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32 | he/him | boredom is the me killer

[ashleyfonthescreamofcreation]

***VETTED PALESTINIAN FUNDRAISERS***

***The following fundraisers have all been vetted by either Gaza Vetters or @90-ghost***

A ceasefire deal may have been struck, but this is still a time of uncertainty for people in Gaza. They still face an uphill battle to survive and hopefully to recover and rebuild - as they have many times before, with courage and resilience. Part of that uphill battle has been because of Gofundme and Tumblr unjustly terminating people's accounts, and I cannot stress enough how the vast, vast, vast majority of Palestinians' accounts that you will find on here genuinely do represent struggling families. Out of the 34 that I have checked (against other authorities, as I can't vet myself), only 1 was a bot. The following families have all reached out to me, and I really want to make sure you know how even a little donation makes a huge difference, and even if you can't afford to donate right now, please, please, please share.

Aidez la famille MOKDAD a survivre au genocide israélite - @ommohamed-52

Evacuate My Last Family Members in Gaza - @anasfamilys

Help Abd AL Salam and his family get through this war inGaza

Help Hassan and his family get out of Gaza - @yousefhasan55 @hasanamasi00 @hasanamasi0

Donate to Save Hanan Al-Salout's Family in Gaza - @hananfamily7

Save Kareman Dohan's Family from Despair - @kareman-palestine3

Support Wafa's Fight for Safety and Health - @wafaaabd2 @wafaaresh

Support Nabila's Fight for Health and Dignity - @nabila1960

Help Samir and his family get out of Gaza - @sameer-gaza0

Trapped Family in Gaza Appeals for Help to Survive

Fidaa's Family - @fidaa-family2

Reunite a Family Torn Apart: A Daughter's Plea from Gaza - @hashem-bader

Help Mohiy and his family - @mohiyfamily

I hope people will help me travel outside Gaza - @mohmmed88

Help Rudina's family get out of the country - @samagaza1 @samafamily2

Help Me Secure a Better Future for My Daughters. - @toleen-hassouna

Help Iman and Her Family Survive in War-Torn Gaza - @eman-family

Kawthar family to evacuate from Gaza war - @kaw95thar1

Help us to survive from this war - @mohammed-2007-mohammed

Rebuilding Live: A Mother's Plea for Hope and Safety in Gaza - @noor0

Helping Heba Family : Escaping War to a New Life - @malakfamily

Announcing a campaign to evacuate Ahlam for treatment abroad - @ahlam2ram

Hope and Safety for Amal and Her Children in Gaza - @amalfamilygaza

Help Falastin's Family Survive & Escape the Genocide in Gaza - @falestin-iw

Hope in the Eyes of the Young - @familgazaamal1

Help Mahmoud Support His Family - @mahmoud-gaza10 @mahmoud12-jaafar

Support Shadi's Family in Their Time of Need - @suhailaalwan2 @esraapalestine

Abood Resh's Family - @aboodfamily2

Help Ahmed Jehad and his newborn survive! - @ahmad-syam

Help Zaen and Yehya to get out of Gaza - @hyamshehab222

Jamil Totah's Family - @tahani-family

Support Khawla's Family in Gaza Crisis - @kh-family5

Help Ahmed And His Family Survive In Gaza Crisis - @ahmed-firmly2

Helping the Ahmed Fathi family achieve a better future - @ahmed-fathi-gaza

[ashleyfonthescreamofcreation]

I'm reblogging this list now, as these families need help now more than ever. The news of Netanyahu and Trump's bad faith dealing with the Palestinian people is unsurprising, but saddening. We can't let this stamp out the slivers of hope that Palestinians have. Please keep donating if you can and reblogging if you can't.

A further two more families have contacted me, and I'm adding them to this list:

Help Momen's family rise from the ashes - @nouralmadhounsblog

Please help Hani Hamid with travel and treatment for urgent need - @456hane

[ashleyfonthescreamofcreation]

Reblogging again to add more families:

Support Nour and his family to survive the Gaza crisis - @no0rgaza

Help Ahmed Abu Saada's Children to Safety - @ahmedfamily27

I also want to restate that all of these fundraisers are vetted by trusted authorities.

[fuckthisshit-ugh]

please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

reblog. share. don't scroll past.

[stjohnstarling]

In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

Extremely good idea - how are you doing it? Through the contact us option?

