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Update: North Gaza Aid!

As part of his promise, Hussam sent 20% of your HelpGazaChildren donations ($4000) to Mahmoud AbuSalama for the 5th time now, including the earlier North Gaza Campaign (as location on our notion site) to buy food and necessary products for families still surviving the dire situation in North Gaza. The food package contains, as you see in the picture below: flour, lentils, canned food, formula, diapers, and women pads!

Please continue donating and spreading the word — every penny means so much! Feel free to share our campaign link to other platforms as well!

Donate to our GoFundMe which goes directly to Hussam, who manages camps in Rafah, with NO middleman in between!

HelpGazaChildren Notion Site || #helpgazachildren tag

GoFundMe Link

[Quick ID: The video is of Mahmoud speaking in front of bags of flour and a tumblr sign. There are captions to the video in english. The image below is of groups of packages of items in front of a tumblr sign.]

#palestine

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Help Hamza get his family out of gaza.

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this call was released anonymously (understandably) but my local Palestinian organizers who I literally trust with my life have endorsed it, and it seems to be gaining momentum in multiple cities, so I encourage you all to get involved:

"A proposal to coordinate a multi-city economic blockade on April 15th in solidarity with Palestine recently received overwhelming commitments to participate around the US and internationally.

The proposal states that in each city, we will identify and blockade major choke points in the economy, focusing on points of production and circulation with the aim of causing the most economic impact, as did the port shutdowns in recent months in Oakland, California and Melbourne, Australia, as just a few examples.

There is a sense in the streets in this recent and unprecedented movement for Palestine that escalation has become necessary: there is a need to shift from symbolic actions to those that cause pain to the economy.

As Yemen is bombed to secure global trade, and billions of dollars are sent to the Zionist war machine, we must recognize that the global economy is complicit in genocide and together we will coordinate to disrupt and blockade economic logistical hubs and the flow of capital."

#palestine

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April on top of being Arab American heritage month is also GENOCIDE AWARENESS MONTH. sixth going into seventh month of this genocide, 76 years of occupation, and the biden administration actively sending arms to the iof (namely, thousands of 2000-pound bombs that literally make craters in the ground and are banned from use in any western military because of its potential for civilian casualties) while endorsing the u.s.’ continued support for israel defending itself. when will you learn compassion? when will you stop endorsing biden for another term?

#free palestine

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allured

after Geoffrey Chaucer

your sudden beauty serene through my wound

heal my hurt clean— your eyes shake

my word faithful through death my queen the truth your eyes slay me beauty my heart quick and keen.

— Jade A.

@adventurerswritingguild day 4: this stuff's medieval

#napowrimo #jade

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Please give a warm welcome home to the Adventurer’s Writing Guild! The Guild is a writing community exclusively open in April & August! Public invites close in 2 weeks; check the bio to enter. #AdventurersWrite

What is the Guild?

Well in 2020, @nashiraa and @shylovrs started a writing Discord server called “let’s ⁠escapril” in dedication to the April challenge by Savannah Brown. We’ve grown a loving, warm community in the years since…but we've since decided to write our own narrative and created the AWG to welcome every writer from every creed! After all, it’s dangerous to write alone. ⚔🛡

You can join us by checking out our pinned post or by clicking our discord invite link!

*Creatives who make/share NSFW content are welcome. However, we do not permit/share NSFW content on the server or our social media.

#poetry #resources #escapril #creative writing #poetry community #writing discord #poetry prompts #napowrimo #writeblr #poets on tumblr #napowrimo2024 #napowrimo2023

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Happy Escapril! I hope everyone’s having a good day so far. I’m dropping my first poem with @adventurerswritingguild second prompt from their list! Day two is “The Internet.” I really channeled this song for inspiration. It won’t read the same, the message is ultimately what I’m going for here.

Song Playing:

Here’s my poem with Alt Text provided. I hope you enjoy.

Oh snap! I maxed out tumblr tags for the first time! That’s a new record. 30 max. Huh. Good to know.

