The Tess - The most dominant people. No genetic powers. May have been granted theurgic abilities by the gods.
The Gess - Possibly a subset of the Tess. May have been the first people to have been granted theurgic abilities by the gods.
The Ness - Possibly a subset of the Tess. May have been the last people to be granted theurgic abilities by the gods.
The Cress - Telepaths. Can be born to parents of any people.
The Kess - Telekinetics. Kess need at least one Kess parent to be a Kess.
The Shax - Shapeshifters. Can be born to parents of any people.
Countries of Witchland:
Primeria: Dominates the world.
Betania: Similar culture to Primeria. Lives in Primeria's shadow and often escapes people's thoughts. Might be caught in a perceptual anomaly that decreases its importance in people's minds.
Prior Island: Dominated the world before Primeria.
Meshkidia: Less developed country that is exploited by the others.
Cal: Gess colony. Engaged in a cycle of conquest and reconquest with the Ness colony.
Hello, I'm Sharif Al-Amoudi from Gaza. I'm married and have twins, Hussam and Ahmed, who are five months old. They were born after four attempts at artificial insemination. My wife and I came to Egypt in June for the IVF procedure, and she became pregnant, but we were stranded in Egypt after the war. I was employed in Gaza, and my wife was a mathematics teacher. Now we have no income after everything was destroyed. My twins were born in April, and one of them (Ahmed) has two holes in his heart and also suffers from optic nerve damage as a result of being in the neonatal intensive care unit.
He was given artificial oxygen and needs special care, surgery, and numerous treatments at great expense. He now needs special milk and medication. I also suffer from a slipped disc and cannot work hard in Egypt. I need surgery that costs 2000 euros. I live in a rented apartment that costs me 200 euros a month. You are our only hope. Please help me for the sake of my children. 💔🙏🍉
sharif alamoudi Needs Your Help | Hello, I am Sharif Al-Amoudi from Gaza. I am married and have five-month-old twin boys, Hossam and Ahmed,
Please don't let money decide whether my mother gets a chance at treatment.
Every day her condition grows worse, and we are left feeling helpless because we are missing just $500 to pay for the care she urgently needs.
There is nothing more painful than watching your mother suffer while knowing the treatment exists, but being unable to reach it because you cannot afford it.
Please don't pass by our plea in silence. If you are able to help, this is the moment my mother needs your compassion the most.
Just 10 people giving $50 each would cover what we still need. Your donation today could give my mother a real chance to receive the treatment she has been waiting for.
Ahmed's family is holding on to hope, but time is running out.
If you can help, please donate now.
Every contribution could bring their mother closer to the treatment she needs.
Help My Mother Get Urgent Medical Treatment Abroad
Doctors have warned that delaying their mother's treatment increases the risk to her life, Time is running out, and her family is still trying to raise the cost of her treatment.
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Please don't let money decide whether my mother gets a chance at treatment.
Every day her condition grows worse, and we are left feeling helpless because we are missing just $500 to pay for the care she urgently needs.
There is nothing more painful than watching your mother suffer while knowing the treatment exists, but being unable to reach it because you cannot afford it.
Please don't pass by our plea in silence. If you are able to help, this is the moment my mother needs your compassion the most.
Just 10 people giving $50 each would cover what we still need. Your donation today could give my mother a real chance to receive the treatment she has been waiting for.
Ahmed's family is holding on to hope, but time is running out.
If you can help, please donate now.
Every contribution could bring their mother closer to the treatment she needs.
Help My Mother Get Urgent Medical Treatment Abroad
Doctors have warned that delaying their mother's treatment increases the risk to her life, Time is running out, and her family is still trying to raise the cost of her treatment.
Donate now, your support could help her receive the care she urgently needs
A Plea from the Heart: I Am Fatima, and This Is My Story
My name is Fatima, a teacher from Gaza. I used to work in a small school I loved dearly, planting hope in the hearts of children and teaching them that tomorrow could be better. But the war took everything away. My school was bombed, I lost my job, and our home was reduced to rubble. Yet, I refused to give up. I set up a small tent amid the destruction and continued teaching children, showing them that knowledge is a light that cannot be extinguished, even in the darkest times.
My husband, Akram, was my partner and pillar of support. But he was severely injured in an attack targeting civilians. His abdominal injuries are so severe that he can no longer work or even lift basic items. Every day, I see the pain in his eyes and feel the weight of helplessness, but I try to stay strong for him and for our children.
