Dragons Make Everything Better

25. Clarke. They/them. White. I’m really queer and really tired. All I do is eat book dissociate and gradually become a better person

[staticnoisesss]

how you can help palestine

*i regularly update this post with any new info i find so please always reblog the original post*

Donations

donations currently reaching gaza:

‼️ help buy e-sims for people in gaza

donate to get food packages to gaza - care for gaza

donate direct aid to gaza - ehab rida (longtime activist and volunteer, has been carrying out donations and humanitarian projects in gaza since 2021)

palestine children's relief fund

world food programme

aid to gaza - taawon/bank of palestine

help gaza’s children

female hygiene kits for gaza - pious project

donate to UNRWA

urgent humanitarian aid to palestinians - anera

medical aid for palestinians

urgent support for medical professionals in gaza

donate to ahmed (@/90-ghost on tumblr)

he is born, raised and based in gaza. please help him reach his goal of $50K to get his family to safety across the rafah border into egypt. as of right now… it’s $7.5K per person to evacuate gaza.

help journalist yousef escape gaza to treat his cancer

help mohamed evacuate gaza to get treatment for himself and his daughter

support palestinians: buy a keffiyeh from the last and only factory in palestine - hirbawi

secondary donations:

click to donate - arab.org

emergency relief for gaza - pious projects

palestine red crescent society

save palestine - islamic relief canada

send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association

help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction

donate for the recovery of hisham awartani

one of the three palestinian students shot by a racist in vermont for wearing kufiyas and speaking arabic. hisham’s injuries have left him paralysed from below the chest.

Petitions

‼️ urge icj to invite gazan journalists to testify

international cultural workers to strike from german cultural institutions for their complicity in oppressing palestinians and promoting genocide - strike germany

petition to investigate war crimes committed by israeli military

demand ceasefire - amnesty international

open call for immediate ceasefire

american government call for immediate ceasefire

american government to stop funding israeli military

ceasefire and increase humanitarian assistance - oxfam au

petition to get canva to address their pro-israel stance

invoke the genocide convention to call for ceasefire in gaza - world beyond war

suspend israel from international sports - diem25

UK to expel israeli ambassador - change.org

gaza healthcare workers for nobel peace prize - change.org

teachers around the world demand ceasefire - teachers for palestine

president whitten: reinstate samia halaby retrospective NOW - action network

demand the immediate release of mansour shouman

location specific petitions

gaza call for lasting ceasefire - oxfam (UK)

end israeli occupation - parliament uk (UK)

email your MP - medical aid for palestine (UK)

protect gaza civilians - islamic relief (UK)

stop fuelling genocide - action network (USA)

@ biden: call for ceasefire now - move on (USA)

ceasefirenow.com - jewishvoiceofpeace (USA)

call congress and demand a ceasefire - uscpr (USA - they provide a script of what you should say, so don't worry about it)

note: you can call everyday. they tally the number of calls per issue. so more calls = higher chance for them to take action. p.s. you mainly go to voicemail so don’t worry about phone call anxiety. fight through it just this once please.

no forced displacement! - action network

australia call on israel to stop attacking palestinians - apan (AUS)

immediate ceasefire and increase in humanitarian aid in gaza - actionaid (AUS)

email your MPs - stand with palestine (AUS)

‼️ australian senate to investigate australian citizens in the IDF for war crimes allegations - fpm (AUS)

‼️ arms embargo on israel - cjpme (CANADA)

sign to send letter to MP for ceasefire - nccm (CANADA)

ceasefire now! - ijv (CANADA)

call on your local mayor and council to demand ceasefire - LeadNow (CANADA)

cessez-le-feu et un couloir humanitaire - le mouvement (FRANCE)

