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[denn1s-lessing]

An update on Bilal's situation

Hello everyone. This is Dennis, the person who's been promoting Bilal's fundraiser since August.

Bilal (@belalgaza2 , formerly @/shadowyavenuetaco) moved to Egypt on day 150 of the occupation (March 6th, 2024) along with some of his family members. His whole family did not come with him, though. For example, his uncle Mohammed (whose fundraiser you can find here) had to stay behind.

While Bilal is not in imminent danger, he still needs our help. You can't deprive someone of water after rescuing them from the desert.

If you're worried about the veridicity of this fundraiser, fear not; it has been vetted by 90-ghost (here).

If you can, donate, and if you cannot, please share with those who can.

Donate to Your donation today, new hope tomorrow - Emergency support, organized by Maher Gaza

Help Us Rebuild Our Lives After the War in Gaza، Hello, my … Maher Gaza needs your support for Your donation today, new hope tomorrow -

£11,330/£50,000

EDIT: Bilal also asked me to promote his aunt's fundraiser, which I will link here;

Donate to Help My Family in Gaza Secure Food and Medicine Amid War, organized by Eyad Salem

Hello my dear friends! ❤ Thank you from the bottom of my hea… Eyad Salem needs your support for Help My Family in Gaza Secure Food and

This fundraiser is EXTREMELY LOW, and it needs urgent funding.

365CAD/50,000CAD

The conversion rates (if you use USD);

Tag list under the cut (constantly updated);

@milich96 @megxolotl @mulchette @joculine @dixxv-vetted-donations

@raelyn-dreams @troythecatfish @the-bastard-king @4ft10tvlandfangirl @queerstudiesnatural

@vampyrobot @258punkweight @paimonthearchivist2 @residentevil-4 @nihilo-sensei

@heliopixels @mettaworldpiece @ankle-beez @humbuns @sneakerdoodle

@dragondemoness @divortion

@sillybillyanon

@mossmigi

@littlegrayfishes @hametsukaishi @kuuhaiyu @sponfawn

@xenosagaepisodeone @webkinzlid @bloodraven55 @girlinafairytale @milfygerard

@thekingofchungus @jezior0 @deedra-posting

@mulchette @fishtrouts @vetted-gaza-funds @loversager

@bewaretheidesofmarchyall

[denn1s-lessing]

Also yeah I write Discorune

Here is the newest chapter

If you want updates on the fic + send asks, @discorune-official is the account you want to follow

[merrydapachi]

I am an isolated trans woman and need help getting to a safe home. My lease ends this month, and thankfully I have a friend who can house me for a while, but first I need to be able to get there! My car needs maintenance that will cost $700 to get in working order. If I cannot get this done before the 28th, I'll be homeless without help. If you can donate, anything is greatly appreciated, thank you so much. p.pal: @dapachi30 https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/dapachi30 $0 / $700

[merrydapachi]

I am an isolated trans woman and need help getting to a safe home. My lease ends this month, and thankfully I have a friend who can house me for a while, but first I need to be able to get there! My car needs maintenance that will cost $700 to get in working order. If I cannot get this done before the 28th, I'll be homeless without help. If you can donate, anything is greatly appreciated, thank you so much. p.pal: @dapachi30 https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/dapachi30 $0 / $700

[what-if-i-just-did]

Tumblr as the loud, alt, gnc nerd with coloured hair, a ton of Pride pins, and lots of merch

Ao3 as the quiet, unassuming book nerd that's secretly freaky as fuck

Does anyone else see my vision

[strangestcase]

and they’re both racist

[colliholly]

do you think there were some movies Tenna absolutely hated

[colliholly]

Btw: the Brave Little Toaster is one of my favorite movies of all time and I was SO tempted on grabbing a screenshot from it but figured Toy Story 3 was better known

How to traumatize your CRT with abandonment issues in 3 minutes and 21 seconds

[requinade]

🌜🛌💤

(body billow design by colliholly)

[colliholly]

I wanna see your take on an outfit for tenna inspired by frutiger aero! ^^

he's so old and out of touch it's actually looped around to being trendy...

