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he/him 🏳️‍⚧️ / 20s / writing fiction! currently writing: lover boy

[imogen-mangle]

In case you lost it - a link to the eSIM donation guide. Even if you feel sick and powerless, you can at least do this. And even if you really, really can't donate, you can always at least share this and remind others.

https://gazaesims.com/esim-purchase-tutorial/

[lanotteviene]

the lowest tier, which costs 9 dollars, offers a week of connection while the very next, 16 dollars, will provide a full month of contact with the world to someone who desperately needs it. this is not some idle step. an entire month is a huge length of time for people who are displaced, terrified, and isolated.

[heartemoij]

i have a disease that makes me like pink and heart shaped objects and it’s called being a fucking genius

[moonssugar]

@dallonwrites

[ayeforscotland]

Oh, and by the way, that Supreme Court ruling is where that Harry Potter money goes.

[ayeforscotland]

Context.

[what-are-fish]

This isn't even a slight exaggeration. JKR has openly given at least £70,000 to For Women Scotland to campaign against trans rights and fund this exact supreme court ruling. x x

Her anti-trans Crisis Centre in Edinburgh has the director of For Women Scotland on the Board of Directors. x

We can presume she's given more (financial) support off the record or in other ways.

Rowling consistently makes passive income on all Harry Potter products. Multiple sources have cited that Rowling earns anywhere between $50 million to a $100 million each year from royalties. Forbes estimated she earned $95 million in 2017 alone. x x x

It is a well-known fact that she earns net profit percentages on all her IP. Every time you buy any HP merch, from anywhere, she gets a cut. Every time you watch one of her films, even streaming or just on the tv, she gets a cut. Every time you visit Universal Studios or Harry Potter World, she gets a cut.

And she uses that money to do this. To strip trans rights at every opportunity.

This is where that Harry Potter money goes.

[dallonwrites]

part of me would love to post more on writeblr but also the last time i properly scrolled my dash for the first time a while i found out a writeblr mutual was now posting and liking transmisogyny so i fear a dashboard clean up is due

[dallonwrites]

even if i’m not active right now it’s always a great time to say that there is no place for terfs here i think you are all disgusting and want nothing to do with you! please unfollow me 🩷

[dallonwrites]

i have yet to return to writeblr but in light of the uk supreme court ruling that trans women are not legally protected as women (+ in turn england suppressing scotland's right to legislate equality) it's a great time to reiterate that if you are a transphobe/terf/etc i think you are disgusting, you are not for true liberation, you are a bigot and this will never be a place for you. trans people i love you, trans women i love you, the world is a very scary place right now that as a trans person this love feels small in comparison but i hope you can at least hold it in your hands

[anneemay]

We should also remember the late Refaat today

[anneemay]

[heartclef]

since spotify wrapped is coming today i just want to bring awareness to the fact that around 86% of the songs on spotify are currently demonetized since spotify decided that tracks with under 1,000 cannot be monetized. not only that the ceo of spotify cashed out $35.8 million dollars in spotify shares in the third quarter of the year and it has been reported that he earns more than the top artists on the platform.

for a platform that claims to support artists, this is outrageous and i hope people realize that an artist who is starting out, cannot make a living out of spotify streams simply because daniel ek and his friends made it worse for the artists trying to start a career. if you wanna support musicians and the possibility for them to get a living wage please follow United Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW) which are trying to make The Living Wage for Musicians Act a reality so musicians can be paid fairly through streaming platforms and get the cut they deserve.

[fairuzfan]

Hundreds of Authors Pledge to Boycott Israeli Cultural Institutions

Percival Everett, Sally Rooney, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Kaveh Akbar, Michelle Alexander, Naomi Klein, Téa Obreht, Peter Carey, Jericho Brown, Nat

[junglejim4322]

There is nobody who actually believes 90-ghost is a scammer. as far as I remember he’s been on here for years how fucking evil can people be to defame someone who not only has lived under genocide but also has made immeasurable efforts to help other people throughout everything he’s been through. Anyone claiming otherwise is doing so intentionally

[el-shab-hussein]

Everyone knows there has been an article written about him, when he was interviewed while in Gaza, and his family has been on the news before for tragic reasons. A significant portion of the users who have been advocating for him have followed him since November or December of 2023, and he posted videos and pictures frequently of his living conditions, including his face in the videos. It's not a matter of lack of knowledge, and even if it was there's no reason to be pursuing a 'guilty until innocent' perspective against him without it being very clearly racially motivated. Tumblr has thoroughly dehumanized the Palestinian users on this website and made the verbal abuse and harassment of genocide survivors an actual legitimate activity this website's users will partake in. I'm not sure this is something you could've said about Tumblr 2 years ago.

