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Happy ten years to this post
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After more than a month of disconnection, we are finally back...
-These photos are from today, 11/3/2025.-
Today, I am sharing a glimpse of our new life, where we have started again beside our home that was destroyed by war. Despite the pain and loss, we have not lost hope, and our determination to build a better future for our children remains unshaken.
This Tumblr house we now live in is not just wallsβit is a testament to our resilience and to the love and support of everyone who has stood by us. You have always been a community full of kindness and generosity, and today, I share these moments so you can see how the light continues to shine in our hearts despite everything.
-This clip was made yesterday by my daughter Lian to make something for Amir to sleep in and the experiment was successful. This is Amir sleeping.-
But life here is still very difficult. We are still trying to stay strong, and we have built a simple shelter to live inβI will attach photos. We are waiting for the border to open so we can travel, hoping for the day when I can see my children wearing school uniforms, going to learn, playing in safe, undamaged places, eating clean food, and drinking safe water.
For now, we are just trying to survive with what little we have, as the border remains closed to everyone except those with severe medical conditions and critical war injuries.
We need your support once again. I will try to stay connected online and keep sharing photos and videos of our new life. Thank you to everyone standing with usβyou are our hope in these difficult times.
My campaign has been verified here #174!
& vetted by @gazavetters number #374
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TransTape: A Guide
I've gotten a lot of asks about TransTape, and noticed a lot of gaps in knowledge. I've been binding with it for over a year now, and I thought a little guide might be helpful!
What is TransTape?
TransTape is an alternative to using a compression binder (like gc2b sells) that does not use compression; instead, a body-safe cloth tape is used to pull your chest underneath your armpits and stick them there against your skin.
Taken from the TransTape Instagram [IMAGES: Three shirtless people with rectangles of transtape pulling their chests flat and under their armpits, so they look more like pecs than breasts. /END]
TransTape was developed by trans people, for binding, from kinetic tape- which is used to treat physical injuries and disabilities in athletics. Though kinetic tape isn't proven to actually improve these problems, it is tested and safe to wear the way TransTape is worn.
Kinetic tape can be used as a cheaper alternative to TransTape, it just doesn't come in the sizes and nude colors generally preferable for binding.
Is It Safe?
Because TransTape doesn't use compression, it doesn't have an impact on your ribcage, lungs, or other internal organs like a compression binder does. It only interacts with your skin, which means short-term and long-term use will only impact your skin.
To the best of available knowledge, TransTape is safe as long as you apply it and remove it correctly. It can be worn while sleeping, exercising, showering/getting wet, and doing all of your other normal activities.
How long you can wear an application of TransTape depends on your lifestyle; the company recommends 3-5 days, with breaks of 1-2 days between applications.
Is It For Me?
Whether TransTape works for you depends on a lot of different factors, but the biggest deciding factor will likely be body type. Like any type of binding, larger chests are harder to flatten/masculinize, and the density of your chest can play a role as well. Skin sensitivity may also be a factor.
My recommendation is to try one roll, start with a test strip to check skin sensitivity, and give it at least 2 or 3 applications to check compatibility. You can check out TransTape's Instagram for some examples of different body types and the different ways people apply it.
The Brand
TransTape itself is expensive, and they've made some weird choices about things like essential oils. That said, they have the best guides and the most information on safe, correct use of binding tape.
You do not need to buy their products. The healing salve and removal oil in particular are more expensive than necessary. I recommend using lip balm in your nipple covers, baby oil for removal, and regular body lotion after removal instead of their products.
Application
TransTape has made a very detailed and comprehensive guide to safe application, which I recommend following.
Every body is different, and the method of application that works best for you may be different from what works best for other people. Experiment! It'll take a few tries to figure out what works for you; I took eight months to fine-tune my method.
Here's how I bind:
[IMAGE: A drawing of a torso with three strips of transtape: #1 is 3 sections long, starts 2 inches from the center of the chest, and the bottom edge of the tape runs over the bottom of the breast. #2 is 3 sections long, and overlapped on top of #1 where the nipple is. #3 is 3.5 sections long, placed directly over the middle of #1 and #2, and has one inch in front of and behind the ends of #1 and #2. The text says "Apply nipple covers, then strip 1, 2, then 3. Ensure ends of strip 3 both "anchor" on skin. /END]
I use a lot more tape than their method does, but this is easiest and flattest for me! It might be a good start for beginners.
