This blog was originally for imagines, but I've been having a lot of trouble being commited to it. I love you, though for what it's worth✨❤️ wish me luck
All telecommunications and internet has been cut off in Gaza for almost an hour. The bombing got worse than it had been this week. Two hospitals have been threatened - that's what we knew BEFORE they lost connection.
Israel's isolated Gaza and is striking them from the sea, air and ground NOW. Ethnic cleansing/genocide is taking place NOW.
To all bloggers here on Tumblr, don't be on the side of genocide with your silence.
Do you know what MS (Multiple Sclerosis) is and what it does?
I have never heard of MS
I have heard about MS but I know little to nothing about it
I know some things about MS
I am very knowledgeable about MS
I know someone with MS
I have MS myself
Voting ended onOct 22, 2024
Let me tell you a little about Multiple sclerosis (MS). MS is an autoimmune disease, which means that the immune system starts attacking some part of the body. In the case of MS, the immune system attacks the central nervous system. If you didn't know, the central nervous system includes the brain and spinal cord, and as you can imagine, damage to that can have disastrous effects on your ability to function. Damage often happens in "attacks", and symptoms tend to get worse over time. The symptoms that damaging the central nervous system can result in are so numerous that it has its own wikipedia page (Signs and symptoms of multiple sclerosis), but to list a few that may occur: fatigue, difficulty walking, incontinence, blurred vision, cognitive impairment, depression, speech problems, hearing loss, tremors, and pain.
MS cannot be cured, but there are treatments that can prevent it from getting progressively worse, and reduce relapse rate. This is incredible news, except these treatments can be prohibitively expensive...
Now, I want you to imagine having to deal with something like MS while living in Gaza, and all that entails, for over a year now.
I want to tell you a little about Hala Daoud. Hala is in her 40s and has three children: 17 y/o Osama, 13 y/o Lana, and 9 y/o Mohammed. They are living in Gaza, with all that entails, and Hala has MS.
I'm sure you know, but the healthcare system in Gaza is all but destroyed. The only chance Hala has to get his treatment is to travel to Egypt, and then pay for the medicine all on her own. The medicine costs $12,000 for a single dose, and getting through the border is not cheap either. If she cannot do this, her health will continue to deteriorate and she will be left permanently disabled.
Her fudraiser was created all the way back in May, but she has only raised €2,274 out of her €17,000 goal
In the last ten days she has only had four donations. Please, do not let her be forgotten💔
She is on tumblr @halakamak
VETTED row 954 on The ButterflyEffect Project
VETTED number 307 on @/el-shab-hussein & @/nabulsi's Vetted Gaza Fundraiser List
My name is Hala Daoud, a Palestinian living in Gaza. I am … Osama Dawoud needs your support for Help Save a Gaza Mother from MS and Pe
I hope you're doing well. I need your Support for our new campaign . We’ve lost our home and jobs due to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in Gaza and are now living in a tent. We’ve started a GoFundMe campaign to escape the devastation and rebuild our lives.
Please check ✅ our story and support us through this link:
*https://gofund.me/89758aef*
If you can't donate, at least please share the link
Thank you for your kindness🙂
Hello, Farah. I am sorry for what you and your people are going through. My heart and all my love and prayers are with you. I'm sorry I can't donate now via GoFundMe, but I can share the link so that someone who can help finds it.
THE LINK
Putting this under random hashtags that I've used before, so that we can help our fellow humans, y'all.
Baela rode Moondancer once in the dance, Rhaena never had a dragon till after the dance was over, and Rhaenyra never rode Syrax except when she arrived at Kings Landing, yet Baela has had multiple Moondancer scenes (as she should), Rhaena has been given Nettles' plot AND dragon, and Rhaenyra has had plenty of shots with Syrax and is now (allegedly) going to be teaching dragon riding 101 to the dragonseeds and will likely take part in at least one dragon battle.
But Helaena and her beloved Dreamfyre? nah. Her bond to a dragon just isn't important enough 😒
What if to hide the fact that Helaena likes to keep to herself, doesn't like to be touched and probably has ADHD, making her probably hate being with her ladies in waiting, they just convinced the public that she has a great bond with Dreamfyre with whom she spent her days with?
