It does not matter how slow you go as long as you go boldly where no one has gone before. cathos, 30s, bi, he/she/they, white. mostly star trek & iwtv. enterprisery/flowerplots on ao3. danlou stan from day 1 🫡. sometimes i create high quality posts on tumblr. no minors please.
african migrant workers are being abandoned by rich lebanese families who have evacuated the genocide. some employers have denied them access to their passports and forced them to stay in their houses in lebanon. when these workers escape to shelters they are kicked out. some of those workers have died in the israeli bombings.
the anti-racism movement (arm) is fundraising to help support migrant workers during this time.
arm-lebanon's instagram
donate here
larger document compiling fundraisers for marginalized people in lebanon who will be hit the hardest by this wave of the genocide
something i also found myself thinking about while drawing this was louis's shift from photography to art trading: when he fails to create meaningful art, he turns to finding and investing in meaningful artists. he wants to spot the potential and materialize it, to bring their value to life. he can't produce memorable art but he still wants to leave a mark.
capital as outward evidence of his effect on the world of humans, perhaps —when the mortals who would remember him have passed, the projects he invested in will remain. you can see this through-line all the way back from new orleans, where he seems to conceptualize his patronage of and investment in black businesses to be a way to keep in touch with his community and, thus, with humanity.
i think what's most interesting is that, though he was a good businessman in life, and certainly had an eye for untapped potential, vampirism gives him an unique edge when it comes to this kind of financial speculation: the vantage point of eternity, and the room to play with very long-term investments —he can out-wait an artist's lifetime and turn a profit on posthumous fame, and could even reason it as giving the dead artist something like immortality by making sure their work is properly displayed.
[ID: two images of an Indian ink drawing, with washed ink shading, of Worf and Jadzia Dax from Star Trek Deep Space Nine. The second image is a close up of the first. The two are in the middle of a Baleth sparring match, and Jadzia seems to push back Worf. She leans in close to Worf and looks him in the eye with a bold grin. Worf stares back at her with a little bashful smile. /End ID]
it has been one year since this current wave of the genocide began.
for most of that time, my friend siraj (vetted #219) and his family have been living in a tent and exposed to air that is impossible to breathe, poisoned rain, flooding, disease, and much worse. there are 10 children in his family of 23, most of whom are under the age of 12.
he is currently fundraising to cover rent for the upcoming winter so he can protect his children and elderly parents from the elements.
i don't think i'm alone here when i say i never expected this genocide last for a full year. even the israeli aggression in 2021 was too much for me to comprehend at the time.
this genocide took siraj's house from him. he had spent 10 years and gone into debt to build it and now it along with the promise of his future is gone. it's been replaced by a full year of torment.
i don't know what the next year is going to look like. but i do know that palestinian resistance means staying in palestine and rebuilding. it means fighting to stay alive life amidst the carnage. and, for families, it means taking every opportunity to find shelter and stay warm in the upcoming winter.
donate and share.
hi, my name is ahmad and I'm raising a fund for my cousin Siraj and thi… Ahmad Abudayeh needs your support for Support Siraj's Family in Reb
Are you just tired of these kinds of posts coming from G@za strip that ask you not to skip and to read the whole post, interact with it, and help in sharing/ reblogging it? Well, maybe you are right, but guess what? We are also tired of living in this reality for a whole 11 months.💔
And you know what? You have no idea how mentally and emotionally trying this is. Asking for help isn't easy at all, but when I think that the price will be staying alive, getting our basic needs and rebuilding our lives, it pushes me more and more to do this until we reach our goal.
This is Ola, the older sister who is trying to help her family. For 11 months until now, we have been struggling to get proper food after prices increased by 15 to 20 times, struggling to have clean water for use and drinking and now we're out of them all. We are trying to survive under starvation, thirst, and poverty. So please, if you can give help to our campaign, don't hesitate.
Hello, I'm Ola, a graduate student from the faculty of science - Al-Azh… Nesma Khazendar needs your support for Ola's Family Call for your S
Every simple thing makes a difference in changing the situation we are in. You can help us either by giving direct help to our campaign or simply by reblogging this post. We would be very thankful if you could share our campaign with families and friends. It really helps reach the people who can directly assist us in reaching our goal faster.
My campaign has been vetted by @90-ghost , @northgazaupdates , @el-shab-hussein , and @nabulsi 's vetted list, line 205.
Are you tired of all this news and these posts too? Ok I am too, but is there another choice? Unfortunately I have no other choice, I am trying to rebuild our lives, So will you make a difference today and help seven people rebuild their lives? The decision is yours.
for the art/memory prompt for @iwtvfanevents's st. louis event, louis styled after ingrid bergman's paula in gaslight (1944) —turns out the monster isn't memory, it's your evil husband trying to convince you that you're insane
Help Me Evacuate my Family from Gaza and Reunite with them in Ireland
Note: My main account (@mahmoudkhalafff) was unfortunately brought down.
In the midst of the chaos engulfing the region and the receding in media coverage, you might be misled to think the horrific war in Gaz*a has stopped. However, it breaks my heart to tell you that if anything, it only moves from bad to WORSE. Committing massacres against defenseless civilian families and children has become the ordinary instead of the horrific unordinary.
Unfortunately, the massacres and the mass destruction of our beloved Gaz*a have it into a pile of rubble and rendered the dreams and hopes of people as baseless, far-fetched, meaningless, and unrealistic daydreaming.
I was displaced with my big family five times in Gaz*a and escaped imminent death multiple times before I was evacuated to Ireland five months into the war and I can tell you from my firsthand experience that the situation in Gaz*a is beyond hellish. Can you even bear to imagine that Lifeless corpses of so many children are brought out from under the rubble of their bombed houses almost every day?!
I hate to admit that I never imagined I was this weak. I don’t have the courage or strength to bring the corpses of my future children from under the rubble in Gaza one day. I shudder and blood freezes in my veins when I imagine what could happen to my parents, brothers, sisters and their children while I am in a safe place too far away.
Therefore, I have the moral obligation to do everything in my power to secure a NORMAL, safe, and dignified life for them here. Please know exactly what you are contributing to by boosting my campaign. You are helping a Gaza family reunite in Ireland after their lives and dreams have been viciously crushed by the horrific war. And, sadly, the worst is yet to come!
After consulting the Irish Refugee Council and Doras in Ireland and Palestinian families who managed to reunite in Ireland, I know for certain that THERE IS HOPE!
Please do consider helping me save my family by donating, reblogging, and sharing.
Note: Vetted by:
1. @el-shab-hussein and @nabulsi # 151 on the spreadsheet of Vetted Gaza Fundraisers List]
2. @riding-with-the-wild-hunt Here .
People say: "Family always comes First," and to that, I say: "Amen!".… Mahmoud Khalaf needs your support for Death chases my family in Gaza;
Dear lovely kind people, please consider reblogging and sharing <3
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