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[octarineblues]

supporting communities & people impacted by the Southport attack and the far-right riots in the UK

here is a list of community fundraisers I found, starting with those aiming to support the Southport community after the appalling attack at a children dance party, to the fundraisers helping those affected by the subsequent racist and Islamophobic far-right/nazi riots

Edited on 5 August to include Middlesbrough fundraisers. Edited on 6 August to correct the link on the Books for Spellow Lane fundraiser, to adjust the name change for the Belfast fundraiser, and to adjust the wording in the second last paragraph.

Southport:

Southport Strong Together Appeal - organised by the community foundation for Merseyside, for those affected by the Southport knife attack

United for Southport families - the funds will be distributed among the nine families of the children who were at the party

Swifties for Southport - a fundraiser for the Alder Hey Children's charity, which supports the victims and the affected families, as well as first responders and clinicians. Extra funds will also support the wider Southport community

Fundraiser for the Southport Mosque - a fundraiser to aid rebuilding or possibly re-locating the Southport Mosque after the damages it suffered during the riots

Rebuilding Windsor Mini Mart - fundraiser to rebuild the locally-owned grocery store that was targeted during the attacks, broken into, and looted

Liverpool:

Fundraiser for the Spellow Hub - the Spellow Hub was broken into, looted and set on fire at night during the riots. The Spellow Hub is a newly created one-of-a-kind (in the UK) institution, which consists of a library as well as a community centre with a mission to help people get education and pathways to work

Books for Spellow Lane - another fundraiser for the library in the Spellow Hub, to replace the books and rebuild the library there edit: included the correct link

Hartlepool:

Fundraiser for the Nasir Mosque - the Nasir Mosque was attacked following Southport riots; this fundraiser is organised by Hartlepool citizens to help the mosque deal with the damages as well as to show appreciation for the role of the mosque in the community. edit: the funds will be also distributed to the local community!

Rebuilding the Farm Shop - the shop was targeted during the riots, and when the owner and his son tried to protect it, they were also violently attacked. The fundraiser is to help fix the damages to the store.

Sunderland:

help rebuild Citizens Advice Sunderland offices after arson - two of the Citizens Advice Sunderland offices were set on fire during the riots, and one of them is completely destroyed.

Hull:

Hull Help for Refugees - a local fundraiser to support the Hull Help for Refugees charity, the donated money will be re-distributed to community members affected by the riots

Fundraiser for Hull Help for Refugees and Welcome House in Hull - collected money will be donated to the two charities

Belfast:

help fix racially motivated damages - originally the fundraiser for the Sahara Shisha Cafe which was targeted by the far right in Belfast during the riots, now a fundraiser for all affected businesses in the area. edited to reflect the change of the name of the fundraiser to avoid any confusion

Middlesbrough:

Supporting residents after the riots - Middlesbrough has suffered so much during the riots, lots of businesses as well as just regular family homes were vandalised, had their windows smashed or even were broken into. This fundraiser wants to distribute the funds between affected people to help them fix the damages, and to generally support the local community. the newest fundraiser, imo potentially the most urgent one

Fundraiser for a Care worker's car which was set on fire - a car belonging to an employee of a care agency was set on fire during the riots while he was on shift at a care home.

If you want to donate locally but there is no fundraiser to support where you live, consider donating to your local charities oriented towards Muslim or PoC communities, or towards anti-racist and refugee organizations! And go support your local Muslim/Arab/Black/Asian/Refugee owned businesses!

If you have any information about other local fundraisers, feel free to add to the post or don't hesitate to let me know and I will add them here! We have seen so much hate in the past few days, we have to stay strong and keep supporting each other!

Stay safe everyone 💛

[haunting-hufflepuffs-basement]

Genuinely one of my favorite things about the maruaders fandom that is widely agreed upon:

Regulus is trans. Everyone assumes Remus is trans because werewolf behavior can look suspiciously similar to having a period. Shenanigans ensue:

*During 1st Year*

Sirius: *discreetly giving Remus chocolate during his time of the month*

Remus, in his head: HOW DOES HE KNOW? HOW DOES HE KNOW I'M A WEREWOLF? HOW DOES HE KNOW CHOCOLATE HELPS? WHY IS HE NOT SAYING ANYTHING? WHAT IS HAPPENING?

