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femslash rarepairs save me
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Ending the stigma of drug use will save lives.
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palestinians who have reached out to me via ask and their vetted campaigns
Wafaa @wafaaresh | 15k/100k reached -> gfm
Bilal @bilalassadabedrou | 5k/80k reached -> gfm
Ashraf @ashraf-family2 | 15k/20k reached -> gfm
Mohammed @m0hammed1 | 7k/15k reached -> gfm
Amira @amira-world | 18k/20k reached -> gfm
Ghazi @ghaziyounes1967 | 2k/50k reached -> gfm
Mahmoud @mahmoudkhalafff | 18k/30k reached -> gfm
Hanaa @hanaa987 | 6k/20k reached -> gfm
Fidaa @fidaa-family2 | 3k/10k reached -> gfm
Mohamed @save-hijazi-family2 | 6k/20k reached -> gfm
please donate if you can and share this post in order to spread their fundraisers!!
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HYGIENE PRODUCTS FOR GAZA

Organised by the Asad sisters, Leena, Amanda and Loren with Pious Projects.
— At $20 each, this kit will include - but is not limited to - sanitary pads, a hair brush, tooth brush, toothpaste, cotton swabs, wipes, tissues, and other hygienic items depending on availability!
You can donate as little as $5 if you just want to help out, or donate a bulk of kits for between $100 to $1,000!
Access to the right hygeine products is essential for Palestinian people, as the Israeli blockade has left millions without access to proper hygeine that can lead to potentially fatal infections and diseases.
Do your part today:
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Shayma and her family needs help relocating to safety outside of gaza. She’s only 25 and holding together two of her passed sister’s children who are mentally drained after the passing of their mother and their other sister.
If possible please donate to her GoFundMe and share, she’s the sweetest girl and deserves the world. Her Twitter is @dpechesmode.


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calling the cops on an unhoused person for being weird/rude/"scary" in public is so weird to me on such a fundamental level... like even before you get to political beliefs about jail and homelessness, you are beefing with a dude who has to live on the sidewalk. like sorry if he was rude to you dude sorry if he made you uncomfortable but to be fair he lives and sleeps on the fucking sidewalk. sorry if hes being too mentally unwell on the street late at night but like you gotta understand that he lives on the fucking sidewalk. sorry if he seems a little bit "off" today dude i think maybe its because he lives on the fucking goddamn sidewalk
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five years with my gf today ❤️
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Tropes Draft #1: Apocalypse

Hi there! My friends @nakedmonkey, @smashingmagicklovely, @fat-fem-and-asian, and @harrietdyker played a game on Discord this week where we drafted a cast for a film based on common tropes in an apocalypse story, and now we're looking to settle a winner via poll! See short synopses of each movie under cut, but, of course, you're welcome just to vote based on vibes alone! At the end of the week, we'll reveal whose film was which.
[01.] sarah snook and ayo edebiri star in indie zombie drama ALL OF THE MEN ARE DEAD. snook plays alice, a world weary survivor trying to locate her younger sibling lachlan (liv hewson), who vanished after a fight. she rescues lost survivors brianna (ayo edebiri) and her younger sister lily (violet mcgraw), along with their dog tiger (DITTO THE DOG ! #1 on the call sheet) from a horde of zombies. In return, brianna says that she met lachlan a few weeks ago and directed them to the safe zone her mother zoya (sheryl lee ralph) leads before getting separated. she offers alice the same safety if they find their way back. despite her growing fondness for lily, alice can't shake a feeling of unease with her new companions. how does brianna know these lands so well? how did lily know alice's name? why did they leave the safe zone at all?
[02.] At Rainbow House, everyone is welcome and treated like family. At least, that’s what Eleanor Glass (Academy Award nominee Sigourney Weaver) and her wife Marcia (Academy Award winner Allison Janney) intended when they opened their LGBTQ youth center, which is under existential threat by the ominous corporation CTOA, headed by Maxwell Price (Academy Award nominee Colman Domingo). Now, in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse, Eleanor and Marcia have made efforts to turn the center into a safe house for all those who lost everything. Alongside longtime program director Charlie (Academy Award winner Ian McKellen) and Eleanor’s street-smart protege Sunny (Emmy winner Zendaya), they work tirelessly to protect everyone - even as CTOA continues its efforts to dismantle the organization. But when Price and his daughter Ashlyn (Emmy nominee Jenna Ortega) show up seeking shelter, Eleanor and Marcia must choose between their commitment to welcoming everyone as equals and their fight with Maxwell Price. Sunny’s secret relationship with Ashlyn complicates matters further, not to mention the possibility that CTOA had more to do with this nuclear fallout than anyone could have expected. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress (Weaver), Everyone’s Inn is a bold tale about love, found family, and the secrets we keep.
