today (27 Jan) is International Holocaust Memorial Day, so I've compiled a list of charities you can donate to which help to preserve European Jewish culture as well as supporting living Jewish communities, especially in Eastern Europe, as a way to honour victims of the Holocaust both by preserving their memory and by supporting the European Jewish communities that the Nazis aimed to destroy.
- YIVO; founded in Vilne, Lithuania in 1925 and now based in New York, is one of the largest organisations for the preservation and education of Yiddish, as well as hosting the largest archive of Eastern European Jewish materials (23 million items) - including many which were rescued from Nazi book-burning by Jewish resistance. It is the ONLY prewar Jewish library and archive to have survived the Holocaust.
- World Jewish Relief, formed during the Holocaust by the UK Jewish community to aid the evacuation of German Jews. The majority of their modern day work focuses on aiding vulnerable Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. They also provide aid to refugees, disabled and elderly people, and respond to international disasters across the world.
- The Yiddish Book Centre hosts an online archive of hundreds of digitised Yiddish books (many with translations), as well as a video oral history archive with 1000+ Jewish people of all ages and backgrounds telling their own stories, many in Yiddish (with subtitles). They also train new Yiddish translators and run lectures, education programs, film screenings, music festivals, and the world's first Yiddish museum.
- The Together Plan supports post-Soviet Jewish communities, especially in Belarus due to the current instability there. As well as supporting Jewish communities with aid, education, and community building; they also record and translate Holocaust testimonies, preserve Jewish graveyards, and run education on Jewish Belarus.
- The European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative works to preserve and restore Jewish cemeteries, particularly in countries whose Jewish populations were decimated by the Holocaust, which left cemeteries to be vandalised and fall into decay. This is an important act in honouring the dignity of the dead, as well as witnessing and preserving the presence of lost European Jewish life.
If you have no money to spare, consider spending some time browsing the testimony and history hosted on YIVO and the Yiddish Book Centre as an act of memorial.
YALL... help me out where in the world wold dainseilf be in a high school!au, it's not like he'd be just a regular student but he can't be apart of the students council nor can he be a diluent so where is he gonna be?
I guess he would be an exchange student but like???
Summary — in the caption + modern AU + gn!reader with bad memory + established realtionship
Cw — none :))
Genre — fluff
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“I’m outside do you have everything?”
a soft notification came from your phone as you saw the text from albedo, he’s stated that he was outside your residence, better get a move on!
While you stroll down your stairs checking over if you're missing anything due to your forgetful memory, it really was a pain in the ass sometimes do you know how many trips back you had to take because you forgot something, because of that albedo developed a habit of coming with you on certain trips. well, no time to waste, sliding open the car door and taking a seat.
“Do you have everything?”
“Yes I made sure!”
“Even your credit card?”
“Shit. lemme get i-”
“No need, I was planning on paying anyway.”
“No wait, don’t tell me I forgot something important again, is it my birthday?’”
“Ahah, no it’s not your birthday, I simply just want to pay. There’s no problem is there?”
“No, not at all.”
“Great.”
The slightest smile appeared on his face, he’s the sweetest thing ever. You swear this man has no idea how much you adore him not to mention how happy he made you. His smile, his eyes down to his everything there wasn’t a thing about this man that wasn’t absolutely breathtaking. You dared to say it even the way this man looks at you was utter perfection. How he made you feel like or why you even feel like this is all a blur but you assume it to be this thing called love. Your in love, you’re in love with him.
“[name] are you ok? You’ve been staring for quite a while.”
“Nothing, it’s just you.”
“Me?”
“Yes you! Your face, your eyes everything it’s nice to just look at you.”
“I’m unaware of where that came from but thank you, I take your compliments quite dearly.”
A nice moment between both of you, you wish things could stay like this forever. It’s peaceful you like it. Not to fear though you knew somehow this wouldn’t be the end of these comforting domestic moments but it would be the end of this one seeing as you were at your destination.
“Were here.”
