[settingsailforop]

my dear friend maha really needs help and support right now. with the us-israeli war on iran, she’s been losing work and is in a lot of danger. she is barely eating and is no longer able to afford her medication. the heat is already bad and it is going to get worse as we move into summer. i’m really really worried about her right now.

i appreciate any amount you can give, and please reblog + share.

Iraqi Trans Woman Seeking Asylum

My name is Maha, and I'm a trans woman in Iraq. For years, the Islamic regime in Iraq has demonized being Trans. Enmity towards trans people

[feluka]

When Amal surprised me by telling me she named her newborn after me, I felt like part of my heart had gone to Gaza and remained there ever since.

This part of my heart is now breaking. Amal, who's been on a poor diet because she can't afford better food, is unable to breastfeed baby Mina any longer, and is unable to afford enough formula to compensate, and now both mother and baby are weak and malnourished.

Amal is suffocating from the stress of having to provide for her daughters. Her husband Motasem is doing everything he can (recently, he was almost caught in a bombing while trying to get food) but they're both overwhelmed. I wish there was anything I can do for them.

I'm begging you to donate if you can and share if you can't. I want, more than anything in this world, for these kids to grow up healthy and for their parents to be able to rest.

Fundraiser Vetting info

[perriaeyjeve]

[mellifier]

People who don’t actually suffer from delusions stop joking that you’re delusional challenge

[makka333]

if i had a nickel for every time in a manga im reading one of the main characters is a white-haired dude strongly tied to his world’s magic system who lost an eye when he was a child and now covers it with a fringe, i’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice

[hagiomoto]

List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending

Israel says it's suspending humanitarian organizations that have failed to meet its new rules to vet international groups working in Gaza.

30 December 2025

This left only Gaza based mutual aid networks. That's why you need to donate to the following aid groups on recurring basis:

The Sameer Project

Dahnoun Mutual Aid

Mona's Initiatives

Hussein Team

[kropotkindersurprise]

Also consider donating to the Gaza Municipality, which is tasked with providing and repairing vital services such as roads, water supply, waste management and sewage treatment in Gaza City.

[optical-trapping]

[catsrlovelysmil]

[optical-trapping]

You have to be joking. You cannot be seriously saying shit like ‘Chinese infiltration and cyber propaganda’ on a post that is literally about how sinophobic white people are. You cannot be doing the classic white person confessional ‘I’m white but I’m actually not racist’ move. I posted this video because I thought it was an articulate explanation of exactly why the shift towards Chinese fetishization is nowhere near as positive as it looks to some and instead is another form of racism. And you think the flaw is that actually the fetishization isn’t true? That’s the problem? Did you watch the video? Do you genuinely think that the Chinese government has a vested interest in promoting the shallow 2D memification of our culture? Actual Chinese government funded media asks the foreigner to genuinely engage with our culture, because that’s how you sway people. This is just the objectification of my country for the service of western entertainment. I’m genuinely so baffled. I don’t know how that’s what you took away from this, and with such righteous confidence. You are being so incredibly sinophobic with exactly zero awareness.

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[fortuneaday]

[transsexualtestified-deactivate]

your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for a graduate degree

[maigaza96]

TIME IS UP.

My mother is in the ICU. We need $400 TODAY.

No more time. No more chances.

If people act NOW, she can still be saved.

Donate now. Donate here PayPal Verified fundraiser

[an-ruraiocht]

there's a lot of talk about reading comprehension and one thing i think is the biggest barrier to people on this site getting better at it is simply... rushing. rushing to share something you haven't understood, rushing to have an opinion without taking the time to think about it, rushing to declare that you don't understand something

take these tags, on somebody else's post (condolences pip)

the thing is. this is what i would call an inside thought. nobody would have known you didn't get it if you didn't tell them that. if you recognised that it was important but didn't have the headspace to process it, you can reblog without commentary for others, or to come back to later. or you can save it somewhere and wait until you DO have the capacity to read it over a few more times, ponder it, consider what it might mean, figure out how to understand it, and THEN reblog it

but no. rushing to reblog while it is still opaque. rushing to admit to ignorance rather than spend the time to achieve understanding. perhaps hoping that somebody will break it down for you more simply, though to my mind it was quite simply phrased in the first place. never stopping to take the time first

comprehension is not always instant! sometimes it takes a bit of time for something to percolate after you read it; sometimes you need to read it a few times; sometimes you realise you don't have the context for it and either go and get the context or accept that it's not for you right now

please just simply slow down. you don't always have to respond to everything within a second or two. it is okay if it is not an instantaneous understanding. we all need to get more comfortable with thinking more slowly and more deeply and more carefully, and not letting our instant split second responses drive us all the time, because they are a barrier to genuine reflection

