i've been trying my best to collect a bunch of links to other, more structured resources about the genocide in gaza, and what you, reading this, can do about it, that i'm going to compile here.
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less and less people are talking about gaza every day, but it is still a very real crisis.
education, donations, speaking out, global links (masterpost)
links to contextual articles
for americans - state/congressional contacts
how you can help palestine - donations, petitions, campaigns, upcoming protests (masterpost)
non-politically motivated charity links
canary mission
petitions and congressional contact (masterpost)
education, current news, taking action, direct action and donations, current protests (masterpost)
small monetary actions
2700 ebooks on israel and palestine, available for free
thorough article by storiesfromgaza, dated 10/30/23
targeted boycott + bds
how to find state/congressional contacts, bds, email template, donation links
sudan and congo
egypt, us/uk/canada/europe congressional contacts
direct links to help palestine
educate yourself (twitter links)
translating gaza (instagram link)
bds/targeted boycott information
compilation of palestine info and how to support it (masterpost), dated 10/28/23
latest info as of 11/3/23 and large amounts of immediate action to take (masterpost)
history of palestine and israel - articles, books, films, social media (masterpost)
as a teen, i was constantly harassed by adults enforcing ''dress codes'' on me. I very much experienced this as sexual harassment. I think this is one of many cases where people would more easily understand this as sexual harassment if I described it as if it happened to an adult.
imagine being on your lunch break, and your supervisor comes over to your table, tells you to stand up in front of everyone. they draw everyone's attention to your thighs. they tell you that you have broken the dress code because of the length of your shorts. they tell you to go change (so you do not get the rest of your lunch break). they do this every single day at lunch. every day. so you read the whole dress code front and back, and you choose your clothing carefully to not break it. you bring a cloth tape measure with you to work because they will not believe you. this time when your supervisor tells you that you're breaking dress code, you pull out your tape measure and show that you are within the limit. your supervisor says "I bet you wouldn't want me to bring you to the boss and let him measure it, would you?" it's clearly a threat: if you don't obey then you will be put alone in a room with your boss and he will touch your thighs. you don't know how to respond. you're taken out of lunch again.
this was my experience at school. replace supervisor with "teacher" and boss with "principal." this was sexual harassment. fuck dress codes.
Remember when Lil Nas X beautifully explored his sexuality, seduced and killed the devil to the banger of all time, and instead of cheering on this openly gay and proud Black artist for his artistry and fighting back against respectability politics, suddenly said respectability politics was all the Queerest Place on the Internet cared about? Hm. Wonder what happened there.
Anyway I miss him and hope he's doing better with his mental health 🙏🏾
"I mean, it's not like I hate being like this Sally, I've lived like this longer than I haven't at this point. It's just- I can't exactly do my job while I'm covered in feathers! Who's gonna take me seriously if I'm running around looking like an extra from a fantasy movie?"
"... I might. But I'd probably also be asking if the movie was still hiring. Because a costume department that could pull that off would be amazing to work with."
*Grimoire pauses.*
"Actually, yeah, that would be a really amazing movie crew."
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Bird man Grimoire! After losing the charm that lets him stay in a human form and he's finally found out by Sally.
As Girmoire himself says, he doesn't hate what he really looks like. But it's inconvenient for his job about 90% of the year so he really would rather not be in it most of the time. (He could maybe squeak by during Halloween or something with a costume event.)
He's supposed to look mixed, more human than not, because that was the threshold the Family Curse was wound back to. He gets to stay himself/sane at the cost of losing any potential benefits the monster transformation could have given him. (Like being able to fly.)
Girmoire's feathers are pretty scraggly, if I'm being honest. He doesn't really take care of them since he spends more time in his human form instead, so he doesn't really think to give them any special care they might need to look nice. And he is covered in feathers. They are all over him, even under his clothes. Also, they match his hair, with more grey feathers on his jaw, neck and chest, darker feathers that run down his arms, legs, and back, and his longest feathers getting bright red tips to them.
His face, arm, and chest feathers are the best cared for but that's because he can see them right away. The tail, back, and wing feathers have it the worst though.
And his wings are kinda in a perpetual molt, he's always shedding those feathers since he can't use them to fly. So he constantly has to clean them around the house. (This does not add to his fondness for them.)
