Hey everyone, this is urgent: the family of Khaled, a young man with muscular dystrophy who is stuck in Gaza, had $24,000 stolen from them by a government they can't piss off. We can't talk about details for safety reasons (it's not the government you think, but nevertheless a terrifying one that regularly kills journalists), but the family has figured out a new, safe way to store the money and thus opened a new campaign for donations. They really have NOTHING left so they need all the contributions they can get, no matter how small. This is a vetted campaign; I am in personal contact with Nada, Khaled's sister.
i cant stop thinking about the people who expected to finally go home today must be feeling right now. some have been in those torture chambers for decades. and israel just got their hopes up and sent them back to their dungeons. barbaric entity
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silly doodles ive been doing this afternoon :]
might color it some day if i feel like it
Dying Star.
I forgot to name it properly oops!
Also I did indeed cook with this one.
went to the pub for a drink on my first real day off in over a week and watched the girl behind the bar drop the entire cash drawer on the floor in the middle of the rush and then just stare at it at her feet for like a solid two minutes
ocs :3c
vic on the top right, nuke on the bottom left!
I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.
Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.
The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.
I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.
20, he/they, 🇪🇦🏳️🌈 // welcome to my blog! you can call me al. i'll most likely use tumblr to post some artwork and doodles :)
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