[sunpainter]

Kissing Her Eyes Closed

#F7D1CD / #E8C2CA / #D1B3C4 / #B392AC / #735D78

[angelicdewdrop]

[ahmad-gaza012]

Please, I desperately need your donations. Donations have stopped completely, and I need your support, no matter how small. If you can't donate, talk about me and share my message. Please 😭🙏 I only need 25 euros to buy 1 kilogram of flour to feed my family. I'm not asking for more. Please, don't ignore this and try to contribute - I desperately need you right now.

🌟 Our campaign is Vetted by @gazavetters, mynumber verified on the list is ( #329 )✅️

Donate to Help Ahmed And His Family Survive In Gaza Crisis, organized by Abi Lass

My name is Abi from Lincoln, NE, and I'm raising money for Ahmed and his fam… Abi Lass needs your support for Help Ahmed And His Family Surv

[bibliochii]

hii, friends ! i've made a boycott list on the major companies and brands to avoid for an effective boycott against any companies that support or have ties to Israel. I also made a longer list of non-targeted companies with ties to Israel.

I also included a list of ethical places to shop, please feel free to add on to ! let's keep our eyes on palestine and continue to help where we can !

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13y-4N2yTWoDN6CT_ZnDOlqFqmVUnzH5pBGh6iW7O0AE/edit?usp=drivesdk

[omegaversereloaded]

Are you tired of standing with Gaza? It seems you are. I no longer see you writing, participating, speaking. Everything has become quiet... except Gaza.

You tell me: "I've been trying for two years, and everything I've done has been of no use." But let me tell you: No, you are not the one who should be tired. You are behind the screen. They are under fire. You see the bombing from afar, and they are under the rubble. You are silent from exhaustion, and they are being buried by the world's silence.

If you are tired of just following, what about those who are living through the massacre? Those who lost their homes, their families, their bodies, their names?

If two years of solidarity have weighed down your heart, what about those who have lived through two years of hunger, terror, and betrayal?

Don't say, "It's no use." Your presence, your voice, your awareness, your refusal—that's the difference. Don't be one of those who are tired of speaking, so they have become part of the silence. Gaza doesn't need your hero, but a person who doesn't ignore. Don't be absent. Don't be silent. Don't be the last to be let down.

[omegaversereloaded]

The child Nasser and his younger siblings suffer from malnutrition, as well as severe illness and weakness. He cannot work because of his illness, but you can see his blog @naser-aid Also verified by @gazavetters Number 19 on the list

please donate to him and his family

[diana-family]

In the age of shiny screens and smart towers, children in Gaza are dying minutes away from 5G networks. They didn't die from a bomb, but from starvation. And worse? Their deaths weren't sudden. They took their time, day after day, atrophy after atrophy, until they disappeared, leaving only their bodies resembling life, but not living.

Where was humanity?

Where were the governments and organizations? Where are you? You who watch and grieve for a few minutes, then pass the image along like an advertisement. You who have food, medicine, and even the internet to cry out... but you remain silent.

Why are my children in Gaza dying of starvation? Not because the world is powerless, but because it chose not to see.

What is happening is an indictment of a world that has made humanity a choice, not an innate quality. An indictment of everyone who remained silent, everyone who saw and remained silent, everyone who liked the image without moving.

We don't need images that shake us... we need hearts that don't remain silent. Please share our post, my friends, maybe you can change this bitter reality and donate to us what you can. Your donation will save us from the famine that is ravaging the bodies of my young children who are now suffering from malnutrition. Believe me, I am writing to you now with a trembling heart, eyes filled with tears, and a wish that my children will survive this deadly famine. I am completely helpless and you are the ones who can save us. Thank you all and I am very sorry for bothering you.

Your friend,

Hossam Al-Qazzaz

vetted by @gazavetters , and (#287) on their list of verified campaigns.

Help the Al-Qazzaz Family Rebuild Their Lives

My name is Bethany-Grace, and I am the founder of The Gaza Giving Tree, a volunteer initiative dedicated to amplifying the voices of civilia

[habeba-qazaz]

Unfortunately, my friends, donation transfers from the account have been stopped gofundme In this case, I lost a large part of the donations that I received recently.

I am very very frustrated and I do not know what to do. I feel like I will faint. My family needs donations that will not be transferred to us. Please, my friends, stand with us in this ordeal and donate to us at the account CHUFFED Share our post so it reaches everyone

I trust you, please don't let me down.

