yes i have a lot of favorite books. no i cannot read. yes we exist. it’s called “when i was younger i found escapism in books but now music is my escape and all the music i like gave me brainworms”
Saw this on facebook and am keeping the momentum going. I’ve copied all the fundraiser links below, and here’s the link to the original post in case you’d prefer to look at the list that way.
This one has an urgent deadline, August 4th ⬇️
https://gf.me/u/x8y8ak
<p><strong>Short Summary:</strong> I am an individual non-binary pan… Atlas Raymond Ursen needs your support for Disabled Enby Needing Hel
Help me get home, please! $2,324/10,000 《《 high priority
Gender Fluid Human In Need Of Help $1,815/3,500 《《 escaping toxic environment; could use more recent donations
Adopted Trans Woman seeking safety & medical help $17,326/29,000
Shane’s Top Surgery $2,723/7,750 《《 this one has been up for over a year and he’s still waiting
Help J Remove Themselves from Toxic Household $1,667/2,500 《《 needs more contributions
Grace Mwangi’s Gender Confirmation Surgery $3,195/38,000
Nyne’s top surgery $3,016/8,000
Help Grayson start transition $1,236/2,000 《《 keep this going!
Skyler’s Transition Fund €533/3,000 《《 needs more contributions
Londynn’s New Life $8,873/15,000
NYIEMÄ’S GENDER CONFIRMATION FUND $8,795/37,000
Zoeys transition fund £4,667/10,000
Supporting Black Trans Elders cashapp $fakerapper $16,852/100,000
Top Surgery For Yadriel Acazio $1,842/11,000 《《 this one needs a boost
Coco’s Medical Transition Fund $3,500/15,000
Maya’s Transition & Recovery Fund $2,032/35,744 《《 needs more contributions
Help Create Corbyn $2,183/4,000
Flora’s Transition Fund $950/5,000 《《 needs more contributions
Amina Transition And Rent Fund €3,517/5,000
Help Guilly Get Top Surgery!! $3,115/7,500
Atticus’ homeless fund $5,648/10,000 《《 needs a boost
HOUSING FOR TRANS WOMEN OF COLOR $8,217/60,000
Ahren’s Top Surgery $3,976/7,500
Malakai’s Top Surgery $1,444/10,000 《《 needs more contributions
Top Surgery $8,000/8,000 FUNDED!
Community Housing Security $1,147/45,000 《《 needs more contributions
Kiana’s Gender Transition $2,170/35,000
Jacobs top surgery $6,950/8,000
Skye’s Top Surgery $2,057/8,500 《《 surgery is August 10th & he won’t know how much insurance will cover until day of
Hunter’s Top Surgery $5,510/12,000 《《 time sensitive, get this funded before September!
Alexandria’s Transition fund $3,562/40,000 《《 needs a boost
Myles’s Tracheal Shave Procedure $2,990/8,450
Zeke’s Top Surgery Fund $4,544/9,000
help koo start a new life $1,240/25,000 《《 needs more contributions
Landon’s Top Surgery! $1,055/2,000 《《 vital to covering what insurance doesn’t; deadline July 30th (read update)
Donate to Myla’s Breast Augmentation $2,157/6,000
Vanessa L. Naisha needs support to seek justice! $15,000/15,000 FUNDED!
