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"Help sooad Family Survive & Rebuild in Gaza"

Vetted by gaza-vetters number in the list ✅365✅

Hello, my name sooad Muhammad, I am a 61-year-old mother and former school teacher from Gaza💔

After the army entered the city, we went out to Rafah under the attack of planes and missiles.And the bullets that spare no one, we lived in torn tents that did not protect from the heat, the cold, or the rain. All the words in the world cannot describe what we have lived through. All I want is for you to look at me and my family with a merciful heart and help me.

Before October 7th, I lived a humble life, dedicated to teaching and raising my children. But everything changed. Since that day, my family and I have been living in unimaginable conditions—without electricity, without clean water, without safety.

Our home was destroyed, and we now sleep in a torn tent, exposed to the freezing cold. My children cry from hunger and fear. The markets are empty or unaffordable. Bread is now a luxury—I knead pasta just to make something to fill their stomachs

Please open your heart and stand with us in this time of despair.

We are not asking for much—just a chance to survive. A blanket for the cold. A piece of bread. A roof that does not leak. A moment of peace for my children

I am humbly asking for your help. Your donation, no matter how small, can give us warmth, food, and hope. It can help us survive these dark days and rebuild a life with dignity.

Your support means the world to me and my family.

Please donate 🙏

All the destruction that you see, we live every day a hundred times, and we live hunger, death, and a life that has no taste of life

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elsa + laughter

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It's a need

Stained glass ao3 logo :P

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Moonbows

A moonbow, also known as a lunar rainbow or white rainbow, is a rainbow created by moonlight rather than sunlight. It's formed when light from the moon refracts and reflects off water droplets, like those in rain or mist, creating a visible arc of light in the sky. Moonbows are generally fainter and less colorful than regular rainbows, and they are much rarer due to the need for specific conditions like a full or near-full moon, clear skies, and dark skies.

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Reading 'Isle of the Lost', it felt like I was reading a dystopian novel then something for Disney. I cringed at the moments they ate spoiled and rotten food. King Beast sounds more like a dictator since he allowed children to live in these conditions.

I think a lot of time the fandom focuses on the ways that the Isle of the Lost serves as a dystopia. That makes sense. It’s a prison island where they live off the literal garbage of Auradon. Everyone has cracked, twisted, warped. Survival isn’t something that comes easy; no matter how many dubstep dance numbers get included or how snarky the kids are about it.

Still, that focus on the Isle means that the fandom as a whole seems to miss how inherently horrific Auradon itself is. We’re treated to a country were:

sentient animals (apparently capable of university-level education, even!) are denied personhood and are enslaved to complete menial chores for the upper class

faeries and other magical humanoids (such as the Genie) are restricted not only from the use of their magic, but also from traveling without permission from the crown

dwarfs (specifically the seven dwarfs) are forced to meet mining quotas to satisfy the desires of the upper class, and are not compensated fairly for their labor or allowed days off

the entire kingdom of Atlantica has been transformed into a tourist attraction, where mer and sea creature alike must work without compensation or days off

Basically? Auradon Prep is an extension of the Court, which is made up of the wealthy, important, and human. It’s heavily implied throughout Secrets of Auradon Prep and the rest of the Descendents tie-in media that there is little to no social mobility, even among the humans we see attending Auradon Prep. For example, Doug may be allowed to attend Auradon Prep due to the “helpful” actions of his father, but he’s certainly not given any attention beyond what Ben occasionally deigns to give.

What we see in Descendants is the elite. The less that 1% of Auradon. The people whose lives are enabled not only by a mass incarceration re: the Isle, but also by the systematic and institutionalized enslavement and exploitation of literally every sentient being who is not part of that less than 1%. This system was explicitly put into place by King Beast. Within the novel, it notes that attempts at reform have never succeeded due to Beast using tactics of intimidation that he encourages Ben to use as well.

True, Ben displays throughout the novel and the movie a genuine desire to initiate reform. His decision to bring the Rotten Four over from the Isle is perhaps the most obvious example of that. He also, in the novel, makes the first steps toward dismantling the worst aspects of this oppressive system.