“I can see that I have a bad memory, not eyesight.”
“I was just checking. You never know, one day I might have to drag you to the ophthalmologist.”
“ oh please if anyone here needs glasses it’s you!”
“I’ve checked multiple times before and my vision is at an optimal standard.”
“Whatever makes you sleep at night!”
Asideing the married couple bickering you two had just gone through, you stepped out of the car looking over the list but you feel something dripping on your head a liquid like substance falling on your head.
“bedo it’s raining!”
“I’m well aware, do you believe me when I say you need glasses now?”
“Nope, not at all!”
“What is my explanation not good enough for you?”
“I just don’t need glasses, we should go inside instead of standing here like weirdos”
“As you say”
Walsting over to the grocery store albedo hands you his umbrella, you didn’t say anything just giving him a soft smile in appreciation, times like this were wonderful love without interruption is such a blissful feeling and you were even more ecstatic about the fact that you were doing this with him. The clashing and rolling of the carts didn’t bother you at all it was a familiar sound Mabey even a comforting one, was it, or maybe everything like a daydream, when bedo, ’s around.
“Now that we’re here do you have the list?”
“Mhm just like you said!”
“Lovely.”
A long 34 minutes of asking albedo if you could get stuff but who was he to deny you and honestly he doesn’t mind doing this with you, maybe he even likes doing arbitrary things with you, albedo loving something other than Klee and science now that was unheard of! I mean until he met you, who knew the scientist would be in love with such random domestic activity certainly not him, but yet still these small moments with you meant everything to him.
“Albedo what do you think of eggos waffles?”
“Eggo what?”
“Eggo waffles! They’re basically just waffles.”
“If you like them we can get them.”
Walking back over to the self-serve cashier machine laying out all the stuff you bought which to a while since you had quite a bit of stuff in your cart.
“That will be $462.54!~”
Looking at the alarmingly large number on the screen you lifted your hand to grab some stuff from the shopping cart.
“Sorry bedo ill put this ba-”
A fell a sudden pressure on your wrist stops you from picking up any more items.
“What are you doing I said id pay remember?”
“Well yes I remember that’s quite a lot of money especially since non of this stuff is specifically for you”
‘Yes, it’s not for me because this is your shopping trip.”
“Will you let me pay you back after?”
“No.”
After those words, you heard a beep and a robotic voice.
“Your purchase is completed thank you for shopping!~”
“Albedo!”
“But you said you’d let me pay?”
“Yeah, not 400 usd!”
“Well, it’s not like we can reverse it now how about I drive you back now.”
‘We’re leaving already? But the air feels so cool!”
“If you want an air conditioner I can bu-”
“Nope! No more spending lets go”
Walking back over into the rain with bags and finally settling into the car. a peaceful drive home even though you and albedo go back and forth it was never serious, just another thing to love about him. The street light flashing buy as you pace by the night sky has never looked better you see things start to slow down as the street become more familiar oh you were home!
Both stepping out of the car albedo offered to help you with packing out the stuff seeing as to the sheer amount of them. carrying on with some nice meaningless conversations that you still valued all because they were with him, and he thought the same about albedo was not the talkative time talking with you was something he quite enjoyed.
“Ok that's about it, I hope you got everything you wanted”
“I did, thank you bedo I couldn’t express it enough.”
“A thank will be fine, ill be on my way now get some sleep ok [name].”
“You to albedo! By the way.”
He stopped in his tracks herring your words, a bit brought back by you holding his face so dearly and closely bringing him in for a kiss
“I love you!”
“I love you too [name].”
He cant wait for more moments with you especially ones like these.