Travis’ Transition Fund $16,845/30,000
Disabled Enby Needing Help For Top Surgery! $3,900/8,500 《《 NEEDS FUNDING BEFORE AUGUST 4TH
Tyler’s Transition Fund $13,918/30,000
Clarabelle’s Gender Affirmation Surgery $10,812/20,000
help deluca get top surgery ! $5,154/7,000
Help Black Trans Woman Transition $19,930/20,900
Wriply’s surgery/ continued living fund $8,832/26,520 《《 this one has been up since 2018. I found Wriply’s socials and she’s still active, still waiting. Let’s get this fulfilled
Help a black trans woman w/ advanced cancer in ATL $22,141/25,000 《《 keep the momentum going
Help Harmony, a Black Trans Woman Survive $7,901/20,000
Help a black trans-man get FTM top surgery! $6,448/15,000
Malikais Top Surgery $4,190/7,500
Finn’s Therapy & Wellness Fund $2,970/7,000
Kyo’s (aka Key) Transition Fund $13,554/25,000
Transition Funds for Dallas $6,930/15,000
Help a Black Trans Woman from homelessness $7,341/10,000 《《 let’s get this goal met asap
Bottom Surgery and Electrolysis $6,449/40,000
Noelle’s Breast Augmentation $11,200/13,000
Aeri’s Moving Out & Transition Fund $15,019/20,000 《《 more than 75%; keep it going
SAVE A TEENAGE TRANSMAN’S LIFE $4,570/25,000
Cody’s Top Surgery $2,758/7,000
Help Kit get Top Surgery $1,845/6,000 《《 needs to be funded before October
Help Erika Begin Her Transition $8,973/10,000
I will periodically update the progress amounts. As the goals are met, I’ll mark them as funded and change the colors from green to pink to make it clear. I’m also tagging the ones that could use more attention with red.
Been hearing a lot about “reparations” lately? Well, this is one way to start working towards that, since those in power certainly won’t.
Remember that time that Zuko got so possessive he hit a guy and Mai dumped him on the spot but also recognized that he’d been through a lot of emotional and physical trauma in his life but still didn’t take him back until he admitted that he had a problem because that was some S-rank relationship writing gosh
the thing i like about the relationships in avatar is the girls are allowed to get upset at the guys they like without being seen as the bad guy. katara gets angry because aang kisses her right after she opens up about feeling confused and aang is downright ashamed, mai is angry because zuko is acting too possessive and zuko is immediately put in the doghouse, and suki is upset because sokka is treating her like shes a damsel in distress when she can hold her own and sokka apologizes for it. now we know from the guys point of view they dont mean harm but they did cause harm and therefore the girls have every right to be upset. this is really important for kids to see so they (especially girls) know they can call out behavior they dont like in a relationship and also learn from the characters they love making mistakes of their own.
having fangs may not be a ‘‘‘necessary’’’ or ‘‘‘wise’’’ addition to my physiology but it would be very, very sexy and therefore i think i deserve them regardless,
The Freddie Gray Law - Assess, Treat, and Safely Transport -signmoveon.org
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Oliver Campbell- change.org
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AJ Mitchell (a boy with autism) - change.org
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Amani Kildea - change.org
Stop the Criminalization of Mentally Ill Black Youth
Equal Maternal Healthcare among Women of Color
Improve Mortality Rates & Health Care for Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Black Women
Demand Equity in Healthcare System
Medical schools must include BAME in clinical teaching (Black and Minority Ethnic)
D’Andre Campbell - change.org
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Marcus Malone - change.org
Darné Brown- change.org
Give Every Patient an Equal Chance to Live: Diversify National Stem Cell Donor Registry -change.org
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Look how nobody’s yelling or arguing or making things into a competition. Look how this is to straight up educate people through a different perspective. Look how effective that makes the message.
Ever think of all the skills that Zuko acquired that had nothing to do with firebending? Most of the skills he picked up had nothing to do with him being a prince either since he gained a lot of his skills after he was banished. Out of all of the members of team Avatar he’s probably one of the most versatile in his talents, and it’s so damn sad that he couldn’t see how amazingly talented he was for all those years because his father made him believe that he was worthless for showing compassion and not being a prodigy like his sister.
This is one of the many reasons I believe that Zuko is such a relatable character. Anyone who has been a victim of verbal and or physical abuse during their childhood knows how it feels to be blinded to your own self worth. An abuser will always make sure to make you think you are nothing in order to gain power over you and keep you in a place where you think you have none.