[coast-modern]

I was 12 years old in 2011.... you could NEVER make me hate stomp clap hey music

[coast-modern]

How it feels to be 10 years old and hear Little Lion Man for the first time

[general-sleepy]

[ID: A gif from Skyrim. The player lets out a burst of magic that throws another character off the side of a mountain, ragdolling into the abyss. END ID]

[ciderjacks]

The family is fighting again

[purpleeggyboi]

Perfect, why would you hide this in tags?

Also @thatacefrog

[shuttershocky-deactivated202512]

Kojima said it was a problem that too many people were liking Death Stranding 2 because he would much rather have only 4/10 people like DS2 but in a way that inspired them creatively vs having 9/10 people like DS2 only to forget about it as soon as they finished because it was only entertainment for them.

I respect that a lot actually!

[shuttershocky-deactivated202512]

[hugdog]

neurotic

[hugdog]

He's figured it out

[timeflow]

feeling really melancholic now. man that post hit hard

[timeflow]

I don't know if her post is meant to be a joke or if it's as sincere as I'm interpreting it to be or if it's somewhere in between but this is doing things to me.

your friends are all living their lives and having fun and exploring their sexuality together, but their lives almost feel fictitious and fantastical - yes they're doing all this but all that stuff is just an ideal, that's something you only hear about others doing and never get to access it for yourself. you talk to them about it online to try to get a taste of it, try to live vicariously through them but that's not going to replicate their real experiences. they (adults, experimenting with sex, connecting with people like them, mature enough to live their own lives) are on a different plane to you, you who is still back in your childhood bedroom, disconnected from the adult world, feeling like you haven't finished your teenage years yet. you have a lot of close friends but none of them are close to you. while they are out doing things that you occasionally daydream about doing in some distant future, you're sleeping alone in your bedroom. and you're dreaming about the snow, and rain

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

[tronmike82]

I don’t mean to be rude; but I don’t think I’ve ever seen this, does anyone have any examples?

[darkshrimpemotions]

Supernatural

Doctor Who (Steven Moffat specifically)

Sherlock (Steven Moffat specifically)

Actually Steven Moffat is basically just this sentiment given human form.

A version of this happened with The Magicians, tbh. Though instead of expectation: men, reality: women it was expectation: smug nihilists, reality: mentally ill queer folks.

Arguably Game of Thrones.

If we broaden it outside of television…I think Star Wars falls into this, at least the sequel trilogy. Maybe the MCU as well. And I can’t help but think of every band that’s ever complained that their fanbase is mostly women. 5 Seconds of Summer comes immediately to mind.

In general, most white male creators seem to have this massively entitled mindset where they want–and think they deserve–the time, attention, and enthusiasm that creative fandom (i.e. the side of fandom more dominated by women) is known for.

They want our eyes for ratings, our word-of-mouth for free publicity, our metas for social media buzz, and our spending power for merch and cons. But they don’t want us. And they don’t really want the responsibility of telling a story to a thoughtful, engaged audience, regardless of that audience’s demographic makeup. They just want to be praised for whatever schlock they cough up.

And like any other spoiled brat, they will break their toys before they share them.

[pessimisticfanboi]

It goes all the way to the top for kids shows. Toy sales will crash a show. Makes sense, but if those toys are gendered for boys instead of the female viewers, they won’t usually switch up the marketing and move them to the girl aisle. They cancel the show outright.

Mind you it is perfectly possible to make the switch in marketing, but execs would rather throw it all out than have something that doesn’t perform well with male viewers. For example the Rey merch was not expected to be popular, for some reason, there had to be public outcry to get merch of one of the main 3 protagonists. A PROTAGONIST. The fact that she wasn’t a huge part of the 1st launch says a lot already.

