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inbox BACK IN BUSINESS (i have a 100+ asks i still have not answered)

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Secret Santa gift for @peonycats !!!

My first time drawing them but it was a lot of fun!! 💙 Proud of how it came out ^^

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Дети Айыы. Children Of Ayii.

Concept teaser of a cancelled project. Based on Yakut folklore

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these people really will just say whatever

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2024 ART

these guys are in no particular order i just picked pieces i was particularly proud of 🙏 there was a lot of focus this year on drawing more realistic features and getting out of my comfort zone when it comes to depicting different features!! i especially love my more experimental pieces where i got more trippy/surreal with the color palettes and i hope I get to do more pieces like that!!

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There's this really cool thing that a handful of diaspora Palestinians have committed a lot of time and effort to called vetting (maybe you've heard of it?) in which they speak directly with a fundraiser holder face-to-face or over phone/video call to verify all portions of a fundraiser. There are so many posts [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] that talk about the details of this process to verify that a fundraiser organizer, recipient, and the details are correct by verifying legal documents like proof of residence, photo ID, fluency in Palestinian-Dialect Arabic, family tree constructions, etc.

These vetters have been posting about Palestinian/Gaza/Arab culture/Islam/etc. for a really long time, [1] [2] [3] (these are Wayback machine links to the tumblr accounts of 90-ghost, el-shab-hussein, & nabulsi before you start crying "but, you can post backdate on tumblr!") [4] (moayesh's Instagram because his tumblr is fairly new) meaning that they didn't just pop up after Oct 2023 to start posing as a qualified individual. They are real diaspora Palestinians with stories to tell and culture to share.

GFM also has strict requirements for withdrawing money, needing evidence of a bank account from a country they service and a solid way to transfer funds from that bank account to the recipient's bank account. If the funds are withheld from the intended recipient, that can be reported to and resolved by GFM.

If you're too overwhelmed by trying to distinguish between scams and real fundraisers, then whatever. That's your problem, not everyone else's. You don't need to publicly announce to everyone that you're too busy/tired/incompetent/ignorant to properly investigate fundraisers, so everyone else should stop supporting them as well. There are plenty of vetters and scam-busting blogs dedicated to helping people distinguish between real and fake.

Donating to established nonprofit aid organizations is absolutely a good deed and is much more straightforward, but it's not the only way to help. Especially with the repeated aid blockages, sometimes Ghazan families need a more direct flow of money to pay for the ridiculously inflated cost necessities (I recently received a video from Farah wherein she states that a bottle of dish soap cost $50. $50!!!!) as well as save up for evacuation costs once the Egyptian border crossing opens. (Thousands of dollars!)

With a few minor parts removed, here is a copy/pasted text that was originally in a reblog but now in its own post since the original account is gone. Links that didn’t work anymore have been left out. I figured it’d be useful for anyone who needs it.

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fun silly vday cards of the turkic men!!

(🇰🇬🇦🇿🇰🇿🇹🇷)

who captures your heart the most?!?!

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Hello🌹 Excuse me if I bother you or intrude on you..but I need your support. My home and my source of livelihood were destroyed. I was displaced many times and my tent was burned. My children and I are living in the street in the rain and cold. Donate to me and help me for the sake of my children, please 🙏🙏

Thank you for writing in. This gfm has been vetted here, and they are at 95% of their goal, so please, I plead with anybody able to donate to make up that difference and allow Mohammed to reach his goal.

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I’m Haneen and Mohamed

we have launched this GoFundMe campaign to raise funds to evacuate our family to a safe area. We need your support and assistance to achieve this goal

Every donation of 30€ can make difference.

_*PLEASE HELP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE *_

Thank you for writing in. This gfm has been vetted by 90-ghost and I plead for anyone to donate what they can afford to do so, as they've not received a donation in 2 months and have only 3% of their goal fulfilled.

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Hello, I am mahmuod from Gaza🇵🇸🍉. The ongoing war on Gaza killed half of my family 🥹🥹 and separated me from the rest of my family 💔 and destroyed my home and workplace. Can you help me and the rest of my family get out of Gaza so I can live in peace? 🕊 Please help me with this link ⬇️

https://gofund.me/c9e7a3e8

Thanks for writing in. This gfm has been verified here (at 38), and you can donate below here:

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Hi,🍉

This is me, Noura Ayman,

A medical lab specialist and I have been working in the Turkish Friendship Hospital for four years and studying a master's degree at Al-Aqsa University but have not yet finished it.

I am married to Ibrahim who works the same profession at Al-Shifa Hospital and we were studying a master's degree together.

My story in short is that we have been out of Gaza for treatment in Egypt since July 2023, and we have done an “in vitro fertilization” to give birth after four failed operations in Gaza.

We had a very beautiful baby.

