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I made this out of the rage I felt from seeing transphobic, butchphobic and enbyphobic comments in my tl.

Being a lesbian is part of my identity too and I refuse to let other people tell me I am not a lesbian just because I don't fit their binary perception of things. It's so sad to see other lesbians shitting on butches and gender non-conforming or non-binary lesbians.

But hey, we are here and we're not going anywhere, I am not going anywhere. I've always been a loud lesbian and I'll always be.

Keep being loud, proud and gentle with other lesbians and be fierce with the ones who try to erase us.

Spotlighting another campaign this week.

@mahmoudkhalafff reached out to me on my personal blog to spread awareness for his fundraiser to get his eight family members out of Gaza. The need €30,000 and their fundraiser is currently at €24,590 as of August 23.

They are #151 on nabulsi and el-shab-hussein's Vetted Evacuation Fundraiser spreadsheet.

There's only €5,410 left to raise, let's get them there!

tumblr just deleted a huge swathe of palestinians who were on here trying to fundraise. if you've been helping any of these fundraisers please take this time to 1) check in with palestinians you're in contact with 2) help them submit support requests if needed 3) keep these campaigns circulating while the beneficiaries are being silenced. these campaigns are life or death, this isn't just social networking. do not let these fundraisers languish.

hi! i am once again posting for the Abu Shammalah family's vetted gfm campaign. pls make sure to follow and boost his accs: @ahmed322 and @ahmed8311.

gofundme.com

Donate to Help the Abu Shammalah Family Find Safety and Rebuild, organized by Ahmed Abushammala

Dear Friends, Family, and Kind Strangers, I am writing to… Ahmed Abushammala needs your support for Help the Abu Shammalah Family Find

PLS HELP THE ABUSHAMMALA FAM

Displaced four times from our home, they now find themselves living in a single, overcrowded room with our cousins – ten people crammed into a space meant for one or two. The lack of privacy, the absence of basic necessities, and the constant fear for their lives have made their situation desperate.

i was finally able to talk to ahmed a while ago. i got his permission to share to you all what a lot of us and people before us had been echoing since the dawn of humanity.

the poll i made was me trying to relate and connect with the tumblr userbase who faces rental probs, and homelessness. i am hoping that you see yourself in their place. housing is a basic human right. just like land which gives us bread and rice. it is not really an up for debate issue. and this is also why oppressed and exploited ppl fight with their life for their security, for their dignity, for their identity, for their family and for their children's future. can we help ahmed raise the necessary funds for his family? this gfm was created last april. still at 22% of completion. can we give them hope and support? this is #161 on @/el-shab-hussein, @/nabulsi and @/moayesh gsheet; also posted by @/el-shab-hussein here

thanks to all who advocated for the abusweireh family so far. please continue doing so. you keep them afloat in the middle of everything. also, i beg everyone again to not hesitate to help other palestinian families pls! a small amount goes a long way. a reblog might be the reason someone donates. a simple post can alter their lives. show them that we care and that palestinian lives matter. pls.

everybody keeps saying "it should not happen to you first for you to finally care" or wtvr variation of it before but like i still do not see enough users w huge platform doing shit. and i am so sick and tired of it. stop ignoring the calls for help jfc there is an ongoing humanitarian crisis! your interests can literally wait omg

[ID: A tatreez piece in shades of jade green, with orange accents. A central line of Pasha's tents is surrounded by clove, chicken's teeth, sword, and heart motifs; a star of Bethlehem fills the top square, and a row of cypress trees is at the bottom. The first photo shows the piece with a large painting and a pair of slippers to show scale; the others are close-ups. End ID]

Tatreez raffle to benefit a Palestinian family

You know the drill! This tatreez piece is stitched in cotton embroidery thread on sage green linen, and is suitable as wall art, or to be repurposed as a cover for a cushion, tote bag, &c. A winner will be randomly selected in October, 2024.

You can get your hands on this piece in one of two ways:

Enter the raffle by sending me proof of a donation of at least $10 USD to Muhammad Abu Hamam's campaign.

