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List of Palestinian GoFundMes (22nd October 2024)

Below are a list of fundraisers that I have been sent. All of these have been vetted by either @/gaza-evacuation-funds or @/gazavetters. Some have also been vetted by The Butterfly Effect Project or through other users such as @/el-shab-hussein, @/nabulsi, @/90-ghost, @/ibtisams & @/fairuzfan.

If you see this, please help in anyway you can and if you can't assist financially, please reblog this post.

VETTED:

ayoosh-gaza1: GFM ($11,762 USD raised of $35,000)

nourasissue-4: GFM (€2,259 raised of €50,000 )

ghazialamoudi: GFM (€1,376 raised of €10,000)

mohamedjshamia: GFM (kr68,811 SEK raised of kr250,000)

lailashaqoura: GFM (€31,990 raised of €55,000)

amirashawikh: GFM ($1,752 raised of $60,000)

savejudyblog : GFM ($3,420 USD raised of $50,000)

mohammedoshehab38: GFM (€1,647 raised of €30,000)

ahmednser: GFM (€487 raised of €100,000)

faroha2001: GFM ($3,383 USD raised of $35,000)

drdarine: GFM ($5,102 USD raised of $30,000)

alaakhateeb2024: GFM (£29,779 raised of £56,000)

amiranimer: GFM (€31,330 raised of €39,000)

etafalqattaa: GFM (€4,458 raised of €100,000)

abdalsalm: GFM (€13,179 raised of €50,000)

mohammedayyads-blog: GFM (€5,041 raised of €35,000)

mahmuodanwar : GFM (€303 raised of €15,000)

VETTED BY ASSOCIATION

mohammedbatish: GFM (€454 raised of €60,000)

mohmoud-j : GFM ($21,574 USD raised of $60,000)

emanabosedo: GFM ($1,321 USD raised of $50,000)

lino-gaza: GFM (€44,313 raised of €60,000)

CURRENTLY UNVETTED

lawyer-adhamayyad88: GFM (€491 raised of €50,000)

islamqazal: GFM ($380 USD raised of $20,000)

weasm-82: GFM (€187 raised of €20,000)

ranensworld: GFM (€9,786 raised of €80,000)

jamelwww: GFM (€40 raised of €60,000)

OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT

Feminine Hygiene Products for Gaza

Gaza eSims

Mutual Aid Diabetes

Crips for eSims for Gaza

SOURCES WHERE YOU CAN FIND VETTED FUNDRAISERS (from @/vetted-gaza-funds):

el-shab-hussein and nabulsi's spreadsheet

gazafunds.com

Operation Olive Branch’s spreadsheet

Strawberry Seed Collective’s master list

Operation Poppy Flower

Project Watermelon master list

GoFund(water)Me(lons) master list

Ottawa4Palestine

Pali Pals on instagram

The ButterflyEffect Project spreadsheet

GazaVetters Spreadsheet

Gaza Evacuation Fund Spreadsheet

**Links to previous Vetted GFM Masterlists that I have created can be found in the source of this post.**

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- The grandfather who lost his beloved granddaughter Reem, the soul of his soul, to the Israeli airstrikes.

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The people who are creating charts and holding whole debates about what is the best Cosmere reading order would absolutely have a heart attack if they knew the order in which I read the books 😅.

Final Empire -> Warbreaker -> Well of Ascension -> Alloy of Law (yes, I read that one before Hero) -> Stormlight (up to Words cus that was all that was out at the time) -> Hero of Ages -> Elantris -> Bands of Mourning -> Secret History -> after that I read the rest as they came out, Shadow of Self I only read for the first time on my reread before Lost Metal

yOu HaVe tO rEaD tHe cOsMeRe BoOkS iN tHe RiGhT oRdEr Or YoU wOn'T kNoW wHaT's GoiNg On!

Gancho, Doug, my brother in Adonalsium (Highly), I'm going to hold your hand when I say this:

Not knowing what's going on is the default state for Cosmere protagonists.

Even Wit, who's whole deal is standing over there in the corner smirking like he knows what's going on, doesn't have a single rusting clue.

Read the whole Stormlight Archive backwards for all I care, you'll still find yourself better informed than Kaladin Stormface

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How has the show been unfair to Alicent?

I think we can all agree that the showrunners want Rhaenyra to be the protagonist, right? She's the heir, she's the badass dragonrider, she's the hog slaughterer, she's got men lining up to be with her, she's in an open marriage, she's bleeding afterbirth because Alicent requested to see the baby etc.

And this would be all well and good if not for the fact that the DotD conflict is one of completely self-destructive, futile bloodshed. Rhaenyra and Alicent should be equal protagonists, equally flawed and equally understandable in their motives. So far, they don't really feel equal because most of team black's motivations are text and most of team green's are subtext buried under extreme pettiness.

Almost all of Alicent, Larys, and Criston's scenes are Rhaenyra- or Targaryen-centric (except Alicent drinking what may or may not be moon tea, which is once again subtextual), creating the false impression that team green's lives revolve around hating Rhaenyra and making her miserable. But the context changes when we remember that:

Alicent's brother got maimed by Daemon in the first episode. He's since not been shown or even named, which undercuts how dangerous and disrespectful Daemon is to their family.

