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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? 🙏🙏

https://gofund.me/b477b817

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and when the world ended i didn't know anything; i know i loved you / sldogs, sltom, and having to be alive

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i really need to stop reblogging random things to this blog

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While we continue to donate to personal evacuation funds, I think it is crucial to keep in mind that these individuals as well as millions more in Gaza are currently actively in need of basic necessities like food, water, shelter, and medical care. Keeping this in mind, and recognising that there is no way to know when the border crossing with Egypt will reopen, I think our attention should also be on raising funds for organisations currently on the ground who will have the widest impact on the lives of Palestinians who are still enduring the genocide in Gaza.

Below are some verified donation links of organisations that are currently providing assistance for the people in Gaza directly:

Food, water, and shelter

Taawon has launched a campaign to provide support in Gaza through food parcels, shopping vouchers, fresh produce, water bottles and shelter tents.

Watermelon Relief is a project initiated and implemented by a group of activists in Gaza, who work to provide aid to displaced families in Gaza through meals, support and activities.

World Food Programme (WFP) managed to provide assistance to more than 1 million people in Gaza in May by delivering food in shelters, makeshift camps and shops.

Life for Gaza is an initiative through which the Municipality of Gaza aims to provide basic necessities for the people of Gaza such as water projects, waste collection and the reconstruction of roads.

Arab Group for the Protection of Nature (APN) is working to plant farmlands in Gaza through their "Revive Gaza Farmlands" project, through which they had already started planting vegetables, fruits and leafy greens in Gaza.

Purchasing eSIMs is one of the only remaining ways to keep Gazans connected with the outside world, to get their stories out or even enable them to call for help after Israeli strikes.

The Sameer Project is a donation based aid initiative that provides tents, cash aid, diapers and formula for displaced families in Gaza.

Care For Gaza is an organisation that works to provide essential aid such as food packages and cash to deliver to displaced families in Gaza.

Palestine Children's Relief Fund, through their "Gaza Relief and Recovery" campaign, plan to provide essential medical supplies and treatments, as well as food and clean water.

The UNRWA has an Emergency Appeal for Gaza, where donations will provide families in Gaza with lifesaving food and water, winter kits and to repair UNRWA shelters.

Mutual Aid for the People of Gaza is a fundraiser managed by Mona in Gaza, who personally purchases and distributes basic supplies including food parcels to families in Gaza.

Help Gaza Children is another grassroots effort operating on the ground in Gaza to support families with food, water and clothing.

Medical care

Palestinian Red Crescent has been on the ground in Palestine since 1968 as part of the Red Cross & Crescent movement. They have had a continuous presence on the ground in Gaza as the main source of medical care and assistance.

Medical Aid for Palestine (MAP) provides medical supplies and supports healthcare services in Gaza.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) provide medical and humanitarian aid in Palestine and have had their teams on the ground operating from MSF-supported health facilities across Gaza.

Gaza Wound Care is a medical team in a tent in Nuseirat, providing care to children and supporting pregnant women.

Children Not Numbers is an NGO dedicated to providing medical care for the children in Gaza including delivery of medical aid and medical evacuation for children.

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Hello there, 👋

From the bottom of my heart, I thank you for your support of our cause.🇵🇸❤️

You are one of the few remaining free souls now. 🫶

I hope you can take a look at my campaign on the pinned post on my profile ,and help us by donating or sharing our campaign to reach the largest number of supporters.🌹🌹

Thanks a lot in advance ❤️❤️❤️

(if you have the money, 5 euros/dollars/whatever is the very least amount you have to give. just 5 euros. it can save the life of both Al-Deeb, and his family.)

verified by 90-ghost here.

for those of you who don’t know Tamer, he was a dentist before october seventh. for seven months, him and his family have been constantly misplaced again and again and faced with deaths of countless family members, friends, neighbors, anyone. all due to the brutal attacks from the IOF. right now, he’s volunteering at Al-Aqsa Hospital and has seen horrors beyond what most of us even thought could ever happen.

him along with three other family members (his mother, father, and brother) need to evacuate. their living conditions have been absolutely horrible, with them struggling to even get their basic needs met.

He needs 40,000 to evacuate him and his family. but right now, they’re only at 5,300 out of what he needs. that is nowhere even near enough.

