We are a family of ten trying to survive in northern Gaza. We have a rent of $700 that we won’t be able to pay without help, and we will be at the mercy of the drones and the tanks if we have to leave, on top of having to leave behind all of our belongings. The only food we have left is a bag of flour infested with maggots, everything at the market has become insanely expensive.
My sister Soso is only four years old, what kind of life is this for her? My mother and I have been sick and thankfully we finally got the help of a doctor, but that means we had to pay for the medicine as well. The little money we have left isn’t enough to buy anything in the north.
Please help, I swear I’ll be thankful for anything. Share at least if you can’t afford to donate.
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I am re-reading The Left Hand of Darkness and unfortunately, my brain is too rotten for this, because all I can think about is an alternate timeline where the girlies got absolutely sauced on this book and instead of inventing the Omegaverse, people just wrote Kemmering AUs instead.
if you're not into 70's feminist sci-fi, it goes like this:
on the planet Gethen, everyone is both biologically and socially androgynous for 21-22 days out of a 26 day cycle. on those other days, you go into kemmer. If you go into kemmer by yourself, nothing really happens except you go horny-nuts. however! if you're with someone else who is in kemmer, one of you will become male and one of your will become female, and you spend the rest of the time fucking respectfully, because this is an Ursula K. LeGuin book. There is no real rhyme or reason to which gender you become--it can vary from kemmer to kemmer. If you get pregnant, you stay female through the pregnancy and nursing; otherwise you go back to being gender-neutral for the rest of the month. You can get married (vow kemmer) and always do this with the same person, but there are canonically also fuck hotels where you go have orgies with whoever else is hot to go, if that's what you're into. lineage is traced down through babies that came out of your own body.
i cannot emphasize enough that all of this is written in the absolute least horny way possible.
i know this would never take off because (1) who is top and who is bottom is transient and (2) you can't use it to reinvent toxic heterosexuality for gay people
people keep reblogging this with "ursula would love this actually" and I hate that I have to clarify this, but I am not talking about people writing well-thought-out LHoD AUs crafted with care and nuance. I am talking about it becoming an incredibly popular fanfic trope where many of the works take two generically attractive men from a vapid, misogynistic, slop-for-profit franchise, and use her framework for a society free of gender roles as a mechanism for one of them to get the other one pregnant. she would not like that. her ghost appeared to me and told me so.
On November 7, 2024, Denmark used a racist, culturally biased "parenting competency" test to remove a 2 hour old baby, Zammi, from her loving indigenous Greenlandic Inuit mother, Keira, because her native language, which uses minute facial expressions to communicate, will not be able to "[prepare] the child for the social expectations and codes that are necessary to navigate in Danish society." This test had been recommended not to be used at the federal level before this happened but certain municipalities, including the one this happened in, chose to continue to use it regardless. Not only is this blatantly racist but also violates multiple declarations and conventions that Denmark has signed that protect the rights of indigenous people.
Please sign this petition to help Keira to get her baby back.
Hey, it's really important for Keira to get 50,000 signatures on this petition before her court date in early April 2025. Please sign if you haven't already to help a mother and a people stand up to colonialism and for indigenous rights.
it's very surreal to see posts about palestine dwindling down after the ceasefire. israel is still blocking aid to and trying to make life difficult for palestinians in gaza. we still have to continue to speak up about gaza.
in this ceasefire, many palestinians are trying to rebuild in attempts to try and return to what they had before the genocide. despite the heavy and unbearable loss of life that gaza has experienced, her people continue to try to make a better world for their children.
alaa is a mother of two young children. she wants to rebuild her house and get a better future for her children. please have heart and consider helping her out. her fundraiser has been verified.
it's been seven days since the last donation. please please share and consider donating if you can. alaa has to get enough money to rebuild her house to ensure her children's well being.
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the difference between TOS spock and AOS spock is that TOS spock is selective with his violence. he understands that it is necessary though he doesn’t enjoy it and will use the minimum amount required.
AOS spock will rock your shit and top your boyfriend
hes not the same as TOS spock bc hes young! he's angry! he feels too much and doesnt have the experience of human contact (aside from his mother) to help him regulate that and show him that emotions are an okay thing to have.
hes raw in ways that TOS spock is able to handle better bc hes been on that damn ship among all these illogical humans for longer (also his entire planet got retconned so youll have to forgive him for that)
quinto did a fantastic job of playing a spock that doesnt really know who he is yet, who wants desperately to be vulcan and also wants desperately to feel at home somewhere. anywhere.
a spock who clings to the rules because rules are logical. if you follow them, then no one can tell you that you're wrong.
and then here comes jim kirk with his self satisfied smirk and smashes that entire thing to pieces. here's jim kirk installing a virus into his test in order to beat it, backchatting starfleet command at his own disciplinary hearing, sneaking his way onto the enterprise and somehow landing the position of first officer as captain pike- spock's captain- waltzes into certain death to keep his crew safe.
jim has broken arguably every rule. he flaunts protocol. he's loud, brash and damn near unlikeable and yet he keeps winning. spock doesn't understand.
now spock is acting captain and rules are meaningless. hes following protocol to a T and it's not working. his planet collapses in on itself, more than half his race is wiped out, his mother dies in front of him and he has to keep going. the bridge crew follow his orders but its clear they dont like him all that much. jim presses and pushes until something gives and he maroons him in a desperate bid to distance himself from feeling. from everything that jim is because he can't afford it. the crew does not like him any more for this choice.
and just when hes maybe getting a lid on things, maybe dragging the last shreds of self control around himself here's jim fucking kirk, screaming at him about how he can't feel and how he's an emotionless machine and all the bleeding inside of him screams right back that he does. he feels so much and it hurts so terribly (back away from me, mr. kirk) and he wants nothing more in that moment to make jim hurt as well so he does.
he doesn't realise what he's done until he feels jim's pulse beneath his fingers and hears his ragged breathing on the silent bridge.
^^ right here is some of my favorite acting in the movie, the way that spock lets go of him and stands on shaky legs, eyes fixed on nothing in particular and in this moment of weakness, he falls back on protocol again. "doctor, i am unfit for command." he tells mccoy and he steps away, haunted. quinto absolutely ate that shit up.
brazilians, imagine you’re a famous futebol player and are about to hit the winning penalty kick at the world cup finals. accidentally, the referee tosses a christian baby at you. would you still kick the baby to the goal and win the hexa championship, and sacrifice the christian baby?