[stjohnstarling]

Yeah it’s one of the options on the Contact Support form:

[sharas-bae]

for what it's worth: after a few months of submitting help tickets as 'feedback' when i saw a post inappropriately flagged as mature, i tried following this suggestion instead. today i got my first-ever response from tumblr support on this issue, letting me know that a post i'd submitted a ticket before has had its mature content flag removed.

[stjohnstarling]

Hey it worked! Maybe if enough of us make a stink they’ll fix the fucking system.

[sayitasyoucan]

My Valentine Cards

[saucefunk]

THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT

[anxietyproblem]

[mathew]

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[chopnuts]

SHE THINKS HER LAUGH IS A SONG SO SHE SINGS BACK

[babushkaat]

how lucky am i to feel the weather change

[kosmogrl]

september was practice… in october I’m getting my shit together

[kosmogrl]

in november I'm getting my shit together

[victusinveritas]

[pierogish]

Happy Halloween!!!

Kids in vintage halloween costumes!

references and other costumes under a cut, they are so much fun

[normalautism-deactivated2025122]

having a Harry Potter url means you automatically have to die

[dogpuppy]

[ashleyfonthescreamofcreation]

This fits with something I realised after spending a week with my mum: having fun online requires real skill. I'm a millennial who has been feeling adrift since Facebook and Instagram have changed beyond recognition from what I grew up with and all my friend groups have become splintered between many different sites and apps (Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, and Tumblr).

I keep saying I'll take the time to learn the necessary skills harness these tools and re-integrate with my social world, but with work and having a real life (making art, seeing friends) I haven't found it yet. And in the meantime I'm scared I'm becoming a ghost to my friends and family in some ways. Not sure exactly where I'm going with this and I'm sorry to turn a silly post into a vent. But I think even joking acknowledgement of the *work* that goes into using the internet (and always has done, if I'm truly honest) is useful and important.

[mythica-ithaca]

If you have a crunchyroll subscription and you support Palestine, please cancel your subscription on the upcoming October 7th to boycott this decision. A massive Israeli boycott on the anniversary of that day would send a very strong message. Not just crunchyroll either, if you have subscriptions for any other company that enables and supports Israel, October 7th is the day to cancel all of those. Please participate and spread the word.

[spiders-fictional-world]

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

Normally I don't do this, but if you're a UK citizen please sign this petition from the Government website to petition against them introducing Digital ID.

This is being used by the government to introduce more police state-like surveillance over everything you do, before you know it you will need it to access anything.

Anything you say or do online will be tied to you, and if the government doesn't like it (regardless of whether it's illegal or not) you will be in legal trouble if this passes. Please do your part to stop it by signing (if you're from the UK) and reblogging and spreading this around (both if you're in the UK and not in the UK).

[handweavers]

some of the inks i've made from plants, nuts, and insects and a bit of alchemy between 2022-2025

[handweavers]

i think it's interesting to note the origins of the plants (and in the case of cochineal, insects) that these inks are made from, especially because it places these colours into their material context. the understanding of colour as a product of time and place - whether organic, mineral, or synthetic - and a temporary intervention that shifts and changes through time like a living being is common among contemporary natural dyers and inkmakers. when you make ink you do so with the knowledge that the colour you get when you first make the ink is not necessarily the colour you will get in a week, a month, a year, a decade, and so on. the ink can only exist because the plant or mineral or insect it derives from exists/existed in this time and place, and because we exist/existed to make the ink and use it in this time and place. this is an incredibly basic idea but it gives meaning to the sight of cochineal, buckthorn, and indian mangrove ink side by side, as this could only exist in the postcolonial context.

cochineal is derived from the scale insect dactylopius coccus, which is a parasite that lives on cacti of the genus opuntia native to the southwestern united states and mexico. the history of cochineal is tightly wound to the history of colonialism in mesoamerica, between the pre-colonial mixtec using it to paint codexes on deer skin and the spanish conquistadores establishing a monopoly on red dye that was their second most valuable export industry from mexico. much of the wealth amassed by the spanish colonial project in mexico was gained through the exploitation of cochineal as a dyestuff. 'a perfect red' by amy butler greenfield details this history if you're interested in learning more about it.

common buckthorn (european buckthorn, rhamnus cathartica) is the plant from which many historical pigments in europe and west asia are derived: sap green, stil de grain yellow, dutch pink, french pink, and so on. it was commonly used in medieval manuscripts up through the 18th century in france and england. when combined with indigo pigment, or when alone and adjusted for the pH, it is one of the only ways of achieving a true grassy green with naturally-derived pigments in the western european context. this green tends to fade with exposure to light and air, and it's a noted phenomenon in the paintings of many european artists from this time period that many colours we see as yellow or blue now were probably once a bright grassy green. in the present day it is a highly invasive plant in north america where it spreads aggressively and chokes out native plants, and there are ongoing efforts to reduce its impact on local ecosystems.

