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a funny friend of mine...

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Hey, all. I wanted to make a small post about this GoFundMe and encourage you all to send M (aka Mem, the organizer and recipient) some help if you can. I've been following Mem's journey for a while now as they and their roommate had to move out of a horrible housing situation into a new place, only to end up struggling to afford not just utilities, but basic necessities. I really want them to be able to meet their financial goals so they can avoid eviction and have a stable home for at least a few months. Anything you can offer would help. As another avenue to help them out, Mem's friend, Kir, is offering commissions, so you'd be getting some really cool art as well as helping some folks out! He can also be found on Tumblr at @crstn-art, where you can find more info on Mem's situation as of late + how to help, as well as more examples of his art not seen in the gallery section of his Carrd. I know this is definitely not my usual content, but if you could please at least share their GoFundMe around (just a reblog will do), I'd greatly appreciate it. Thank you for your time.

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long time no rika.... for a friend. it doubled as experimenting w/ trad heehee

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hello :) i did these two paintings for this year's hunter x hunter big bang.

i was partnered with @thanatoscult and their amazing fanfic Heart X Taker, read it on ao3!

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💥ITS BIG BANG SEASON💥

So happy to share my piece for this year's big bang! It's for a thrilling Kurapika-gets-kidnapped story that you can check out on ao3 called The Stars Between Us ✨

You can enjoy all the other art and fics that were released for this project at @hxhbigbang25!

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is this anybody else's niche

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it was my honor to illustrate selkie's stupendous khara/menchi fic Fourth x Phase x Follies for @hxhbigbang25. The image of a stark-struck Khara watching her girlfriend, Menchi, in her element battling a massive hermit crab really stood out to me. @crstn-art also illustrated an adorable piece of our two lovers saying their goodbyes at the story's open! we unintentionally made bookend pieces lol

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WITH PLEASURE, I participated in @hxhbigbang25 this year. 😋 and of course jumped at the mention of side character yuri.... SO HAPPY I COULD PROVIDE FOR SELKIES VISION (FIC) FOR KHARA/MENCHI 🦀 pls check it out!

👉🏻 @sockylan ALSO PROVIDED A PIECE ITS SO WONDERFUL PLS go see it or im hunting you down.

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Karim needs a back brace after being shot

Hi everyone,

You know I've been helping Lina (@linoomk) with fundraising for a long time now.

The situation in Gaza has become increasingly dangerous. I lost contact with Lina for a while, and feared the worst. Though I'm relieved to tell you that Lina and her family are alive, her brother Karim was shot in the throat.

Though he fortunately survived, he's facing a difficult and painful recovery without even any painkillers.

I've created a new Paypal campaign to help raise funds for a back brace and a bed. I'm aiming to raise $1000 total, but split into two campaigns so that the first half of the funds can reach Lina and Karim while the second half of donations trickle in.

I will be honest. Our last campaign failed to even raise 200$ in external donations. I know the odds of us raising the total amount are very low. And 1000$ isn't even enough to cover Lina and Karim's needs--it's just what Lina has asked of me. But I have to try, and every little bit truly helps here.

Please help. Karim can recover with your help.

0/500$

✅ Find Lina’s original vetting here.

📸 Previous fundraising posts for Lina with photos, details, proof of donations received, etc.

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hi everyone i am mem. A chronically ill Black queer person crowdfunding for my household of 2 PWD & a senior cat.

please help share. thank you.

i have struggled to keep utilities on after being homeless 2019-2021. Water was off in May, then a pay plan was paid to restore it. It is now off again after being unable to pay the bill which causes a default on the pay plan and immediate disconnection.

meanwhile gas can be off any day between 8am-5pm & electric is off if unpaid past July 11th. i am terrified. our lease can be terminated for utility shut offs & i am $800 short on $1000 rent that has late fees wednesday.

if you have the means, please donate

c/v: memwho

p: xomemereytwod

ways to help raise money when you cant send aid!

commenting, sharing this in groupchats and servers, reposting fliers, helping on other socials like IG ( https://www.instagram.com/memcrowdf1nds2liv3?igsh=dW1nZDV6bWNmMmRr&utm_source=qr)

talking to someone anyone about my situation!

anything is appreciated and your help is needed to survive!

