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phenomenon ive only ever seen on tumblr that i think we should start killing people over actually

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We got card payments set up!! Thank you to my friend who helped me!!!

Ahmed is a business major. Graduation is coming up soon. Can we help him complete it?

Ahmed reached out to me to get help sharing his campaign, and eventually, I was able to help set one up in USD. The US dollar carries a lot more value in conversion than other currencies, so this was a big step in the right direction. As we've been talking, we've become good friends. We chat and I've been trying to offer him some peace during these times. As someone with family in Lebanon, I understand the stress of seeing the people you love go through something terrible. Don't let him feel hopeless, please.

He's been unable to sleep, rest, or get any comfort. On top of all that, he wants to be able to complete his education. Palestine will be free, and he will have a life to live and rebuild after all of this. Getting a degree will help that, and let's be honest here, who doesn't want to pursue their dreams?

He's majoring in business management! He was hopeful before this war! Please, don't let him lose that. Donate, however small. Even just 5 or 10 dollars could make a difference. Show some compassion to my friend

We've already been able to send over some money to him via international transfer. Can we keep it up?

I want to see my friend happy. Help Ahmed get through this.

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We don’t ask for much… only to stay alive.

Our children go to sleep crying from hunger. Medicine is unavailable, the water is contaminated, and life has become a never-ending nightmare. Every day we survive is a miracle. Every donation is hope, is food, is a lifeline.

If you can’t donate, share. If you can’t share, pray for us. But please, don’t pass by in silence.

You can donate as little as $1 via PayPal 

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🕊️ Nadin’s Hope: A Mother, A Memory, A Future

Hello, my name is Nadin I’m from Gaza. I’m a graphic design graduate. I’m a wife. And now — I’m a mother.

I finished my design studies just before the war began. I had dreams of starting a small design studio, of making art that told stories. I used to think about colors, fonts, sketches. I used to think about the future.

Then the war came. And the future became something we tried to hold onto, moment by moment.

On October 22, 2023, I was pregnant when a missile destroyed my husband’s family home. 25 members of our family were killed — his mother, his siblings, his nieces and nephews, children. Entire branches of a family tree gone in seconds.

We were displaced twice after that. Everything we had disappeared — home, safety, routine, rest.

A few weeks later, I gave birth to our daughter. There was no crib. No stillness. No celebration.

But she came into the world quietly and beautifully. And in her eyes, I saw something I hadn’t felt in weeks: life that still wanted to grow.

Now, I spend my days holding her and trying to build a world around her that doesn’t shake with explosions.

We don’t know what comes next. There is no clear path. We are walking toward the unknown, step by step — with our daughter in our arms and hope as our guide.

🧡 How You Can Help

This is why I’m asking for support. Not for comfort — but for survival. To help care for one baby girl who entered the world after everything else collapsed.

If you can spare anything, it will help us:

Cover basic needs, so we can breathe and heal

Support a path toward even the smallest stability in a place that has none

My husband manages the donations securely through a U.S.-registered Stripe account. Everything is converted to USDT and exchanged here in Gaza. The rates are difficult — $100 becomes only 245 shekels — but we use every shekel carefully, with full transparency and documentation.

🎨 Sharing a Piece of Me

I want to share more than my need. Over the next few weeks, I’ll begin posting some of my graphic designs from before the war. They are pieces of who I was — and who I still am.

They may not be perfect, but they hold something real: my story before the silence, and my belief that beauty can still live alongside survival.

If you’ve made it this far, thank you. If you can give — thank you. And if you can’t, just sharing this post is a form of support I will never forget.

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anyway yeah if you see me say youre acting irrational and emotional and go "oh so you're saying im like a WOMAN? stop misgendering me" i think perhaps. you might have some misogynistic biases here.

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the overwhelming majority of trans adults currently alive did not have access to gender-affirming surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormones as kids. while we fight for every person, including every child, to have gender affirming care on-demand, it's also important to remember not to paint lack of access to trans care as a death sentence for kids who currently lack other options. inaccessibility of trans care is painful, especially for very young people, but it isn't certain death. together, in community, we can stay alive and fight for a future where we all get what we need.

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It's in the interest of people making transformative content around tabletop RPGs to use D&D because D&D is what brings the biggest audience in spite of the fact that the market is already saturated and the fact that most transformative works rarely end up engaging with the system meaningfully. However, because no one wants to hear "We're using D&D only because it aligns with our economic interests" (the part of the audience attracted by D&D wants to be told that the choice to use D&D has to do with D&D's intrinsic qualities) it's also in the interests of content creators to obfuscate that fact, and to that end it's also in their interests to proliferate the idea that D&D is an unopinionated toolbox system instead of a game with a very specific set of mechanics that create specific narrative outcomes.

Having said that, in spite of all those economic incentives in play the biggest and most well-known creators of transformative TTRPG content are also huge D&D guys and that was before they even started making content. I don't think Brennan Lee Mulligan is insincere when he says that he likes D&D and that he thinks it's the best system for allowing him to tell the kinds of stories he wants to tell, but those claims must be taken in the context of coming from a guy who has played D&D for the better part of his life and thus has developed a specific set of skills around making that specific game work to his ends as well as within the greater context of the various economic realities surrounding the game.

All of which is to say: it's no wonder that Matt Mercer and Brennan Lee Mulligan can produce entertaining content using D&D in spite of the fact that said content hardly leverages any of the specific strengths of D&D as a game, because those guys are so good at D&D that they can fill in for all the stuff that D&D kind of sucks at. And if those two were, idk, Apocalypse World guys instead of D&D guys they would still put out really good content but it would be extremely niche because Apocalypse World doesn't have the broad brand recognition of D&D.

