#help Marlei

[poltergeistsoup]

URGENT

I have been in contact with Marlei for several weeks now. She is also verified by Noah Grigini on Instagram, who is very active in mutual aid work.

Marlei is 26 years old, disabled, and has been left homeless with her 3 children after a typhoon in the Philippines in July.

She has just recently been hospitalized, and is unsure of what will happen to her and her family now.

I have been helping her afford food and shelter over the past 2 weeks, but she needs almost 21,000 pesos (1,055 USD) to pay for her hospital bills. I am taking 5-10 dollar requests in exchange for proof of do*nation, as well as opening commissions for higher payments. All payments will go directly to Marlei and I will provide proof of payment.

Give directly to Marlei here

DM me at poltergeistsoup for commissions

I know there are a lot of things requiring our attention at the moment, and they’re all very important, but since I have been in contact with her personally, I would like to do what I can to help. I also understand I’m asking other people who may also be struggling, but sharing may help this reach the right person.

If she is able to get to half the amount by the end of the week, she will be able to be discharged so she doesn’t accrue more debt. I would like to help get her to 600 USD by the end of the week.

Edit: We had been able to reach the goal and help Marlei pay off her hospital bills! However, she is still homeless and the Philippines is facing typhoon after typhoon. If you are able to continue to support her in staying in a hotel room and affording food for herself and her children, I am still taking art requests with proof of d*nation.

[cwpidfangs]

[shaloved30]

Daphne, you got me out here looking like a damn fool. I'm telling anyone who will listen how much I like you...

[monkeyislandtwo]

mmm. monkey

[missluthorwillseeyounow]

UPDATE:

Okay, so another WIP is wheedling its way into one of my brains again. Which is the *drum roll please*...

Hill House AU

So if you vote for the new write-in candidate, please comment or reblog with your vote in the tags so I can tally the votes along with the others.

[a-living-cartoon]

It seems to me that there are only a select few of people that still hyperfixate on a Christmas Carol after Christmas.

They all seem to be on tumblr.

AND THEY ALL SEEM TO BE FELLOW MARLEY APOLOGISTS!

(Invisible Majority we are)

[marley-manson]

re-watched The Sniper the other night instead of going on to In Love and War, and man, early Mash is just too fucking good I can't deal with it. the vibes are just right for me. Hawkeye is peak Hawkeye. the constant sardonicism towards war and the army is everything I want.

specific to the Sniper you have so much great stuff.

-- Great Hawkeye + Frank scene featuring Frank calling Hawkeye "Hawk," and Hawkeye being nice and reassuring because Frank is a scared idiot. It's genuinely kinda sweet.

-- Frank also says he flunked out of med school twice here because at his most sympathetic he will still never not be the butt of the joke and I love that too

-- I chose it to watch because of the overt Freudian stuff and that was definitely a delight despite the running gag about Margaret's rape kink

-- Honestly idek if that's a despite, since it fits the military satire so well. It's crass, and misogynist in adding the sexual element, but while she's the military representative who tells Frank to prove he's a man by going out with his gun and killing the sniper, it's functionally the same theme as Flagg's sadomasochism. ie mocking the glorification of specifically military violence, whether that's perpetuating or suffering it, as freudian in origin.

Like this is an episode you have to take satirically, you can't reimagine it as a genuinely harrowing brush with death these characters are experiencing, and that's the level it works on, and that's the level I care about. So like while Margaret's fears in eg Bug Out were meant to be taken seriously as an aspect of her character, here it's another freudian joke about the military. It's not great, but to me jokes in that context are less upsetting than the jokes in Bug Out's context, yk?

-- Hawkeye and Frank as foils was particularly pronounced here. I mean you have Frank showing his gun off to Margaret who gets hot and bothered over it while Hawkeye just has a picnic basket and a mild cunnilingus line with a nurse about twenty feet away from them. You have Frank as the violence representative and Hawkeye as the pacifism representative as discussed in dialogue and shown in attempted action, while Hawkeye is a more natural leader than Frank could ever hope to be (holding a hand up for quiet after Frank tries over and over to get everyone to shut up and listen to him).

And of course the violence is directly associated with masculinity - Margaret's "If we had a real man in this outfit he'd be out there in the night with his gun," saying it loud and clear. Followed by Frank as a coward who wants to prove he's a man but can't, and Hawkeye as a coward who couldn't care less about demonstrating his masculinity but tries to subdue the sniper when he gets a chance anyway, without a gun. Hawkeye's pointed lack of a gun twice as well, when he tries to surrender and when he goes to treat the sniper after the military shoots him. All opening ofc with Hawkeye's joke about pistol envy lol.