Safety Tips
To ensure application is safe, remember to:
- Apply nipple covers. Use 1/2 of a section of tape, with a square of toilet paper folded into thirds each way in the middle. Lip balm on your nipples and the toiler paper will keep your nipples hydrated.
- Use a 1-2 inch "anchor" on both ends of the tape; this area of the tape should not be stretched. This prevents your skin from itching or getting shallow, surface-level abrasions while wearing.
- Remove tape ASAP if you experience any amount of bleeding or pain. Itching is normal, especially with your first few applications, but shouldn't continue for more than a day or two of wear.
- Never apply over wounds/scabs/abrasions. Scars are fine, but make sure your skin is healed before application.
Safe Removal
TransTape's how-to guide includes a section on safe application, which I recommend deferring to. Some basics:
- Never remove tape dry. Always soak your tape thoroughly with oil before removal; removal oil and baby oil are preferable, and coconut oil is also safe, but will leave adhesive residue.
- Rub tape off, don't peel. If you rub at the ends/edges of the tape while it's oiled, it'll start to come off on its own in about 2-5 minutes. This is the best way to ensure you don't damage your skin.
- Removal should never hurt. Slow down if you're feeling more than, at most, a light sting here and there. It's okay if you get some redness or shallow abrasions, but you should go more slowly next time.
- Let your skin rest! Give your skin a day or two of rest between wears, if possible. I usually wear a compression binder on those days, and the drastically reduced use of compression binders means I'm still avoiding the long-term risks they can come with.
- Lotion & TLC: use lots of lotion on your chest between wears, and otherwise treat your skin nicely!
Removal is where the most damage to your skin can occur, so it's important that you follow safety instructions.
Managing Expectations
There is a learning curve with TransTape, and it takes a while to get the hang of it. A lot of people try it once and give up, but it will get easier and more effective with more attempts.
Here's some things to keep in mind:
- Your first attempt will suck. Mine looked like I was just wearing a bra, and I felt incredibly dysphoric about it. The second attempt was a little better, and the third attempt was much better.
- It takes a long time to get the hang of it. Like, months. You'll keep figuring out better methods and getting flatter over time.
- You skin isn't used to this. Part of getting flatter is your skin learning to stretch a bit more over time.
- Tightness. Your skin will feel tight in the center of your chest with your first few applications; this is normal, and it won't tear there.
- Itching. Your skin will itch under the tape; I got it really badly around the second day of wear. This eases up and eventually stops after a couple of months of consistent use, as your skin adjusts.
- Stretching. Your skin will stretch near the center of your chest, and you may notice a slight change in texture. This is normal, should be very subtle, and should go back to normal if you stop wearing tape for a long enough time.
- "Masculinization" vs. Flattening: TransTape can get folks flat, but more often it's about re-shaping your chest to be more "masculine"/look like pecs rather than breasts. It just depends on your body type!
TransTape isn't for everyone, but it can be a really great alternative for a lot of folks, too. It might be worth a shot! Just be safe, manage your expectations, and try to give it a few applications before you give up on it.
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βΌοΈPlease donβt skip taking a look ππ΅πΈ
Hi, my name is Naomi, and Iβm from Texas. Iβm organizing this fundraiser on behalf of my friend, Ahmed Abu Al-Rish, who is in Gaza. This fundraiser is meant to help him and his family escape the genocide.
