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scolopaladin reference-y stuff

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Fadia and Mohamed are trying to evacuate their family from Gaza. They have 5 children, and the cost of leaving Gaza is quite high. Their fundraiser is new and extremely low on funds—they have not even met 1% of their goal!

This is a legitimate fundraiser, and it has been verified by @el-shab-hussein and can be found on his list of priority fundraisers. Please do not hesitate to donate to Fadia's family and share their campaign! Time is limited for those trying to leave Gaza, so let's help this family in any way we can.

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Salam dear supporters

i hope you are well and in good health along with your loved ones.

we still have a long way to reach our goal but with your generous support we reached 25% of our goal so far!

together we can make In Sha'a Allah!

many thanks!

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by the way before you start believing that the murder of college kids engaging in protests is a fringe position within the United States' "civilized order" (in their eyes) remember the US sent military aid to the ruling dictatorial neoliberal party here in Mexico after the party expressed "concern over the safety of the 1968 olympics", leading to the US-backed Massacre of Tlatelolco in which almost 400 students were murdered, thousands were injured, and more were arrested. unmeasured violence isn't new for them, and college children are one of the easiest targets for the United States to inflict underhanded violence on. you need to be smart about how you organize yourselves.

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please donate what you can to medglobal, who are working to provide emergency relief in sudan; $12 USD provides an emergency kit, $20 provides medical PPE, & $50 will provide 50 liters of diesel fuel for hospital generators

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As a rule of thumb, don't reblog donation posts or people asking for donations unless they've been vetted and reblogged by Palestinian bloggers. We usually go to lengths to verify this shit because we know scammers have been faking to get people to send them money, using the urgency of our genocide as bait.

It's disgusting this is what we're dealing with, but people are losing money because of some truly evil people out there.

Accounts don't just randomly spring up on tumblr without gofundmes while asking for someone to help them create a campaign. Fuck out of here with that shit.

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she was a boy, he was a girl, can i make it any more obvious

#oc: lochlan #oc: veza

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#madoka magica when i was like. 10

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I LOVE SCHIZOPHRENICS, GIVING TEENAGERS HRT, REFUGEES, FREE HOUSING FOR ALL AND SHITTY GRAFFITI.

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It frightens and discourages me how pervasive "tribal" stereotypes and imagery are in the fantasy and adventure genres.

It's all over the place in classic literature. Crack open a Jules Verne novel and you're likely to find caricatures of brown people and cultures, even when the characters are sympathetic to the plight of the colonized peoples - incidentally, this is the biggest reason I can't recommend 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to everyone, despite Captain Nemo being one of my favorite fictional characters of all time.

You can't escape it in modern cinema, either. You'll see white heroes venturing bravely into jungles and tombs to steal from natives who don't know how to use their resources "properly." You'll see them strung up in traps, riddled with sleeping darts, forced to flee and fight their way out. Hell, Pirates of the Caribbean, a remarkably inclusive franchise in many other ways, had an extended sequence of the white heroes escaping from a cannibal civilization in the second film.

And when fantasy RPGs want a humanoid enemy, the "bloodthirsty natives" are the first stock trope they jump to. World of Warcraft is one of the most egregious examples, with the trolls - blatant racist caricatures with faux-voodoo beliefs, cannibalistic diets, Jamaican accents, and a history of being killed in droves by (white) elves and humans - being raided and slaughtered in nearly every expansion.

It doesn't matter how vibrant and distinctive the real-world indigenous, Polynesian, Caribbean, and African cultures are. It doesn't matter how much potential these real civilizations offer for complex and sympathetic characterization. Anything that doesn't make sense to the white western mind is shoved under the same "savage" umbrella. They're different. They're strange. They're scary. They have to be escaped, subjugated, eliminated, ogled at from the safety of a museum.

Modern writers, directors, and developers don't even seem to realize how horrifying it is to present the indigenous inhabitants of a place as "obstacles" for non-native protagonists to overcome. "It's not racist," they say, "because these people aren't really people, you see." And if you dare to point out anything that hurts or offends you as a descendant of the bastardized culture, you're accused of being the real racist: "These aren't humans! They're monsters! Are you saying that these real societies are just like those disgusting monsters?"

No, they're not monsters. But you chose to design them as monsters, just as invaders have done for hundreds of years. Why would you do that? Why can you recognize any other caricature as evil and cruel, but not this?

This is how deep colonialism runs.

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wanted to draw my hunter and palico from mhgu, forrest and crow

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WHITE QUEERS GET THE FUCKING HINT THAT YOUR QUEERNESS DOES NOT ELIMINATE YOUR WHITENESS AND YOU ARE STILL NOT ONLY CAPABLE OF AND IN MANY CASES ACTIVELY DOING RACIST SHIT!!!

like oh my god can you guys stop making shit up to have an excuse to harass people of color on this website you fucking thin-skinned eggshell motherfuckers. a nonwhite user calling out your fucking racism is not queerphobic you're just being a racist shitbag