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daise, 20, he/hym, white, disabled. spotify! carrd! header description: a screenshot from the game ‘night in the woods’, in which mae stands in a dark attic, staring up at a painting of the black goat. /end id icon description: a closeup of gareth and neil campesinos performing. gareth's hand is cradling neil's face. the lighting creates a purple-to-red gradient. /end id

[heartslobbf]

[ID 1: black text reading “have you ever killed something good for you just to be certain that you’re the reason you can no longer have it?”

ID 2: a frame from the anime ‘revolutionary girl utena’. anthy is stabbing utena through the back /end ID]

larrissa pham, abject permanence / revolutionary girl utena (1997)

[heartslobbf]

new amv that ive been working on for almost a year now because it was very hard and stuff. um. it feels good to post it finally. stay safe watching since it’s probably one of my heavier ones

[werewolf-transgenderism]

I grant you refuge from hurt and suffering.

With words of sacred scripture I shield the oranges from the sting of phosphorous and the shades of cloud from the smog.

I grant you refuge in knowing that the dust will clear, and they who fell in love and died together will one day laugh.

“I Grant You Refuge” by Hiba Abu Nada (trans. Huda Fakhreddine)

[stil-lindigo]

I am so sorry to bother you with this stupid question, but Bisan has asked for a complete stop in economic activity. Can I still donate to help Palestinians or is it better to avoid any transactions for the week ? Thank you so much for what you're doing

hello anon. don't apologise, you're a breath of fresh air after the recent visitors in my inbox. I think a slightly more accurate description of Bisan’s ask is to stop or minimise all economic activity not in direct support of Palestine. Now more than ever, I would encourage people to donate to escape funds for Palestinians, to direct aid organisations like CareforGaza and the PCRF, and to buy e-sims as they’re running low.

Below I’ve compiled a list of resources below but this is definitely just a small sample size of what you can do to help during this strike. This post here is an extremely comprehensive resource that I’d recommend you have a look at.

credible organisations that are doing work on the ground in Palestine:

Care for Gaza:non-profit charity that distributes money, food and other resources directly to families in Gaza.They maintain a regular presence on Twitter and Instagram. You can donate to them via Paypal here.

PCRF / Palestine Children's Relief Fund: non-profit organisation that distributes essential food and resources to families in Gaza. Most recently, they delivered 30 tons of vital medicine, and 82,000 pounds of flour.

Medical Aid For Palestinians: deploys medical teams to treat Palestinians suffering under Israel's malicious bombardments.

Donate e-sims to Palestine: massive post with tutorials and relevant links, with discount codes included in the post and in the replies.

help people leave palestine (donate what you can)

Help a Family Evacuate Gaza (GoGetFunding)

Save Sanaa and her Family (Gofundme)

Save Amjad Saher and his family (Gofundme)

Help a family of 13 escape Gaza (Gofundme)

Help a Palestinian children's book illustrator save her family of 12 (Gofundme)

[stil-lindigo]

frankly, the people whose kneejerk reaction to bisan asking for a global strike form the 21st-28th is to say that it takes years to organize a general strike are really unhelpful! no one is saying otherwise, but palestine will be a smoking crater if we all wait for years to do anything - bisan is asking us to do something now. Like are we only supposed to do something if we can do it perfectly??? At some point it’s a valid critique about the work that goes into social movement, and at another point I feel like some people are just trying to absolve themselves from not putting any effort into observing a week of economic inaction.

like idk! I get it, okay! People have bills to pay that don’t magically go away for a strike, we don’t have nearly enough social infrastructure in place to support people to fully stop going to work for a week. But fuck, dude! Stop immediately responding in such a defeatist way! Cut out unnecessary purchases! Try to shop local! Put more effort into promoting Palestinian voices online! Attend a protest, call a local rep, do something!

[cock-holliday]

Ultimately, the context of this (these) calls are different than ignorant calls for a general strike in the past for a few reasons:

1. It is being called for by someone affected by the situation. Social media calls in the past have often been called by people unconnected to the struggle or without any sort of connections to the work or others involved in the fight. Who are you calling for a strike? What is your role? Which gets into

2. Demands. With these calls for a strike, there are specific demands coming out for those in power to respond to. It’s not general dissatisfaction with capitalism, it’s not vague response to bigotry and oppression, there are goals. Ceasefire. Flow of humanitarian aid. End of occupation.