Our eldest, Manar, is four years old, and she’s missing out on her childhood amidst this devastation. Our youngest, Ibrahim, was born under bombardment just a year ago. He has suffered greatly due to the lack of milk and proper medical care. Yet, sometimes, he smiles, and in those brief moments, I find the strength to keep going.
We now live in a fragile tent that doesn’t shield us from the cold or rain. Every day is a new battle for survival. I write these words while holding my children’s hands, with nothing left but my faith in God and the hope that your kind hearts will hear our plea.
Please help us provide milk and food for our children, ease Akram’s pain, and rebuild even a small part of the life the war has destroyed. Every donation, no matter how small, makes a big difference in our lives.
I ask you to share our story and be our support during this harsh and unforgiving time.
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I am Fatima, a mother of two, displaced from Gaza, now seeking refuge in Al-Ma… Thistle Path needs your support for Help Fatima's family in
In a place where children no longer know what safety feels like, a mother is trying to keep her children alive despite everything 💔
I don’t know how I am still holding on...
My name is Najah, and I am a mother of six children, including newborn twins 👶👶 who need urgent care every single moment.
We are living through extremely difficult days filled with fear, hunger, and the lack of basic necessities 🥺🍞
Sometimes my children go to sleep without enough food, and I stand helpless before their tears because I cannot provide milk, diapers, or medicine for them.
My newborn twins are still so fragile, and their tiny bodies need constant nutrition and care 🍼💔
But our situation has become far beyond my ability to handle, while my other children face hunger, cold, and fear every day.
For many days, we have not received any donations or help, and our situation keeps getting worse with every passing hour.
I try to stay strong for my children, but my heart breaks every night when I see them suffering and I have nothing to protect them with.
Every second now is precious ⏳
Every act of kindness could be the reason my children survive 🙏
I am not asking for the impossible — only for a chance for my children to live safely, stay together, and have hope for another tomorrow.
Please, from the bottom of my heart, do not ignore our suffering 💔
Any small donation could help me buy milk, diapers, food, and medicine for my children.
I am Najah, living with my twin children in a tent. As the tanks approached the area where we are staying, my fear was no longer for myself, but for my two little children who need safety more than anything else. All I hope for is that this danger passes peacefully and that I can protect them from being displaced once again.
Please donate $25, $50, $100, or any amount you can give 🤲
Every contribution, no matter how small, can make a real difference in my children’s lives.
And if you cannot donate, please share our story everywhere you can 📢
Your compassion may reach someone who can save my children before it is too late.
I beg you — stop here, donate, share, and choose kindness before this silence becomes another tragedy for my family.
Thank you to everyone who listened to our pain 🌸
Your kindness today could give my children another chance at life and safety.
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From the heart of Gaza, we reach out to you with deep pain and a plea for help… amelia romain needs your support for Help Wedad's family in
Plz don't ignore us. With your support and donations, our message of humanity reaches the world and every kind-hearted soul. Every act of kindness gives our family hope and brings us one step closer to rebuilding our lives. ❤️🙏
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Forever baffled by the fact that Tim Burton is still thought of as a defender of oddness. He treats monsters as things to be gawked at, to be drawn and imagined, then put away in a safe little box. He doesn't love monsters, he loves freak shows.
"Tim Burton is a defender of oddness!" Tim Burton can't stand the idea of not treating fat people as carnival freak shows who are usually some flavor of cruel, disgusting, and/or just flat-out evil. He thinks he loves monsters so long as the monsters are coded as conventionally attractive skinny white people.
"But just look at his aesthe-" NO. Look at the ending of every fucking one of his movies. The odd protagonist has a return to normalcy. Every time. Every fucking time. Burton's a surbub boy and deserves his entire aesthetic being stolen by every mallgoth and new indie filmmaker that can steal a camera and write better.
There is something that has always bothered me about Nightmare Before Christmas (aside from the fact that is a children's movie where the plot is 'midlife crisis of adult man') and it is its maintenance of status quo. There is a read of the film where Jack's curiosity and interest in Christmas (his oddness) is punished and put back in its proper place.
Growing up with Burton was fun, but I'm glad we have culturally outgrown his storytelling and direction.