If you’re able to do so, please donate. you don’t even have to give a lot, just 5 dollars/euros/whatever currency you use is enough. if everyone who can give just gives 5 euros, it will pile up, and it will make a difference. but you need to pitch in and help too, if you want to save Tamer and his family. what’s happening in Palestine is absolutely terrifying, and many of us can’t even comprehend or begin imagine the horror that they’re being faced with every day, and that‘a every single day for the last seven months. and in fact, it goes beyond that to decades before now. 5 euros. that’s all you need to give. just 5 euros.

I know that even 5 euros can be a lot for some people, but these people are braver and more resilient than any of us, probably. they’ve been going through this for months, for years, even. these people used to be just like us, but have been thrown into these horrific ways of life— under threat of death every day, barely able to find food, water, can you imagine that? just going about your life one day and then the next everything you’ve ever had is destroyed, turned to rubble? more than that, every day you are in danger. every day you hear drones and sounds of bombing.

just 5 euros. 5 dollars, whatever currency. but that’s it. if you can give more, that’s wonderful, but if that’s all you can give, that’s fine. it really is okay. just give it. think about what they are going through. 5 euros can change their lives. it can save their lives.

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1. i'll give you the sun, jandy nelson/2. the bear (2022)/3. right now, gracie abrams/4. The haunting of hill house (2018)/5. I don't love anyone, belle and sebastian/6. rabbi joseph telushkin, jewish literacy/7. sucession (2023)/8. electra, sophocles/9. the bear (2018/10. sisters, holly warbutton & to my younger self, britton.

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When I was a kid, we moved into a house that had a huge lilac tree out front. It was mostly rotten, and it needed to be taken down before it fell. It took a while, but eventually, it was gone.

Mostly. A couple years later, little lilac babies popped out of the ground in its place. My mom was determined to get rid of them, because she'd planted a beautiful flower garden there, and the lilac trees would overshadow and kill the whole garden. I insisted on saving at least a few saplings. She said fine, but I had to dig them out and put them in pots myself.

So, I did. I spent days digging little lilac bushes out of the ground and putting them into pots. Some couldn't be saved, but some could. When all was said and done, I had five brand-new lilac saplings. Seven or eight years old, and it was my absolute pride and joy.

Three died due to sun scorching, severe drought that no amount of watering could save, and perhaps just being moved from their place in the ground. But two survived, and I was awfully proud of them! I'd go out and talk to them every single day. I watered them by hand and made sure they were fertilized properly. I learned all about their favored environments, and I was determined to make sure they lived.

One of my mom's friends saw what I was doing with the lilacs. She asked if she could have one to put in her backyard, and I agreed on the condition that she take very, very good care of it.

It's now fucking enormous. I'm talking ten feet tall and bursting with beautiful purple flowers every spring. My mom still gets updates each year as they start to bloom, which she forwards to me. And all I can think is, "That's my friend! Thriving some twenty years on, there it is."

The other tree nearly died, too. It lived in a pot for far, far too long. I wanted to plant it somewhere in my parents' yard, but my mom was reluctant. Eventually, we agreed to put it in the far back garden. It grew okay for many years, despite the shade, but in all these years, it's never bloomed.

Last year, the massive tree casting massive shadows over the lilac and the garden cracked in half and fell. It tumbled into the garden, crushing part of the nearby shed and destroying a few plants beneath it.

It missed my lilac by inches.

The clean-up is long done. The rest of the tree has been cut down, and my lilac has full sunlight for the first time in fifteen years. It won't bloom this year, I know. But it's got new shoots up. It's taller than ever. I spent half an hour a few weeks ago praising it for surviving all this time, dreaming about its future and telling it how I believe it'll become the tall beauty it's always been meant to be.

I think next year, I'll see flowers.

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Precious white snowflakes fell from the grey clouds that carpeted the sky high above. They fell down onto my body, melting. I lay staring upwards, and though my eyes were open, I wasn’t sure if I was staring at anything at all. My hand was pressing onto the huge cut which was currently still spewing blood, seemingly tainting the perfect sparkling snow that was sitting undisturbed next to me crimson red. A murder of crows flew by in formation, I could hear the cawing even from where I lay. There were a few short and thin trees above me, though they were all bare with no leaves. To me, that was somewhat symbolic. The crows, the winter, the snow.

Somewhere near me a bird chirped. Somewhere far from me, a group of friends are camping in a forest. Somewhere further, a small town would be starting festivals. Yet, despite all of this, it felt as if time had been stopped. It felt like I was invisible. It felt as if I was nothing but a ghost. Honesty it was nearly as if I had never even existed in the first place.

