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Help Ahmad Get Treatment and Surgery to Repair Serious Complication!
While Saja's husband Ahmad has been recovering from his recent surgery, he experienced a serious complication.
Saja contacted me recently to tell me that Ahmad has been taken to the hospital because of a urinary catheter that caused a wound to his bladder. He didn't notice because he has no feeling in his lower body. He lost a lot of blood and some people donated blood so he could regain consciousness. Now he needs bladder surgery. I have asked Saja for more details about the surgery and will add any I get. Please donate and share to help him out!
Also yesterday (Nov 8, 2025) Ahmad contacted me to ask for help for food and other necessities for his children and to cover the treatment he needs. He has told me that his treatment expenses for his bladder are about $350 per week. He also said he will need surgery for his bladder. Please help Ahmad and his family by donating and reblogging!
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My name is Saja, I am 20 years old from Gaza City.I got married at a young age, as is common in many parts of Gaza. I used to dream of a sim
Ahmad told me recently that his child needs treatment for scabies, but he was not able to get it from aid centers and was told he must buy it. The treatment is four tubes of medicated cream for the rash and sores. Each tube costs $25, so it is $100 in total. His child also needs allergy medicine and fever syrup, which cost $30.
Saja needs a new phone to replace her old one, which is broken, and Ahmad needs urgent help with his long-delayed medical treatment.
Additionally, Saja told me that she needs some medication herself due to the toll her situation has taken on her mental health.
Only 216 raised for weekly treatment last week!
Please donate if you can and share! This family has had a lot of difficulty collecting enough funds for their large expenses!
"CLASSIC fake dating, ft. a truly unforgettable and ridiculous cast of characters, convoluted schemes, hilarious mishaps, a poorly attempted elopement and maybe the only sexy Heyer dad to be set on page."
Sorry but ONLY sexy Heyer dad? Which you wrote with your full chest in reply to an ask mentioning These Old Shades?? When Satanas himself becomes a dad in the sequel???
Would I rather have Lord Legerwood as a father than the Duke of Avon? Of course. But one simply cannot deny the sexiness of the domineering silver fox of a duke as he appears in Devil's Cub. Reconsider, please!
dbnkfghjndfghdfgmhdn okay I have to be honest my only excuse is that I simply do not register Justin Alistair, Duke of Avon also sometimes known as Satanas, as a father. I read through Devil's Cub again recently and while Avon is as appealing as ever, he doesn't register as a father in the same way that Lord Legerwood does. The relationship is altogether different - more impersonal disciplinarian, patriarch and subordinate, than father-son. Like, he's just doing Justin Alistair Duke of Avon behaviours but now he has a son and there's no sense that a shift has taken place towards the parental, because the way both Rupert and Fanny defer to him in These Old Shades has already told us what he's like as a disciplinarian, given they how they react to him as subordinates (often displaying quite a bit of fear) rather than as siblings (compared to other Heyer families). So there's no real distinction and no sense of Avon as father per se, because Avon has always been the patriarchal lord of the manor of the Alistair clan.
But Lord Legerwood is presented very distinctly as Freddie's father. That's all we know about him. He appears on page mostly to either offer good advice or to be baffled by his own son. It's much more clearly the relationship between a man and his heir, a father and his son approaching him for advice etc. The sexiness lies specifically in his semi-ironic approach to his offspring, who is clearly not as smart as him, coupled with his fatherliness - he offers advice when applied to, clearly has taken the place of confidant, which means Freddie trusts him rather than fears him. Its that disjuncture between like, clearly a Heyer father who has managed to be decent as a father, versus his own private and clearly quite scathing opinion of his son's relative lack of intelligence. And sadly, Avon does not really navigate that tension for me as a father! Avon is just sexy as Avon, but Lord Legerwood is sexy as a dad specifically.
