ben hope defense attorney

he/they -- 24

[birdbrainless]

mutual obsession and you see god in my eyes or nothing

[byjove]

criminalize youth sports and college athletics. make them illegal. it is so extremely fucked up for a kid to do permanent damage to their body at the ripe old age of 15 in hopes of getting a college scholarship where they will be an unpaid revenue source for the college and continue to fuck up their bodies. I truly do not understand why trans kids freak everyone out but kids getting permanent brain damage and lifelong injuries playing hockey or whatever is good clean fun. I am serious. I am not joking. especially with the consequences of repeated brain injuries in sports like football being widely known now.

[isawken]

hey man. nice regional dialect. mind if i apply some baseless assumptions about your personhood to it? i was also gonna prescribe morality to it as well. if that’s cool with you

[closet-keys]

I am struggling to put my thoughts into words. I don't know how to focus lately on anything while so many people are starving to death in Gaza.

I am finding myself texting my family members and my friends and my local community organizing networks apologizing for disappearing, for failing to respond to messages, for forgetting to check in. I was laid off from my job a while ago, and have not received a single interview. How can I justify writing cover letters when I could be writing fundraisers? But how can I not when my wife needs me to find a source of income so that we can pay rent.

When I write about Palestine, it is the only thing that feels important in my life. But then I fear that people do not read it, and I fear they stop reading as soon as they realize I am talking about Palestine. What can I write so that you will feel my (imperfect, flawed) humanity through them, and not let go when I ask you to hold the humanity of the people of Gaza too?

Many hands make light work, but there needs to be a hell of a lot more hands here. It's heavy right now, but the more people do something, the easier it becomes for every single person trying to act. Please do not fear the weight of this. We need you.

[closet-keys]

"Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation. They are expensive, inefficient and can even kill starving civilians."

- Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, on July 26, 2025

“This is not a warning, this is a call to action. This is unlike anything we have seen in this century"

- Ross Smith, UN World Food Programme (WFP) director of emergencies, published by the United Nations news on July 29, 2025.

"Despite the overwhelming evidence of rampant malnutrition and growing deaths from starvation, Gaza remains all but sealed off. At the IRC, we have several tons of life-saving medical supplies ready and waiting to enter—enough to treat thousands and bolster a health system that is collapsing under the weight of war and deprivation. These supplies sit idle. Hospitals are either destroyed or overwhelmed. Fuel is scarce. Food prices have surged by 700%. Gaza’s essential services have collapsed... This is not a crisis that demands more data. It demands more determination... The world knows what is happening in Gaza. The cost of delay will be measured in the lives of children lost."

- David Miliband, "How To Stop Gazans From Dying of Starvation Right Now" published on July 30, 2025

"Stressing that malnutrition has been rising rapidly in the first half of July, the report found that over 20,000 children have been admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition between April and mid-July, with more than 3,000 severely malnourished... Hospitals have reported a rapid increase in hunger-related deaths of children aged under 5, with at least 16 reported deaths since July 17"

- Palestine Chronicle, on July 30, 2025

[closet-keys]

Nader's father is dying of cancer.

His family is dying and surrounded by death, constantly fighting to find food, medicine, and temporary safety.

Donate to Help Nader Al-Anqar and his family overcome this war in Gaza, organized by Nader Alanqar

I am a young man who loves my studies very much and I drea… Nader Alanqar needs your support for Help Nader Al-Anqar and his family overc

Please do what you can to donate and share his campaign ( #4 on the Gazavetters list ).

You can reach out to him at @abdalsalam2000.

[abdalsalam2000]

We are suffering. I did not take any of this vital aid, which is barely enough for my family. This is a very terrible thing. We ask you to help us, guys. We eat one meal a day, and it is very, very expensive. Please help us and donate to us. Do not let this hunger eat us while you are watching. You can help me by donating to me. Please donate.

