Even the uni students are doing their level best to continue studying! The isnad foundation and the ihyaa foundation are both fundraising to support uni students continue their studies. Isnad works in the north, ihyaa on the south, and yeah i do mean north and south ghazzah.
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Tl;dr how you can personally make Neil Gaiman lose money (and not be a jerk to others.)
I see a lot of folks upset that NG will financially benefit from residuals and other compensation surrounding his involvement in the adaptation of Sandman and Good Omens (and he will.) But the answer isn’t “rage at the fans who are so emotionally attached to their blorbos because they grieve differently, and then somehow NG will be financially punished.” That’s lower-class/middle-class thinking. NG is too rich and financially diversified to really be hurt by little boycott or a couple of show cancellations (though said cancellations can cause life-changing poverty to the little guys who signed contracts and turned down other opportunities before all of this came out. Boy does NG love women in poverty 🤮)
So if you want to substantially reduce the wealth of someone at NG’s financial level—you need to do it with professional services fees.
Details below the cut:
The firm that NG has apparently engaged for online reputation management (ORM), called edendale, was once paid for their professional testimony in an unrelated slander lawsuit, which was delivered in the form of a report (2) outlining the strategy ORM firms use and (2) just how ludicrously expensive those professional services cost. (Credit to horrornobody77 for digging up the report.) We’re talking hundred of thousands of dollars for a small potatoes case, where NG’s could easily get into the millions for ORM and associated legal fees.
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It’s not that long of a read, but to summarize the key action items you can take:
📆 -ORMs wait for the discourse to die down, because active discourse is much more expensive to counter. Wanna cost NG money? Talk about the accusations over time. Set a quarterly calendar event in your phone to remind yourself to post (and otherwise engage on other people’s posts) about the Vulture article. This needs to happens for years, so that NG has to pay for more comprehensive ORM and for longer.
✅-Make discourse that is Google-friendly. Use the words edendale will find concerning (they’re already running fluff pieces with the terms Neil Gaiman Uncovered to try and bury the similarly named subreddit.) If you just post a link without much comment, it’s not gonna be prioritized by search engines. Similarly, if you make a low effort post and then no one else engages with it—it’s not going to make it to the top ten search results. Engage with each other, for heaven’s sake!
🦾-Don’t let the fluff sit unaddressed. If you see random bot posts sharing NG quotes captioning random fantasy art (possibly AI or misattributed /stolen) with the comments turned on? Respond! Make it hard for the bots to understand your comment but easy for humans. “Nice quote! Mega bummer about what NG did, I used to really like him,” is hard for a bot to auto-delete. “Fuck NG,” is practically doing the bot’s autodelete command for it.
✍️ -If/when you post fan works for properties strongly related to Neil Gaiman, leave a lil callout in the author’s notes. Nothing that will get you sued, just a few words like: “I would definitely personally choose to not ever meet Neil Gaiman at a comic con.” Maybe throw in a link to your fav tumblr summary.
Anyway, to the person being paid hundreds or thousands of dollars per hour by Neil Gaiman for professional services—you’re welcome for the extra billable hours 😘
Also Edendale sounds like a law firm in a Good Omens legal AU fic, and I can’t believe it’s real.
I've reblogged this like 20 times but knowing he's suing one of his victims has made me come back to do it some more because fuck him. How very fucking dare he.
its fucked up to see people who are around my age live through a genocide and have to market themselves as someone worthy of being saved to get people to donate to them.
it just seems so dehumanising. like is one supposed to worry about their current conditions or think up new marketing strategies.
no aid has been allowed in gaza in 70+ days. people are starving. it's so messed up to have to market oneself during all this in order to afford food.
it's heartbreaking to see young children going without proper food and nutrition.
please help @abdalsalam2000. he's around my age and has nieces and nephews who are very young. they don't deserve to go hungry. his old gofundme was deleted without any reason and he's trying very hard to advocate for his family's survival. please have heart and help him in WhatsApp way you can.