the more i spend time on this project of trying to unpack "man of his time" as an ideological statement in regards to tolkien & his influences viz. racial politics, the more i come to the conclusion that you cannot analyze the question of race in tolkien without accounting for the totality of its political vision and what intellectual heritages its borrowing from, and to analyze that you do have to have a critical accounting of how much of it is explicitly informed by anti-communist, anti-socialist thought from the 19th century onwards - but not in today's neolib terms - and to do so effectively you do kind of have to go back to marx et al for analytical concepts like reactionary socialism in order to make sense of what you're seeing, given that this ideology is integral to say movements like the young england movement, but also the distributists (reactionary catholic socialism as endorsed by chesterton et al) and the merrie england fascist revivalism of the 1930s - and race and race-mixing & "social degeneracy" (as a result of this mixing) in cities is integral to the merrie england fascist revivalism of the 1930s, but also the spectral haunting presence in other reactionary socialisms. but unfortunately to evoke marx, even if as sociologist, is to immediately delegitimise yourself in the eyes of the american liberal, who is taught to be anticommunist first and a person second. anyway toni morrison was right when she talked about race via its absences and its marginality as much as in its immediate, obvious presence.
Can I be honest. I think the world may have had enough of American poets writing pieces about how it's weird to go about daily life while your government commits genocide abroad. I don't know if anyone needs to do another one of those
in all fairness it really is a bizarre/depressing/powerless feeling and it's not weird to explore that through art. But at some point it really just starts to feel like navel gazing. Like are these really the experiences and viewpoints we need to be centering right now
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Help Maram's Family Get Shelter and Get Surgery for her son Ibrahim!
Maram has told me that her family survived a bombing just a few days ago, but the place they were staying was destroyed and her son Ibrahim was injured in the attack. Now they need a tent and $3000 for Ibrahim's surgery. Please donate if you can and reblog to help them out!
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My name is Maram, a 26-year-old Palestinian woman from Gaza. I’m a mother to three children: Malek (9 years old), Ibrahim (7 years old), and
Maram told me recently that her tent was destroyed.
She also told @insertawesomename, who has said that Maram has decided that Ibrahim’s final surgery will have to be done in a government hospital without proper care, treatment, or sterilization because the need for shelter is more important for them all. She needs $2000 for a new tent and tarps.
Maram’s shelter has been destroyed or damaged multiple times already this year.
For example, just earlier this month (July 2026), she told me that a wall collapsed on her family tent and they were injured. Wall collapses in Gaza are common due to the extensive and continuing damage done to buildings and infrastructure there. To make matters worse, since many people must often live in close proximity, even a single collapse can affect large numbers of people.
Please continue to donate if you can and reblog to help Maram’s family in these catastrophic times!
Design? nonsense, how can you write so! But it is very likely that he may reblog from one of them, and therefore you must follow him as soon as his blog is online.
I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may follow him, or they may follow him by themselves, which perhaps will be still better for them, for as you are as clever as any of them he might reblog most from you of the party.
My dear, you flatter me. I certainly HAVE had my share of cleverness, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up mutuals, she ought to give over thinking of her own reblog counts.
A hush falls over the house then, a speculative hush, and Maglor, without knowing what he listens for, listens all the same, for this is his unending quest. Hundreds of differing nights spent almost like this all coagulate into one great, impenetrable mass the colour of granite, thick with insects and birdsong. And under it, a rot undying, as corrosive as an oath sworn long years ago, an old dalliance with doom.
A great and primordial mountain, a stubbornly buried, hypochondriac giant riddled with fears of impotency, fingers crammed in his ears so nobody can hear him chewing at his own organs. He speaks the language of life and thrives on the machinery of decay. He gnaws away at the cliff-house, Maglor’s house, hollowing it (not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially). He shudders, and lowers himself down on one of the pillows. The future beckons. He will not let it.
Maedhros’ lashes rest on his cheek, but his own do not. For Maglor does not take his tired eyes off his brother, cannot look away from the man. For it is only when the world sleeps that the giant can awake. The future, beckoning. The rot, rising. The mountain, eating Mohammad whole.