But sadly that the war happened in Gaza in October 2023 and we have been stuck in Egypt ever since without any source of income, and I don't know how to provide for my beautiful daughter's Hanan needs and how to pay for the house and the rest of life, plus our house was bombed in Gaza.

So please support me to set up my own medical analysis laboratory and complete a master's degree in Egypt.

I thank you very much for your interest and support. 🍉🍉

Thank you for writing this in. This gfm has been vetted here, and seeing as they have raised only 11% of their funds, please, if youre able to donate, please do so.

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Hello my friend, I am a hadiah from Gaza.

Can you help my children and donate even a little

I was working as a lawyer to bring justice, and now you are the ones who will bring justice to me...

We lost our jobs, our homes, all our belongings, we became homeless.. Asking for help is not easy, but saving lives on the front lines

I have children. In the name of humanity and not participating in genocide.

I ask you to re-share my story and help my children if possible. Ten dollars is enough to save my children.

🙏😭🌹🍉💔💔

Please do what you can.

I want my children to live in safety and peace. Please don't neglect to do what you can to  participate or donate

Link in bio

My campaing vetted by @90-ghost

@moayesh

Thank you for writing in. You can donate to Hadiah at the following links, and her campaign has been vetted here, at 136.

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Hello

I hope this message finds you and your family in good health and high spirits 😃💜

I am reaching out to kindly request your support in reblogging my binned post on my page 🥹🙏🏻

This post highlights my personal struggles and the severe hardships we are enduring in Gaza😥💔

Particularly the challenging conditions at the hospital where I serve as a doctor 🧑‍��️ 🩺🩻🕊️

Your assistance in spreading this message is essential to raising awareness and garnering support for our cause🙏🏻🥹❤️

I deeply appreciate your help and look forward to your continued support 🌹

Thank you very much 💚💙💐

Warm regards,

Dr. Mohammed Aldeeb from Gaza.

Thank you for writing in. This gfm is 212 on el-shab-hussein & Nabulsi's Vetted Gaza Fundraiser List here. Aldeeb and his family are at 83% of their goal, so please, donate if you can to get through that last stretch.

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URGENT HELP🚨🚨🚨🍉🇵🇸

Hello,

How do you do ? I hop to be in a good condition.

This is my special campaign

We hope to help us by donating or sharing to others.

Every donation makes a different even if it a small.

As you know, the war began on October 7 and lasted ten months. During this period, we were unable to obtain food, drink, or treatment because we did not have money.

There is no source of income for the family at the present time, so we are unable to buy food, clean water, and medicine, especially after we are afflicted with the ongoing infectious diseases spread in the north like Hepatitis C disease.

Our house has been damaged a lot since the beginning of the war. We are from the north of Gaza and we are still in the north and have not displaced to the south. We displaced 10 times from place to another seeking to safety .

We hope for your help and support, even if only a little.🙏🙏

Vetted by Femme intifada on telegram.

Also, vetted by gazavetters on tumbler and my number is #60

My campaign was recently vetted by butterfly effect group on Instagram and my number is #964

This is the link if you would to read our story well 👇👇

https://gofund.me/4e896ac1

Thank you all

Thanks for writing in- as mentioned in their message, they've been vetted and you can give them donations at the following link:

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Hello, I hope you and your family are well. Can you please help me recycle the post on my account? 🌺 And help rescue my family from the war in Gaza? 🙏 Thank you. https://gofund.me/e8345ca7

Thanks for sending this in. This gfm is unvetted but it is donation protected and ris clean, and I urge anybody able to donate to do so.

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Twenty years later after many Arab cities had fallen, the thoughts I was sharing in Hebrew with a friend at a restaurant did not please a man sitting there, and he set to defending Israeli oppression with what he considered an irrefutable argument. He said you don't know these Arabs, and if you knew them, you wouldn't speak about justice in this manner. I asked him to tell me more. He knit his brow and said, "Have you heard of a village called al-Birwa?" "No," I answered. "Where is it?" "You won't find it on this earth," he said. "We blew it up, raked the stones out of its earth, then plowed it until it disappeared under the trees." "To cover up the crime?" I asked. He corrected me, protesting, "No, it was to cover up its crime, that damned place." "And what was its crime?" I asked. "It resisted us," he answered. "They fought back, costing us many casualties, and we had to occupy it twice. The first time we were eating dinner, and the tea was hot. The villagers surprised us and took it back. How could we accept such an insult? You don't know the Arabs, and now I'm telling you." I told him I was Arab, and that it was my village. He apologized politely but awkwardly, talked of peace, then invited me to his shop, where he was auctioning off furnishings and household utensils plundered from the city of Quneitra.

— Mahmoud Darwish, Journal of an Ordinary Grief, translated from the Arabic by Ibrahim Muhawi