i am very normal right now :)

19 | she/they | ❤️🧡🤍💖💜| i draw and stuff | i like to think i'm funny | i do what i want lol 🍉https://arab.org/click-to-help/palestine/ to anyone messaging to ask for donations, I unfortunately can't give anything at this time

[ninanation]

Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people

[ninanation]

please keep talking about how Becky from Maryland doesn't like the rising gas prices. It's clearly the more pressing issue.

[creacher-art]

USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116°-118° (47°-48° C) for a week straight.

This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:

ActionAid India

SEEDS India

GlobalGiving

Raise India (Project Tapan)

[garbage-empress]

I would also like to mention that Banda has significantly higher humidity than Death Valley even during the dry season so if those numbers aren't heat index adjusted, it probably felt even hotter than that.

[downsouthdyke]

*pic for attention*

I need help bad. Idk what to say. I just im not sure if I want to keep trying. It feels like it all amounts to nothing. Im canceling dr appts bc I cant afford them. Im off my medications bc I cant afford them. I have until the 11th to save my car. My power will be off the 13th. I need food. Im exhausted. I just dont know how to keep going when for years I have tried and tried and done nothing but got sicker and sicker and therefore poorer and poorer. I don't think ive reached goal in months, years actually so i just keep drowning more. Im so tired. It feels like noone gives a fuck abt black women, abt poor women, abt disabled women, abt gay women, abt trans women. Feels like my and my wife's existence is just a joke to the universe.

If u are able to help me I'll put my paylinks and home needs wishlist below:

zlle: [email protected]

cshapp: $sailorsylvie

vnmo: Serena-Manning

pypal: [email protected]

Kofi

Home Needs Wishlist

My website where I sell handmade Press-On Nails

Thanks y'all, hopefully it all turns around. For all of us.

[downsouthdyke]

I have until tomorrow for my car. Im at $411/1338. Please keep sharing if u can!!!

[downsouthdyke]

I HAVE TODAY!!!!!

[downsouthdyke]

Even tho I got my car back i am still tryna reach goal for everything else! Sorry I disappeared one of my cats passed and I've been either at work or at home being an emotional wreck! Thank y'all so much!

[luckyclaw]

Ayoo just to preempt the inevitable dumb takes we’re about to start seeing;

I am PRO-WOOL

I am PRO-LEATHER

I am PRO-BEES

Fuck the idea of replacing durable, sustainable animal products with cheap, flimsy plastic that doesn’t bio-degrade. Agave nectar and other artificial sweeteners are expensive, labor-intensive, and destroy the environment to be farmed.

Do not buy into pernicious marketing campaigns pushed by dickhead organizations trying to stay relevant, like PETA.

[marzipanandminutiae]

“but the industry-”

listen there is a huge difference between an industry with problems that can be made sustainable and more humane, and an industry that cannot, given current technology, continue to the present degree without destroying our planet

[oakenroots]

Wool - Contrary to what bullshit mongers like PETA would have you believe, wool is one of the most ethical materials humans have ever worked with. Happy sheep make better wool, experienced shearers seldom nick their sheep, and older sheep produce more wool, meaning its best to keep them alive and treat them well for many years.

Leather - one cow makes SO MUCH leather. One deer makes SO MUCH leather. Well-treated leather lasts almost FOREVER. Even animals with small skins like rabbits, a pair of well oiled rabbit leather gloves will last decades. Every animal usually made into leather is also a meat animal, so it’s more sustainable to get more than one product from a single ethically butchered animal (humane kills make less punctures in the hide!) Leather can be tanned with natural resources like brains and doesn’t require treatment with chemicals that seep into the groundwater!

Cotton: Cotton is a fucking plant, it burns. The growing and harvesting of cotton is rather water intensive but it IS possible to sustainably harvest and reuse the water spent in the cleaning process to reduce the ecological footprint of the crop. It burns clean, it cuts clean, it’s sturdy, and there are 1000 ways to weave it to change its properties.

