🚨 🆘 🇱🇰 SRI LANKA NEEDS HELP 🇱🇰 🆘 🚨
Sri Lanka has been hit with its worst flash floods and landslides in 20 years in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah that made landfall two days ago. The banks of the longest river have burst, the reservoirs and flood control bunds are overflowing, entire towns engulfed three-storeys high, whole suburbs being evacuated as the water levels continue to rise. The death toll is over 150 and climbing, 78,000 people displaced, highways washed out, roads impassable. The country has ground to a standstill as rescue workers scour the waters for survivors and shelters go over capacity trying to offer food, medical aid and dry clothes and bedding to thousands of families. International news outlets are barely covering the climate catastrophy, most instead making us an endnote in their coverage of similar floods in Southeast Asia.
Sri Lanka is one of the poorest countries in the world that went through a historic economic crisis in 2022, defaulting on our sovereign debt. We have been painstakingly restructuring our debt and crawling our way back to solvency ever since. Everything we have built back is now being washed away. We need money and resources for the thousands of internally displaced families, especially to combat the infectious diseases and epidemics that will follow the floods.
From Vajra Chandrasekera's ( @adamantine) blog post.
Cyclone Ditwah Flood Relief Sri Lanka
November 29, 2025 | Vajra Chandrasekera
Cyclone storm Ditwah has hit Sri Lanka very hard. The toll of the dead and missing are climbing; tens of thousands are displaced.
Amalini De Sayrah is maintaining a list of current appeals for help with bank account information (Google Doc). This doc includes instructions and screenshots on how to use Wise to donate from outside the island.
All of the below are smaller, on-the-ground relief initiatives that I trust and personally vouch for. Most of this is geared toward people in Sri Lanka or with connections to the island, but if you want to help, anyone can donate from anywhere—Wise.com lets you donate directly to a local bank account, and any of the below are a good choice. See below for Wise instructions, though it’s pretty self-explanatory.
Carestation works in multiples areas as well. Bank account information and updates here (Instagram) or on their website.
Marisa De Silva is running point on a number of flood relief initiatives. Contact her to support directly. Phone number and updates here (Facebook)
Update: You can now donate via Venmo! Hasini* has a Venmo link here, which will route through Saritha Irugalbandara in Sri Lanka for medical supplies and other necessary essentials.
All of the above relief and mutual aid efforts are (sadly but fortunately) experienced, having done this before a few years ago during Sri Lanka’s economic crisis. So you can rely on your donations getting traction on the ground asap. Please do help if you can.
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*This is a different Hasini, not me.
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dying @ the fact that Blackest Night: Batman #3, where tim has to fight off the evil reanimated corpses of both his parents and their murderer, Adventure Comics (2009) #3, where tim sees kon for the first time after his resurrection and has a nervous breakdown in the parisian sewers, and Red Robin #5, where tim almost gets assassinated & loses his damn spleen, all came out on the exact same day. october 14 2009 first international tim drake fucking struggles day
happy tim drake fucking struggles day
tim drake's no good very bad day
Jason: “Do you remember when you first told me you loved me?”
Tim *on his fourth energy drink of the hour hunched over a case file*: “Huh?”
Jason: “I asked ‘do you think you’re that good now?’ You looked up at me and said ‘Yes.’”
Tim: “Are… are you talking about when you beat my ass in the tower? Jason I was choking on my own blood!”
Jason *sighs softly*: “I know. Red really is your color.”
Tim concerned: “Are you feeling okay?”
Jason pouting: “B punched me in the head. I didn’t have my helmet on.”
Tim: “There it is.”
Jason: “Doesn’t change my love for you! When we get married which last name am I taking?”
some fandom disagreements are like "I see your point but I think this other aspect of the narrative is more significant," and some are like "I don't think you can read."
Reblog if you are a fanfiction author and would like your readers to put one of your fic titles in your ask + questions about it
@yj98girlsweek losses/bonds. Look if you think taking out the non-meta first is gonna make the fight easier you’d be wrong.
I didn't have time to do a bunch of drawings for yj98 girls week themes but i love these girlies so much so here's my one contribution to the event :)
Unfortunate that a woman can be fired and have her creative project erased from existence for being mean on the internet while a former CIA agent can mine his experience as a war criminal for content and a serial sexual harasser can continue to be on the payroll for years until the look gets too bad.
Tim Drake won tbh imagine being someone’s biggest fan ever since you were just a little kid and now he’s your brother and he loves you.
if you were never going to give this series a fair shot because of the assumptions you made on it before it came out, I bet the news of DC firing GFM and cancelling Red Hood 2025 is wonderful and worth celebrating to you, or whatever.
but I do think we really ought to carefully consider the implications that DC is all about using iconography of killing fascists in their biggest movie of the year and how that is unequivocally a good thing, but the moment someone employed by them is mildly happy a fascist is dead, they will immediately get fired. all the while, Tom King, an honest to god war criminal, stays gainfully employed. ultimately any political stance DC puts on a show about that is just that, a show, when they've made it clear exactly what type of people they're willing to employ and what ones get fired for stepping out of line.
DC clearly wanted the imagery and ""vibes"" of giving Jason Todd a dark, mature, political storyline, but clearly could not fathom the idea that when hiring someone who writes those kinds of stories, they tend to actually hold the political beliefs they're putting in your books, and not just dancing around a performative neo-liberal stance that lacks any substance aside from lukewarm feel-good moments. they hired GFM for the exact thing they fired her for- the political beliefs and envelope-pushing content she's known for that would've suited Jason well, if she had a chance to go where she was going to go with the story. but hey, I'm sure the next neo-liberal Scott Lobdell knockoff who gets to write Jason will be so much better and won't at all play into DC's obvious trend of victim blaming Jason.
and truly, good luck for Jason *or* Helena to get any significant appearances for a *while* until DC feels enough time has passed and they've brushed it far enough under the rug. even if this story was bad, they were at least *getting* a story and now they're going to get thrown right back into the pile of background Batfamily characters to fill out a roster and never have their personal stories explored or told. and they especially won't be told by writers bold enough to not soften either of these characters morals to make them more palatable to a wider audience and the company selling them. (and fwiw: I actually read issue one. it was fine. the story was interesting and the character work was not egregious.)
you can dislike GFM for whatever personal reasons you have, but if you think DC firing a trans woman the moment she says something they don't like about the politics she made it clear she stood on from the get-go is a *good thing* because now your favorite *fictional characters* are safe from what could've been a medicore run, I honest to god think you're missing the bigger picture in all this. because this is DC showing exactly where they stand as a company and how little they'll back the supposed progressive stories they're telling.
if they can fire someone for celebrating someone’s death surely they can fire someone for celebrating the murders he literally committed
i love female characters who SUCK. Like omg queen you suck so BAD 🤩🤩🤩 Youre a totally shitty person lol 🥰🥰🥰 never has anyone been so selfish and self centered 🤩🤩🤩 your morals are deeply warped and dude i mean it youre brain is SERIOUSLY fucked up 😘😘😘 let me spend every waking hour analyzing why you're so deeply disturbed 😄😄😄