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i don't know how to phrase this but it feels so horrible seeing palestinians having to request strangers here for donations. they are having to put photos of their kids in hopes that it tugs the heartstrings of someone who sees it and then donates to them.
we've seen nearly 20 months of genocide and we've lost so many thousand people from gaza. i genuinely do not understand anyone who doesn't feel genuine heartache and grief for palestine.
gaza was so full of life and light. it physically hurts to see the aftermath of the destruction led by the occupation. homes and schools and hospitals and parks are all rubble now.
despite all this death and destruction, palestinians are trying to survive and maintain hope for the future.
i request you to donate to alaa amsse, a mother of two young children. she is fundraising to feed her family and take care of basic necessities. there is a famine and she needs firewood to keep her family warm. her fundraiser has been verified.
i can’t stop thinking about adriana smith. when roe was overturned i knew things were going to get hellish but turns out 50 years of scientific innovation means an entire new branch of soul crushing horror stories are now possible. we can’t possibly keep pretending we’ve advanced gender and racial equality when we’re using a dead black woman’s body as an incubator for a fetus. a society that does that is a failed society. fuck man im trying to hold on to some measure of hope here but its so hard.
i’ve seen hardly anybody on tumblr talking about this. say her fucking name. she was 30 years old. she was a nurse and is survived by a 7 year old son.
and yes, of course her family is responsible for the cost of keeping her on life support for three months and counting. her mother set up a g/f/ndme to help with the bills. please consider giving if you’re in a position to, they’ve barely raised $3600 at this point.
This journey has been deeply saddening and heartbreaking since F… April Newkirk needs your support for Help Adriana's Family During This Hea
And in case you dont know any of the details, she presented with severe headaches in the ER multiple times at 8wks pregnant. They refused to do CT/MRI/any other examination to check for a more severe issues because she was pregnant and it would risk causing a miscarriage, as would the surgery that potentially could have prevented her brain death. At 9 weeks she was found unresponsive at home, likely due to a stroke, and was later pronounced brain dead, but because she was 9 weeks pregnant, Georgia law is being used to justify this, because to do otherwise would constitute an abortion, which only allows for abortion after 6 weeks for cases of rape, incest, or protecting the life of the mother. Bc Adriana is brain dead, thus legally dead, her health does not need to be taken into account beyond what is required for the baby.
And Ed Setzler, one of the authors of Georgia's anti-abortion bill, is applauding this decision as the correct one, despite the fact that the now 21-22 week old fetus is developing in an unprecedented situation that actually is not good for it. Adriana's body is unable to maintain homeostasis or the hormones needed to sustain a pregnancy. Her organs are (slowly) rotting as a result. There is already evidence of hydroencephaly in the fetus, and it is uncertain if the fetus will survive to 31/2 weeks (the current gestational target) or for long after birth.
"Genocide spoils any discussion. There is no room for discussion about the destruction, the death, and the cruelty. After more than a year and a half of war on Gaza. even in these banal and horrific circumstances, I believe that what remains is a continuing glimmer of hope for the people of Gaza, What motivates many of them to reach out to the world is the support that people around the world have shown and continue to show. That's why I'm here on behalf of Sally Gabriel (@sally2033) family and asking you to help them survive. It won't take much of your time, so please read :
Sally and her husband, Nader, currently support three children, the youngest of whom is Ahmed, who can barely find enough to eat due to the high prices of baby formula in Gaza. They also support several other family members. The family is now in need of food due to the widespread famine there. Sally's family is from the north and has been displaced several times. Displacement is dangerous and a silent killer, as basic supplies are often lost and cannot be replaced in a timely manner.
Please note that food prices have become extremely expensive, which represents a tragic situation for the people of Gaza. The most urgent need now is for flour. Sally needs donations to save her family from the war and provide for their basic needs. Please support the campaign and donate.
Hello everyone, my name is Sahar! I am organizing this fundraiser on behalf of a dear friend of mine in Gaza and his family. I have been tal
Please remember that every donation, even if it is 5 dollars, is a ray of hope for the families who have lost everything."
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Fairly simple piece for May, but sometimes simple is enough.
I kept the character rough and used some photo editing for part of the background. I should remember to use photos more in my work, I think they often add an interesting effect! I also really like the colour palette on this one. Quote in the middle by Vincent Van Gogh.
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