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🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 PFP by @pidgedidge | he/they/she, 20s, white | cat enthusiast | breaking into filoni's house to steal all his hats

[el-shab-hussein]

Fundraiser masterpost

This is a masterpost for the evacuation fundraisers I've vetted so far, a few other fundraisers I find trustworthy but have not been able to vet (inability to communicate with the organizer), and a few semi-completed fundraisers or fundraisers for a different purpose (like house rebuilding, or aid distribution). The numbers next to the names have no significance beyond ease of navigation for me for when I check their progress in the future. Occasionally I will update these with new info.

VETTED FAMILY ESCAPE FUNDRAISERS

Walaa Abusamra (1). 10 family members. 13k out of 80k €.

Ezzideen Shehab (2). 6 family members. 3.7k out of 32.5k €.

Madleen Abu Jayyab (3). 4 family members. 4k out of 70k USD.

Jehad Shehada (4). 1 individual. 1.7k out of 15k CAD.

Aser Alassar (5). 5 family members. 258k out of 550k SEK. Or 24k out of 51k USD.

My friend Mona Abu Hamda (6). 9 family members. 52k out of 75k USD.

Mohammed Shamia (7). 7 family members. 1.9k out of 35k USD.

Abdullah Al-Saghir (8). 9 family members. 65k out of 100k €.

Randa Abubakr (9). 6 family members. 10.1k out of 14k €.

Fadi Alshrafi (10). 9 family members. 40k out of 85k USD.

Osama Abdelrahman. (11). 9 family members. 27k out of 45k €.

Alhaw family and the Albittar family (12). Between 18 and 12 family members. 1.9k out of 90k €. (EXTREMELY LOW, NEEDS FUNDS)

Verified Fundraiser by Palestine Asdiqa to help a malnourished baby with cerebral palsy. (13) 6.3k out of 31k USD.

Rana Abu Ahmed (14). 6 family members. 63.8k out of 66k CAD. NEARLY COMPLETE.

Mohammed Abu Matar (15). 6 family members. 5k out of 34k CAD.

Moataz Abu Sakran (16). 3 family members. 10.4k out of 20k $.

Ayah Abu Sidu (17). 10 family members. 15.2k out of 50.4k USD.

Said Fadel (18). 7 family members. 19k out of 50k USD.

Tasneem Nabil Musa (19). 7 family members (ALL INJURED, NEED MEDICAL CARE.) 13.2k out of 50k USD

Belal Azmi Msallam (20). 14 family members. 7.1k out of 160k AUD.

Mortaja Family (21). 11 family members. 28k out of 70k €.

Abu Ramadan family (22). 14 family members. 10k out of 148k €.

Mai Rajab (23). 42.3k out of 50k USD (CLOSE TO COMPLETION)

Amal Abu Shammala (24). 4 family members. 33.1k out of 42k €.

Maryam & family (25). 29.5k out of 50k USD.

Haneem Abdelhalim (26). 8 family members. 31k out of 40k USD raised.

Ahmed Masoud (27). 12 family members. 8.3k out of 60k €.

Mohammed Fareed (28). 21.7k out of 60k CAD.

Lena Nofal (29). 32.7k out of 35k € (NEARLY COMPLETE)

Rasheda Alfaiomy (30). 6+ family members. 22.3k out of 65k USD.

Ula El Hindi (31). 1+ individuals. 8.2k out of 15k €.

Muhammad Safi (32). 5+ family members. 4k out of 30k BP.

Yazan Khalaf (33). 18 family members. 12.4k out of 40k USD.

Afaf Masoud (34). 5+ family members. 55.1k out of 75k €.

Motasem Khayal (35). 5 family members. 442 out of 43k € (26.5k needed for escape.)

Youseff Abu Saeed (36). 3 family members (1 is already out for treatment). 154k out of 200k USD.

Abdulaziz & Abdullah, escape & surgery (37). 2+ family members (1 has already been treated). 95k out of 150k BP.

Nadine Abdullatif (38). 8 family members. 103k out of 130k AUD.

Sami Salhab (39). 6 family members (5 already evacuated). 13.1k out of 26k €.