[03.] The Letum Project: In a near distant future, the lethal Letum Virus that targets both the developmental and nervous systems simultaneously is turning victims into distorted, violent walking corpses, and is running rampant, dismantling societal infrastructures at a rapid pace and wreaking havoc on a global scale. A team of elite medical professionals, spearheaded by Dr. Freya Wright (Olivia Colman) and partner Dr. August Beck (Mads Mikkelsen), has been working tirelessly in an underground facility to find a cure for the past 10 months, but an unexpected death in the team brings into question what the motivation behind the project really is. Propelled by the mysterious and tragic death of her wife and fellow researcher, Allison Harris (Rebecca Hall), and the unexplained disappearance of friend and mentor, Dr. Amelia Bailey (Harriet Walker), Dr. Greta Harris (Dagmara Dominczyk) embarks on a rogue quest to find answers along with colleague and famed vascular neurologist, Gabrielle Gomez (Gina Torres). What they find above ground is a nightmarish scene; entire towns of infected people left to rot in now fenced zones, while survivors now live off of rationed food and essentials in a highly militarized state, the rich prioritized over the poor. But those aren’t the only truths Greta is forced to face. Allison and Gabrielle had been working alongside Amelia on a project they had kept from the rest of the team; a potential cure that might have been successful had Allison not found herself suddenly infected. Betrayed by the revelation, and now finding themselves hunted by Dr. Wright and Dr. Beck, Greta is left to wonder if there’s anyone left to trust. Aided only by sporadic morse code messages received through an old radio left to them by an anonymous source shortly before their escape from the facility, Greta and Gabrielle embark on a dangerous quest to find out.
[04.] Gödshead: A deadly virus has ravaged North America, leaving only sparse pockets of healthy populations behind in its wake: small towns and even smaller villages, family compounds, isolated homesteads surrounded by barbed wire fences. For years, former real estate agent Parker Kingston (Tawny Cypress) lived in such a protected home with her two daughters, the responsible Audrey (Jasmin Savoy-Brown) and the younger, far more rebellious Ryan (Amandla Stenberg), but the start of the film finds both Parker and Ryan reeling after a raider attack results in Audrey’s death and the sudden loss of their home. Grief-stricken, wounded, and utterly undone, mother and daughter must carry on anyway, taking sanctuary in a heavily walled village called Gödshead. Though their personal relationship is tumultuous, both Kingston women settle into something of a routine in the quaint village as they get to know its colorful denizens. They share a house with Dr. Hutchings (Paul Giamatti), a cantankerous but well-meaning history professor; Parker forges an intimate bond with Marnie Thompson (Samantha Sloyan), a kind if strangely fragile teacher who takes care of the village’s children while their parents work. They also get to know Mayor Willa Thompson (Frances McDormand), Marnie’s mother, whose stern but fair hand has ensured the village’s continued prosperity. But what exactly is the price of prosperity in an apocalypse? Parker and Ryan soon discover that there’s more to the village that lies beneath its seemingly peaceful surface—indeed that the trade-off for peace is a sacrifice that all citizens of Gödshead must be prepared to make. Winters are brutal in the mountains, and meat is scarce; there’s a lottery every winter in Gödshead, and everyone has a number.
