I appeal to every free person, to those with kind hearts, and to lovers of الخير.
Whoever spends in the way of Allah is like a grain that grows seven ears; in every ear are a hundred grains. And God multiplies for whom He wills.
I am your brother, Mahmoud Al-Qassas from Gaza. I kindly ask for your help in repaying a debt I took on to cover the funeral expenses of my 5-year-old son.
My son passed away after falling from the fourth floor. He had been looking out of the room’s window to see how high our apartment was, and he fell from that height. As everyone knows, we are suffering in Gaza, and since I had no money, I borrowed $1,500 to cover the funeral expenses. The amount was spent as follows:
$750 went toward grave digging, the shroud, washing the deceased, and transportation for the burial.
The remaining $750 covered the costs of the condolence gathering for three days.
The person who lent me the money is now asking for it back, and I have nothing to repay him. Therefore, I kindly ask for your help in settling this debt, and I humbly ask you to extend a helping hand to us.
Please help us by donating via PayPal.
Go to paypal.me/Abdalqader97am and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
It's crazy how you have to convince non trans women the absolute fucking horror, literal gutwrenching horror, that a young girl going through male puberty is.
In addition to Ayla’s ongoing health struggles, she now has to worry about rats and insects. Recently Gaza has become overwhelmed by vermin, which carry diseases and will even bite or eat human flesh. Unfortunately, the only solution available to families is to deploy pesticides around the living space. However, pesticides are difficult to obtain and therefore very expensive in Gaza, about $850 usd for the amount Ayla’s mother Bshaer needs for their living space. Bshaer needs your help to procure this unfortunate but very necessary item, as the only alternative is the increased likelihood of bites and diseases.
There has been no progress on their campaign in several days, and on top of this expense, they still need to treat Ayla gastroenteritis. They are in a really, really tough place right now and they need your help!
Current: $76,745 out of $77,545 (5 May)
Need to raise: $800 usd
Hello, my name is Reem. I have created this fundraiser in hopes to save my family members from… Reem Shaheen needs your support for Help my
Vetting: verified on line 231 of the vetted campaign master list by nabulsi and el-shab-hussein
Maha and her family previously had a verified GFM to pay for basic necessities like food, medical care, and some form of shelter. Horrifically, the person running their former GFM has stolen from them and hijacked their campaign.
Below is Maha’s new GFM. Her previous GFM was vetted by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi on their vetted campaign master list, on line 163.
I am physiotherapist Ahmed Khalil Al-Habil
from palestine _Gaza
I have been dis… Ahmed Alhabil needs your support for Support My Family To
Maha has been hospitalized due to serious complications from an infected tooth. She is particularly vulnerable to this type of infection, which almost killed her last year. Thankfully her husband has returned from Egypt, but both he and Maha are unable to work and thus cannot pay for her hospital bills. They are over $700 usd in debt for her treatment and Maha is about to be kicked out of the hospital.
As I said, last year a very similar infection almost took Maha’s life. If she is expelled from the hospital, a worsened infection is an inevitability. She still has a high fever and needs to remain hospitalized. PLEASE help her continue life-saving treatment!!
15-year-old Nour Ibrahim’s health has been in danger her entire life due to a serious heart condition which has limited her growth. We have spoken about her health struggles in the past, you can find previous posts like this one, which includes vetting formation, in our “nour Al habil” and “nour Ibrahim” tags below.
Nour urgently needs your support once again. Living conditions for her on the street in a makeshift tent with her family, have been further wearing her health down for many months. Exposure to the elements, combined with environmental pollution caused by the IOF’s destruction of so many buildings, have resulted in breathing difficulties. This puts an increased strain on her already fragile heart, limiting her heart’s ability to beat and sustain her body. She is now in a hypoxic state, struggling to get enough oxygen.
She urgently needs a nebulizer to assist her breathing. Without this, her body will continue to shut down, and she will become comatose or worse. Please share her family’s campaign so we can help Nour breathe!! Link: https://gofund.me/e5d099ed6
Current: $4,564 out of $5,102 usd (22 April)
Need to raise: $538 usd
Nour is a 15-year-old girl living in a fragile tent in Gaza.
… Zachary Morgan needs your support for Help Nour: A 15-Year-Old Girl with Hea
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!!!