βHello, my name is Ahmed, 19 years old from Gaza. I finished high school with a high average and a very good grade, and because of the genocide war on Gaza, I was deprived of enrolling in university. I had dreams and ambitions to study photographic design, but I was deprived of all of that because of the genocide war on Gaza. I was living the best days of my youth. But with the beginning of this war, I became unable to live my normal life. At least our warm house sheltered me and my family until it was bombed for the first time, that damned night. Our house has become like a ghost town. We continued to seek refuge from death there until we were besieged and displaced from our safety under fire to a tent (shelter) in the bitter cold of winter, with the lack of basic necessities of life (water pollution, high cost of living, disease, insect infestation,
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βDifficulty of movement, overcrowding), and many other daily difficulties, especially with the significant increase in prices. This was not the first time we had to be displaced. We moved again from a tent in Rafah to another tent in Khan Yunis. I then returned to our destroyed home to repair what we could to find shelter for my family, despite not having all the basic necessities of life (destroyed sanitation infrastructure and water lines, destroying any form of life). Please help me achieve my dream of completing my academic career at university and for my family to survive this genocide and escape to a safe place. And travel β€οΈβ€οΈβ
Hereβs the link: https://gofund.me/c4472150
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op turned off reblogs for understandable reasons but i viscerally needed to repost this because it summarizes everything ive been saying so concisely
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A Handy-dandy Guide to illyβs KOF Work
*** Updated 05-27-2024 ***
Now that Iβve written hella KOF stories I should probably leave a guide with the order in which they take place so, like, here you go: T.K.O. FFN | AO3 Breakfast of Champions FFN | AO3 R&D FFN |Β AO3 Uncomfortable Liar FFN | AO3 Sad Transmission FFN | AO3 Rum & Cheese AO3 Silver Lining FFN | AO3 The Window and the Wall FFN | AO3 Peace Offering FFN | AO3 Upsizing FFN | AO3 Fight or Flight FFN | AO3 Scar Tissue FFN | AO3 G-Spot FFN | AO3 Kiss With A Fist FFN | AO3 Small Cuts AO3 Love In A Trashcan (Takes place before and after MLS) FFN | AO3 Much Like SuffocatingΒ FFN |Β AO3 Sleep Apnea (takes place between MLS chapters 6 and 7) FFN | AO3 Legalities (takes place between MLS chapters 6 and 7) FFN | AO3 Powerless FFN | AO3 Burn It All FFN | AO3 How Do You Sleep? FFN | AO3 Oxygen to Breathe FFN | AO3 Out of Gas (takes place between OtB chapters 5 and 6) FFN | AO3 Pinky Swear (takes place between OtB chapters 10 and 11) FFN | AO3 Closed FFN | AO3 Bothered and Bewildered FFN | AO3 Thanks For Nothing FFN | AO3 Β A Profound Impact (Although the events take place primarily before all of these, the current-day stuff is after TFN) FFN | AO3 Robertβs Job FFN | AO3 Β A Loose End FFN | AO3 Sledgehammer FFN | AO3 Red FFN | AO3 Bang (takes place sometime during Red chapter 4) FFN | AO3 When The Partyβs Over FFN | AO3 Hurt (collaboration with Rex Madison) FFN | AO3 Trigger FFN | AO3 Grim Struggle (KOF/RE2 fusion mess) FFN | AO3 Wonder Whatβs Next FFN | AO3 Accident FFN | AO3 Another Know It All (takes place in tandem with Accident) FFN | AO3 Pins and Needles FFN | AO3 Well Enough Alone FFN | AO3 xanny FFN | AO3 Aftershocks FFN | AO3 Seclusion Stories FFN | AO3 A Subdued Celebration FFN | AO3 Karma Police (collaboration with jojoDO) FFN | AO3 Good Cop, Bad Cop FFN | AO3 Powerboating FFN | AO3 Officer Friendly FFN | AO3 (takes place during SS chapter Barbershop) Pep Talk FFN | AO3 Preferences FFN | AO3 (Halloween fic!) Thanksgiving Blues FFN | AO3 A Very Special Episode (Collaboration with RobertCop3) FFN | AO3 In And Out of Control Β (After SS Chapter 17) FFN | AO3 A Good Fight FFN | AO3 Man Pain (Collaboration with jojoDO) FFN | AO3 Devilβs Night FFN | AO3 Their Cell FFN | AO3 Connections FFN | AO3 Gal Pals Β FFN | AO3 Thirst Trap FFN | AO3 Circus Acts Β FFN | AO3 Come a Little Closer Β FFN | AO3 Jam Session Β FFN | AO3 Brain Teaser FFN | AO3 Common Ground (Collaboration with Mana_Sputachu) FFN | AO3 The Siren (Collaboration with Mana_Sputachu) FFN | AO3 The Cake Is a Lie Β FFN | AO3 Miss Self-Destruct FFN | AO3 Catnip FFN | AO3 An Evening With The Devil FFN | AO3 Customer Service FFN | AO3 Scarborough Fair FFN | AO3 I Feel Fantastic (Collaboration with Mana_Sputachu) Β AO3 Orgy Meal AO3 Down the Rabbit Hole AO3 A Moment of Weakness AO3 Decimation (FFN | AO3) is a side story bonus that has nothing to do with any of the other stories listed above and can be read whenever, but Iβm not telling you how to live your life. Β Stripes (FFN | AO3) is another side story bonus that is independent of the other works.
