#with — naveen

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[animatorroseoak]

They are stuck in my head 24/7

[finnstansonly]

survival/evacuation funds (vetted)

Updated: 4 January 2025

Name = link to post detailing their story, verification if available ; (link) = link to fundraiser ; ~ = a campaign that has recently had to be restarted from scratch ; ** = stagnating (pls donate!!)

*note: i am not a vetter. i will keep this list updated every couple of days so the numbers on the post can accurately reflect the progress of each campaign i've listed. also, the funds on this list are not solely palestinian families, but sudanese families as well. if you are going to use #palestine pls also use #sudan.

Hala (paypal link) ~ Shahd Mahmoud (link) €584/€10,000 ** Yara Mohammed (link) €860/€30,000 ~ ** Muhammad Eid (link) €1,222/€35,000 ** Eman Abosedo (link) $1,496/$50,000 Safaa (link) €4,364/€60,000 ~ Isra Fathi Guma Ahmed (link) $3,679 AUD/$9,100 AUD Abeer (link) $4,925 CAD/$75,000 CAD Rana Akeela (link) €2,280/€50,000 ** Hashem (link) £6,090/£50,000 Hatem Salem (gfm) €4,505/€5,000 ** Abd Alhadi Aburas (link) $7,309 CAD/$65,000 CAD Almadhoun Family (link) €12,989/€50,000 Hanaa (link) €14,899/€35,000 Nedaa (link) £9,979/£25,000 Mahmoud Helles (link) €12,959/€50,000 Ahmed Al-Habil (link) €18,464/€50,000 Mahmoud Ziad (link) $14,913/$30,000 ** Naveen (link) $24,502 CAD/$50,000 CAD

Sajida's Family (link) £14,998/£30,000 Sohad Mahmoud (gfm) €11,669/€20,000 ** 4 Sudanese Families (link) €25,787/€50,000 Eman Zaqout (link) $45,757 CAD/$80,000 CAD Alaa Amsse (link) €28,829/€100,000 Asjad (link) $31,458/$31,000 Ayaa (link) $46,343/$35,000 Dana (link) £27,810/£40,000 Youssef Al-Habeel (link) €43,850/€50,000 Laila Shaqoura (link) €33,547/€55,000 ** Mohammed Al-Habil (link) €50,005/€50,000 Mohammed Al Manasra (link) $83,436/$120,000 Ibrahim Hussein (link) $55,033/$100,000 Wafaa (link) $100,693/$85,000 Iwais Family (link) kr793,605 SEK/kr800,000 SEK Fidda (link) $117,108/$120,000 Haya Alshawish (link) €99,572/€100,000 Mohiy (link) $125,010/$120,000

** No Progress Since Last Update **

Muhammad Eid (link) €1,222/€35,000. no donations in 21 DAYS

Rana Akeela (link) €2,280/€50,000. no donations in 20 DAYS

Mahmoud Ziad (link) $14,913/$30,000. no donation in 19 DAYS

Sohad Mahmoud (link) €11,669/€20,000. no donation in 17 DAYS

Hatem Salem (link) €4,505/€5,000. no donation in 9 DAYS

Shahd Mahmoud (link) €584/€10,000. no donation in 6 DAYS

Yara Mohammed (link) €860/€30,000. no donation in 5 DAYS

Laila Shaqoura (link) €33,547/€55,000. no donation in 5 DAYS

[artist-issues]

If you haven’t seen Wish yet and you love Disney, do not go see it. I am telling you now. It is ripping out the hearts of the Disney movies you love and then waving their corpses around as if celebrating those hearts.

I’ll explain why, again: the message of Wish? Awful. Anti-Disney.

But they've been doing this for a long time. Saying one thing with their movies, and saying another with their PR and Disney Parks Soundtracks.

I'll explain.

Main Idea of Disney's Wish (and the You Are the Magic theme park song and merch): "The power to make your wishes come true is in you."

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Most Disney Movies' Idea on How to Have Wishes: "Do what's right, (trust a higher power) and something even more wonderful than what you wished will happen."

Don't try to argue with me about this. You have to look underneath the slogans and the sweater designs and the song titles to what the stories actually support to acknowledge this.

Because you can’t say “do what’s right” has power unless you answer the question “who gets to decide ‘what’s right?’” (Which, coincidentally, is a question Wish brings up and then doesn’t answer.)

Audiences of Disney used to accept that wishing on a star was much like prayer; there’s something you long for, and it’s out of your hands, but you wish for it and you do what you know is right in the meantime. And you’re not crushed, you’re not downhearted, because somewhere in your mind you trust that the combo of those two things—wishing on a higher power and diligence to do what’s good—will be what makes your wish come true.

Trust in a higher power—COMBINED WITH:

—diligence to do what’s good.

The Blue Fairy (higher power) gave Geppetto his wish specifically because he had demonstrated commitment to do good, whether he got what he wanted or not. The Fairy Godmother (higher power) gave Cinderella her wish specifically because she kept on being kind and good to low creatures like mice and wicked stepsisters, whether she got what she wanted or not.