[05.] The Sick: The zombie apocalypse did not end the world as we know it. Nobody knows how the infection works, who can pass it on and why, and what, exactly, it does to a person: they just know who is sick. They just know who to kill. When Claire (Romola Garai), an exhausted local news reporter, is assigned to report on Refuge, an organisation fighting to protect the hunted sick, she finds out her best friend, the good-hearted Raul (Diego Luna), has been a part of the organisation for months now, but she does not get to confront him about it before he strangely dies. Claire takes it upon herself to get his latest case, the young and funny Layla (Hunter Schafer) to safety in his honor. With the help of Raul’s boss, the eccentric Eddie (Ncuti Gatwa), they go on a cross-country journey towards the shelter built by Refuge. But on their way, Claire’s investigative tendencies can’t let go of the feeling that Eddie is hiding something, and Layla is getting sicker, worried for her companions’ safety around her. It’s a rest-stop encounter with Harper (Harriet Dyer) that gives Claire her answers and Layla the opportunity to protect her friends: a former colleague of Eddie, left to die by Eddie after getting infected, Harper, now part of a resistance organisation fighting for liberation of the sick, is out for revenge, but revenge is not as clear-cut a thing as people think. She tries to convince Layla to abandon Claire and Eddie’s shelter idea and join her, because Eddie can’t be trusted and Claire is too naive. And if Claire was not conflicted enough about the discovery, Raul’s cousin, the mysterious Mateo (Vico Ortiz), who blames Eddie for Raul’s death, is working with Harper, and tries to convince Claire to join the revolution, too, so she won’t die in it.
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A pro-Palestine Jew on tiktok asked those of us who were raised pro-Israel, what got us to change our minds on Palestine. I made a video to answer (with my voice, not my face), and a few people watched it and found some value in it. I'm putting this here too. I communicate through text better than voice.
So I feel repetitive for saying this at this point, but I grew up in the West Bank settlements. I wrote this post to give an example of the extent to which Palestinians are dehumanized there.
Where I live now, I meet Palestinians in day to day life. Israeli Arab citizens living their lives. In the West Bank, it was nothing like that. Over there, I only saw them through the electric fence, and the hostility between us and Palestinians was tangible.
When you're a child being brought into the situation, you don't experience the context, you don't experience the history, you don't know why they're hostile to you. You just feel "these people hate me, they don't want me to exist." And that bubble was my reality. So when I was taught in school that everything we did was in self defense, that our military is special and uniquely ethical because it's the only defensive military in the world - that made sense to me. It slotted neatly into the reality I knew.
One of the first things to burst the bubble for me was when I spoke to an old Israeli man and he was talking about his trauma from battle. I don't remember what he said, but it hit me wrong. It conflicted with the history as I understood it. So I was a bit desperate to make it make sense again, and I said, "But everything we did was in self defense, right?"
He kinda looked at me, couldn't understand at all why I was upset, and he went, "We destroyed whole villages. Of course we did. It was war, that's what you do."
And that casual "of course" stuck with me. I had to look into it more.
I couldn't look at more accurate history, and not at accounts by Palestinians, I was too primed against these sources to trust them. The community I grew up in had an anti-intellectual element to it where scholars weren't trusted about things like this.
So what really solidified this for me, was seeing Palestinian culture.
Because part of the story that Israel tells us to justify everything, is that Palestinians are not a distinct group of people, they're just Arabs. They belong to the nations around us. They insist on being here because they want to deny us a homeland. The Palestinian identity exists to hurt us. This, because the idea of displacing them and taking over their lands doesn't sound like stealing, if this was never theirs and they're only pretending because they want to deprive us.
But then foods, dances, clothing, embroidery, the Palestinian dialect. These things are history. They don't pop into existence just because you hate Jews and they're trying to move here. How gorgeous is the Palestinian thobe? How stunning is tatreez in general? And when I saw specific patterns belonging to different regions of Palestine?
All of these painted for me a rich shared life of a group of people, and countered the narrative that the Palestininian identity was fabricated to hurt us. It taught me that, whatever we call them, whatever they call themselves, they have a history in this land, they have a right to it, they have a connection to it that we can't override with our own.
I started having conversations with leftist friends. Confronting the fact that the borders of the occupied territories are arbitrary and every Israeli city was taken from them. In one of those conversations, I was encouraged to rethink how I imagine peace.
This also goes back to schooling. Because they drilled into us, we're the ones who want peace, they're the ones who keep fighting, they're just so dedicated to death and killing and they won't leave us alone.
In high school, we had a stadium event with a speaker who was telling us about a person who defected from Hamas, converted to Christianity and became a Shin Bet agent. Pretty sure you can read this in the book "Son of Hamas." A lot of my friends read the book, I didn't read it, I only know what I was told in that lecture. I guess they couldn't risk us missing out on the indoctrination if we chose not to read it.