And what happened when female fans got too invested in the Sequel Trilogy? The entire writers room didn’t necessarily lash out, but they sure forgot how to behave.

Young Justice

Paul Dini: Superhero cartoon execs don’t want largely female audiences

#WhereIsRey (initial)

#WhereIsRey (ongoing)

'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' owes its box-office success to women

The older, male generation of 'Star Wars' fans may be losing interest in the franchise, but female fans are stepping up.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was designed to be the opposite of The Last Jedi

[drunkenhills]

You’re all sitting on the hot take of the decade tbh

[vbartilucci]

And yet when they fond out that boys were watching MLP:FIM in droves, they had NO PROBLEM with it.

[jediorgana-deactivated20260403]

#SONS OF ANARCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!#LITERALLY SONS OF ANARCHY IS THE BIGGEST EXAMPLE OF THIS LIKE EVER#kurt sutter wrote that show for MEN and ended up with an overwhelmingly female audience#because he’s actually a good writer and knows how to develop characters well and wrote excellent female characters#but once he realized that his audience was almost entirely women he literally took it out on tara and gemma in the show#but like tara specifically#he resented her character for being a huge draw for female viewers so he tore her development to shreds and killed her#in the most brutal gut wrenching way possible#kurt sutter you will pay for your crimes#i actually wrote a manifesto about this on one of my old blogs i should try to find it sldkjsldfjsdljf#long post (via@m-oonknight)

OMG YES. I LOVED Sons of Anarchy, especially the women and then I got to season 6 and it was like - everything was just tossed in the trash? And like, why did Sutter hate that Tara drew tons of attention? That should have been a good thing! He should have been like “Hey folks, this girl’s getting us more viewers, let’s put her in more scenes!” It just doesn’t make sense to me. MEN don’t make sense to me.

[geraltcirilla]

The 100 too. I’ll never forget how Jason Rothenberg would attacked female fans on Twitter and mock them in interviews, and then post links to male fan discussions on Reddit to praise and thank them. In his goodbye letter to the show he SPECIFICALLY thanked Reddit and it was so disgusting.

[annaknitsspock]

Star Trek from TNG on was also a boy’s club, even though the TOS fans were mostly women. Women, in fact, who literally created modern fandom with their zines. But after TNG it was all, “Women don’t understand Star Trek, only smart men hur dur.”

[help-help-i-need-an-adult]

I think it would be harder for us to find examples of when this DIDNT happen than when it did. It happens all the time.

[nova-arcania]

Doesn’t stop it from boggling the mind

(though it could probably start to make some sense if you follow the money past audience bases to maybe a couple of investors or like a rich patron … 🤔)

[ridleymocki]

Stooooop I just wrote a masters thesis on this shit. Media creation and distribution is a means by which dominant power structures consolidate their hegemony. Dominantly situated creators get upset when the audience they attract isn’t the audience they wanted, because they view the whole creation and sharing of the fiction as an exercise to sustain kyriarchal conditions that benefit themselves. When the audience is Other, they see it as a failure of those efforts and lash out.

Simply, they’re trying to assert a particular worldview via fiction, and upon getting confronted with something else, begin foot stamping. It’s not just men wanting male attention and gatekeeping. It’s that the fiction in the first place was an attempt to curate dominance and whoopsie! they miscalculated.

(anyway if anyone wants to read 35k words of philosophy about this, hmu)

[ridleymocki]

Hey folks, for anyone that was interested in the thesis (firstly thank you so much for reaching out I really appreciate the interest) the following is an open access link to download it. Please let me know if it doesn’t work for some reason. Comments are now restricted so can’t put it there, but I hope you see this if you were interested!

I’d also love to hear your thoughts, as I literally wrote it for communities like ours to read, so, thanks.

Fictions are a cornerstone of human cultures: they are created, shared, discussed, modified, and valued. Yet, philosophical accounts which p

[twentybrokenipodclassics]

the postal service names their shit exactly like how a 16 y.o. names angsty fanfic

[punk-squirrely-ghost]

Explain.

