romantic love is a government scam

I do not have a credit card. Both Chuffed and GoFundMe fundraisers often require you to have a creditcard, sometimes even if there is a PayPal option. If this is the case for your fundraiser, I will not be able to donate.

I only share vetted fundraisers. My apologies to anyone with a non-vetted fundraiser, I know it is difficult to get vetted nowadays. However, I am not equipped to judge the legitimacy of fundraisers myself, so I rely on this vetting process.

If I get a lot of asks, I will spread them out over a period of days to avoid overwhelming people and hopefully increase the chance of people donating.

I try to keep up with the asks I get, but I may get tired/overwhelmed, which may mean I don't respond. Apologies for that.

I do not respond to mentions in the comments of an unrelated post.

If you are here to inform me all the Gaza fundraisers are scams: I have read the arguments and found them utterly unconvincing. All of the actual 'evidence' people use to argue against the validity of these fundraisers (non-Gazan organisers, large and perpetually shifting goals, multiple accounts, etc) are easily explainable if you've bothered to pay any kind of attention to how Gaza fundraising works. The other arguments (stock asks, asks with similar wording, similar names/stories, etc) boil down to nothing more than vibes, and are also easily explainable.

The vetting process for fundraisers is extensive. Arguments discrediting it fall apart if you know even the slightest bit about it, and realize that the prominent vetters for Gazan fundraisers have been on this site for years and years. The idea that these vetters are 'in league' with the scammers is nothing more than a racist conspiracy born out of annoyance at being asked for money.

RIP I thought I'd already answered this, sorry!! Anyway I don't really engage with any aspect of the pokemon franchise other than the games, so I can't really say if Sun/Moon's plot would've worked better as a pokemon anime or something else. But yeah you are right that the game's insistence on providing a blank slate outsider protag for the player to project on hurts the plot. The player character is wholly supurfluous in Sun/Moon's plot and actively hinders it at several points. Their complete lack of personality clashes with especially the original Sun/Moon's emotional story. It's super jarring and very annoying. During the part where Lillie gives me Nebby I desperately wanted an option to give it back to her. That is NOT my pokemon and I do NOT want it!!!

I also think the 'outsider new kid who just moved here' angle also hurts the games, mostly because it makes a lot of stuff.... kinda uncomfortable. This is not an issue in other pokemon games bc they are set in either Japan-inspired or European/American-inspired places, but in Sun/Moon's Hawaii-inspired Alola, a lot of common series tropes are suddenly really loaded. Like, I don't think some kid who just moved here should catch the native protective gods. Considering Hawaii's history with colonization and the associated suppression of native religion and culture, that's really, really uncomfortable, even if it's also a bog standard pokemon trope. In general, the games present Alola from an outsider's perspective, constantly emphasizing how 'exotic' it is in ways that does not happen in, say, Hoenn or Unova. The fact that the protag is an outsider makes this easier to do.

'You can call out bigotry but not someone's prose,' so how do you point out that the descriptors used for the Black character bring to mind slavery and savagery without bringing up the prose? 'Just don't critique technical aspects,' the mechanics of character writing are a technical issue, how is someone supposed to avoid them when critiquing a character of color's characterization?

'Fandom etiquette is about not bashing ships, you can call out bigotry,' ship preference can reflect bigotry, famously so, it's no coincidence Black characters are left out of ships so often. 'Fandom etiquette is about being nice about headcanons, you can call out bigotry,' because racism never manifests in someone's headcanons. Be serious.