one (1) writer vs. seventeen (17) wips

Life here is not what we expected. Everything is expensive and difficult. We face endless challenges every day, whether in the cost of living or in trying to adapt to a new reality. Prices do not stop rising, and every step requires great effort. Rent, bills, food, everything seems to be pressuring us more and more.

With all this, there is a constant longing for our land and for our people who remained in Gaza. We live here, but our souls are suspended there, with every news we hear, with every new bombing, with every scream we hear. Missing my family in Gaza is a feeling that never leaves me. We are here trying to live and build a new life, but we feel that we are always waiting, waiting for something that we do not know when it will happen, if it will happen.

In these difficult times, any support can make a huge difference in our lives. Every small contribution helps us to continue and overcome these daily challenges, so that we can see a more stable future for ourselves and our loved ones.

To donate and help: [Click here](https://gofund.me/ba5b76e9)

My name is Mahmoud Jihad, from Gaza. My home, my university, everything has been destroyed. I now live in a flimsy tent with my family after losing everything. I was studying Information Technology while caring for my family, and now we have nothing. 😔

We are living amidst indescribable destruction and desperately need your help to survive. 😭 Even a small donation can make a huge difference. Every contribution is a spark of hope in the darkness of this war. ✨

My campaign is verified by: @beesandwatermelons ✅ #190 and @gazavetters ✅ #63.

My GoFundMe link: https://gofund.me/463cbf01

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Let's rebuild our lives together. 🙏❤️

me and my sister made neurodivergencies as vines (we don’t intend this to be offensive, since both of us are ND). Sorry for the quality. It’s kind of lazy work.

The text in the video may or may not be dyslexic-friendly so I apologize for that.

Miyazawa Kenji, “Night on the Galactic Railroad”

This is Al-Azhar university, where Shahed used to study. She was an exemplary student, and used to get regularly invited by her teachers to give lectures.

Since the university was bombed and destroyed by the IOF, all she has left are these pictures. Even through all the violence and death around her though, she still makes sure to keep up with her studies through the university's online programme.

This is a shop Shahed had visited only some time before october. She told me it was run by an artist who painted these beautiful home items, and engraved them by hand with customers names. Shahed had photographed them because they were so eye-catching and beautiful, and had sent the woman her photos so she could use them to promote the shop.

Shahed has told me this shop isnt there any more. She is currently trying to get in touch with the woman who used to run this shop again, but shahed doesn't know if she is even alive or not.

Shahed has an eye for beauty in all things, and it shows in her work and in conversation. It has taken on a different meaning now when so much of everything she knows has been stolen by the occupation from her and other palestinians like her.

In her own words:

"As you know, I like to photograph a lot, everyone liked my photography. I was filming everything because a memory can never come back again. This sentence is not understood by many. I am happy because I photograph everything."

What had been a hobby of collecting moments for her has now become something of an archive of all the things in Palestine that have been lost to the zionist occupation.

Shahed's outlook on her photography tends to colour our conversation as well. She finds it is more productive to talk to me about her hope for a better future, rather than all the bleakness around her right now.

"Yes, because I see inside every picture of new hope, I feel a great motivation that I will survive to see that life is more beautiful than what I live at the moment. I seek to return to a life that is more beautiful than the one we live now, a very difficult life because it has turned black and white."

I don't know how anyone can look at her photos and think of anything but hope

The mainstream media in the west and elsewhere can lie all they like- but we will know always that palestine was and is a land full of beautiful people. Never forget that the death, illness and destruction in palestine today was something imposed upon them by the colonizers, and has been imposed upon them for decades.

Shahed doesn't like to share images of misery with me, but please remember that she and her family are suffering right now. The happy children in the pictures, her little sisters, are suffering from severe hepatitis and are no longer recieving treatment due to overcrowding at what hospitals are left in gaza. Shahed herself has been weak and ill for days, narrowly surviving multiple massacres in just the past few days while trying to get food for her family. They all got displaced just last week due to the intense bombing in khan younis, and in doing so have lost precious funds that could have gone into food and clean water. They are starving.

Shahed is only 21 years old but the responsibility of taking care of all 17 of her family members rests solely on her shoulders.

TIME IS RUNNING OUT. PLEASE HELP SHAHED EVACUATE HER FAMILY TO SAFETY.

She has only gotten $47k/80k, and she needs to get to $50k within this week.

This gfm was verified and appears on hussein @/el-shab-hussein and nairuz @/nabulsi list of vetted fundraisers (#224) so please dont hesitate to donate whatever you can, and please keep sharing!!!

The goal on this gfm is now 85.5k instead of 80k now

Though that is the new target, the gofundme page however will still say the goal is $80k for reasons that are explained in detail here. But in short, the explanation is that withdrawing such a large amount means a tax cut of $5.5k that shahed hadn't initially accounted for when she'd set the goal, and increasing the goal officially on the gfm page ran the risk of having the campaign manager's bank account and the funds frozen.

So currently she is at $80,855 / $85,500 USD

The deadline is still the same. She needs to reach the goal within the weekend.

​🔳 📐 Oɴ Tнe Edɢe ​ 📐 🔲

This month I want to try a new approach and have decided to work more conceptually.