*Quidditch Locker Room*

Marlene: FUCK!

Sirius: What's wrong?

Marlene: I started my period and don't have anything on me!

James, who started carrying extras because he's a mom friend: Oh, here you go.

Marlene: *intensely stares at them* Okay if James carries the tampons and Remus is the one who uses them, why the FUCK is Sirius named Pads???

James: I. . .what?

Sirius: Abort Prongs. There's no right answer to this one.

*During a Study Session*

Regulus: Ugh, I'm so jealous of you sometimes Lupin.

Remus "Low Self-Esteem" Lupin: Why?

Reg: It's just that. . .well, if your mood is any indication, your time of the month is so CONSISTENT! Like, every 28 days like clockwork. You've never had 2 in one month or anything!

Remus, in his head: . . .is. . .is Regulus a werewolf too? Is this how Sirius was so accepting?

Remus out loud: You get it TWICE sometimes, how is that even possible?

Reg: I know right, it's so unfair!

Regulus: . . .

Peter: . . .

Regulus: So is there a REASON you've been stalking me or---

Peter: Are you a werewolf?

Reg: The fuck? No? Why---

Peter: KAY THANKS BYE!

*later*

Remus: oh my God Peter I didn't mean ASK HIM

Peter: Well how the fuck else was I supposed to find out?

Everyone start milking the comedy potential, or I'll have to write it myself! This is a threat! There's enough angst in this fandom, we need more pure comedy fics!

[joyfuladorable]

Something Something Cinematic Parallels

[scarefox]

Anyways have my favorite Taiwanese BL OSTs as Spotify and Youtube links

The On1y One [yt]

Kiseki: Dear to Me [yt]

The Unknown [yt]

[jennyfromthebes]

huge fucking shout-out to the live taping community within the tMG fanbase, by the way. everyone who's ever taped a show is a legend and I appreciate all of them so much.

[sen-ya]

do you have X/Twitter or something else where you post your comics and doodles?

I do not! I’m accidentally averse to social media these days. I used to use instagram but fell off of it at least 6 months ago 🙈 I know there’s Good Shit on twitter but I’ve never used it and I am………..lazy I am sorry

[xinyuehui]

✦ In celebration of Season 2, here's a mini giveaway! ✦

This one is for my LINK CLICK "time agents"

There'll be 1 winner for this giveaway

PRIZES

✦ A set of Cheng Xiaoshi 2nd anniversary badges (Bemoe official merch)

✦ A Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang acrylic stand/cable organiser by ＠荟小荟 (fan merch)

RULES

✦ You don't need to follow me. But you have to be a LINK CLICK fan.

✦ Reblog to enter, likes won't be counted. No spamming, a few reblogs are okay. No giveaway blogs.

✦ You must be 18+ to enter, and is comfortable sharing your name and address with me. I will DM you via tumblr message so make sure that's open!

✦ Ends on 6 OCTOBER 2023 23:59PM (GMT)

✦ No entries from China region <- bit of a dumb rule but I carried all of these back from China, I'm not shipping it back to China 😂

▶ This giveaway is now closed, thank you for participating! ◀

[virgoleocancer]

now that I've ive done the aftg 4 book reread I'm realizing that there was no scenes of Andrew and Neil sleeping in the same bed at fox tower and having a tender conversation (the only bedsharing is spring break and post the first Edens visit) so I think im going to dig through my ao3 history bc its so vivid in my head and I need it

[abby118]

Hi! not an assumption ask, but maybe it is, in some way, because I assume you might be able to help me find a video of bts of Avengers infinity war. I mean the video that the gifs in this post are from. https://www.tumblr.com/clintfbarton/176671924490/avengers-infinity-war-lokitom-hiddleston-bts?source=share I hope I can send a link through ask but I don't know. If I can't, then so be it. And my assumption about you is that you're a very cool person and you've got some truly extraordinary knowledge about Loki in the mcu and about those movies (the three good ones 2011-2013 of course, but maybe others too). From what you post and things you reblog, you strike me as someone who, in their, has been met with a lot of hostility from others but is still kind, despite those experiences. But, of course, I don't know you, so I may be wrong. Anyway, thanks and have a great rest of the day! 🖤💚