Bees & Honey: yes yes, the european honey bee is an invasive species, we know that. But honey has been cultivated by humans for just about as long as there have been humans, and they 100% choose to be cultivated. Like bees can and will leave if they’re not treated and maintained well. They understand that humans protect and clean the hives, and often become familiar with their keepers, choosing to walk on and investigate them instead of acting defensive. If animal welfare and consent are your concerns, honeybees aren’t the animals to worry about. If you, like me, are worried about native bee species, instead of creating hives you can strip an area of grass and leave an open area of clay and sandy soil to attract mason and digger bees to nest in the spring. They will happily coexist with honey bees as long as you plant the native keystone species the native bees rely on (like indian blanket flower, partridge pea, native violets in my area) as well as the high nectar plants that honeybees prefer (like roses, sunflowers, bee balm and cone flowers). Nature is actually really adaptable and accommodating of the human urge to cultivate plants and animals, and the idea that nature is ‘dead’ rather than ‘neglected’ is something that corporations want you to believe so you don’t oppose them spraying pesticides every 15 feet.

[tucsonhorse]

The thing about cotton production is that if it is done somewhere other than A DESERT, it is far, far more sustainable and requires far less additional water. The reason cotton production in the US is such a water-suck is because they are taking this plant that likes lots and lots of water and they are growing it in the desert. Put it in an area closer to its natural habitat and it will be even more ecologically sustainable.

[shes-a-carnivore]

Happy deltajune

[abdalsalam-2000]

I will not forgive anyone who sees this post and does not share it, help me, and donate to my father who is suffering from cancer.

[abdalsalam-2000]

My father had surgery yesterday to remove a cancerous tumor from his bladder. He is suffering greatly from the surgery and is also experiencing severe heart failure. I could lose my father at any moment. Please stand by me and help me.

[abdalsalam-2000]

My father has been battling cancer for almost a year now. I can't bear to see his body wasting away before my eyes. He also suffers from arterial blockage and needs stents. Please, I don't want to lose my father. Please donate now.

[abdalsalam-2000]

My father needs more than eight different medications daily. It's extremely expensive, and we can't afford all these costs. Please help us and donate now. Please donate.

[sillysymbol]

please donate to nader and his family!!!

[hotvampireadjacent]

Nader's father needs pain relief. Donate what you can. This is campaign number 4 on the @gazavetters account. I personally assure you that your donations will go directly to Nader, his family, and his ailing father.

[abdalsalam-2000]

Every donation can make a huge difference. I beg you, don't hesitate to donate. We desperately need your support. Please donate now to save my father and all of us from the hell we're living in. Please donate.

[socalgal]

Please donate whatever you can to help Nader and his family. His ailing father truly needs relief from everything they've been through. If any of you can donate anything, that would be wonderful.

[artisimpossible]

I genuinely wonder if people realize how many projects get abandoned because the readership "wasn't there", when in reality, the readership just stayed silent. It's a big thing in trad pub that book series get discontinued because readers pirate the books or wait until the series is finished to buy a copy, leading the publisher to think that nobody actually wants the book enough to continue the series, but it happens with indie creators too.

I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.

[healerqueen]

I've said this before in a different way, and this post said it so well. With real examples. If you like something, tell people.

If you want more content from an artist or author, if you like their stuff, tell them. It will give them creative fuel to keep going. And often it gives them other resources as well. Recommend a work to other people. Leave a comment or a review. It doesn't have to be long, just genuine, a sentence or two. Not many people know that a book's success is judged by book reviews as well as sales. Review the book on Amazon or another site to help it pass the metric of success and be recognized by publishers and retailers.

[northgazaupdates]

POINT OF NO RETURN!! CHILD NEAR DEATH!! PLEASE HELP!!

6-year-old Souad has been anemic since birth, and starvation and disease due to the IOF assault have caused her severe additional health complications. In September she fell unconscious and was admitted to the hospital. She has since been comatose and fluid is building up around her brain.

Medical staff have worked very hard to reduce the swelling. But despite their efforts, Souad's brain is now hemorrhaging (bleeding). The swelling has been too persistent, and the pressure is rapidly bursting the cells of her brain, causing bleeding. This will kill her. Little Souad is dying.

She needs to be evacuated outside of Gaza, but this is extremely expensive. The cost for transport through the Egyptian border, medical care, and associated expenses comes to $6,000 usd, about €5,000 EUR. This is a devastating setback, but all we can do is push forward.

PLEASE HELP US #SaveSouad!!!

Please repost the GFM and tag #SaveSouad to spread the word!. SHE DOESN'T HAVE MUCH TIME LEFT!!!

€6,813 out of €7,739 EUR (22 April)

Need to raise: about €926 EUR ($1,084 usd)

Information on vetting linked under the cut of this post

Help Alaa's family survive this devastating war.