*Seclusion Stories takes place both before and after A Subdued Celebration
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Someone made an extensive google spreadsheet I've attached below (bless their hearts my gosh) -also don't forget to block Charlie Puth too and any other artist or actor you can think of. 'Influencers' are also NOT excluded from this. If I find a list with them I will post it but this includes every single one of them with a platform who have been silent. That includes the "let them eat cake" Haley Baylee who gushed about having 10 million followers after attending the Met Gala -all while Rafah was being bombed.
Also, on contrary to what was said above -I'm well past the point of caring about the feelings of celebrities and influencers. They should be publicly shamed because their priorities and moral compasses are broken -clearly. The ones who have spoken up, especially over the past 9 months, are the one's who deserve to be supported.
Also, I'd like this blockout to continue. This isn't something that happens for a week and then goes away if 'they do talk,' (Lizzo is the most recent example I can give when she said celebrities have no power then pulled a Rock and Oprah moment by asking her fans to help send funds to someone in Gaza instead of donating herself which she could very well have done -major side eye).
I also recently posted about another strategy -cart abandonment you can view here:
We have the power folks, and if you haven't already done so please mass block them on all platforms. I already started doing more the other night and will commence.
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This is such a tiring conversation, but it really needs to be finished once and for all.
Leoβs gender is NEVER confirmed, however, Leoβs gender IS confirmed to be whatever you like. I keep seeing people get in reaaaally heated arguments over this, when itβs really just how YOU see Leo. Harada has expressed this many times.
Thereβs more proof leaning towards the fact that Leo is male, from the way Leo is referred to by Namco and the general game overall. The only evidence of Leo being female is that Leo wore a bikini in tag2, and Leos scrapped name.
Harada has confirmed that Leo IS NOT nonbinary, however if thatβs how you personally perceive Leo, then thatβs cool! Thatβs the point! But please do not spread misinformation to those who donβt know. Itβs not canon, Itβs not confirmed.
[I know thereβs some people thatβll bring up the βambiguousβ argument for Leo being nonbinary, but ANYBODY can be ambiguous, not just nonbinary folks. Heβs referred to as βambiguousβ on the wikis simply because Leos gender is not confirmed]
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Anyways, I hoped this was at least a tiny bit helpful to those who are struggling trying to figure out what exactly Leo is. Do not attack people for the way they perceive Leo, itβs incredibly immature.
βLeo is Leo, your game characterβ
Also, enjoy some Leo Strife!
Iβll see if I can work on a fic or some sort of fanart for Leo, so be on the lookout for that! :]
Imma be real this is a failure on Haradas part by making an exhausting and needlessly complicated work around to just making Leo just nonbinary or the MANY other nonbinary genders. He can retexualize it now if he wanted to and say they were like agender or genderless. ( I HC them as a genderless lesbian :P)
Like ofc there's chuds put there constantly asking the gender question for 16 years straight but my god if you wanted them to be up to interpretation make a wish fulfillment mf like in the later FE games πππ
Like idk why do WE the audience have to do the job of interpretating trans rep when he could've wrote a more meaningful story about a trans kid losing their parents like idk man π΅βπ«π΅βπ«π΅βπ«