I barely even know what to order for lunch

[tamarrud]

for anyone who’s looking for ways to help, SAMS (Syrian American Medical Society) has been working on the ground and are currently treating those affected by the chemical attack in Idlib. they are in need of support to continue to provide care, so donate if you’re able to or simply spread the word. thank you

[tamarrud]

“What can I do to help Syria?”

Well, after educating yourself and advocating for the rights of the Syrian people in their fight for freedom against a brutal dictatorship as well as naming and holding accountable those who aid the Assad regime such as Iran, Hezbollah and Russia among others, *breathes*, you can help by donating to any of the organisations/groups listed below. 

These groups mainly help on the ground in Syria providing aid; be it medical or psychological as well as food and clothes to those in need.

SAMS Foundation: the foundation works with Syrian American health care professionals and operates 106 medical facilities throughout Syria

Doctors Without Borders (also known as MSF): the organisation provides front-line medical treatment as well as providing drugs, medical supplies and equipment

Questscope: the organisation’s work is mostly centered on providing immediate trauma support and psychosocial counseling

Save the Children: the organisation is on the ground in Syria and in refugee communities providing children and their families with warm clothes, shelters, clean water and emergency care

Syrian Civil Defense (also known as The White Helmets): they are about 3,000 neutral, impartial and humanitarian Syrian volunteers who operate as first responders in rebel-held areas across the country. They were recently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Karam Foundation: the organisations is focused on educational opportunities for Syrian children, currently raising funds to rebuild schools in Syria.

NuDay Syria: the organisation’s mission focuses on bringing housing and food to displaced families with single mothers or wounded family members. They are especially concerned with the lack of safe shelter and living for single mothers with daughters.

Hand in Hand for Syria: the organisation provides aid including food, clothing, water, sanitation and crucial medical assistance 

According to the United Nations, there are almost 14 million Syrian refugees around the world (so far) in need of humanitarian aid. The groups below are mainly focused on helping Syrian refugees:

Migrant Offshore Aid Station: this charity exists to save children like Alan Kurdi, with a fleet of rescue boats patrolling the Mediterranean to save migrants lost at sea.

Refugees Welcome: dubbed as a kind of “Airbnb for refugees” this German nonprofit matches people with spare rooms with refugees in need of housing. If you don’t have a spare bed in Germany.

The Worldwide Tribe in Calais: a group of social activists documenting stories in the Calais migrant camp, they also raise relief funds.  

Small Projects Istanbul: the initiative provides classes and cultural enrichment and scholarships to Syrian children in Turkey.

International Medical Corps: they run a service center for Syrian refugees that provides medical care, classes and job training.

Medical Teams International: the organisation focuses on health and dental care for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. 

Mercy Corps: the group provides direct aid to Syrian refugees in the form of food and supplies, and by increasing access to clean water and sanitation, shelters, and safe spaces and activities for children

Shelterbox: the group has been providing emergency shelter and supplies to families affected by the Syrian crisis in Iraq Kurdistan, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, including clothing, stoves and, water filters.

UNICEF: the UN agency focuses on assisting Syrian children by providing healthcare, nutrition, immunization, water and sanitation, and classes.

Oxfam: the nonprofit provides aid to Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan such as clean water, sanitation services, and hygiene education to help ward of cholera and other intestinal diseases.

Yes, donating won’t stop barrel bombs from falling on besieged civilian areas (that comes by being vocal about Assad’s crimes) but it can definitely help create a start.

[tamarrud]

Speaking of educating yourselves, an initiative called Syria Social Campaign would send you one or two articles concerning Syria each week! You only have to submit your email address.

I have also found a more detailed list of things you can do to help aside from donations made by Syrian Solidarity Committee. I highly recommend going through it as it has many excellent recommendations.

[tamarrud]

Here’s the Syria Solidarity Calendar for those who would like to take part in solidarity events around the world

[tamarrud]

Humanitarian Relief Foundation is preparing for a land convoy that is going to the Syrian border early Wednesday 14 December but they also have many other projects like No Bread Delivery and medical check-ups for Syrian orphans which you can donate to here. 

The Syrian Campaign is also a great independent advocacy group that has several campaigns like The People’s Convoy which aims to rebuild the last children’s hospital in Eastern Aleppo, and they are an overall great resource of information and I highly recommend visiting their website.

[gaelgarcia]

We here, Chiron.

Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins

[travellersfarfromhome]

My tribute to one of the best of the year.

[travellersfarfromhome]

Academy Award Winner For Best Picture (2017).

[oooretha]

Today I really just want to bask in the glory of black queer love!

[veryfemmeandantifascist]

But wait there’s more!

[mysharona1987]

[executionerbarbie]

there’s literally no doubt in my mind that the entirety of the San Junipero episode of Black Mirror was based on this picture and that is….fine tbh

[spiderslyre]

In the moment kiss pleaseeeee with cherries on top!

In The Moment Kiss - Maybe it’s in the middle of an argument or you just looked to damn beautiful not to kiss, but their lips were hot against yours and it felt too good to stop.

There was always something comforting about her dark room. The funky smell that would eventually not even be noticiable, the silence, the red light that covered everything in an ominous tint, developing photos was a catharsis even when there was a deadline just creeping around the corner, poking at her anxieties and making her concious of exactly how slow the whole process of developing film was.