Send me proof of a donation of at least $500 USD (I know, but this took a lot of hours!) and I will stitch another one, or something similar, just for you.

Send proof of a donation of at least $7 USD for a link to the pattern.

This is a physical product and you will need to be willing to give me a shipping address.

Design is 7.5" x 16" (19 x 41cm)

Cotton on linen

Stitched 2 over 2 on 32 count linen evenweave (16 stitches per inch)

Colors are: DMC 564, 563, 562, 505, 561, 722

hey this is an emergency mahmoud needs $400 USD to purchase a tent for his family to live in by the end of the day [vetted]

It has been 8 months and counting now, but every day I choose to be shocked and scandalized and rendered speechless by the utterly brutish, utterly horrific atrocities committed by Israel every single day. It should never become a new normal to know a whole country’s being genocided and to choose to distract ourselves w other things instead. It should never be standard to look at fundraisers of families suffering and choose to ignore them, to look the other way, to write them off as scams to alleviate any sort of guilt or gravity or moral implication that comes with ignoring these fundraisers. They should never ever be things we are okay with because it’s “just what Israel does now” “it’s just how people are” “it’s just racism.”

They're in dire need for NOMAD esims in Gaza! Please refer to the website on how to buy esims

List of Palestinian GoFundMes

Below are a list of fundraisers that I have been sent. All of these have been vetted by either @/90-ghost, @/el-shab-hussein or @/nabulsi. If you see this, please help in anyway you can and if you can't assist financially, please reblog this post.

Dated: 4th August 2024

rehamyasirr: GFM ($565 raised of $40,000)

wafaaresh: GFM (€11,749 raised of €100,000)

omarhilles2022: GFM (€8,829 raised of €23,000)

musababed: GFM (€2,344 raised of €10,000)

elbalawi: GFM (€30,313 raised of €50,000)

mohammedalanqer: GFM (€49,053 raised of €58,000)

mahmoudkhalafff: GFM (€17,570 raised of €30,000)

bisanalbalawi18: GFM (€30,533 raised of €50,000)

hadeelmekki: GFM (€10,047 raised of €35,000)

aymanayyad82: GFM ($30,492 USD raised of $35,000)

ahmed-mohammed1: GFM (€2,088 raised of €30,000)

abdelmutei: GFM (€4,945 raised of €50,000)

emanfamily: GFM (€3,637 raised of €38,000)

ahmed-ziad: GFM (£8,225 raised of £30,000)

salem-baker: GFM (€2,149 raised of €38,000)

lenarafat15: GFM (€3,270 raised of €30,000)

yahyaahmed5: GFM ($645 USD raised of $50,000)

musababd: GFM (€2,349 raised of €10,000)

abedalazeiz: GFM (€18,685 raised of €50,000)

amlanqar: GFM (€4,868 raised of €50,000)

kareemyounes10: GFM (€4,727 raised of €80,000)

hamouda-az: GFM (kr10,701 SEK raised of kr200,000)

ranin3344: GFM (€4,237 raised of €80,000)

helpfamily: GFM ($2,953 USD raised of $60,000)

girlquee: GFM (£7,294 raised of £20,000)

saveyouseffamily: GFM (£7,294 raised of £20,000)

aya2mohammed: GFM (€19,161 raised of €50,000)

mohamed-mikki: PP ($451 raised of $20,000)

ashraf-family2: GFM (€14,920 raised of €20,000)

as-maa-56: GFM ($1,186 USD raised of $50,000)

fatma93-gaza: GFM (€2,094 raised of €20,000)

heba-baker: GFM (€745 raised of €60,000)

ahmeadhilles: GFM (€1,820 raised of €80,000)

Today is 266 days, we are still alive. 🇵🇸🍉

Please don't skip! 🙏🏻🥺

Please consider sharing or donating, thank you! 🩷🍉

gofundme.com

Donate to Help save my family to survive the genocide in Gaza, organized by Mahmoud AlBalawi

Hi world , it’s Mahmoud Please read this as if you were in my… Mahmoud AlBalawi needs your support for Help save my family to survive th

Hello,,

My name is Ashraf Alanqar, and I am 30 years old. My wife, Widad Issa, and I have a one-and-a-half-year-old son named Bakr. We used to live peacefully in the Al-Shuja’iya neighborhood, in a house we built just a week before the war began. I worked as a farmer and owned a large chicken farm that provided for my family.