[diana-family]

We lost our home, I lost my job, I lost all the money I saved throughout my life, even the tent I set up on the rubble of our house was bombed and completely destroyed, and my children now have no clear future, the schools have been closed and now the transfer of donations from the GoFundMe website has been stopped at a time when we need donations to buy food, my young children are hungry and my infant daughter suffers from malnutrition. All doors have been closed in my face and I am in a very tragic state, so please support us on the donation account CHUFFED , donate to us if you can and share our post so that it reaches everyone, I am very broken and I feel very distressed

[diana-family]

We are so tired, we are so exhausted, no food, no bread, no donations, and I feel that things will stop here and that everything I did has vanished after stopping the previous donation campaign, and now I don't have the motivation to continue again I have become desperate and I do not know what to do. Please do not leave us, we are hungry. Please do not leave children to suffer. Please, we are in the darkest and most oppressive circumstances.

[hane-qazaz]

🚨 Don't be fooled by the images or statements 🚨

So far, no trucks have entered.

And even if they did, Gaza needs 500 trucks a day for at least two months to begin to recover from the famine!

❌ The famine is not over

❌ The situation cannot tolerate silence

❌ Don't swallow the bait and remain silent

✋ Don't stop posting

✋ Don't stop talking about Gaza

✋ Don't remain silent about the hunger of people and the death of children!

Please don't abandon us, share our post, and donate if you can.

Help the Al-Qazzaz Family Rebuild Their Lives

My name is Bethany-Grace, and I am the founder of The Gaza Giving Tree, a volunteer initiative dedicated to amplifying the voices of civilia

[medicaltubing]

[maimabuhamda]

Words have lost their meaning, and we no longer feel alive. We live each day as if it’s our last… no food, no safety, no medicine. Death is no longer something we fear — it’s becoming our closest companion.

Simply put: we are dying of hunger, and no one sees us, no one hears us. We scream in silence, hoping for mercy, for a glance, for hands that reach out — not to take, but to give us a chance to live. Please… if you can hear us, if you can feel this pain — help us before it’s too late. 🔗 Donate here 💳 PayPal ✅ Verified fundraiser

[maimabuhamda]

To everyone seeing this post, please don’t just scroll past. Do something — anything, even if it’s small: Donate, share, or just leave a comment. Your words might bring hope.

[aboodgaza0]

Yesterday, my mother fractured her arm while trying to get aid. I couldn’t go with her because I’m severely malnourished. She smiled through the pain so we wouldn’t worry, but I could see it all in her eyes — and it broke me.

[aboodgaza0]

[aboodgaza0]

Before the war, my mother was a kindergarten teacher. Today, she’s forced to push through crowds just to bring us something to eat. I’m not writing this to beg for sympathy — I’m writing because we simply can’t endure this alone anymore.

[aboodgaza0]

If you’re able to help, even with a small amount, it could make a real difference. Thank you to everyone who shares or supports us in any way.

[a-shade-of-blue]

His current Chuffed is shared by @/el-shab-hussein. His original but now defunct GFM is vetted and promoted by @/gaza-evacuation-funds and #408 on the verified fundraiser spreadsheet vetted by el-shab-hussein, MohAyesh and nabulsi, but he is now using Chuffed because GFM shut down his fundraiser

My name is Aboud, a Palestinian from Gaza. For more than 600 days, my family and I have been trapped in the nightmare of war. I lost my home

Your donations help people facing starvation and frequent bombings every day afford food, water, and other basic needs – it is literally lifesaving!! Please share this fundraiser and donate if you are able to! Every little bit helps!

You can get a postcard after you donate!

[smashingorpassing]

some organizations working on the ground in gaza right now

gaza soup kitchen

the sameer project

salam charity

watermelon relief

[straycatj]

ゆかで　だらる　オレと家主

I and my landlady take rests with sloppy styles on the floor

[smashingorpassing]

some organizations working on the ground in gaza right now

gaza soup kitchen

the sameer project

salam charity

watermelon relief

[archivedzaanka]

DONATE TO THE SAMEER PROJECT 🕊️

Mosab Emad Ali, part of the heart of the Sameer Project, was also martyred recently. The organizers could use all the support they can get right now.

[alkhleliy-family]

The difference between Gaza and Auschwitz is that the world still has a chance to stop the ethnic cleansing in Gaza. What’s happening here is not just a war—it’s a deliberate effort to starve an entire population. We are not only dying from bombs, but from hunger, thirst, and despair. Life is being stolen from the mouths of our children every single day.

The siege surrounds us from all directions. Food and medicine are blocked. The crossings have been closed for months. What little aid enters is barely enough for 1% of the population. Imagine paying $40 for a single kilo of flour, or needing over $300 to feed a small family for just one day. With no jobs, no open markets, and no safety—how are we supposed to survive?

Today, a beautiful cat and her kittens died from hunger. They were innocent, fragile lives—and they perished simply because there was nothing left to eat. What kind of injustice allows even the weakest, most defenseless creatures to suffer this way? This is the reality we live with every single day.

Please, don’t turn away. Your support, no matter how small, can be the reason someone wakes up tomorrow with food, with hope, with life. A single donation can mean survival for a family, for a child, for a soul still holding on. In Gaza, even the smallest act of kindness can save a life.