Knock. Knock “Therese, can I come in?” Carol whispered through the door.

Therese chuckled and went to open the door just a crack so Carol could slide in without letting too much light into the room. Therese closed the door and let Carol wander around the room and look at her photos.

“Everything okay?” Therese asked as she turned around.

Carol had her arms behind her and she stood impossibly straight, scanning photos with such respect as if she had been given orders.

“Yes. I just got bored, alone in the living room so I decided to come watch you work.” Carol said.

Therese watched as she perched herself on an empty spot by the sink, running her fingers through her hair once. The red light complimented her pale skin, her complexion was warm and the cold lighting made it seem like she had a glow. It cast shadows on all the contours of her face, the hollow of her cheek looked was almost solid black, her eyes were also hidden in the shadows only and the grey sparkled through it, the shadow around her eyes ran along her nose, the curve of her supple bottom lip was even more prominent, shadows danced in her golden hair and sat beautifully in her curls. She looked like a movie, a film noir where the detective meets the femme fatale only to fall madly for her. Therese walked up to her, her fingers reaching out to touch the fabric of her skirt. 

“Is that okay?” Carol asked. 

Therese replied with an impassioned kiss. She felt Carol shudder against her mouth and take her by the waist. Their arms wrapped around each other, tangled in hair or bunching up clothing, as simple firm kisses grew hot with their desire. They rocked back and forth, both lips in a silent dual to taste more of the other, to feel more of the other, to claim, to bruise. The pucker of their kisses and the slurp of their tongues echoed off the walls, a sound so obscene it felt like sacrilege to the usual quiet of the dark room. Therese felt her lungs burn for air but she kept kissing as if Carol’s lips were a substitute for oxygen. Yet surely they broke for air, Therese slid her hands from Carol’s hair to her chest and felt her beating heart and heaving chest under her palm.

“I don’t know if I am going to be able to work with you here.” Therese said. Carol laughed, tugging Therese’s waist and pressing her closer. 

“Then how about you keep me company in the bedroom?” 

Therese missed a deadline for the first time in her career.

[momo03go-deactivated20210107]

CAROL

Flung Out of Space

[spiderslyre]

god imagine Carol and Therese sitting on the floor in their apartment listening to records, Billie Holiday. It´s winter and snow falls outside, but in their apartment there is only warmth. The warmth of sitting close to each other, of leaning against each other. A head on her shoulder. A hand lightly running through her hair. Sitting on the floor chatting away, about everything and nothing. To bump in to each other with a shoulder when the other teases about something. (...)

To be constantly near laughter because the heart is so light, so light. Time is the last thing on their mind and time stops whenever they are together and one song goes into the next and now Billie starts to sing “All of me”. With a glance; lips against lips, hands around neck and someone pressing the other down on the floor, gentle, always gentle. Making out on the floor, hands running down the length of their bodies, they could lay like that for hours. (..)

But need pounds in them too and tingling and aching, a moan slipping out, “god, I- “. Catching breath. Hand catching hand, intertwining. “You have me, all of me, just take me” And soon their clothes are no longer in the way of bodies touching. And soon: she fucks her right there, on the apartment floor. Snow falls outside but December has never been so warm as now.

I am fucking speechless THIS IS ALL I AM ABOUT

[greggaraki]

The name, the address, the town appeared beneath the pencil point like a secret Therese would never forget, like something stamping itself in her memory forever.

[ayqaart-deactivated20170320]

Me for Urban Outfitters

Photographed by Anna Ottum

[inahur]

Rose Gold

one last illustration before a new year 🌿

[wlwwriting]

“One day you will meet a girl who will treat you with such fire and longing you won’t know what to do with it all. Someday her soul will bump right into yours, and lightning. This girl will wake you. She will shake you from your dull, chaotic universe and punch cracks in the wall until her sweet radiation can push through. You will bloom for her, emanation upon emanation of need, of down on your knees desire, of kneeling beneath star and moon, of painstaking prayer, of please-let-me-have-her-my-god-let-me-have-her. Your want will be big and your heart will be bigger, and all the planets will see it. See the way you swell for her; your all, your everything. One day this girl will love you and you will love her back, in dizzy, incomparable ways. She will carry you out of the mouth of your own longing and show you a new way, so together you can build another world, one where there is safety, where this is a story of stardust not gunpowder, where you can hold each other without fear of who might be watching. One day she will kiss you at exactly the right time, in exactly the right way, and your blood will turn to light. She’ll learn your volcanic places and adore them, make you burst and burst until you can’t speak, until you cry out, reaching for her, calling on angels. Words won’t be enough and you’ll be okay with that. She will take your face in her hands and never let you forget for an instant that you’re wanted. All your hidden aching bared for her warm eyes, all that despair turned quiet. It will make you weep. It will make you unbreakable.

@tendersapphic (via wlwwriting)

[2bratty]

[automaticpastels]

pastel 30920 - #e3cec4

[mushroomsteeth]

⚡️🍷🌹a look inspired by pat mcgrath’s upcoming bloodwine lipkit🌹🍷⚡️

 ig: kavinalm