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Hey friends! Here's another list with gofund me campaigns that you can support and donate to. Please consider donating if you have the means to do so, and if you can't donate then please just help by sharing/ reblogging this post or the campaigns themselves!!

@ehabayyad23 https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-family-survive-the-war-on-gaza-by-fleeing-to-safety?attribution_id=sl:5c1fc34c-55a0-44de-a953-700fd5ab5bb4&utm_campaign=man_ss_icons&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link €1,457 raised out of €50,000 goal

@ahmed4palestine https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ahmed-to-survive-evacuate-gaza?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer $16,260 USD raised out of $20,000 goal

@ahmad-syam-blog https://www.gofundme.com/f/ahmed-jehad-and-his-newborn-need-to-survive?attribution_id=sl:79f5f430-c5cc-42bf-a616-4779727e6294&lang=en_US&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link $1,466 CAD raised out of $40,000 goal

@hayanahed https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-the-lives-of-my-family-in-gaza €76,373 raised of €100,000 goal

@kefahfamily https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-kifah-and-her-children-in-gaza-crisis $826 USD raised of $40,000 goal

@dodiahmed123 https://www.gofundme.com/f/h3w59-help-me-save-my-family-from-gaza?attribution_id=sl:5264bc29-fb7a-49d4-b366-eacc3f97abb0&utm_campaign=man_ss_icons&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link €635 raised of €20,000 goal

@olagaza1 https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-olas-pursuit-of-education-amid-crisis?attribution_id=sl:f705b178-a501-4d16-a399-86102929316b&lang=en_US&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link $30,030 USD raised of $50,000 goal

@mahmoud-1995 https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-gaza-family-to-get-out $11,571 USD raised of $50,000 goal

@yousefjehad3 https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-youssef-provide-medicine-and-shelter? $3,320 USD raised of $15,000 goal

@sarah-family https://www.gofundme.com/f/uvwq4-help-evacuate-my-family-from-the-war-zone-in-gaza?attribution_id=sl:14cb5f75-b242-4a32-b86b-e81f2bba9ee7&lang=en_US&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link  $5,850 CAD raised of $48,000 goal

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I remember the first time I read The Little Match Girl. I was about 6 or 7. It was my first time reading Hans Christian Anderson and, as a small child, my first story without a happy ending.

I remember going to my mother and demanding, through tears of sorrow and rage, (paraphrasing, but not much) what the hell kind of story was this? Little girl lives brutal, miserable life and freezes to death in the snow, how could you write something like that? How could anyone write something so unfair?

I remember very, very clearly my mother's attempt to explain.

"It's not a totally unhappy ending, she gets to go to heaven-"

"BUT SHE'S DEAD."

By the time I was a teenager, I understood the concept of tragedy and why people like it, and also that Hans Christian Anderson was Just Kinda Like That.

But I remember very, very clearly the surge of smug, delighted vindication I felt the first time I read The Hogfather, and read Death himself saying (paraphrased) "Absolutely fuck that"

Oh! Oh! Let me tell you why Andersen wrote The Little Match Girl. Honestly, I think you’ll love it.

Hans Christian Andersen wrote it--on the request of the publisher, Andreas Christian Ferdinand Flinch--in response to an illustration. Well, Flinch actually sent Andersen three illustrations to choose from, but I have no idea what the other two pics looked like.

(Photo of the woodcut drawn by Jacob Thomas Lundbye that inspired Andersen to write "Den Lille Pige Med Svovstikkerne"--literally, "The Little Girl With the Sulfur Sticks"--in late 1845. ) The woodcut had been printed once before, in 1843, in another publication (Flinch's Almanac, or House Calendar) run by the same person. The first time around, it illustrated an "article"--little more than a paragraph--called "Gjør vel, naar du giver (Do right when you give)." I don't know if Andersen was aware of this or of the article's content, but if he was, then he delivered the ultimate Take That to its author...who was probably Flinch himself.

If you want a line by line sporking of the translated article, go here. But basically, “Do right when you give” argued that broke kids who were begging (and selling matches was a cover for begging in the Victorian era) shouldn’t be given money or food, as that would simply encourage their parents to be lazy and improvident.

I don't know if Andersen was aware of this article...but if he wasn’t, then he wrote, by coincidence, a tale where everyone closes their eyes and hands to the needs of a poor child. He was extremely poor as a child, as was his mother, and he knew damned well what he was talking about.

