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the only thing we do is just a click, im exhausted, fuck our governments, i will be rebloging other things for the sake of my heart and mind.
i love you all
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Maurice by E.M. Forster - Notes by David Leavitt:
The most sustained criticism of Pianola in literature comes in Forster's posthumously published novel Maurice. Here Clive Durham, the boy with whom Maurice falls in love up at Cambridge, is found in chapter six sorting out 'a castle of pianola records' of the march from Tchaikovsky's Pathétique; then, when he goes to play them, a mutual friend tells Maurice, 'You should get away from the machine [Pianola]' - and therefore Clive himself - 'as far as you can'. The Pianola manufactures music in the same way that Clive 'manufactures' heterosexual passion (which consequences less outwardly disastrous for him than for Tchaikovsky). That the way one makes music - or connects to music - signifies one's values in Forster's work is illustrated beautifully when Maurice meets Alec Scudder at Penge: together they move a real piano from under a leak in Clive ancestral home. This instrument, like their relationship, is the genuine article, and worth protecting from the decay of that society. The instrument itself embodies virtue.
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I haven’t read the book so I can’t say but something that struck me in James Ivory’s 1987 Maurice is the fact that Maurice & Alec’s relationship is started by Maurice unknowingly sending a signal to Alec, which Alec largely misinterprets, but it works out anyways, and much later at the end, when they meet at the boathouse, Alec goes “did you get my wire” and Maurice goes “what” because again he completely missed that signal but it doesn’t matter because he’s here anyways. And it’s like. There were a million mistakes to make and a million mistakes they made, but somehow, they find their way to each other, almost unwittingly. Maurice says “It’s a chance in a thousand we met” but I don’t think that’s true. I think it was always going to be like this, in every world they would have found each other. It’s the way they fall into each other’s arms so easily and they try to get away from each other but they can’t and they’re separated by so much but they still collide… This story is SCREAMING at us that no matter how impossible it is no matter how alone and repressed you feel you mustn’t lose hope because your love will find you and you can’t avoid it! You will be happy!
Hey people on Tumblr, I have a question for you : do you contribute to your community ? Do you take the initiative to make things better for the people around you ?
I’ve brought up many times about Shahed Abumousa. She’s a 20 year old Palestinian who is studying dentistry and she is doing her best to survive a whole year of horror and violence. Since October last year, she has gone through the bombing of her house, the multiple displacements, the hunger and thirst, the shootings and diseases.
Despite it all, Shahed has dedicated her time, energy, and effort for everyone around her. She has volunteered as medical aid when hospitals were being destroyed one by one, distributed food with her family when she is starving, and taught children who couldn’t go to school in between her classes. Speaking of which, she continues with her education to achieve her degree while fundraising for her family of 7 people’s survival and supplies for her students. She is carrying a lot on her shoulders when she is only 20!
I am asking you once again:, what are you doing for your community? The truth is that most people are doing the bare minimum, if anything at all. So if you want to make a difference, please donate and share. Your contribution will not only help Shahed and her family survive, but it will also help give back to her community. So give what you can because she's stagnating at the halfway mark that she reached only recently after 7 months. She deserves all of our support.
NO DONATIONS IN THE LAST 16 HOURS.
Do better. Don't let Shahed down like this, especially when she's so close to recent IOF airstrikes
YOUR DAILY CLICK.
Help a Palestinian family in need today. Click here to donate to a vetted campaign.
This is a fundraiser on @el-shab-hussein list of Vetted fundraisers masterpost.1 Number 24.
There is also this spreadsheet made by @nabulsi and @el-shab-hussein You will find Amal Abushammala's family at number 24.
€61,370/€65,000 as of September 28th
They're getting so close to their goal! Just €3,630 away!
please consider donating €5, €10, or €20 to help the fundraiser along further! And reblog/share the campaign so that others who can donate may see it!
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decided to make this a weekly thing where i go through my inbox and link palestine accounts that have reached out to me
(pls note that bc of the sheer amount of palestine aid related asks i’ve gotten i’m not able to look through all of them to confirm wether they’re vetted/trust worthy or not.)
@belalgaza1
@ahmedsobeh2009 or @ahmed-sobeh
@shinytastemakerphantom
non palestine related asks
@perfectpiratewonderland (not entirely sure on the reliability of this 1. please do some research before donating :-) )
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Art by Raja Nandepu
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From the GoFundMe organizer, Cricket:
Donate!!!!!!🩷
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you again
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@ahmed0khalil asked me to boost his family’s campaign with some art, so here it is !
The Khalil family is a family of eight, many of whom are children, including Ahmed who is only 6 and barely started school when they had to flee from bombings. They currently reside in a UN center among many other families, but medical and hygiene care and proper accommodations are extremely difficult to find and keep in these conditions.
This campaign is very far from their goal, so please share and support where you can.
And remember your daily click.
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Birthday gift great blue heron, watercolor and ink.
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Today's list of vetted fundraisers!
1 : Abeer family €2598 / €50000
2 : alkhateeb,s family kr15,890 / kr 180,000
3 : Ashraf family €8269 / €20,000
4 : nadeed family €4407 / 50000
6 : yousef madi €160 / €5000
7 : islam alnajjar €2720 / €30,000
8 : mahmoud,s family €447 / €20,000
9 : Aya family €5558 / €15000
10 : sondos family €511 / €95000