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[hualianisms]

verified ways to send aid to gaza directly

Help a Palestinian family directly:

gazafunds.com - Donate directly to a Palestinian family in urgent need of evacuation, medical attention, food, rebuilding homes/businesses etc. (Spotlights 1 verified gfm at a time so if you don't know who/where to donate to just go here and donate to the one they show you!)

Help provide tents (urgent):

The Sameer Project: Currently providing tents for displaced families in Gaza (emergency bc tents in Rafah are being burned as we speak) (paypal) (gfm)

Food, cash & essentials:

Care for Gaza: Working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash, medicine & other essentials to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Direct Aid for Gaza: also working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash & other daily essential suppliess to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Water:

Gaza Municipality's water project: The official Municipality of Gaza needs help rebuilding the water infrastructure in Gaza City to restore access to clean water and waste management services for the people of Gaza. (This campaign only has a couple of weeks left but it's still only at 15%!)

eSIMs (urgent):

guide to buy & send esims for gaza

crips for esims for gaza: If you don't know how to buy esims or don't have the capacity to manage them (e.g. topping up regularly), this team of volunteers are collecting funds to buy & manage gaza esims regularly

Medical Aid

Palestine Red Crescent Society: Provides emergency medical and ambulance services and humanitarian relief on the ground in Gaza e.g. rescuing and treating the wounded.

[lostyesterday]

I’ve seen a lot of joke posts about how Kira is a lesbian because she has short hair but, like, Kira’s appearance is the last reason why I generally read her as a lesbian. DS9 clearly intends to show that Kira is attracted to men, but I have always found this attraction to feel forced and artificial.

As one example, when Kira gets together with Shakaar in Crossfire or Odo in His Way, both episodes focus solely on Odo’s and Shakaar’s feelings toward Kira. Their perspectives are explored extensively, and their romantic feelings toward Kira are very explicitly depicted. Neither episode does anything whatsoever to explore Kira’s perspective on either of them. In fact, before Shakaar and Odo confess their love to Kira, there is absolutely no indication whatsoever that Kira has romantic feelings for either of them. Obviously there are Doylist explanations for this (namely, sexism), but what comes across from a narrative perspective is the implication that Kira suddenly and spontaneously developed feelings for both men after they said they were in love with her. Which is obviously possible – I know some people do experience attraction this way. But it also could read as extremely lesbian. I did the same thing several times when I was younger and thought I was straight. If someone tells you they have romantic feelings for you, and you genuinely like them and enjoy their company, it can be very easy to convince yourself that what you feel is romantic love. And you want to convince yourself, because you want deeply to be connected to other people.

When Kira breaks up with Shakaar because the Prophets let her know they weren’t meant to be together, part of me can’t help but imagine that she might feel relieved deep down. There’s no need, now, to wonder if she truly feels the same way toward him that he feels toward her. There’s an excuse, now, to go back to the way it was before when she didn’t have to interrogate all of her emotions in search of the ones she was supposed to feel.

When Kira tells Odo she loves him enough to let him go in Chimera, and when she truly lets him go in the finale, I imagine what part of her she feels she is losing. Odo is one of her closest friends – one that survived one war and then the next and in the end she lost him anyway. And she has lost so much, and so there can be no relief in this, but maybe in some small way it is still easier to pretend you loved someone the way they loved you once you’ve lost them.

And I compare Kira’s interactions with these men the show describes her as being in love with to her interactions with Jadzia or Keiko or Cretak, and I just find her chemistry with women so much more convincing. There’s no effort behind it – just connection. I don’t think what I’m saying here is the “correct” way of interpreting Kira as a character – it is simply my own interpretation based partially on my personal experiences. But I do think that it is a valid interpretation.

[sirellas]

DS9 | Soldiers of the Empire

[spockvarietyhour]

Star Trek Voyager "Faces"

[leaky-port-nacelle]

Star Trek: Enterprise writers: and you're sure? You've checked everything?

Some poor intern or something, eye bags darker than the dried coffee stains on their shirt: Confirmed. There's no mention of it in any existing Star Trek franchise. Across 25 total seasons of 5 shows, and 10 movies, over the last 40 years, there is absolutely zero conclusive evidence that Florida survives to see the founding of the Federation

ENT writers: excellent. Fkin send it.

[l0cal-cryptid]

Ka D'Argo study (sorta)

[stardustinthesky]

john + playing with aeryn's hair

[respocked]

bajoran government campaign showcasing the diversity of the bajoran people

[respocked]

keiko o'brien finds this poster looking for classroom decor. "what a lovely message!" she says, and puts in the center spot on her classroom bulletin board. she's so glad that the bajoran national media is doing such amazing campaigns. the next day kai winn mails her a dead rat. i mean an anonymous person mails her a dead rat with a message protesting the spread of blasphemy (some of the models posed without earrings)

[respocked]

bajoran government campaign showcasing the diversity of the bajoran people

[respocked]

keiko o'brien finds this poster looking for classroom decor. "what a lovely message!" she says, and puts in the center spot on her classroom bulletin board. she's so glad that the bajoran national media is doing such amazing campaigns. the next day kai winn mails her a dead rat. i mean an anonymous person mails her a dead rat with a message protesting the spread of blasphemy (some of the models posed without earrings)

[theslowesthnery]

when someone is completely fucking wrong about your blorbo but you don't want to argue about what basically boils down to opinions about shit that doesn't matter so you just sit there like

"that guy's wrong tho"

[theslowesthnery]

you get it

[clementine-kesh]

also in terms of an actual fanfiction pet peeve i feel like sooo many writers make b’elanna far too confident in herself. like i know it’s the typical racism + misogyny typecasting the brown woman as strong and sensual and confident by default but it takes an impressive amount to portray her like that when the show itself is beating you over the head with the fact that she puts on a tough front but is actually deeply sensitive and insecure. hashtag not my b’elanna!

[rikerxworf]

Now, Klingon… it’s between you and me.

[ID: Three gifs from Star Trek TNG, showing Worf and Riker on the floor in-between glass shards. Worf is cradling an unconscious Riker with both hands as he stares at the evil admiral. In the third gif, he gently lays Riker to the ground. End ID.]

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[usernameofrassilon]

don't die wondering

[toshsato]

FARSCAPE - 3x02 - SUNS AND LOVERS

[butchniqabi]

oughhh pilot and moya being forced to undergo a symbiotic process that should take a year...the fact that its a grotesquery and body horror and their connection is based on chronic physical and emotional pain...whatever. whatever!!

[cigaradd]

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[firstroseofspring]

i really would have liked to see them talk about klingon/romulan relations using the duras sisters but alas