Beloved of my heart (Bakr)

Then the war came and destroyed everything. Our home was reduced to ashes, and our chicken farm was obliterated. We lost our home, our livelihood, and even our basic rights. We've been forced to move from place to place in northern Gaza, simply trying to survive.

My House before...

Me.. while trying to recognize what has happened..

The terror we feel as we flee from heavy bombardment is unbearable. The sound of explosions around us, the constant fear as we navigate through the rubble of destroyed homes searching for safety and food, haunts us every day. My son Bakr is constantly scared and suffers from severe malnutrition and skin diseases due to the lack of food, water, and sanitation.

Our beautiful memories.. :(

We urgently need your help. I am asking for your support to fund this campaign to move my family to a safe place, provide us with a proper home, and ensure we have enough food, water, and medical care.

Baker used to play with his dog.

Your donation, no matter how small, can make a significant difference in our lives. We desperately need your support and solidarity during this difficult time. Together, we can restore hope and safety to Ashraf and his family.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for considering my plea. Your support means more than words can express. Together, we can turn a story of loss into a journey of hope and resilience.

gofundme.com

Donate to Hope for Gaza: Support Ashraf's Family Rebuild Their Lives, organized by Ashraf Alanqar

Hello,, My name is Ashraf Alanqar, and I am 30 years old.… Ashraf Alanqar needs your support for Hope for Gaza: Support Ashraf's Family

With deepest gratitude,

Ashraf & the Family

Reblog if its ok to spam you with boops

!! It appears some people are trying to organize a svsss Gaza fundraiser event as well for anyone interested!!

Please join us in a global demonstration is solidarity with Palestine. Boycott! Strike! Walkout! Pickett!

🍉🍉🍉🍉

PLEASE WATCH AND REBLOG - DON'T JUST LIKE - THANK YOU

BISAN IS AFRAID THIS MAY BE HER LAST VIDEO. THE OCCUPATION IS PLANNING TO INVADE NASSER HOSPITAL IN KHAN YUNIS, THE LAST FUNCTIONING HOSPITAL IN THE GAZA STRIP.

SHE WANTS PEOPLE TO SHARE THIS. PLEASE, PLEASE REBLOG.

Petition for Canada to stop arming Israel

In case you haven’t seen it yet: here’s a petition for Canada to stop arming Israel. https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-4745

Hi folks, today we're announcing the Rally for Palestine Raffle, a cross-fandom charity raffle to raise funds for Palestinians in the Gaza strip. (Reblogs appreciated to spread the word!)

How to enter and donate:

You can win a fanwork from an amazing crew of cross-fandom creators, and one bid is only $10! Rules for how to enter AND the bidding site are here: https://rallyforpalestineraffle.site/

Please donate directly to the org FIRST, then send your donation receipt to rfpraffle@gmail.com to verify your number of bids before checking out on the site!

Why donate?

Some background on what’s going on in Palestine and how you can help:

Palestinian civilians are in desperate need of funds for food, water, and medical aid, and we’re trying for the fastest, most effective way to leverage impact in fandom space.

More info here.

Links to Donate:

PCRF: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-relief

Anera: https://support.anera.org/a/donate

Doctors Without Borders: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

Save the Children: https://www.savethechildren.org/us/where-we-work/west-bank-gaza

If you are a US citizen, sign the ceasefire petition HERE: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-ceasefire-now

Creators:

Here is our incredible first lineup (with several amazing creators waiting to be unlocked in stretch goals!). Bid on them right now!!!!!

The more we raise, the more mystery creators will be unlocked!

You have until Friday, October 27 to bid. Matches are highly welcomed; see the site for more details.

Let's get raffling!!!