€7,186 out of €7,739 EUR (1 June)
Need to raise: about €553 EUR ($643 usd)
Information on vetting linked under the cut of this post
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
"My mother is dying of pain and hunger 'right now' right before my eyes. Please, help us save her life with medicine and food before it's too late. If you can't donate, please 'Share' this immediately—you could be her miracle."
Hey everyone! Mai Mohsen's fundraiser is #392 on our vetted list! Please help her out.
Go to paypal.me/maiabuhamda and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
It is very painful to see my wife suffer in front of me because of her gunshot in the chest area and the inability to remove it due to medical negligence and lack of medical care.
Now I urgently need your help.
At least to reach 2000, the remaining 650 pounds to reach them will help me a lot in this difficult period.
My name is Mohammed ayesh from Gaza Recently, I started a new chapter in my li… Shelley Gordon needs your support for Support Ayesh’s family
Go to paypal.me/MAyesh674 and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
We are so excited for this interview with the author of Whiskey Four, @johnlouisif!
Do you want to play a retired contract killer? Who's being hunted down by the corpos, the cops and even your (supposedly dead) ex! Oh right...you also need to save the galaxy from an unknown entity...
Have what it takes?
Check out the other winners in the action/adventure category here.
About the author
I don’t drink coffee. Or alcohol. My inspiration for my work comes purely from the pains of cold sobriety. I broke my wrist when I was eleven years old and my handwriting hasn’t recovered since, and I very often can’t read my own notes when I’m annotating books.
About the book
John Wick in space meets Lovecraftian cosmic horror.
Tell us a bit about what you're working on right now and your journey into interactive fiction
I’m working on the sequel to my first interactive fiction game, I, the Forgotten One. It’s a pretty beastly project, as the multiple endings diverge into three primary routes, so every chapter needs to be written about two and a half times. I started ITFO six years ago during COVID, and it was just a hobby for a while, but I’ve been attempting to take it more seriously with the opening of a Patreon, hoping that I can potentially do writing full time in the future.
What was the inspiration for this game and why did you want to write an action story?
I wanted to write in a futuristic/sci-fi setting after finishing ITFO, but more than that, I wanted to write a story with completely different pacing. ITFO and its sequel, I, the Unbroken One, take place over months. I need, for the sake of the plot, a great deal of time to pass. The characters are marching or riding vast distances; medieval war involves a lot of waiting and boredom. This doesn’t make for a good story, so time needs to be skipped. The great danger of this style of story is that it can sometimes feel like a series of vignettes; if I keep skipping time and just jumping between major scenes, there won’t be any connective tissue.
Whiskey-Four is all connective tissue. The game takes place over four days, and each scene leads immediately into the next. The movement of time is kept in check by the use of a clock which tells the reader what time it is after every minor time skip. This style of pacing is best suited to action/adventure stories, I believe.
What is one thing you're really proud of that you've written? Do you have any favourite character or scene you've written?
I think writing Ulysses/Ulyssa, the primary love interest from Whiskey-Four, was the best creative decision I have made in writing. I believe they are singlehandedly responsible for a full half of Whiskey-Four’s popularity. In the grand scheme of love interests, they don’t even have a lot of time with the protagonist, and yet they’re still so well-liked, which I think is a testament to how compelling they turned out.
How has your identity, heritage/background, or personal experiences influenced your storytelling or writing process?
I’ve dealt with mental health troubles in the past which really colored the prose and, for lack of a better term, the vibe of I, the Forgotten One. It’s a vibe I can’t really recapture, now that I’m in a better place.
For folks who have enjoyed your IF, what other book/music/movie should they check out for the same 'vibe'?
I discovered the song “Infinite Skin” by Blaqk Audio when writing Whiskey-Four, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard a song better encapsulate something I wrote. The entire album, “Only Things We Love,” fits the cyberpunk aesthetic of Whiskey-Four so well.
What are you excited to tackle/implement/work on next?
I, the Unbroken One, the sequel to ITFO! It’s up to 200,000+ words now, and it’s… maybe a quarter done. It’s been a huge project, much larger than I typically like, but I’ve so far enjoyed the process. I think the third chapter which I just released publicly is the best of the story so far. I started ITFO six years ago, and I’ve become a better writer since then, so the sequel is an opportunity to take existing characters and make them even stronger.