Update with Spoken Word

[#escapril Spoken Word] “A 25 year old Codger’s Cloud Rant” by CJOAT for AWG Shoutout @boburnham

#escapril #prehn

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as isaac, on the walk home

please, won’t you look at me, father? i can’t erase the memory                             of the surrender in your eyes if i keep staring at your back.

you held my hand as we climbed the mountain. i felt your pulse through my palm,               your grip tight against the sweat. God has called us, you said with urgency, yet       you took       your time       as we ascended.

i can’t remember what i feared more:                      the blade,                      the flame,                      or the aftermath.

who would have made the bigger sacrifice if there was no ram in the thicket— you? me?

or mother?

is there no test of faith more agonizing than to forgive?

but even in my final breath, i would have. i love you even though i may never understand it, if only you would tell me. i don’t ask for much—

father!       please.                             soothe my shivering. i’m afraid                      the next time                      i see a knife                                    i might think                                                                it’s                                                                              love.

— Jade A.

escapril day 3: eye contact

@adventurerswritingguild day 3: hand / god / knife

#escapril #jade

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Happy Escapril! I hope everyone’s having a good day so far. I’m dropping my 3rd poem this month with @adventurerswritingguild third Escapril prompt combined with an AWG specific prompt from their lists! Day 3 is “Eye Contact” with “hand / god / knife.” I shocked myself once more with my writing. There was such emotion this nearly became a short story than just a poem. I channeled several songs and a Rick and Morty quote for inspiration.

Songs and Episode Playing:

Dynasty by MIIA

VILLIAN by Neoni

Freaks by Jordan Clarke

Randy McNally (No Love Like Christian Hate) by TX2

Heaven Was Full (I'm Headed Straight to Hell) by TX2

Step Over a Body by TX2

Rick and Morty S03E06: Rest and Ricklaxation

Trigger Warnings

Religious Imagery

Death mention

Biblical Scripture

Familial Abuse

Christianity Indoctrination

Animal Death Euphemisms

Zombies mention

If There’s (a) God…

By CJOAT

Will update with spoken poetry video later today. 👍🏽

9:01 PM: Updated with a clearer stitched screenshot with Alt text. Dropping the spoken poetry video below:

[#escapril Spoken Poetry] If There’s (a) God… by CJOAT for @adventurerswritingguild’s Escapril

Please leave a like and/or comment on my videos—it helps knowing I’m not getting buried and some people enjoy them.

For my work to cause such a viscerally deep reaction in a relatable or impactful way is my whole drive for creating. When I was younger, it was just to create things that mashed folks smile, like Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night did for me. Now, since I’m aware of many difficult and often traumatizing concepts that folks go through but it kept being swept under the rug or shunned for any reason—I want my work to provide the space for discussion of the uncomfortable.

“Art disturbs the comfortable, and comforts the disturbed.”

That’s my main goal with my work. A driving force to not only comfort but build for better in society.

This deviated from the point of this update as it’s now 9:15PM; but I’m happy to have vocalized it. Today was rather turbulent, so I wanted to get it out.

#escapril #prehn

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Happy Escapril! I hope everyone’s having a good day so far. I don’t celebrate April Fool’s Day—so…I’m dropping my first poem with @adventurerswritingguild’s first prompt from their list!

Here’s the song inspiration:

Specific POV:

Here’s the poem, “Your Heart is in Another Castle,” I hope you all enjoy the read.

Who is the “I” in this situation? It’s not me. I wrote this unsure of how to go about it, and then just typed and here it is.

Updating this post with the Spoken Word video I posted within 20 minutes to spare on YouTube! Visuals are unrelated to the poem, but I used my in-game screenshots and the poem graphic itself as still-moving visual for this one. Enjoy!

In terms of audio, there are two glass shattering sounds, laughter sounds, and a voice changer. I may just be overly cautious, so—have fun!

#escapril #prehn

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are we there yet?

how long does it take to go from a state of grief to a state of grace? there’s no map but i’ve crossed enough borders to reach somewhere else— wherever this is.

sometimes the sun shines bright enough for me to forget, but in the rearview i find the shadow still follows, its hand waving.

maybe one day, i’ll be brave enough to invite it in. after all, healing is a dirt road and grief is love’s hitchhiking passenger— i’ll save it a seat. we’ll get there together.

