a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.

• care for gaza - focuses on providing food and essential supplies. donate here or here.
• connecting humanity - securing internet access via donations of virtual sim cards (esims). if you can't afford a whole plan yourself, crips for esims is a communal pool that will use your donation to purchase and maintain esims
• gaza soup kitchen - provides food, medical care, and classes for children. also has a gofundme
• glia gaza medical support initiative - provides medical care through field clinics and tents at hospitals. donations can also be sent through their website.
• ele elna elak - provides clean water, food, clothing, and shelter. they also have a gofundme
• life for gaza - raising money for the gaza municipality to repair water and waste management infrastructure
• taawon - partners with local civil organizations to provide food, water, medical care, shelter, and basic supplies
• the sameer project - running various initiatives providing tents, medical care, and necessities. they have their own encampment project focused on sheltering families with children, sick and disabled members, or members in need of perinatal care
• islamic relief worldwide's gaza emergency appeal - provides food, water, hygiene kits, medical supplies, and psychological support
• baitulmaal - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, shelter, and medical supplies
• gaza mutual aid fund - distributes food, hygiene products, water, and other essential supplies, including financial support. run by @/el-shab-hussein's amazing friend Mona. updates can be found on her instagram.
• hygiene kits for gaza - provides hygiene supplies including menstrual products, wipes, and toothbrushes/toothpaste
• anera - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, hygiene supplies, medicine, blankets and mattresses, and psychological care
• palestine children's relief fund - provides supplies and support with a focus on children. also has an initiative for lebanon
• dahnoun mutual aid - provides water, food, tents, baby supplies, financial support, and other necessities. updates can be found through their instagram

certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn't include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.

now remember, "kink" is to "fetish" as "poisonous" is to "venomous"

*hands you a knife*

you know what to do. we're all counting on you.

I'mma be so real with y'all, one of my favorite narrative tropes for fantasy worldbuilding is "Holy does not mean safe"

I love when a story has the proven existence of Holy forces, the true and sincere presence of divine Goodness, and those forces are not corrupt, and not secretly evil— and yet still are capable of doing things that can be unambiguously described as "deeply fucked up".

There's something strangely compelling to me about the concept of a divinity that doesn't have flaws, per se, but has rules and limitations and sometimes those three words are close enough in meaning that the difference ceases to matter.

Supernatural power that's so overwhelmingly potent it can cause harm. Immortality made clumsy by its inability to comprehend the scale of mortal lives, how brief, how fragile. Goodness that fails to comprehend the distress its actions may cause, because it knows with prescient clarity that this is The Best Way, and cannot understand that mortals do not already see the clear path between cause and consequence. A Heaven that will do Good works through you, whether you consent to the necessary sacrifices involved or not. (Or, on the contrary— a Heaven so tightly bound not to violate the autonomy of free will that they are forced to look on in silent witness to atrocity, unless their intervention is specifically and purposefully invoked.)

I will literally never get tired of this sort of thing in fiction. Limited divinity; the way any rules, even the rules of the divine, will inevitably find edge cases or rules-lawyering where they do not function as intended; the inherently alien nature of things that Are Not Human and Do Not Think Like Humanity (even when those things are, objectively speaking, Good and have benevolent intent)

Give me more of that in Every Applicable Genre, please and thank you

*right clicks on you*

Vinyl records are circular because it's an efficient use of space: the grooves that encode the music are laid out in a spiral on the disc, so that the needle only has to move as far as the disc's radius to read the entire thing. Before this clever idea was thought of, the grooves were instead laid out in a straight line, and every LP was a narrow rectangle more than a thousand feet long. To flip an album to side b at least two people were needed, one at each end, coordinating via shouted instructions.

The real solution to MB needing at least one thing on its public id

ART being brought back in NE. To me. If you even care

we are losing the ancient art of full song-length amvs so bad. i keep seeing banger edits that just cut off at 30 seconds what are u doing FINISH THE SONG!!!!