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“First season of LEVERAGE - so he's 21 years old - he shows me his watch designs. I'm expecting, y' know, celebrity strap branding or faces. No, it's engineering schematics of GEARS and shit. Pages of them. Even then, there were none so cool.” - John Rogers

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“Your father… was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force. He ceased to be the Jedi Anakin Skywalker and “became” Darth Vader. When that happened, the good man who was your father was destroyed.”

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answering a couple questions i got on this post since i realized ppl genuinely wanna know:

tl;dr:

israel lets very, very little aid get into gaza. even the UN can't get in as much as they want to. funding individual families, gazan led initiatives, and mutual aid collectives operating out of gaza ensures gazans can provide for themselves and pay for the extremely expensive aid that is available.

with all the civil infrastructure destroyed by israel, the situation on the ground has devolved into unrestricted capitalism, driving up the price of aid (that should be free!). this makes it more urgent for people to have funding for daily survival.

the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.

as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.

the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.

ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.

and the municipality of gaza itself is fundraising to rebuild water infrastructure.

all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!

long answers under the cut!

if you wanna donate to a charity that's absolutely fine, but the thing is most charities (and even the UN!) are unable to make it into gaza in the first place, leaving aid rotting at the egyptian side of the border or subject to israeli settler attacks

not to mention, charities and nonprofits also maintain a paternalistic colonial relationship with the indigenous people they are trying to help, determining what aid they need for them instead of returning power to them and letting them make their own choices

i'm not here to say that one option is better than the other, just that they achieve different things and are equally legitimate. there's an attitude among people who question the legitimacy of these gofundme campaigns that somehow the people promoting them are telling them not to donate to charities. nobody is stopping you from donating to charities. we are just asking that you do not dehumanize the very real gazans in your inbox just because their method of asking for aid is more direct and risky.

unfortunately that's exactly what has happened. because israel destroyed all of gaza's more formalized infrastructure, it seems that organized crime and rampant inflation has taken its place. aid is supposed to be free, but in order to save for evacuation or the cost of living, people have started selling them at an inflated price. and aid that is truly free attracts intense, large crowds that are dangerous to navigate.

this was posted on abc a few days ago

it's pure, unrestrained capitalism. i've had multiple palestinians describe this situation to me confidence. that's why everything's so expensive now. why people have to rent out tiny plots of land for their tents to sit on, why my friend @siraj2024 still has to buy tarps to cover the broken windows of the overpriced bombed out apartment he rented, and why a bag of flour can cost a thousand bucks in the north.

even before israel closed and then bombed the rafah crossing, the egyptian hala travel agency was only allowing people to cross the border if they paid a hefty $5000 USD per adult / $2500 USD per child bribe. it denies doing this, but the hundreds of stories from palestinians say otherwise.

with regard to the economy, here in america we saw something similar happen in the wake of hurricane helene and milton. the podcaster margaret killjoy describes how she saw dual economies rise after asheville was fully cut off from the rest of the country - some people offered each other supplies for free in a sort of mutual aid honor system, and some people required payment when they lent supplies because they themselves needed to buy stuff for their families. these dual economies exist in gaza too. and this means they all still need money to survive.

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Hi this is very silly, but I wanted to let you know that later this week I'm running a dnd mini campaign (like maybe 3 sessions) based partially off of your hq cardverse and partially off of a dnd podcast I love (naddpod).

It's set in the cardverse (my players actually chose their suit to be spades by coincidence) but they aren't members of the royalty, they are basically super soldier guards (and old... they are each like.... late 80s at the youngest lmao) and they need to discover who killed their Ace! (Plot twist it will be their own Queen 😔💔 she is evil and was mad that her Ace and King wouldn't let her become a dictator. Luckily her Jack is down to support her efforts).

I did borrow some inspiration from your Suga and Oikawa where I have a 500(ish) yo Queen Snoh (who decided to start aging again once his secret lover died two years ago.... ANOTHER SUITS KING.. but hasn't had the courage to tell his own suit yet 😪). For my Oikawa inspo character they are a would be king who hasn't stepped forward bc their suit is geared up for a tyrannical take over (of the nearby kingdom of Dominos 😔💔) and doesn't feel like they could be a imperialist war time King- they only want peace and security for their people.

Thanks for bringing such joy to me (and soon by proxy my friends)- your world building has been so much fun to read that I simply had to live in it. Take care and have a very happy new year!

Ahhhh this makes me so happy! I love this!

That is so cool! I hope yall have fun! If you have time, I'd love an update on how it goes.

Happy New Year

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Please don’t feel pressured to answer this or anything, but what is your uploading schedule?

Hmm, i probably can't be exact on which day of the week but, I'd say...

Next week: next Hq at Hogwarts chapter (truthfully i kinda of didnt realize it had been that long until a week or so ago I looked and was like "wait it's been HOW LONG since I updated" sorry for the long wait on that one). In general for this one, my New Year resolution is to get back to a regular update schedule so there's not weird gaps in time between chapters.

After that, I'm working on posting the next chapter of After the Fall of Olympus which I'm hoping is by the end of the month

These two are my main goals, once I get these two back on track, I'll start working on my other projects in between. But my priority right now is getting things back to a routine schedule so people know when to expect updates.

In general however always feel free to ask about updates/schedules.

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Bartender: thanks for stopping that bar fight, spiderman. Can I get you a drink? It’s on the house

Peter: thank you, but I can’t

Bartender: why not

Peter:

Bartender:

Peter, trying not to give his age away: I’m pregnant

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kuroo received his letter! 🪄✨️🐈‍⬛️

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happy new year, everyone! this is my first art post of 2025! ^^ I already drew this last year, and I'm just finding the right moment to post it! ^^

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The passing process once again!

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Best wishes and all the success possible for all of you for 2025!!

You got this!

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hey what's up with the "!" in fandoms? i.e. "fat!" just curious thaxxx

I have asked this myself in the past and never gotten an answer.

Maybe today will be the day we are both finally enlightened.

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Maybe I’m just a masochist but what if Bokuto gets seriously injured… I just think it would be “fun” to see everyone’s reactions considering he’s the sweetest most caring guy ever and to see him upset is bad enough let alone gravely injured…….

Whaaaaat am i evil enough to do that? 😇

Yes. I absolutely am.

So I'm just gonna stay quiet for now.

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I know we have plenty story left so I really R E A L L Y hope we get a MSBY moment… or moments :3c I would say Adler’s moment but- well…. </3 yeah T-T

I get Atsumu’s a minor character but I hope we see him more!

Hmm I'd say Atsumu definitely gets a bit more attention now that we've gotten to the revival of the Slytherin Quidditch team.

There's also some time later a blink and you'll miss it MSBY team moment (again waaaaay later) because I love them and I'm a nerd.

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Oh my god... Kageyama's painfully autistic ass not being understood by ANYONE around him in the fourth book is tearing me apart inside PLEASE HE'S JUST BAD WITH WORDS!!! GIVE HIM A CHANCE!!!

Oof yeah, he had a rough fourth book. His story so much is about him not needing to shoulder as much blame as he gives himself, but that's such a challenge to accept.

Anyway glad you're liking the story and thanks for the ask!

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Happy Holidays! I hope you’re doing well 💖

Thank you! You, too!

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Can someone please explain to me what evaporated milk is? Wouldn’t that just be gas by definition? I live in constant fear

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My favourite type of movie is “period piece romance but fantasy-horror hijinks happen and now everyone has to adapt to the new genre or die,” ala Curse of the Black Pearl, Anastasia, The Mummy (1999)