LINKTR.EE/TORQU111

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PEOPLE DESERVE TO LIVE DIGNIFIED LIVES regardless of ability to generate income!!!

Mem NEEDS cleaners; their home is infested, has LEAKS and TOILET ISSUES that existed since move-in, amongst others.

PPE & basic items needed.

$1360 gas bill is HUGE risk for eviction.

please aid.

Cash.me/$memwho

venmo.com/u/memwho

paypal.me/xomemereytwod

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Important Update 4 Iraqi Trans Woman Seeking Asylum!

After six months, we have finally gotten $1122 through to Maha! This has been incredibly difficult due to multiple issues with money transfers to Iraq. She currently has access to $615 in cash.

Unfortunately, Maha’s situation has become increasingly dangerous due Israel’s war on Iran. Additionally, she is at high risk of her family discovering her transness. She is in constant danger and needs to find safety as soon as possible.

At this point, a Canadian visa will be extremely difficult to obtain in a timely fashion. We are considering other options at the moment — namely Argentina and China. If anyone knows any leads, connections, or options for work, healthcare, and asylum — please reach out. The situation has been very difficult and stressful for Maha and we need all the help we can get.

In addition to her travel expenses, Maha will also be using the funds we raise to afford her daily survival. She needs $800-900 monthly to cover rent, food, medication, transportation, and utilities; and she has been heavily overworking herself trying to cover these expenses on her own while still often having to go without food and essential medical treatment. This has been hugely detrimental to her health. We need to raise at least $400-500 for her monthly for her to be able to live comfortably without having to overexert herself to meet her basic needs.

We are so grateful for all the support on Maha’s fundraiser, and we want to thank everyone who has reached out and/or provided funds. Maha’s safety and well-being is a community effort. We will achieve it. Please support and share, and thank you all.

Funds for Maha can also be sent through PayPal.

PayPal: mahasfundraiser

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Hello friends, I am Samir Al-Kilani. My family consists of 7 members. Maybe some of you know who I am, but I will explain my story differently this time. I will summarize my life in war from the beginning to this moment in this post. I will not take much of your time, guys, but it is very important.

The war began on 07/10/2023. Let's go back in time a little, just one month before the war.

During this period, my father received his savings, and we got a certain amount of money. My father thought of buying us a new house, instead of our small house that we were living in, and that is what happened. We bought a piece of land and built a beautiful and wonderful house on it, and we bought a lot of furniture and necessary items. We consumed about 80% of our money and we did not regret doing that. On the contrary, we were very happy to get a comfortable and secure house. Then my father thought of establishing a small project.My father established a beautiful small supermarket, that was on 05/10/2023 just two days before the war. And the world started to get more and more beautiful, we got our dream house and got a very beautiful project, and we started to settle down, these days were truly the most beautiful moments of my life.

But in just two days, this devastating war began, then we were displaced from our home and left everything we owned behind us, a day or two, or maybe a week, and the war would end and everything would return to the way it was, but the enemy began with his brutality and began to destroy and burn homes and kill children, women and men, no one could see in front of him,Our home, which we didn't enjoy even for a few months, was destroyed, our beautiful project was burned, not to mention the house was stolen with all its furniture, they deprived us of everything we owned, we lost all of this in a few days, the fatigue of years goes away so suddenly

Then it started to get tighter and tighter on us, missiles, tanks, displacement and starvation policy, imagine that we were eating tree leaves? It was and still is the worst days of my life, there was no place we didn’t go to, it didn’t leave us a chance to stay in our land, we didn’t even sleep at night, imagine, you don’t find anything to eat and you don’t find a place to sleep, you don’t have any money, we became homeless, we don’t know where to go

Then my father decided to go to the south of the Gaza Strip, where he ordered the army to go, as he claimed and claimed that it was a safe area. We went and lived in tents, homeless and hungry, drowned by the rain, burned by the sun. There was nothing to do, no shelter, no food, not to mention displacement and bombing. We were exposed to death at all times. It was hell instead of a safe area. 💔 This period was the worst ever.