Jehad Al Ghandour (40). 5 family members (1 already evacuated). 30.6k out of 100k USD.

Mahmoud Algharabli (41). 16 family members (4 already evacuated). 48k out of 57.6k USD.

Dr. Marah & family (42). 2+ family members. 5.1k out of 40k USD.

Khaled Alshabrawi (43). 5 family members. 1.4k out of 35k € (25k needed for escape, but will begin with 10k for stable housing).

Muhammad Osama Alzaq (44). 5 family members. 2.1k out of 60k BP.

Mohammed Wishah (45). 7 family members + 1 pet. 2.3k out of 71.5k €.

Ottawa4Palestine’s vetted fundraiser spreadsheet (76 different families with listed fundraisers)

UNVETTED, BUT HIGHLY LIKELY LEGITIMATE ESCAPE FUNDRAISERS:

Rasha family (1). 5 family members. 483 out of 15k € (EXTREMELY LOW, NEED FUNDS)

Natasha Matar (2). 14 family members. 18.1k out of 200k CAD (140k needed for escape).

Islam Daher (3). 6 family members. 2.3k out of 50k CAD.

Qasim Al-Kafarneh (4). 12 family members. 5.7k out of 80k AUD.

Ahmed M. Saleh (5). 4 family members. 7.8k out of 35k €.

Salwa Zarifa (6). 4 family members. 1.6k out of 50k €.

Moutasem Quffa (7). 6+ family members. 7k out of 65k €.

OTHER FUNDRAISERS:

Eman Abdel Rahman. Need help rebuilding home and access to food. 7.1k out of 42.6k USD.

Ibrahim Adil Osman. All intended beneficiaries have escaped, they just need some financial support to start being stable enough to make money to get more family members to escape.

Abd Al Karim Adnan Alakklouk. Most intended beneficiaries have escaped, they just need some financial support to start a new life and send more family members money to survive.

Samar Elrayih Hydoub. It seems that most family members have been evacuated, but they need an emergency 1.5k for medical expenses.

Bana AZ. All intended beneficiaries have escaped, they just need a bit of support in establishing a new life. (only 866 € left to meet goal)

Kareem Abu Samra. All intended beneficiaries have been able to escape. They just need support to establish a new life.

Helping the People of Gaza – Mutual Aid Fund (run by my friend Mona)

Supporting Displaced Families in Gaza (CareForGaza)

Emergency Medical Relief for Gaza Refugees.

Help Sudan Tarada Initiative.

Amer Qudaih’s Relief efforts in Gaza.

[cameoliob]

Woah look at that super duper cool Honor Guard guy, wow look at how he's just posted the fuck up, god, he's just so awesome and nonchalant

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

its a shame I never posted some of the Patlani stuff I have when I was still doing all my dragon age stuff. I found a wip fic of them realizing they aren't a man.

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

It's not even a full thing but it is very fun to me. Figured I might as well share it. It's from years ago, unfinished, and unedited, and I straight up think I never posted it. I just rediscovered it like last night while I was trying to organize my computer.

Patlani is using he/him pronouns here because its their POV and at the time they had Not Realized yet and this takes place years before the game.

//

The night had started normally. The two of them were drinking, Zea had been trying her best to show Patlani how to play her lute. Patlani’s attempts were half-hearted, smiles a little forced, his mind elsewhere.

It wasn’t unusual, how could he not be thinking of other things. As much as Patlani enjoyed every moment with Zea—these meetings were perhaps the only thing in his life he had to look forward to—they were infrequent. It wasn’t easy to get away from the Crows, wasn’t easy for their paths to cross. It was not as if Patlani was free to roam as he pleased, he had been in the Crows possession for more than 20 years by now, the Crows knew how to keep him on a tight leash. He had to wait, hope that whatever contract he was sent off on was one in her general direction.

It wasn’t easy to pin down a general direction, though. Zea had her own commitments, her own work she had to do. She wasn’t always with the Shadow Dragons, she frequently traveled, frequently returned to her clan, to Rivain.

They were there now, in some town along the coast Patlani didn’t remember the name off, sitting together on a balcony at some inn, overlooking Rialto bay, passing a bottle of wine back and forth. 

