What would a ninja do?

(she/her, 30s, icon painted by me)

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.

care for gaza - focuses on providing food and essential supplies. donate here or here.

connecting humanity - securing internet access via donations of virtual sim cards (esims). if you can't afford a whole plan yourself, crips for esims is a communal pool that will use your donation to purchase and maintain esims

gaza soup kitchen - provides food, medical care, and classes for children. also has a gofundme

glia gaza medical support initiative - provides medical care through field clinics and tents at hospitals. donations can also be sent through their website.

ele elna elak - provides clean water, food, clothing, and shelter. they also have a gofundme

life for gaza - raising money for the gaza municipality to repair water and waste management infrastructure

taawon - partners with local civil organizations to provide food, water, medical care, shelter, and basic supplies

the sameer project - running various initiatives providing tents, medical care, and necessities. they have their own encampment project focused on sheltering families with children, sick and disabled members, or members in need of perinatal care

islamic relief worldwide's gaza emergency appeal - provides food, water, hygiene kits, medical supplies, and psychological support

baitulmaal - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, shelter, and medical supplies

gaza mutual aid fund - distributes food, hygiene products, water, and other essential supplies, including financial support. run by @/el-shab-hussein's amazing friend Mona. updates can be found on her instagram.

hygiene kits for gaza - provides hygiene supplies including menstrual products, wipes, and toothbrushes/toothpaste

anera - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, hygiene supplies, medicine, blankets and mattresses, and psychological care

palestine children's relief fund - provides supplies and support with a focus on children. also has an initiative for lebanon

dahnoun mutual aid - provides water, food, tents, baby supplies, financial support, and other necessities. updates can be found through their instagram

certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn't include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

adding some more!

pal humanity initiative - provides baby supplies, menstrual products, medications, and mobile clinic visits

educational tents program - running multiple educational programs for children and offering psychosocial support

thamra - distributes fresh food and seeds for gardens, as well as repairing wells. they also have a gofundme

gaza sunbirds - paracycling team delivering a variety of essentials, including food, tents, blankets, baby supplies, and sanitation systems

the one body initiative - providing tents, sleeping supplies (blankets, mattresses, sleeping bags, etc.), food, and medicine

gaza emergency fund - purchases and builds waterproof tents and portable bathrooms, as well as distributing food, hygiene products, and medical supplies

medical aid for palestinians - provides medical and psychological care. also works in lebanon

the culture & free thought association - runs various programs including clinics, classes for children, and supply distribution. focuses on women, children, disabled people, and other marginalized groups.

hakini - provides psychological support and secures access to food, shelter, medication, and hygiene products

gaza collective - running a variety of projects including restoring bakeries, providing financial support and necessities, establishing educational programs for children, and securing supplies for traditional embroiderers

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

a few more:

palestinian medical relief society - runs mobile clinics in gaza, the west bank, and east jerusalem

translating falasteen - partnering with the sameer project to provide food, water, medical care, essential supplies, and direct financial support. updates can be found on their instagram

roots of gaza - initiative from the al nasser charitable society. provides food, water, toiletries, tents and tent building services, cash assistance, and other necessities. also has a gogetfunding

healing our homeland - runs psychological support programming for women and children. also provides food, water, hygiene kits, and baby supplies. other initiatives featured on their website

sharek youth forum - provides food, water, hygiene kits, and psychological support as well as educational and development programs for young people

[redstonedust]

love wearing all black in public i hope no large gaseous heat emitting orb in the sky comes along and makes my day worse

[charnel-grounds]

James Hutton, “The house with the black door”

acrylic on canvas-texturered paper, 2023

[thecrumbez]

Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).

I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.

[erratic-dragon-fruit]

out of the tags with you

[yujateaandpi]

Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.

Cybertruck. It was a cybertruck.

[annabelle--cane]

no I am not "ontologically evil." this is a practiced skill that I actively fostered, it took work to get to be this evil, stop discrediting my efforts.

[stjohnstarling]

Trying out a new hobby called playing with fire. And it’s completely safe

[prontaentrega]

Do you have a pdf copy of the Spanish and/or English version of Kiss of the Spider Woman? I’m trying to get some of my friends to read it and I feel like you might have it 😭

Of course i do ✌️

Google drive folder with the novel in Spanish and English, plus the script of the stage play (Puig) in Spanish. as a treat n_n

[prontaentrega]

@fluctuating-fixations It's mostly about some specific word choices that don't really change the plot or the whole direction of the story so it's not like, an entirely different book, but they alter the whole tone of it and makes it worse to me. The first thing i noticed I didn't like about it was when Valentín first mentions Marta and he says "my girl" i immediately went he would not fucking say that!!!!!

