oh I get it now this isn’t the Lestat show this is actually the frame the abuse victim that we’ve followed for the last two seasons in the worst possible light at every turn show. What a creative and meaningful way to engage with all the groundwork we’ve laid out for years how could I or anyone else have ever written anything this high quality just stellar television all around 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Hello, I'm Ahmed, 23 years old. I was studying computer science at the Islamic University in Gaza before the war. I aspired to build a brigh
Hello friends, I thank you very much for your continuous support, but right now I am in urgent need of you and your help. We are now in the holy month of Ramadan, which requires a lot of expenses, and there has been a significant rise in prices.
I also need to pursue my dream after losing everything. I need your support greatly—I need more than $1,500 to pay my university fees so I can receive my certificate and apply for scholarships.
You can find the images below the post.
Therefore, I am in great need of your help. I support my family, and at the same time, I am trying to achieve myself and continue my education.
i'm sure most of you must've heard about the earthquakes in venezuela yesterday (june 24th). the magnitudes were 7.2 and 7.5 respectively; while felt throughout the country the most affected zones have been la guaira and caracas, with some places being reduced to dust and the number of injures and casualties climbing up. this is not a country that's prepared to deal with any, let alone this, kind of emergency, so any help that could be extended to us would be really appreciated.
i haven't seen many options for people outside to donate. easiest way is this fundraiser from the I Love Venezuela Foundation
Venezuela needs our help now.
After a devastating earthqu… I Love Venezuela Foundation needs your support for Emergency Relief for Venez
you can also donate directly through zelle and binance to Organizacion Solo con Fe in barquisimeto, but !!! make sure to label it "donacion" so it can be correctly identified. everything will be used for relief in the affected zones.
lastly, Passagio is a Miami-based courier that's put a special fare of $4/lb for aid to be sent to venezuela. no profits will be made from this, that's strictly transportation costs. they're accepting: medicine, non-perishable food, hygiene products, clothing, essential supplies.
you can donate at your own discretion and screen any and all of these as you wish, obviously. any help and signal boosting is extremely appreciated, and if i find other means for help to be sent directly i'll add them.
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
$550 is still missing… if only 22 people donate $25 each, we can finally save my sister and get her the treatment she desperately needs. My sister has now gone 4 days without her medication while she is still in intensive care, and her condition is getting worse instead of improving after the surgery. Please, we are begging you not to leave her alone in this condition.💔
Every hour without treatment is terrifying us. We already fought so hard just to get her through surgery, and now we are scared of losing her because we cannot afford the medicine she urgently needs. The donations are very few, and people keep ignoring our cries while my sister suffers in pain in the ICU.😔💔
I am exhausted from begging every single day, but I cannot stop because my sister’s life depends on it. Please, even a small donation can make a huge difference for her right now. If 22 kind people donate only $25, we can reach the amount needed and help my sister continue fighting to survive.🙏😔💔
my vampire show...... the futility of it all ;-; i have to be very careful whom i let in with armand sat inside. grace telling louis not to let it inside after lestat has spent pauls entirely funeral forcing himself inside of louis -> armand chiding louis for keeping the door of his apartment unlocked as he lets himself in -> armand faux coy at being invited inside when sexual placation was louis' only option for armand not to kill him and claudia. its all sooooo futile. THE VAMPIRE IS IN THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!! and the concept of consensual admittance is a myth so is any distinguishable boundary btwn home (which cannot function as refuge) and not-home. the role of each originary space is to prime louis for extra-familial abuse: the dpdls as representative of the 'hat[s he] is forced to wear' pushing him into lestat's arms and lestat's failures as his vampiric father priming him for armand's predation.
this post positing that shane and ilya's relationship frustrates people bc it's difficult to assign heteronormative roles to them bc of their neck and neck rivalry is interesting to me but i don't think it's ultimately true! bc there is simply never ever a question of who is more masculine Especially among hockey players. Who's more masc the guy all over tmz since day one with beautiful women on his arm or the guy who only eats brown rice and salmon? Dont make me laugh.
Like shane is in an environment so fiercely and precariously masculine that it's gay as fuck to eat tofu. And he's telling hayden don't call women chicks. the second they are out of the closet as a couple it's not a question. which is part of why the prospect of coming out is so destabilizing for shane in a way that it isn't for ilya. there's no more plausible deniability for him; it's confirmation of what people already say behind closed doors: that he fundamentally, despite a life time of effort, does not live up to the standards of masculinity that surround him. standards that are 10000x exacerbated by being racialized bc the stakes are that much higher; it's not just his prowess/masculinity but that of all asian men since he's been designated representative. saw trap!
