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gifts for @smilesobrien bc hes been having a dbz phase and dripfeeding me buusatan yaoi thoughts

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buusatan

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WE'RE MAKING IT OUT OF THE TIME LOOP WITH THIS ONE ‼️‼️‼️‼️

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WE'RE MAKING IT OUT OF THE TIME LOOP WITH THIS ONE ‼️‼️‼️‼️

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WE'RE MAKING IT OUT OF THE TIME LOOP WITH THIS ONE ‼️‼️‼️‼️

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thinking about wendell and wild again. S+ tier character design

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im making this post to draw attention to the fundraiser of @wafaaresh6. this campaign has been vetted by 90-ghost here. wafaa is also the sister of @mohiy-gaza who also has been verified and confirmed that this is her account.

wafaa graduated from university and wanted to travel, work and have a chance to do many things, but the war has devastated her plans. her families house was destroyed and they've been displaced more than 10 times since then. they have no access to food, clean water or medicine and diseases are widespread. wafaa's mother suffers from hypertension, but they cant find any medication and is her condition is getting worse. the IDF has severely restricted the amount of aid that reaches gaza, and continue to send displaced people on what are essentially death marches by shrinking and changing the "safe zones".

it is hard to state how many peoples dreams, ambitions, and lives have been destroyed or cut short in just a matter of seconds. its unconscionable that anyone should have to suffer this way. to anyone reading this– especially those reading this in the comfort of their homes, in cities that are still standing– put yourself in the shoes of people who have lost everything and consider how important and life changing these donation campaigns could be.

whatever you think you would be doing during the holocaust is what you are doing right now. i think constantly about all of the refugees whos lives were saved- against all odds- through the help of many people, often anonymous strangers. this is really important and peoples lives are at risk. so please– consider gravity of this situation and help support wafaa and her family. every donation helps

€20,192 raised of €100,000

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Current progress: $4,083/$20,000

Account: @family-kawla2

This campaign is for Khawla, @/mohiy-gaza 's sister (confirmation below cut). Mohiy has been vetted by 90-ghost here

Khawla and her husband are rasing funds to help them and their 3 children: Muhammad (5), Sham (3), and Ghazal (1 1/2). They need help affording food, clean water, shelter, baby supplies, and medicine to treat Muhammad's hepatitis.

The funds will help them survive and afford evacuation to a safer place, where Khawla's children will be able to live in peace and return to school. Completing their fundraiser is impossible without support from people like you. Please extend your support to Khawla's family by sharing and donating, even if all you can spare is $5. Every share and every dollar will bring them one step closer to reaching their goal and affording evacuation.

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I want you to imagine yourself, fifty years from now, sitting with your grandchildren. Imagine them asking you “what did you do during the Gazan Genocide?” What will you say? Will you say “I did nothing?” Will you say “I did what I could?” By donating to this fundraiser, you will be able to say “I saved a man from cancer.” I’m sure many of you have seen the fundraiser for @mohiy-gaza2 . What you might not know is that Mohiy himself is very sick. He told me himself that he recently had an MRI to diagnose a tumor in his pancreas, and now needs surgery to remove his spleen. Dealing with these illnesses is difficult enough for those of us lucky enough to live in peaceful countries; in a warzone Mohiy’s task is nothing short of horrific. I know pancreatic cancer is a difficult disease, but with our help, I believe Mohiy can beat it.

I know there are other fundraisers on your dash. I’m sure your bank accounts are already low from the donations you’ve already made. All I can do is beg you, from the bottom of my heart: help Mohiy and his family. I’ve already donated; please find it in your heart to donate whatever you can. To quote Mohiy himself:

Thank you for reading this. I know Mohiy and his family are grateful for anything you can give.

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this should make you angry. children in gaza have been out of school for a whole year and will be out of school as long as the israeli invasion continues. palestinian children live in flimsy tents which do not offer them any protection from the heat/cold. they travel long distances to search for water. they are threatened by water-borne diseases and skin infections that are running rampant in gaza.

no aid has been allowed in gaza since may. there is a shortage of everything from food to medicine to blankets to tents. this means that prices for everything have gone up.

it has become very expensive to survive in gaza. heavy rains followed by the winter are fast approaching. a tent does not offer much protection against the elements.

help alaa [ @alaakh998 ] buy supplies for the winter and medicine for her son who is suffering from a skin infection. she has two children aged six and four. she needs to ensure their safety and welfare and it cannot be done without your help.

