#have lots of donations too!

[ekingstonart]

for an anonymous benefactor who asked for super-soft supercorp: do you guys ever think about dying the moments of tenderness Kara and Lena get to share now that canon can no longer get in the way?

After this illustration by Joe Bowler

i’ve opened up commissions again, please check my pinned post for more information!

#supercorp fanart #lena luthor #katie mcgrath #supergirl #supergirl fan art #kara danvers #art by ekingston #vintage remix #i spend far too much time thinking about a Lena Luthor who finally allows herself to rest #through Kara’s constant encouragement #and Lena encouraging Kara in turn #(while also gently nudging her toward a fashion style she feels comfortable wearing #maybe Nia gets involved and they have a ritualistic dress burning on Kara’s rooftop #purely ceremonial of course #Kara donates the lot)

[donnyclaws]

Happy tdov ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 (it/he/they)

Not feeling myself > give up on surgery > make a drag oc > become disabled > decide I want to do drag > re-discover my body > feeling myself. Do hrt, be indulgent, keep surviving if you can't quite live yet

▄▀▄▀▄▀▄ Kofi Zines Operation Olive Branch

#i have a lot of busted / too small clothes im trying to fix or replace and i've also been fiending for new makeup... if anyone #would like to buy a zine or two <3 #donate to operation olive branch first tho it's infinitely more immediate and important

[iwatcheditbegin]

This is all I’m gonna say

#the internet is so fucking bitter #I don’t care if it’s Pocket change it’s so much more than other rich people do #she’s not even a billionaire and she’s giving more #very rarely Is a whole team compensated #also that amount is a lot of money #it is more than many make in a year and can improve the quality of life #people have gotten way too comfortable saying what is and isn’t enough #it’s like when she donated to fans during the pandemic - not a lot of money for her but kept a roof over people’s heads #I hope it sets precedent #she has always done stuff like this tho #this wasn’t even the Taylor subreddit #Taylor swift

[tracle0]

Feast your eyes! My pride stars :)!

#pride stars #origami #paper craft #paper stars #handmade #arts and crafts #so it was my cities pride yesterday and I spent the ENTIRE month of July making these lil stars to give out to people! #it went really well actually #I was saying donations appreciated but not mandatory and some people looked so happy just to have some stars!!! #some people were SO generous too like oh my god???? #I think there was only one experience I disliked during the event where I was vaguely swarmed and people were helping themselves but #yknow we all get excited haha #got a really cute mushroom bracelet as a trade as well!!! #I have a fair few leftover - lots of aro and ace ones #couple of bi and a couple of pan #ZERO non-binary I should've made more!! #nd obvs some rainbow and trans cause I made the most of them #I'd say lmk if you're near me and you can have some but I am pretty sure none of you know me irl so you can't have any I'm afraid #oh also worth saying - I made the stars I could with the papers I had! Bought purple and pink but I did not try more complex flags cause #I mean. I couldn't really afford to haha? #maybe next year I'll try the lesbian flag too! #ok bye xx #trade-marked

[solarpunkani]

Ok fuck it you know something I've never really quite understood about part of the Leftist vs Liberals debate on voting.

So so so many people act like its either-or. Like you're either dedicating your entire life to voting and promoting politicians and phone banking or whatever, or you're a True Rebel waiting for The Uprising to Come and Solve Everything.

But like. In my experience. Me voting is just me kinda go 'which person seems kinda good? Which one at least sucks the least? ok lemme go vote.' and then its anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour tops of my life. And I still have plenty of time to do Stuff and participate in Conversations about Other Important Things. And also you can admit and acknowledge and understand that the system As Is kinda sorta really sucks ass, but also still admit and acknowledge and understand that at this current point in time we are still living in the suckass system and do something to alleviate the suckass At Least A Little while also working to bolster/create/advocate for Other Systems.

