#reblog helps too

[ourladyofeternity]

Hey everyone, let's talk

It feels like forever since I last posted here, so settle in because this is going to be quite the read.

First things first, I'm Elizabeth (or Ely, Elle, Ellie—whatever works), a 29-year-old from Mexico (hence the broken English). I'm passionate about all things art, but music, particularly singing, has always been my true love. It's been my lifeline since I can remember, even if I'm not exactly a prodigy!

My journey in the arts has been anything but conventional. It all started when I joined the "Orquesta Sinfónica Esperanza Azteca" program at 14, and for nearly a decade, music was my world. Then, life threw its curveballs—I went to college, started working, and, well, the funny pandemic happened, I was homeless for a bit. Amidst all this, I've also been navigating life with anxiety, depression, and what I suspect might be autism and ADHD.

But let's talk about the bright spots—the arts. In 2022, I stumbled upon a tiny theater school offering workshops in musical theater (that I must emphasize, these have not been produced with lucrative ends, meaning we do not earn money from these, we pretty much as students and company propose the plays and then we do the work from adaptation to production, etc), and this year I will be presenting my fifth, which will be Sweeney Todd - School Edition (♪It's me, hi, I am Lucy, it's me♪), amongst the production we have participated recently in a very important competition, the Performer Cup, where we won the first place, and here we are gearing up for the World Pass in Italy this September.

Now, here's where you come in. I need your help to make this dream a reality. We're aiming to raise $3,000 USD to cover travel, accommodation, and other expenses. But beyond that, I want to extend this fundraising effort to support other team members facing financial barriers.

I'll leave links below to videos, photos, and fundraising platforms. Your support means the world to me, whether it's through donations, sharing this post, or simply cheering us on.

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for sticking with me through it all. Let's make this journey to Italy together!

With love and gratitude, Elizabeth

[schizoaffectively]

You are well within your right to be angry about the help you didn't get and should have gotten.

You are well within your right to be angry about having your needs neglected.

You are well within your right to be angry.

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

I have a short fuse when it comes to things like this. They’ll be too loud or something and I’d snap and tell them to stop…

Neurodivergent Girl

[charpeach]

college days

based on an irl interaction with my dormmate and our mutual friend lol

[allthepandasintheworld]

tonight's mood is listening to disease by lady gaga on repeat (i probably wont finish this sketch but like. guys)

[martyrbat]

Hello 🖐

I am a amira from Gaza, the breadwinner for my sick mother in the midst of war and destruction. I want to leave the Strip and provide a decent life for them. I have created a donation campaign to achieve this. Can you help me achieve this please?

https://www.gofundme.com/f/amiras-story-between-hope-and-resilience-a-call-for-soli

[August 7th, 11:20 am update]

please continue to support and help amira!!! this is a legitimate gofundme and has been vetted by ibtisams [HERE] and nabulsi [HERE]

AMIRA HAS €19,976 RAISED OUT OF THE €20,000 GOAL!

[Plain text: Amira has €19,976 raised out of the €20,000 goal!]

Amira is trying to evacuate her, her two siblings, and their immunocrompised mother—who needs medical treatment for her diabetes and high blood pressure!! If you're able to, please donate!!!! Even the smallest amount can make the biggest difference for her and her family!!

[luna-loveboop]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN ADD TEXT TO PHOTOS ON NINTENDO SWITCH?!?!

I can edit photos to add text and choose colour and size and I didn't know about this?? This is amazing, I could make so many memes with this

Forget art, this is the greatest thing I've ever made. I'm freaking sobbing, I can do this on my video game console. What the CLUCK

[amid-fandoms]

dan and phil did not start tagging #phan since september and we did not finally get that fucking tag trending after months of struggles just for them to not win the stupid rpf battle go vote phan

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Hi.

I'm going to break my very strict format for once because I need your help. For the past 9 years, the irl human behind this blog has been involved in the effort to save a museum from incompetent and money hungry executives.

The museum is filled with precious objects, telling the story of the history of technology, and how it relates to art and society.

Many of these are objects are large, but delicate and have been in place for over 30 years.

No one within the museum's community trusts the CEO, who was appointed by a hostile former government, and prefers renting out museum spaces for business functions over educating the public.

In a few days, the museum is set to close down for renovations. Yet none of the staff or volunteers have been given any clear details about these plans. All we know is displays which have inspired generations will be torn down, likely never to be restored.

We have a petition asking the new government to step in and stop the closure:

If you could sign this, you'd be doing the human behind this blog a massive favour.

[sukimas]

[jazzzzzzhands]

Hey!

