Here are families who have contacted me for help:

Márah Baalou: $20,202 / $50,000 (vetted by Samar)

Maha Ibrahim: £11,553 / £81,000 (vetted, #163)

Abeer Ibrahim: $22,626 / $70,000 (vetted, #157)

Intisar Abushammaleh: $23,492 / $40,000 (vetted, #231)

Abdallah Mousa: $1,942 / $30,000 (vetted, #315) (Last donation made 1 day ago)

Malak Al-Habil: €1,887 / €60,000 (vetted by Samar)

Katia, Nabil, Linda: £1,060 / £50,000 (vetted, #102) (Last donation made 3 days ago)

Maram Ashour: £1,945 / £25,000 (vetted by Samar) (Last donation made 2 days ago)

Sahar Shehab: €61,820 / €85,000 (vetted by El Shab)

Noor Ashour: £4,125 / £80,000 (vetted by Samar)

Whadi Qanoo: £3,880 / £100,000 (vetted, #11)

Khalwa: $10,880 / $20,000 (vetted by Mohi)

I will try to update the amounts of money achieved every day. Last update: October 9, 2024

Spotlight: Maha Ibrahim

Maha's father-in-law has been injured and needs medical attention, risking amputation if he doesn't receive the necessary procedures for his wounds. He needs at least $1,600 USD (approximately £1,225).

Money raised since spotlight: £340/£1,225 (£11,963/£82,600) (October 10, 2024)

Will open commissions for donations once I'm less busy. If you donate now (and save the proof) before I open commissions, I'll put more detail into your request. My two most recent pieces below.

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Most of us will never know the agony of being a parent that does everything to provide for their child, only to keep coming up empty. Of the immense suffering and self-loathing that comes with being responsible for this little life, and feeling like you're failing: to keep them safe, warm, sheltered, fed. Of holding your child, your toddler, your newborn, watching them slowly waste away from that relentless, gnawing hunger you can't stop (one that you feel yourself). Watching as they howl in pain, and the hollowness that comes when your child becomes too weak even to do that. All the while being totally helpless to stop it because it's not up to you.

Most of us will only see the aftermath of such a thing: a parent carrying the far-too-light shroud of their child, pictured under a headline that details how starvation has taken hold of some given population. Distant and removed from us.

Except that it isn't. There are so many desperate parents who've run out of options, for whom this isn't some abstraction, who are asking—begging—us for our help. Just so they'll be able to buy some of the shit canned food left from the last aid delivery, and a couple loaves of bread to feed their children with. Extortionately pricey because of scarcity, but it's enough to keep their children in a state of "acute malnutrition" rather than "catastrophic hunger", so they'll pay anything for it.

Attacks on NGOs & prevention of aid into Gaza puts every single person there at risk of a slow death due to starvation. Especially children, like Samah's newborn baby boy, her little 2 year-old girl, and their big sister (who's only 9). But we can help. What's pocket money for us, is an invaluable lifeline to parents like Samah. At a time when so many seem to have decided to live in an alternate universe in which deliberate starvation and mass slaughter of civilians is acceptable, we have to do what we can to oppose it. Not to push it away, to ignore it, to decide it's been going on so long we don't care or that it's hopeless so give up, but to grit our teeth, dig our heels in, and say "no, seriously, what the fuck are we doing here?"

tldr: donate to Samah so she can buy food for her kids so they don't starve to death. please. and thank you. :)

(vetted by association by @/bilal-salah0 (relatives), & Bilal was vetted here, #132)

TJ MIKELOGAN’s HALLOWEEN 2024 EVENT

DAY 8: Costumes and makeup

Crimson Peak (2015) dir Guillermo del Toro

TJ MIKELOGAN's HALLOWEEN 2024 EVENT Day 27 ❥ Period (historical) horror

Maybe perhaps he does belong with her. Little Miss Living, with her rosy cheeks and beating heart.

Out of context: Evan 'Buck' Buckley

LISA FRANKENSTEIN (2024) dir. Zelda Williams