here's all the fingerloop braids i made today! i've made several others but i was really happy with today's results. they are all bracelet length, with loops on one side and two long fish-tail braided tails on the other, so they can be tied for a variety of wrist sizes :~)
top to bottom:
five strand flat braid in browns & greens
seven strand flat braid in rainbow
seven strand flat braid in shades of blue
seven strand flat braid in a slightly different rainbow
eight strand bend/twist, one "side" in two shades of red and the other in two shades of blue
seven strand flat braid in an attempt at the lesbian flag colors (will go for darker pinks next time!)
another blue seven strand flat braid
six strand bend/twist, one "side" in black and the other in rainbow (this effect was achieved by making each colorful loop out of two colors)
i learned about fingerloop braiding and had my first try on saturday, it's tuesday now. i have become a little obsessed. i've learned a lot today about starting order of colors, how to tension better, and tricks for getting more colors than strands!
i encourage everyone looking for a fun, inexpensive, satisfying hobby to pick this up. all it takes is at least five strands of thread, an anchor (safety pin works), and your hands! it's very repetitive, once you get the pattern and rhythm down it FLIES. for me it's like stimming, very relaxing.
please try something new, like fingerloop braiding!!! you can make a whole bracelet in like 30 minutes!!!!!!
Hello my brothers Please, if your blog is strong and you have followers, share and write something Note please
They bombed the place in front of us, one of my relatives was injured and two others were martyred, please Help me out before something happens to me.
I do all kinds of things to help my family, even days when I deprive myself of food to save it for others How do you feel when you are hungry How do you feel
Please put yourself in my shoes what would you have done I feel stuck I can't do anything and I'm sad about the people who used to talk to me but left me why why did I do something wrong please tell me
Please can you focus on my campaign a little bit please you are our only hope I swear to you that I escape death miraculously every day
Hey my friends Or even my brothers, consider me like your little brother, consider me part of your family. Please, if you need my help, send me a message on this account
This is Ibrahim's campaign that I have highlighted before. He needs more people to bring attention to his gofundme because the traction does not match the amount of notes that the posts get!
Please share the link above to your socials and consider sending at least 5 euro.
curious about other people's families - specifically the age differences of siblings! if you have one sibling, answer accounting for their age. if you have multiple siblings, answer based on the one that is most different in age to you. (ie, if you have a brother two years older than you, but a sister four years younger, choose four years.)
what's the age difference between you and your sibling?
While most of the arguments attacking the legitimacy of palestinian gfms and the people who verify them seem to boil down to the plain racism and the discomfort with having to think of palestinians as anything other than faceless statistics on your phone or tv screens instead of real living people who want to talk to us, there is a strain of of it that i find more aggravating than anything else.
[image i.d.: senatortedcruz, 6d ago: Friends I will be honest I don't think real life Gazans are taking time out of their day to make brand new tumblr blogs then send asks to big bloggers asking for money.]
This makes my blood boil for a couple of reasons:
FIRSTLY, there is the assumption that palestinians were somehow never on the internet before. The smear campaign against shahed began literally after some users found it impossible to believe that she was a real person who loves photography and to talk to me about her art and how important it was to her. This was IN SPITE of me linking her Instagram that has existed long before October 7th 2023 and has over 6k followers specifically there for her art, which they would have found easily if they had cared to actually read my posts about her.
This is nothing new, because it has always been the general assumption from users in the imperial core that you don't think we from the global south can exist on the internet and see all the shit you say and have opinions about it– but it never stops being shocking to me how thoroughly you are ready to pretend we aren't real people every time. We are directly seeing the results of that wilful ignorance manifest itself cruelly against palestinians in their time of need today.
And then SECONDLY comes the fact that they aren't entirely wrong– reaching out to us on the internet in the middle of a genocide IS insanely hard. There are constant network outages due to the incessant bombing, people have lost their homes and livelihoods, they have lost so much of their friends and families, they are sick and injured, they are struggling just to find any food or any clean water. A lot of people either lost their cellphones while fleeing violence or probably had to sell them and pick cutting themselves off from the world and each other over starving. They are experiencing atrocities beyond our comprehension. A lot of people have given up, especially in the face of the apathy they see from the rest of the world to what they are going through. But that doesn't mean everyone has and that they aren't reaching out to us anyway, often at great cost to themselves, because it is a matter of survival.
