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6-year-old Souad has been anemic since birth, and starvation and disease due to the IOF assault have caused her severe additional health complications. In September she fell unconscious and was admitted to the hospital. She has since been comatose and fluid is building up around her brain.

Medical staff have worked very hard to reduce the swelling. But despite their efforts, Souad's brain is now hemorrhaging (bleeding). The swelling has been too persistent, and the pressure is rapidly bursting the cells of her brain, causing bleeding. This will kill her. Little Souad is dying.

She needs to be evacuated outside of Gaza, but this is extremely expensive. However, in addition to the high cost of the medical evacuation, her family is also forced to pay high medical fees to the private hospital which is caring for her. It is the only facility in Gaza with the capacity to slow the deterioration of her condition, and these bills must be paid for her to live long enough for evacuation. We are now raising funds to both support Suad’s immediate life-sustaining care, AND eventual medical evacuation.

PLEASE HELP US #SaveSouad!!!

Please repost the GFM and tag #SaveSouad to spread the word. SHE DOESN'T HAVE MUCH TIME LEFT!!!

€7,465 out of €7,739 EUR (28 June)

Need to raise: about €274 EUR ($312 usd)

Information on vetting linked under the cut of this post

>no idea what a tumblr accent even is

we didn’t see any shots of lestat’s head in the bowling bag. we saw him burn, but it was portrayed as comical. we did not see bruce as he died, we did not see lestat get torn up by the wolves, we did not watch nicki die. in the majority of the scenes where a white character is injured, the action is cut away, out of frame, out of focus, mostly implied.

6-year-old Souad has been anemic since birth, and starvation and disease due to the IOF assault have caused her severe additional health complications. In September she fell unconscious and was admitted to the hospital. She has since been comatose and fluid is building up around her brain.

Medical staff have worked very hard to reduce the swelling. But despite their efforts, Souad's brain is now hemorrhaging (bleeding). The swelling has been too persistent, and the pressure is rapidly bursting the cells of her brain, causing bleeding. This will kill her. Little Souad is dying.

She needs to be evacuated outside of Gaza, but this is extremely expensive. However, in addition to the high cost of the medical evacuation, her family is also forced to pay high medical fees to the private hospital which is caring for her. It is the only facility in Gaza with the capacity to slow the deterioration of her condition, and these bills must be paid for her to live long enough for evacuation. We are now raising funds to both support Suad’s immediate life-sustaining care, AND eventual medical evacuation.

PLEASE HELP US #SaveSouad!!!

Please repost the GFM and tag #SaveSouad to spread the word. SHE DOESN'T HAVE MUCH TIME LEFT!!!

€7,465 out of €7,739 EUR (28 June)

Need to raise: about €274 EUR ($312 usd)

Information on vetting linked under the cut of this post

Maha and her family previously had a verified GFM to pay for basic necessities like food, medical care, and some form of shelter. Horrifically, the person running their former GFM has stolen from them and hijacked their campaign.

Below is Maha’s new GFM. Her previous GFM was vetted by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi on their vetted campaign master list, on line 163.

Maha has been hospitalized due to serious complications from an infected tooth. She is particularly vulnerable to this type of infection, which almost killed her last year. Thankfully her husband has returned from Egypt, but both he and Maha are unable to work and thus cannot pay for her hospital bills. They are over $1,500 usd in debt for her treatment and Maha is about to be kicked out of the hospital.

As I said, last year a very similar infection almost took Maha’s life. If she is expelled from the hospital, a worsened infection is an inevitability. She still has a high fever and needs to remain hospitalized. PLEASE help her continue life-saving treatment!!

Current: €1,825 out of €3,012 (28 June)

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"If we know, and do nothing, we are worse than the murderers hired in our name.

"If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own—which it is—and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night."

i think there's a certain degree of projection going on here. i know some lestat stans LOVE to kick their feet and giggle about how IWTV was nothing but a bunch of LIES told to villainise the poor baby lestat, and NOW y'all can finally see the TRUTH of how he never did anything wrong in his entire life and was maliciously SLANDERED, yada yada yada. and then some people who (rightfully) take issue with that stance kinda assume that they're being truthful about the actual contents of the show, which... they aren't. lol.

walk with me here. let's look at the actual events of IWTV that, combined, painted the picture of lestat as the toxic and abusive antagonist of S1 and led to his untimely (yet temporary) demise at the hands of his fledglings. and see which of them have actually been "retconned" or in any way contested so far in TVL.

