#i can’t donate right now :(

[mcr-heritage-posts]

hey everyone - i know there’s a lot going on in the world right now, a lot of causes that need support and visibility now more than ever.

i’d like to take an opportunity to highlight a cause that’s very literally close to home for me: i live very, very close to springfield, ohio. the haitian community there has always needed help and support but now, with white supremacist rhetoric and bold faced lies being circulated nationally, with threats of violence and heightened ignorance being more common than ever, they need it perhaps more than they ever have.

there has been a lot of hate since trump and his little bootlicker attack dog jd vance have started this shit, but there’s also been an outpouring of love and community outreach in the weeks since springfield was thrust into the worst kind of spotlight.

the hatian community support and help center has been invaluable in helping hatian refugees get what they need to start a new life here. they are headed by a team of haitian immigrants that are personally familiar with what their fellow immigrants need. they have been instrumental in keeping their community from falling through the cracks.

i’m humbly asking, if any of you can - please, please consider donating to the HCSHC. every bit helps. and if you can’t donate, please, please share this around. if you’ve ever reblogged one of my posts or found them funny, if you’ve ever scrolled through and liked and reblogged what i’ve put here, i implore you to share this too. this is a very personal cause for me; i want to see these people who are new here, who enrich our community but are met with too much derision and spite, receive the help, respect, and dignity they deserve.

[xoxoemynn]

I can’t believe in 30 minutes my alarm is going to go off and I’m going to have to go about getting ready for work and fill out silly little spreadsheets and interact with colleagues and clients like it’s just another day.

[misano17]

Wrote a message for my discord friends that I’d like to share with y’all

Hey guys, I know things look terrible, but I’m here to offer some hope and encouragement. In times of great political strife and suffering, good does prevail. We have the house. They cannot introduce bills.

With a fascist in power there is a solitary upside that shines like the North Star and we have to latch onto it. Left leaning organization will get more militant and motivated with a common enemy. Blue states will fight hard, and with any luck the senate will be ours in two years.

What we have to do now, especially since some of us are in swing states, is survive. That is your number one priority.

Your second priority is to keep your criminal record clean. Do not under any circumstances do something that could cost you your vote. There is a chance we don’t get to vote again, I need you to ignore that chance for your sake and for the sake of our democracy. Hold fast to your vote. And when the time comes, use it.

If you weren’t able to vote this time start looking into ways to vote next time. It is vital, and every individual counts.

Your third priority is to look into what you can do with your meager means. Donating to campaigns, relief funds, charities, etc. if your family members are acting foolish ignore them, and if you believe they can be swayed with time make every effort to do so. On top of this if you are capable of it engage in canvassing. There are local and National organizations that can direct you in this. Winning local elections is probably the most important thing right now.

Things looks bad. They are. But they won’t stay that way. Stay alive, use your rights, speak with your community members, ignore the bullshit, and by god you have to survive. We will combat their hatred with fury and kindness. It is our civic duty. Do not let them take your hope from you. Giving in to despair is akin to death, and you must survive.

[paranormeow7]

Now is a great time to remind you all that

YOU CAN GET A COMMISSION FROM ME IN EXCHANGE FOR A DONATION TO ANY VETTED GAZA FUNDRAISER!!

I will also take donations for Sudan, Lebanon, The Congo, etc.

In exchange for receipts like this:

You can get doodles, full rendered pieces, GIFs, character customs, anything. No slots, open indefinitely.

More information:

Gaza Funds

Crips for ESIMs for Gaza

Vetted Gaza Fundraisers List

PCRF

The Sameer Project

Vetted Fundraisers Tag (on my blog)

Sudan Funds

SAPA

Friends of the Congo

[autistic-ben-tennyson]

Please don’t message me for donations for a while. I will keep sharing and reblogging when I can but am not in a good place to keep donating $10-20 to multiple gofundmes every day, I’m sorry.