If we interpret this story as a Take That to Flinch's article...well, it's basically showing the audience the worst possible outcome of their inaction. The little match girl freezes on the streets--but her home is so full of holes (and her parents clearly aren't earning enough to repair the damage if they are stuffing the holes with rags and straw) that she could have frozen there just as easily. She works all day at selling matches--but no one is willing to buy from her, which does neither her nor her parents any good. It certainly doesn't inspire them to work harder. And the making and selling of matches was generally a family business in the Victorian era. The match girl's mother and older siblings would probably be making the matches she sold--and incurring lasting damage to their bones and facial structure in the process. (DO NOT, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, GOOGLE "PHOSSIE JAW.") That happened to almost all people who made matches with phosphorus, i.e. mostly poor women, and the results were hideous and, eventually, fatal. The condition also severely limited their employment; businesses, then as now, had issues with illness and disfigurement.

In fact, aside from the boy who steals one of her slippers, no living person interacts with the little match girl at all. She is unimportant to the point of invisibility. No one sees her. No one even notices her presence until after her death. In the midst of all of the holiday celebrations of love and joy--which honor another impoverished child--a little girl freezes to death, because everyone else is busy with their own affairs. The story takes Flinch's argument to the logical extreme, showing what happens if someone with no food and no money isn't given any. There is no Hail Mary pass at the end, as there is for Tiny Tim, who manages to live once Scrooge reforms. Andersen provides no reassuring moments at the end. If you don't feed a child, keep her warm, or love her, you end up with a dead, unloved child. Sure, she goes to Heaven--but Earth could have been a lot kinder. All Flinch's selfish philosophy did was ensure that the little match girl died quicker...which didn't have to happen. I wonder if Flinch realized all this when he published the story.

voice acting as a profession is so funny because you'll see someone being like "voice actors need to be paid better! like [obscure person you've never heard of]" and you're like "oh I wonder who that person is, maybe I've heard them voice a character" and you look it up and it turns out they voice 137 characters in Futurama and 94 characters in The Simpsons and 96 characters in Adventure Time and every one of the My Little Ponies and 27 characters in Arcane and 96 characters in Kim Possible and 4 characters in Phineas and Ferb and 296 characters in Dexter's Laboratory and all of the main cast of Fairly Odd Parents and at least 6 characters in every Pixar movie and almost every animated depiction of Superman and 473 SpongeBob characters and they've been in every installment of Mass Effect and Halo and The Elder Scrolls and Fallout and Call of Duty and they were in Star Trek and Law & Order and they were 12 characters in the MCU and they also invented t-shirts and the colour green and they got paid a sum total of $3.27 and a mothball for all of it combined. then you go burn down David Zaslav's house with him inside

I so desperately want to be able to convince Trump supporters with facts and logic and empathy, but it’s so important to remember that their ignorance is INTENTIONAL. my mom didn’t let us watch Sleeping Beauty growing up. I asked her why recently and she said, “it was evil.” when I pointed out other movies had similar themes and depictions of evil, and asked what the difference was, she couldn’t. I pressed one more time and she just said, “it felt evil to me. I didn’t like it”. same thing with dune 2: she said it was “dark”, and I was, “literally, like the movie’s lighting? Or the themes?” and she said “I don’t know” and didn’t want to talk about it more. many conservatives genuinely cannot tell the difference between “I don’t like it” and “this is evil” and they do not care to learn despite many chances

and while I’m at, this can also be true of left-leaning people!!!! please think about things. you are not necessarily smarter than conservatives and you are not immune to propaganda

More than 20,000 children have been killed since the beginning of the war, and 30,000 others have been injured. There is still more under the rubble. Life in Gaza has no meaning.

"Does anyone feel us?" Your donation saves children from death.

#FreePalestine #JerusalemisOurs #GazaIsBleeding #SaveTheChildren#YourDonationSavesInnocentChildren

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since i only ever send rick rolls to ppl i figured id just post one for all my followers for april fools day this year to save myself the effort

happy april fools y’all

how bad could it possibly be

this is it.  this is my favorite tag on this post

it’s time. its been a whole year since i made this post

why does no understand the common courtesy of reblogging fics that they enjoy?

minors dni

big fan of the person taking advantage of this to copy paste the wikipedia article on soup in the replies

a collection

the sense of horror when you finish a book that was Ass Bad and you go to see what fellow haters are saying but all the reviews say it is the best thing they've ever read. feel like i just saw my reflection in the mirror move all by itself or something

Anna Haifisch

Babe are you okay I saw you reblogging "here's the life I've always longed for"

It’s so crazy how you can measure the shifts in culture based on which race Ariana is pretending to be

I wonder who she's gonna do next. Cheyenne, Romani, Slavic, Arab? The possibilities are endless if you have enough hope and racism inside you

hey everyone its april fools. but dont worry i dont have anything planned. just going to sit here and...

I LIED !!!! GET PRANKED

POST BELOW ME GET FUCKING WET

kind of funny how the currency in Mother 3 was called Dragon Power. the villains named it after how they planned to end the world. that's like if the united states dollar got named Global Warming Tokens