[pyr0-frnzy]

A boy trying to run back into his mother’s arms

[makka333]

a cup of morning coffee

cw: blood

[makka333]

zoro had a stress dream about his teeth falling out, he thought he couldn’t hold his sword anymore

cw: blood and teeth

[gothhabiba]

💧 Help deliver clean water in Gaza 💧

Relief for Rafah is still operating (September 29, 2025) despite recent evacuation orders and forced displacement. Just a few days ago, they were able to provide a truck with 5,000 liters of water to the families in the camp, who have been displaced from the besieged north into the crowded camps of the Al-Mawasi area.

Long-term residents of Mawasi al-Qarara camp, and displaced people who had recently settled into the camp, were both served. Relief for Rafah used to support almost 70 families: it now supports over 150.

You can support the efforts of this grassroots Palestinian initiative by donating to their fundraiser here:

Relief for Rafah - A Mutual Aid Project

Relief for Rafah (R4R) is a mutual aid initiative featuring team members from the US and Gaza. We are fundraising to support families in Al-

[gothhabiba]

Update as of May 1, 2026:

Our Last Donation Was 2 Weeks Ago... Dear supporters, this is an urgent appeal as summer aproaches. While many of the world looks joyously upon summer returning, it has become like a death sentence in Gaza. Extreme thirst, overexertion, heat strokes, etc. Sadly, the elderly and young children are the most vulnerable under the extreme heat.  No longer is the season a time for celebrating but instead its become a season of scarcity. Water, the most important natural resource, is already hard to find but it becomes harder to keep during summer.  Help us provide water at least twice a week this summer via donating to our campaign. Every share and awareness also helps. 

[settingsailforop]

alright i’m gonna talk about my zosan death pact au a bit because i think i hit upon an interesting angle for heartless!sanji that i haven’t seen people take.

first of all, i don't call him emotionless, because i don’t like the idea that having emotions or empathy constitutes a good person. i personally have low empathy and pretty flat emotions, actually. also, i tried my best to write heartless!sanji in a way where it didn’t suggest DID. i’m also plural, and i’m not a fan of the “evil alter” trope. i don’t think i achieved all of this perfectly, because the source material kind of suggests a lot of this stuff in itself, but i really tried.

so my heartless!sanji is based on a very specific premise: what if sanji was coldly and ruthlessly pragmatic about removing anything he saw as an obstacle to luffy’s journey? this is based on this page from chapter 1031:

sanji is extremely focused on what would be useful to luffy. he specifically brings up his inability to fight women as a weakness that he could get rid of if he didn't let his principles/sentiment stand in the way. it's all centered around luffy, first and foremost, and his place on luffy's crew. so when i was writing heartless!sanji, i didn't make it so that he didn't know who he was. he knew he was sanji, he knew he had certain principles, he just chose to disregard them because he thought that they would hold luffy back. i was very specific that what sanji loses is his kindness, his ability to view the things as existing beyond means to an end (luffy as pirate king.)

and then i was thinking, well, there's one person that sanji doesn't treat with much kindness — himself. in fact, sanji's refusal to see himself as something other than a means to an end is kind of what landed him in this situation in the first place. so i zeroed in on this. heartless!sanji isn't a completely different person — heartless!sanji is what sanji would be like if he treated other people and his principles the way he treats himself.

so the reason why he fights and "kills" zoro is because after zoro challenges him, heartless!sanji sees him as an obstacle to luffy's journey that must be removed (... a liability, if you will.) after he regains his kindness and regrets his actions, he takes the natural next step — he begins viewing himself as the obstacle. means and ends.

i personally am pretty happy with this premise because i think it leaves things more open-ended, and also creates opportunities for interesting character growth. there's more to the way i wrote sanji (and zoro) in the comic, but this is a very big throughline in it that i was happy to have come up with.