CH 14, PRAYERS TO BROKEN STONE
i am MOVING HOUSE this weekend 🤢 so posting OLD ART ie the Prayers!AU Maglor i promised yet forgot to complete, presented in incomplete glory, plus the Oath of Fëanor/Tryst With Destiny mashup segment from the fic. anyway, proof here that Elwing is so correct in taking one look at this man and going ‘yes, I would like to ride his sitar and wound him emotionally, as we both deserve’.
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this two year old doc in my notes app is titled "mouse symposium"
mouse 1: I don't get how a praise kink is like, a real thing
mouse 2: what do you mean?
mouse 1: I mean like, isn't that just normal? everyone wants to be praised, right? we are social animals, and it makes sense for approval of those around us, especially those we admire and respect, to be highly positively motivating. it's a need, like food or sleep.
mouse 3: hmm.
mouse 1: I like to be told I do a good job under most ordinary circumstances, so it would track that I would enjoy being told I did a good job in bed.
mouse 2: we know half a dozen people off the top of our heads who would be absolutely furious to be told they were doing a good job in bed
mouse 1: ok yeah, that's fair. I guess it can come across as condescending or infantilizing, depending on the circumstances.
there’s been some recent discussion re: race and Tolkien and fandom and I just wanted to anonymously thank you for your part in those really nuanced and thoughtful takes. (This also applies to balrogballs who doesn’t have anon on last I checked but I really really appreciated both your posts on the subject!) I’m a fan of colour – ethnically Indian and living in the UK – who has gone to some pains to Never reveal my race on tumblr partly because I know exactly what this “liberal” fandom is capable of lol. And yeah idk if I have any clear point here but I just wanted to thank you and balls both for being willing to have the discussion and call out white fans who deify Tolkien bc it really does mean a lot to me and I am sure others in my position as well ❤️ idk if I will ever be willing to “come out” as brown online so to speak which also kind of hobbles my own ability to speak about race in the Tolkien fandom so thank you!
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if there's one reason I am insistent about talking about race in fandom, its because I've seen, over the past decade and a half, the ways in which white liberal fandoms can become isolating and painful spaces for fans of colour - and crucially, enforce norms that make fans of colour question and second guess their experiences and encounters with racism, either diminishing it or trying to rationalise it as something else. It's an extremely unpleasant experience and by god, it is about time that experience was named and fans of colour got to feel less profoundly alone and insane in poring over these interactions and experiences.
Anyway! I totally understand why you don't want to "out" yourself! The only thing I'll say is that I hope more fans also talk abt race, racialisation and experiences in Tolkien fandom - not just as fans of colour, but that white fans also take the time to do so in a way that's engaged and thoughtful. The more people talk about it and name experiences, the less these things are allowed to fester or be swept under the carpet. Tho frankly, I get it man, I really get it. I am grateful to all the people (esp @balrogballs) who talk abt race re. Tolkien, bc wow is it a profoundly thankless and frankly uphill job given the givens. I hope we can all have a less isolating experience in this fandom and really, ideally, a fun and iddy experience sans restriction and nitpicking and self-censorship!!!!!
“Down with the dark forces of colonialism!”, Belgrade, Serbia, 1961. Photographed by Tomislav Peternek
After the murder of Patrice Lumumba in 1961, demonstrations were held in Serbia as a sign of protest, which turned into riots. As many as 150,000 demonstrators gathered on the streets of Belgrade and 25,000 in Subotica.
Demonstrators carried pictures of Lumumba and signs saying “Death to colonialism” and “Freedom for subjugated nations”. A group of protesters broke away and attacked the Belgian embassy, which they demolished and hung Lumumba’s picture on with the inscription: “Glory to the fighter for the freedom and peace of African people”, and set fire to all the embassy’s vehicles.