In the original Spanish the word he uses for Marta is "compañera" which translates to partner or comrade (F). It's not the most common word to talk about your girlfriend in spanish so it's a deliberate choice on his part. What was the need to change it? to make it sound more natural? to make him sound less political?

In that same page he goes on to talk about his guerrilla comrades and he actually uses the word compañeros for them. The masculine/neutral form of the word he uses for Marta

But the one that really annoyed me is this one

Because in this part the word he uses in Spanish is, again, compañera. And idk about you but i think it has a completely different meaning if you say "if she's my woman, it's because she's in the struggle too" or if you say "if she's my comrade/partner, it's because she's in the struggle too." And besides he would never call anyone "his woman" it's just completely contrary to his whole character... this and a bunch of other small stuff like it mischaracterizes Valentín as more of a macho figure than he really is. And this is an issue i have with literally every adaptation and translation of this book tbh everyone's always so fixed on making this college educated communist latino more violent and sexist and angry. I wonder why

This one's minor but it also bothers me, when talking about the panther woman movie there's a character that in Spanish is "the architect colleague" but in English she's "the assistant" ????? what reason was for that other than misogyny

Maybe this is a non-issue and I'm nitpicking but with the book's narrative being exclusively a dialogue between two people, word choice is fundamental because this is the only way we have of knowing these characters. And especially on a book where gender expression and gender roles are such a main theme this is not like, getting mad because they switched coffe for tea on a sentence. Which I'm also mad about btw. They completely ditch any mention of the characters drinking mate and switch it for tea. Once again I'm asking what was the point? to make it all less exotic? to make it easier to understand to English speakers? having to look up what a mate is or just guess it from context isn't gonna kill anybody, but the translation is so afraid of alienating its gringo audience that it discards cultural context and reduces its only two characters to shallower versions of themselves. And I'd say the cultural context is pretty relevant because this is a book about two political prisoners under a dictatorship that was written and published when Puig's own country was under a neoliberal dictatorship. It's not Vonnegut's cat's cradle with a made up dictator in a made up country, this was actually the situation in Argentina in 1976.

And obviously someone who only speaks english won't notice any of this. What makes me sad about this is that none of the problems i have with it have to do with impossible cultural clashes, it would be extremely simple to fix all of that. It's a tragedy that the only english translation of a latin american book about gender and propaganda was made in 1976. But still I'd rather someone read the book even with the bad translation than not read it at all

[krownest]

wait op that's so so interesting i would love to hear more about the little differences!! i don't really know spanish but i pulled up the original and the translation to read side by side, and another little translation thing i noticed was that in their more intimate scenes, the original has Valentin calling Molina "Molinita", whereas the english keeps it as "Molina". (not even getting into the choice of Molinita vs Molinito - perhaps tacit assurance of Valentin's understanding of how Molina views himself? or is this because Molina's name ends with an "A"? correct me if i'm wrong) the omission of the diminutive seems like such an odd choice....like as you mentioned it was translated back in 1976 but even then they could have explained with a footnote...

(from Chapter 11)

[krownest]

(tags via @lafcadiosadventures)

thank you for the tags!!! and also tysm for replying to my question re: molinito vs molinita (also dw the post is from 2024 but my reblog was 3 days ago) and yes agree complete that's it's a betrayal of trust. like if the translator was worried "mate" would be confusing they could have just added a footnote??? also <3 it's good to know that the diminutive is so important to showing the growth of their relationship

[mangonetics]

"Let's go": a normal amount of going

"Let's gooo": a lot of going, exciting!

"Let's goo": this is something different entirely

[pixiecaps]

feeling like lego baby tonight

[pixiecaps]

[lanfan]

Hey yall I just wanted to come on here and bring some attention to what’s happening at the detention center (really a concentration camp) Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey. There is a hunger strike going on right now to protest the abhorrent conditions within the camp (allegations of torture, maggots and other bugs in the food, etc) and protests happening outside the camp. ICE is not allowing any politicians to come in (as is their right) to see the conditions of the camp. I would urge yall to do your own research, but if you want videos of some people who are actually there, here are some tik tok accounts you can go follow: @ bethanyquilter/ @ whoiskingtrivv/ @ Status Coup News/ @ L.A. TACO

And here is a video explaining what’s going on in more detail than I provided.

With everything else going on in the world, it can be hard to keep up with stuff going on at home, but ICE is still out here terrorizing innocent people. We must keep our eyes on them, and keep fighting.

Feel free to add more sources or info to this post, should you have any.