Do you know why that combo (higher power + diligence to do good) is impactful? Timeless? Important?

Because it’s selfless. You want something, but you’re not going to sacrifice doing the right thing to get it. You’re not going to focus so hard on making what you want a reality, on your own, that you miss out on things that could be more important than what you want. And, you’re not so self-focused as to believe that if you don’t do it, it won’t get done.

Jeez, that’s the whole point of The Princess and the Frog!

Tiana wishes to have her own restaurant, and she believes that only her own hard work will grant that wish. She misunderstands her dad’s advice before he dies. She isn’t willing to trust a higher power combined with her own diligence to do good—she only trusts her own ability.

It’s not until she realizes that Ray, the character of faith, was right all along that she learns—what she wished for was too self-focused. It wasn’t complete without love. Something bigger than herself. And getting that was never going to happen just based on her own hard work.

But you know what? It was never going to happen just by a “higher-power” flavored shortcut, either. Because Facilier offers her her wish if she’ll just trust him, no hard work needed. But what does she say?

Trust in a higher power + diligence to do what’s right = selflessness, and getting more than you could have ever wished for. And if your wish is selfish, doing those two things will change your wish into something selfless.

More examples? Get ‘em while they’re hot, in case Wish made you forget, just like the current #NotMyDisney executives have forgotten, what real Disney wishes are for.

Belle wishes to have adventures in the great wide somewhere--but when she's imprisoned and that chance is taken from her it's not reversed because she worked hard to make her wish come true. It's granted because she gave up her wish for her father: she just did the right thing, regardless of her wish. And in the end, she does get what she wished for, which is adventure in an enchanted castle...and much more, because she gets true love, a throne, and a castle full of friends.

How about the One Who Started It All? The one Wish is failing to pay genuine tribute to?

Snow White wishes for someone to love her, and he does--but when they're separated, she does not exercise power to make The Prince come back to her. Instead, she loves who she can where she’s at—the Dwarfs. In the meantime, she has faith that he will keep his promise, and that pure trust in a higher power outside of her control is a big contributing factor to why the Dwarfs come to love her, and learn from her...and in the end, even more than she could've wished happens. He does take her to his castle, but she also has seven new friends who also love her, and the Queen is dead. And she didn’t need to use “the power in her” to work harder and get it done. She just needed to not focus so much on herself at all.

How about a male main character? One who’s wish starts out selfish, but after learning to wish on a higher power and be diligent to do the right thing, gets more than he could wish for?

Aladdin wishes to be somebody different (somebody he believes Jasmine could love, somebody who lives in a palace and is respected and “never has any troubles at all.”)—but doing everything in his own power for that wish proves that it was selfish all along; so he switches to doing the right thing, regardless of if his wish comes true, and he gets even more than he could’ve wished. He gets real love with Jasmine, he gets his friend Genie, and he gets to be free from feeling “trapped” because he doesn’t have to hide who he is anymore.

Or Simba?

Simba wishes to get to do whatever he wants as King—but when Mufasa dies and he’s convinced it’s his fault, it isn’t for that wish that he goes back to Pride Rock to confront his past and his Uncle. It’s because he had an encounter with a higher power—his father—that helped him to realize his wish was selfish all along. He gives up the selfish wish, and he goes back to take his place as king, not so he can do whatever he wants, but so that he can take self-sacrificial responsibility that comes with ruling. And because he just does the right thing, finally, he gets more than what he wished for.

How about something more recent? Zootopia.

Judy wishes to make the world a better place by proving she can be what she wants to be and catching bad guys—but when she tries to make her wish happen on her own, in her own abilities, she fails and is forced to realize that she should’ve been looking for help by understanding “bad guys,” like Nick. It’s only after she humbled herself, admits she’s wrong, and changes her wish from “proving I can be what I want and catching bad guys” to “proving that understanding each other makes the world a better place” (much less self-focused) that her wish comes true—and so much more. She does make the world a better place, and she does get to catch bad guys, but she also gets to befriend one who was a good guy all along, and become all-around more effective at her dream job.

This is how Disney always has been. Because it’s at the heart of good storytelling, and even life (not to get too dramatic.)

The power is not in you. Because it’s not about you. Self-sacrifice, faith, and doing the next right thing regardless of if you get your heart’s fondest desire is what makes more than just your wishes come true. And there has to be belief in a higher power to make that message powerful.

But Wish?

Not only is it bad at showing instead of telling. Not only is it lazy and soulless.

But it’s characters rip the Star out of the sky and say “don’t wish on this. Wish on yourself, to get what you wish for. You don’t need a higher power. You don’t even need to sacrifice to do what’s good—whatever you do is good, because you are the one doing it.”

That is wrong. That is not true, and it is not powerful. There’s no sacrifice in focusing on or placing your trust totally in yourself, and it undoes every good thing Disney has done up until now.