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just started these old shades, my first georgette heyer, which made me curious what you think is the best place to start with her like how you answered a similar question with le carre
WHAT A GREAT QUESTION
My answer to this question varies depending on how a) acquainted you are with the regency romcom as a genre and b) Regency England as a period of history. Accordingly -
IF YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE REGENCY OR REGENCY ROMCOMS
Frederica - lots of classic Heyer hijinx at its best, with an eminently lovable heroine and one of her better heroes. This is kidfic at heart, but the kids are so delightfully naughty, they're endearing. Beware the age gap, if that bothers you. Personally, it adds a frisson of sexiness to me.
Sprig Muslin - again, more Heyer hijinx at its best, in a spiritually kidfic novel except the kids are all teenagers. If you are 30 or 40 years old and too old for this, you will have great fun siding with the 34/29 year olds having their own quiet romance in the background.
Arabella - more classically regency romcom ft. a delightful comedy of errors, starting with the hero of the tale being snobbish and the heroine deciding to take him down by pretending to be rich. Rescue dogs, dissipated brothers and orphan children abound.
Cotillion - CLASSIC fake dating, ft. a truly unforgettable and ridiculous cast of characters, convoluted schemes, hilarious mishaps, a poorly attempted elopement and maybe the only sexy Heyer dad to be set on page.
Friday's Child - marriage of convenience cum fake dating setup, in which our hero and heroine marry so the hero can access his inheritance and the heroine can escape her drudge of a family. She's 17 and hero worships him! He's 24 and selfish! His friends are 24 and range between not very bright and extremely mercurial! All kinds of hijinx ensue before the tangle of lovers sort themselves out and our hero does some growing up.
The Corinthian - this one of the entries in Heyer's accidental homoeroticism genre ft. a proto-transmasc hero(ine) / our eponymous "corinthian" i.e. dissipated sporting gentleman. Danny Lavery does a far better sales pitch than I do over here.
A guide to other Heyers arranged roughly by genre/taste underneath the cut, which I realise goes above and beyond this ask, but I started writing this up so what the hell -
YOU'RE ALREADY FAMILIAR WITH THE REGENCY & REGENCY ROMCOMS
The Unknown Ajax - classic Heyer hijinx, but this time with a satirical bent on the snobbery, ignorance and the prejudices of the aristocracy, along with detours into Customs and smuggling in Kent. The denouement of this novel is I think one of THE greatest Heyer setpieces ever. Extremely funny, with a peak Heyer stock cast.
False Colours - a twin roleswap comedy of errors re. love, but one of the more sophisticated Heyer's in its examination of family and marriage dynamics and the perennial problem of money, especially for widowed women; while still being a delightful farce.
Sylvester, or, The Wicked Uncle - delightfully tongue in cheek look at the lady novelist in high society, but also a sharp look at class, consequence & self-regard in the uppermost ranks of the aristocracy, society foibles and hypocrisies and a portrait of familial abuse/control that touched me on reread a couple of years ago.
Faro's Daughter - deeply funny farce about class, respectability, gender and money set in/around a high society London gaming hell and I think probably the closest Heyer has ever come to writing anything like enemies-to-lovers (they really do insist on battling it out like honourable gentlemen, at various points in the tale; its delightful)
The Foundling - this is really more a comedy of errors adventure story than anything, with a truly ridiculous cast and even more ridiculous series of events. However, it also to me is an extremely acute portrait of like...helicopter family behaviour and how stunting that is, but also how much agency people do have despite that, besides a very gentle and tender love story that would be quite Austen-esque, if the plot wasn't as farcical lol.
The Grand Sophy - ok look there are truly eyewatering amounts of antisemitism in this one, so if you pick it up, please be aware that you're going to encounter a truly gruesomely antisemitic caricature of a moneylender. However, Sophy is truly the girl blorbo of all time and this is Heyer hijinx at its absolute best.
