my red flag is that every time I see a post giving advice on how to better your mental health I just think "don't tell me what to do" and scroll past it
Remember the 6 year old girl who was surrounded by Israeli tanks and the red crescent couldn't reach her? Her name is Hind Hamadeh. Here you can hear the phone call her 15 year old sister, Layan Hamadeh, made with the medics. She was killed exactly a moment later including all people in the car, except for 6 year old Hind who was stuck in the car with the dead bodies of her family, Israeli tanks and IDF surrounding her, shooting, preventing anybody to reach her.
That was last night (29.1.24). Today, still nothing. The fate of Hind remains unknown.
palestine red crescent ambulance team went to rescue her yesterday evening, but they have not returned as of now. We lost contact with them about 18 hours ago, and we still remain unaware of their fate and whether they succeeded in evacuating her or not.
Please, share Hind's story as much as you can on any platform. We need to know what happened to her. Put yourself in her place, how terrified she must be. Don't scroll past this.
This is an emergency and so I will make it an easy read, as Amal CANNOT afford people scrolling past this post:
@amalashuor , a young mother needs your help in buying baby food for her daughter Maryam. At only 18 months old, Maryam is in danger of severe malnutrition and this may even put her life at risk.
Amal immediately needs to raise at least €5000 to buy necessary baby products like milk, cerelac and even nappies.
I cannot overstate how important this is when Amal has been displaced TWICE in 10 days and has lost €4000 in transportation fees. She was in Rafah for a long time and recently had to flee to Khan Younis due to IOF aggression. And again from the east of Khan Younis to the West to escape shelling.
Currently she has exhausted most of the funds she had raised given how expensive the cost of living has become in Gaza. With no income, this Gofundme is what she depends on to survive.
IOF repeatedly targeting aide workers has forced UN to temporarily suspend all operations in Gaza strip. Henceforth food prices are expected to skyrocket even more and Amal is at a loss as to what to do since she already spends €2500 monthly on meagre amounts of food that the family then has to stretch as much as they can so as to not completely starve. Amal also needs personal hygiene products during periods to avoid infection- we often talk about women's rights and health on this site, so please help this mother by donating.
Currently at €33,167. Please get Amal to €40,000. The money would cover costs of both baby food and personal hygiene products.
Every single person you here who was flirting with not voting bc you hate Biden:
You got what you wanted. You WILL vote. If I see a single motherfucker repeating nihilistic talking points about not showing up, how both sides are the same, or whatever other uninformed bullshit you've got
Then I am going to assume you are an actual Russian psyop and I'm reporting your ass.
You will vote, and you will talk to the people in your life and remind them to vote. You will shut down all anti-voting rhetoric you see. We are up against a senile cult leader who wants to pack the court with people who have literally threatened to dismantle more of our rights.
Rights that people protested for and fought for and fucking died for are back on a negotiating table, and you know what? We now have to defend what we've won when we should be pushing for more. We are on the defensive.
We have three and a half fucking months to do this.
I have absolutely no opinions on the Barbie movie but since I am already seeing discourse about it all over my dash I am begging people once again to get involved in some kind of local activism so they will stop thinking what movies you watch is a hardhitting form of praxis
"i've been thinking about this lately. that the people i work with, or everyone i have to see daily, are all really good people. i'm very blessed, and i'm lucky to be in a situation like that. i think that a lot lately. whenever we get the chance, the eight of us always say, "let's go hang out together." it's nice since i'm not alone. there are moments i want to be alone, where i want to think by myself, of course, but i think all of that is under the premise of already having people by my side. since i have such good members by my side, i feel less lonely. being able to do something together is what happiness is, in my opinion."
The first full, realistic portrait I've done in years.
Spent all weekend on this. Still room for improvement, because I'm a perfectionist. And I could tweak it forever, but in 5 hours I'm getting on a train to start the first week of my master's degree in art.
Detail shots and sketch:
Bonus: Comparison with a very old drawing I did of Jonathan, back in the days of Spring Awakening. If you wanna get better at drawing, just keep drawing, you'll get there. ♥
I haven’t watched Dungeon Meshi, but I always enjoy the dashboard osmosis experience and have a peculiar visual memory. Here is what I believe Dungeon Meshi to be mostly about. No complicating experiences with the text, or indeed character references, fed into this extremely clear vision, which I believe I torrented directly from the astral plane at the same time as the creator was logged on