écrivez aux député-es et sénateurs-trices - association france palestine solidarité (FRANCE)

write to your député - assemblée nationale (FRANCE)

skydda civilbefolkningen i gaza! - mittskifte (SWEDEN)

singaporeans call for immediate ceasefire (SIN)

contact your elected reps and demand a ceasefire (GERMANY)

write to the EU demanding a ceasefire (EUROPE)

template of letters you can send (EU)

guide on how to contact your MPs in EU

p.s. if the template is outdated, just use it as a guide and add a few sentences here and there that reflect the current situation. i can’t find any recent templates so :/ at least this is something

multiple actions you can take to help palestine - plant een olifbloom (NETHERLANDS)

includes: links for donations, emails to MP, emails to media, links to petitions and demonstrations

den haag, maak nú werk van vrede in israël/Palestina - the right forum (NETHERLANDS)

māori call for palestine - ourActionStation (NZ)

deem israeli actions as war crimes - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

basta ao genocídio em Gaza! - awaaz (BRAZIL)

globo e grande mídia, parem de desumanizar civis palestinos - the intercept (BRAZIL)

Campaigns

‼️ justice for palestine

reach out to countries to back up south africa’s invoke genocide convention at the ICJ

‼️ international criminal court

submit evidences of israeli war crimes

friends of al-aqsa

❥ UK-specific

urge your MP to speak up for palestine

hands off al-aqsa

stop administrative detention

petition for UK to stop arming israel

❥ International

boycott puma — email them to end their partnership with israel

boycott coca-cola

islamic relief canada

urge your MP to rally for ceasefire

decolonise palestine

poster campaign to raise awareness on the war crimes being committed against palestinians

text/call campaign for people living in USA

text RESIST @ 50409 to send a letter to your representatives to pass HR3103–a bill that prohibits tax dollars from going to israel

download 5Calls app to contact members of your congress | (more info)

fax campaign for people in the USA

go on this website to send 5 free faxes per day

here’s a link to a pre-written fax copy you can download to send (the first link on the linktree)

here’s a video that explains how to fax your senator (it’s very easy and all you need is a valid email address)

‼️ BDS movement

get involved in boycotting companies associated with israel

palestine diaspora network

global strike guide - join the global strike!

please let me know if you have any more links. i will add them in. and please reblog the original post!!

UPCOMING PROTESTS

PALESTINIAN LITERATURE READING LIST

PALESTINIAN BUSINESSES

[bogleech]

Usually south park's relevancy feels very fake and surface level to me, but it's really something how trump and his base are actually, visibly much more enraged by this than they've been about any other criticism, any other show, any other enemy I've seen in the entire near-decade of his political career. Fucking South Park got to them more than the combined effort of a million other comedians, journalists, parodies, academic criticisms or protest efforts. Like it's BAD. Like they want the creators in prison and want to consider this a hate crime.

[bogleech]

What they actually do in this episode that has magas losing their shit, besides Trump dating Satan:

-The same voice and even distinct music they used for Saddam Hussein 26 years ago is used for Trump, with Satan complaining that Trump is exactly like his ex.

-Trump is depicted threatening to sue an artist for not painting him with a bigger penis than he actually has.

-The media is depicted as spinelessly holding back their true feelings about Trump to avoid getting sued.

-A B-plot has Cartman wanting to kill himself because he no longer feels "special" in an America that has become more hateful than he is.

-Jesus Christ is depicted as having also been silenced by a Trump lawsuit and lives in fear of saying anything bad about Trump out loud.

-Epstein is brought up of course.

-The episode ends airing a convincing AI deepfake of Trump stripping naked as he wanders through a desert, then his tiny floppy penis sprouts cartoon eyes and says "I'm Donald Trump and I approved this message." This is the part magas believe should count as an actual felony crime, and funny enough also comes right after Trump gave a rambling speech endorsing AI and an executive order to protect it from liability. It's only been a day or two, and is now the first time in history that the white house is officially arguing with a tv show.