What's happening in Palestine is not "complicated", and it's not some insane "2000 year war about religion".
1917 : The Balfour Declaration was passed by the British, signing over the Palestinian land that was not their's to begin with to the Jewish people. Jewish people are not native to Palestine, and “israel” did not exist until 1948. The Balfour Declaration was the most controversial and contested documented in all of modern history.
1936 : A partition came into play, where the British once again promised the Palestinian land to be allocated to the Jewish people to become a "Jewish state". A 3 year revolt takes place to contest the partition which brought an end the the British army having anymore control over Palestine, and over 5000 Palestinians were killed. During this time the first armed zionist group was formed (Irgun) and they launched a series of unprecedented attacks against the Palestinian people.
1946 : Irgun bombed the King David Hotel which killed another 91 Palestinians, then in May of 1948 "israel" was formed which resulted in 750,000 Palestinians being displaced and 530 Palestinian villages being destroyed - this is referred to as the 1st Nakba (which means "disaster" in Arabic) - the 2nd Nakba started on October 7th. The remaining 22% of Palestine that had yet to be occupied was then divided into the Gaza Strip and The West Bank. That same year the UN passed a legislation that allowed Palestinian refugees to return home, but they were treated as second class citizens. "israel" controls the Palestinian education, prohibits their involvement in politics & elections, they control how much food and water they get, and their medical supplies.
1956-1966 : "israel" massacred the Palestinian villages Qalqilya, Kufr, Qassem, Khan Younis, and As-Samu.
1967 : "israel" occupied the remainder of historic Palestine in Gaza & The West Bank (and by occupy I mean they forcibly removed Palestinians from their homes, demolished their homes, or lived in the upper parts of their houses, forcing Palestinians to live in the lower halves, and then they built wire fences over top of these houses on the outside to block their view of the sky and so they could also throw garbage, boiling water, & human waste at the Palestinians walking the streets below. During that time another 300,000 Palestinians were displaced. The UN called for "israel" to leave Palestine, but they did not do that.
1976 : 1000's of hectares of Palestinian land were forcibly confiscated & protests were brutally shut down.
1987 : The first Intifada starts (which means the Palestinian revolution) where "isreal" established 45 more settlements on Palestinian land. A massive peaceful protest broke out by the Palestinians to show that the occupation & brutalization of their land and people was no longer acceptable. The IOF defence minister at the time, Yitzhak Rabin, ordered the IOF to break the bones of all Palestinians who were protesting. This is when the Hamas resistance group was founded (it was actually created initially by "israel" in hopes that it would divide the Palestinian people and shut down the Muslim Brother Hood - another resistance group). During that time 1000+ Palestinians were killed by the IOF.
1993 : the 2nd Intifada begins. The Oslo Accord is signed which was meant to being "peace" and a "2 state solution", but that just turned into more brutality by the IOF and another 5000+ Palestinians were killed. The IOF instigated Palestinian protestors with 1.3 million rounds of ammunition. Diana Buttu (a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer) made a statement saying the bill for a "2 state solution" was no more than a distraction for "israel" to carry out their plan in silence from the rest of the world which was always for the extermination, ethnic cleansing, and occupation of Palestine.
2014 : The Gaza War happened. This is when "israel" introduced the apartheid wall, which further isolated the Palestinians. They also launched a large scale attack on Gaza with ariel & naval fire power, 2500+ Palestinians were killed in just 50 days. In Gaza the IOF destroyed 83 schools, 10 healthcare centres, and 12,600 housing units.
2008-2023 : 8000+ more Palestinians were killed by the IOF, and now since october 7th 23,000+ Palestinians have been killed, and 1.6 million have been displaced.
This is one of the largest ongoing examples of colonial violence in the world today.
All telecommunications and internet has been cut off in Gaza for almost an hour. The bombing got worse than it had been this week. Two hospitals have been threatened - that's what we knew BEFORE they lost connection.
Israel's isolated Gaza and is striking them from the sea, air and ground NOW. Ethnic cleansing/genocide is taking place NOW.
