my dear friend maha really needs help and support right now. with the us-israeli war on iran, she’s been losing work and is in a lot of danger. she is barely eating and is no longer able to afford her medication. the heat is already bad and it is going to get worse as we move into summer. i’m really really worried about her right now.

i appreciate any amount you can give, and please reblog + share.

This part of my heart is now breaking. Amal, who's been on a poor diet because she can't afford better food, is unable to breastfeed baby Mina any longer, and is unable to afford enough formula to compensate, and now both mother and baby are weak and malnourished.

Amal is suffocating from the stress of having to provide for her daughters. Her husband Motasem is doing everything he can (recently, he was almost caught in a bombing while trying to get food) but they're both overwhelmed. I wish there was anything I can do for them.

I'm begging you to donate if you can and share if you can't. I want, more than anything in this world, for these kids to grow up healthy and for their parents to be able to rest.

30 December 2025

This left only Gaza based mutual aid networks. That's why you need to donate to the following aid groups on recurring basis:

The Sameer Project

Dahnoun Mutual Aid

Mona's Initiatives

My mother is in the ICU. We need $400 TODAY.

No more time. No more chances.

If people act NOW, she can still be saved.

take these tags, on somebody else's post (condolences pip)

the thing is. this is what i would call an inside thought. nobody would have known you didn't get it if you didn't tell them that. if you recognised that it was important but didn't have the headspace to process it, you can reblog without commentary for others, or to come back to later. or you can save it somewhere and wait until you DO have the capacity to read it over a few more times, ponder it, consider what it might mean, figure out how to understand it, and THEN reblog it

but no. rushing to reblog while it is still opaque. rushing to admit to ignorance rather than spend the time to achieve understanding. perhaps hoping that somebody will break it down for you more simply, though to my mind it was quite simply phrased in the first place. never stopping to take the time first

comprehension is not always instant! sometimes it takes a bit of time for something to percolate after you read it; sometimes you need to read it a few times; sometimes you realise you don't have the context for it and either go and get the context or accept that it's not for you right now

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Relief for Rafah is still operating (September 29, 2025) despite recent evacuation orders and forced displacement. Just a few days ago, they were able to provide a truck with 5,000 liters of water to the families in the camp, who have been displaced from the besieged north into the crowded camps of the Al-Mawasi area.

Long-term residents of Mawasi al-Qarara camp, and displaced people who had recently settled into the camp, were both served. Relief for Rafah used to support almost 70 families: it now supports over 150.

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first of all, i don't call him emotionless, because i don’t like the idea that having emotions or empathy constitutes a good person. i personally have low empathy and pretty flat emotions, actually. also, i tried my best to write heartless!sanji in a way where it didn’t suggest DID. i’m also plural, and i’m not a fan of the “evil alter” trope. i don’t think i achieved all of this perfectly, because the source material kind of suggests a lot of this stuff in itself, but i really tried.

so my heartless!sanji is based on a very specific premise: what if sanji was coldly and ruthlessly pragmatic about removing anything he saw as an obstacle to luffy’s journey? this is based on this page from chapter 1031:

sanji is extremely focused on what would be useful to luffy. he specifically brings up his inability to fight women as a weakness that he could get rid of if he didn't let his principles/sentiment stand in the way. it's all centered around luffy, first and foremost, and his place on luffy's crew. so when i was writing heartless!sanji, i didn't make it so that he didn't know who he was. he knew he was sanji, he knew he had certain principles, he just chose to disregard them because he thought that they would hold luffy back. i was very specific that what sanji loses is his kindness, his ability to view the things as existing beyond means to an end (luffy as pirate king.)

and then i was thinking, well, there's one person that sanji doesn't treat with much kindness — himself. in fact, sanji's refusal to see himself as something other than a means to an end is kind of what landed him in this situation in the first place. so i zeroed in on this. heartless!sanji isn't a completely different person — heartless!sanji is what sanji would be like if he treated other people and his principles the way he treats himself.

so the reason why he fights and "kills" zoro is because after zoro challenges him, heartless!sanji sees him as an obstacle to luffy's journey that must be removed (... a liability, if you will.) after he regains his kindness and regrets his actions, he takes the natural next step — he begins viewing himself as the obstacle. means and ends.