[twentybrokenipodclassics]

try and tell me literally any one of these would not fit above a short story about two wholly random men from the MCU fingering each other, or possibly 12 chapters of one or more characters from a CW show being in high school while having a photogenic but terminal kind of cancer. try.

[twentybrokenipodclassics]

ok so i want to say in hindsight i think i could probably have been clearer

[ankle-beez]

disney cartoon creator: i hope you enjoy my new show "living life with the greebles"! i had a great time making it!

disney cartoon creator when they leave disney: here's my new show "i hope mickey mouse kills himself"

[softichill]

I still think the most devastating enshittification I've ever seen has been picrew. One of the few dress-up game websites left that's not flash-based and it's become DRENCHED in ads. You can't open the home screen without being blasted by at least three or four ads. You can't open two picrews in a row without watching a video ad first. When you have a picrew open the ads cover up the different options and sometimes even stack on each other so you have to hit like 2 or 3 different x buttons to get it to go away, only for more to appear seconds later. Evil world

[catcake24]

It got worse - they added a subscription service

[softichill]

WHAT

[bunchofdoodlesinspace]

For once I can be the one to promote alternate sites, my time to shine has finally come

Now I will say I do use an adblocker so I can't say how many ads all these places have, but- Here's some other places you can go to dress up little characters on your screen!

meiker.io - A free dress-up/character creator tool/platform filled with a TON of neat little games. There ARE ads on this site unfortunately but imo they aren't overwhelming (and from what I understand them running ads helps keep the site free, so). I've been using this site off and on for years already bc most games are fullbody instead of headshots, which I find more helpful w oc creation, and I can say in my experience it all runs extremely smoothly :) of everything here this site is the most similar to picrew

DollDivine - One of the classic dress-up game websites. Not only is it still up but it is actively being updated with new games, and the owner has been working to try and transfer the old flash games into a program called Ruffle so that they can still be played. Most of the games that I played when I was younger are already back up and working again thanks to this. DollDivine is also the host site for the games featured on Rinmaru Games back in the day so if you were like me and lived and breathed that site for most of your pre-teen years, you will be delighted to know that many of those games were saved here! :D

Azalea's Dolls - Another classic one that is still running and still being added to! If you like Disney/fairytale-esque dress-up games you will love this website, they have some BEAUTIFUL games. They have also been transferring many of their old games into Ruffle, so a good chunk of those will be working again too.

PastelKatto Games - A site owned/managed by one of my personal favourite developers back in the day. While the creator has moved on from publishing their own games they still update the site with other games every so often, and the catalog of games they created over the course of the last decade or so is absolutely worth your time. The range of options they would give to players for characters included a wide range of skin tones, vitiligo, missing limbs + prosthetics, scars/burn marks, and more. Plus their art is also just really, really pretty.

VeggieStudio - If you like anime-esque games then this is the site for you. Their catalog may be quite small, but all the games on this site are beautifully drawn. You may recognize their style if you played any Rinmaru games, as they did the art for a few of those back in the day.

Most of these sites mainly feature games that center around female/feminine characters, but there ARE games where you can make guys/masculine characters as well. But just a heads up in advance. None of them are hardwired for pfp creation either, so if you're looking for that you might not find a lot here. But otherwise, def check these sites out! The flash purge hit dress-up game communities HARD but people have been working to keep things running in some form or another ever since the news dropped. It's been rough, but all has not been lost and a lot of the old games I used to play are now playable again! :D

[pinkimark]

Adding onto this, Neka.cc is also pretty much exactly like Picrew but Chinese. Not nearly as many ads, and while yes some individual makers have paid features, you can do a "free trial" which just means you can use them anyway just with a transparent watermark over the image which I don't think is too disruptive to the art. It also lets you precisely pick your own colors for everything, which I think is neat and useful :) (say they don't have your skin tone or hair color or whatever)