Catalina Cheng, “YOU ARE GAY AND CHINESE”

insta / bio

“Bilinguals overwhelmingly report that they feel like different people in different languages. It is often assumed that the mother tongue is the language of the true self. (…) But, if first languages are reservoirs of emotion, second languages can be rivers undammed, freeing their speakers to ride different currents.”

— Love in Translation by Lauren Collins from the New Yorker, August 8 & 15, 2016   (via waltzingwithmidnight)

*you could do a combination of these or none of these regularly, I’m just asking what your favorite is!

Hey folks, if you want to fight back against the twitterfication of tumblr USE IT LIKE IT'S TUMBLR!!!!!! REBLOG THINGS!!!!!! USE THE TAGS TO SCREAM AT YOUR FRIENDS!!!!!!!

gays help me out, also leave your answer + your orientation in the tags

i need to get more masc so i can present feminine

THE EIGHTH SENSE EP 2

I have to start with the scenes after the intro. In the first ep Jaewon sat with his back to the fish tank

this shot feels so oppressive. First, the focus is on the fish swimming in the tank, then it shifts to the therapist lady meanwhile Jaewon remains out of focus with his back to the viewer, blocked in by both sides. The lights in this shot are insane, it’s like the different sides of a coin.

Fast forward to the second ep

Now Jaewon faces the camera but he won’t look up and he is shown through the fish tank. It’s like he’s in the deep now, up until the moment he stands and leaves, kind of scaring the fishes that scatter for a moment. Once again, note the reflection of the lights.

Episode two is just as solid as the first one. Finally a drama where the extreme close ups are incorporated into the story for a reason and not just to be aesthetic (which ofc they still are) (I’m totally not side eyeing Nevertheless,) Could the shower scene be that insane without the extreme close ups? Nope.

There’s so much to unpack here. Like Jaewon being so soft around Jihuyn. I mean it only took them one (1) bus ride to the sea to act like bffs yet the moment Jihyun wakes up Jaewon has the nerve to pretend he doesn’t know what his name is and ask him again….boy you’re such an unbothered chill sunbae *cackles* Never have I witnessed such a tragedy going down over the assignment of rooms. The sheer disappointment of not sharing a room with the freshman you’ve only just (presumably) learned the name of... Jaewon really had to pause like that before (and after) reading Jihyun’s name, huh? pls chill

Can we take a hot second to appreciate that in Free Bird’s promo shots and posters (so in the past when Eunji and Jaewon were presumably together) Eunji is always seen wearing a blue suit while Jaewon wears black. And when Jaewon takes Jihyun to the shop, he deliberately chooses two identical black suits for them so they would have that couple look match. Aaand Eunji also wears a black suit now (trying to match with Jaewon) but it’s one she chooses herself not like the one Jihyun wears that Jaewon chose for him.

I’m completely normal about the dressing scene just like I was completely normal about the phone strapping scene in The crossing. (Although I have to mention that Jaewon is still so soft around Jihyun it kinda hurts, all heart eyed and shit)

Jaewon taking care of Jihyun, telling him he must be cold so warm up like Jaewon himself wasn’t in the same sea and couldn’t possibly feel cold. At this point, he’s still taking care of Jihyun like a good sunbae but he’s doing all that multiplied by 10000. He’s running the extra mile every given time and I’m not sure he’s even aware of it. Sometimes it’s a conscious decision but other times it’s just his curiosity and attraction to Jihyun. Like when they play the ‘I like you’ drinking game, Jaewon stops clapping the second he utters Jihyun’s name. Unlike the others, he doesn’t stop because Jihyun won’t continue the line and the game stalls, he turns to Jihyun, waiting for his reaction and his system crashes. It crashes a lot around Jihyun.

Jihyun is such a complex little bean, not enough people talk about him. He says he’s afraid of a lot of things but that never stops him. When he talked with his boss about the places people coming to live in Seoul visit he said he only went to the Gangnam station area once. His boss lady asked 'Have you ever gone on subway line 2?' and Jihyun said he didn’t. They talked about the Han river parks and the next time Jihyun visited a park by taking subway line 2.