It was comforting, familiar in a way Patlani would never admit, that he knew was foolish to let himself grow attached to. How many times had they done this? They would meet, drink, often end up in a bed, though on more than one occasion they were both too impatient to make it there. Some nights though, they would just sit together, talk.

Zea did most of the talking, she always did, she was a natural storyteller, sometimes she could even get Patlani to smile. And it’s not like Patlani had much to say. What could he tell Zea? How could he tell her about his life? He couldn’t subject her to that.

Patlani only half listened as Zea idly strummed her lute, having finally relented on trying to teach him, told him about what she had been doing before coming to meet him. She had visited her clan, her family. Her smile was so radiant as she told Patlani about her newborn niece, how happy she was to be an aunt, how beautiful the naming ceremony was the previous day. She still had flowers tucked behind her ear.

The previous day Patlani had been in the middle of a contract. Some minor noble who crossed the wrong person. He had a penchant for young elven men, part of why Patlani had been chosen to do it. He didn’t like taking contracts that were too hands-on, but he was the only man who wasn’t already on a contract and the client had paid enough to ensure there would be no delay. It’s not like Patlani had a choice, he was used to it by now. Patlani had felt nothing when he saw the fear in the nobleman’s eyes when he slit his throat, left his body crumpled on the bedroom floor as he slipped out of the window. He still had bruises from where the man had held him.

Zea didn’t need to know that. So Patlani didn’t tell her. The same way he didn’t tell her the hell he faced those years ago when she convinced him to spare her friend. (She had seen the scars, she called them beautiful once, if she had known…)

Patlani looked over to Zea, she smiled at him, offered him the bottle. Her fingers lingered on his for a moment as Patlani took it from her, before she returned to playing her lute. Patlani took a sip, eyes still on Zea.

He wanted to relish this, be present at least for this. For the sight of Zea lit by moonlight, the content expression on her face as she looked out over the water, the elegant way her hands moved as she played. Her skirts, her loose shawl fluttered in the gentle breeze. She looked serene, comfortable, beautiful.

“I wish I could be like you,” Patlani said, longingly, wistfully.

His own words startled him, stomach twisting as Zea stopped her song, looked over at him curiously. 

Patlani didn’t even fully know what he meant. He hadn’t been able to name it, dissect the feeling in his chest when he saw Zea. He didn’t want to, he told himself, tried to dismiss it. 

His words could have meant anything, he told himself. That he was envious of her abilities; her music, her magic. Maybe he was envious of her culture, the connection to the Dalish that Patlani had been denied (sometimes at night he wished she never told him, that he never knew, but he would never tell her that). Maybe Patlani reasoned he was simply vain, jealous of her beauty. Zea was beautiful, one of the most beautiful women Patlani had seen. On occasion people had called Patlani handsome, he certainly didn’t feel that way, but he was handsome enough it seemed, it was an asset to the Crows, the fact that he was a decent looking man—

Patlani hadn’t realized Zea had moved until he felt her hand on his arm, warm, gentle, reassuring. She had touched him countless times, it’s why they met up half the time, what this meeting was likely going to lead to. This touch was different though, the look in her eyes different. Patlani couldn’t name the expression on her face.

“You don’t have to be a man,” Zea said softly, “You know that, right?”

He should have. How much of Thedas had he traveled, how many people had he met from all walks of life, long before he met Zea? He understood the concept, it wasn’t hard to grasp. Zea had known him for years now, they were close, she didn’t mind bringing up stories from when she was younger, before she was the woman Patlani knew. But—

“I—It’s not the same, it’s different, I’m not—” He floundered, like a fish out of water, “It’s fine—I’m not—I can—”

I can live with being a man, he wanted to say. The words wouldn’t come out. He wanted to say it. He knew how to lie, he was exceptional at it, he wouldn’t have been allowed to survive his training if he couldn’t. The truth didn’t matter, his feelings didn’t matter, nothing mattered. He was a Crow, an assassin, a heartless killer.