The Convenient Marriage - I'm biased here, but I love this one. Literally what it says on the lid, ft. detours through scheming rakes and ex-mistresses, elaborate revenge schemes, duels, attempted kidnapping & sexual assault foiled by one very indomitable lady, a masquerade, and attempted highway robbery before our leads can be united in love. Our heroine's brother and his absurd friends are really the standout to me in this tbh. Though again be warned and mind the age gap (17/35)
April Lady - this is essentially a retelling of The Convenient Marriage, but I think with the more sophisticated sense of theme and depth to the characters, especially to the married couple and their fraught emotions about the question of love and money - does she love him or his money, does he love her or is he resentful because she's spendthrift. The revenge scheme here is replaced by a headstrong teenager who wants to marry the dullest man in the world.
YOU LOVE HIGH CAMP MELODRAMA & 18th CENTURY GOTHIC
These Old Shades - Heyer's Georgian novels in general are very melodramatic & this one truly has everything. Kidnapping! Dramatic escapes! Children swapped at birth! Inheritance schemes! Gender swaps! Revenge! Suicide! Dramatic outfits of revenge! And a truly unforgettable, delightful cast to carry it all out.
The Masqueraders - another proto-transmasc novel! This time we have false identities, gender swaps, reclaiming inheritances, duels, con artist dads, Jacobites and the spectre of treason. No dramatic revenge outfits, but there is a very romantic moonlit horseback ride of escape.
The Black Moth - look, Tracy Belmanoir is Justin Duke of Avon i.e. Satanas before Satanas existed. His foil ofc is the son of an Earl turned highwayman, disowned after he cheated at cards. The point of contention is a respectable middle class girl, whom Tracy Belmanoir tries to kidnap. There obviously is a duel. There obviously is a triumphant reinstatement to rightful position.
The Talisman Ring - another disowned son! This time for "murder"! He is now a smuggler! But wait, he's been shot! And rescued by his cousin, who doesn't know they're related! This one straddles the line between a classic Heyer with hijinx and her more melodramatic Georgian novels, but I decided to put this here because this is basically 18th century gothic redone as comedy. EXTREMELY funny but also tongue in cheek abt its own dramatic nature.
The Devil's Cub - following the next gen. of These Old Shades, it starts off with a bang with a murder, a duel and a kidnapping and only proceeds from there. However, like The Talisman Ring it straddles the line between melodrama and romcom and ultimately resolves more in favour of romcom, though be warned it does take rakishness to its ultimate and ugly conclusion rather than it just being a vague spice.
YOU LOVE JANE AUSTEN
A Civil Contract - a marriage of convenience between a bankrupt viscount and a merchant's daughter. A really classic tale of navigating class, duty and love - probably, I think one of Heyer's most sophisticated meditations on love, class and comfort.
Bath Tangle - another thoughtful meditation of class, ranging between the merchant class, the gentry and the uppermost ranks of the aristocracy. Really thoughtful exploration, as well, of the differences in rank and how that shapes gender norms & tensions between lovers.
Venetia - just a really lovely and thoughtful exploration of class and gender again, the restrictiveness of social norms and their essential thwarting of happiness, how respectability is construed and maintained, but is also negotiable depending on rank and location, explored via romance with a rake.
The Nonesuch - candidly, I think this one straddles the line between an Austenesque exploration of class and gender via romance (and ofc the foibles of class and class snobbery, in Yorkshire society v. London society), and a classic Heyer tale of hijinx. A nice place to start if you want to dabble in Heyer but are suspicious of improbable non-realist tales.
