new pinned post alert!!! made this lil graphic a while ago for this blog but then kept procrastinating on posting it. thanks to @snailspng for most of the images!! Mary Oliver I <3 you forever and joy is certainly not made to be a crumb, but so is hope.
hi! I'm oliver! (he/him) 24 years young
just one more small queer & trans neurodivergent anarchist fellow in love with the dying, eternal world! always seeking to learn more about what constitutes liberation for all the people and the earth, and I have a lot to learn.
^^^ religious beliefs can best be described thusly ^^^
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this blog has become mostly a space for boosting mutual aid and Gaza relief posts, alongside shitposts both political and purely silly, + images that I think are cool. once, I used to tag things. once, I was organized. No Longer!
I don't fuck with fascists, racists, queer-phobes, TERFs, etc. Nor AI-generated 'art' of any kind.
I looooove stories and mythology and history but most of all stoooorriiieeeesss and missed my calling as an itinerant bard by approximately a thousand years. trying to become a DM for hire instead, next best thing.
@oliver-the-bard is my most active side-blog currently where I reblog things about my specialest interest of the moment, bg3! and also dnd/forgotten realms lore and world in general! Will be posting fic and potentially other stuff there at some point, so head over there if it pleases you.
less active on @olorinestel, my Tolkien legendarium side-blog, but still in love with and inspired by the Professor's work and the wonderfully talented artists and beautiful queer people who make up the fandom! so I do occasionally reblog stuff there as relevant stuff comes across my dash.
you can also find me on AO3, also as olorinestel. right now I've got Tolkien and star wars andor fics up on there, all of which I'm still quite proud of, and I may post more of my backlog from those fandoms as I feel like it. I plan to start posting bg3/dnd stuff there, too! if you know me irl/just in general be warned! ridiculous fetish content and smut be upon ye (not exclusively or even mostly but uhh there's definitely some)!!
you can also follow me on substack if you feel like it, where I restack articles I like and quotes from time to time, and who knows, maybe I'll eventually start writing stuff there.
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In addition to 15-year-old Nour’s ongoing health issues, Nour’s sister Noha recently developed a severe stomach ulcer due to an infection induced by drinking unsanitary water. This ulcer is causing Noha extreme pain and digestive issues, and if it is not treated very soon, will lead to internal bleeding. This ulcer has gone untreated in order to allot more funds for Nour’s ongoing nebulizer treatments, but it has progressed to the point of literally debilitating pain and serious complications. Let’s raise the cost of treatment ASAP so Nour can continue nebulizer treatments and Noha can live her life again!!
Current: $4,927 out of $5,290 usd (28 June)
Need: $363 usd
Nour is a 15-year-old girl living in a fragile tent in Gaza.
… Zachary Morgan needs your support for Help Nour: A 15-Year-Old Girl with Hea
I write to you with tears welling in my eyes, my body wracked with pain every second. I write to you because the ignore me and neglect I've endured hurts me more than my injuries. So remember, even if I die, I will never forgive anyone who ignored me and my suffering. I implore everyone to look at me and help me by d0nating and sharing whatever they can.
This week, I've been battling severe pain and frequent fainting spells due to severe anemia, and I'm completely unable to afford essential medications because of their high cost. All I wish for is for these fainting spells to stop, and for me to find compassionate hearts to stand by me so I can bu.y my medication and recover quickly.
Shrapnel still lodges in my body, and the pain keeps me awake at night. What makes my suffering even worse is that I was injured when our house was bombed while we were inside. I need urgent surgery but the cost of the operation is exorbitant, and I can't afford it. Now, I can't even afford painkillers to the constant pain tearing at my body.
Please I don't want to diie, I just want to live without pain. I need your sincere sup.port to save my life and end this suffering as soon as possible. Please, I would be extremely grateful to anyone who can d0nate to me. and if you can't, I hope you will shar.e this p0st.
My health is very poor, and I can barely write this reblog to tell you that I desperately need your h@lp right now. Please h@lp me so I can buyy my medication as soon as possible and raiise the fuunds for my travel and surgery. please don't skip me.
Please don't stop, please don't stop. Your d0nati0ns h@lp me a lot. The medication is very expensive, and my condition is very serious. Please d0nate now, please.
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My name is Qusai, I was born in Gaza and I am 16 years old. The war came and I was in the third preparation and I could not complete my studies. I had a house and a place to live in, but unfortunately it has been completely destroyed and our area is subjected to constant warnings and displacement of the population. I do not have any source of income. My father is unemployed after we had a bird shop where we rely on a source of income, but it is destroyed because of the war and we can hardly buy expensive food and because of famine and lack of money, we cannot manage ourselves with our simplest daily needs, so I hope you stand by my family and help make our lives better and make sure that no matter how much it is, no matter what it makes us happy and helps us make our lives better
My name is Qusai, I was born in Gaza and I am 16 years old. The war came and I was in the third preparation and I could not complete my stud
I also suffer from low blood pressure, and it affects me severely. I often experience sudden dizziness, and my health is not good. I need a lot of support to cover my basic and essential needs, including food, clean water, medication, and other daily necessities. Every donation, no matter how small, helps me survive and care for myself and my family. I hope you stand by my family and no matter how much it is, no matter what it makes us happy and helps us make our lives better.
