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🌟 A Cry for Help: My Family’s Struggle to Survive in Gaza 🌟

Hello, my name is Areej Kassab. I’m a 27-year-old English teacher and writer from Gaza, and I’m reaching out to you with a heavy heart and a desperate plea for support. My family and I are enduring unimaginable hardships as relentless bombings devastate our home and our dreams.

We are a family of 15—10 adults and 5 children. Every day is a battle for survival. Food is scarce, humanitarian aid is not reaching us, and my little nieces and nephews go to bed hungry. Among them is my sister, who is deaf, and another sister who has a newborn baby. They, too, are suffering in this crisis, and I’m doing everything I can to protect and provide for them.

💔 A Life in Ruins The war has robbed us of everything: safety, peace, and even the hope of a future here. My family’s needs are basic yet critical—food, clean water, diapers for the babies, gas for cooking, and other essentials to make it through each day.

With rising prices and limited access to necessities, we are struggling to provide even the most basic items. My sister’s home has been destroyed, and we are working together to ensure everyone has shelter, food, and warmth.

✨ My Plea for Your Support ✨ I’m a writer, and I’ve been documenting the harsh realities faced by my community under siege. But words can only do so much. We need action, and we need help. Your kindness can save us.

🙏 How You Can Help

Donate: Every contribution, no matter how small, brings us closer to securing the essentials we desperately need.

Share Our Story: If you can’t donate, please share this post to help us reach others who can.

Your support will help provide food for the children, clean water for my family, and basic supplies to help us survive this unimaginable crisis.

Thank you for reading, for caring, and for standing in solidarity with us. Together, we can create a lifeline for my family—a chance to live, to dream, and to hope again.

With love and gratitude, Areej Kassab ❤️

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🌟 A Plea from Gaza: Rola’s Story 🌟

Hello, my name is Rola, and I am a mother of two children living in the Gaza Strip. Our lives were once filled with love, laughter, and dreams for the future. But everything changed on October 7th, when the war shattered not only our home but our entire world.

That morning, my family and I were enjoying coffee together on the balcony. Out of nowhere, an explosion erupted, shaking our home violently. My husband and son ran for cover, falling over each other in panic, while I stood frozen, still holding my cup, unable to process the chaos around me. When I looked out the window, I saw that our neighbor’s house, once filled with life, had been reduced to rubble. Ambulances rushed to the scene as people scrambled to rescue the injured and pull bodies from the debris.

The bombings didn’t stop. At night, the rain poured heavily, and the cold seeped into our bones. I stayed awake, covering my children to keep them warm and praying for their safety. But safety is an illusion here. Another explosion shattered the night, and our neighbors’ home was destroyed. Their children, who had been sleeping peacefully under a blanket, were found lifeless, their cover soaked in blood.

I looked at my children with tears in my eyes and thought, How can I protect you? We had to flee our home with nothing but the clothes on our backs. We left behind my children’s toys, their clothes, and their beautiful bedroom. Everything we had worked so hard to build is gone.

Our Current Reality Now, we are displaced and living in a nightmare. Food is scarce, and prices are unimaginably high—$10 for a kilo of sugar! The fear of death hangs over us constantly. My children deserve a life of joy and hope, not one defined by fear and loss. Why can’t we live like everyone else—go to work, visit family, and watch our children play in safety? Why do our children have to grow up surrounded by death and destruction?

How You Can Help I am pleading for your kindness to help us rebuild our lives. We need your support to: 💔 Rebuild our home, so my children can feel safe again. 🌍 Evacuate from Gaza, seeking a future where my family can live with dignity. 🩺 Provide urgent medical care for my children, who need protection from this nightmare.

Even the smallest donation can make a difference. If you can’t donate, please share my story. Every share brings us closer to hope.

What Your Support Means Your kindness is not just about helping us survive; it’s about giving us a chance to dream again. To rebuild what we’ve lost and to ensure my children have a future filled with possibilities, not fear.

Thank you for taking the time to read my story. Your support means the world to us. Let’s work together to rebuild hope, one step at a time.

🌸 Please share our story and consider donating today. 🌸

Together, we can create a better tomorrow. 🌍❤️

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Tumblr Tuesday: Ace Art

Happy Asexual Awareness Week to all aces and your allies. Here is a collection of exuberant ace art for your exuberant ace hearts. Keep on breaking those allo assumptions, one artwork at a time 🖤🩶🤍💜

@sandrune-art:

@evocaitart:

@unwashedace:

@tinyflowerclub:

@vuelode-irbis:

@szczurherbacany:

@wafflenati0n:

@dinxie:

@pokimoko:

@werew0lfprincess:

@plutonicbees:

@cowheist:

@lokithefoolishegg:

@yujateaandpi:

@transcendragon:

@starryaves:

@kyri45:

@squishlamb:

@peppermintbits:

@kateammann:

@soni-dragon:

@kynni-purri:

@theartofmadeline:

@icannotgetoverbirds:

@meoskyan:

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It's still insane to me that no matter what's going on in my life I can come back here and see someone has liked my pokemon olive babies post. Like I have never gotten anything that struck a niche so perfectly that every few weeks 1-5 people are at my door saying 'Hell yeah purple smolivs!!!'