Actually i’m saying kind of the exact opposite of this. In-universe everyone esp everyone in the homophobic professional sports world would not only ask the question (who’s the man? meaning: who tops) but instantly be able to answer it, and they would be able to answer it correctly!!! And that seriously impacts the plot and how shane views himself ! THAT is actually the operative tension of heated rivalry!! that’s why it’s so significant that sex/penetration is such a widely used metaphor for winning and losing! we can’t just set these things aside for a fantasy where coming out magically exempts you from living in a patriarchal world. this is the meat of the story
Also i think the original post is no longer up but it also suggested that kip and scott are more palatable to straight people bc the clear and extreme differential in economic status (millionaire hockey player / regular guy) is easy to gender and therefore palatable to straight people but i don’t think that’s true either. i recall someone saying that the dudebro hockey podcasters were thrilled to find out gay couples could switch roles lol and they’re certainly. CERTAINLY. more palatable to the millennial white gym gays they represent And also every day on here heated rivalry fandom makes clear how uncomfortable and unrealistic and even potentially morally degrading they find fixed preferences and D/s dynamics like in the collective imagination shane constantly has to atone for the sin of being asian and submissive by being sufficiently masc and “walking ilya like a dog” and ilya has to atone for the sin of dominance by being secretly submissive deep down
Please don't scroll past. This is my brother, Samer. He’s fighting a critical illness, and the treatment that could save his life is completely out of our reach. We are running out of time. Reblogging costs nothing, but it could literally save his life today. Please be his miracle. 💔 DONATION
It is with a broken heart that we have to share the worst news imaginable with the NGU community. This weekend, the IOF bombed the neighborhood of Yahya Al-Habil and his family. Little Omar, Yahya’s 7-year-old brother who we have mentioned often, was martyred.
Both of Yahya’s brothers Khalil and Mohammed were being treated in different departments for the severe injuries they sustained from this attack, and did not get the chance to say goodbye to Omar. Their wounds were devastating, and both remain in very poor condition.
They now require ongoing, very expensive medical care, the sum of which for both their treatments is $10,000 usd. Donations have become stagnant and their situation is extremely desperate. Please help them survive and try to rebuild their lives.
Current: $8,012 of $15,480 usd—updated 28 Feb
Need to raise: $7,468 usd
Hello, my name is Khalil, I'm 19 years old, from Gaza.
Previous updates are available here; vetting information in the last reblog; Khalil encourages anyone with questions to contact him on WhatsApp at +972 56-795-7368 for more information
Shrapnel damage from the bombardment that killed his baby brother caused injuries to Khalil's liver and kidneys. The untreated damage has progressed to the point that they are losing their ability to function. He urgently needs 3 rounds of treatment to combat the effects of his deteriorating liver and kidneys’
These organs perform vital functions in the body. The body cannot function without them. If Khalil does not receive emergency intervention soon, he will die!
The first round is $1000 usd—let’s get this round paid for so we can get Khalil the help he needs!!!
the way ppl talk about shane and ilya's sex life on here is unbearable like i don't understand the need to sublimate all of ilya's desires under shane's when that's not even what either of them are attracted to. ilya isn't sitting around waiting for shane to tell him what to do or come up with crazy unbelievable kinks like spanking that somehow shock ilya. i understand that most people in fandom are women or afab and there is no denying that penetration can be a touchy or scary or violent thing for a lot of us like same but at a certain point you really do just need to contend w these hang ups about penetration and domination if you're going to engage this much with anal sex, and you have to be able to separate yourself from these sexual fictions. if you can't, which is fine, then find texts that don't require you to deal with a dominating penetrating man instead of this endless cycle of always erasing any individual or fulfilling sexual desire for canonically staunch tops. it's the same pattern every time where you guys talk about dom tops as if this is a carnal sin they need to atone for by making them little more than sentient dildos or sex robots with no sexual desire that the canonically staunch bottom doesn't encode onto them. it's boring! and it shows up everywhere. the walk him like a dog edit was cute and funny, but almost immediately it got reduced to an excuse to write ilya as if he can't have individual characterization or subjectivity if he "must" top shane. you need to contend with why you think that the penetrating person respecting liking and loving their partner means that they can't possibly enjoy sex for Themselves and must be a service top or submissive or lacking human free will. why does everyyyyyy sexual character and sexual relationship need to be flattened into nothing? ilya's sado-dominance is one of the most straightforward aspects of his characterization and the entire point, the sexual dynamic is the point! there reaches a certain point of self projection onto another creator's original characters where you should just write ur own ocs or an autobiography
and honestly tbh tbsfr to be completely truthful the "shane invents [literally any sexual thing] in his own crazy mind and doesnt have to self awareness or knowledge to know that [spanking? consent play? roleplay?] existed until it came to him in a dream" is getting a lot ableist and a likkle racialized. an autistic person having a hyperfixation doesn't mean that they don't know how to use the internet or have never like existed in society before. even if you ignore that ilya did in fact teach him everything he knows about sex and everything he likes about sex and shane's sexual development is always in conversation with and guided by ilya: EVEN if you ignore that--which most people do anyway--there is still a line between riffing off said sexual exploration and kinkiness versus what is increasingly just infantilization. he is not a child. under or unnegotiated doesn't mean that shane is never aware of what he's asking for or wants and he is not trying to have sex solely for himself or interested in doing something that isnt equally good for Ilya beyond fandom's reduction of their sex life to solely shane's orgasms. that is not the type of sex he's having or wants to have and just because he is learning this for the first time doesn't mean that he doesn't recognize himself as a sexual being. he's not stupid or a child! just because he doesn't have the exact word for it doesn't mean he isn't self aware and must be flabbergasted when ilya gives him what he asks for lol again there's a line between writing him as coy and bratty and writing him as if its his first day on earth when they're 29 and fucking since teens. shane did not sprout his dildos or butt plugs from thin air, he is an adult man with the wherewithal to google how long it's safe to drive with a plug in and how to prepare himself for anal sex. even when he had sex he hated with women, he still tried to at least be good at oral. he can be kinky and come up w crazy roleplay scenarios without this incessant demeaning of autistic people's self awareness and capacity for growth and Knowing More Than One Thing even if they don't care about those other things as much! which. doesn't even count here because being ilya's sub bottom is like. shane's final boss hyperfixation. he was not in fact born yesterday