One of the things they told us was how he thought, we've been fighting with them for so long, Israelis must have a culture around the glorification of violence. And he looked for that in music. He looked for songs about war. And for a while he just couldn't find any, but when he did, he translated it more fully, and he found out the song was about an end to wars. And this, according to the story as I was told it, was one of the things that convinced him. If you know know the current trending Israeli "war anthem," you know this flimsy reasoning doesn't work.
Back then, my friend encouraged me to think more critically about how we as Israelis envision peace, as the absence of resistance. And how self-centered it is. They can be suffering under our occupation, but as long as it doesn't reach us, that's called peace. So of course we want it and they don't.
Unless we're willing to work to change the situation entirely, our calls for peace are just "please stop fighting back against the harm we cause you."
In this video, Shlomo Yitzchak shares how he changed his mind. His story is much more interesting than mine, and he's much more eloquent telling it. He mentions how he was taught to fear Palestinians. An automatic thought, "If I go with you, you'll kill me." I was taught this too. I was taught that, if I'm in a taxi, I should be looking at the driver's name. And if that name is Arab, I should watch the road and the route he's taking, to be prepared in case he wants to take me somewhere to kill me. Just a random person trying to work. For years it stayed a habit, I'd automatically look at the driver's name. Even after knowing that I want to align myself with liberation, justice, and equality. It was a process of unlearning.
On October, not long after the current escalation of violence, I had to take a taxi again. A Jewish driver stopped and told me he'll take me, "so an Arab doesn't get you." Israeli Jews are so comfortable saying things like this to each other. My neighbors discussed a Palestinian employee, with one saying "We should tell him not to come anymore, that we want to hire a Jew." The second answered, "No, he'll say it's discrimination," like it would be so ridiculous of him. And the first just shrugged, "So we don't have to tell him why." They didn't go through with it, but they were so casual about this conversation.
In the Torah, we're told to treat those who are foreign to us well, because we know what it's like to be the foreigner. Fighting back against oppression is the natural human thing to do. We know it because we lived it. And as soon as I looked at things from this angle, it wasn't really a choice of what to support.
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Congratulations on the job! Do you have any job hunting advice?
Hello thank you! I can try to give some advice from my experience, but I'm no expert. Also keep in mind I'm in the UK so my advice fits that job market best.
First of all, narrowing down what job you'd like to do is helpful even in a situation where you'd take anything that comes your way. You might have done that already or you're in a profession where it's not even a question, but if you're like me and your skill set is not entirely profession-oriented and you're applying to everything and hoping something sticks, I really do recommend deciding on 1-2 areas you'd like to work in and narrowing down your scope to applying to specific types of jobs. It means you're focused on applying your skill set to a certain outcome, you're writing similar cover letters which saves a shit ton of time, and you know you'd actually like to do that job if you get it, because that's like. Yeah. You'd need to work once you get the job and if you can Not Hate It that's huge in this world!
Then apply to as many jobs you can. Set yourself goals to apply to X amount of jobs this week/today. In terms of CV, I don't think I'm the best to advise you on how to write that, but of course tailor it to the job and highlight the experiences that are important to it (so narrowing down types of jobs also helps with that!). Cover letters, my best advice is copy the person specification list to a document, and start by writing down what experiences you have that are relevant to each of the points. If you don't match the person specification exactly, still apply!!! You want to mention every requirement you do answer, and give a concrete example of something you did that shows you really do have this experience.
Save yourself time by copying any relevant parts of cover letters you already wrote and tweaking them as needed! And it's always better to send fewer stronger applications than a larger number of weaker applications, but any application is better than no application.
During interviews, keep your cover letter in mind: every question is an opportunity for you to show your relevant experience and give a concrete example of how you implemented that experience. Sometimes, unrelated jobs still give you relevant experience, so remember that (for example, my work as a bartender was relevant to my application to work as a library assistant). Don't downplay your skills and knowledge, and remember that things that seem natural to you might not be natural to others. The skills and knowledge you have are not necessarily something everybody has, so highlight them!
It might take some time but you gotta persist! It's frustrating and stressful as fuck but don't take unsuccessful applications/interviews personally, the world is just really shit atm.
Hope this was helpful <3
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the PCFF is jointly led by israelis and palestinians working towards an end to the violence and a political solution. there can be another future.
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Hello! I’m struggling with income atm, so I’m opening writing commissions! Interested? Read along. Not interested? Please share <3
who am I? I’m michael. I write fic!