[howtheriddlergothisname]

I am having immense difficulty articulating exactly how I am reading this through a trans lens (with a particular examination of trans masculinity) so in the interim I am looking at it through trans poetry and academia which is a bit like writing meta with magnetic poetry tiles but it is useful in looking at what themes repeat and for him it's the complexity of masked and unmasked identities in that the one he views as himself is not the one everyone else sees as 'real'. His face is something that used to be in the form of a woman but through his own hand is now a man's face. (On a secondary theme that isn't sufficiently covered here is the fact that he is consistently aligned with and put in the same position as women experiencing sexual violence in a way that other male characters simple aren't)

Anyway anyway! It's about Themes and Metaphors. It's about bodies, it's about identity, it's about transition, it's about disguises, it's about Writing Your Own Narrative literally and metaphorically, it's about a lot of stuff...you understand...

jay dodd, Exhibition / Daniel Lavery, The Problem With Boys When You Don't Know You Might Be One Yet, Between The Ages of Roughly Twelve and Twenty-Nine / Cameron Awkward-Rich, Essay On What Is And Isn't / Anson Koch-Rein, Gothic Gender in Skin Suits, or The (Transgender) Skin I Live In / Ardel Haefele-Thomas. Queer Others in Victorian Gothic / Cameron Awkward-Rich, The Child Formerly Known As ____ / J. Jennifer Espinoza, A Guide To Reading Trans Literature (For Cis People)

[an-expert-mountain]

Alan Moore but instead of getting harassed by Rorschach fanboys who yell "HE'S LITERALLY ME" at conventions, he gets harassed by fujo fangirls asking "why couldn't Dan and Walter fuck WHY, tell me why Alan", and all interviews in the following years concerning Watchmen have him lambasting Nite Owl/Rorschach slash.

[mcqraw]

walter has his priorities straight

[macbethz]

Well I like it but it’s not very well written. Also it’s a visual mess. The plot doesnt make any sense and the creators suck and its politics oscillate from mildly problematic to frankly baffling. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. However. the character

[schoolhater]

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. 

[raangmanch]

Please boost. This is urgent. There is a need for esims more now, than ever.

[lousolversons]

every adult actor who chooses to sign up for that harry potter show should be hounded in interviews forever tbh

[lizzylolz]

greta thunberg and 11 others on the flotilla carrying aid to gaza have been kidnapped by the israeli government in international waters.

[autumngracy]

Greta Thunberg has posted a pre recorded video, indicating that her and the other crew from the Madleen Freedom Flotilla have been kidnapped by Israel

[ribbondear]

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/formal-notice-regarding-the-civilian-humanitarian-vessel-madleen-and-the-legal-obligations-of-the-state-of-israel-under-international-law-2?source=direct_link&

this link is for writing emails to the governments of the countries each person on the flotilla demanding them to hold israel accountable for their safety. all they need is your information and they send emails for you. they need many more emails to be sent to reach their goal of 3,276,800.

[konkoa]

This has been a PSA.

[reapersun]

I’m trying not to reblog posts on this blog but I feel that this is important to post here.

[enigmaticagentalice]

on a related note:

[princecharmingtobe]

And for the people asking “Well if you don’t support it irl then why would you like it in fiction?!” Because when it’s happening irl real people are suffering and dying and that’s horrible and I’d never want that. But when it’s fiction, when no real people are being hurt or killed, it’s interesting to explore the experience, the effects it may have, and to an extent experience the emotions involved without actually having to experience the horrible thing. You explore scary, dangerous things from a safe distance.

[shirleyjacksonesque]

too many fanfics have the guy be like "oh me and my wife are in an open relationship im totally allowed to have sex with other people." we need more fanfics with straight up infidelity ! adultery even !

[shirleyjacksonesque]

im the number one supporter of broken marriages

[blue-willow-tree-deactivated202]

Hey, your arms are going to shake when you hold yourself above someone for a while during missionary. It won't ruin the moment.

Hey, your thighs and lower back are going to start aching eventually, and you'll need to change positions or slow down. It won't ruin the moment.