Please donate as much as you can so that help my family even a small amount and tell people about my suffering
not only are most people completely unaware of the devastation of indigenous languages in the americas, most people are completely unaware of the devastation of indigenous languages in europe. never mind occitan, they don't know about basque! it's wild! bleak! existentially horrifying!!!
the last few centuries of french history involved, amongst other things, a concerted effort to establish "french" as a legitimate country and cultural identity, and crucially as a language, which sounds like an absurd statement if you know nothing about the languages of france. french is a language, yes; it exists and existed in the late eighteenth century. but it was limited primarily to the north of france and was certainly not spoken or even understood across the country. other languages within france were banned and french was enforced following the french revolution and even to this day other languages indigenous to france have very little legal protection and are not recognised as official languages.
that's just one country in europe. one. and many people straight up have no idea about any of this!
did you know france has celtic languages? breton is the only celtic language spoken outside of the british isles. did you know france has germanic languages? alsatian, for example, is spoken in the east of france, unsurprisingly in alsace. it's not even the only french germanic language. did you know france has a number of languages and dialects known as langues d'oïl closely related to french? norman and picard, for example, are spoken in the north of france. did you know that france has gallo-romance languages? franco-provençal (which has a number of dialects) is spoken in the east of france, as well as parts of switzerland and italy. did you know that france has a language most closely related to catalan, the langues d'oc? occitan is spoken in the south of france and has a rich literary history. did you know france is home to basque, or rather euskara, a language isolate which predates indo-european languages? romani dialects! corsican! so much more than just french! there are even extinct jewish dialects of occitan! extinct langues d'oïl like angevin! so much linguistic diversity and all anyone talks about is french.
you are alive on a planet with insects and whales and diatoms and mycelium networks and puppies and your human friends. literally so awesome to be a living thing
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please consider giving my friend Amal ( @moatasim-ashour )'s campaign a boost today. she has been hospitalized this week with kidney stones and is relying on these funds not only to get the treatment she needs, but to provide for her elderly and chronically ill parents and her baby and toddler. all told, this fundraiser supports 12+ people, over half of whom are children, as Amal's sister Reem's family ( @danashehab ) is also depending on these funds. the price of daily necessities is rising all the time, and they are in urgent need just to maintain the bare minimum of life, and of course to care for their children and the sick, injured, and elderly members of their family.
i could talk about what a kind and thoughtful person Amal is, or how much she loves her children, or her talent in languages, or just how much she and her family have endured over the past 2+ years of genocide. but the truth is that she and her loved ones should not have to justify themselves or put their lives on display to the multitude to merit solidarity and compassion. they deserve to live and thrive just like any other family in the world, and right now, they need our help to keep that hope alive. they have been immensely courageous in asking for support—now it's our turn to reciprocate it, especially at this time of year dedicated especially to charity and aid to those in need (which we can all stand to do more of whether or not we're observing Eid).
so if you have the means, please do what you can to help make the Ashour and Shehab families' holiday a little safer and more special, and to lift even a fraction of the stress from Amal's shoulders so she can rest and recover in as much peace as possible. truly no gesture, even just a share or a kind word, is too small to matter!
Hello friends, I'm Sahar! Lia & I are friends of the Ashours & Shehabs, and we'll be helping them run this campaign. Both families have had
Verification info: Amal's former fundraiser is #175 on @/nabulsi, @/MohAyesh, and @/el-shab-hussein's spreadsheet and was shared by @/bilal-sala7 and @/90-ghost. The Shehab family's former fundraiser is #764 on butterfly effect project's spreadsheet, was additionally verified by @/el-shab-hussein, and shared by @/90-ghost. Their current joint campaign is #46 on @/bilal-sala7's spreadsheet.
Children’s novels, to me, spoke, and still speak, of hope. They say: look, this is what bravery looks like. This is what generosity looks like. They tell me, through the medium of wizards and lions and talking spiders, that this world we live in is a world of people who tell jokes and work and endure. Children’s books say: the world is huge. They say: hope counts for something. They say: bravery will matter, wit will matter, empathy will matter, love will matter.
Katherine Rundell, Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
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These were produced from around the time of the Roman annexation of Egypt in the late 1st century BC to around the Christianization of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century CE.
They were a continuation of the Egyptian tradition of funerary masks but rather than sculpting them and making them of precious metals, they began painting these lifelike portraits.
It’s hotly debated whether this is an example of Greco-Roman realist style imposed on their subjects, or a home grown Egyptian development of their own ancient tradition. Those who say it’s more Egyptian than Roman point out that there’s no surviving paintings in the rest of the Roman Empire that were this realistic. Those who say it’s more Roman than Egyptian point out the arid climate left these portraits intact, and beleive the others in the rest of the empire were lost.
Personally I think you can call them Egyptian because these people, whether of Roman or ancient Egyptian descent, are still the ancestors of the modern Egyptians today.
Despite the realism you can see a slight exaggeration of the eyes, smoothing of the skin and inclusion of certain important objects around the subject’s head. It’s a pattern that would get more and more pronounced until it became the style of Byzantine iconography in the Orthodox Christian Church