I am Alaa Al-Hanjouri, 32 years old. I used to work as a teacher, teaching children and carrying their dreams on my shoulders... but the war

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[abdalsalam2000]

Stop playing games, stop watching movies, stop following football matches, stop listening to music... Leave them alone, even if only for a minute. Sit with yourselves for a minute and think carefully: Do we deserve to die? Do we deserve to live this life? If the answer is no, then do something for us. Either donate, participate, or do anything that makes us feel that you are with us and not leaving us alone in front of the genocidal criminals.

[abdalsalam2000]

I am a person who wants to complete my education, and my life is very similar to yours. The difference is that I was born in Gaza, so I need you to contribute in any way so that I can live a safe life and protect myself and my family from death and malnutrition. I should not die at the hands of the Zionists. Please stand by me.

[abdalsalam2000]

If you think my fundraising campaign is for individuals and would like to donate and help more people, or if you just want to help as many people as possible at once, my campaign has a large number of beneficiaries. You can donate here.

[hotvampireadjacent]

Please share this post and donate if you can. Nader and his family are suffering greatly. Please help them and donate now. If everyone who shares this post donates $10, we will raise a good amount to help Nader and his family.

[abdalsalam2000]

Please, friends, don't let us down or abandon us. We need your support and help. Please donate; we need 2200 euros to reach our goal. Donate now, please.

[grendel-menz]

Nader has spent the last eighteen years of his life in the Gaza strip. He has witnesses war after war, famine, fear, and death. His little cousin is now a toddler and has known nothing but terror herself.

If you'd like to help my friend Nader and his family afford food, medical, and housing costs please consider contributing to Nader's fundraiser, or reblogging! Thank you so much.

FUNDRAISER HERE.

[grendel-menz]

Please do consider helping Nader. His father is currently going through treatment for cancer and their family could use all the help they can get!

FUNDRAISER.

[abdalsalam2000]

For nearly three years, a devastating war has ravaged the Gaza Strip, leaving nothing untouched. We have been starved, besieged, displaced, our homes destroyed, and we have suffered immensely. We have lost so many of our loved ones, and this war continues unabated. We are desperately trying to survive by collecting donations, as they are the only thing that can keep us alive. My father's and brother's workplaces have been destroyed, and my father is battling cancer. Please don't hesitate to donate. Your donations are our only hope. Please donate now.

[petewentzisblack1312]

Reform would deny visas to countries seeking slavery reparations

The party says it wants to put African and Caribbean countries "on notice" after a vote at the UN last month.

i should be allowed to rip white english people apart with my teeth

[petewentzisblack1312]

GO HERE NOW AND YOU BETTER FUCKING REBLOG.

READ BRITAIN'S BLACK DEBT.

READ HOW BRITAIN UNDERDEVELOPED THE CARIBBEAN.

LOOK AT US.

[edgebug]

happy 20 year anniversary of Neil banging out the tunes!

though every rat is special, it's a wonderful and unusual thing for their accomplishments to be remembered and cherished by so many people so many years later. we're all so fortunate to know about the rat who banged out the tunes!

thank you to all the people who sent me reference photos of their beloved rats for this piece!!! credits under the cut!

@joe-spookyy Ben and Socrates

@gooseontheinternet Chamomile and Beefy

@runawayy-rat Bartholomäus and Emo

@theunholystromboli Macrogryphosaurus, Xenoceratops, and Graciliraptor

@techlecticwtch Solas and Dorian

@merlyn-bane Roslyn and Rizzoli

@logictoinsanity Luna and Buttercup

@hagsthehag Orphie, Psyche, Calypso, Ariadne, and Eury

my sweet ladies Bonnie, Mira, An, and Tula

and of course, the irreplaceable

Neil,

who banged out the tunes

[abdalsalam2000]

Since dawn today, 12 innocent civilians have been killed in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli airstrikes. The war of extermination has not ended, but the Zionist Israeli media does not reveal the truth. Gaza is under attack every day. Gaza is besieged without water, electricity, medicine, or food. More than two million Gazans are at the mercy of the brutal Israeli occupation. The war on Gaza has never ended.

[abdalsalam2000]

For two years, people have been killed and slaughtered mercilessly in full view of the world, yet everyone remains silent. No one raises their voice for justice in Gaza. Humanity has died. Life in Gaza has become utterly unbearable. Please do not ignore what is happening in Gaza. We are besieged, starved, and struggling every day, every hour, just to stay alive.

[abdalsalam2000]

Amidst what's happening in Gaza, my father and niece are both suffering terribly. My father has cancer, and his condition has been dire lately. His cries of pain are heartbreaking. Our only hope for saving them is you and your donations. Please help us and donate now. Please donate, my friend.