[bogleech]

Not paying that much attention to the world of television and celebrities I did not know the broader context that Trump had sued Paramount over 60 Minutes, Paramount paid Trump a 16 million dollar settlement, and then it cancelled Stephen Colbert's tonight show out of fear. But that this all happened around the same time they had just purchased the rights to South Park for 1.5 billion (BILLION.) dollars. So this is matt stone and trey parker daring both trump and their own network to shut them down after the latter invested ten times as much money in South Park as Trump originally shook them down for. The order was for 50 whole episodes, and they labeled the Trump Deepfake as 1/50. We'll see if they actually keep going with this and keep escalating it, which in my opinion would be the morally right thing to do. Trump would have to choose between enduring mockery he demonstrably can't take and proving all their mockery more and more correct, while Paramount has to choose between enduring whatever punishment a raging manbaby POTUS brings down on them or proving how spineless they are AND losing a 1.5 billion investment. All after they cowered before Trump over a relatively measly few million.

Paramount to pay Trump $16m over 60 Minutes Kamala Harris interview

The media company noted the settlement does not include a statement of apology or regret.

[kyraneko]

Ah, the short-fingered vulgarian is getting out-vulgared, and he hates it.

[closet-keys]

"Why is ContraPoints saying [advocating for Palestine] is totally futile? Because ContraPoints doesn't want to do anything about it... She feels that the only reasonable way to live is to accept that things are bad and not going to change. Even though that is actually unreasonable. Even though it is actually also morally quite bankrupt. You are the one who is experiencing doom. That is the thing that you feel. That does not mean other people are supporting a doomed cause. It means that you feel doom about their cause. Examine why you might feel that way. They thought Vietnam was a doomed cause, too. Cuban revolution was a doomed cause. Chinese revolution was a doomed cause... "Zero Palestinian lives were saved"... I don't think this is true. For instance, think about the vast amount of fundraising campaigns that have tangibly helped, even as aid is blockaded in Israel, that has tangibly helped Palestinians. They have gained support as a result of this activism. So saying "zero Palestinian lives were saved" again, this is not true. This is not true. But second of all, even if it was true, you're going to blame people for speaking out against things that are actually wrong because it wasn't effective enough instead of just like offering better ways to do it? Does something have to be done or not? Does something have to be done or not?"

-elliot sang again, "BreadTube is over"

[closet-keys]

I wanted to share these quotes from Sang's video because I think he is really getting at something central I notice all the time on tumblr.

So many people from the global north on this website (including the ones who quickly distanced themselves from liberals like ContraPoints), still cling to this unfounded belief in their own supposed powerlessness.

You are not powerless. Your decisions matter and have tangible impact on other people. You are in this world with the rest of us. Whether you want to accept responsibility for your behavior or not, it still meaningfully influences other people's lives.

Take stock of your actual, current impact. What are you already spending your days doing? How can you use your daily life to oppose genocide in Palestine?

If you're reading this you probably spend some of your time on tumblr. So use that to help people in Gaza to get food and medicine.

[closet-keys]

Last week after writing a post encouraging others to donate to my friend @fadel-dani's campaign (vetted by @gazavetters (#197) and 90-ghost) a lot of you actually did send funds.

Do you realize how much that tangibly improved his life last week?

He told me that he was able to buy flour and eat bread after previously having none for over a week. He was able to get painkillers and experience some small relief from his constant pain.

Your decision whether or not to donate (or whether or not to encourage other people to donate) is power. You are actually very powerful, and your decisions have a big influence on his family's life. You are deciding how to use that power right now.

Donate to Help the injured Fadel and save his family, organized by Fadel Aldany

My name is Fadel Al-Dany, a 23-year-old third-year IT student. My life hasn't … Fadel Aldany needs your support for Help the injured Fadel a

It is a blessing that we have the ability to relieve others' pain.

Send some money to Fadel and know you are using what power you have to help someone. You are a lifeline.

You are inextricably connected to other people. Your presence can be felt as a comfort by other people. Please embrace this.

[fuzzynecromancer]

Just to clarify, there's a bill that would STOP credit card companies from controlling who's allowed to spend money on porn or "risque" (read: queer) content. If you don't think big business should be able to tell you what to spend your own damn money on, call your senators and reps to let them know! It's the Fair Access to Banking Act, H.R.987 in the House, S.410 in the Senate.