I guess just like. it's not a black or white thing. Between 'top 500 volunteers for a specific politician/voting office/etc' and 'absolutely positively not voting at all' there is a gray area called 'vote and then just do other stuff'.

#out of queue #ani rambles #ani rant #now hang on its time to acknowledge my Privilege(TM) #the first few times I ever voted for anything I was in college and the student center was a voting center #so asides from waiting in a long (~30 minute tops bc early vote) line to get in I didn't have to do a big drive or anything #and at my house there's a voting center thats a like 5 minute drive from my place or a 10 minute drive depending on what election it is #and im ablebodied and have a open (read: jobless) schedule so I can Just Go for the most part #i live in a City so there's probs lots of voting centers at churches and libraries and all across town too #but like. some people act like people saying Hey Go Vote Plz are screaming like #'if you don't donate 200 dollars and 4+ weeks of your time to canvassing and calling and volunteering you are RUINING AMERICA' #when at least from what I've seen its just like. 'can you maybe go fill in a bubble on a Scantron so people like me don't Die Faster.' #also there's early voting and mail-in voting and all that jazz like yeah the current system makes it harder to vote but theres still W AYS #you don't gotta pull up at 6am on Election Day Tuesday yknow? #if i get blasted for this remember as I was: happy and rambling at 3am about greenhouses and solarpunk stuff #plz be nice i beg k bye

[autismserenity]

Palestinians to platform, part 1

مؤمن الناطور / Moumen Al-Natour

@MoumALnatour

رئيس الشباب الفلسطيني للتنمية / President of Palestinian Youth for Development

Moumen Al-Natour is amazing. Not only does he run a Palestinian youth organization that is doing great work in Gaza, but he's also one of the organizers of the 2019 anti-Hamas protests.

Even to criticize Hamas, in Gaza, means to be interrogated, and potentially jailed, tortured, and/or killed. To actively protest Hamas is many times more dangerous.

To have survived that work and continued doing it? I cannot imagine the emotional strength this dude has.

Here's what Center for Peace Communications (another great organization) has said about him:

So many Palestinians, in or from Palestine, are out there talking about what everyday life in Gaza is like. About Hamas, about Israel, about what they want and what they need, about their struggles and their interests and their families.

My goal, in finding people for you to follow and platform, is to help more voices get out of Gaza after years of suppression, and to help more outsiders (like me) connect with them.

People care SO MUCH about Palestine. But frequently, all there is to share is outrage, semi-accurate news, and more outrage. Frequently, we're not calling for the same things they are. We call for a ceasefire; they demand Hamas return the hostages and surrender. We call for Israel to let aid in; they say Israel is letting the aid in, but it's being stolen, and call for air drops rather than trucks. We call for Israel to stop fighting; they say they hope Israel takes Hamas out first.

We aren't centering their voices and experiences. We aren't lending our reach and our strength to their demands.

I want to make that possible.

Ala Mushtaha, the son of this imam, evidently said, “On Saturday December 30, our front door was busted down and twenty masked men barged in and took my father, a widely respected and deeply learned imam here in Gaza."

“One dragged him by his head and another grabbed him by his beard. My younger brother tried to intervene and reason with the kidnappers, but they beat him. I have a medical condition that makes it hard for me to breathe, so all I could do was watch as the horror unfolded.

“He wouldn’t preach what Hamas told him to. He refused to tell Gazans that violent resistance and obedience to Hamas, is the best way out of our current hell.”

ok this dude needs his own post honestly, he goes on to say so much intense stuff about their lives.

OMG his dad was actually released!

This is what I'm talking about. This is effective activism. Imagine what all these people could do if they had the entire global pro-Palestinian movement behind them.

Al-Natour posts a fair amount of political commentary.

The "we want to live" hashtag is a callback to the amazing "We Want To Live" protests he co-organized against Hamas, in Gaza in 2019, and again in the summer of 2023. Activist Hamida Howidzy (who will also be getting a separate post) wrote about them in Newsweek recently.