They deleted a Rhaenyra/Alicent scene in 1.02, which could have explicated the pressure Alicent feels at the horrible position the king and her father put her in. Instead, we got a 10-minute battle at the Stepstones.

Viserys could legitimize Rhaenyra's children and codify equal primogeniture at any time, but no one has mentioned this. No one has mentioned how Rhaenyra trying to pass off her children as Laenor's further muddies the succession and discredits her own claim to the nobles she's trying to win over. Instead, Alicent is the slutshaming villain for stating Rhaenyra's obvious lies. Also, no one in the show has called out Viserys's hypocrisy in "supporting" Rhaenyra while subjecting Alicent to marital rape regularly (such a feminist icon).

Joffrey's death in the book was an accident, but the show reframes it as a murder and obscures the beginning of the fight so we can't see what set Criston off. Nor do we see why Alicent decided to spare him or how she talked him off the ledge. Like? Why are we missing such key context to the formation of the greens when we have a Dae/nyra scene almost every episode? They also sprinkle Criston's grievances about Rhaenyra's privilege with slurs and make his grudge about jealousy so we can't take him seriously, despite the extremely dubcon scene in 1.04 and the fact that he's Dornish and low-born.

We've seen absolutely nothing about Larys's motives and relationship to his brother/father, which makes the ending of 1.06 so nefarious.

All of this is not to excuse the actions of the greens or say that they've only been portrayed as good or bad. Rather I'm arguing that the writers so far seem desperately afraid to show the Targaryens as explicitly fearsome or flawed, or show the full negative impact of their behavior. Rhaenyra's suffering and badass actions are constantly spelled out for us while we have to infer and interpret the greens' every move. And that makes it hard for me to analyze the characters' actions independent of the writers' heavy-handed moral framing of Alicent vs Rhaenyra.

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disa & durin IV from the rings of power ♥

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I've been starting to realize that a lot of modern greek myth retellings that proudly claim about how feminist they are, have a weird and strong hatred towards mothers, either doing everything in their power to completely rewrite them so they are a bad person, or not change their actions or character but just scorn them for being an either decent or good mother. I need to start a list soon that I will present to everyone while losing my mind.

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more people in here need to come to terms with the fact that disliking fictional characters/ships/whatever is never a moral failure.

i'm really getting fed up with these annoying online crusades trying to paint everyone who does not share their sentiments as a bad person.

fandom isn't activism. it is something people do in their free time for enjoyment. and since people are wildly different from one another, they are going to enjoy different things.

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Sandworms this, Bene Gesserit that, something I really love about the Dune books is they look you dead in the eye and tell you how fucked up parents and children are.

A huge part of the Dune novel is about subtle workings of violence and resentment in the family. The way Jessica views Paul as her creature and posession and recoils in horror from the parts of him she can't control. The way Paul sees her as a source of both his strength and his deepest fears: She bore me; she trained me. She is my enemy. And in all this they still love each other. It's not the lack of love. It's the idea that birth and nurturing are inherently violent for both sides.

Just like with Duke Leto and his father. Just like with Jessica and Alia. And we see the same thing mirrored in the Harkonnens. The Baron abusing Feyd-Rautha while raising him and preparing him as his successor?? Fully aware the boy's rise to power will be his own death. The Baron himself as the book's main villain is a giant grotesque baby. Parenthood as existential horror.

The theme continues with Messiah where the birth of Leto II and Ghanima erases their parents. In Children of Dune Paul offers himself as sacrifice to the son he tried to kill and Chani nearly returns from the dead by possessing her daughter. Leto II and Ghanima are eldritch horrors trapped in child bodies. But even they come off as less cruel than Jessica in her final abandonment of both Paul and Alia. Leto II returns in God Emperor to claim humanity as his children, becoming both a god and a tyrant. Meanwhile his whole dead family lives inside his head and has to be kept from overpowering him at all times.

There is so much weird horror surrounding parents and children in the Dune books.

And I love that a lot of that found its way into Villeneuve's Jessica. That's who she is, that's why Rebecca Ferguson's performance is a horror performance even though it might not always serve the character. It captures that part of the books beautifully.

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I finished Wind and Truth and pretty much immediately started a new WIP because I have zero self-control, lol

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"The black & white thinking, willful misreading of contemporaneous answers, and rigid idea that their head canons are the only right ones boggles me." - Gennifer Hutchison

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A wolf born from the bones of a sheep

🐏 Tip your artists!

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Wip

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Nothing will ever convince me there's a platonic explanation for the look of disbelief on Mairon's face in this moment.

(I hc that they had already become estranged romantically by this point but when you're in someone's orbit for who knows how many centuries the feelings will run deep.)

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The thing with Celeborn's book characterisation, right, is that he's kind of abrasive, and not very good at diplomacy (though he does try!). And I think if the writers stick with that in ROP, he and Galadriel could be such a good tag-team, just an absolute migraine in waiting for Gil-galad. :D

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Reblog to give alicent a gun

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Is this not just a word salad that sums up to a whole lot of nothing 😭😭😭 they want to be deep so bad and I’m sorry but they failed.

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