you can give seven days of internet connection to someone in gaza for just 6 USD
gazaesims.com is a website dedicated to helping people donate esims for people in gaza. there are multiple options for where to purchase an esim to donate, for the price i listed you want to use nomad esims. you can get a $3 discount by using someone's referral code from the notes of this post. it also will give the referrer credit to buy more esims! (you can only use a referral code on your first purchase) @/fairuzfan also a tag for esim referral codes here, some of which are nomad. BACKPACKNOMAD is another code to get $3 off your first purchase, it's been working for some people but not others so try out a referral code instead if you can't get it to work. also it took over an hour for the email with my information to come through so don't panic if it doesn't show up right away. (logging back into your nomad account seems to have helped some people get their emails to send!) (nomad promo codes do not work on plans that are already on sale, unlimited plans, and plans under $5)
small troubleshooting hint: if you are trying to purchase an esim using the provider's app, it may block you from purchasing if your phone does not fit the requirements to install and use their esims. use their website in your browser instead and this problem should go away.
edit as of 1/1/24: they are running out of all esims types right now! please donate esims from any of the platforms: nomad, airalo, holafly, simly, and mogo. here is a purchase guide i made that covers all of them. the crew is asking for people to reply to emails they sent that contain esims that are still unactivated. you can see gothhabiba’s guide for how to tell if your esims have been activated.
Oppet! My friend @marikedrawinge 's ttrpg character Oppet the kobold. This is how I made them into a real puppet. Puppet making is fun, if youve made fursuits or plushies before the skills are really similar and theres lots of tutorials.
Drape patterning for their head... never done this before but its really fun. Its a lot different to tape patterning
Also I made their eyes out of foil and polymer clay that I squished against a spoon to make sure the shape was symmetrical. The most stressful part was painting the pupils in the right place I basically avoided it until it was almost the last thing to do
Patterning their body and limbs by just drawing my best guess on paper.
Hard to explain and show in a photo but I made joints with string and buttons so their arms can move more freely than if they were sewn onto the body.
Piercing, I just did tiny buttonhole sewing around a hole I cut in their ear and made the piercing with styrene that I molded into a cylinder with boiling water. Oppet went to Claire's.
Hold them like a kitten.
Making their tunic. I used this amazing patterning resource based on a real tunic found on a bog body. Oppet was very patient while I took tons of measurements and taped paper drafts to them. (In bg: failed first Oppet attempt that came out too big lol)
Final steps I forgot to take pictures of: making and adding hair (tapered tubes of faux fur basically) painting and glueing down eyes. Making little eyelids and stitching them down.