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Chibi and Sketch commissions to help Belal and his family escape Gaza! 🇵🇸

[ ID 1: Digital artwork showing two sketches of a person with curly hair seen from the chest up and a fluffy cat, with prices next to them. The first is colorless and is labeled 10 dollars. The second is colored and is 15 collars. /End ID ]

[ ID 2: Digital artwork of a girl with pale skin, green eyes and short, straight, dark ginger hair. First is just her face, then her full body. She wears a green dress, light yellow t-shirt and light green shoes. The first is labeled 1 dollar and the second 5 dollars. /End ID ]

Going through el-shab-hussein's fundraiser masterpost [link], I found the fundraiser for Belal Amzi Msallam and his family, who are, according to the latest update from their GoFundMe, in Central Gaza, trying to raise enough money to escape through Rafah. They are very low on funds and desperately need money, since Belal's father is elderly and diabetic and needs treatment for a leg injury, and his mother's mental health has declined.

Because of this, I've decided to open art commissions to help raise funds for them. If you send me proof of donation to their GoFundMe, I will draw you either a sketch or a chibi, for the prices listed above. Any donation counts, so please, if you can, consider helping them! If you can't, please share this and the fundraiser masterpost, as there are many other families who also need help leaving Gaza.

I will draw people, animals, furries, and so on. I won't draw nsfw, mechas and robots.

[ ID 3: Screenshot of a GoFundMe campaign, titled: "Help Belal and His Family Escape the War in Gaza". They have received 177 donations, a total lf 8797 Australian dollars out of 160.000, their goal. /End ID ]

#sam.message #palestine #free palestine #mutual aid

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Pray for everyone in rafah there's heavy bombing right now there. I can't sleep thinking of my family 😭

#sam.message #palestine #free palestine #in my prayers

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hey, so i saw this post by @/palipunk [tumblr link] about a gofundme campaign to help someone evacuate gaza right now, with a tweet where the organizers are asking for only 250 people to each donate €100 to help reach the goal. i have almost exactly that and thought to become one of the 250 people, but i realized i could try to help stretch that money even further by matching other people's donations.

so, boost this post and whatever amount of money you have to give--50, 20, 10, 1 or less--donate it to the GFM linked below and then send a screenshot of proof of your donation either in a reblog on this post or in DMs to me, and i'll match it, up to $100 (which is a little less than €100 but it's what i have).

i'm hoping that at the very least we can get another person's worth of donations and double my original donation, maybe more if people keep donating through this post after i've sent all mine, but even if this post gets no traction i'll still be donating the full $100 within the week. there's nothing to lose, please boost to help Walaa Abusamra and her family evacuate gaza right now, and donate anything you can if you have it.

#sam.message #palestine #free palestine #mutual aid

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for the ask game: 5, 24, 28 & 39

[ask game]

5- what made you start your blog?

tumblr meme screenshots i read when i was 13 lmao (but I deactivated a few times since then)

24- what’s one thing you’re proud of yourself for?

staying alive mostly. i did not think i would ever be 20 years old but here i am, and hoping to reach 40!

28- do you collect anything?

plushies mostly!

39- youtuber you’ve been obsessed with and why?

i've been watching cellbit a lot because of nostalgia

#sam.asks #supahstarrr

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questions I think would be fun to be asked

what are 3 things you’d say shaped you into who you are?

show us a picture of your handwriting?

3 films you could watch for the rest of your life and not get bored of?

what’s an inside joke you have with your family or friends?

what made you start your blog?

what’s the best and worst part of being online/a creator?

what scares you the most and why?

any reacquiring dreams?

tell a story about your childhood

would you say you’re an emotional person?

what do you consider to be romance?

what’s some good advice you want to share?

what are you doing right now?

what’s something you’ve always wanted to do but maybe been to scared to do?

what do you think of when you hear the word “home”?

if you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

name 3 things that make you happy

do you believe in ghosts and/or aliens?

favourite thing about the day?

favourite things about the night?

are you a spiritual person?

say 3 things about someone you love

say 3 things about someone you hate

what’s one thing you’re proud of yourself for?

fave season and why?

fave colour and why?

any nicknames?

do you collect anything?

what do you do when you’re sad?

what’s one thing that never fails to make you happy/happier?

are you messy or organised?

how many tabs do you have open right now?

any hobbies?

any pet peeves?

do you trust easily?

are you an open book or do you have walls up?

share a secret

fave song at the moment?

youtuber you’ve been obsessed with and why?

any bad habits?