Only thing I wanna point out:

Antoinette's finger isn't a retcon at all. 👀 It's explicit confirmation for SEVERAL things:

her finger legit got cut off, as part of the deal that he'd turn her into a vampire if she'd help him ("promises were made")

Lestat didn't even bother warning her in advance that severed limbs CANNOT regenerate or grow back--YIKES 💀 so she went into their deal under false pretenses and misinformation that HE enabled (sounding mighty familiar *cough* Louis *cough*)

it debunks all the theories about Murder Night being revisited to "prove" that that was all a "fake scene" that never happened just cuz Antoinette still had 10 fingers in 1x7 (at best a continuity error / PRODUCTION issue vs MEMORY issue; or a plot thread that got left on the cutting room floor since Lestat's literally saying she really had no finger--unless Lestat's STILL lying to Louis; which is never NOT an option, clearly 🙄😒)

it proves that Lestat was lying his arse off in NOLA: Antoinette's finger was presented to LouClaudia as "proof" that Lestat had upheld his part of the deal to follow the house rules and Kill Antoinette. The finger is confirmation that he lied to their faces and faked Antoinette's death.

it confirms that Lestat was CHEATING on Louis and going behind Louis' back to continue banging a girl Louis thought was now DEAD

it proves that Claudia really was following Lestat all over town, catching him in lie after lie after lie; just like she did in the books.

it confirms that the 1x6 Ponchatoula Scene was 100% real, and all the nastiness Lestat said about Louis & Claudia specifically being oh-so-ungrateful and that Claudia was "poisoning Louis against me~! 😭😩" actually happened and they overhead him say it

it confirms that Louis was deeply depressed for YEARS and Lestat KNEW it, and wanted to "provoke/punish" Louis for withholding attention (and SEX); "abandoning" him again

it's more confirmation that Louis was the biggest doormat on the planet, cuz Claudia showed him proof of Lestat's lies & infidelities, and Louis never even said/did anything to stand up for himself--he rolled over & accepted Lestat treating him like trash: "spit in the sandwich and serve it with a smile", zero dignity or self respect.

it doesn't contradict that Antoinette was sent to spy on Louis & Claudia and jump them on Murder Night

LESTAT 👏 AIN'T 👏 ISH 👏

AMC's been hyping S3 up as Lestat "setting the record straight" and "doing a rewrite"--about WHAT, exactly? 🤨

Your list highlights precisely what I've been saying the whole time: Lestat's alleged "rewrites" are the most superfluous insubstantial slights & petty gripes & grievances about things not even integral to the overall PLOT™ of S1/S2 at all.

Vampires being able to pee changes NOTHING about how he treated Louis & Claudia.

Lestat's body having a bunch of scars changes NOTHING about how he treated Louis & Claudia--his clothes were on for the vast majority of S1 and ALL of S2. Louis still said Lestat was hot, so....? 💁‍♂️

Lestat's hair being longer changes NOTHING about how he treated Louis & Claudia--despite the Lestans swearing on a stack of Bibles that The Ep5 Fight/ The Drop / and Lestat dragging Louis across the flagstones by his effing JAWBONE would get revisited to "prove" that it was a "fake scene" that "never happened" just cuz his hair was different in the Courtyard Scene--only for S3 to CONFIRM that ALL of it happened--everything from S1 AND S2.

The most important thing Lestat "rewrote" was that he was actually asleep for most of the 1800s (which still doesn't confirm or deny that he lied to Louis & Claudia about NOT being asleep). That's the most useful bit of information we got out of him this entire season; with the added reveal that he was The Keeper of TWMBK--which isn't even BOOK ACCURATE; AMC just made that bullcrap up (book!Lestat was NEVER the Keeper & book!Marius NEVER left his post & caused The Great Burnings).

And all that goes to show is that AMC is more than happy to add/change things around at the drop of a hat and then act like they planned all this bullcrap from the start, when literally they didn't plan ish; they're making this crap up as they go along.

Yeah, they knew they wanted the Train Scene to be different somehow--but they added the "rape" angle literally out of nowhere and acted like that "proves" that Claudia...what? Never ran away? Never had to come back home? Cuz it looks like all she lied about was the "worse than rape me" line; not anything else that went down that night--LOL. As if we're supposed to clutch our pearls in shock that she lied about it at all, when the whole point was to get Louis to help her KILL that mofo? I'm supposed to wag my finger at "Evil Claudia" for trying to emancipate herself from that ABUSIVE household?! "She's poisoning Louis against me~!" -- GOOD! 👏😤 SOMEONE needed to!