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Damage prediction on pears during transportation.

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to expand a bit on what I said on this post, I think a recurring habit in the Trek fandom re: women is to interpret their actions as the result of their ‘inherent nature’ rather than, idk, calculated choice or long-term effort or even intentional disregard. I see this most often with Jadzia and Seven, though in opposite directions; the former is naturally gregarious while the latter is ornery due to trauma, and neither assumptions get questioned by the (very obvious, imho) instances in which they don't gel really well with their actions onscreen. They're not the only ones who get this treatment but certainly the characters who, to me, exemplify the trend best.

In the case of Jadzia it is somewhat understandable, given her relatively subdued character arc and the presence of the Trill metaphor which sometimes seem to be more about who Dax was rather than who she is now. Yet to me it's obvious that so much of what Jadzia does is the result of years and years of practice and adaptation, and both her storylines and what she says about herself point to the importance that conscious choices and striving to get what she wanted, often against insurmountable odds, had in her life. So while I don't think everything she does is explicitly a calculus on her part, I think Jadzia has a specific purpose more often than she doesn't. And yes she's fun and she pranks people at the same time! Being purposeful isn't in contradiction with that, I think, and not taking her agency into consideration makes Jadzia a less interesting character to me.

It more unclear to me why Seven gets this treatment, though, since her character arc is such a big part of Voyager once she's on board. It's not the first time I say this either, but it's odd that Seven's actions get so often attributed by the fandom to her trauma or her (subtextual) autism as unchangeable characteristics by which everything can be explained. I agree that those are essential aspects of Seven's character! But when her plots most often revolve about her past (violently enforced) lack of options and her present of overwhelming choices whose consequences she struggles to understand, to me it's more interesting to see Seven's actions as the result of careful assessment of priorities that change over time. The fact that so much about her changes (she starts to value her relationship to others) while other aspects remain somewhat the same (her prickliness above all) speak to the existence of those priorities and their shift as she adapts to the world around her, while still remaining recognizably herself. I can't actually imagine Seven not having a purpose in everything she does, since it's so ingrained in her form the Collective that everything has to have a purpose in order to exist (‘I only want to be useful’ etc). Claiming that she ‘can't help herself’ imho falls short in explaining why she behaves the way she does. Where is her constant internal reassessment of the situation in that? Where is the overthinking, the rationalizing, and where are the blind spots that she doesn't even know about? Saying that it's just her ‘nature’ doesn't quite cover the complex negotiating of her role and place as an individual on the ship and in a universe comprised of individuals, at least to me. I think it's a huge disservice to Seven, actually.

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elyaa turns 4!

in about 16 hours, it will be september 13th in palestine. elyaa, daughter of wasim and wafaa alkhaldi, will turn 4 years old. her parents have been fundraising since this april to evacuate with elyaa and her two younger siblings, six month old twins rima and anwar, who were born into this genocide and have known nothing else. for elyaa's 4th birthday i ask that you spare a multiple of four - $8, $16, $24, or more - and send it to the campaign that will get her and her family out of this horrific situation. they are already over halfway to their goal:

if you would like stickers or a zine in return, you may also purchase something from the birding for better online store:

all store proceeds are given to the alkhaldis' campaign.

note: i do not believe this campaign has been vetted by anyone on tumblr; however, in the gfm description there are links to instagram accounts of elyaa's family members and you can see many pictures of her and her siblings. my friend is in contact with wafaa and i believe based on what she has said that this is entirely legitimate.

also feel free to wish elyaa happy birthday in the gofundme words of support section!

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hey party people! sorry i'm not around much these days- got a couple art markets at the end of the month so i gotta lock in and do like 2 illustrations a day + day job- but i'll be more active after that! i think there are still posts in the queue, so if you see those, i'm not here, i just scheduled those ahead of time. hope you like that time loop post ➰

in the meantime- if you have the means, please donate to my friends in gaza:

@mohiy-gaza2 (undergoing cancer treatment, expensive and stressful)

@wafaaresh6 (mohiy's sister- fundraising for their mother, who needs medication for her hypertension)

i myself am donating when i have the means- this is more irregular than i would like since i already support myself & my wife on a single income, but we do what we can. please join me if you also have the ability!

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OCtober is here again!! Day 1 (favourite)... you know I can't separate my girls ant & birdie...!