-- The north korean sniper as a hero (someone who's tired and hungry and doesn't give a damn), which is a connection I've seen drawn elsewhere and very deliberate.

-- Hawkeye has a few angry words about the young kids in the OR, which is echoed in his description of the sniper as 16 or 17, another excellent connection the show draws deliberately.

-- Hawk and Trap running back into the main office after getting fired on by the sniper, Trap trails behind a bit and almost gets shut out by Radar lol, but then as they're sitting shoulder to shoulder he's the first to ask if Hawk's all right <3

-- Hawkeye is such a dick to Radar in this ep and I love it lol, he's like a mean older sibling sometimes

[destinywillowleaf]

besides legends arceus causing the whole "oh riley is actually really old (and at one point went by rye)" braincell it also led to other Fun Ideas about ancestry and dealing with who people expect you to be contrasting with who you really are :) especially with marley's japanese name (mai) becoming the english name for her ancestor and thus joining rye in being the stat trainer ancestors who share the same name origin as their present-day descendants/selves :) :) (also they were specifically made a team in the BDSP battle tower which might not mean much but i'm thinking about it now anyway)

[poltergeistsoup]

Thank you to anyone who’s previously supported Marlei. She is $35 away from her current goal. EDIT 11/15/24: we’ve reached this current goal! Please continue to share and support Marlei for her next goal:

Her next goal will be another $200 by this Sunday before another typhoon hits the Philippines.

I am doing $5-10 art requests or full commissions for regular prices, all profits going towards Marlei.

@strawberryttea is also doing $10 icon commissions for Marlei

Marlei is a homeless single mother in the Philippines trying to survive as 5 different hurricanes have/will hit the coastline since July. I have been in contact with her since September, and Noah Grigini on Instagram has been in contact with her since July.

Support her directly

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Edit 11/17/24: URGENT: Marlei needs at least $65 today to stay in a hotel room/get food for one day, and the storm is getting closer.

Edit 11/17/24: The 65 has been covered! Please continue to support if you’re able as she will continue to need shelter for the next few days.

Edit 11/19/24: Marlei and her family are currently on the streets during the typhoon! Please help if you are able, and share to hopefully reach those who can

[darcyolsson]

very few love triangles in glee could've been solved with polyamory but marley jake and ryder shouldve just throupled their way out of that high school they're so adorable when they all get along 😭

[bee-sapphic]

"Had a dream about Daisy in a field, wearing a strange cloud canopy hat and a white dress. It was unearthly bright and I could barley see her through the sun beams. I mostly talked to her though my fingers over my eyes.

We talked for a long time, but I don't remember about what. Something important. Something she wouldn't have wanted me to remember.

She floated up and up, into the sky into the clouds. Fitting into them like a puzzle piece. I felt a vast sadness. And then I woke up."

-Marley's dream journal

[readingforaneternity]

So I watched the Migration movie today and I was enjoying it up until I met this Jamaican bird named Delroy.

The issue isn’t that he’s Jamaican, bc I’m Jamaican American and I love to see representation of my culture. But it was the voice actor that completly ruined the rest of the movie for me.

His accent was off. And for those of you who don’t know Patois and the Jamaican accent in general, it may be hard even realize, but it sucked.

My issue is that they casted an American who did it. Not even a Jamaican American who was raised with Jamaican family. I’m sure there are so many Jamaican actors and actresses that could have embodied the role so much better.

I don’t only want to see proper POC representation in live actions. I want it in animation too. And that includes language, dialects, and accents.

[tolkienlockian]

I'M SO EXCITED I'M FINALLY POST THIS FANFIC!!

My newest Attack on Titan fanfic is up!! Fair warning: major feels

If you like the story and want to be added to a taglist let me know

[estellardreams]

Decided to go and rate my fankids again lol

[marley-manson]

most surprising takeaway from the pilot for me: jackie/shauna no wilderness au could be good

least surprising takeaway from the pilot for me: it could be good if it was about how they'd inevitably crash and burn with shauna the passive partner letting jackie criticize and control her and growing more and more resentful and angry and passive aggressive and jackie cavlierly not noticing until it's too late

i feel like given the vibe of the show shauna could accidentally kill jackie in a fit of unleashed rage but something like cheating on her with someone younger and hotter and getting caught accidentally on purpose, or ruining their lives some other way, could be good too

[wilsons-three-legged-siamese]

Does anyone have any tips on how to give someone encouragement?

My friends the rebel of all our classes, but he really has a talent in poetry and creative writing. Only I've seen his work. But the thing is, he doesn't try in lesson because he doesn't think he's capable. I know he has so much potential, but I don't really know how to tell him without coming off as the smartass that wants everyone to just do the work (I'm the smartest in most my classes-).

Just any general tips?? Message me or comment on here if so-