found this today

Please use these terms correctly. Not doing so will deeply harm the people who actually have experienced trauma, gaslighting, triggers, and people who have NPD.

Edit: okay holy hell this blew up overnight. To everyone who is mentioning the censoring - I did not make this graphic, nor did I censor it. I ABSOLUTELY AGREE and it actually kind of ties into my original point. That being said, PLEASE stop reblogging just to say that. I know. Everyone knows. It has been said enough.

THANK YOU!

Palestine fundraisers with easily-achievable goals

By "easily-achievable", I mean in the 50-60K range and below. Once again, drawing from my pinned list of fundraisers, which have all been vetted by Palestinians on Tumblr (check that post for the proof next to each family name). I'll update this post just like the main list and the "under 1000 donations" list. Many of these are extremely close to completing their funding. Let's help get them there!

As always, donate if you can, reblog if you can't!

LAST UPDATED 9/2

10K range

20K range

30K range

40K range

Note: The Aburass campaign is in SEK, so the goal is technically 450K, but converted to USD it's closer to 45. Ultimately I decided to include this one since USD, CAD, GBP, and EUR will be more powerful here, and a huge chunk of the site's user base will pay with one of those currencies. The more hands on deck, the better.

50K range

Issam's mother hasn't received any donations in two days, and with just over 4K to go, this one's very close to meeting its goal!

@ankalewi54

Oh my heart @lickylicky6969 🥰🐶🥰

Reblog to save a life

This is important!!!

cd in a microwave

it looks like an ancient rune activating its magic

Look. At. What. You. Guys. Did.

With the help of the funds you guys raised through the last post, Mona and some volunteers were able to cook and distribute so many chicken and rice meals that fed entire families!!!!! This is amazing!!! Please remember to donate, you are changing and helping maintain so many lives. EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS. P*ypal.

G*f*ndme for the initiative.

G*f*ndme to help settle in Egypt.

Instagram to track progress.

Don't forget! None of this is possible without Mona's hard work! If you'd like to send her a kind message please respond in the replies or the tags or reblogs! She was very happy to recieve kind messages from you guys under the last post as well!

She also distributed cash to dialysis patients who are victims of water pollution and chemical warfare!

Please remember to send money to Mona's initiative! Thanks to all your previous donations, Mona was able to bake and distribute pizza to people in Rafah! With more donations she can keep providing people with basic necessities! Even 1 dollar goes a long way! P*ypal.

G*f*ndme to buy necessities to distribute in Ghazzah.

G*f*ndme to help her family leave Ghazzah.

Her IG to keep track of progress.

So far she hasn't found anyone to distribute food and supplies to the North, but she's still trying.

Update! She found a distributor in Northern Ghazzah and is now sending donations his way as well! Thank you so much guys! Every dollar counts!

They've distributed diapers to Northern Ghazzah which are severely lacking! Keep donating you're making a massive difference!

"You are mine, you shall be mine, and you and I are one forever.'"

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla, 1871.

Illustrations from English literary magazine The Dark Blue between 1871-1872 by D. H. Friston and Michael Fitzgerald.

@thevictorianghost @irisbleufic

Do you know how they would do really old newspaper art like this? Like what is the process? They sketch or ink it out, than make copies? How would they do that without destroying the pictures?

Hi @darkcrowprincess ! Thanks for asking :)

To answer your question, from the writing at the bottom of the illustrations, we can see that they were drawn and engraved by different people. Engraving is a printmaking process in which you take a piece of metal and use tools to chisel away and create lines in the metal. Basically, you’re "copying" the original illustration on the metal, but mirrored. Then you put ink on the piece of metal and press it against a sheet of paper to "duplicate" the illustration indefinitely, without damaging the original! It’s like traditionally printing an image, instead of text.

We actually used this technique in my high school art class, funnily enough!

Also, here’s an article from the Metropolitan Museum of Art about the technique, if you want to know more about it!

@thevictorianghost

Read the article! Loved it. The process sounds so cool but stressful. Imagine being almost done with one of those engravings, but than making a mistake! They either had to start all over or make it work.

decolonizepalestine.com is an easy to navigate website run by two palestinians which breaks down common myths about palestine and provides a reading list organized by a wide variety of categories ranging from history and culture to media and censorship. it’s a good starting point to use if you want to learn more about the modern day situation in palestine and understand the truth behind myths that have been perpetuated about israel’s occupation of palestine.

don’t just reblog this, please take time to actually read through the website. it’s the least you can do as palestinians are being killed by the thousands and world leaders are turning a blind eye to a genocide happening in real time. i’ve seen the headlines about the israeli airstrike on al-ahli hospital that killed hundreds of palestinians change in real time, with western media outlets refusing to call it what it is— a war crime. the tide seems to be shifting a little bit in regards to media making excuses for israel to commit these atrocities which is probably because of how much people are showing out for palestine.

please read and share and pray that we see a free palestine in our lifetimes.

For those unable to access the site (like me) there is a fairly current copy on the Way back machine

Why Hawaii needs a break from tourism — perspective from local resident palanichang on tiktok

I'm sorry, but that should be illegal. No visitors or businesses should be allowed to take from residents. Period.

You can only reblog this today or until the next Monday, June 19th, 2034.

Already 3.3 million hectares of land in Canada has been burning because of the extreme heat and dryness and it’s not even halfway through wildfires season. They’re actually predicting this will be the most destructive wildfire season in Canadian history. But most of what I’ve seen posted about these fires has to do with air quality. So I’ve decided to try and compile a list of resources to donate to help Canadians being affected at this time.