To all bloggers here on Tumblr, don't be on the side of genocide with your silence.
The goal is to generally raise awareness with as many people as possible. Diverse hashtags can help reach many people who can search about the topic and know more.
All telecommunications and internet has been cut off in Gaza for almost an hour. The bombing got worse than it had been this week. Two hospitals have been threatened - that's what we knew BEFORE they lost connection.
Israel's isolated Gaza and is striking them from the sea, air and ground NOW. Ethnic cleansing/genocide is taking place NOW.
To all bloggers here on Tumblr, don't be on the side of genocide with your silence.
It's been going on for almost 20 days now, but just last night it got worse, because the people of Gaza are out of fuel, so that means no electricity, no light, no way to get food, no way to treat water, because clean water was also cut off. That's beside the carpet bombings and the sea and ground strikes. They have solar cells, but they don't do much and they're slow. There was a strike right at the door of the biggest, still standing/non bombed, hospital; it was a close call. And the hospital's past maximum capacity with patients, corpses and emigrants seeking refuge.
So, thank you for speaking up about this, because it's just the right thing to do, because the situation just keeps getting worse and worse as the day passes, every time the sun sets.
Warning: Includes mentions and graphic photos about m**s m*rder.
I'm posting this under my most used hashtags.
This might get me blocked or smth, but I'm using this post to raise awareness...
People are generally for the Ukrainians defending themselves and arming themselves. Many are appalled at the murder of innocents in Ukraine.
Yet for some reason not everyone is appalled at the murder of children and unarmed people in Gaza. The Palestinian resistance is a resistance against an occupation that has gone on since 1948, and naturally they're armed, because Palestinians haven't seen a day of real peace (not for-show-peace) since 1948. This is how they defend their lands.
Even if you disagree with the resistance, don't support the murder of innocents in Gaza. There isn't a neighbourhood that hasn't been bombed there, so don't tell me that there is still a base for the resistance, because now it's just hospitals and refuge schools which are being hit. UNRWA (United Nations) shelters and hospitals have been bombed in Gaza. Ambulances have been targeted as they transfer citizens from the bombed collapsed buildings.
If there's anything you can do to help and spread awareness, don't hesitate and don't be afraid to do it.
I know this is probably stone age old, but I just noticed something as I was re-watching TVD...
In the last episode of s2, Bonnie and Stefan were trying to contact the Salem witches to reach a cure for Damon's werewolf bite. Emily was being bitter and had Stefan believe that she wouldn't help because he was asking for Damon, because Damon was "a monster" (whatever that means to the witches who refuse to help often for selfish reasons). The witches wouldn't tell them anything, but Bonnie did hear them say "Klaus."
Now, you wanna know what I think? No? Well, sucks to be you, cuz Imma say it anyways.
As far as I can recall, Emily had no personal reason to hate Damon. In fact, she had reasons to like him, because he tried to keep her safe (as a ticket for "Katherine's escape from the temple", but... Eh), so the reason why she didn't wanna help was, in fact, Niklaus. Neither she nor the other witches wanted him to appear sacred or rare to vampires, because imagine vampires knowing they no longer had to fear wolf bites? That would disrupt the real balance of nature. Also, at the time Nik wasn't doing any real self development to be a good person, so the last they knew of him was all the witches he wronged, abused and daggered, so they also had a selfish reason.
But they would have Damon, Stefan, every character in TVD and us think that no one liked Damon, because he's a real monster with no redeeming qualities, even tho we've seen what witches can do.
Less: “You can do anything you put your mind to.” More: “It’s okay and completely understandable if you’re struggling to do the things you want and need to due to your diagnosis and it isn’t your fault if some things are hard or impossible right now.”
Less: “You’re limitless.” More: “Everybody has limits and you’re not a failure if your diagnosis gives you limits that most people don’t have. Having limits and learning to accommodate them is a natural, important and healthy thing.
Less: “Change your attitude, change your life.” More: “Your diagnosis and how it impacts your life isn’t an attitude problem and getting better is much more complicated than thinking positive thoughts and that’s okay.”