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And while we're on the subject of "things Nairdde has seen that bothered her" can I just say the attitude of "gay people are never satisfied and you shouldn't ever 'pander' to or try and represent them" (golly I do detest that word) is really stupid because it's just not true. See the problem is that LGBTQIA+ people are not a monolith, and we each want different things from our representation. Some people like tragic stories. I on the other hand fucking hate tragic endings, and would give every single LGBTQIA+ character unbreakable plot armor if I could. The thing is, this is true for literally every other demographic in existence. The problem with queer representation is that there is so little, that were sorta forced to take what we can get. Yes, things are getting better. But for every Lumity, or Catradora, or Korrasami, or Bentroy, there are a half-dozen Clexas or Destiels, and a thousand more [insert generic hetero couple here]. Which is how we get things like Boyfriend Dungeon, where plenty of people were perfectly happy with the game (inadequate content warning aside), but at the same time plenty of people weren't. And that's not their fault, many people are so starved for content that they'll consume everything in desperation, even if they might not enjoy it.

The solution of course is to flood the market with so much representation that any given person couldn't possibly consume it all, but that won't happen with companies going after that conservative/homophobe moolah.

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Mel Medarda

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new egg prime directive you better break that thang

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The most inconvenient truth is that men do misogyny because they get something from it. They get labor from intimate partners, they get social capital in their public circles, they get the benefit of the doubt, they get default respect and promotions and people listening to them and people afraid of them.

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If you say shit like this to a questioning trans girl, you're committing transmisogynistic violence. Like what the actual fuck is wrong with you?? You see a girl expressing fear and pain and your response is to tell her to shut up and deal with it??? You're not helping or warning anyone, you want this woman dead.

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RE: Tempest and Glitter Drops, I love how the “Nightmare Knights” mini-series confirmed that they’re still living together by the end of the main show.

Actual, unironic“and they were roommates!” moment

Also, “YOURE FREQUENTLY IN ONE ANOTHERS DREAMS”?!?

I didn’t even catch that the first time, that’s amaaazing.

They’re both head-over-hooves for each other and neither one knows how to make the first move, it’s perfect.

Yep!! I've read this, it's really peak. Generally the fact that they had a happily ever after is so damn precious. "Anything you say to me you better say to her too" is so awesome, heh. And the cute nicknames... So good.

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"I'm not sure I understand. What does that mean about me?"

The girl smacks her lips softly. I look at her, in confusion. It feels like every word of hers zips right past me, like her meaning is innacessible on purpose.

The girl answers, after a thought. "Well, what do you think it should mean for you?"

She smiles.

"I- I don't know what that question means." It feels very odd, to hear her web of words, and look upon it, as something that screams to me it ought to make sense, a sense which I can't find it within me to untangle.

"Tsk, tsk. Silly you." She giggles softly. "Let me start from the beginning one more time, then."

I nod. "Okay." My head feels odd, as if weighed down. "Yeah, that's a good idea."

"So." She takes a brief pause, breathes in. "You have me, in front of you, right?"

That makes sense, yeah. She's here, in front of me. "I think I understand so far, yeah."

"And then, you have you, right here," she continues.

So far so good. "Yup." It's not too confusing, for now.

"And then," She pauses again, gestures vaguely. "You have the world, around us."

"Around us, yeah." That makes sense. It all makes sense.

"You have my voice, and you have your voice." She continues, "You listen to my voice and I listen to yours."

"Of course, yeah. My voice, and your voice." And I listen to her voice.

"So you listen intently to my voice, because it's important."

"I do, I want to understand. So I need to make sure I listen."

I need to make sure I listen.

"And so you have us two together on one side, and the rest of the world on the other."

That talk of sides is a little confusing. The rest of the world is more around than aside, but it makes sense. And she's her and I'm me, and we're together so we make the other side. It makes sense.

"So far so good."

"So then, you have my voice and your voice, together."

"That doesn't make sense."

"Why?"

"I'm the one saying that, but it should be you saying it."

"And why is that?"

"You're the one explaining, and I'm the one trying to understand." I pause for a second. "That means I can't be the one explaining too."

"Why not?"

"If you're explaining, you should be the one saying this." Why did I say this?

"That's not the right question, the right mindset."

"What you're saying is that the only way you know you didn't say this is that it doesn't make sense for you to say it?"

"What do you mean."

"Your only tell is wether the words said fit the qualia of a role you assigned both yourself and I."

"But if that qualia is gone then what else is there to differen-tiate?"

"You're confusing me." My head is starting to ache a bit.

"Let me reexplain." She pauses, seems to think. "You have your voice and mine together on one 'side' and the rest on the other, right?"

"Yeah. I understand that much."

"Then, if your and my words are together, what keeps us apart?"

"I don't get it."

"In an other way- What am I? What are you?"

"I- " I think about it for a second. That question just doesn't make sense. "You're you, and I'm me. Right now, you're explaining me something that I can't understand. But later, maybe something else."

"Think beyond that. What tells you that something is me or that something is you?"

"Well right now I'm the one talking."

"And what tells you that?"

"It wouldn't make sense if you were the one talking."

"Why?"

"It's not your voice."

"Not my voice?"

A pause. We both look at each other. I think about how much I had to expain this, again and again. I hope he understands. We're waiting for him, the rest of us. Waiting for him to understand.

Finally, I speak again. "What is your voice?" What makes a voice as his?

"Well my voice is the one that. Well."

"You understand what I mean?"

"You have my voice and your voice?"

"And these two voices are together on one side, and the rest of the world on the other."

"Yeah but."

"But?"

"I'm not sure I understand. What does that mean about me?"