I'm focusing on just one product group, which I don't think has featured enough in the game so far, but is an important element in every household and everyday life - the shelf.

To be more precise, the corner shelf. Whether outside or inside corners, with Oɴ Tнe Edɢe every bare and boring room corner becomes an eye-catcher.

There are different shelves in a wide variety of sizes, styles, colors and materials & finally there is enough storage space for every object to find its place.

I'm so curious to hear what you think of this approach - please feel free to share your thoughts with me ꒰ ︠ु•௰•꒱ु♡💚

much love The Clutter Cat

ʙᴜʙʙʟᴇɢᴜᴍ 👁👅👁

The end of the year is approaching, the first Christmas cookies are being baked and there is even snow in Berlin - it'sn fucking cold brrrr  ˚₊✩‧₊* ‧₊˚

And very soon, the new THE SIMS™ 4 FOR RENT expansion pack will be released. 

There's a lot to come and I'm really looking forward to celebrating Christmas with the new neighborhood. 🎅

When I returned from my trip to Japan at the beginning of November, I just felt like creating a super cute collection.  ʙᴜʙʙʟᴇɢᴜᴍ is an eclectic mix of unique pieces  that look lovely together, but can also stand on their own and make every home a little more yummy pop!, pastel colory, fun and comfy. 

I just created pieces that I really fancied at that moment and I absolutely love how everything came together in the end. I especially love the many different prints on the seating furniture and the super large selection of picture motifs, many of which are also inspired by Asia. 

I hope you enjoy, have a wonderful pre-Christmas season & much love 

꒰⌯•ɷ•⌯꒱ฅ💚

The Clutter Cat

the appliance collection ♡

this is a collection i've had on the list for a while but wasn't sure if there was much need for it, but after many asks for recolours of the new appliances.. here we are ♡

Sul Sul Simmers ~

Do you have a crafty Sim who loves art or pottery? Crafty Sims deserves our “Stoneware Kitchen Clutter” to make them feel the like they’re in their element! Our “Stoneware Kitchen Clutter” set is the perfect addition to any

creative Sim’s home. Cups, plates, jar, you name it! This set comes with 17 items you’ll love. ♡

What's included:

2 Kitchen Utensils

4 Different kinds of containers

2 Pile of plates

Jar

Oil & Vinegar container

Book

Latte Cup

Bowl

2 Cups

Circle Sculpture

Pitcher

ALL BASE GAME COMPATIBLE

Drake Hall and Wyvern Hall

Renovation of both Drake Hall and Wyvern Hall in Britechester - to give your university going Sims a little more personality away from home. Complete with traffic cones from drunken adventures.

Both Wyvern Hall and Drake Hall are the same shell with recolours of swatches, one or both can be placed on either lot.

MOO and debug used

World: Britechester Type: University Housing Origin ID is TheSeptemberSim

If you would like to download this build please use the links below. Although all my builds are no CC, I use a custom thumbnail so make sure 'modded' is checked to see this in your game.

NO ADS Drake Hall: Download (sfs) Wyvern Hall: Download (sfs)

If you would like to support me, consider buying me a coffee ❤️

Nicolò whose sole literary basis of reference is the bible, panicking: your teeth are like sheep

Yusuf:

Yusef, wondering if Genoa has goats known for turning in tight circles for some reason (maybe they pasture them on very tall, narrow spires–is that a thing?): …Thank you. Goats are…wonderful creatures.

of course he thinks that dawn is pretty, but for him it’s just that. a pretty thing.  how many times will he see the dawn? probably every once in a while, he knows it’s there and will never stop being there, but it’s not something he thinks about, it’s not something he pays attention to. it’s not his Yusuf.

sheep tho? sheep will be the source of warm when winter comes. sheep will be nourishing when he is hungry. same with goats. these animals are vital to his day to day life. his Yusuf is the loving attention a shepherd has to give to their goats and sheep. his Yusuf is the peaceful labour of everyday. his Yusuf is caring for another living thing, that will nourish you, that you need in order to survive.

Nicolò: How dare you imply that my Yusef is merely aesthetically pleasing?!

Yusef, with a death grip on Nicolò’s arm, slowly backing towards the door and mouthing apologies: Please, Nicolò, he is just a playwright. Do not start a fist-fight with him, Nico. I’m sure he didn’t mean it.

Note that this practicality principle also holds in Joe’s canonical poetic statements about Nicky. He doesn’t compare Nicky to the moon on the basis of beauty; he says Nicky is the moon when Joe is lost in darkness. Nicky is warmth when Joe shivers with cold. He doesn’t wax poetic about Nicky’s lips; he says Nicky’s kiss thrills him. The phrasing and imagery are beautiful and poetic and passionate, but the content is about Nicky being what Joe needs, in metaphors about practical physical survival, and Joe’s reactions to Nicky (being thrilled by him and loving him beyond measure and reason). There is no empty imagery about Nicky being any sort of pretty thing that Joe merely enjoys, like a sunrise or a flower or something.

12th century Yusef: Sheep and goats, huh? *cracks knuckles* Practical imagery. I can do that. *Writes long, flowery poem comparing Nicolò to a comfortable pair of boots that keep him warm and dry and safe through miles upon miles of the wettest and iciest terrain.*