it really hurts me to see so many gazans asking us for help, though that’s through no fault of their own. they’ve been forced to use a social media site that they’re probably not familiar with (because tumblr has kind of faded out of popular consciousness), to interact with us in a second language, to distinguish themselves from the scammers who are taking advantage of genocide, and to ask strangers for help. i don’t think there are any cultures where it’s easy to ask for help like this, but i’m intimately familiar with how humiliating it can be in arab culture. please be kind, gracious and helpful to the gazans in your inbox. this is a desperate time for them, and in addition to the physical danger inflicted by “israel”, the prices of basic resources in gaza are extremely high due to scarcity, and those that manage to escape to egypt are financially exploited by landlords there and have an extremely difficult time finding work due to their unofficial status as refugees. these families will continue to need our help and i hope we can all continue to provide it to the best of our ability.
Yes! Use tumblr’s search feature to look up their URLs. If they’ve been vetted by Palestinians, there will be a post about it. The users el-shab-hussein and nabulsi made a vetted fundraisers spreadsheet that comes up in a lot of search results too, I’m on mobile and don’t have it on hand presently but it’s easy to find!
fyi, Jan Smit is the paleontologist who originally noticed high levels of iridium in the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary sediments (now known as the K-Pg Boundary) and hypothesized the Giant Asteroid Impact Theory as the reason dinosaurs went extinct!
and as far as I know he’s still out there, looking at rocks.
did you know that you can just not say something if you’re white. you can just not talk. its okay. you dont have to write a paragraph worth of tags justifying why the reason you don’t like rap ‘isn’t racist’. you dont have to apologize for being white. you can just not say anything and save yourself the humiliation. its alright. please take your hands off the keyboard
I feel as if studio ghibli films being reduced to their ‘cozyness’ would be tragic if not for the fact that it is a deliberate branding thing for them. from the ghibli museum to the revolving door of hot topic collabs, miyazaki and/or the people he puts in charge of these things are aware of how desirable the worlds within ghibli films are. even at that, how meaningful is the politics of howl’s moving castle being motivated by miyazaki’s outrage at the 2003 iraq invasion when you examine it alongside the actual text of the wind rises? what does the environmentalism of ponyo mean when faced with the massive amounts of waste generated by ghibli merch you can get at wal mart? i’m straying from the point here but
this was an officially licensed product that was released to promote grave of fireflies
noticing trends in your own ocs personalities can make you stare at your keyboard like. okay motherfucker take it to the therapist office not the toyhouse profile.
[looking at a canon/fan ship] yeah theres no romantic explanation for this sorryyy :3c people who are romantic dont look at each other like that wow they are such good friends/qpps!! do you think they hold hands and keep an eye out for each other and hug? do you think they text each other every day reminding each other to eat? childhood crushes to friends am i right :D
