[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.

care for gaza - focuses on providing food and essential supplies. donate here or here.

connecting humanity - securing internet access via donations of virtual sim cards (esims). if you can't afford a whole plan yourself, crips for esims is a communal pool that will use your donation to purchase and maintain esims

gaza soup kitchen - provides food, medical care, and classes for children. also has a gofundme

glia gaza medical support initiative - provides medical care through field clinics and tents at hospitals. donations can also be sent through their website.

ele elna elak - provides clean water, food, clothing, and shelter. they also have a gofundme

life for gaza - raising money for the gaza municipality to repair water and waste management infrastructure

taawon - partners with local civil organizations to provide food, water, medical care, shelter, and basic supplies

the sameer project - running various initiatives providing tents, medical care, and necessities. they have their own encampment project focused on sheltering families with children, sick and disabled members, or members in need of perinatal care

islamic relief worldwide's gaza emergency appeal - provides food, water, hygiene kits, medical supplies, and psychological support

baitulmaal - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, shelter, and medical supplies

gaza mutual aid fund - distributes food, hygiene products, water, and other essential supplies, including financial support. run by @/el-shab-hussein's amazing friend Mona. updates can be found on her instagram.

hygiene kits for gaza - provides hygiene supplies including menstrual products, wipes, and toothbrushes/toothpaste

anera - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, hygiene supplies, medicine, blankets and mattresses, and psychological care

palestine children's relief fund - provides supplies and support with a focus on children. also has an initiative for lebanon

dahnoun mutual aid - provides water, food, tents, baby supplies, financial support, and other necessities. updates can be found through their instagram

certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn't include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.

[cleolinda]

These Tiled Steps In San Francisco Glow At Night From The Moonlight

The 16th Avenue Tiled Steps project is an amazing community-led project in San Francisco. Friends and neighbors got together to cover the 16

Image credits according to the post: @yellofish

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[prokopetz]

Frankly, I don't buy the theory that the repeated sweeping deletions of trans women's blogs have principally been the product of bad-faith mass reporting campaigns abusing automated moderation. I've been falsely mass-reported before, on multiple occasions, and nothing's ever come of it. Someone is pulling that trigger.

[robertreich]

This story from @guardian_us was mind blowing to me. What are your thoughts?

[rackofhis]

theres a conversation on the airship where cloud tells yuffie something along these lines and its really an insight into his character and also its really bad advice

[tofucasserole]

the best

[zer0xide]

My Code Geass x Undertale AU!! Named it CODE GEASS: Nunnally Of The Determined to follow the anime's way when it comes into titles lol.

[zer0xide]

CODE GEASS: NUNNALLY OF THE DETERMINED [ Code Geass x Undertale AU ] stuffs If you guys have any questions about how the AU works feel free to ask them below!!

We don't talk about this guy btw /j

[zer0xide]

I actually am working on an Old Man AU meant for Lelouch. After watching Stephen Lang's Hellfire, this is the final design I would like to stay with. Now here's the concept of the story so far

Drifter/Nomada!Lelouch AU

Concept: Zero Requiem failed and man had to live alone. Disappearance of C.C., his geass and the death of his loved ones haunt him ever since. Now as a drifter, Lelouch would always travel alone and would offer his service ( e.g fixing some stuffs or helping around chores ) in exchange for food or a place to stay for a day.

[zer0xide]

Lelouch ever since learned how to fight, travelling for almost 5 decades, he had developed at least the basic fighting skills to defend himself. Whenever he fights, he would remember Suzaku, he would remember how good he is in physical combat. This also gives him the push to fight more for his life.

[zer0xide]

— Lelouch is not really good at manual labor but after the failed Zero Requiem and people thinking he's dead, he had to travel far away.

He hid by using an alias which is 'Leonard' at first. He started working as a construction worker but because of him not being used in enduring/lifting stuffs at the age of 18, he would be always made fun of.

He had to learn it the hard way

This is the start of Lelouch's improvement when it comes into physical aspects. He have to learn how these people can endure working under the sunlight.

At the age of 33, he can now move around the site with much ease. He also had gained respect from his co-workers. Although working under the Sun for hours??? Well, you could image how much he complained about it before when he's still a teenager.

[stealingpotatoes]

i don't know what older adults were on about when they said being a teenager was good <3

[nitewrighter]

I was about to make a post about like… how my family has this lemon tree out front, and one of the funniest things about having a lemon tree is occasionally I’ll be out in front doing whatever and I’ll see someone walking past and quickly grab a lemon off the tree and stuff it in their pockets as quick as they can like they’re shoplifting. 

I was about to make a post about how that’s funny and how, y’know people can have our lemons, it’s not a big deal because the tree pumps them out like gangbusters, but I really can’t make that post without thinking of… them…

[pretentioussongtitle]

I’ll admit it, OP. As soon as you mentioned your family had a lemon tree in their yard I wanted to ask you how they were dealing with the whore infestation.

[the-rain-monster]

I did this with a fig tree once while hungover as shit and on a walk of shame. Best damn figs I ever ate in my LIFE.

[roach-works]

when i was a teenager in san diego i was an absolutely unrepentant orange thief. climbed a fence to reach a particularly good pomegranate too. scrumping is a noble tradition of whores stretching back centuries and i won’t hear a word against it

[kingscrown666]

I understood what it meant from the context, but I had to look it up cuz no fucking way is that a real word. And

It is. Scrumping.

[athelind]

We have a pomegranate tree in our front yard. Nobody planted it. It just appeared one day, long before I moved in, and now it’s both huge and productive.