3. Very crucially, there is a spectrum for what is included in the general strike and a blatant recognition of how there isn’t time to prepare. Take off work (if you can), don’t go to school (if you can), don’t spend money (if you can), keep up pressure and protest (if you can), amplify Palestinian voices and sources, continue boycotting.

“Well I can’t call off work.” Neither can I, but there are items on the list I CAN do. Many people can’t attend protests but can pressure their reps. Many can’t pressure reps but can spread word on social media. Or financially support Palestinians. Or babysit for someone going to a rally. Or or or.

My law school once had a walkout. Those who couldn’t walk out wore something to show support. Signed petitions later. Pressured admin. If you “can’t do anything,” show support for those who can.

This is NOT the same as disorganized naive calls for strikes with no goals, no planning, and no thought.

Do not treat them the same if you cannot do everything asked. And do not waste your time asking Palestinians to forgive you for what little you can do when you could be doing any of the shit on this list instead.

[txttletale]

if i think there's one thing i would want to personally impart upon every person becoming radicalized towards socialism right now its that its vital that marxist, materialist, class-based explanations supersede conspiratorial explanations in your worldview, not just add a spicy bit of flavor on top of them

[txttletale]

if your takeaway from socialism (or "leftism") is just "corporations are bad" without understanding the structural elements of the concepts of class struggle and class solidarity or "the usa is bad" without understanding the structural elements of imperialism and the world-system, you will just end up being a conspiracy theorist. a conspiracy theorist who thinks that spotify released wrapped to distract from the gazan genocide, rather than a conspiracy theorist who thinks that bill gates is putting 5g in the vaccines, but a conspiracy theorist nonetheless.

[furryprovocateur]

i'm not into puppy "play". to me it's puppy serious.

[sourdough-seal]

“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

[kitchen-light]

Lit Hub has posted an article with the names, photos and biographies of the Palestinian poets and writers killed by the IOF since the beginning of October. May we remember them, their names & their poems 🍉🕊🍓🪁

"Since October 7, Israel has killed at least thirteen Palestinian poets and writers in Gaza.

If we think of ourselves as a global literary community, then these people were our fellow travelers, our peers.

They—just like the more than 66 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza in the line of duty; just like every one of the more than 21,000 innocent people massacred in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel over the past 75 days—deserve to be remembered."

[firstfullmoon]

the article notably quotes the poem “Life” by Saleem Al-Naffar, killed in an Israeli airstrike on Dec. 7: “Knives might eat / what remains of my ribs, / machines might smash / what remains of stones, / but life is coming, / for that is its way, / creating life even for us.”

[xeppelinsfw]

gotta take this stupid ass piss before going to bed

[streetlight-halo-deactivated202]

don’t believe in love or you’ll have to admit that it surrounds you

[grendelsmilf]

various utena doodles

[alkcomics]

I love all of them so far

[asofterutena]

(something smells rotten and it's starting to spread)

[tinfoilvalentine]

HI. Amv… TAKE TWO. Honestly I think I’ve improved so much and I’m super proud of this one :))

[homeboygirl]

theres something abt those cunty 90s anime men thats so alluring i think it was all the estrogen they were putting in the water

[homeboygirl]

how i look with he/him in my bio

[aguadyne]

adding my own unfortunately all the characters I could think of are blond .

[brite-eyed]

Adding some of my own.

[spiribia]

rgu beach filler episode where chu-chu gets into a fullblown war against a crab, juri reveals she’s also a professional swimmer, utena accidentally hits nanami in the face with a volleyball, & saionji gets mysteriously lost in a sea cave and only reemerges 15 episodes later. the episode ends with a scene of anthy standing in the shallows looking out at sea as the sun is falling and utena coming up next to her and going ‘You arent going to swim? the water’s really nice’, and anthy admitting “Im scared of getting swept away from shore…”, & utenas like “I wouldnt let you get swept away from shore” and reaches for her hand. anthy holds her hand because utena doesn’t really get it still. theres a shot of them just standing there silhouetted looking out into the vast distance until it cuts to credits