He thinks the bird feet are annoying, since he can't wear shoes or socks. It especially bugs him during winter when it gets way too cold to run around barefoot, even indoors.
He doesn't hate how he looks, he just thinks it's inconvenient most of the time.
Okay, my brain has had time to ruminate on secret monster thoughts, so now it's time to turn this detective into a bird. Why? Why not.
So, magic bird beast. I am thinking of blending a couple birds together to make the Bestie Form. But using Corvidae as the base bird type. (AKA birds like Magpies, Crows, and Ravens.) But obviously not 100% those, just to make it questionable.
How is he a beastie? Well there are couple ways this could have come about.
He was born that way. It's something to do with parentage. One parent was a magic bird being/monster, while the other was not. He's a mix of the two!
He a straight up birdman. He was born a magic bird, but decided he like people and wanted to live like/with them instead of staying with whatever social/familial unit he was in before.
Bless/Cursed? Either the man himself did something, one of his parents ticked off a witch/wizard and he got hit with the "Not Human" beam instead of them, or it's something generational and he's gotten the (un?)lucky roll.
Personally speaking, I can come up with scenarios for all of the above. I think, however, for this one I'm gonna lean on the "Generational Curse" option. Just to make the whole thing more interesting.
An inherited curse that shows up every couple generations, and Grimoire was the one that got smacked with it for his generation.
It was originally done to cause a monstrous transformation that turns them into rabid monsters as a punishment for doing something they shouldn't have or bc they'd made an enemy of someone with magic. One member of the family (either someone who married in or the parent of someone who got it) managed to change the nature of the curse, making more of a tool or an inconvenience instead of something that would ruin the family/person it happened to.
Grimoire has 2 forms because of it; His ordinary human face and a kind of hybrid form.
The Hybrid form is actually his default face, and he can change to the human at will. But, he can only stay in/maintain it for a couple hours at most. He has some kind of token/tool/accessory that he needs to wear/keep to hold his form for a longer period, a charm that helps him stay in the form he's in while wearing it. (And to avoid transforming in his sleep or after losing consciousness.)
Either he knows someone willing to make the charm, he has a relative who makes it for him, or it's something he knows how to make himself. If he loses it, or it gets stolen, he only has a couple hours to find it before he changes to back to his Hybrid form.
Grimoire rarely ever takes off his charm. In fact, the only time he takes it off is when he's at home and 100% sure no one is going to come visiting.
The Hyrbid form looks genuinely like a hybrid of a monster and human. Very much a bird-human. If he has wings, they're way too small to fly with or there's something wrong with the feathers to make them unusable, and he's probably too heavy to fly anyway.
Grimoire likes being a detective, and likes being around normal humans, so he doesn't really let anyone know about the curse he's long-since learned to live with.
He likes being a quirky detective with a big collection of random things in his house that people enjoy working with/having around.
Of course, to have an AU with this, his secret has to get out at some point. At the very least, Sally has to learn about it. Right?
(goverment voice) we need to protect the children from pornography so our plan is to remove their eyes so they would never see something so traumatic. if you are against removing children's eyes you are basically a pedophile
i wish we were able to talk about women's rights without someone mentioning how much they do or don't want to have sex with them. i don't care if you're a lesbian Stop finding worth in women purely from their perceived attractiveness
"I think women should not be expected to shave for societal respect / to avoid discrimination" "yeah🤤 i love bush" ok well that's not what we're talking about is it.
i hate how many posts about trans women deserving respect always devolve into "I love girldick" or "trans rights but I don't want to date a trans person" because that's entirely unrelated to the topic at hand. you should not respond to feminism with "YESSS I loveeee you because I see you as nothing but a sex object" you people sound like other men I get stuck talking with that end up saying "free the nipple so I can see boobies in public" and thinking they're feminists. why can't we just respect women regardless of your attraction to them or not. why does it need to be brought up in every conversation regarding their rights
"these overconsumption products shouldn't exist!! nobody needs them!! do it yourself!!!" *look inside and it's a disability aid marketed for mass casual use to make it more accessible*
The situation in Gaza is still incredibly dire. Israel is attacking the people in the strip despite the 'ceasefire'. Gazans access to food, medical care, and evacuation is poor.
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