[emmaubler]

Banks and credit cards should not be in the business of making moral judgments about what their customers spend their money on. Their job is to facilitate transactions, period. If it's not illegal, then they should have no say on who buys guns or porn or junk food or any other thing somebody might decide is objectionable.

[catblinker]

this is an american bill about american companies that, as usual, effects people worldwide. if you're statesian, here's a chance to make something decent of it- put pressure on your politicians to pass this bill and protect queer porn and art, especially transfeminine porn and art!

[blazing-butterfly-inactive]

Text - H.R.987 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Fair Access to Banking Act

Text for H.R.987 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Fair Access to Banking Act

[hneycmb]

Kinda wild how most people generally recognize that the "too sick to go to school, too sick to watch tv/play games" mindset our parents had was bullshit but still impose essentially the exact same rules on disabled adults and scrutinize them for enjoying low-energy hobbies while being too fatigued or in pain to work a full time job (or any job at all)

[thyfleshc0nsumed]

It is legitimately wild how many of you see a post that says "hey here's a ton of examples of things people have added to a trans woman's photo that are not only embarrassing internet speak and creepy, but actively are sexually aggressive and inappropriate" and instead of thinking for a fucking moment that "wow, maybe I've said something like that before, I'll change my behavior going forward", you think "well certainly MY loser internet speak and sexually charged micro aggressions are wanted." You people are literally indistinguishable from dudes who holler at us on the street, except those fuckers at least have the decency not to hide their sexual aggression behind fake nervousness and soft boy shit.

[nerianasims]

Where did you people who had the Pledge of Allegiance in HIGH SCHOOL live? We didn't even have it in middle school. This was a small mid-Michigan town in the 1990s. It was working class, lower middle class, and farming people.

Dear Tumblrs, there is way too much assertion of facts not in evidence on this site.

[jraker4]

Central Florida, attending public high school in the late 1990s. We had the Pledge of Allegiance in high school, but it was...hmmm. My recollection was that it really depended on what teacher you had the period in which it was said. Many, though not all, had it be voluntary. Some it was more genuinely voluntary, others it was voluntary* with notable social pressure, a few didn't do it at all.

[rose-in-a-fisted-glove]

Southern NY, attending a public school in the years immediately after 9/11. It was super required, and even if you didn't say the pledge, you had to stand quietly. Sitting during the pledge was a detentionable offense.

[zaivex]

High school in upstate NY, 2010's. It was kind of voluntary but everyone did it, they started morning announcement with the pledge in homeroom

[zoesupreme]

sometimes the nut doesn't bring any clarity at all no matter how hard you bust it. the delirium only deepens.

[zoesupreme]

man...

[ice-block]

It’s so fucked up how tiktok culture has made clout-poisoned people turn the public into content, every day I see people minding their business have their entire faces put online for thousands of likes, a couple kissing on the train, a lady dancing across a cross walk, a guy nodding his head to the music at a club, a lady buying a banana at the store, ring camera footage of the neighbors kids being stupid. Just let people live jfc

[ice-block]

I think I may have made it seem like this is about wholesome content (which my sentiment towards that is the same) but most of the time when I see this stuff people are being ridiculed for being completely normal. And I didn’t make up any of these examples btw, I couldn’t find the dance one but only because there are too many videos of people being recorded at cross walks

(Faces censored and additional text added by me)

[eroticcannibal]

Im gonna add this to every post about this i see im never gonna shut up about it. This will get people killed. This will ruin lives. More people live in hiding than you think. So many people are one post away from having to abandon their whole lives. Dont ever post anything of anyone without their consent, stranger or not.

[libraford]

I am a photographer. It is my job to go into schools and take candid photos for the yearbook.

The number of kids that are on a 'do not photograph' list isn't large, but it is a non-zero number. If that kid is even out of focus in the background, we do not use that photo.