(this post was stolen from @teenage-mutant-ninja-freak, since it couldn't be reblogged anymore)

#ask game

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

#polls #nope

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#sam.message #palestine #free palestine #no id

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Passover seder at UC Berkeley’s Gaza solidarity encampment (via twitter)

#sam.message #palestine #free palestine #judaism #passover #pesach #antizionism #no id

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A premature Palestinian baby, who was saved from her mother’s womb after she was killed in an Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip, has died after days in an incubator.

Sabreen al-Rouh Jouda died in a Gaza hospital on Thursday after her health deteriorated and medical teams were unable to save her, said her uncle, Rami al-Sheikh Jouda.

Dr Mohammad Salama, head of the emergency neonatal unit at Emirati Hospital in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, who was caring for the baby girl, also confirmed her death on Friday.

“I and other doctors tried to save her, but she died. For me personally, it was a very difficult and painful day,” Salama told the Reuters news agency. [...]

The girl, who was named Sabreen after her mother, was rescued through a Caesarean section after her mother succumbed to her injuries.

[Sabreen] Al-Sakani [Sr.], who was 30 weeks pregnant, was killed along with her husband and a young daughter. [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @allthegeopolitics, @vague-humanoid

#sam.message #palestine #free palestine #child death #child death tw #death tw #death

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#userbox #plurality #plural

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verso books has made books on palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions free to download on their website

#sam.message #palestine #free palestine

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Here’s what you’re not being told: The most pressing threats to our safety as Jewish students do not come from tents on campus. Instead, they come from the Columbia administration inviting police onto campus, certain faculty members, and third-party organizations that dox undergraduates. Frankly, I regret the fact that writing to confirm the safety of Jewish Ivy League students feels justified in the first place. I have not seen many pundits hand-wringing over the safety of my Palestinian colleagues mourning the deaths of family members, or the destruction of Gaza’s cherished universities.

#sam.message #palestine #free palestine #judaism #antizionism

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[ ID: Photo of a crowd of people holding a giant Palestine flag, with some red carnations on top of it. /End ID ]

A Palestinian flag, with carnations, during the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of Portugal's Carnation Revolution (April 25, 1974), which ended the country's dictatorship.

#sam.message #palestine #free palestine #portugal #carnation revolution

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I know white people especially struggle with this concept but like when a Palestinian, or any other group of Black or brown people are calling you in and making a general statement about the state of the allyship for our causes, and making criticism of common behaviours or whatever else, that is NOT an invitation for you to confess your own shortcomings or your journey of self-improvement. Especially not under our posts. Make your own post if you really feel like it. But we don't need to hear your personal story of how you ignored our long-standing genocide until you saw enough people doing the right thing and you decided to follow. Keep that to yourself.

These posts are meant for you to REFLECT ON YOURSELF! BY YOURSELF! QUIETLY! And decide on your OWN what part of your behaviours you can identify being criticized in these posts and fix them!! And if you need help you can ask a question without necessarily giving us all the details of how you used to be ignorant or whatever. We're not here to hand out forgiveness we're trying to help coordinate and organize people to be more cohesive and we're giving you tips to be better allies. We're not giving you counciling for white guilt!!!

#sam.message #palestine #free palestine

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Another fundraiser I trust!

He has a tumblr, and it seems he's very new to it and doesn't know how to use it properly so he ends up looking like a bot but dw he is legit. I had a long conversation with Mahmoud over DM's just to go over everything. It all checks out. Please consider donating to get his family out of Ghazzah! Additionally, his brother-in-law is special needs and cannot be taken care of in a tent!

#sam.message #palestine #free palestine #mutual aid

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my prayers and thoughts to every refugee away from their home, unsafe and feeling like a stranger whether be inside the borders of their homeland or in other countries

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I am literally fucking BEGGING you all to also acknowledge the racism behind the terms "non-man" and "non-woman" and how they're used in queer definitions.

Black and Indigenous queer people have literally been talking about this since the definition was COINED but there's literally NO acknowledgement of this when pointing out why "non-men loving non-men" and "non-women loving non-women" are shitty fucking definitions to force on a whole community.

"Nonman" and "nonwoman" are terms that have been historically used to describe the degendering of black people in society. And words can obviously be used to mean different things- we don't have to stop using these terms altogether. But forcing these terms on a whole community of queer people is really fucking antiblack.

Not to mention that it blatantly degenders a lot of 2S lesbians and gays as well. It basically tells them that they can't be 2S and as a lesbian or gay at the same time, because then they would be "contradictory." I seriously hope I don't have to explain how racist it is to exclude a large portion of Two-Spirit people from your queer label because they don't fit into your neat little white gender binary.

Like these definitions aren't bad to use for yourself personally- but stop forcing them on all lesbians/gays. And if you're advocating for why these shouldn't be used as the most prominent definition, PLEASE acknowledge the racism aspect of it.

#sam.message #sam.queer