The thing is, I think I did have a chance to avoid this situation. I might’ve had a chance, anyway. But that didn’t matter anymore because I was still bleeding out in a small snowy forest. In fact, nothing really mattered anymore. Not to me, at least. I know that I am going to die. Right now, all I am is a soon to be corpse.

I know that once my body will be covered in snow, everything will still continue. The murder of crows will keep flying. The snow will keep falling until it stops and falls again. The trees will grow more leaves and then they will wilt and die when winter comes around again in a year. I know that I have nothing else after this. I know that I have nowhere else I can go, and nothing else I can do. Maybe I have more places I want to go, and more things I want to do, but that doesn’t matter anymore.

For the most part, I never used to be this cryptic. I guess it comes with spitting blood and the intense, burning pain. Philosophy wasn’t ever really my thing. I found it weird and boring. I do have a different view on that now. I can’t help but wonder what else is gonna happen. Was dying an inconsequential death just always what I was meant to do? I mean, we were born to die but…it’s still not the exact same as it used to be.

Emotions that I’ve never felt before are all flooding my body. My mind has never been this full of questions or full of just thoughts in general. Yet it’s never been this silent. Somehow, coming to terms with the fact that I’m going to die was more painful than actually dying. Now that I’ve realised there’s nothing I can do, though, it’s kind of peaceful. But odd. I feel so free and wild yet I’m bound to one place. Forever. My body is, at least. For a while. Do spirits stay where their body dies, too?

This’ just it, I suppose. It’s just over.

I’d like to say I had a good run, but that’s debatable.

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okay just realised those all went on the wrong blog.

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Greetings,

I write this appeal with a heavy heart, burdened by the weight of the tragedy that has befallen my family in the war-torn land of Gaza. I am Mahmoud Jihad Saleh, a captive soul in the cruel clutches of despair. Holding on to a glimmer of hope.

Today, I implore you to bear witness to the shattered remains of my once-happy family. My father, a beacon of strength, was cruelly snuffed out, and the innocent lives of my niece and nephew were taken by the merciless grip of conflict.

In the desperate shadows of despair, I beg for your compassion to save my family from the misery sweeping Gaza. They are stranded in Gaza, deprived of the most basic necessities, and enduring the cynicism of life

It is with a heavy heart that I implore you to be the lifeline my family so desperately needs

I am on my knees, not as a supplicant, but as a broken soul longing to avoid further loss. Save my family from the clutches of despair, so they can rebuild their shattered lives. The specter of losing them, as I lost my parents and relatives, haunts me every waking moment. I implore you, kind souls, to heed this cry for help and save my family from the abyss of suffering.

Please donate if you can and share our story widely as you're able to. 🙏

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Greetings,

I write this appeal with a heavy heart, burdened by the weight of the tragedy that has befallen my family in the war-torn land of Gaza. I am Mahmoud Jihad Saleh, a captive soul in the cruel clutches of despair. Holding on to a glimmer of hope.

Today, I implore you to bear witness to the shattered remains of my once-happy family. My father, a beacon of strength, was cruelly snuffed out, and the innocent lives of my niece and nephew were taken by the merciless grip of conflict.

In the desperate shadows of despair, I beg for your compassion to save my family from the misery sweeping Gaza. They are stranded in Gaza, deprived of the most basic necessities, and enduring the cynicism of life

It is with a heavy heart that I implore you to be the lifeline my family so desperately needs

I am on my knees, not as a supplicant, but as a broken soul longing to avoid further loss. Save my family from the clutches of despair, so they can rebuild their shattered lives. The specter of losing them, as I lost my parents and relatives, haunts me every waking moment. I implore you, kind souls, to heed this cry for help and save my family from the abyss of suffering.

Please donate if you can and share our story widely as you're able to. 🙏

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Please consider helping Muhammad and his family get out of Gaza!

Muhammad, his parents, and his siblings need funds to evacuate to Egypt and get housing and medical care once they're there.

By my calculations, if all of us donate $5 we can easily reach their goal.

If you cannot donate, I only ask that you reblog and/or share this wherever you can.

This blog is all about the little things that make incremental but meaningful differences. None of us alone can stop what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, but together we can help one family survive and find safety. Let's prove it.

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I love you, I miss you, why did you leave me? 

forvagabondsfromclown / excerpt #71 (d.n) / break up with a friend (blü eyes) / unknown tumblr post / vodktales / brian rea

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Please sign the petition!!!

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