I also will never forget the day I was seriously injured. A house that was only about 20 meters away from us was targeted. I was 80% at risk of dying, but I escaped with answers. That situation is still stuck in my mind. I saw death.

After a whole year of killing, displacement and starvation, a truce was reached and we were able to return to our land, which the occupation had forced us to leave. They told us that the war was over. People were extremely happy as if it was a holy holiday. Finally, we would return to our country, and the war was over. It was a temporary joy.

💔 We returned to our country. We did not see a single house in the entire country that was not damaged. The buildings and health facilities were destroyed, and the streets were closed.Is this our country? Are these the places we used to live in? What happened to this country? The scenes were very painful. People started going to their homes, each one to check on his home. There were those who saw their homes destroyed in front of them and started crying, and there were those who did not find any trace of their homes. It was bulldozed. What is this? This was not what we had hoped to return to after a year and a half of displacement.The joy turned into very, very severe sadness. Some lost their families and some lost their homes. We have become truly pitiable.

This is what our house looked like when we first saw it after the war ended.

We never imagined that this would happen. We lost everything and no longer had the money to rebuild it. Despite everything that happened, we built a small tent next to our destroyed house and began to settle down again. 💔 With the hope of reconstruction and starting a new life.

But the occupation began to violate the agreement, closed the crossings, and on a quiet night, the barbaric occupation began to launch very large-scale attacks in all parts of the Gaza Strip, and the war returned again, we left in the middle of the night, on foot, the screams of children, the sound of artillery, this day was worse than the horrors of war over the course of a whole year, what is the next destination, where do we go? There is no place, we remained displaced like this in the streets until morning.

The destroyed houses left us no room to build a tent, you couldn't set foot there because of the crowd, my father saw a man, he had a destroyed house but it was fit to live in, it was dangerous but almost better than a tent, at least it had some walls, my father rented one apartment from him for $500 a month, we rented this apartment hoping that the war would end soon, but it seems that this war will never end, we no longer have the money to pay the monthly rent.We have been working to save some money and collect it to pay the rent, but the crossing is closed and there is no kind of work, no source of income now, not to mention the famine we are living in, the price of a bag of flour is about 400 dollars, there is no kind of food, no money to buy a little of it, we are suffering from hunger, fear and displacement,

Help me guys we really need help badly we have rent costs and need to buy some food we desperately need $900 per month before rent is due please guys you are our only hope thank you so much 🤍

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Hello my friends who I am proud of, welcome to those who are like a support that does not bow, I address you simple words, the past period was one of the most severe and difficult moments of our lives in the steadfast Gaza that everyone has let down, everyone knows what we suffer from the circumstances here and the harshness of scenes that I do not want to mention again.

You are the only ones, yes, you are the ones who stood by us. You are the ones who helped families and individuals to complete their lives and compensate them for some of what they lost in this fierce war, so I am like Samir on my behalf and on behalf of my family. I thank you all without exception, because you have been by our side all this time. I just wanted to start my post with these words that you deserve 🫂❤️.

In short, so as not to prolong.

Guys, the past period has been very difficult in terms of food and drink, rent costs, and education costs. I have chosen, the most priority and I chose to collect costs for the most thing we needed in the past period, I will mention it now :

I asked for $500 to rent the house we live in now, and thanks to you, I was very successful with that. Then I collected $500 to buy food. It took longer, but it's okay, I succeeded and achieved the goal of feeding my family and satisfying their hunger.

Thus, the basic costs have been achieved, which are rent and food. Thank you for that 🙏 .

I still have a personal goal, which is the costs of education, as you know, I am Samir, a software engineer studying at the Islamic University in Gaza, in my fourth year.

All I want to say is that I am about to finish my educational career and not waste the effort of many years that have passed.

I will note something simple before the war, my father was paying for the study costs, but since the beginning of the war I have not paid any of these costs, I have paid some of these costs but they accumulate little by little, imagine with me for two years and I am trying hard to save these fees, but the war has another opinion, I can't and my father can neither, and debts have accumulated a lot .