A.n — just some bedo fluff for yall since I have a lot of angst plans>:)
For the headcannons, I'd love Xiao, Gorou and Albedo reacting to the reader being sleepy and falling asleep on their shoulders
Keep up the good work!! Take the time you need with this request, I saw you had internet problems and that can really fuck up one's workflow
Heya! Thank you for your request, it's a really cute idea and I had a lot of fun working on this one. This is the first time I've written for Gorou though, so I hope I did him justice. Anyway, have fun reading! <3
Characters: XIao, Gorou, Albedo
Reacting to a gn!reader falling asleep on their shoulders (HCs)
Xiao
Xiao isn’t really used to someone showing him affection the way you always do, so he’s always a bit taken aback when you’re close to him. However, he can’t help but smile when you rest your head on his shoulder while you’re watching the sunset from Wangshu Inn’s balcony.
He didn’t really expect you to fall asleep but as soon as he realizes it, he doesn’t dare to move even the slightest bit because he doesn’t want to wake you up. Although Xiao would never admit it, he’s incredibly happy about the fact that you fell asleep on his shoulder because to him, it’s a sign that you trust him completely, no matter what. He’s not entirely sure if he really deserves your trust, though.
On the one hand, he knows that he should probably wake you up and send you to bed but on the other hand, he really doesn’t want this moment to end. It’s calming and peaceful, something Xiao rarely experiences, and he’s not ready to let go of that feeling so quickly. Plus, he thinks that you look kinda cute when you sleep.
At some point, he still decides to put you to bed because the two of you can’t spend the whole night sitting on the balcony, no matter how much Xiao would enjoy that. He makes sure that you’re comfy before he leaves – but if you woke up and asked him to stay with you, he probably couldn’t say No.
Gorou
Gorou knows next to nothing about romance and therefore often feels a bit insecure when he’s around you. He doesn’t want to do anything wrong or accidentally hurt your feelings, so he usually tries to keep a bit of a distance. However, he won’t refuse when you want to spend some time with him, especially since he barely has time to relax with everything that’s going on in Inazuma.
When you’re sitting around together, maybe after training or something, and you tell him that you feel a bit sleepy, Gorou immediately suggests that you should take a nap because you need some rest. However, he definitely didn’t expect you to lean in and rest your head on his shoulder before slowly drifting off to sleep. The situation is almost a bit bizarre to him because he’s just sitting there, staring at you while he tries to process what’s happening.
He can’t deny that he’s happy, though. You trust him and apparently like him enough to be comfortable with being this close to him, so he really can’t complain about the whole situation. That doesn’t change the fact that he has no idea what to do now, though. Should he put his arm around you to make it more comfortable for you? Or would it be better to sit still, just to make sure that he doesn’t wake you up?
In the end, Gorou settles on holding still to make sure that he’s not disturbing your slumber in any way. He also allows himself to indulge in the situation, although he’s still not entirely sure what to think about it but he tells himself to worry about that later. Right now, he just wants to enjoy the moment.
Albedo
Albedo might seem unapproachable and distanced sometimes but he definitely can’t reject you when you ask him if you could rest your head on his shoulder while he’s reading. Sometimes, he even encourages you to do it when he notices that you’re being sleepy. It’s also not unusual that he stays up all night to read or to complete some notes about his latest experiment, so he’s already used to you keeping him company for a while – something he really appreciates.
It’s a frequent thing that you fall asleep on his shoulder, actually. He doesn’t mind it at all; in fact, he really looks forward to it every time because he thinks that it’s just adorable how you snuggle up to him, right before you fall asleep. He doesn’t get to spend as much time with you as he’d like, so moments like this are some sort of compensation as well.
He gets a bit distracted by you, though. Every so often, he finds himself focusing at you instead of the book or his notes in front of him because he wants to make sure that you’re still comfortable. He’s not one to usually watch you when you sleep but he thinks that it’s quite interesting that you can sleep so peacefully in a seemingly uncomfortable position like this. Occasionally, he also brushes a strand of hair from your forehead or caresses your cheek, careful not to wake you up.
However, Albedo knows that he has to wake you when he’s done with his work because you can’t spend the entire night in that position. He’s a bit hesitant about it though and usually apologizes with a kiss or two because he had to disturb your sleep to send you to bed.
Thank you for reading! If you enjoyed it please consider reblogging. I'd appreciate the support. <3
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