[spaghetticat3899]

The fact that some people are willing to use a genocide in order to trick kind-hearted people who are doing the best they can to help those in need out of money is fucking disgusting. The fact we have to have a list of officially recognized Palestinian refugees, because that many people are willing to be scummy. Shame on you. You don’t give a shit, but shame on you. You’re the rotting abscess of the Earth. You sit and watch as countless innocent people are slaughtered and only think of how to use it for your own game. You can’t even be bothered to think of anything beside yourself. You don’t deserve a cent of money meant for the victims of Gaza, they do.

To those affected, I wish you the absolute best, and I want to see you thrive. I hope you get the money, food, and life you deserve. I hope you can be free and happy.

[rabb1t0rhab1t]

To all Palestine supporters 🫂🇵🇸🌧

We need less than 1250€ to reach our short term goal of 29.75k€ which is 85% of the total goal‼️

Your donations are important to us and we appreciate them no matter what🙏

We need you more than ever😭

Please help me reach our goal as soon as possible 🙏

🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

^^

[the-martyrfication-of-the-matron]

Hello, dear friends 🇵🇸

💔 Our journey continues, and we are so close to reaching our new goal of $11,500! Only $90 remains to make this dream a reality.🙏🏻

As the new year begins, your support can help us take this final step toward rebuilding our lives and ensuring a better future for our family. 🎯 Every contribution, no matter how small, makes a significant difference, and your kindness means everything to us.💓

Let’s start 2025 with hope and togetherness. Your help today can turn our challenges into a new chapter of strength and resilience.✨

❤️🤍💚🖤❤️🤍💚🖤

Please help us and share the 🙏🏻 campaign link:

https://gofund.me/abbc2759

With heartfelt gratitude,

Majed and his family ❤️

^^^

[imyselfamstrange]

The “it’s unethical for vampires to get blood from blood banks” post drives me INSANE. Like, I understand the overall point but I need need need to point out that they throw out donated blood if it does not get used within a certain amount of time. Blood has a shelf life! There are occasionally excess blood donations in some locations! This isn’t even going into the fact that some blood is discarded because it cannot be used for a variety of reasons!! Or that some bags of blood can get damaged and have to be thrown out!!! If anything vampires are doing a good thing by safely disposing of biohazardous waste!!!!!!!!

[national-hockey-gay]

do you have any poetry collection recommendations/poet recommendations in general just to like Read?

boy do i ever!!!

okay i have two all time top favorite poets (not ranked in a particular order):

1. Louise Glück: There was actually an anthology published of all the books so published from the start of her career to 2012.

(Poems 1962-2012 is 600+ pages of incredible poetry and relatively cheap, especially for its size and considering poetry tends to cost more than fiction books)

Glück’s poetry is actually the reason I started reading more poetry in the first place. She writes both long form and short form poetry (with her more recent working being longer than a lot of her previous poems), and her language level tends to be pretty accessible.

She writes about hundreds of different topics, but reading from the anthology you get a large mix of themes about motherhood, love, and nature and she also has collections that focus on greek mythology as well as jewish religion.

She has won a Nobel Prize for her poetry, which I consider to be a pretty good way to gauge the caliber of her work!

Highly, highly recommend her work!!

2. Ocean Vuong.

I’ve read his three most recent works: Night Sky With Exit Wounds, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, and Time is a Mother.

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is actually a novel rather than a poetry collection but it reads a lot like poetry and I consider it to be an must-read.

A lot of his works center around his his experience as a queer, Vietnamese American and his relationship with his own intrapersonal identity as well as with his mother. I cant think of a single poem of his that isn’t absolutely incredible, and I think if you’re going to talk about the best poets of our age he’s a crucial mention.

I highly recommend reading his works in publishing order (which is the way I listed them above). His poetry is genuinely life-changing and I cannot stress how much I recommend his writing.

Outside of my two favorite authors I also recommend:

–Amanda Gorman, who is the youngest inaugural poet in U. S. history and is shaping the voice of modern poetry.

You can watch her recite her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb” here!

She also has published a collection of her poetry, Call Us What We Carry, which I read all in the same day I bought it because it’s brilliant and captivating.

—The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, which is a fiction novel but the main character narrates the story through her own poetry, making it a poetry collection and a novel all in one. I read this for the first time when I was 13 and I pick it up again every single year.