indian mangrove (or spurred mangrove, ceriops tagal) is less known in the west but no less important. it is native to eastern and southern africa through tropical south asia (maldives, india, sri lanka), southeast asia, the pacific islands and australia. it forms an important part of the ecosystems in tidal zones of these regions, preventing soil erosion in coastal areas and protecting against monsoons and floods. it is at risk of overlogging in many of these coastal areas, especially those affected by tourism development like in bali, indonesia. the heartwood is a common heritage dyestuff throughout this region, and most famously known as a popular source of red and orange-rusty-brown in southeast asian batik and in leather tanning. it is also an important wood for house construction in its native region, and in the philippines it is used to make a type of wine. it has many names, ex. tengar putih in malay, isinkaha in zulu, and tagal in its scientific name is derived from tagalog.

these three materials being made into inks and used together could only happen in a world in which one person could feasibly access the raw materials for all of them, which could only happen in this postcolonial context. how much history is carried in a single colour, how many lives and places are involved in its creation? there is so much context to every bottle of ink that goes beyond the colour itself, and any material that can create a strong ink likely has an equally complicated history

[theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt]

Okay listen I have another disability related thing that’s important!!

If you have any disabilities linked to tooth decay/erosion, through direct cause or secondary symptom, it is vital that you get one or both of the following items: Sensodyne toothpaste and enamel repair mouthwash

This includes health conditions such as acid reflux, diabetes, thyroid conditions, fibromyalgia, chronic pain & mental illnesses such as depression that create poor hygiene routines, sensory issue disorders like autism and ADHD, and any health condition that causes frequent vomiting / increased stomach acid, including eating disorders and migraines.

All of these disabilities will erode the enamel of your teeth, not only opening you up to cavities but making it very easy to chip your teeth from such simple things as biting the wrong way on the tines of a fork. (I’ve chipped my teeth at least 4 times this way).

The toothpaste on the left here (sensodyne pronamel) is gentle on your teeth, won’t cause painful sensations from any extreme mint flavor, and will even protect your gums if they’re sensitive from any of these conditions.

The mouthwash on the right (Crest enamel repair) will, as it says, repair your enamel — which is marvelous, because the technology to repair your enamel at all is relatively very new to society! — but it is most importantly non-alcoholic. Meaning that it works well as a once-a-day rinse without any of the burning sensations of antiseptics that typically discourage people with sensory issues from taking care of their teeth.

I know remembering to do these things every day can feel like a lot when you’re sick and exhausted, but I promise a collective three minutes out of every day is going to save you an incredible amount of pain and money in the future. If your teeth are susceptible enough to rot, you can actually die from infection. And as they say, with how little insurance actually covers dental —

Not brushing your teeth??

In THIS economy???

[angiethewitch]

also: ask your dentist about durophat fluoride toothpaste!! I got some on prescription and it is a special formula that helps protect teeth

[thebibliosphere]

Clinpro is another great rx toothpaste that has a soft minty vanilla flavor. You can also ask for tooth cleaning powder at your dentist. The brand I use is called "common sense teeth cleaning powder," and it doesn't scratch the enamel off your teeth.

We use it when I need to neutralize the acid in my mouth because of things like acid reflux/the frequent throwing up that I used to endure because of my other ailments. Saved my teeth for sure.

[nothingiswrongwithyourarmrests]

TePe came out with new flavourless toothpastes this year for everyone with taste issues.

Also check out if you can get prescribed flouride tablets that you can use to get your flouride impulse if no toothpaste or mouthwash works. The other ingredients in toothpaste help you clean your teeth more quickly but if you brush well enough you can clean off the plaque with just a damp toothbrush. It takes much longer than with the help of toothpaste though. One trick for kids with sensory issues from my boss is to mash a flouride tablet with a drop of water and then put it on the brush.

[mathsbian]

The prescription I got through Medicaid was just called “Denta-5000”, I need it back so bad oh my goooooods

[three--rings]

Hey everyone. If they take the flouride out of the water as they are threatening, you need to start using these immediately. I moved to a place on well water with no flouride and ten years later suddenly my teeth were rotting to hell. I never had a cavity before moving here.

I'm now on RX toothpaste and using mouthwash to try to save my teeth, but flouride is SO IMPORTANT.