I will remember this as the website that tried to harass a Palestinian genocide survivor off the platform with false, baseless accusations.

[schoolhater]

and in case someone doesn't trust an online mag with "muslim" in the name, he was also interviewed by cnn

[gothhabiba]

I would recommend deciding how much from each paycheque (or &c.) you can afford to donate and then just giving a certain fixed amount out of that to every fundraiser you see until you hit your cap for that day. if you wait to be persuaded to donate by a particularly compelling narrative, it just cheapens people into needing to craft compelling narratives about genocide.

[gothhabiba]

you have helped Mohammed and Samar Abu Hamam get blankets, mattresses, and winter clothes. they still haven’t gotten far enough ahead of the exorbitant prices of food to be able to purchase a space heater (to be charged via battery with solar panel, if you’re wondering how this is possible). it’s very important that they be able to heat their tent to keep their three young children (two of whom are twin infants) healthy.

you can help via:

Venmo: gothhabiba (with note "🍓" or "strawberry")

Paypal: paypal.me/Najia (with note "🍓" or "strawberry")

Cashapp: $NajiaK (with note "🍓" or "strawberry")

Or gfm:

Donate to Help the Alwan Family, organized by Stephanie Uzzell

10/23: The Alwan family continues to survive in Gaza, in the vicinity of Deir el-Balah, despi… Stephanie Uzzell needs your support for Hel

[gothhabiba]

$215 / $1,000

[gothhabiba]

$285 / $1,000

[unexplained-events]

How can we help 😔

Gaza Funds

Donate if you can. Spread this if you can't. Direct support to these families is the best thing we can do right now.

[tamarrud]

I'm so sorry if this is a bothersome question, but are there more ways for me to help people in Palestine without donating? I don't have a way to send money non-physically, and even if I did, I don't have enough cash to be able to donate to all of the people I see. I've been reblogging donation posts from the Palestinian people who have come into my inbox and also the donation posts on my dash. I can't participate in any protests or events because there aren't any I've heard of that are near me, and if there was I don't have a car and my parents probably wouldn't let me go. I don't know what I can do beyond sharing posts online or if that really helps

Hi there, good question.

Sharing the fundraisers does help a lot too. The more attention a campaign gets, the better.

But in terms of what else you can do, there's a ton of things that can be done on an individual level:

Boycotting - you can start with the BDS list and expand as you go.

Educating yourself - this is a massive way you can help the cause, and this can be done in however way you prefer and at your own pace. From books to documentaries, being well informed on the history of the struggle is one of the best things you can do.

Sharing - when you see informative posts, share them. When you see a report from a journalist on the ground in Gaza, circulate it. This way you're educating others while amplifying Palestinian voices.

Writing your government representatives - I usually see templates that people use for emails or calls, whichever is more comfortable or applicable. This is another way of taking an active step to voice your opinion and concern.

Cultural study groups - this can be done in person or even virtually and would include you and a few other members studying an aspect of Palestinian culture together; for example, you can use a Palestinian cookbook to try out some recipes, you can all learn and practice Palestinian stitching (tatreez) or read a book written by a Palestinian and discuss it.

Join a school club - if you're in university/college, you can look up Palestinian rights advocacy groups and join them/attend their activities.

These are some ideas off the top of my head and I hope they can help you out.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Reading weird poetry and short stories and unapologetically strange novels really does teach you that a lot of stuff people teach you about writing is just not true. Almost anything someone tells you must happen when you’re writing has an exception and writing advice has trends and fads just like anything else.