[saja-55]

Everything changed the day Amira was born. The world outside was collapsing — bombs, dust, screams, and fear. Yet inside a small room, by the dim light of a single candle, a new life began. While others were running for shelter, I was holding my newborn daughter, trembling, crying, trying to believe that something so pure could still exist in a place like Gaza. I named her Amira, because I wanted her to feel like a child of life —not a child of war.

  A year has passed since that night, but nothing has really changed Our house is still rubble, our streets still carry the smell of smoke, and the sky still echoes with sounds that make Amira flinch in her sleep. She has just turned one. She’s learning to walk, holding my finger with her tiny hand, laughing at the smallest things — as if she doesn’t see the destruction around her. She doesn’t know the word “loss.” She never met her father, but when she smiles, I see him there. Sometimes I watch her sleeping, and I wonder what kind of world she will grow up in — whether she will ever know what peace feels like, what home smells like. And yet, when she opens her eyes in the morning and says “mama,” everything becomes bearable again. I want to rebuild our home. Not just for the walls — but for her future. For Amira to have a small room, a safe place to dream, a life that belongs to her, not to war. I’m not asking for much. Only for a chance to give her a beginning filled with warmth instead of fear

Help Saja Rebuild a Life After Everything Fell Apart

My name is Saja. I am a mother, a wife, and just one of many women in Gaza trying to hold on — to hope, to my family, and to a life that no

 A Mother’s Message

To everyone reading this — thank you for listening to our story. Your kindness means more than words. Every share, every message, every donation — it all helps me rebuild not just a house, but a future for Amira. From the heart of Gaza, from a mother learning to hope again — we will live. And I will make sure my daughter grows up in a world that knows love more than war.

[abdalsalam2000]

This is our reality here in Gaza: killing, forced displacement, executions, living under fire, and shortages of medicine, food, and potable water. This is the current reality in Gaza.

[abdalsalam2000]

The current situation is extremely difficult. There are no basic necessities for life here; life itself is almost nonexistent. Besides the lack of food and water, my father and my niece Iman are suffering. She is going through the worst days of her life, and she is only two years old. She has spent her entire life in extremely difficult circumstances and a war of genocide.

[abdalsalam2000]

My father, who has cancer that could end his life, please don't ignore him. Please donate to save him and give him a decent life. Please don't leave us alone in this suffering. Please donate now. Your donation makes a huge difference and greatly helps in surviving. Please donate now.

[abdalsalam2000]

I am writing these words after my father came out of surgery to remove a cancerous tumor, which he needs to have every three months. This time, the doctors found two very large masses and four small cancerous masses.

[abdalsalam2000]

While my father should be in a fully equipped hospital to treat his life-threatening illness, he goes every three months to a medical tent (a mobile field hospital) to undergo surgery that requires general anesthesia, highly skilled doctors, and ongoing treatment. All of this is happening amidst the ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip and the shortage of medical staff, food supplies, and medications.

[abdalsalam2000]

I don't want to lose my father before my eyes while I have the opportunity to buy medicine and perhaps get him out of this devastated city of Gaza, which is being bombed and besieged, and where medicine and food are being prevented from entering. With your donations, we can save my father and give him a life like everyone else suffering from this disease. Please don't hesitate to donate, and donate now to save his life. Please.

[nibeul]

If you can help Nader in any way, please do so!! His father needs help desperately, and every cent counts.

[funtergeist]

please consider donating or sharing ! this campaign is vetted at #4 on gazavetters

[elbiotipo]

Everybody get more anti war right now

[elbiotipo]

What is even there to say? I can't keep waking up in a world where I read the news and I see schoolchildren bombed, millions of people displaced, old ladies carrying their cats and while their houses get turned into rubble, the waste of industry and human talent into bombs that shoot down other bombs.

Am I insane? what the fuck is going on?

[elbiotipo]

Even the most just war of liberation is painful and regrettable, but you well know I'm not talking about that, we're watching first world countries sell weapons to feed endless war and just bombing targets like if it's a reflex act just what they do, the complete surrender of any hope of building a better world or coexisting and we're all treating this like it's just the natural state of things.

I'm sorry if I'm being dramatic but genuinely, get more anti war right now.

[elbiotipo]

Warfare is not an inherent state of humanity, in any case, and it can and it will be abolished. I'm tired of people treating this like it's just the weather or nature. We know the material reasons behind war and they don't hold up and won't hold up forever.