(I do also highly recommend looking up trigger warnings for this book before you read it, because there are a couple scenes that can be intense!)

—The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi. It’s likely you’re familiar with this quote from it (which i see circulating tumblr and pinterest all the time):

“Lord, I confess I want the clarity of catastrophe but not the catastrophe. Like everyone else, I want a storm I can dance in.

I want an excuse to change my life.”

And I can guarantee the rest of this poetry collection is just as poignant and beautiful! Highly recommend, 10/10 stars always.

—Pablo Neruda is also one of my favorite poets! I own a large collection of his poetry, The Poems of Pablo Neruda, which places the original poem, written in Spanish, next to the English translation, which I enjoy a lot. He also has a lot of well-known quotes that float around tumblr a lot, so that sense of familiarity can be fun, especially when you’re not expecting it!

Hope you enjoy these recommendations!

[divorceblogger]

Please don't skip! Hi, I hope my message is in good condition. I'm from Gaza asking you for a small donation of 20 euros to save our lives from Gaza, can you donate to me and my family? Thanks to your donation, we can achieve our goal as quickly as possible. Your support and standing in this difficult time is all for us. I will be very grateful if you can donate to me and my family. Thank you for your generosity in supporting us in times of need.🙏😭🥺

https://gofund.me/b95ef740

[ghost-teapiika]

Hi there. I am looking for people who can match even just my £5 donation to any one of these 3 stagnating fundraisers (or to all three, if you are able). If you or anyone you know are still trying to decide which fundraiser to donate to, or if you have a little extra money and would like to contribute, please consider donating to the gofundmes of brothers @mohamedmoner1994 and @yousefmoner, or to their other brother, Karam.

These are all legitimate gofundmes: Mohamed and Yousef are in the vetted Gazan fundraisers spreadsheet at line 70 and 69 respectively, and their brother Karam, while not vetted here on tumblr, can be considered verified by association, since Yousef, Mohamed, and their organizer Layla personally recommend his fundraiser and regularly share it on their instagram as well. For more info on their other socmed accounts (if you want to help boost their content on those platforms), please check out my pinned post.

This family have been struggling with their fundraisers for near 5 months now, that Layla has expressed despair, saying that at the rate they are going, they might not be able to reach their goal until 2025 at the latest. Please help out if you can because Mohamed's wife Rewaa has cancer, his kids are suffering from malnutrition and skin diseases, and if you look at their instagram it's actually visible how thin the whole family have become in the course of 5 months since they started posting. Meanwhile Yousef, Karam, and their father were recently separated from their family and left behind in Azdaa, where their tents were targeted by shelling and they had to flee and sleep on the streets.

If you are unable to donate, please do share the links on your blog so that we can find others, anyone at all who can give even a little. If you find this message a bother or if I accidentally sent you multiple asks, I do apologize and please feel free to just ignore and delete my asks for both our peace of mind. Thank you so much for any form of assistance you are able to extend to this family at this moment, and I hope your kindness be returned back to you someday.

https://gofund.me/38eec2b7

https://gofund.me/8a645db7

https://gofund.me/58a29c58

!!!!!

[sepulchral13]

Hello, this is a longshot saving life call, I am Purity Sikuku Amira from Gaza. I am here to request for your support to help get my insulin, just an injection for today to save my life please I beg. I was diagnosed with Latent Autoimmune Diabetes and due to the current situation in Gaza I'm unable to get my insulin injection as a result I'm here begging for little financial support to help me purchase insulin for this week. My donation link is attached in the pinned post, I might have sent this ask to you earlier but kindly consider donating and sharing. This is the only option I have at the moment to save my life from going into a coma.

Anyone seeing this- help if you can, share if you cannot. No one deserves to need to beg for aid.

^ her PayPal

[sixbucks]

[theriverdalereviewer]

obsessed with the way the republican party’s two biggest platforms (pro police and anti gun control) literally led to its presidential candidate getting shot at

[constellation-sapphic]

Someday. When I have the big big robotics engineer salary. I am going to give Joe Hills so much money. That’s my financial goal for the next ten years.