If a child shows even the tiniest bit upset that there's a person in the room with a camera, I do not take their photo.

At pop culture conventions, I ask people if I can take their photo. Or if I take a candid of them, I track them down and give them my info and get th3ir consent before posting.

At events like parties, concerts, performances, consent is generally implied because these are photographed events, but if an attendee approaches me and tells me to crop them out then I crop them out.

This makes street photography tedious, but I learned in my very first job as a camp counselor that people have very good reasons for not wanting their photo publicized. There are kids in the foster system with abusive parents. There are adults with stalkers. There are people who might be a witness to a crime.

Even outside of this- I've seen how private persons become memes against their will just by going out in public. Some people are super not normal about meme fame.

Leave people alone. The world is complicated. Make your own content.

[nyctosaurid]

it’s a tragedy that dinotopia was adapted as a weird gritty looking tv movie with bad cgi when it’s, without exaggeration, the most ghibli any book has ever been

[nyctosaurid]

hmm

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

It’s high time for a new Dinotopia adaptation (with updated, accurate dinosaurs, as James Gurney would want, of course)

HIGH TIME

[curlicuecal]

friend omg, you are in the lucky 10,000 today because the book is a *joy*

don’t think like, a novel, think like a coffee table book that’s framed like an actual informative guide to the actual place Dinotopia

it’s filled with scrawled notes and observations and gorgeous art from the point of view of a newcomer fascinated by the culture and science and history of this island

it’s so, so cool

[aniseandspearmint]

Oh c'mon y'all, the Dinotopia mini series is NOT bad. It was a bit darker than the books yeah, because it was made to appeal to the masses and tv writers and studios have no IDEA how to make things without direct conflict interesting even 20+ years later, expecting it from a made for TV mini series from 2002 is a bit much.

And the CGI was (kinda) bad because it was made in 2002. All CGI was iffy then.

The mini series is the reason I for one even found out the books existed. I’m sure a lot of other people discovered them the same way, so be happy it exists!

If you want to get copies of the books, you can find very reasonable signed copies at the author’s official site!

[vague-humanoid]

[boxofpigeons]

Heads up for AAC users/people trying to get AAC: TD Snap, one of the best and most affordable robust AAC apps, will be $10/month on iPad starting today. This is a change from a one time cost of $50. From $50 ONCE, to $120 each year, forever. If you already have the full $50 app, this will not affect you, you will be able to keep using the app without paying. Here’s how to contact them if you’re mad and want to tell them.

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

on top of being one of most robust AND (used to be) affordable symbol based AAC apps

also have one of, if not THE most comprehensive language options in one singular AAC app right now. including language lesser seen / not otherwise seen in robust AAC apps: Arabic, Chinese (simplified), Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Icelandic, Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish. etc.

so this also especially impact people who use these languages or families friends community use these languages & diaspora & etc etc etc

vile

[hammercarexplosion]

Accessibility for profit is not accessibility. It is extortion.

[snackwizard]

a fools guide to not wanting to die anymore

by me, a fool who doesnt wanna die anymore 

never make a suicide joke again. yes this includes “i wanna die” as a figure of speech. swear off of it. actually make an effort to change how you think about things.

find something to compliment someone for at least 4 times a day. notice the little things about the world that make you happy, and use that to make other people happy.

talk to people. initiate conversation as often as you possibly can. keep your mind busy and you wont have to worry anymore

picture the bad intrusive thoughts in youe head as an edgy 13 year old and tell them to go be emo somewhere else

if someone makes you feel bad most of the time, stop talking to them. making yourself hang out with people who drain you is self harm. stop it.

[wildlyannoyingdoofus]

… 8|

That’s some pretty good advice. I don’t know what’s left of my humor after ‘guess I’ll just die’ jokes but it’s worth a shot.

