is this guy for real?

Fahed is currently supporting 13 family members in total- his own family and that of his sister’s.

He has to look after 8 children now, with the youngest being his son Yayha who is barely having anything to eat because the price of baby milk  is exorbitantly high in Gaza. 

The genocide has taken a toll on Fahed’s daughters. Sahar and Dana spent a whole year under the threat of bombs and right now instead of getting to be teenagers, they ask their father if they will survive. They have even said they don't want to live if they lose someone. 

The family right now immediately needs clothes to keep them warm throughout winter. Fahed’s family is from the north and has been displaced several times before they came south. Displacement is dangerous and a silent killer because often essential items are lost and cannot be replaced in time. 

Please consider that the weather has already turned colder around the world and that which is only mildly uncomfortable to us, presents a dire situation for Gazans. The families don't have a shelter and there is no way for tents to adequately protect from cold winds and rain. So right now the immediate need is for warm clothes and it can cost upto $400 per person. With THIRTEEN PEOPLE to take care of Fahed immediately needs to raise at least 5k to buy the required apparels. So please boost and donate. 

Currently at $66,248. He needs to reach $71,248. Please help however you can. 

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Please remember that every donation, even if it is 5 dollars, is a ray of hope for the families who have lost everything.

Thank you my friends for helping me. Please keep donating so that I may reach my goal of 71k. I need this to provide my family with winter clothes. We are facing a terrible situation. The nights get so cold and my children are suffering because of it، I am confident that you will not leave us in this situation.

My friends please help me reach 70k. I am only €690 away from the amount.

When I was 19, I made a large oil painting of the nerd I would eventually marry. I poured all my attention and care into this painting. It's the only art I have from back then that still holds up as a work I'm proud of today.

I entered it into a judged show at the local art center. It got an honorable mention. I went to see the show with my beloved model. One of the judges came up to talk to me, and highlighted that all the judges really liked the painting. It would have placed, except, you see, the feet were incorrect. They were too wide and short, and if I just studied a bit more anatomy-

I called over my future wife, and asked her to take off her shoe. Being already very used to humoring me, she did. The judge looked at her very short, very wide little foot. Exactly as I'd lovingly rendered it. I would never edit her appearance in any way.

The judge looked me in the eye, and to his credit, he really looked like he meant it when he said "Oh I'm so sorry."

Anyways the moral of the story is that all of those anatomy books that teach you proportions are either showing you averages, or a very specific idea of an idealized body. Actual bodies are much more varied than that.

silly gerard donelan inspired thing lol (og under cut)

ok a bunch of people have asked me to do a When Posting Goes Wrong for cock-loving John Green, but imo, that particular story does not lend itself well to a video. That said, I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t put entirely too much thought into John Green getting cyberbullied off tumblr, so I might as well share those here.

John Green didn’t get “cancelled”. He broke under the weight of his own success.

Think about where John Green was at in 2011. He was a successful author, but not a famous author. You wouldn’t really hear people talking about his books unless they were fans of his youtube channel or just like, general book nerds. He had a highly successful youtube channel, but in an era before being a “big youtube channel” meant massive brand deals and multi-million-dollar mansions. Green was big on youtube back when the number of channels with a million subs could be counted on one hand, it was just a very different environment. John Green was legitimately huge on tumblr, but as anyone who’s been on this website for more than a few minutes knows, the entire concept of “tumblr fame” is kinda bullshit.

Basically, John Green wasn’t famous, he was like... niche internet famous.

Then The Fault In Our Stars came out. Suddenly, he’s ACTUALLY famous. I was in high school when TFIOS dropped and it was INESCAPABLE. It got featured in Time Magazine. There were thinkpeices written about this goddamn book. Now John Green is a famous author. He’s a household name. Great! Awesome! Dude’s probably making a lot of money, good for him.

Now he’s inked a movie deal. Double good for him! Now he’s making even more money! The movie comes out in 2014. Unsurprisingly, it’s goddamn everywhere on tumblr.

Here’s my theory: Green never wanted to be this kind of famous.

I was still a vlogbrothers fan when the TFIOS movie came out, and the thing that struck me most from that period of time was just how depressing the John videos got. Between exhaustion from doing a media tour in support of the movie and his mental health (Green has OCD and severe anxiety) acting up, Green was having a BAD time dealing with the popularity of TFIOS, and it was very obvious in those videos. Despite having achieved what most authors could only reach in their wildest dreams, Green couldn’t seem to enjoy it. I think fame stresses him out, he’s just not comfortable being that level of popular. In fact, I distinctly remember when Vlogbrothers started getting even more attention post-TFIOS, Green explicitly stated that he never wanted to change their content to adapt better to the youtube algorithm (which used to favor 4 minute videos of the type him and Hank make, but now prioritizes videos that are 20 minutes or longer) not because of some artistic commitment to four minute vlogs, but because him and Hank didn’t want their community to grow too large.

Now the second element of this is his tumblr fame. Someone once made a post where they said something to the effect of “every tumblr callout is either something extremely serious reduced to the level of fandom drama, or something extremely minor blown way out of proportion.” I think the reason there are so many of the latter is because tumblr does not like popular users. The people who like tumblr like it, in part, because you don’t have to deal with your relatives or politicians or journalists or celebrities. Follower counts are hidden so no one is encouraged to follow big accounts. Basically, tumblr has this culture of like, “we’re all just losers honking our clown horns at each other”. All the clout-chasing that comes with most social media platforms isn’t supposed to exist here. Because of this, I feel like when users get too popular, there’s this natural instinct to want to take them down a peg. Like “I’m sick of this motherfucker showing up on my dash every five posts, they have to have done SOMETHING problematic!” When you look at what John Green was criticized for: it was all pretty innocuous. You can read through his whole Your Fave Is Problematic post and come away fairly underwhelmed. People suggested he was a creep for maintaining an active presence on tumblr where he answered questions from his teen fans, which to me feels it’s on the same level of logic as suggesting a high school teacher might be a pedo because “why would he want to hang around teenage girls all the time?”

There’s also this element of meme culture and internet culture where 2012-2014, the period where John Green was at peak popularity, was when memes were slowly transitioning from simple, straightforward formats like rage comics or advice animals, to more abstract multi-layer irony jokes. John Green, more than anything else, was always extremely earnest. Maybe too earnest and too straightforward... like a human advice animal. When he first started making youtube videos, doing things like calling your fans “Nerdfighters” and founding a 501(c)3 called “the foundation to decrease worldsuck” was cute and quirky. If you tried starting something like that in 2014 or 2015 you’d be laughed off the proverbial stage. He was the perfect target for an absurd copypasta like “cock is one of my favorite tastes”. One could argue John Green getting pushed off tumblr was a turning point. That much like the destruction of the Pruitt-Igoe Projects in the 1970s marked the transition between modernist and post-modernist architecture, the destruction of fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com marked a transition to increasingly ironic and obtuse forms of memes.

Anyway, as previously mentioned, John Green was really stressed out when cock-loving John Green became a meme, and specifically stressed out about his own popularity. It makes sense that he would ditch the platform where he was probably the most dominant because he just didn’t want to be that kind of famous anymore and the pressure was getting to him. In the post where he responds to the copypasta and explains why he’s leaving, he essentially explains the joke behind cock-loving John Green (that he is not the type of person to loudly proclaim his love of the taste of cock and balls) but then ignores that correct interpretation to willfully misinterpret the meme as a homophobic insult that implies loving the taste of cock and balls is a bad thing. He could have ignored it, but he made a decision not to, because he was done being so popular that people would even make a cock-loving John Green copypasta in the first place.