Under Zea’s soft, knowing gaze, Patlani felt naked. No, not naked, she had seen him naked countless times, countless people had, it didn’t bother him for the most part. He would much rather be naked, much rather just go to bed with Zea like he always did and imagine these last few minutes never happened, at least that would be familiar.

“You don’t seem fine,” Zea said.

That at least Patlani couldn’t argue with.

There was a reason he took so many jobs that were far away from home, there was a reason he took stupidly dangerous jobs, a reason he came to see Zea instead of reporting back after his contract, even when he knew the consequences.

[prest0allay]

Mumbo's base

[owlbelly]

women have been doing the heteropessimism/heterofatalism thing at me for actual decades ("ohhhhh i wish i was a lesbian! men are so awful but i'm straight so what can you do. i guess i can just live alone boo hoo" etc. etc.) & it has always annoyed me but at this point i'm about ready to pop off the next time it happens in person. not only is it weird & disingenuous to say to people you perceive as lesbians but imo it just exposes your absolute shit taste in dudes & lack of imagination

somebody at a zine show earlier this year spent several minutes expounding to me on her zine compiling all the horrible "types" of men she's been on dates with locally & i was like "wow yeah huh. that sucks. sorry that keeps happening to you." she did the straight woman song & dance, ohhh this is my cross to bear, guys are just awful why do i have to be attracted to them! & it was all i could do not to just ask her if she's ever actually tried anything else. not even "have you ever dated a woman" - have you ever been on a date with guy who isn't straight. what about a guy who isn't cis. do you only date guys of a particular age or cultural background? only guys you find in a very specific set of places? what are your criteria for going on a first date with a man, & is it possible that the choices you're making are in fact part of the equation of "all men [in my life] are awful"?

like...i am OBVIOUSLY not some fucking men's rights incel-apologist here, "why do women only want the bad ones, not all men are like that" lmfao nor am i going to argue that the system of patriarchy doesn't result in widespread extremely shitty behavior among a variety of men! possibly even a majority along certain other axes of identity/privilege! but at the same time i am more than a little concerned about how low many straight women's standards seem to be & also how, idk, weirdly attached most "heteropessimist" women still are to normative gender roles & their much-bemoaned status as heterosexual

i do actually think you could try dating women too. or non-binary people. or just different kinds of men! figure out what it actually is that you like - a kind of gender presentation? certain body types/parts? i don't even care i'm not trying to interrogate your preferences i'm just saying, you have probably not exhausted your options & every time you tell me i'm "so lucky" to be queer i am getting this much closer to responding "DON'T DIE WONDERING"

[doberbutts]

Ha, I just had this conversation at work where it is a woman-dominated field (of the 50 or so employees that work there, 4 are men [and that's including me as a trans man] and we also have 1 nonbinary worker) and the straight women at the reception desk were talking about how it sucks to date men and how the two bisexual women were soooooo lucky to be bi (even though one of them is literally engaged to a man??? She is literally still with a man, folks.)

And there was a lot of "men are stinky and don't take care of themselves unlike women" "men aren't emotionally mature and tend to be closed off" "men are dogs and only want sex" and I'm not saying this isn't true, because it is true that many especially cishet white men are really bottom of the barrel level partners... but I am frustrated that this happens because of a system that allows it. These dudes think the behavior is cute and continue to act this way because the world around them does not expect better of them, writing it off as just being how guys are and never once challenging them to be better than that.

While queer men and men of color have their own problems to be sure, I will say there is a reason we see overall less of these complaints in these men specifically because of cultural challenges to men who act like this and a lack of willingness to tolerate this sort of behavior from them. It's not that gay men are inherently better at taking care of themselves, at personal hygiene and emotional maturity, or at regulating sexual need with other forms of closeness in a relationship. It's that a lot of gay culture does not tolerate or write off the bottom of the barrel behaviors that are encouraged by the patriarchy itself, and thus it quickly becomes clear that this behavior is not cute and won't be allowed to continue.

And it also bothers me because never once do these women consider a third possibility to their choice of "become gay" vs "date guys they actually don't like at all" which is: consider queerplationic arrangements. Romantic friendships. Kitchen table poly FWB agreements. A roommate that you may in fact be totally nonsexual with but have a deep and profound soulmate-like bond to share. Or like. Date dudes of different races and sexualities and backgrounds and see if maybe part of your problem is the choosing pool you're in itself.