[snackwizard]

Personally i went from “guess I’ll die” jokes to “IF I HAVE TO BE HERE FOR 5 MORE MINUTES I PROMISE YOU I WILL BUY JUST, AN ARRAY OF CLOTHES.” and other wild hyperbolic stuff. Just replace the death part with something ridiculous and off topic. Its very entertaining

[808lien]

This also works with calling myself things like stupid, worthless, trash, etc. Even if you do this jokingly to yourself, your brain still believes it, and keeps up the cycle. Seriously, I found that when I stopped saying these things about myself, even jokingly, it made a massive difference.

[maramahan]

Here’s a tip I picked up from a friend that’s helped me a lot — replace self deprecating jokes with ironically self aggrandizing jokes

Like every time I trip and fall, instead of saying “l’m just a disaster human” I say “I’m the epitome of grace and beauty”

Or like, when I draw a picture I’m not 100% happy with, instead of saying “my art is trash” I say something like “you know I think it’s time we replaced the Mona Lisa”

When you do that you get to make a joke, but you’re ALSO getting practice building yourself up, y’know?

And eventually it becomes a reflex and you get so used to it that you can say nice stuff about yourself even when you AREN’T joking

[jkl-fff]

[scottjate]

This is so important

[graylinesspam]

That self-aggrandizing technique is no joke.

I replaced “I’m stupid” with “I’m a God damn genius.” “Move over newton” “another masterpiece”

I replaced “gross/ disgusting” with “sexy/attractive” “the hight of elegance”

I replaced “I suck/ that sucked/ this is bad” with “fantastic”, “a lovely time”, “ swell/jolly good”

Replace every negative with a positive. Say it so sarcastically. Make it complicated make it entertaining have fun with it.

It will stop your self deprecating and build confidence. And people are more easygoing around you.

[t4timekeeper]

> “mannish features”

> look inside

> literally just common physical traits among women of colour

[t4timekeeper]

you can’t separate transmisogyny from racism. the radical feminism movement is so overwhelmingly white because their idea of what a woman is is so thoroughly steeped in white supremacy.

[memeclassheroes]

[chaotic-archaeologist]

Hello important information!!!

Bread is NOT part of a skeleton's natural diet and feeding it to them can make them sick. Instead try: coins from countries that no longer exist, dead batteries, ballpoint pens, or brass buckles. These are much closer to what skeletons eat in the wild :)

[mctreeleth]

I live in a coastal region and I generally feed the local skeletons with broken seashells collected during low tide, which are high in calcium and other natural minerals. Very occasionally, such as for celebrations such as last night's solstice, a shard of broken ancient pottery makes a great treat, but be careful, as these are sometimes cursed, and may cause issues for some skeletons.

[musekicker]

I hear in towns with big candy companies they use to feed their skeletons with candy wrappers. Because of that the skeletons would be also be out in droves around Halloween. And that's why we have skeleton's as a Halloween symbol.

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

remember kids- feeding candy wrappers to your friendly neighborhood skeletons is harmful to their long term health! try some old pennies or a handful of colorful autumn leaves intead!!

[evil-vampire-official]

skeletons also happen to love the broken bones of different skeletel types (say give a humanoid skeleton the bone of a chicken). The marrow is very healthy

[the-mighty-upside-down-pyramid]

I will continue to call The Creature “Frankenstein” and no force in Heaven or Earth will impede that.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I also laughed at him totally deliberately calling attention to the fact Victor isn’t a real doctor because he dropped out of college and built a guy out of corpses

[neonthebright]

He punched the lycanthropy right out of wolfman

[wackd-archive]

did he just throw ygor out a window

[byjove]

CREATURE????

[byjove]

just when you think it couldn’t be worse, you have to battle a creature

[byjove]

I’m choosing to believe him because I think there should still be mystery and adventure in the world

[ninjaduckpirategoose]

Okay I looked this one up. He said he talked to God, made up some songs, and lost nine kilos during his 20ish hours in the water. He was also completely nude when he was rescued.

[byjove]

hero’s journey

[byjove]

and this man? Odysseus

[trzpiotka]

he also ate some kind of stick

[szyszkasosnowa]