So we lost our home in the hurricane!

We are currently doing well and living for free in a hotel!! 😁

BUT

it won't last forever.

We only have 73 days left to live for free.

We are looking for a home

Can you help me search for a home?

I'm looking for a 3 bed 2 bath around the Brandon area in Florida.

We could really use 1000 or less a month

Preferably less

I want a home 🩷

I would appreciate any help you could give me.

You have always been so kind and helpful to me and I treasure you!!!🩷🩷🩷

To everyone!!

Love, Jazz🩷🩷🩷🍎🍎🍎

[yoohyeon]

Here’s the various spreadsheet of vetted gfm :

Gaza vetters : list (not sure what is happening 100% but they vetted a lot of these campaigns so I will still mention them and you decide if you donate or not but I believe in the fvndraisers )

Olive Branch : list

Gaza evacuation : list

Bees and watermelon : list

Trusted : list

Butterfly effect : list

Other post of fvnraisers in the here! | I’m also at @/juvian, I will not answer asks so send them to @/yoohyeon, but I will share on both

Here’s some people that who reach out to me (as of October 29th 2024) (part 2)) :

@shamfarhat1 : vetted by gaza evacuation #248 - 10 995€ / 29 500€

@saeid19 : vetted by 90-ghost - 140€ / 50 000€

@moatasemmoatasem : vetted by gaza evacuation #9 - 4 676€ / 100 000€

@nasserakar3 / @nasserakar4 : vetted by association - 6 646€ / 12 000€

@ahmednaserfamily : vetted by gaza evacuation - 722€ / 100 000€

@abedallhferwanagaza : vetted by butterfly effect #964 - 12 802€ / 35 000€

@safaaalangr2003 : vetted by gaza evacuation #269 - 2 365€ / 50 000€

@mohammedmadi20 : vetted by association (cousin) - 622€ / 30 000€

@farahmohanad2 : vetted by association (link to the fvndraiser is the wrong one on this post be sure to click on the one I give) - 3 909€ / 35 000€

@janaabunaje : vetted by gaza vetters - 445€ / 50 000€

@sfaamq10 : vetted by association - 29 948$ USD / 75 000$ USD

@exactlysweatystudent : vetted by gaza evacuation - 3 341$ USD / 45 000$ USD

PLEASE REBLOG ! And donate if you can !

[indigovigilance]

The Final Fifteen is about Terry Pratchett's Death

read on Ao3

The final fifteen is obviously a major plot point, and serves a role in a story that was written long before Terry Pratchett was ever diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. But the scene itself wasn’t written until just a few years ago, during the writing of Season 2. In fact, the scene came about during a park bench conversation between Neil Gaiman and John Finnemore.

Others have noted that the non-romantic kiss that signals the story moving into the third act is a Neil Gaiman staple. The function of such a kiss, from Gaiman’s perspective, is to communicate.

In 2023 we are seeing a lot of stories written by men, for men, about men who are best friends and discover that their friendship can go deeper than the norms of society would usually allow; that platonic and romantic love are not so far apart, and perhaps the better word for a relationship that can be described this way is intimacy.

Neil Gaiman has made it clear in interviews that his friendship with Terry Pratchett was deeply intimate. They began collaborating on what would become Good Omens in the 1980’s, endured a tumultuous experience together through the first publication, wherein Neil offered to martyr himself on behalf of Terry if the book failed, and then spent the better part of two decades touring the world, meeting the people who loved their work. Neil would even off-handedly remark that Terry’s fans were so cheerful, and Neil’s seemed like they were ready to kill themselves; wouldn’t it be nice if they got married? From the outside, it looks very much as if Terry was Aziraphale-coded, and Neil was Crowley-coded, working together in an unexpected partnership to make the world a little bit more tolerable for the humans inhabiting it. I am not conjecturing that Neil and Terry had romantic inclinations the way their fictional characters do, but I think it is fair to say that their opposites-attract intimacy became an important part of who each of them were.

In 2007 Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy, a rare form of Alzheimer’s. As the disease progressed, he began to lose himself, and knew that the person he used to be was slipping away. He wanted to end his life on his own terms, and die as himself, but England did not and still does not allow for voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide. He advocated for the right to die but never achieved it, and ultimately succumbed to the disease in 2015. Neil Gaiman has spoken a lot on the topic of death, and one answer of his that resonated with me reads:

Mostly it feels terrible. It even feels terrible when it’s someone who has been in a lot of pain for a long time or has not really been there for a long time and you know that Death has in some ways been a blessing: suddenly you are mourning the whole person. 