[tsscat]

I found this linktree here that has a master list of ways to help the detainees inside Delaney Hall: https://linktr.ee/SupportOurFamilies

SupportOurFamilies | Linktree

Please support immigrant families by donating to the GoFundMe's below and purchasing supplies via Amazon Wishlist to support detainee visito

I have heard that protestors outside need medical supplies, but I can’t find the best way to provide that if you are not nearby.

[thebleeding-heart]

their needs are changing rapidly, they mostly need Sudecon wipes and gas masks, last I heard, but the only way is to bring them directly there. for the most part they are asking people to join them there and hold the line, if possible. next best thing is to donate and call NJ reps to demand an end to the detention and torture!

[obedientlyviolentshepherd]

They are brutalizing the strikers while filling the room with mace and it was only after 2 hrs of calls to 911 and sustained protestor presence for ems to even evacuate one person to the hospital. Please help us stay mobilized. The more people that can be sustained protesting outside the facility, the less ICE agents are spending time brutally beating and macing the hunger and labor strikers.

Its on a busy trucker route and there has already been at least one protestor pushed by ice and held in the path of an 18-wheeler crushing his foot. they chased a medic down the road and detained him for hours leaving him brutalized under a random overpass in Newark. They tazed someone running away causing them to fall into the deeply polluted ditch bc all the land here is a brownfield that legally shouldnt have anyone touching it, let alone have detainment camps built there

These are some sources i trust for people who want to donate for medical supplies

and dont let anyone forget the actual demands of the strikers

[lanfan]

An additional resource you all can visit to see how you can help is this website. For those who can’t click on the link, it’s handsoffnyc.com/delaneyhall. Shoutout to @mycatisadictedtogarbanzobeans for the additional info.

[lanfan]

Update (5/29/26) according to @ whoiskingtrivv and @ adamcrai on tik tok (you can watch their video directly here): state police have blocked off the road to Delaney Hall and are requiring you to show ID before you can enter. THIS IS NOT OKAY!!! It’s also mentioned that if you are going to drive there, please make sure everything in your vehicle is up to date as the love to tow peoples cars. Also take a picture of where you parked your car. If you’re going in person, please stay safe. I will continue to update as I see more information.

As always, if you have resources or info, please share them by either reblogging this post or you can message me directly. Please continue spreading the word, the more eyes on this the better.

[lanfan]

Amidst all the bad, here is a little bit of an uplifting update. Please watch this video by @ adamcrai on tik tok showing the hostages within the detention center hearing and supporting the protesters outside. It genuinely made me tear up. Let this be motivation for the continued fight.

[miss-mrea]

I’ve already seen this being hidden and suppressed on social media. This NEEDS to be known about and not forgotten or pushed aside by whatever that fucking disgusting orange hemorrhoid in the White House throws at us next.

THIS IS NOT OKAY.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

THIS IS FASCISM.

KEEP FIGHTING!

[lanfan]

Update as of 5/31/26: yesterday they put a curfew in place. If you’re going to protest there, be advised that between the hours of 9pm-6am you cannot protest. Anyone who has tried was told by local and state police that they had to go. And the police claim they are there to keep protesters safe, but anyone with more than half a brain cell could tell you that’s bullshit. Despite these roadblocks, we cannot give up or look away.

[obedientlyviolentshepherd]

Update as of 6/1, after curfew last night state police kettled protestors and press and then attacked them with tear gas and flash bombs and horses and riot shields. 63 protestors were arrested and held for 20+ hrs. As they were released they again echoed the demands of the detainees. id reblog with some of the harrowing photos but its a lot. you can find good coverage at the places mentioned above and also @ hereswhykevin on insta

[captainamsel]

Mademoiselle Danglars preferred to his society and to that of M. Cavalcanti the company of Mademoiselle Louise d’Armilly, her singing teacher.

[wizardsvslesbians]

Wizards Vs. Lesbians: THE MEMBRANES

It's very easy to get caught up in the titular metaphor, here - this brief, gauzy cyberpunk novel, written in Taiwan in 1995 and only recent

This book came out four years before The Matrix and nailed the gender/power/information/sexuality/control thing so hard that the rest of the genre is still catching up. It only got translated into English a few years ago, but at least you can read it now, and find out what The Problem looked like from a place and time where it still seemed like he who controlled Microsoft Encarta might control the world.

[ratuszarsenal]

happy pride to the undead 666 bus to Hel

[em-iliart]

how this week has felt

[intermundia]

an underrated vader personality trait is his unhinged sense of humor

[intermundia]

a little wordplay with his swordplay, he's toying with them like a cat bats around a mouse before eating it

there's nothing more sinister to me than the idea of anakin smiling as he says this, like if lightsabers didn't cauterize he would be absolutely soaked in blood by this point

such a classic, peace to pieces, i'd say it's almost a dad joke, which is apropos, as he is almost a father :/