And it undoes it on the 100th anniversary, and it flaunts Easter eggs of the very things it’s undoing.

[noodles-and-tea]

✨⭐️💫🌟

[evie-carnahan]

The Princess and the Frog (2009)

[gebo4482]

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Artist: Joseph Feinsilver / Luca Pisanu / Naveen Selvanathan

[jazzymarie1006]

Same!!!!

[riddlerosehearts]

💚 For the way you're something that I'd never choose, but at the same time something I don't wanna lose and never wanna be without ever again. You're the best thing I never knew I needed. So now it's so clear, I need you here always.

[ddejavvu]

hii! Anon who sent the gnawing thing 😭can I request naveen x reader who’s jus obsessed w him 😛 like 25/8 ily ur so cutie pie I cannot believe ur mine gimme a kiss

"A prince," You gush, drawing Naveen's attention from where he's lazily plucking at the strings of a ukulele, "I'm dating a prince."

"Yes," He chuckles, his voice smooth and low, "You have known I was a prince since the day that we met."

"I know, but still! A prince."

"A prince," He repeats, stretching his legs where they've been folded beneath him for too long. His voice strains with his muscles, "I'm surprised you fell for me at all that day, because the crown I was wearing was truly hideous. But, duty calls. It must have been my charming smile, no?"

He's flashing it at you now, and his brown eyes are similarly gleaming. You can't help yourself from leaning over and taking a hold of his face, perhaps slightly more firm than you need to be, and pressing a kiss against his lips. They're slightly parted in shock, and you feel his skin warm against your fingertips as he blushes. Pulling back, there's a faint rosy hue to his face, and he blinks bewilderedly at you.

"It was." You confirm, nodding without letting go of his face, "I wish I could deny it and drop your ego a few sizes, but it was your charming smile."

"Off," He regains his composure, tapping at your hands with an incredulous laugh. He doesn't push or pull them, though, as he stares up at you where you're looming over his seated form, "You... you are not supposed to be more romantic than me."

"It's your fault," You accuse, squishing slightly at the pudge of his cheek above a sharp and sturdy jawline, "You've been practically oozing charisma since the day that we met, now you've rubbed off on me."

"I do not ooze," His eyes narrow, "That... that frog fiasco was a thing of the past. I wish you would stop bringing it up because I do not ooze, and that is not fair."

"You're slime-less, Naveen," You assure him, but when his eyes narrow further, you sigh, "Mucus-less."

"You're teasing me now," He realizes, "I wish you would go back to gushing over my Prince-hood."

"I will," You lean in again, pressing another firm kiss against his mouth that's persistently downturned in a frown that's trying very hard to upend itself, "I'll gush about it for the rest of our lives- but then I'll have to switch to King, I suppose."

"You will," He grins, suave as his hand comes to press against your back, pulling you impossibly closer to him, "And I will gush all the same about your Queendom."

[billyrussoapologist]

Rewatching LOST, and I gotta say, I don’t think this show gets enough credit for how socially aware it is (in some ways, and considering the time it was created!) Take Sayid for example. Sayid is a man originally from Iraq, who served in the Republican Guard. LOST started in 2004, just a few years after 9/11, and, considering it’s a show about a plane crash, it was bold for LOST to tackle the discrimination that anyone of middle eastern descent might face in the U.S.A. The majority of the survivors are white people with English as their native language. Some of them are wary initially about Sayid after learning about his time in the Republican Guard. Sawyer even accuses him of being a terrorist, and cites how Sayid was pulled aside by TSA (his intention is to use this as evidence to back up his claim, but he’s really just proving the discrimination against people from the Middle East). However, Sayid proves to be one of the most caring, patient, and genuine characters on the show. Like many citizens of any nation who join any military force, Sayid had good intentions, and got more and more tangled in the complicated, morally questionable (to say the least) web of war. He escaped, and felt immense guilt for his involvement in both sides of the war (he ended up also helping the Americans, after they convinced his to interrogate and torture his own commanding officer). During his time on the island, he is generally a helpful, benevolent man. Ultimately, his past doesn’t matter - and neither does anyone else’s. They’re all on the same team once they crash on the island. And then there’s the other bold choice - to have him romantically involved with a blonde, white woman (Shannon). Having an Iraqi man and a white, American woman as a couple on TV in 2004 was groundbreaking. I don’t think Sayid as a character, or Naveen Andrews as an actor, gets enough credit.

[flowerynameslover]

The Princess and the Frog (2009)

[animatorroseoak]

More Disney thoughts… what if as a permanent effect from the magic/shapeshifting, tiana and naveen’s frog markings don’t go away

[ladygoatee]

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[imaplatypus-art]

"You just kissed yourself a princess"

Them 👑🐸🪷🍃🌱🫶🏿💚💛🤎💖💕💞.

Happy Valentine's day!

[alishasboe]

✩ endless list of favourites ✩

Sayid Jarrah & Shannon Rutherford (Lost)  ❝Everyone gets a new life on this island. I'd like to start now.❞