It doesn’t get easier as you age. It gets stranger. The point where you realise how many people you used to know and like who aren’t there any longer, and you cannot talk to them or see them or laugh with them is painful in a way that I had never expected. The first time that someone you had a romantic relationship with dies and you realise that there had been moments both of you shared and now you are the sole custodian of those moments and one day you will be gone and they will be lost forever is peculiarly strange and hard. 

~~~

The entire show is seeded with references to Terry Pratchett, but the most important one is the one that’s missing. Neil Gaiman cameoed as a sleeping moviegoer in S1E4, but a long time ago, he and Terry had discussed cameoing as sushi restaurant-goers, because sushi was weirdly prominent in the book. That cameo would have been in S1E1. But when it came time to do it, Neil couldn’t. Not without Terry. 

Neil: I was gonna say our location is a Chinese restaurant we’d had turned into a sushi restaurant. So Terry and I, Terry Pratchett and I, had a standing… not even a standing joke, just a standing plan, that we were going to have sushi - there was going to be a scene in Good Omens where sushi was eaten and we were gonna be extras, we were gonna sit in the background, eating sushi while it was done. And I was so looking forward to this and, so I wrote this scene with it being sushi, even though Terry was gone, with that in mind and I thought: Oh, I’ll sit and I’ll eat lots of sushi as an extra, this will be my scene as an extra, I’ll just be in the background. And then, on the day, or a couple of days before, I realized that I couldn’t do it.

Douglas: You never told me this before either. I might have pushed you into doing it, had I known. I think you were right not to tell me.

Neil: I was keeping it to me self ‘cause I was always like: Oh, maybe I’ll be… this will be my cameo. And then I couldn’t. I was just so sad, ‘cause Terry wasn’t there. And it was probably the day that I missed Terry the most of all of the filming - it was just this one scene ‘cause it was written for Terry and all of the sushi meals we’d ever had and all of the strange way that sushi ran through Good Omens.

~~~

In the Final Fifteen, it is clear that Crowley and Aziraphale want to stay together. They love each other. They each know that the other loves them. There’s nothing that needs to be said, no convincing that their bond is true and real and precious.

But Aziraphale has to go to Heaven, and Crowley cannot follow him there.

I cannot speculate what it must have been like for Neil to endure losing a friend who, though I’m sure he desperately wanted to still be in his life, he also knew that life had become a burden to him, and grieved that Terry was not able to choose the time and manner of his departure from this Earth. This sort of complex grief, we fan-ficcers know, is the kind that is often best processed through story-telling. 

I think that what we see Crowley going through in the Final Fifteen, alongside its importance to the story arc of Good Omens overall, is Neil processing his grief at losing his friend Terry Pratchett, and even the kiss, that violent, terrible, awful kiss, was the symbolic representation of Neil saying goodbye.

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

The Autism Urge to be Helpful

The Autistic Teacher

[scrawnyghstts]

do any of you ever lay awake at night thinking about how Kremy gifted Gideon a comb even though, obviously, lizardfolk don't have any hair.

because that means that Kremy went out of his way to get Gid this gift. A comb isn't just something an alligator would have or just collect somewhere to have it for later, Kremy likely never needed or thought of having anything of the sort.

But Kremy noticed how roughed up Gideon was, how he didn't have anything on him to take care of himself and Kremy came up with the idea and then spent time and possibly money (or he just swiped it but still) to find a nice comb just for Gideon and then gave it to him.

Nikkie described it so beautifully that it was the first time someone saw Gideom as his own man and that also makes my heart ache so much. But I just can't stop thinking about how freaking Kremy Lecroux, went out of his way, to get a thing he likely never even thought of getting, just to give it to his partner (in crime). Like yeah sure we can talk about how Kremy wouldn't want to travel with someone unkept but I don't think it's that. He'd get Gideom a bath and a haircut or something at an inn and done, issue solved. But no, Kremy specifically wanted to get a thing for Gideon, he wanted him to have something that's just for him, something to help him get his sense of self back, his looks and help him find his confidence.

It was thoughtful gift from Kremy who probably is the last person to do thoughtful gifts to just some people. But he made that gesture for Gideon.

like do you ever just lay there and think about all that and how they both must have felt almost an instant bond forming between them, doesn't matter if it's platonic or romantic, like do you just-- yeah.

[smile-files]

o ariadne, accomplice to the minotaur's murder; your scarlet string is his blood in your hands... and yet theseus, forsaking sand and sail, is the only creature dead to you

(objectober 2024 day 18: maze)

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