Hey, your tummy is going to make noises when you're anxious during your first few times with them. It won't ruin the moment.

Hey, you're going to burst out giggling sometimes. It won't ruin the moment.

Hey, you're going to dislike one, two, or a few things you thought you would've liked. It won't ruin the moment.

Hey, you're going to struggle to finish sometimes. Or keep it in. It won't ruin the moment.

Hey, you're going to stumble around sometimes. It won't ruin the moment.

Hey, you're going to need to take a few deep breaths sometimes. It won't ruin the moment.

Hey. You won't ruin the moment.

And if they say that you have, they don't deserve a moment with you.

♡♡♡

[strongintherealgay]

You don't have to like weed but I find people who are vehemently anti-weed but claim to be left leaning infuriating. If you go into a rage because you smelled someone smoking pot, how the fuck do you expect to form community with people addicted to meth? It's easier to say you hate smokers than to say you hate all drug users in leftist spaces because one makes you sound a bit like a square while the other is the writing on the wall. You aren't anti-weed, you're anti-drug user and anyone who uses substances is not safe around you.

[strongintherealgay]

I know dozens of people who use meth, coke, and fentanyl. While heroin is harder to get I do know some folks who use it when they can. Some of these drug users are my neighbors, some are my clients, and some are my friends & family. One does not cease to be human just because they use a substance you find scary.

Community doesn't mean you need to invite them to your home and look away if they smoke there. It means you don't call your property manager because you suspect your neighbor uses. It means you don't require drug tests for homeless shelters and housing services. It means the very idea of someone who smokes meth in your community doesn't make you go, "what the hell."

Genuinely kind of a wild thing to see in the replies as someone who has been professionally practicing harm reduction for years.

[strongintherealgay]

Considering recent events over here in the States, this seemed like a good time to bring this back. Over the next four years, expect an increase in discourse around "undesirables." This will include but not be limited to drug addicts.

[cowboymalewife]

Also, from someone who works at a smoke/head shop: WAY MORE PEOPLE ARE DRUG USERS THAN YOU THINK. Way more people are addicted to opiates, meth, whippets, cocaine, you name it, than you have been lead to believe, and on top of that, they are often the "normal" or "functional" people you see every day, not just the person tweaking out at the gas stations. Judges, bank tellers, grandmas, teachers, the nice lady who runs your bakery— all of them. You are ALREADY IN COMMUNITY WITH THESE PEOPLE. Start fucking acting like it.

[blackwoolncrown]

I'm gonna keep repeating this: 'community' is not a fucking friend group.

It's not a clique. It's not you and the people YOU think are cool and funny.

Drug users are your neighbors whether you're too much of an obnoxious self-righteous asshat to be aware of that or not. You don't *get* to say drug users don't deserve to be meaningfully connected to and included in the populations they call home (which is what community actually means, btw) and the mere assertion that you can is a big part of why ppl seek connection in drugs in the first place.

It doesn't matter if ppl use or not but tbh if we really wanted to cut down on addiction all we'd need to do is have fewer stuck up motherfuckers who look down on 'undesirables' in the first place.

'community' is not a fucking friend group.'community' is not a fucking friend group.'community' is not a fucking friend group.'community' is not a fucking friend group.'community' is not a fucking friend group.'community' is not a fucking friend group.

[blackwoolncrown]

[tf2heritageposts]

the fucking budget bill of hell passed the house that removes HRT from medicare, general medicare spending cuts, student financial aid cuts, and oh yeah lets the teump regime ignore court orders even harder and lets for even harder executive overreach. they did this shit at motherfucking 2 am so people wouldn’t notice too

it passed house like i said but still needs to pass senate.

tell your senators to invoke byrd rule which is a goddamn real thing apparently

call your goddamn senators i swear to god

and if you’re in DC there’s a protest going on as we speak

go do your civic duty you piece of shit

[wyldstallyn]

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