Some things he posts in Arabic and then in English. Some of his posts are in Arabic only. In the thread above, he actually posted a couple more that were just in Arabic, presumably aimed at Arabic-language comments.

What I like about Twitter is that you can whack the "translate post" button and get a pretty decent translation most of the time.

Translation:

"I saw all the responses... What is wrong and forbidden in reuniting the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem through elections in which the people choose who will represent them??!?? Why are all the responses offensive...a collaborator, a traitor, and contain insults that indicate that whoever wrote them needs restructuring?! What prevents us, after ending the war, from returning our choice and choice to the Palestinian people?!+

"Everyone wrote that I opened??!! how did you know???!! Stopping the war is the most important thing now... Whoever sees the condition of the people and feels all this is easy for him does not have humanity, and is not a human being... Whoever, after the destruction of more than 80% of Gaza and the North, and still writing in a way that wants the war to continue while he lives abroad, should reconsider. He accepted to live the same suffering!++"

Note: I copied the "I opened" bit and threw it into Google Translate separately, because that cannot be right. It still insisted that it meant "I opened".... but it gave me the transliterated words, "ani fatah."

Everyone wrote that he's Fatah -- the party that runs the West Bank, the one Hamas violently kicked out of Gaza in 2007-08.

"The end of my speech... I know... whoever is not with you is a traitor and an agent... shameful... by God, by God, by God... there will be an account[ing] for all of this talk... so that you understand the word agent... and the account will be through a government of law... It is clear that there are many who benefit from the poverty and destruction of Gaza, and they must be held accountable according to the law.

"Have mercy on people with your tongues"

The comment on that one is noteworthy:

"Yes, whoever is not with the resistance is indeed a traitor, and those who must be held accountable are the traitors, agents, hypocrites, liars, and racists who slander the resistance and who want to hold it accountable only because it fights the enemy of humanity and defends truth and the oppressed. If you want to apply the law, apply it to yourselves first."

It highlights how much of what we hear in the West is Hamas propaganda. That's a whole other post too. But Hamas claims to be "the resistance," to "defend truth and the oppressed," while arresting people who refuse to preach its propaganda. While jailing and torturing someone 20 times for organizing a protest.

Which are the exact tactics that make it so easy for their propaganda to reach us . And so hard for us to even know that there has been an entire protest movement against Hamas in Gaza, much less to support its activists.

I'll just cut and paste the translations from his most recent thread, above. All emphasis is mine:

"When demonstrations took place in Israel demanding that Netanyahu stop the war and free the hostages, Al Jazeera and Hamas considered it a victory and an achievement, and that the Israeli government was under pressure. But what is striking is that these demonstrations were not suppressed. They were secured. The hostage issue and public pressure were dealt with professionally.

"The demonstrations that took place in Gaza demanding an end to the war and the return of the displaced...they were classified as suspicious [by Al Jazeera etc] ...even though the displaced Israeli lives in a 5-star hotel and has the privileges of the displaced, and when the Palestinian displaced in Gaza receives help, he needs a mediator, and if he wants a tent, he needs leadership intervention, and if he does not have the mediator And the intervention wants to scratch his pocket..+++

"Why did Israel allow demonstrations and look pressured, always trying to contain everything... while we have a displaced person lost, homeless, and no one is trying to contain him, and when he talks, they call him a fifth column???"

Last month, he posted about pregnancy in wartime. Note the cost of the tent later in this thread! Numerous Palestinians have posted about humanitarian aid getting stolen -- by Hamas, by NGOs, by others -- and sold on the black market. Food and tents especially get mentioned a lot. Everyone mentions the tents are being sold for more than (the equivalent of) $700, even though they were supposed to be free.

I'll leave you with this one for now:

You can read all the posts in this series in my "platform gaza" tag.

