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If you've ever felt good when you did something, that's because youre an addict. You are a fucking junkie and you need to stop right now

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2024 is a terrible year to be a henchman. The word "minion" is barely usable and you can't even say "goon" anymore.

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Guy just walked in with a shirt that said “I don’t question my wife’s choices because I’m one of them” and frankly I’m obsessed

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my friend took in a stray and she’s the cutest kitty ever but he named her oil so whenever he sends a picture of her me and my other friends look like we’re roleplaying as the US military

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heyyy mother lowk shitting myself as i send this but uhhh i made some butterfly bandage fanart cuz tht series sorta changed my life 4ever (nbd) so i wanted to pay tribute to it & you 🤞🏼 idk i'm not rly a gr8 artist but i hope ya like it

&& u also put me on disloyal order of water buffaloes from the bb playlist so u know i had to add those iconic lyrics. fire ass song.

anywayss idk if ur gonna see this but i hope ur doin good <33 miss u xoxo

oh my god!!!!!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

i am genuinely in awe right now i can’t believe this 😭 thank you so much you absolute angel i’m touched beyond belief that you would feel inspired enough by butterfly bandage to create this beautiful piece of artwork. the way you weaved themes from the story into the composition is taking my breath away every little detail about it has me so giddy i’m insane ♡_♡ the starry sky in the background, the stitches on the butterfly’s delicate wings and the red string of fate sewing it all together…it’s such a clever and stunning idea i wanna give ur brilliant mind a kiss 😭 also maybe i’m reading too much into it but the perfect symmetry of the butterfly feels like a reference to mirror souls? hehe

i also love that those are the lyrics from disloyal order that you chose to put on the pierce bc i feel like they embody the struggle in bb the most! and the sketchy white outlines of the butterfly make the drawing feel so much more raw and impactful i’m obsessed with them. each line look like a delicate little thread of its own! i wish i had the words to convey what this means to me i really feel like my heart is gonna explode every time i look at it 😭❤️‍🔥 it’s utterly gorgeous and knowing that smth i wrote compelled you to create this makes it all the more precious! it’s genuinely the most fulfulling feeling. i can’t thank you enough for taking the time to draw this and share it w me i’ll cherish it forever!!! ♡

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wizard who's too lazy to name things properly and so can't ever find the incantation she's looking for bc her spellbook is full of spells called shit like 'aaaa1' and 'asdfghjk'

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you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.

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nah did u see american elections.... it's so joever

girl,,, i literally can’t believe how fucking dumb americans are 💀 i’m just praying this mf dies before he enters office

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pathetic party popper noise. happy grindset day

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split this atom with me. i can't eat the whole thing

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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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can i come over and do this

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they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.

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