I’ve had at least two delivery drivers comment on it, and I invited them to come back when they were ripe and help themselves, because we always have far more than we can hope to deal with.

[natalieironside]

Back when I was in college I used to walk past multiple big thickets of wild grape vines on the way to and from class every day and I’m sure I woulda cracked a lot sooner than I did without my twice-daily dionysiad

Sometimes I still think abt thos grapes

[wanderingcoasties]

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post. (via 360degreesasthecrowflies)

[lillagrim]

[relelvance]

In what world is tall muscular man not conventionally attractive

[piedude]

We've all been down here too long. I truly think there's a chunk of tumblr's population that can no longer survive sunlight.

[reagan-slayer69]

women will say “hear me out” and show u a photo of pyramid head and then tumblr users will go “this is a perfectly normal man and an ice cold take”

[coldwind-shiningstars]

The Tube Post has been updated for 2026! Endless thanks to @andstuffsketches for the amazing art (!!!), @rowenabean for checking this over for me (all remaining mistakes are my own), @kelpforestdwellers for extra tips, and @appleyblam for an editing pass. Thank you all!

If you would like to download the zine for your own use, you can find it for free on itch.io.

[the-uss-premise]

Console buttons from Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-69)

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Culturally significant forbidden candy

[segamascott]

[fluentisonus]

I'd love to hear about how vital acorn crops were to swineherding actually

okay I can't say much about it on my own but here's a cool bit from the book The Medieval Pig by Dolly Jorgensen (which has been really interesting so far):

Pigs were present in the woodlands, particularly in autumn, when they could easily take advantage of the high-calorie foods acorns and beechmast. The autumnal bounty of tree fruit products, which is called mast, lasted only a limited time and was inconsistent from year to year. Oak and beech trees are notorious for uneven fruit production, with some lean years and some bumper crops, but even with that variability, most trees produce some crop every year, making it a dependable source of pig fodder. When the acorns really failed over a large area it was a noteworthy tragedy, as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle entry for 1116 notes: ‘this year was so barren of mast that none was heard tell of in all this land nor also in Wales’. The value of trees as pig fodder and shelter providers was recognised by ancient custom and led to their protection. Large productive oak trees were especially valued and conserved. The Laws of Ine, issued in seventh-century Wessex, set the fine for illegally cutting down a tree that could ‘shelter 30 swine’ at twice the amount of a regular tree.

The most often cited medieval documentary evidence for feeding pigs in woodlands is the late eleventh-century Domesday Book. The Domesday survey was created to take stock of all the properties and payments due on landholdings throughout England, which had recently been acquired by William I. In Domesday the normal formula for woodland size is ‘wood for x swine’ (silva ad x porcos) although Shropshire entries are more specific: ‘wood for fattening (incrassandis) x swine’. In 1950 the geographer H. C. Darby compiled the most extensive study of Domesday woodland geography to date and came to the conclusion that ‘wood formed an important item in the economy of the eleventh century because its acorns and beech-mast provided food for swine’. ... Domesday, however, was not the first documentation to specify the connection between pigs and trees. In the Carolingian world the ninth-century estate inventories known as polyptychs measured woodland’s size and value based on its capacity to pasture swine. The monks of Montier-en-Der, for example, had 12 estates in Champagne that could fatten an average of 800 pigs each.

...

the woodlands that the pigs fed in would have been highly managed spaces (Figure 6). Trees could be pollarded (the practice of cutting off the branches of a mature tree above the grazing height of animals and utilising the regrowth for a variety of purposes). Oaks growing in open wood pasture, rather than in dense forests, produce more acorns per tree, and the open areas also encourage grass growth, so it would have made sense to keep grazing areas open to allow pigs more food sources to forage. Oaks tend not to produce a significant number of acorns until about the age of 20 so, while it was not necessary to cultivate young trees, care would have been taken to keep old trees alive if a medieval herder wanted food for his pigs.

...

Feeding pigs in woodlands came at a cost, literally. The fee for grazing pigs was known as pannage (in medieval Latin pasnagio) or glandage, which conferred the right to feed pigs in an area in exchange for a number of fattened pigs or an equivalent amount of cash. Use of a woodland for pannage or driving pigs through it is one of the most frequently recorded rights in woodland, including the administrative areas called forest in medieval documents. Pigs may have been driven considerable distances to seasonal pastures.

also re: those last points, here's a bit from a masters dissertation I've been reading ("Power Relations In The Royal Forests of England" by Andrew Pattinson) abt how seriously potential abuse of all this might be taken:

Illicit sales (or gifting) of wood was a crime the foresters were often accused of in the records. In Peter [de Neville, a corrupt forester]'s case however the scope of the illegal felling was fairly exceptional: Over the course of a dozen years, some 7,000 oaks were allegedly cut and sold to wood sellers, lime burners and charcoal burners, amounting to an estimated 7,000 shillings in grift – monies which rightly belonged to the king. ... The inquisition mentions de Neville pocketing monies for agistment, that is, the right (for a small fee) to fatten one’s pigs on the acorns of the forest during the autumn, a critically important privilege amongst forest dwellers. In Peter’s case, he is accused not only of stealing the fees but also of agisting more animals than the forest could handle and (illegally) agisting his own pigs, nearly 300 per year, totaling some 940 shillings of damage.

also some images of pigs & swineherds in the forest (you can see the acorns & even see the swineherds knocking them off trees for the pigs):

*worth noting though that this is rural swineherding in places where there are woods, other places might do it differently