Zuko is made to feel worthless because of one transgression. His father sends him on what he truly believes is an impossible task, and still Zuko feels worthless because he can’t do the one thing no one else in his family has been able to do; catch the avatar. Yet in trying to capture the Avatar Zuko shows just how determined and skillful he is, but even when he learns that his honor does not depend on capturing the Avatar I still don’t think he can see how talented he is.
As Fire Lord he has the weight of the world on his shoulders and he still probably feels like he has something to prove to the world and that it’s his job to restore honor to the Fire Nation. It’s not something that would allow him to stop and really appreciate all of the skills he’s picked up over the last three years. Seeing his true self worth is something that Zuko will probably always struggle with, but I’d like to think one day he gains the peace of mind to be able to see just how amazingly talented he truly is.
Im not done with the ATLA fandom guys
At first I just wanted to do Zuko and Sokka but my boi Aang doesnt deserve to get left out. I think ill paint these for practice!!
I love that zero relationships are made stronger through conflict in avatar the last airbender. War and oppression only serve to tear relationships apart in the show. I’ve already read some great pieces on the show’s depiction of colonial family dynamics. But the friendships and romances reflect it, too. There are no brothers in arms, no romances ignited because someone is leaving tomorrow for the battlefront.
As far as romantic relationships: Sokka loses Yue and twice has to leave Suki for their duty to the greater good. Katara is too overwhelmed with the conflict to invest in a relationship with Aang, and her first romantic feelings towards a boy are transformed into betrayal when Jet lies to her in his pursuit of justice. And even Zuko twice leaves Mai to pursue his “destiny.” And that’s just the kids. The adults are similarly submerged in devastated romance. We see so many single parents throughout the series. Many have lost their partner to the fire nation army. Some have incarcerated partners like Haru’s mother. Enlistment separates partners, too. And even the most dominating force in the world, Firelord Ozai, loses his partner in his desire for power.
Friendships are similarly prevented from blossoming within a culture of domination. Azula is the most evident example, with her friendships founded on obedience rather than mutual affection blowing up in her face. Zuko, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to have any friends. Those oppressed by the fire nation establish their friendships in moments of safety, when the threat of violence is temporarily absent. “Do you want to go penguin sledding with me?” That’s the beginning of a friendship. They do not become friends fighting together. That is allyship. Look at The Blue Spirit. Zuko and Aang can fight together for a common cause, but this is not the shape of friendship. Even relationships between different marginalized groups are fraught with tensions founded in the imperial violence they’ve confronted. When Aang visits the Northern Air Temple, he is distraught over the desecration of the temple by the earth kingdom refugees. The violence they’ve each faced puts them in conflict with one another rather than providing a possible sense of kinship. It’s even more complicated when it comes to befriending across the lines of the oppressor and oppressed. Despite their affinity for one another and aligned goals, Zuko and Aang cannot truly establish their friendship until the system of domination is eliminated. Friendship is a dynamic between equals, and ATLA asks whether you can actually be friends across these lines if society refuses to be equitable. Friendships and romance depend not on conflict to deepen them but an active peacefulness.
When people talk about Avatar writing relationships poorly, I think maybe consider that the relationships weren’t actually supposed to be building up in any kind of traditional way in the show. I think ATLA was precisely focused on relationships being broken and sometimes even empty because of conflict. It’s only the last episode that’s meant to show the beginnings of things, the consummation of hope. For the first time there’s the possibility for these relationships to mean something rather than almost inevitably ending in tragedy.
“Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed through us, failed to spoil us.” —Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
I love people with obscure knowledge or useless academic insights. I want to hear your analysis of lighting in Ratatouille. Tell me about the history of soda pop or the references to classical mythology in Macbeth. I want to know about the underlying homoerotic context of that 1930s sci-fi paperback. I think all knowledge is worthwhile knowledge. Explain to me the ecosystems that komodo dragons inhabit. Don’t be afraid to learn for the sake of learning.
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