Shahed has told me that she has had to struggle a lot to reach out to us. Finding places where there is internet connection is very hard, and she often has to risk going by active combat zones to get a good enough reception to talk to me and others here she has befriended. The danger is even more so at night, and she has told me about how afraid she is at those times because of the presence of iof quadcopters in the area. Sometimes she is able to come by internet connection at night from someone with some solar cells nearby her tent now that running electricity has become so hard to come by in gaza, but she has to pay a high fee to get it from them, dipping into the meagre funds her family has saved for food and water instead.
Every single message that reaches us from gaza comes with a sacrifice we can't even begin to understand.
The cost she has to pay both literally and in terms of the dangers to her life to reach out to us are extremely high, but she still does it all because she is the sole provider for her family of seventeen right now– especially her little siblings Rafif and Masa, who are suffering from severe hepatitis right now and urgently need to get out of gaza so that they can seek treatment in egypt; and her months old nephew who was born just weeks before the genocide began and has no access to baby food or diapers right now.
It GALLS me to see people try to call her a liar for being able to have an internet connection at ALL when i know just how hard she had to fight to get it.
Just because YOU are unable to imagine yourself in that situation when you are in your comfortable homes with an easily available connection, DOESN'T mean there aren't people who are willing to fight to be heard and get the help they deserve. And of course, this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the struggle that comes with crowdfunding when you are in gaza.
Your “cynicism” comes from a place of privilege and doesn't help anyone. You are only insulting all the palestinians who work so hard every day to reach out to us, all so some truly heartless people can call them bots or scams for being able to reach out to anyone at all.
WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. SHAHED HAS TO REACH 80K WITHIN THIS WEEK TO EVACUATE HER WHOLE FAMILY.
WE HAVE ONLY JUST CRACKED 68K/80K, AND THERE IS STILL A LONG WAY TO GO.
Have you ever experienced seeing your dream broken in front of your eyes and not being able to do … Shahed Muhammad needs your support for H
Please donate to and share Shahed's fundraiser as widely as possible. Take it to your whatsapp groups, to your discord servers, your instagram stories. Repost her story and her photography, repost the link to the raffle at @journalsforpalestine wherever you have reach because there is only so much i can do with the deadline looming so close to us.
This CANNOT wait. You've gotten her this far, let's get her through this last stretch too.
[Image ID: Screenshot from GoFundMe with a title that reads "Help My Congolese Family Flee genocide". Attached to it is a picture of a black woman with long hair, with a tree and a building behind her. Enya-Zura Citeya-Kanjinga is organizing this campaign and it has gathered $9,305 CAD from its $20,000 goal as of the making of this post, June 20th, 2024. /End ID]
This GFM was shared by youtubers Tirrrb and Elliot Sang and I would like to bring more attention to it. Please help escape a congolese family from genocide and reunite them with their family members. Donate if possible and share ❤️🇨🇩
Link:
I'm a Congolese dyke refugee. My mom, dad and siblings and myself fle… Enya-Zura Citeya-Kanjinga needs your support for Help My Congolese Fa
yayyyy juneteenth pride month crossover!!!! i'm a black gay bitch and an artist with no consistent income due to disability and burnout, and i've been waiting to receive my disability ALJ hearing decision for 4 months. if anyone who has the means wants to toss a few bucks my way today it'd mean a lot to me, my phone bill's gonna be due soon!
all pay links are @ confettikai , also my new portfolio URL is kairobinsonart.crrd.co ! thanks in advance!!
help a mixed Black trans person stay afloat this pride month!
ill keep my ting brief:
i have moderate ME/CFS, but was forced to transition back into hourly wage labor to at least Try and cover some of our expenses so we dont have to ebeg as much. unfortunately i dont get paid for a while and need help staying fed+covering essentials. folks can chip in via one of these three links, my wife and i's shared links, or by getting something off our registry.
if you can't chip in, reblogging is VERY much appreciated, but please dont tag this with "signal boost"/"donation" or anything of the sort. any attempts at doing so or condescending to me about this very basic thing i am asking in the reblogs or tags WILL result in a block.
