Haha.

Unfortunately, I am fading 💔

The unbearable conditions we are living through in Gaza are slowly breaking me, and I have no strength left.

At the same time, my father is in critical condition and needs daily medication that we can no longer afford. Every day without treatment puts his life at serious risk.

We are living through something beyond our ability to endure.

If you’re reading this, please don’t scroll away. Your help could save my father’s life.

Please support us and share our story 🙏💔

Not reblogging it for obvious reasons but.

Please donate & share

Hello my friends,My name is Bilal Ahmad.I am reaching out to you as a citizen of Gaza who is suffering from severe injuries and critical health conditions that threaten my life every day. I sustained a serious injury to my eye and urgently need another surgery to save me from the risk of permanent blindness.

In addition, I have a disability in my left hand. Most critically, I suffer from a severe abdominal injury that has greatly damaged my intestines, leaving them unable to function properly. My condition continues to worsen, and the danger to my life increases with each passing day.

Given the current situation in Gaza, it is no longer possible for me to receive the complex medical treatment I urgently need in a safe and complete manner. After God, my only hope is your support and kindness.

I humbly ask for your help. Please be the light of hope that allows me to reach Egypt and receive the medical treatment I desperately need in its hospitals so that I may recover and regain my health.

Please hear my voice and give me a chance to receive treatment and a humanitarian opportunity to pass through. Even a small donation can make a difference and help cover my medical care.

Thank you in advance for your generosity, compassion, and support. I am deeply grateful for any help you can provide.

Fundraising on tumblr is survival. When tumblr deletes the blogs of people in Gaza, that is participation in genocide. It is unconscionable.

My friend Fadel's account has been banned again yesterday. He is extremely sad and exhausted at this treatment. Fadel's new blog is @fadell-aldany. Please follow him there and send him a message of encouragement. He has been on tumblr for years and has lost all of his connections.

He has been repeatedly hospitalized this month because his blood count is so low from going too long without his blood medication and proper nutrition. He desperately needs funds, and he cannot raise them if no one finds his blog. Fadel's campaign (gazavetters #197) is hosted by a friend of mine. I am texting with Fadel right now as I type this, and I personally can confirm that this new account is really him.

Her body suddenly stopped responding in my arms, as if all life had left her at once. I kept calling her name and shaking her gently, begging her to open her eyes again.

The doctor told us her condition has become extremely critical due to severe deterioration in her health and serious complications. She may not survive without urgent intervention and immediate medical care that cannot be delayed or postponed in any way.

I am asking you with whatever strength I have left. I am watching her fade away moment by moment, completely powerless to stop it. Please don’t let her reach the end while there is still a chance to save her. GoFundMe

Its walls are worn out, and the cold seeps through every night as if we have no shelter at all.

Rodents are everywhere, getting close to our little food and frightening my children in their sleep.

I try to stay strong for them, but fear and exhaustion weigh heavily on my heart each day.

We are in desperate need of help… any kind hand that can restore a sense of safety and give my children a chance to live with dignity.

✅Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is (#514)✅

My wife is in the intensive care unit and her condition is very critical. Her blood level is dangerously low, and she urgently needs another surgery. There is no time.

I am watching her weaken in front of me day after day, and I am completely helpless to save her. The fear of losing her is killing me every moment.

The costs of treatment and surgery are beyond our ability. Please do not leave us alone. Donate or share any support could save her life.

They've been expecting one, especially because of the way that particular guest has been eyeing them, but their head is fixed in place and they don't see the other(s) behind them.

Or maybe whumpee's blindfolded, but they can smell the smoke encircling.

Either way, whumpee has some idea of what might be coming next, but can never know when, and the minutes pass by filled with anxiety and the slightest bit of hope that perhaps this friend of whumper's will simply finish the cigarette without using the provided ashtray.

And then it comes. It's instantly panic-inducing, the way attack comes from all sides as if their whole body was on fire. In that moment, nerves set alight, dying with screams, whumpee can't help but think they too are about to die.

They struggle blindly, desperately, instinctively, against their bonds, which hold firm even as muscles tear and a shoulder wrenches itself from its socket. The tears streaming from their face do nothing to sooth the circular burn on their cheek, and the screams penetrating the thick gag elicit laughter from the guests. Pieces of hair complete with follicles remain in *that* guest's fist, another trophy of torture.

So they don't tell anyone they were kidnapped. That they were hurt. They hide the injuries and trauma continue to avoid people, and never explain what happened since there wasn't any point in bothering people anyway.

Excellent. Here she is, being super brave:

"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"Censorship of some topics in fiction and art is good and I would be happy if it were to be enacted in a way I approved of"

and

"some things should be banned from ever being written or read about in fiction"

are both authoritarian viewpoints to hold and express, even if you don't have the power to enact them.

Something being nasty is not a good reason to ban fiction about it.

If we accept that "something being nasty is a good reason to bad fiction about it" then we give a foot in the door for all the people who truly, genuinely believe that queer people are nasty to ban all queer literature.

Either you’re for it or you aren’t.

The moment you agree that something should never, ever exist in fiction is the moment that anything can be banned.

Remember a while back how Tumblr banned a bunch of tags, including many popular innocuous ones that even people who are for censorship used and were upset about?

When censorship happens, stuff YOU like can and will be banned. That’s how it works.

Remember how a bunch of people had their accounts terminated here only last year for writing about their own sexual abuse?

When you ban “pedo” topics, say, any talk of child sexual abuse in any form, that means people can no longer write about their own experiences. It means people cannot educate others so they can learn how to protect themselves or get help from these situations.

Censorship is authoritarian. Full stop.

Even if “everyone” agrees something is “gross” and “shouldn’t exist,” that does not fucking matter.

Do you know who generally believes queer people are gross and shouldn’t exist??

The same people who are banning books left and right solely because they have queer characters or relationships.

The same people who attack and kill queer folk for simply exisiting.

This is not just some fandom matter or a case of being chronically online.

In 2007, Livejournal capitulated to the "pedophilia and sex crimes!" cries of (hate group) Warriors 4 Innocence, and you know what communities got shut down? Slashfic communities. Sexual assault survivor support communities. Authors who'd written non-smut m/m fic even got caught up in it. It was DEVASTATING to fandom spaces. I think pretty much everyone knew at least one person whose account was literally DELETED, or were a member of a community that was wiped off the map because they were considerate enough to include topics like "sexual assault" or "BDSM" in the profiles under the badly-named category of "interests" to indicate that posts on said blogs or communities may include discussion of things like that. Even if it was for a SUPPORT group. And it was because a group of religious bigots came to LJ and said essentially "EVERYONE thinks it's gross and that it's promoting CSA, we should ban it."

Like, strikethrough and boldthrough were a large part of what propelled AO3 out of a more unfocused conversation on one person's blog about hosting a site INTENDED for fandom content, into being an actual archive and nonprofit. And it's a large part of why you won't find AO3 banning topics that you find "gross".