19-year-old Khalil Al Habil's liver and kidneys are failing. Shrapnel damage from the bombardment that killed his baby brother Omar has gone mostly untreated due to a lack of funds and resources. The ill effects of this damage have progressed to the point that the organs are losing their ability to function. Khalil urgently needs 3 rounds of treatment to combat the effects of his deteriorating liver and kidneys.

We've paid off the first round of treatments but Khalil has two treatments that he still needs. The second costs about $1,250 usd, but we haven’t made much progress in more than a month and his condition is getting progressively worse. We need to meet this second goal ASAP!!!

Current: $10,052 out of $10,407 usd (12 May)

Need to raise: $355 usd

The lethargy and fatigue caused by his deteriorating organ function only make reaching out more difficult. He is in very, very bad shape, and I’m extremely worried about him.

He has gone so long between sessions that he requires additional medications to sustain him between treatments. With a price of $1500 for the treatment for his failing organs, and $500 for supplementary medications, this is where we are for round 3:

Current: $11,354 out of $12,407 usd (28 June)

Here's what I need you to do:

If you see a post with a "mature content" label, and it's 2026, DM me a link to the post.

Yes, that's really it.

I am hoping to collect several thousand such posts, so that I have a decent sized dataset. I do not care what the post is about; if it's labeled as "mature content", I want to add it to my dataset.

i understand why claudia would be angrier at louis, i understand that it's like that in the books. but in the books these were white characters, they knowingly made them black, and at least in the previous seasons they seemed to be aware that this changes things and that they can't just adapt the books 1:1 and that they have to be careful with how they handle these characters. they could have made claudia be angry at louis and express all that anger without calling him nappy-headed (which, by the way, upsets me even more when i'm reminded of that note jacob wrote for the hairstylist this season talking about how his hair is his achilles' heel*) or a slave. and well, if they didn't want to think about it (race, that is) at all long-term, maybe they should have written about a bunch of white characters instead.

i'm also not saying that people can't write about things that they aren't or have never experienced, of course. i believe someone who isn't black could write great stories about black characters. but it has to be tasteful, and because of what i said in the first paragraph i just don't think this is tasteful at all. i don't think they had any care with how they took any of the characters' races into account, especially not louis's. i don't they they took it into account at all, actually, beyond "oh yeah, he's black, let's make daniel call him louisiana fried chicken! and then make claudia call him *insert all that shit again*! because we can!"

what makes it worse for me is that they sold this show as a race-conscious adaptation, as i've said in another post. the only reason i gave a fuck about it when normally i don't even try to like adaptations of books i like was the fact that they were doing it like that, and i'm sure it was the same for many people. and also that they swore up and down they were not going to sideline louis like in the books, even if lestat will be the new lead. hell, the end of s2 gave me this impression. so they solidified this show and garnered a fanbase with this concept of race-consciouness and how they would handle that so much better than the source material and how they will treat the black main characters with a lot of care, only to abandon all of that in the third season (including the source material lol, but this isn't even the biggest sin for me atm.)

but basically, to reiterate, no, i don't think the fact that sometimes black people talk like this makes it any better in this case.

and ofc people will say to justify the ghost claudia scene "survivors lying about specific things doesn't mean they aren't survivors/what they said about their abuse in general isn't true" or "why won't you let claudia be a monster same as the male characters are" and these are bad faith rationalizations bc the people who claim they love the idea of claudia lying about lestat threatening her are the same people who would be up in arms about the merest suggestion that lestat lied about anything his mortal family in auvergne or gabriella did to him. and wrt the point about survivors lying not invalidating the truth of their experience, yes, this is something that's true about survivors in real life, but that is real life and tvl is a fictional story written by nonblack people- you have to be honest and ask yourself if the writers were remotely interested in claudia's interiority or experiences as a survivor when they wrote her in s3ep6 or if they were only trying to backpedal about one of the worst things lestat has ever done in an effort to make him more palatable and use a black character- a black woman who was lynched, which makes the use of antiblack dialogue for claudia even more ghoulish- as a mouthpiece to spew antiblack vitriol at the sole surviving black lead on the show.