— Jade A.

escapril day 1: change of state

@adventurerswritingguild day 1: peace

#escapril 2024 #jade

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🦋 Happy #NaPoWriMo Adventurers! 🦋 This year, we've put together a special prompt list for our community + any curious passersby. Prompts were made by me, Maria @shylovrs so feel free to tag the guild + moi! Use the #AdventurersWrite or #ShyPrompts to share your work!

And if you'd like to join a community of dedicated writers and creatives this April, the guild's doors are open! Check the link in bio or click here to gain access to our discord!

#writing prompts #poetry community #poetry #writeblr #poets on tumblr #poetry workshop #creative writing #poetry prompts #escapril #escapril 2024 #napowrimo #napowrimo2024

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Join Blossom for a creative writing workshop inspired by Valentine Love!

This workshop will explore all kinds of love, from platonic, familial, romantic, self-love, food, and even the special bond we share with our furry loved ones.

Sign up for £1+! Attendance encouraged, but not required. Feel free to sign up just to receive the materials!

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Places you should add to your little town/city in your fantasy world!!

Post offices. Wild, I know. But give me the unhinged kind. Pingeons and little postal dragons all over the place. You enter. The most disgusting smell fucking assaults your nostrils. You know what it is. Letter in hand, you go up to the counter. The postal worker is just a slightly bigger pigeon. You shed a tear.

PLAYGROUNDS!! Create the most dangerous kinds of playgrounds, the ones suburban moms would TRIP if they ever saw one. Monkey bars that are way too tall, swings that go full circle... The metal slide stays the same, it's already painful enough.

PARKS!! MAKE IT ALIVE!! Show people going on walks, reading beneath trees. C'mon most of them are already hundred years old (And are going to die after that CR 15 creature wrecks the town) anyways!! Show couples and picnics, show a family enjoying the sunday, give me someone picking flowers for their loved ones.

A bakery! Do you know how much these places are underrated? And do you know how much plot potential they have? Every good story starts with food poisoning or granny's recipe! Give me a place your players/readers are going to treat like home and, for once, it's not a tavern or a guild.

Government buildings! Give me a town hall that has a kilometric line in front of it. Give me a registry that is as old as this town. Give me police stations! Give me courtrooms! Make one of your players get arrested and now all of the party has to go through burocracy like a bunch of normal people!

(Who am I kidding? You don't need to make them get arrested. They are going to do that for you.)

Touristic attractions! Give me a full-on statue of the country's leader! Give me museums! Give me streets, ruins and whatnot that attract thousands of tourists everyday! Give me an annoying city guide that tries to get the party's attention everytime!

Magazine stands! Magazines don't exist? Newspaper stands! From the Queen's Journal to the most questionable new piece of Fox's Tailtracker, you have it all! Make your players doubt what's actually happening, sprinkle a little fake news... Or is it fake at all?

...Toy stores. OK HEAR ME OUT. Make magic toys; miniature skyships that actually fly, metal toy dragons that expel fire, little wands that make little light spells, wooden creatures that can move and make noises... Make children happy! And your players too because they will waste their money on these stuff.

Instrument store!! Make your bards happy with special instruments or just weird ones! Give me a battle in one of those that is just filled with funny noises and the worst battle soundtrack ever!!

Not exactly a place but... Cleaning carts!!! Show me people cleaning the streets, picking up the trash, cutting trees!! Make the town look clean!! Give me an old man that is really proud of his work!!!

(or ways to make your players feel even worse when the villain destroys the town later on :) )

#resources

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Hi!~ Join us for a workshop dedicated to long distance friendships!

We’re getting soft and poetic about our darling besties 💕 so please come on by on Saturday, Dec 16 at 7:30 PM GMT / 2:30 PM ET

You can sign up here!

Some info: This event is dedicated to our beloved friend, Nashira, whose birthday is coming up. ❤️ We’ll be exploring celestial themes to represent both distance as well as the power of connection unbound by continents, oceans, and the very cosmos. We invite you to contemplate your LD friendships (especially @nashira —if you know her personally 😉) and create some wonderful work with us. Hope to see you there ✨

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CqeFrgIIAvZ

#aesthetic

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artist: miranda sofroniou

#art