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palestinians who have reached out to me this week. please share and donate if you can!:

1: @mohammed-gaza1 / gofundme - €500/€70,000

2: @hadiasuudb / gofundme - kr4,123/kr250,000

3: @ahmad-syam6 / gofundme - $6,431/$40,000

4: @jamela-salem / gofundme - €70/€30,000

5: @najah-tamim / gofundme - €1,301/€20,000

6: @tarnem-1 / gofundme - €1,030/€60,000

7: @nourasissue-4 / gofundme - €1,354/€50,000

8: @ahmedsobeh2009 / paypal - €592/€10,000

9: @layan-ramy / gofundme - €247/€17,000

10: @lino-gaza / gofundme - €43,710/€60,000

11: @mohmad-3 / gofundme - €8,413/€80,000

12: @ahmed-gaza0 / gofundme - $2,111/$30,000

13: @familygazaamal / gofundme - $4,570/$30,000

14: @yazanfamily2 / gofundme - €16,586/€50,000

15: @nuhamurad / gofundme - $120/$55,000

16: @m0hammedashraf / gofundme - €85/€50,000

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Lestat’s reaction to Louis drinking his blood.

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Knight - Leg Armor Close Detail, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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YVES VIOLA, 2024

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Earth to Lestat? 🤭

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JENNIFER’S BODY 2009 ― Dir. Karyn Kusama

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (season two) ↳ Claudia + yellow outfits

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | 2.04 "I want you more than anything in the world"

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Art by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Moomin | Tanoshii Mūmin Ikka (1990 - 1991) dir. Hiroshi Saitō and Masayuki Kojima

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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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"I've been a third all my life."

Interview with the Vampire Season 2 | Episode 6 "Like the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light"

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Hi 👋, My name is Mohammad, and I’m reaching out in a moment of desperate need. I’m a father of three young children living in Gaza, and we are caught in the midst of a catastrophic war. Our home is no longer a safe haven, and the future here seems increasingly uncertain. 💔

I’ve launched a fundraising campaign with the goal of raising $40,000 to relocate my family to a safer place where my children can grow up in peace and have a chance at a brighter future.

Unfortunately, my previous fundraising efforts were abruptly halted when my account was terminated without explanation. However, I remain determined to keep fighting for my family’s safety and well-being. 🫶

If you could take a moment to read our story, consider donating, or simply share our campaign with others, it would make an incredible difference. Every act of kindness, no matter how small, brings us one step closer to safety and a new beginning. 🙏

Thank you for your time, compassion, and support. ❤️‍🩹

https://gofund.me/fd1faea2 🔗

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anyone got any recs for translations of the oresteia