#platform gaza #free gaza #the hospital #free palestine #free palestine from hamas #long post #wall of words #please note i specifically said platform gaza and not just platform palestinians #platform the west bank too #don't platform and center palestinians who have never been to palestine on issues that specifically affect people IN PALESTINE #like I'm 3/4 Italian and I'm not gonna tell you about what to do for people in Italy ok #I can give you perspective that you may not have otherwise #but there are multiple really awful orgs that claim to be palestinian-led and are in fact led by people in Canada or Brooklyn #it's extremely ironic that I've seen a lot of people accuse each other of like “sitting at your computer in your apartment in Brooklyn” #to mean being out of your lane and talking about stuff you don't understand in I/P discourse #when in fact the woman who runs within our lifetime is literally in and from brooklyn #that's the org that was caught on video doing a protest march that stopped to scream at cancer patients #about how their hospital was “complicit in genocide” #how was it complicit in genocide you might ask? well i guess memorial sloan kettering cancer center accepted a $400M donation #from “a zionist billionaire” which is a gross antisemitic trope thansks #the “zionist billionaire” hilariously turned out to be a billionaire Protestant #whose “zionism” was... that he's a Harvard grad and he told Harvard it should make a statement about the massacre #so obviously #by accepting a massive donation from some rich white guy who #UNRELATEDLY #thought Oct 7 was bad #the CANCER CENTER #is clearly COMPLICIT in GENOCIDE. #this makes zero sense and is bad activism #and the reason i consider it to be bad activism is specifically that it's not trying to achieve anything

[chicago-geniza]

Becoming a crackpot tinhat believer in humors theory because I was assigned phlegmatic/sanguine at humoral temperament and am currently struggling with asthmatic lung congestion and borderline polycythemia. Like I am treating my Agonies with mucus expulsion and bloodletting. Medieval-ass medicine

#I always feel a lot better and have cardiac symptoms calm down when I get blood drawn and doctor suggested I just #Start donating blood regularly because my platelet count is too high regardless #Lol. Lmao

[needylittlegirl]

ok i need it to be summer riight now i wanna wear my fun clothes

#im setting myself a new rule this summer #anytime i want to get something new i Have to get rid of smth i wear too much #cause i kinda just rotate the same few outfits a lot cause its just my comfort zone #especially since recovering from ed i just started wearing the same stuff constantly #but i think im in a good enough place now where i can branch out again!! yknow #gonna start making my wardrobe stuff ive always wanted to wear but been to scared to wear #gonna donate anything i can #tbd

[leviiackrman]

SHOP UPDATE No. 1

The new version of my business cards (ft. the one and only Ms Asami Enatsu) have just arrived, along with the BRAND NEW thank you cards to go in orders (ft. best gal Ms Gigi Olalia!)

I just want to say a humongous thank you to those of you who donated over on my kofi! Your support and kindness made this order possible and I’m so excited and grateful to show you the exciting things to come! Thank you so much again🤍

Website || Kofi Donations || Commissions || Etsy Shop

Tag list (ask to be added or removed): @sstewyhosseini @risingsh0t @statichvm @chuckhansen @roofgeese @florbelles @unholymilf @indorilnerevarine @confidentandgood @nokstella @noonfaerie @arklay @heroofpenamstan @marivenah @liurnia @detectivelokis @jinfromyarikawa @simonxriley @queennymeria @shellibisshe @jacobseed @jackiesarch

#jesscarterarts #business updates* #kofi donations #artists on tumblr #I’m just so insanely excited #and beyond words at how generous you guys have been #legit would not be able to do this without you lot and I’m just… beyond words #love you all sm🤍 #will be updating the international delivery real soon on all listings in case people were wondering why it’s still uk only #just gotta figure out how much the postage would be #and I’m gonna make some adverts for it too tehe #putting my degree to use finally lmao

[ladylynse]

Is your policy on prequels or sequels for three sentences still the same, or has it changed?