Maybe you know me from the Abbott Elementary fandom, since I wrote like fine wine and stanley tucci and also some ava/barbara shorts.
Or maybe you remember me from my Ocean’s 8 days, where I wrote as the crooked smiles fade.
I also write a lot for the American Auto fandom and wrote some shivlina for Succession!
Some quick and short examples of my style: this shivlina smut, or this ava/barbara example, or this sadie x katherine moody short.
I also write poetry, including fandom poetry, examples of which you can find here and in this poetry e-zine I made, or published in this poetry magazine. I have a master’s degree in script and playwriting and I am also an agented author.
you can contact me through tumblr DMs to discuss commissions. please keep all commissions discussion on my tumblr/ko-fi and off ao3.
what am I offering: I’m offering fanfiction, original writing, and poetry commissions at the moment. I will leave the commissions open until I reach my capacity.
NSFW okay
Not willing to write:
Reader fics
Rape/sexual assault
Eating disorders
A/B/O
Physical/emotional abuse
I reserve the right to turn down a commission in case it includes any other thing that I am uncomfortable writing.
fanfiction
tip a WIP: for every £5 I get, I’ll spend 20 minutes working on one of my WIPs. you can specify which WIP you’d like to tip.
standard commissions: £20 per 500 words, up to 2K words; over 2K words - £15 per extra 500 words, up to 5K word; between 5K-7K words - flat rate £180
available WIPs to tip:
sadie x katherine multichapter fic
shiv x karolina long vignettes fic
if you want something longer than 7K words, please discuss it with me on a case-by-case basis.
can write:
shiv x karolina (succession)
sadie x katherine (american auto)
work wives (abbott elementary)
ava x barbara (abbott elementary)
if you have a different femslash ship in mind, message me and we can discuss it! I am not the person to write m/m or f/m ships. if you want a character-centric fic rather than a ship-centric fic, message me and we can discuss that too!
original work
£0.10 per word, from 500 words up to 5K words
if you want something longer than 5K words, please discuss it with me on a case-by-case basis.
poetry
£10 per poem
+ £5 for poems longer than two pages
what I’ll need from you
you can send prompts and ideas that are as vague or as specific as you’d like. the more specific you are, the more likely I am to write according to your vision.
If you're tipping a WIP, tell me which WIP you'd like to tip.
terms and conditions
these commissions are for personal use only, no commercial use is allowed. you cannot sell nor publish my work under your name. I reserve the right to publish any and all works I write under my name while giving credit for the idea to the person who commissioned them if necessary.
if you would like me to not publish your fanfic commission, we can discuss that, but there will be extra charges.
if you would like to commission original writing/poetry to publish under your name, we can discuss that, but there will be extra charges.
payment is upfront. schedule depends on the length of the work and will be discussed with people individually. If I do not deliver the work within the timeline discussed, you will receive a full refund.
payment is through my ko-fi account.
feel free to message me with any questions, and please share <3
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the amount of people engaging in like actual, genuine, proud atrocity denial over the 10/7 massacres is fucking insane. i have seen multiple people claiming that images of blood congealing on the floor of a house is photoshopped. this is coming on concert with a lot of people claiming that no one was killed, or because one lurid detail was improperly supported it somehow excused the fact of child death (and then said detail turned out to be true!)
this is not an either/or thing or even a what about thing. it is entirely possible to not support israel and recognize that, like, babies were mutilated and people were tortured and grandmothers were raped and burned to death in their houses. there is a guy who only survived because he was buried under the corpses of old people he had driven to the area for a sightseeing trip. you do not have to say something like there are no civilians in israel or people only care about israeli civilian casualties, because this was not "civilian casualties," it was not a decolonizing event (and that is insanely gross to say, on so many levels), it was sixteen hundred people being murdered in incredibly gruesome ways. they are still adding to the death toll because they are still finding body parts. they are pulling apart some burned corpses and realizing what looked like one body is two.
it is not helping palestinians to downplay this. like what the fuck is wrong with people. i actually totally understand having only the emotional energy for one thing at a time especially because of personal dis/connection but that doesn't mean you have to say the other thing didn't fucking exist
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here it is, the girlfailures poetry zine <3
if you can spare a bit of money, i'd appreciate any amount, but it's absolutely okay if you get it for free.
hope you like it.
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