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Greetings, visitor. I’m Will, unfortunately from England, and I use he/xe pronouns. Welcome to the my spam blog, for everything and anything that interests me.

🥦 Icon and header

Icon: a snail sitting on a blooming plant.

Header: a stanza from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘The Masque of Anarchy’ (1819) reading: “Rise like Lions after slumber / In unvanquishable number — / Shake your chains to earth like dew / Which in sleep had fallen on you — / Ye are many - they are few.”

🐌 My other blogs

@herbertgeorge (main, I follow from here)

@woakesy (cricket)

@xingeseprince (fullmetal alchemist)

✏️ My interests

I'm an English literature student, particularly keen on medieval and early modern literature and history. Also a big fan of cacti, rocks and art.

My most active fandoms at the moment are flight rising, sonic and octonauts.

🏳️‍🌈 My politics

I specialise in nonviolent direct action for climate justice, and also help in decolonising and intersectionality in climate groups as a person of colour.

Leftist, socialist, anti-fascist. Black Lives Matter, ACAB, Free Palestine, no borders or prisons. Support strikes, direct action and other 'disruptive' protests. Proudly queer. Vegan. Liberation for all and solidarity forever.

🌱 Resources and links

These links have been useful for me, but please ensure you do your own research for everything. Think critically and examine sources. And actually do something if you can, learning is just the start. Most this is information or online action, with some UK based organisations for direct action.

Introduction to Palestine

Decolonise Palestine

Palestine Action (UK)

Introduction to the Iranian revolution

From Iran

Support the Iranian Revolution

Resources for Ukraine

Resources for Ukraine (2)

Unite With Ukraine

Resources for Afghanistan

Forest Peoples Programme

Stand with Maasai people

Indigenous wisdom & climate change

Earthrise Studio

Indigenous Climate Action

If not us, then who?

XRY American & African solidarity

Stop Cambo (UK)

Climate Vanguard (UK)

Resources for veganism

Domestic violence resources (UK)

Strike map (UK)

Enough is Enough! (UK)

🍄 Other info

Please please reach out if anything concerns you, from reblogging harmful content to needing particular tags. I am constantly looking to learn and grow. And also just reach out if you want to chat or anything, I promise I'm friendly and love listening to others!

Big love, and hope you enjoy this very chaotic blog :D

#pinned #personal

zombcat-rabiez

NOOT NOOT

#noot noot #octonauts #peso

closet-keys

Rafah Crossing opened for medical evacuation this past Monday for the first time since May 2024. In the 24 hours preceding the opening, Israel killed 30 Palestinians in air strikes. At time of writing, another wave of air strikes has killed at least 23 people since dawn today. Israel has violated the "ceasefire" agreement 1,520 times, continuing to critically injure and permanently disable hundreds of people.

Gaza Ministry of Health estimates that 20,000 people urgently need to evacuate Gaza to seek medical care, but Israel states they'll only let 50 Palestinians through Rafah each day. In practice restrictions are even worse: Israel only approved travel for 5 patients on the first day and 16 on the second.

closet-keys

Injured Palestinians protested near Al-Amal Hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip, demanding an increase in the number of people allowed to travel daily. One of the protestors, Farid al-Qassas, explained to a UN News correspondent:

“We have been waiting for the crossing to open since the beginning of the war, and like many others, we have not been lucky. In this building alone, there are about 100 patients in need of medical referrals, and the number of wounded waiting to travel reaches about 13,000 patients and injured people. We hope that everyone will hear us and save what remains of these patients.”

blurrymind11

IM DOING OCTONAUTS DADS

Calico Jack i love the idea that he and Kwazzi r really close, not super big on this design but who knows!

#octonauts #love this design 🤩

evenlyevi

Goodnight.

closet-keys

you know that feeling of trying to get your work or schoolwork done while the world is ending?

yeah, that's a feeling I empathize with

no, I've never experienced that

Voting ended onApr 21, 2025

@fadel-dani is only 23 years old, a third-year IT student, and he and his family have been displaced multiple times in the genocide. When his university was destroyed by Israel, he registered to study remotely. Imagine the world falling apart around you and still trying to complete your school work! When his family, after being displaced 5 times, returned to their home, bombs were dropped, and they survived an explosion which destroyed their house. He fainted. Fadel woke up in a hospital and learned that, because hospitals in the north of Gaza had completely collapsed, he and his family were transported under extremely dangerous conditions to a hospital in the south of the Gaza.

Further he learned that while unconscious, he had undergone surgery to remove iron fragments that shot into his body in the bombing. Because of the extreme danger and the collapse of the health system, some of the pieces could not removed at their location. The doctor assessed his health and told his family that he needs to receive treatment in another country as soon as possible. Obviously, doing so safely requires coordination and funds for both travel and the surgical fees once they get to a hospital. They have been trying to raise funds since then. He had bled a lot that day. His normal bloodcount is weak because he has thalassemia. The price of the medicine is too high for them to afford, and so he has fainted many times. So far they have waited over 300 days to meet their fundraising goal so he can get needed surgery. 300 days of suffering the physical and psychological pain of feeling shrapnel from the Israeli bombing that destroyed his childhood home embedded in his body. He is currently sitting in a tent, sending me messages on tumblr. His campaign was vetted (gazavetters #197), and you can help him raise funds to get medical care as soon as possible by sending some funds here:

GoFundMe | Help Fadel the injured to undergo surgery and live safely

wonderstruck

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

#maurice #by em forster #love love love it

iwilleatyourenglish

something i have always found really weird is when english texts italicize words from other languages.

i remember reading a book as a kid and the author continually italicizing the word tamales

iwilleatyourenglish

official-linguistics-post

official linguistics post

nebulations

[ID: A tag that says "#i think youd love the poem Kupu rere kē #this post reminded me of that" followed by the poem "Kupu rere kē", posted by About Alice Te Punga Somerville. It reads:

My friend was advised to italicise all the foreign words in her poems. This advice came from a well-meaning woman with NZ poetry on her business card and an English accent in her mouth.

I have been thinking about this advice.

The publishing convention of italicising words from other languages clarifies that some words are imported: it ensures readers can tell the difference between a foreign language and the language of home.

I have been thinking about this advice.

Marking the foreign words is also a kindness: Every potential reader is reassured that although obviously you’re expected to understand the rest of the text, it’s fine to consult a dictionary or native speaker for help with the italics. I have been thinking about this advice. Because I am a contrary person, at first I was outraged – but after a while I could see she had a point: When the foreign words are camouflaged in plain type you can forget how they came to be there, out of place, in the first place.

I have been thinking about this advice and I have decided to follow it.

Now all of my readers will be able to remember which words truly belong in Aotearoa and which do not.

The entire poem is in italics but for the word "Aotearoa". End ID]

beau-loves-roses-deactivated202

Reblog this to give the person you reblogged from a heart shaped cookie

lifeafterpsychiatry

It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!