Check out our campaign here. Gazavetter's 21

Please donate so we can live. If each person donates 10 euros, we will be able to buy food and medicine.

Breaking: UNRWA: 35 children killed this morning due to the bloody famine.

Please, my children are without food, their immunity is weak, and they suffer from thalassemia. Please donate.

[save-the-child-qais]

DON’T SKIP, PLEASE I BEG YOU.

Please, I beg you — don’t scroll past this.

My baby boy, Qais, is only two years old, and famine is slowly killing him. His little body is shrinking day by day, his ribs showing through his thin skin, and every moment feels like a race against death. I am pleading with you — donate, share, speak out. Your help could be the reason my child survives.

The famine in Gaza is not a natural disaster; it is man-made, created by unbearable conditions:

1- A suffocating blockade: that prevents food, clean water, and medicine from reaching us.

2- Destroyed farmlands and contaminated water: due to relentless bombings, leaving us with nothing to eat or drink.

3- A collapsed health system, where starving children receive no medical care, making even minor illnesses deadly.

I am a desperate mother begging you - please don’t let Qais become another silent victim. His life is hanging by a thread, and every second matters. Share his story, speak for him, help us get food and medicine. Even the smallest act of kindness could save his life. Please… don’t let my little boy die like this.

PLEASE DONATE HERE

If Qais was your only child, would you leave him to face his fate alone?

DONATE HERE PLEASE

DON'T SKIP, I BEG YOU ✋🚨 you're the only hope to save a child😔😭

[obedientlyviolentshepherd]

Please donate if you can! share with your friends and comrades!

What you wouldve done in Nazi Germany is wht you are doing Right Now. do what you can, every day! please

[vrabia]

truly from the bottom of my heart i hate the level of enshittification etsy has reached because it's still the best place to buy patterns for my hobby and every time i go scrolling through endless ai-generated bullshit to finally dig up a human-designed pattern i like, i'm hit with a deluge of 'popular!! 563 people are looking at this right now!! it's in 134632 baskets!! you must buy immediately!!!' it's a pdf file. it's a fucking pdf file. do you get off on trying to give people fomo over a fucking pdf file. fuck off. get diarrhea forever.

[vrabia]

and that's not even touching the ai-generated patterns with hundreds of 5-star bot reviews that are stupidly easy to spot if you know what to look for. but most beginners don't know what to look for, so they're straight-up scammed into buying based on a nice picture. then their 'hey, i made this and it looks nothing like advertised' comments get buried under hundreds of 5-star bot reviews, and this is how someone who might have otherwise discovered an interesting and fulfilling hobby drops it, thinking the pattern's fine, everyone else likes it, so it's on them for not being good enough. it pisses me off so much, you have no idea.

[vrabia]

anyway, here's some shops selling amigurumi (crochet soft toys) patterns fully created by crafters. i've either bought and made patterns from them or saved them for later, meaning i already checked that they aren't ai-generated. i might make a post later on how to spot ai-generated amigurumi patterns, but i wanted to give these a shout-out. go buy from them if you can, it's cool stuff and an interesting skill to learn.

straw animals design (etsy store) plushies and accessories, including some knitted patterns. beginner friendly!

green frog crochet (website store). mostly doll patterns, very pretty and totally worth the time and effort. they also sell full kits for some of the patterns, that include all supplies except for crochet hooks and fiberfill. also, youtube channel with tutorials.

moonlight crochet (etsy store). mostly doll patterns, lots of clothes you can adapt to dolls of similar sizes

yan schenkel (website store for individual patterns) has several books out that i really love. it took a bit of digging to figure out if this online store selling the pdf versions is legit and i found that the publisher sells directly through them. there are three pattern books (1, 2, 3) with animal plushies.

natura crochet (website store) has colorful animal and holiday themed patterns, plus two books of aquatic themed patterns. same publisher/seller as above.

hanichan (website store) has a distinct and minimalist style that i think is very beginner friendly. there are also useful general tutorials for amigurumi.

aquariwool crochet (etsy store). a lot of colorful and fun animal patterns. i haven't bought anything from them yet but i have a few saved and honestly just looking through the patterns makes me happy.

make me roar (website store). one of the more unique styles i've seen out there, especially these.

jo handmade design (etsy store). both plushies and more realistic toys, the patterns are very well written and illustrated.

whenever possible i linked to a store outside etsy, but not all pattern creators have one, so it's 100% worth checking them out and supporting them despite the absolute tar pit they operate in. also whatever creative hobby you're curious about, don't let an ai-generated picture discourage you from trying it. you are a god capable of summoning something out of nothing and generative ai is a pathetic little string of mathematical operations with ideas above its station.

[phocagroenlandica]

ribbon seal moodboard ⋆｡𖦹°⭒˚｡⋆

inspired by posts comparing them to various desserts