He joins the surf club even though his roommate and hometown friend can’t understand his reasons for joining (and, even though he can’t swim which made me go BOI the things you do for a hot dude) Although he acts like he wants to spend time away his roommate and messes up by visiting the Han river park an hour away from their university, he still calls his roommate, sends a text to his mum, keeping in touch with the familiar people in his life. He also does that on the beach like an anchor in times he’s in need not to feel scared and that’s so precious. He does things his own way, going through the process of trial and error, constantly trying not to be scared.

I’m still loving Yoonwon to bits. Besides Jaewon, she’s the only member of the club genuinely happy that kwiyomi has joined. She welcomes him and keeps being nice to him. Her singing at the bonfire healed my soul and I don’t even like singing in films but she’s magical.

Yo, the confrontation scene between Eunji and Jaewon? The fact that after Jaewon tells her he has zero feelings for her (neither good nor bad) a club member comes out and passes between them saying 'It’s cold, so cold'. That’s how you put down the groundwork for a scene. I think Eunji is so pissed because she knows something’s up. But then Jaewon says 'Let’s give each other that basic courtesy.' He means it both ways. He won’t tell others about why they broke up (from an outside perspective, it would be Eunji’s fault). In turn, Eunji should back off and not question the inner workings behind their breakup. But then she does, and Jaewon literally logs out of that conversation, and it is ridiculously in-your-face. He rather chooses to go to Jihyun than speak with his ex for another second. In that scene, before Eunji leaves, her looking at Jaewon looking at Jihyun is so powerful. Her eyes tell that she knows.

I’m having such a ride. Can’t wait for next week.

Start watching The Eighth Sense, you won’t regret it I bet. I know if there’s color shenanigans yet bc I’ve been too lost in the sauce regarding everything else in the show (the direction, acting, chemistry, BGM, cinematography, story, VIBES) to pay attention. So far there’s only 2 episodes out, and it looks ridiculously promising!!

@mineonmain, you wanted me to watch the show that begins with this scene accompanied by a heartbeat

Only to slowly disintegrate into this scene with an ambulance siren?

You want me to watch the show that then cuts to Jae Won clearly sitting in a therapist's office next to the fish tank which is going to represent the ocean he probably hasn't been back to since his HEART WAS BROKEN AT THE BEACH?

Cool. Cool cool cool.

Super excited to find out how Jae Won's brother died or disowned him. Even more excited to observe how Jae Won's emotions continue to get masked by different elements in the shot, or how much dark clothing they can put on him compared to Ji Hyun's lighter colors (blue) because everyone needs balance

Glad the baby gay is flexing a little gay muscle with his rainbow light

And super glad this is going to hurt me in a very particular way

Because a show sponsored by IKEA and energy drinks can only cause me unimaginable mental damage, no?

And a show produced by a company with "moonlight" in its name will hurt me regardless if it has a happy ending or not because historically, queer media associated with moonlight, like 2016's Moonlight and 2023's Moonlight Chicken, will always strive for maximum emotional angst.

Thrilled that you recommended this.

Ecstatic.

the way that jae won blatantly lies about not remembering details about ji hyun. “what was your name, again? where are you staying?” he knows the answers to his own questions, has no doubt repeated these small but dear details to himself more times than he would admit, but is perhaps of the mind that he shouldn’t. that the simple gesture of remembering may expose him and the nature of his desires. thus, he lies, pretends to be none the wiser to this boy’s name or sleeping arrangements as if the knowledge of both hadn’t plagued his mind for days.

the way that despite this, jae won still sits bedside ji hyun on the bus, allows him to rest his head on his shoulder, kneels in front of him to aid him into his wet suit, brings him a warm bowl of noodles (not to mention meds so that he won’t get ill when the seniors make him drink), shields him from the smoke of the grill… the way jae won is unbearably aware of what he does and doesn’t say to ji hyun, of any and all words he utters to this boy, ones meant to offer an impression of disinterest in him and the detail of his life. but the tenderness of jae won’s treatment of ji hyun utterly betray this guise of apathy, the mask he wears to shield himself and the intensity of his blossoming feelings, seemingly faltering, and for the first time in his life, at that.