The Black Sheep - okay again reccing with the caveat that this has truly eye-watering amounts of racism re. India, but AS AN INDIAN, I personally found it deeply hilarious to encounter these lurid constructions of race. If you're confident of your own POV, its fun to poke at how India exists in the imaginary here and how racialisation works. A more uncomplicatedly fun meditation on class and womanhood, family and duty to family by means of romance with a rake. You will also enjoy this if you are 30 or 40 years old and too old for this shit (i.e. high-strung teenagers and emotionally selfish family members)
YOU LOVE MYSTERIES
The Quiet Gentleman - a young man returns to claim his inheritance, to the disapproval of his stepmother and stepbrother. Then the murder attempts begin. Despite the murder attempts, quite a droll little novel and a rare Heyer with any look at Radical/Whig politics of the time.
The Reluctant Widow - a lady turned governess by circumstance gets embroiled in various schemes, including potentially high treason. Again, much funnier than the summary would suggest, though its not that hard to actually crack the mystery of what's what.
The Toll-Gate - a young captain fresh from the Napoleonic wars ends up embroiled in an affair of murder, highway robbery and attempted forced marriage. This isn't quite as funny as the previous two, but I think the characters have slightly more depth to them and while many Heyers hint at the fear of sexual violence a lot of upper class women are navigating, I think this is the one that takes this the most seriously.
Regency Buck - a largely classically Regency tale, however over the course of the novel a murder and forced marriage plot emerges and is foiled. I'm a bit ambivalent on this one, because on the one hand it is a delightful novel of manners, with fun detours on the difference in behaviour between the upper classes (gentry v. aristocracy v. royalty), the romance is kind of ehhhhh.
YOU LIKE ROMANCE IN YOUR MILITARY FICTION
An Infamous Army - on the eve of Waterloo, a young ADC to the Duke of Wellington falls in love with an Alistair. Somewhat of a sequel to These Old Shades & Regency Buck. However really speaking, this is all a reason for Heyer to write an extensive and loving description of the Battle of Waterloo that is immensely historically accurate. If you enjoyed Victor Hugo's Waterloo interlude, this might be for you!
The Spanish Bride - I haven't read this one personally, but I'm including it for completionist purposes. It's set during the Peninsular Wars and is based on the diaries of a real soldier, however the romance is between a 25 year old and a 14 year old.
YOU LIKE HOMOEROTIC HISTORICAL FICTION
The Great Rhoxhythe - have you ever read a homoerotic John le Carre novel and thought, wow you know what would complete this is if it was set during the reign of King Charles II and was about court corruption and France and Catholicism? No you probably haven't, but you want to read this one anyway. Extremely tragic, extremely homoerotic and full of homoerotic heartbreak. 11/10.
The Conqueror - I have not read this one personally but my fellow Heyer appreciator @glintglimmergleam confirms it is indeed an homoerotic take on William I's conquest of England, though it lapses later on in the tale.
AMBIVALENTLY ENJOYABLE NOVELS
Powder & Patch - I'll be frank, its been literal years since I've read this novel and I have no idea how it stands up. From what I do recollect, it was a very enjoyable Georgian era romance, but with 90% less melodrama compared to the others. More a novel of Georgian era manners; I would personally compare it more to Sheridan than melodramatic 18th century novels.
Lady of Quality - explores very similar themes to The Black Sheep, with a similar love interest of rude & libertine propensities. The romance is fine, but I do think again this is a thoughtful portrait of gender, class and family life for spinster women approaching their 30s in Regency Bath & more enjoyable in that regard, rather than as a romance.
Charity Girl - this is a breezy retread of Cotillion, but is not as funny and not particularly all that much more thoughtful and deep as, say, April Lady is compared to The Convenient Marriage.
ANTIREC
Cousin Kate - extremely tedious attempt at a gothic novel and laughably bad. The opening chapters are interesting in its portrait of the dilemmas of an impecuniary upper class woman, particularly in surviving as a governess/companion and the liminality of that position. Afterwards, simply not worth reading.
There are also her other historical novels, which I haven't read as yet, oops.
But Michael, you say, what about the SEXINESS. What about the ROMANCE. What about the EROTICISM. Well, here are the top 10 emotionally horny Heyers, in my onion:
