talks about fandoms and cries

Israel’s flagbearer at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Peter Paltchik, was found to have signed bombs targeting civilians in Gaza.

Referring to the Israeli bombs that have targeted Gaza since October last year, the 32-year-old judoka said in a social media post, “From me to you with pleasure.”

july 10th:

Mohammed Al Manasra (needs treatment for chronic respiratory illness), his wife, and their three young children (€19,394/€40,000) - @save-mohamed-family, #192 on @/nabulsi and @/el-shab-hussein's spreadsheet

Muhammad Al-Habil, his wife, their three young children, and Muhammad's chronically ill parents (€9,093/€50,000) - @aya2mohammed, @alhabil, verified by @/el-shab-hussein

Hanaa Jad Al-Haq, her husband Muhammad Hammad, and their little son Youssef (£1,644/£20,000) - @yousef0hammad, verified by @/90-ghost

Shahd Muhammad and her family, including several children, one urgently needing hepatitis treatment, and Shahd's sick mother ($9,414/$50,000) - @shahednhall, #224 on @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi's spreadsheet

Ahmed Al-Nabih, his two brothers, and their chronically ill mother who is suffering without treatment (€8,012/€30,000) - @ahmedalnabeeh11, #218 on @/nabulsi and @/el-shab-hussein's spreadsheet

Helping autistic toddler Omar Jad Al-Haq recover after evacuation and bringing the rest of the Jad Al-Haq family to safety, including a member currently paralyzed from a stroke (kr7,259 SEK/kr200,000 SEK) - @doaa-jad, verified by @/90-ghost

Rajaa, her husband Khaled, and their one-year-old son ($541 CAD/$20,000 CAD) - @rajaagaza, verified by @/90-ghost

Ahmed Alanqar, his wife Dina, and their four young children, one a newborn (€25,472/€35,000) - @ahmedabuyamin, verified by @/nabulsi

Amal Ashour, her husband, and their little daughter Maryam (€9,384/€30,000) - @amalashuor, #175 on @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi's spreadsheet

Bilal Salah's family of 18, including seven children, three of whom are newborns (€53,464/€70,000) - @bilal-salah0, verified by @/nabulsi

Mahmoud Al-Sharif, his wife (pregnant and urgently needs perinatal care), and their three children ($557/$60,000) - @mahmoud-sharif, verified by @/90-ghost

Mahmoud Baalousha, his wife Islam, their four children (one a newborn), and three other family members (€15,064/€50,000) - @5735765, #234 on @/nabulsi and @/el-shab-hussein's spreadsheet

2-year-old Yousef, who needs lifesaving treatment for a blood disease, and his parents (€2,554/€25,000) - @dima96yousef, verified by @/90-ghost

Mohammed Okal's evacuation and education (kr4,298 NOK/kr90,000 NOK) - @mohammedokal-2, verified by @/90-ghost

Helping Siraj Abudayeh, his wife, and their three young children to rebuild their destroyed home ($4,905 CAD/$82,000 CAD) - @siraj2024, #219 on @/nabulsi and @/el-shab-hussein's spreadsheet

not yet vetted:

Marwan Al-Habil and his family (€0/€30,000) - @ahmed505

Abdallah Mousa and family ($99/$30,000) - @abdallah-gaza

A short comic about a girl, her mother and their different Black clothes.

I made this in late August this year for Seriefrämjandets yearly contest. The topic was comics for young people… and guess what, I actually won! 

En serie med otroligt bra känsla för karaktärer, med god känsla för hur utseende och subkulturer betyder i ungdomens sökande efter en identitet. En serie som man ser på första anblick har hjärta, och som subtilt pekar på ämnen som andra skulle göra till huvudpoängen i historien. Som en liten bonus får vi en tjej i huvudrollen som känns levande och som man känner starkt inför.

I'm drawing a blank, and my brain is doing the ADHD thing where if I can't find a solution, I can't move on to the next part because it wants to hyperfixate on the problem until it's solved.

Salmagundi

The Motley Mummer

Fool's Funhouse

The Practical Prankster

If I was a front for themed supervillains, I would name it "Riddles and Jokes by Cat & Birdie". "Cat" and "Birdie" would be the molls fronting the shop.

I tell people I'm from Gaza and I get pity, I get the "oh... do you have family there?" and I have to act tough, I am tough, it runs in my veins. Being from Gaza is expecting that reaction, the sorrow, it's dealing with dumbass people everyday, it's getting the "can you go there?" question. (No i cant btw).

I am from Gaza, I feel emotions just like everyone else, I feel anger and hurt and longing for a place I cant visit, I feel love and comfort and right now I feel alone and like im yelling at the world to pay attention and NO ONE CARES.

I am from Gaza, my thoughts belong to Gaza, my heart, my skin color, the way I speak, the way I say words a bit differently than the rest of the Palestinians, the way I wish I was a filmmaker to share my culture with the world.

I am from Gaza, i am aware of how different my people are, i am aware that i grew up differently, I am aware I grew up looking at the news from my grandparents television with my aunt waiting for news about her family, I am aware that I have trauma in my veins, I am aware that my culture is taken over and that I can't really speak about it, I am aware that not everyone experiences your aunt screaming that her brother died and yelling "He's apart of my soul, my soul died"

I kind of wonder what you’re picturing when you hear this, because what I’m picturing is stuff like critiquing the fanfic we read way more frankly than we ever would to an author’s face.

“Gossip” has a number of important social functions, and like any other social interaction it is a tool that can be used in good or bad ways.

We discuss positive and negative interactions we’ve had later and in private with our friend groups because this helps us process them. It can be a vibe check (“does it seem like this person was acting out of line towards me?”) or an analysis (“why do you think they did that? what do you think I should have done?”) or data compilation (“is this a pattern? has this happened to anyone else?”) or data sharing (“hey this alarming interaction happened, watch out”) or just venting to channel emotions into a place where they’re safe to have (“friend is processing bad thing and I’m upset on their behalf, so I need do my own processing somewhere else”).

If you can’t complain about your boss to your friends, how do you even figure out what bad boss behavior looks like?

And when some stranger’s being a dick on social media it is usually infinitely healthier and more constructive to go chat that argument out with your friends than to let yourself get sucked into fighting with someone very likely more interested in hurting people than listening.

If you aren’t a liar now, time will make you one. You’ll eventually repress enough stupid little bullshits that you didn’t properly process for the back pressure to turn you into an asshole who thinks you’re justified. Worst kind of asshole, in my opinion.

If you can’t complain about your boss to your friends, how do you even figure out what bad boss behavior looks like?

If you don’t gripe about “that bitch” with your friends, so they can gripe back about their own “that bitch” and you all agree that your complaints are mostly petty but they were annoying to you at the time… then you have no scale for noticing the difference between someone being a petty nuisance and someone being abusive.

Because a big part of the private friend group sharing complaints, is that sometimes one of them will say, “uh, that there? No. That is not normal and not okay. You should do something about that, not just complain to us that you don’t like her.”

Part of how you learn to recognize the difference between “unpleasant behavior” and “abuse” is by listening and sharing stories about behavior you don’t like. There is no nice sharp objective list of “XYZ behaviors are abusive and everything else is a matter of personal preference and you should just remove yourself from the situation if you don’t like it.”

Having a group of friends you can complain with is like having your own private AITA server. They can be supportive with “okay, you were sick and kinda overwhelmed by deadlines, but um, I think you’re a little overreacting here” or they can point out, “no, you’re right; that other person is totally unreasonable and it sucks that you have to put up with it” – or sometimes they can say “errr… do you know a good lawyer? Because this is a call-a-lawyer situation you’re in.”

I have a very low tolerance for nasally-sounding voices and OOC moments in fanfic. There is nothing morally wrong with either of those things, nor is my opinion about them universal: I just don’t like them. And that means I can and will complain when I come across a nasally-sounding actor on one of my Broadway soundtracks, or when I come across a line in a fic that makes me immediately be like “He Would Not Fucking Say That”… with my husband, or one of my best friends, or a Discord chat of people I know, instead of, I don’t know, sending hate mail to Frances Ruffelle or bookmarking the fic with “extremely OOC and I didn’t like it.”