I have been Struggling the past year ngl so drawing for anything but my own pleasure has been hard, even then not doing a lot. Tendonitis has only recently backed off. I hope to one day maybe make something else that does better than the smolivs but I guess I should be appreciative for now that my hobby was given some attention.

If I have the mental capacity I want to do something creative with Hydrapple next 💜. But we'll see. Every time I use my hands I have to be very careful.

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he’d forgotten how much he missed that smile.

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Hey bird people want some window birds?

I sometimes get 8am air conditioner pit stop visitors. Above: Fucked up cardinal I saw in the yard the next day.

Below: Also fucked up house finch paying a visit to my house.

Below: Female house sparrow looking curiously at my house and being oblivious to me looking right at her until I tap my window multiple times.

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Hey bird people want some window birds?

I sometimes get 8am air conditioner pit stop visitors. Above: Fucked up cardinal I saw in the yard the next day.

Below: Also fucked up house finch paying a visit to my house.

Below: Female house sparrow looking curiously at my house and being oblivious to me looking right at her until I tap my window multiple times.

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LOVE INTEREST IN A WESTERNETS GOOOO

Depending on the era and writer I'm either getting saved from bandits or helping someone save my town or I pray meet a vampire/butch lesbian if my writer is cultured.

AFTER VOTING, click here to see what genre you've landed in.

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Afghan Hounds

I have been suffering from tendonitis in both my hands, recovery has been slow but happening. I felt good enough in my left hand to draw tonight.

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Afghan Hounds

I have been suffering from tendonitis in both my hands, recovery has been slow but happening. I felt good enough in my left hand to draw tonight.

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My book "The Cult of Dreams" is finished!

All the pages drawn, text written and edited and grayscale tones added. Not only that, I've now got a large amount of printed books at home ready to be shipped to Kickstarter backers!

I'm very very happy with how the book turned out 😃✨

Shoutout to editor Mikael Lopez

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i got an opportunity to make a plush recently so naturally i made wolfwood! this IC is to gauge interest for full production and how many wolfwoods i'll be expecting in the future world [ID in alt].

please fill out this form if you'd be interested in a mini wolfwood!

*this is not a preorder form, this is only an interest check

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HEY TUMBLRRR

I've been a co-writer on an a small indie game team founded by a mutual friend of me and @lskamil27 ! We've been following the plan of the games creator and lead developer @xenvitavt for years now even before we were out of school.

The game? Called 7IMIT5, it's a RPG Maker horror game with themes of religion, queer stuff, and psychological terror.

We've all been working super hard on this and soon the demo will be released, please come check it put and share the news! We want everyone to meet the strange people of the strange world we've crafted.

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My fellow Asexuals, rise. Tag yourself if you too are a strange little harlequin with sexually ambiguous energy that walks the circus grounds-

I just really wanted to make myself a clown too before the month ended, my ace identity means a lot to me after years of questioning if it really was "me" or not and wondering "Do I fit the definition?"

Turns out, there was more than one definition for me to read up on and one day in 2021 I read the one that felt like *me* for the first time since I was 15 and didn't know the real size of the queer world. Funnily enough, ever since I figured myself out every year I've had one or more friends come out to me as ace too. It feels like I'm not alone anymore, I'm surrounded by people who know they can talk to me about this. I'm Ageosexual/Sex Repulsed and proud!

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"Ever made a deal with the devil you didn't like? I can help with that." -Gullivai the Lawyer from Hell.

His/their contracts can't be any worse than the one that go you into trouble the first time, right? Just sign the dotted line and put your payment on the scales....

He may have made my players lose a few stat points but hey, they wanted to fuck over the BBEG right before her fight and that isn't a cheap ask.

(Alt colors bcs Gullivai aka Gulliver is the Horse/DND AU version of his original self, an amphibious alien who's still a lawyer and PURBLE))

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"Ever made a deal with the devil you didn't like? I can help with that." -Gullivai the Lawyer from Hell.

His/their contracts can't be any worse than the one that go you into trouble the first time, right? Just sign the dotted line and put your payment on the scales....

He may have made my players lose a few stat points but hey, they wanted to fuck over the BBEG right before her fight and that isn't a cheap ask.

(Alt colors bcs Gullivai aka Gulliver is the Horse/DND AU version of his original self, an amphibious alien who's still a lawyer and PURBLE))

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Protagonist + Horsemens.