I'm still trying to cap that at one direct continuation/prequel (I confess I don't remember writing a prequel at this point, but I'm assuming I have since you mentioned it) per ficlet, since when I wasn't, I was sometimes writing multiple follow-ups for the same ficlet. It was starting to feel like I was writing a story in three sentence chunks but limited to three sentences that could kinda-sorta stand alone if you were told a sliver of context, so I was also limited by the sorts of sentences those were going to be, and it's a lot easier to write a tiny portion of a scene than five follow ups--and presumably more enjoyable for everyone else, too.

Since I haven't done it for a while, I could throw my ask box open for mini-ficlets on Halloween as a sort of 'trick or treat' thing and write something a little longer than three sentences around a ficlet of the asker's choice. I might pick and choose if I get a bunch (I still remember the time I got 70+ ficlet requests in a week, which for me is a lot), and there is absolutely no way I'll finish them all that night, but I could do that if anyone would be interested.

I could also do a popular vote thing with polls (based off people's suggestions) and write a proper one-shot off the people's choice. I've debated that since the polls on tumblr came out (and mostly held off because of my already glacially slow update speed). It would be kinda like my old follower fic giveaways (it would be pretty much exactly like my last one except I don't have to keep track of votes in excel and it would be open to anyone who sees the poll). Besides, if the idea's right there in the poll, the winner doesn't have to think of what they'd want to see. (I technically still have two of those giveaway fics unclaimed for that reason.)

Thoughts, anyone?

#ladylynse #asks #my writing #I have also done fic or art trades in the past for when people want a longer ficlet from me #(working on one of those now; it takes me considerably longer than the matter of hours it took them) #tbf I've also just for fun when they didn't want a specific ficlet from me #I'll write something as a thank you if someone donates to my ko-fi too but not a lot of people have disposable income these days

[pansyfemme]

kinda hyped going to a musical theatre confrence tommorow and i fucking love those even tho 9/10 readings ive seen at these things suck ass

#i think readings and preproduction stuff only sounds like a cool thing to have seen in retrospect after a show gets big #because if you’ve ever been to an early production of a new musical you know they can be kind of a chore #they’re always way too long and changing songs around constantly #people make a big deal about ‘cut songs’ but any musical you’ve seen likely has many many cut songs its just how it is #new musicals tend to be rougher than new plays just by nature #but i still love seeing early stuff just bc its kinda fun tbh #this is a weird confrence because while there are a lot of professionals there its also like. a rich person event #so like there always forms a little divide between the press (and ppl like me. the plus one) and the professionals and the ppl who just #gave a lot of money to the theatre #appriciate their donation but we do stick out #but yeah. i loooove seeing stuff in progress and also attending panels #(theres one on trans actors in musical theatre im excited about) #but its gonna be like a 12 hour day bc the place is a bit of a drive and then its all day panels and readings and then a cabaret #im glad im not in highschool anymore bc getting home at 1am used to KILL me lmao

[bloodcoveredgf]

in my reading era!! (read the prologue and 1 chapter of twins by bari wood which i own now and got for free at the library)

#i picked up so many free books from the library because they were donating a ton and really needed them gone because they were overflowing #and wanted us to grab as many as we could find so i found a lot!!! one of those books was twins.... which dead ringers is loosely based on #going to read more of it later too btw im not cutting it off there i just dont have time to right now ghdjhf #i also got the killing gift by bari wood too and annihilation by jeff vandermeer and the breast by philip roth.... #and many more but the others are mainly nature/animal photography and education books and some photography books :) #i got a huge book of ansel adams' photography and a book about color in interior decorating and how to use it and such..