"claudia lied about what lestat said in the train scene bc she was desperate to leave and get louis to leave with her and she needed something to move louis into action" could've been pulled off as a survivor-centric plot choice if it had been foreshadowed properly and if it had been introduced during s1-s2, when claudia was still an active protagonist in the story, her pov was represented in her own voice and there were still black writers on staff. it could've folded into the thematic arc of louis' story wrt pursuing truth and been handled in the context where the focus was claudia's pain, claudia's entrapment and resolve to escape no matter what, and landed on a note that centered the fundamental truth of claudia's experiences as an abuse victim and how she outwitted lestat and freed both herself and louis from him. how this concept is addressed in s3ep6 is not that- to start with, the entire seance and the entire season are within lestat's pov. the idea that we're "finally hearing the real claudia" is false bc everything from what she says to her mannerisms to how she looks as a ghost are filtered through her abusive white father's pov.

how the train scene is mentioned in the seance isn't presented in the context of claudia convincing louis to escape lestat and outmaneuvering lestat- it's in the context of humiliating louis for being gullible and easy to manipulate for *checks notes* believing his daughter when she told him her other father threatened to do worse than rape her. louis is constantly villainized by viewers for the bad ways he reacts to armand and lestat's history of sa and for how claudia had to push louis to leave once lestat's abuse escalated in s1ep5-s1ep7- but when louis reacts to claudia as a good, responsible parent should and believes her when she tells him lestat threatened her, that too is presented as a sign of louis' weakness, stupidity and passivity. (and people are being willfully obtuse about this bc everyone largely agrees "except he just threatened me with it" "nah doesn't sound like him" in s2ep4 was one of louis' worst moments ever.) this decision can't be separated from the nonblack writers also choosing to have claudia volley explicitly antiblack, bioessentialist vitriol at louis and framing her as possessing an internalized antiblackness she never expressed in her own diaries ("bleak, black life" where her white companion was the only good thing about it.) when claudia compared herself and louis to lestat's slaves in s1 (back when the show had black writers) her words about herself and louis being lestat's slaves from the book was adapted as a incisive comment about lestat's oppressive control and white supremacy- lestat and his behavior were the focus of her mockery. but when ghost claudia calls louis a slave bc he has a mark on his ribs in s3, it plays into the white supremacist idea that was reinforced through decades of enslavement in the states where enslavers and their enablers argued black people had inherent, biologically ingrained passive traits and needed the white race's superior guidance to control and protect them.

and regardless of what in-universe reasoning people buy into to explain ghost claudia saying that, the problem is the all-nonblack writers choosing to write that rhetoric for a black woman who was murdered in a lynching (that the show refuses to call a lynching) and the white showrunner gleefully calling arguably the most antiblack scene of the show the best scene they ever wrote for their dead black fem lead (yes s3ep6 is worse than all of s2ep7 or s1ep3 or anything else the white supremacists in nola or the kkkoven did, bc in those scenes the focus was on the evil of the white supremacists while in s3ep6 the antiblackness is metatextual, reflective of the writers' biases and uncritically framed)

claudia could've called louis out for putting hands on her same as lestat had done- she could've pulled on the stories in merrick's mind from her family to call louis out for profiting off the backs of working class black women and then tryna make claudia, one black girl then woman among many, the symbol of his redemption at the expense of her pain. hell they even could've explained claudia's rage mainly being targeted at louis and not as much at lestat by having the seance be louis' idea, giving louis a several-episode arc of interacting with merrick then convincing her to call on claudia's spirit so claudia would be angry at him for wanting to yank her into the world of the living again to assuage his own guilt, instead of nonblack writers thinking the primary way to wound and call out a black lynching survivor is by having a black woman who didn't survive that lynching use antiblack language. it didn't feel incisive or truly cutting or had anything to do with louis' canon flaws unless you already thought the worst of him (as many viewers do) and fanon'ed him as the kind of eternally passive, navel-gazing patsy he was in the source material. louis in the show is not that character, and it exposes the thoughtlessness and antiblackness of the all-nonblack writers that they adapted the merrick scene without considering how louis and claudia's show characters and dynamic would modify the scene. the only change they seem to have made based on louis and claudia's blackness is by throwing in antiblack dialogue. it's such a tarantino (derogatory) move where the white showrunner knows he can't say certain things about black characters as himself irl, so he uses a black character as a mouthpiece in a fictional script to express that racist impulse.