Less: “Stay positive and you’ll be happy.” More: “It’s okay to struggle with negative emotions and nobody can be positive all the time. Struggling to stay positive doesn’t make you a bad or weak person.”
Less: “You have so many wonderful reasons to live.” More: “Your life is valuable and you deserve to be here even if it feels like you don’t have many reasons to live right now - cause you’ll find those reasons along the way.”
Less: “Remember that life is amazing!” More: “Your life may suck right now but that doesn’t mean it won’t be worth it in the long run.”
The following might be triggering to some and might be TMI-ish since I normally don't post about myself (whenever I take the step to post, lol)
But I've been diagnosed with Complex PTSD recently, so I just wanted this reposted post out there for anyone on my blog who needs it.
And I'm here to tell any fellow bloggers who struggle to keep their promises to post that it's okay. 💕 I hear you, and it's okay you'll ace it when you get the energy for it. But for now, you just gotta do whatever you can get yourself to do, because anyways you're a champ for just getting through another day. Keep going, lovelies, because there's plenty to just exist for beyond our pains and struggles.
A/N: Bella and Y/N and all of the Cullens are falling apart, meanwhile Felix over here is just like...pretty? Pretty wife?? Pretty wife all for me????? Man is just falling in love at first sight and becoming her sword shield.
That’s what the Swan girl was, so much braver then I’d thought she’d be. Most mortals would have been panicked and sobbing, screaming, I’d heard it again and again over the slow-going centuries. Begging, crying out for their lives or their god or whatever else came to them in those final moments. But the way she steeled herself, even through the terror she must have felt...I’d be lying if I said I was not impressed.
And it was all for love.
My own descent into immortality was strictly for myself, as many of our own stories were. It was purely power that had attracted so many of us, or perhaps beauty and immortality and many more turned merely by tragic circumstance...but love was a far rarer story among our ranks. Queen Sulpicia, of course, and dear Didyme were among the ranks of lovers. Afton joined them as well, having adored Chelsea from the very moment they met. True love made the choice easy. He’d told me that once. But to do this not for glory nor for the love of a mate but for a sister...how strange indeed! I did not remember my own family, not that there had been anything truly worth remembering. Just the choices that had lead me to this immortal life. I fell into the ranks of both tragedy and power hungry, an odd sort of set that, in the end of all things, had suited me quite well.
Perhaps I’d tell her about that one day.
When she was not so angry with us anymore, when she was no longer hurting...perhaps I would tell her who I had been and what I’d become. I might dare enough to ask of who she was and why her sister had been worth all of this.
But not tonight, nor many more nights to come.
She was far too hurt to ask anything of now and we’d demanded more then enough of her, hadn’t we? And she was more frightened then she was willing to admit it, wearing a brave and lovely face easily. That was to be expected. No one can be as brave as she was without being terrified. Y/N had fallen asleep rather quickly, exhaustion I expected, humans were such delicate creatures. But it was a fretful slumber, dark dreams chasing her down...I’d forgotten what it was to dream. To sleep. Such a simple pleasure, I had not expected to miss it so much through eternity. Volterra was rather wonderous at night, the castle coming alive with chatter and music and life! But to sleep, to dream, I missed things like that, more then I was willing to admit aloud.
And I wondered what nightmares might haunt the pretty creature. Perhaps it was us, I considered, we were certainly cruel enough to be the monsters lurking in her mind. But a small cry answered the question, smiling at the realization that Y/N spoke as she slept.
“Bella...”
Her sister, the one she loved so much...was she dreaming of her? Frightened for her? There was more murmuring, a tangle of words falling from pretty lips.
Lost. Thorns and roses, something of blood. Something chasing her, pulling her into the dark.
She doesn’t like the dark, does she?
I had noticed it before, the way she clung close to light, always searching shadows for something, as though she were expecting a monster. Even clinging to me in effort to escape the darkness and the cold, despite knowing what I was, what I was capable of. Such a strange little creature! I could not help but smile at the thought of it, so utterly enthralled by all of it, though why that was I could neither explain nor understand. All I could do was watch as she murmured in her terrified sleep, buried beneath the protective shadow of my borrowed cloak. She could keep it, I decided then. Eventually, she would have needed her own anyway, Aro would insist. Heidi would fix it to fit, she was good at things like that. But forgetting all of that for now, I simply hummed softly, some long ago lullaby filling the quiet...and the song lulled her into a peace, the frightening whispers quieting.