Literally the bi woman who is engaged to a man stated that actually she had these same problems ***while dating women*** and then knew that her future husband was The One after he handled the discussion of her bisexuality with far more grace than anyone else had ever before. She also stated that previously all of her relationships both man and women had been white, and the dude she's marrying is Vietnamese, and that slight adjustment for race seems to have fixed much of her problems because of, again, a cultural challenge to the behavior she didn't enjoy. AND she is not ignorant to the way her fiance's mother treats him as the specialist boy who has ever existed while being harshly critical of his female relatives- but neither is he, nor is *he* tolerant of that behavior either.

Yes, male privilege and male entitlement are both incredibly frustrating things to deal with as not only oppressive forces but also as an active problem with many women's dating lives. But also treating these as though they are inherent to the men displaying these behaviors rather than challenging those same men to be better is actively contributing to the problem, as it takes all responsibility and accountability away from the problematic men themselves and writes them off with yet more "boys will be boys" mentality.

I do not tolerate this behavior in my romantic partners nor in my friendships. Neither should you. Neither should anyone.

[atrusovaartist]

Acrylic on canvas, Ø 40 cm «Summer Sketch No. 19»

[heavensghost]

You can call it love if you want

[life0verflow]

[lobsided-zine]

Calling All Writers to Apply to Lobsided Zine!

With FIVE DAYS LEFT of the Lobsided Zine contributor application period , we are calling all writers of the Hermitcraft variety ! If you like poetry, prose, lore, annotation or written collaboration we invite you to apply for the Lobsided Zine ! More Info about our project below !

Lobsided Zine is a compendium of the Eastern Lobsters' (False, Joe, Pearl, Ren & Cleo) individual and collective Hermitcraft season 11. We want to catalogue every build, mob, prank and everything in between as an archive and spotlight to this section of the server. If that interests you, please apply to this project!

[flyingrowan]

Grian’s observatory

[stxrr-struckk]

Older Luke on Tatooine

I don’t have a clear idea for this plot but I thought the idea of a post rotj Luke returning to Tatooine (really just an excuse to design an outfit inspired by Tatooine clothing that we’ve seen)

A full version of the design

[julaa-a]

Graphic of the sun eclipse 🌞🌚🌘

[mobius-m-mobius]

#i miss this (insp)

[letoscrawls]

Solar eclipse from Tuscany, Italy :)

[musithical]

god. it is a month out from being a year since a hospital visit that marked a stark change in the course of my life. i feel like i am just now processing the hurricane that swept through my life in the past year:

diagnosed with a life-altering disability that inhibits my ability to work a typical job

nearly got evicted because i couldn't work

had a music project with one of my best friends gain enough traction to sustain me month-to-month

started to take streaming more seriously

actually was living my dream of being able to have music be my job

had to move suddenly and unexpectedly due to my lease not getting renewed

watched my friends slowly drifting apart without knowing why

found out my music partner and best friend was lying to all of us for months

resultingly lost my main source of income and my dream job

genuinely one of the worst years of my life. but in the past two months i have also watched my platform double in size due to all of the support from my friends and the community, and i also released my best performing original song ever.

i'll be real, im really terrified of what i do going forwards. i knew it was coming, but i'm starting to watch royalties from the shared revenue dry up. i have some really exciting projects on the horizon but i still feel more than a little directionless. i just hope i can stay afloat so i can keep doing the things i love. i can't begin to express how much i appreciate all of you who are helping me do that.

[liquidstar]

yknow its interesting how something can impact one demographic in a completely different way than everyone else. in the exorcist when the demon starts speaking in greek, to most people its creepy. but if youre greek and you suddenly start hearing the demon speak perfect fucking greek its genuinely the biggest scare of the movie. you just do not expect to ever hear your language in american movies so it catches you so badly off guard, it feels like the movie is talking directly to you

[pxeachfuzz]

holy cow, i am a liar

[pxeachfuzz]

tumblr had this post hidden because it was “explicit” i guess. it’s back now :) my favorite set i’ve made