Alberta

Atlantic Canada

British Columbia

Canada as a whole

Please tell me if you know of any other places taking donations to help either put out the fires or help the people affected. If any of these donation links are also donating to discriminatory policies or such like anti-trans legislation's please inform me so I can remove the link!

Quebec and Ontario links are especially wanted as I couldn't find anything for there and neither could my friend.

Here's some more organizations I've seen mentioned, by and for the indigenous communities that are being impacted:

Source

Let’s go!

DO NOT LET SOCIAL MEDIA TURN YOU INTO AN AMERICAN

As an American: Seriously, please don’t

ok well i don't

"Americanization" is a real phenomenon, and how non-Americans should be cautious of it is taught in different countries at school. It's taught in Greece and people from other countries told me their elementary or middle school teachers (using the American grades, to make it make sense to the majority on the site) talked to them about it.

It's common sense here, except for USians, so I'll analyze it a bit more for the dominant demographic here. In a globalized setting, the most dominant culture affects the others and sets the trends. The way our language works, how we think, our levels of politeness and intimacy, and our levels of respect. (flash news, they are going down 😂)

I don't want to imply that there is nothing good in the US. There are plenty of positives in the country. It's just that for the rest of the cultures online it's a constant daily fight to not forget our roots, with the degree US media and brands have permeated our lives. In Greece at least we watch more US American media than Greek media nowadays, and many of our shows are rip-offs of USian ones, with little adaptation to Greek reality and culture.

And to demonstrate the amount of this exposure, a 22-year-old Greek asked me the other day "if something happens we call 911, right?" This might have literally cost them their life, in a dangerous situation! Because all the movies and songs they consumed (not an unusual thing for the Greek youth) were what they knew. And I found a similar comment in this comment thread.

Lots of Americans in the notes failing to understand this post. It's not about not liking the US. It's not about you feeling ashamed or guilty for being American. It's not about you.

It's about American media drowning out native language media all over the world, and workplaces requiring the English language in your repertoire more and more. It's about proper translations and foreign language dubbing of films disappearing because "everyone speaks/should speak English anyway." All of this is leading to the deterioration of native speaker groups of languages worldwide.

In my country, Dutch language courses can't find enough people who want to study the language, while English language courses are overflowing with people who want to study the language. There is even widespread distaste for the Dutch language for being crude or sounding rough or what have you. That's our native language!!! That is our culture in its purest form!!! That is knowledge we inherit from our parents as they did from theirs!!! That is how we learned fairytales and folk stories and myths!!! That is the language that shapes our communication and our way of thinking!!! To hate your native language is to hate yourself at the deepest level.

And yet it's so normalised. Droves of foreigners living in the Netherlands will never learn a word of Dutch, because "everyone speaks English anyway." We are the world's leaders in non-native understanding of English, but it comes at a cost. A grave cost we will continue to pay.

If you're looking to support your non-American friends in any way that is not performatively shouting "I hate being an American" into the void, first of all, unlearn that hatred of yourself and your culture. You are of no help self-flagellating, and there is a difference between holding your country accountable for its issues, and denying yourself your culture because your country is doing and has done bad things.

(I am not going to get into arguments about whether or not US American culture exists. It does, and if you think differently you are welcome to change your mind.)

Secondly, learn about other countries. Learn a bit of Chinese. Take an interest in the Italian political system. Ask your friends about their countries' folklore. Watch documentaries about art from Nigeria. Absorb information that is not fed to you by American media.

And thirdly, quit expecting your non-American friends to communicate in a way that appeals to you. The French and Dutch will always seem rude to you because our way of communicating is far more direct than the way you communicate. People from other cultures may seem vague to you because their way of communicating is far more indirect, and you're not used to that either. Quit being frustrated when you don't get what we mean exactly. Quit assuming we mean the absolute worst thing you could imagine just because you didn't get what we meant the first time. Ask us to explain if you need us to, and learn to accept that we are different from you.

We are already adapting to your culture 100% of the time we are online. It's your responsibility to adapt to us, too. At least do your friends the courtesy of learning about and adapting to them.

Another aspect I find interesting about americanization is how it's a standard in communicating online even when THERE ARE NO Americans in the group.

It's a standard to convert grades, types of classes or the type of school you go to. (I've observed it in groups of younger people hence the school related term)

It's a shortcut in communicating so you don't have to describe your whole school system and how, I don't know, politics suddenly changed it last year and just say "I'm going to high school".

It's a useful standard but be aware of it. Talk about your diffrent cultures. Bond over what cooking techniques are similar in your national cusine. Be disgusted when you find out your friends keep fruit in the fridge.

Allow yourself to be diverse and learn.

“The kind of fiction that you see a lot on the American Disney channel, sort of Winnie the Pooh cartoons, and things like that, all made for Disney, in which there’s no plot. The nearest you’re allowed to get to a plot is Piglet thinks that everybody has forgotten Piglet’s birthday, but actually they are planning a surprise party. Everything’s all right and there was never anything to worry about. Whatever you were worrying about wasn’t worth worrying about and I don’t know what anybody’s gonna learn from that. If you’re gonna teach kids, I don’t believe that children’s fiction is without purpose.

I think that it’s very important to teach kids about important things, but I think cool important things, like the fundamental message of Coraline, which is being scared and being brave is not not being scared; being brave is being scared and doing it anyway. That for me was a big thing.”

Neil Gaiman (x)

Important Disney TVA Books' "This book belongs to blank" page