I have no idea what I'm doing

Little Lynn cries every day saying:

“Mom, I want shawarma, ice cream, and cake…”

And I stand there helpless with nothing but tears.

My son Noor only wishes for a simple birthday celebration, but I cannot even fulfill their smallest dreams because of poverty, unbearable prices, and the harsh war that stole their childhood.

My heart breaks every time I see deprivation in their little eyes.

My children are not asking for much… they just want to feel like other children.

I beg every kind heart to help my children with any donation or even by sharing this post.

Your support could bring them Eid joy and provide the food and clothes they dream of. 🤍

https://chuffed.org/project/173104-save-my-family-in-gaza

Nader's brother just had a baby -- what should be a beautiful and wonderful occasion is brought down by the current state of life in Gaza. Food is scarce, medical care is expensive, and housing is unstable.

If you have the means, please consider supporting Nader and his family. They're trying to leave the strip once they have the funds, but everything is making it extraordinarily difficult.

if you'd rather buy a plushie - here's the shop he and his wife run!

his wife also been in an accident and has been down and out due to illness and injury

ppal + gfm + site shop

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhumane." In 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke these words in Montgomery, Alabama at the end of the Selma to Montgomery March that had been attended by the Black and white physicians of the Medical Committee for Human Rights. King had invited the doctors not only to give medical succor to injured marchers but also to witness the abuse suffered at the hands of segregationists.

With these almost unnoticed words, King ushered in a new era in civil rights, because as Delegate to Congress Donna Christian-Christensen, M.D., chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust, has declared, "Health disparities are the civil rights issue of the 21st century."

Thus Dr King's alarm over racial health inustice was prescient, and were he alive today, his concern would be redoubled. Mounting evidence of the racial health divide confronts us everywhere we look, from double Black infant death rates to African American life expectancies that fall years behind whites. Infant mortality of African Americans is twice that of whites and Black babies born and more racially segregated cities have higher rates of mortality. The life expectancy of African Americans is as much as six years less than that of whites."

Introduction- Medical Apartheid, Harriet A. Washington

Source

a messy and incomplete list

nachvollziehen (v.) -- to understand, but less empathetic. i.e. i see the steps that brought you to that conclusion, but i don't understand you.

doch (interj.) -- you're wrong and really it's the opposite of what you said. often said with a healthy dose of sass. i.e. "this isn't a good movie." "doch. (it is)"

frech (adj.) -- somewhere between naughty and sassy and silly. when you're being a bit of a brat, you're being frech.

dreist (adj.) -- audacious, but far more colloquial. when you have the goddamn audacity, you are dreist. i.e. to park that far over the line is dreist as hell

heimat (n.) -- home, but stronger. a home is wherever you have built a life, but heimat is where your roots are. heimat is where you feel pangs of nostalgia when you go to visit your family for christmas and see the shop at the corner.

weltschmerz (n.) -- literally 'world-pain'. the world sucks and sometimes you just sit and feel the pain of it all. that's weltschmerz.

existenzberechtigung (n.) -- the right to exist, often in a comedic context. i.e. pineapple on pizza has absolutely no existenzberechtigung.

fernweh (n.) -- literally 'far-ache'. the opposite of homesickness, the desire to go far away. i guess wanderlust is similar, but that is also a german word, and this is more painful and visceral

schweigen (v./n.) -- the act of not speaking. silence, but more deliberate. the palpable feeling that people are withholding their voice.

kaputtreparieren (to brake repair)

It's similar to verschlimmnessern, but usually used when something is a little broken, and by trying to repair it, it was actually made worse.

Taking pleasure in the suffering of others

i have been thinking about @mrfrillypants's super paper mario-deltarune stuff nonstop for the past couple days... i HAD to draw it...

credit for the tenna design & overall concept goes to them!!! though, their concept got my brain working so much, i started thinking about some designs of my own:

make that fuckin beauty and the beast au with your otp

draw your favorite character broken and bloody for no reason

make a self-insert that’s super important and powerful

write porn of that obscure ship centered entirely around your personal kinks

headcanon your faves as your sexuality, gender, etc

have fun man

i mean in the past i’ve made fun of all these things but i’ve grown up and chilled out and honestly? fiction is your platform to go nuts. have a great time. do what you want to

just respect other people’s boundaries and don’t go forcing your headcanons down other people’s throats, because they deserve to have a good time too

i’m not nearly as confrontational anymore, but if there’s one thing that’s still true, it’s that i stand by everything i said. and i’m glad i said it. scrolling through the notes, i found some old comments disparaging me or this message, but what was important to me was all the comments that said something to the effect of “i needed to hear this”.

i want more people to hear this, really. i want people to know that you can do whatever makes you happy in your fictional works. those characters aren’t people, and you can’t meaningfully hurt them. things you explore fictionally don’t mean you condone or desire them irl. “bad” or cliche writing doesn’t somehow hurt other people, and really, it doesn’t hurt you either. self-indulgence in art is not a crime.