I was struggling to find where I fit as a writer until I found writers like Daniel Olivias who wrote short stories in ways I’d never seen before. I owe a lot of my current inspiration in my writing to Latin American magical realism writers. Finding magical realism and surrealism really opened doors in my brain that had been shut before.

You can get weird with it. You can get weird in content, weird in form, weird in structure. You don’t need a plot. You can tell a story backwards, you can just sit in an idea, you can explain, overexplain, skip explanation, get political, start ideas, end ideas. No ifs ands or buts you can just throw traditional story structure out the window.

I know what kind of writer I am now. A weird one. You don’t have to be held to standards of predictability, genre fiction, markets, tropes. You can just do whatever. Truly. Honestly. Completely. For ten words or a hundred thousand.

[goodluckclove]

I honestly don't think I will ever be able to describe the feeling of outrage and disgust some forms of writing advice online give me. It is entirely unreasonable and I am fully aware of that. But the thought of a writer seeing it and assuming the world who wrote it is someone worth taking seriously just because they feigned Professionalism for Internet Points really does make me want to bite my walls until I'm chewing drywall.

[goodluckclove]

Absorb a bunch of different stories until you decide for yourself what you think works or what doesn't. Don't go to Tumblr or Reddit for the end-all-be-all of what a story is Meant To Be when every fifth take on websites like these are essentially academically charged word salad. You are so much more capable than that, I promise.

[dallonwrites]

part of me would love to post more on writeblr but also the last time i properly scrolled my dash for the first time a while i found out a writeblr mutual was now posting and liking transmisogyny so i fear a dashboard clean up is due

[dallonwrites]

even if i’m not active right now it’s always a great time to say that there is no place for terfs here i think you are all disgusting and want nothing to do with you! please unfollow me 🩷

[dallonwrites]

part of me would love to post more on writeblr but also the last time i properly scrolled my dash for the first time a while i found out a writeblr mutual was now posting and liking transmisogyny so i fear a dashboard clean up is due

[hazeltongzhi]

Today is october 7th officially marking 365 days, 1 year, of the most well recorded genocide in history; of an occupation of a people which has been ongoing for 76 years. An entire year of constant israeli bombardment. Hundreds of thousands killed and missing. All the while, the people with the most power to stop the genocide continue to support and defend the politicians carrying out the slaughter.

Yet, it is also a year since the Palestinian resistance definitively proved to the world that israel is not only not the all-knowing state entity many believed nor that they were invincible or undefeatable. Over the course of the year, the resistance and its allies in Lebanon and Yemen have handed out defeats to not just israel but the west lead by the united states as well proving that those institutions and militaries are not invincible.

In israel itself, tens of thousands of bsuinesses are closing or have closed; its ports are under blockade; the settlers are fighting amongst themselves or leaving; it is a settler colony beginning to buckle under the simultaneousforces of its internal contradictions and of the Palestinian resistance. No doubt the struggle for liberation and against settler colonialism will continue until all the contradictions are resolved just as it were it rhodesia and south africa.

May we see a free Palestine in our lifetimes.

[hazeltongzhi]

Here is a short list of Palestinians who have recently reached out to me for support. Please help them if you can.

1: @supportpalestine-1 ----- GFM - 20/2000€ - 1%

2: @salman-1990 ----- GFM - 2,794/50,000€

3: @noorplog12 ----- Chuffed - 154/101,000$ - 0.2%

4: @mohamedalanqerr ----- GFM - 60,520/70,000€

5: @nisreensuhail ----- GFM - 11,334/50,000€

6: @dina179 ----- GFM --- 14,075/50,000CAD$

7: @ahmedhelllis ---- GFM - 19,792/80,000€

8: @waleedalanqar ----- GFM - 253/20,000€ - 1%

[iguessweallcrazyithinktho]

Remember Khaliifah Marcellus Williams! A black Muslim man falsely accused. Remember that he's innocent. Remember that the governor of Missouri, mike Parson who had the opportunity to save this man's life, decided not to. Remember all but three supreme court justices decided his life wasn't worth saving either. Remember his face. Remember his Last words. And remember how fucked up this country is

Rest in peace Marcellus