Still this world is broken. The Lost Children aren’t the only ones who have been cracked and twisted and warped by what they survived. Jane is frightened of her own magic because it marks her as other. Doug is passive in the face of injustice because for years he and his kin have been helpless in the face of it. Audrey is determined to remain in power because her parents foster those who have fallen out of power. And they? They are the lucky ones.

This is the legacy that Beast as wrought.

-drops the fucking mic-

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Congratulations on the marriage guys!!!! It's about time honestly

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I feel like this is important yk.

Not mine. Found on snapchat

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Just read read a fic on AO3, rainy days by SiriusBlacksStar (I don't know if they have Tumblr. If you do, and see this, pls reach out so I can tag you. pls.) and there was this one paragraph that was absolutely beautiful.

"It's like their porcelain vases, broken ones. Some have cracks on the outside for everyone to see, some on the inside that only oneself can feel, and some pieces will be missing forever, because no glue in the world can make it complete again. But piece by piece it can be puzzled and held together, and if a piece falls off again, there's someone already picking it up and bringing it back. A broken vase can hold flowers just as well as a whole one."

I just love it! Go read their fic, it was great too. (https://archiveofourown.org/works/65803285)

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i feel like shipping shouldn’t be about which ship is morally or narratively or thematically ‘better’ but more about which one makes you want to throw up and write fics and jump about and make playlists and talk to people about it like the need to scream into a pillow about a random rarepair is more valuable to me than thinking about if they’ve even met

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Yet another AO3 bot situation - please spread the word!

Hi, it's me again, the person who wrote that viral post about fanfiction plagiarism! Today I'm here to warn you about abuse perpetrated by bots who have stolen AO3 usernames.

There's currently an epidemic of bots going around leaving (apparently random) horrible, hateful comments on people's fics. This isn't the first time bots have invaded AO3, but the big problem with this wave is that they're using real AO3 usernames to do it.

I learned about this when another writer contacted me after receiving the following comment on their story:

Now, while that is my username, I DEFINITELY did not leave this comment (and anyone who would leave something like that on a fic should be slapped! What an awful thing to post). This fic is in a completely unrelated fandom that I have never participated in, nor has that author participated in any of my fandoms, so the probability of it being some intentional fandom drama thing to make me look bad is also low.

The writer whose fic the comment was left on enlisted the aid of some friends and tracked down other guest comments with unrelated usernames attached, which is pretty strong evidence that they are being left by bots at random.

The TL;DR: If you receive a cruel comment from a (Guest) with an actual AO3 username attached, it's most likely from a bot. Please do not lash out at or dogpile the AO3 user who owns that name, and who in all likelihood has no idea that their name has been hijacked for evil.

If finding this kind of comment on a fic, even left by a bot, is likely to upset you, I would recommend changing your comment settings so that only users who are logged in can leave comments. To do this, edit your story settings, and under "Privacy," select the radio button that says "Only registered users can comment," as shown below.

Please spread the word to other AO3 users! And if you see mean guest comments on other fics, maybe let the author know that it's probably from a bot and not a real person who thinks their writing is bad.

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Hi everyone! Here's your Daily Reminder to Click for Palestine!

And if you can spare a dollar, donate to ANERA!

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if you’re a white creator and your brown/black characters are always sassy, reckless, aggressive or cold and your white characters are always soft, demure, shy and introverted you should think about maybe why you did that

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now feels like a good time to reiterate that Iranians have been martyred by america + israel already, both empires that possess nuclear weapons, and that Iran does not have nuclear weapons. so now is not the time to joke about america getting nuked-- any retaliation on Iran's part is justified and the only way we escape this situation, but Iran is not going to nuke us, because the entire premise that Iran has nukes is how america justified bombing them and also the exact same rhetoric we used against Iraq and how we killed my countrysmen when there was again no evidence of nuclear warfare. New York City is not going to get fucking nuked. go listen to a podcast or something

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Reblog to give a trans person a fresh and perfectly ripe mango wait huh

It's the wikipedia image??? How big could it be

What

Huh???