I have two very important goals in this publication, but there is a goal from both of them based on collecting the amount as soon as possible during the next 5 or 6 days.

1 - The first goal is the costs of quarterly fees, which are worth 550 Jordanian dinars, I paid about 200 dinars in two stages, and I have one last payment left that I need as soon as possible before the end of the semester. So that I can take the final exams and pass the class and be able to start a new semester. What is required is only 350 dollars.

2 - The second goal is to collect the accumulated amount of 1122 dinars = equivalent to about $1,600. I’ll explain the offer from that.

There is a system in my university that if I do not pay all the required costs, and I graduate, I will not be able to get my degree from the university, and the fatigue of the past years will go away unless I can collect the accumulated amount, everything will be fine.

I have attached in this post pictures that explain everything.

That’s all I want to say so far, guys, I hope to find cooperation from you on this issue because I urgently need help. And thank you 🤍.

Donation link 👇🏻👇🏻

My campaign link.

The deadline is 5 days for the first goal and I need it as soon as possible. If I can’t collect it, I won’t be able to pass the final exams and finish the class. 💔

I trust you

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PEOPLE DESERVE TO LIVE DIGNIFIED LIVES regardless of ability to generate income!!!

Mem NEEDS cleaners; their home is infested, has LEAKS and TOILET ISSUES that existed since move-in, amongst others.

PPE & basic items needed.

$1360 gas bill is HUGE risk for eviction.

please aid.

Cash.me/$memwho

venmo.com/u/memwho

paypal.me/xomemereytwod

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CAMPAIGN UPDATE! Please Read.

Hello everyone! I’m here with an update on Maha’s current situation, and how the campaign is doing. I'm very sorry that it was down and people couldn't donate! That has been fixed.

After much thoughtful consideration, she has decided that she’s not leaving Iraq asap since she only has a year left of college, this might provide a more stable future for her. She will try her best to bite the bullet a bit longer.

Even if she wanted to leave for Canada asap, she was told by a friend that her brother said, if she’s leaving the country he will kill her. Because killing her will be better than having the family and his personal life be filled with shame…….. An extremely suffocating and horrific situation. This all makes everything even more dangerous, difficult, and makes it so much more planning has to be involved for this to work out. We sincerely appreciate all of your support.

So, we have decided to wire all of the funds raised to her (~$2640 that has deposited into the bank as if 3/26/2025) so Maha can survive off of one job while she is finishing college. She is at a high risk for— everything, right now she’s working three jobs, in college full time and can only get 3-4 hours of sleep per night. Not to mention she’s still recovering from cancer, having multiple chronic conditions, and disability. She’s running on fumes, and this fund will make sure she can afford to sleep at night and continue to stay alive!

As if 4/18/2025 we are still figuring out ways to get the money to her as Moneygram isn't operational, Western Union isn't working and bank wiring takes months if it works.

Maha requests to please make the donation number end in 5 or 0, haha, it is easier to calculate things this way, she’s very mentally ill and can’t comprehend numbers otherwise. (She requested me to say this)

If you cannot afford to send any financial support but are able to help in other ways, please reach out to me via signal, @SillyGoose.32

Maha needs more than just funds and any amount of support is appreciated!

Please. If you are able to help Maha secure a work visa in Canada so that she may be able to leave Iraq without finishing college first, reach out! If we can help her secure a job, that would be of great support to my friend’s survival and future, with that sort of help she can theoretically get to Canada in a month.

She can work any white collar jobs, carpentry work, and anything that won’t be in a hot environment or asks her to do heavy lifting. She is an interior designer and proficient in Autocad, and is skilled in leadership, coordination, and problem solving. Over the years she has been teaching classmates and friends classroom concepts, making her a skilled educator. She’s fluent in Arabic and English, and can teach Arabic.

Last, love you all, stay safe 🫶 please, contribute however you can.

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Please Help Me and My Wife!!

as you can see my partner has been working on running her own production show (with clean air and masking required!!!!!!) while we wait for other work to come through for her. the second show did not pay us as thoroughly as expected and we want to be able to pay everyone and also feed ourselves. pls consider sharing this and helping a Black disabled trans couple support their community!

$12/500