🤍🙏

Every dollar makes a difference in my life and saves my family, donate $5 or $10, donate the amount you can afford, even if it's small, it makes a big difference, the donation link is in the bio, enter and donate to save my family...🥹😭🙏🍉

Donate even $5, every small donation will make a big difference, every person who donates, writes a comment with the donation number he donated because he wants to thank him, special thanks to every person who will contribute with the donation, write the amount of the donation in the comment please🥺🥹😭🙏

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URGENT HELP 🚨

Hello, I'm Ola, a graduate student from the faculty of science - Al-Azhar University in Gaza Palestine. I truly appreciate you taking a moment to read my story. As you reading my message, myself and my family, “my mother, father, three sisters, and my little brother,” are fighting death in northern Gaza and trying to survive under all kinds of suffering including but not limited to fear, instability, and starvation, thirst, and poverty.

For 11 months until now, we have been struggling to get proper food after prices increased by 15 to 20 times, struggling to have clean water for use and drinking. We lacked security and stability as we were forced to evacuate our house and left everything behind.

I sincerely hope you can empathize with our dire situation and consider supporting us. You can follow me to make sure I am not a scammer and to inquire about any details. Your generosity has the power to make a significant difference.

Please reblog my post, follow me and boost my posts, and repost the link to our campaign across all your social media.

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