[psikind]

hey so. childhood friend of mine commited suicide late july and his dad’s trying to fund the money for his funeral service - if people have the money to donate please do the service is in 3 days (august 5th) and he’s very close to the goal but otherwise it’d mean a lot if people spread the link around -> https://gofund.me/f04d9bf0

#gofundme #suicide #donations #idk what else I would tag this with but. yeah #sorry to the people that're gonna get jumpscared by a blocked tag I just felt liek this was important to share #he was like. the one irl friend I had consistently that never bullied me because we were both so different from everyone else #we fell out of touch but I always talk about him fondly and then my mom told me this morning and just. god #I'm really glad I'm gonna have a lot of support and love this month I already know that but what a way to start it huh. #I hope everyone's doing okay. if you're in a hard place right now take this as a sign to do something nice for yourself #talk to a friend go buy some chocolate listen to your favorite song anything #and if it feels like nothing's making you happy #please trust me when I say it will some day #I know everyone says that I know but I've been there I've been through some horrible fucking shit #like anime anti-hero/rival/love interest-to-die levels of trauma #trust me. trust. me. #it will get better. wake up another day. this too shall pass #sorry for the ramble I just feel Very Strongly about this

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

dear followers: i don’t normally do this sort of thing, but!: if i linked to a gofundme for a friend of a dear friend, would anyone here be willing to take a look and see if it’s the sort of thing you could throw a few dollars at?

the friend of dear friend has been accepted into a master’s program (linguistics!) in the US, but he’s from (and currently living in) tunisia, and he’s having a hard time scraping together the funds to Get Over Here. the exchange rate is brutal, which isn’t helping. dear friend was hoping we could get a bunch of people to give a little bit of money, but the campaign has sort of stalled out, so i’m trying to throw a wider net.

i can vouch for the authenticity of said gofundme! but since it’s not the sort of thing i typically post, i wanted to do a Vibe Check before i dropped a link.

are there any potential takers? given the slightest interest, i will, in fact, drop the link haha. thanks for reading, y’all!

#text #personal #admin #gofundme #linguistics #tunisia #anyway i'm not gr8 at asking for money either lol but it's easier if i'm not doing it For Me #and seriously if you have american dollars to donate even like. $5. would make a huge difference. #he sent a very sweet thank you email too lol he's very appreciative of any little contribution!! #he seems like a super sweet guy honestly #dear friend likes him a lot so.... #i will do anything for her!!

[cetaceans-pls]

september whale mail didn't happen bc i was away for too much of it, and we're a third of the way through october already but here i am!! thank you to everyone who's kept me company through over a year of whale mailing, you've supported so many different causes and the world is genuinely a little kinder because you chose to be :')

for very damn obvious reasons, my recommended charity this time is medical aid for palestine bc jfc

as per usual, if you're interested in getting a postcard from me to anywhere in the world (postage on me baybee) just fill in this form with proof of a donation to a good cause and i'll hit u up <3

stay safe out there! get your flu shot and covid booster! take care!

#whale mail #halved the minimum donation requirement #i really really should tally up how much contributors to whale mail have put together but suffice it to say it's A Lot #cannot emphasise enough how delightful this is for me to do and hopefully it's half so delightful for recipients too #just feeling a little soppy.... been a rough year but nevertheless the kindness persists

[plushie-lovey]

Ok. Ok tomorrow. Tomorrow is the day planned to go thru my collection

#emphasis on planned #if it all works out #we didn't do anything last week cause I caught a cold #now my datemate has it but he's almost better already #so we hope to do the thing tomorrow #maybe we'll go to my storage unit too #cause I don't have room for the boxes we're gonna put the plushies in #we might take a trip to goodwill too to donate some of the plush #although I doubt that part. because my datemate works there n he won't want to go to his store on his day off #especially because its gonna create more work for him the next day lol. he's a wares pricer #and there's a chance he'd be the one pricing them #some of them for a the second time #because a lot of my plush (and the ones that will be donated) were thrifted from that goodwill #he's reluctant to have me donate any plush but ik a bunch of them won't sell online so my only options beside that #are to donate or to throw them away #and I don't want to toss perfectly good stuffed animals. that'd be cruel #I guess we'll just wait n see what the gameplan will be tomorrow #wish us luck #viti shoosh