$70/$200 for groceries/pain management! im on my period (which causes all of my chronic illness symptoms to flare), so its kind of Really important that i get this $ asap so i can afford food+meds to keep me from an emergency room trip i cant afford lol. please chip in if u can.
My name is Noor, a mother of three from Gaza. We were forced to flee south due to the war, and my husband was injured in his shoulder. We have moved several times seeking safety. I have started a fundraising campaign to protect my children and family. We need your support to provide safety and basic needs.
Every donation, no matter how small, makes a significant difference. If you cannot donate, please help by sharing our story so it reaches those who can assist،.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart🌷.
https://gofund.me/7c5e98b0
(Verified fundraiser)
Hello Noor!
Everyone, please help this family, they've literally only received one donation so far! Their goal is to raise €40K. Please donate if you can and share their fundraiser around.
Hello,
I'm Nour Alanqar, and reaching out to you during a… Nour Alanqar needs your support for Rebuilding Live: A Mother's Plea for Hope
So. The past couple of months have been challenging as hell. I injured my leg which made everyday functioning a Herculean task, I'm dealing with the trauma of having to leave, having my life threatened, having an Actual Nazi publicly harass me, a couple other health scares, and complete isolation and abjection from society. Not to mention, the yt qr person who i moved in with (who Knew I was fleeing an abusive situation) decided to completely pull the rug under me and move out mere Weeks after I have settled. He claimed he was trying to help another person who was struggling, then dropped on me that said person's father allegedly gifted them 80k as penance for his neglect. I wish I was making this up. So now I'm technically squatting in an unfamiliar place with no clue as to when I will be completely evicted, if such a thing happens before I find new lodging.
Please, don't wait for someone else to step up and take action. Please, as an ally, as an accomplice to victims and black people, do what you can to help me.
As a rule of thumb, don't reblog donation posts or people asking for donations unless they've been vetted and reblogged by Palestinian bloggers. We usually go to lengths to verify this shit because we know scammers have been faking to get people to send them money, using the urgency of our genocide as bait.
It's disgusting this is what we're dealing with, but people are losing money because of some truly evil people out there.
Accounts don't just randomly spring up on tumblr without gofundmes while asking for someone to help them create a campaign. Fuck out of here with that shit.
I'm also gonna stop listing the reasons why I recognize something is a scam. It's becoming more and more clear there is 1 person behind this STRING of scams and they're leaving less trails behind but it still reeks of them and their MO.
DO NOT TRUST ANY GOFUNDME OR REQUEST FOR CROWDFUNDING THAT PALESTINIAN BLOGGERS HAVEN'T VERIFIED.
At this point I'm fine receiving a bunch of inbox messages asking me to vet x y z so y'all can avoid this shit. But please have some critical thinking!
Whether you wanna read the whole thing or not idc.
REBLOG IT.
The person this was about deleted the 4th or 5th scam account they made and are definitely gonna make a new one soon. I don't want anybody falling for this anymore.
We have suffered greatly from fear, displacement, and the destruction of our home and my clinic, and everything we literally own...
We want to save ourselves from what seems like an inevitable death.
I hope you can take a look at my campaign on the pinned post on my profile ,and help us by donating or sharing our campaign to reach the largest number of supporters.🌹🌹
Our campaign is verified by @90-ghost , @ibtisams , @el-shab-hussein , @nabulsi and @fairuzfan 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Thanks a lot in advance ❤️❤️❤️
my deepest condolences to you and your family during this horrific time.
i double-checked the vetting provided and can confirm this fundraiser is legitimate.
The siege and lack of nutrition in Gaza are destroying the bodies of our children, Muhammad and Sham
Especially after the tightening of the siege and the closure of the crossings
Our children suffer from malnutrition and a health disaster
All aspects of life have become difficult for them, especially education, as they are at the most important stage in their lives in terms of establishing a foundation in learning.
And Joseph was born in a tent and in difficult and harsh circumstances
His mother moves from one place to another during the last months of pregnancy
Youssef was born, and relief has not yet come to Gaza, as they are still suffering from lack of nutrition and all the necessities of life
Displaced for the fourth time ..
Youssef birth was by dee… Mahmoud Balousha needs your support for HelpYoussef and his family get out of