“How’s our caged bird?”
Demetri came up from behind, eyeing the slumbering beauty with great interest. She was a pretty thing, just as her sister had been in life, and she’d be even lovelier in death.
But he wasn’t her type.
I knew it then, though I did not confess it. Demetri, though my favorite companion, was far too rough and too cruel for her. He delighted in brutality, in pain and death. Out of all of us, he partook in human culture the most and somehow still could not “play” human as well as Heidi or Renata could. Too wild, too cruel and beautiful to be real. She wouldn’t like that. And I had the sense that she’d be more then willing to make that very, very clear should he try...and that I might find such a scene to be rather amusing.
“Sleeping,” I replied calmly, pretending that I’d been engrossed with the novel I’d been reading. “She’ll need to rest for now. And food soon enough.”
“Damn,” he muttered. “we didn’t prep for that, no time.”
In the planes, jets, and many other vehicles we used as part of Heidi’s hunt, we often kept the bare necessities of human life, food being a part of that. A sort of last meal, not that the unfortunate things ever realized it.
“We’ll stop along the way, once we reach Volterra. Will everything be ready for her by then?”
“No idea. Heidi called home and gave them the good news, now we wait. Seemed like they already had things in motion there but I’m not certain. She’s a pretty thing, isn’t she?”
“Demetri,” I half-scolded. “You know how protective our master is with his treasures.”
At that he laughed, walking away and wondering aloud why it seemed that I hadn’t turned the page all night. Always wanting the last slap in, that one. But I smiled anyway, stealing another glance at the Swan girl, as she’d been known for sometime (I’d have to tell the others of her real name when we arrived, I didn’t supposed she’d like being called such a thing). She was pretty, wasn’t she? Especially when she smiled, a small grin painted upon her face.
What was she dreaming of now?
Was it sweet, was she happy? I hoped, secretly, that Volterra would be kind to her. Those who came into this world by tragic circumstance often struggled for sometime and, while the girl was stronger then she seemed and brave enough, that didn’t make her ready for it. We never were, even we wanted it.
Perhaps that was the point.
It didn’t matter to her if she was ready or if it was what she wanted, she’d do it anyway. If she loved you enough, she would do anything.
I wondered what it might be like to be loved by her, to be worthy of such sacrifice.
That sort of love, that made all things worth it, didn’t it? For the rest of the flight, I did not bother with the book, laying open upon my lap. Remaining fixed on that one page, I found my thoughts and my gaze returning to her time and time again without rhyme or reason, a moth seeking the flame. Within every moment, I discovered something new.
Her smile was just barely crooked.
The scent of vanilla, warm and sweet, hung over her.
And the locket she wore had opened, revealing several pictures. An older man, her father perhaps? Herself and Bella...and the hybrid child.
I would have to wake her soon. From the cockpit, I heard the familiar chatter and knew that we’d be arriving home shortly. And though the thought of pulling her from a peaceful slumber into a waking nightmare seemed so cruel, I’d do it. No matter how dirty the job, I’d be capable of it, I’d proven that much over the centuries, hadn’t I? That was why I had been sent here, why I’d been made in the first place. And she probably wouldn’t like that much either, would she? I was beautiful too, in my own way, but I was as cruel and brutal as any other creature in the castle. The proof of it littered my body and yet...it would protect her.
I would protect her.
In that moment, I came to a quiet conclusion: the nightmares, both real and imagined, would not find her here.
Not while she was in my care.
She would certainly fear me, even hate me for some time. I could take that. But eternity was long and a mind may be changed. And in time, she would come to know all of us, with our sad and strange and romantic tales to be told. My ferocity, the fear of many within our dark world, would become her shield and her sacrifice would not be in vain. In that moment, I promised her everything, the dreamer, and I hummed through the night, chasing monster far, far away.