Hey! I'm afraid I won't be of much help here because I stopped keeping up with marvel as closely after TR but I remember when we got those released, mostly as pictures, and I've found these gif 1, gif 3 (be quick because marvel is taking down vids from YT), although I could have sworn I watched that interview when it came out but it's either not up anymore or I can't find it. The one I found was just a teeny tiny portion of it and not with the audio pictured in that gif but that's as far as that goes. I don't want to be digging in IW related content. (the ask's link for mobile users)

As for the assumption, that is so kind, thank you!💚🖤 Loki & the trilogy have been my special interest since 2011 so I'd like to think so haha My general mcu knowledge isn't anywhere near that as I've got my own post-tdw writing which I do prioritise but I have seen phases 1-3. I'm so glad you perceive me as such, I try my best not to be my negative experiences, even if they show sometimes.

[velvetwyrme]

Hey! I just wanted to let you know that somebody has posted your comic sans comic on reddit in the Undertale subreddit as well as the general comic subreddit. They’ve credited you in the comments and everything, but I just wanted to give you a heads up in case they didn’t ask you first/if you’re not cool with it.

... Huh. Thank you for letting me know- I don't use Reddit, so I had no idea :')!!

They didn't ask, and I'm not a fan of reposting, but I do appreciate the credit (and the fact that they have been correcting people on That One Panel)

Honestly, I'm not sure how to feel about this!! On one hand I'm flattered that it was... "cool" enough to get shared to another site, but on the other hand I'm a little miffed that it was reposted in the first place?

I... is there even anything I can do here?? What is Reddit etiquette? I know reposting is pretty common there, and I'm not really inclined to report them or ask them to take it down if that's part of the post economy/ecosystem, you know?

Thank you again for letting me know, but I uh. have no idea what to do about this!

[bluelancelion]

So👏

I'm watching Merlin for the first time and I'm absolutely floored by it and by how much I fell in love with Merthur and the Knights, so here's a couple of Modern! AU that popped in my mind.

Rugby Champion/Nerd AU

- Probably a classic, I'd be surprised if ao3 wasn't plenty of it.

- Of course Arthur is Captain of the rugby team and of course Merlin is the guy sitting in the library all day.

- Don't ask me how they meet don't ask me how they fall in love, they just do

- Arthur's father is the school's principal

- And for this reason there's some people hating on Arthur cause they believe he has privileges

- Spoiler: he doesn't (or denies any of it when his father offers some) but due to this he finds hard to trust people

- Hence he trusts only his teammates aka true friends aka the squad!

- And Merlin of course

- Literally Heartstopper but make it #merthur with gay! Merlin and #bi-and-still-in-the-closet Arthur

Musicians AU

- Merlin goes to a public school and no one knows he's literally a world wide known classic musician

- Idk how don't ask

- Arthur is like the popular guy who plays guitar and all girls love him yadda yadda

- he has a band (must have the boys in every merthur fic sorry not sorry)

- Leon is the bassist, Percy the drummer, Gwaine the second guitar, Elyan is the dj and plays the keyboard, while Lancelot is the singer

- Again don't ask why don't ask how but Merlin and Arthur fight or argue and end up talking ever since

- Maybe Arthur was teasing him about knowing nothing about music

- Merlin silently snickering like *You dare to fight me with your half cheap-ass rock band when rich people spend thousands to listen me play at operas lmao you fool*

- But for some reason he can't tell him that or reveal his secret or else he'll be forced to change school (I dunooooo)

- So Arthur has no idea Merlin is a genius at music

- But.

- He notices Merlin has a perfect pitch, and something like- He can't explain it but Merlin has something with music, like a touch, so he invites him over to listen to his band

- All band members fall in love with him and side with him against Arthur when the two have their - now friendly - banters

- Bros being bros - Dudes being Dudes

- Idk what I was going for with this but IMAGINE WHEN THEY FIND OUT

- Like

- Imagine this fragile boi all cute smiles and sassy remarks and Arthur goes into protective mode cause he develops a crush-

And like, Arthur has a rock band so they look cool and they don't fear anyone in case Merlin gets bullied or something

And then they see him, for the first time-

Wearing a black/navy blue suit that costs thousand of dollars, walking in this giant golden opera with royal red drapes-

And he starts playing the piano for all these rich people and he's absolutely phenomenal

And suddenly Merlin fears Arthur won't be friends with him anymore or he'll fear he's gonna think Merlin is too "marvelous" to enjoy their little rock band

- But in reality Merlin loves them and he loves Arthur and Arthur honestly can't look at Merlin and see any other man than the guy he's been teasing and has argued with for all this time,

- aaand I don't know where I wanted to go with this as well lmao

Feel free to drop any completed fic link in the comments pls I am desperate :)

[violetkatgrove]

ive deleted the post regardless bc better safe than sorry but i have also deleted the answer to anon bc i decided to skim a bit and it seemed a lot more complicated than "this person is bad". ill def be weary of reblogging them in the future tho

[localcryptideli]

I want to get the KH novels but it seems nearly impossible to get them in Europe now? Especially in English?

[fruitybashir]

Ooooh wait building off the Bojan being a musician and working in a daycare, one of the most popular bands here in Australia is The Wiggles who are a children's band that got started in the 90s and they make banger songs that are honestly also a little bit Joker Out sounding sometimes (i might just be crazy though and think that cause I like their work and JO has a fairly varied sound lol)

Anyway the og members were all early childhood educators and started a band in their 20s called The Cockroaches and then they pivoted and made children's music. They are a massive cultural icon here, their music is genuinely good (at least what i grew up with) they had an incredibly successful 18+ show a few years ago where everyone that grew up with them just came and parties and drank while singing children's songs.(I could talk for ages about them and their cultural impact on Australia and Aussie kids but I'll stop for now)

Anyway in an AU of your story I'm gonna imagine Bojan leads Joker Out into becoming the most popular kids entertainment group in Slovenia and they're beloved by generations of people.

(If you're interested i can send you a link to one of their songs grew up with that I really like. I could talk for ages about them and sorry this was only kinda related to the fic and probably means nothing to you but means a lot to me lol)

omg no STOP i love that,,,,, thinking about ..... in this au .... what if joker out come play for the kids at bojans daycare for a spring or summer festival or something .... and all the kids know and love bojan of course and he makes the band rehearse a few of the kids' favourite songs and then he does the UM karaoke thing except with their favourite songs aaaaah

i gotta ...... i need to find serbian childrens songs so i can complete that image in my mind .........

[izzy-b-hands]

Didn't think the 1989 version of The Woman In Black would be scarier than the one with Dan Radcliffe in it

I was Wrong flkjdsafkldsja, but I'm delighted to have been wrong. I had missed getting scared with more practical effects/careful timing of things in the background of shots appearing and disappearing, and this one scratches that itch well.

[praetorqueenreyna]

Question, because I'm really unsure about what to do. When writing NSFW Zukaang, to best keep their existing dynamic, would it be best to keep their ages as they are and slap a big fat warning on it, age them both up but keep the gap, age them both up and lower the gap or age only Aang up

Hi friend! Love to hear that you're interested in writing Zukaang!

Unfortunately, there isn't a "correct" answer to this question. It all depends on you, what you're comfortable writing, and how you want to write their relationship. I have seen all of these in practice and they all work, so just do what works best for you!

I would say to try not to overthink it, and don't push yourself to write something you aren't comfortable with. If the age gap makes you feel weird, remove if. If their canon ages make you feel weird, age them up. Alternatively, if you like the age gap and think it's interesting, leave it! Fanfic should be fun, don't try to force something you don't want to write just to adhere to canon or what other people want you to write.