If you have a minute and a dollar to spare please consider helping the family of a friend of mine escape Gaza. If you only have a second, please share.

(Bc of how tumblr buries posts with links in them, I’ll put the link in the reblog & replies)

There’s 13 of them; even a dollar will go a long way in helping save 13 people. Thank you in advance.

Here’s the link: https://gofund.me/5a5cf3b4

6 months later and they still need help! They’re so close. Just a little bit goes a long way.

so many are feeling despair as we come up on 1 year of the absolute hell in Gaza out of the over 70 Israel has inflicted. you have seen thousands of terrified people desperately asking for help, and many rising to that call. we’ve also seen many of you overwhelmed by it, even lashing out in callousness. but when these get funded, when even just one person has finally gotten that help, i see very little recognition of what a wonder that is against the all the horror. that we have a chance to directly hold a hand out to a person out there at all. it’s so important to not give up. the fight is not over, the U.S. is still funding this endless nightmare, and we must take action- but we have these rare opportunities to save lives. we must do what we can.

this family has been SO CLOSE TO LEAVING THE WARZONE for SO LONG, they’ve been only $2000 away out of $60’000. THAT’S SO LITTLE MONEY. that is basically the amount i have in my bank account right now and I still managed to donate what I could. even a dollar helps. we have been promoting this for months- and seen little change. if you have begun to despair- please take this chance to remember the help you can offer is real, that a genocide is not anonymous lives. please offer that chance at life to this family. these are lives you can prevent being snuffed out. Let’s get them out of Gaza by the anniversary. Free Palestine!

I've been looking after this fundraiser since February and it still has yet to reach its goal. Please give the Almosalamis the final push they need to get all the way there!!!

If you donate, you can enter my book raffle (today is the last day to enter), or get a writing commission from me!

It means so much that others have been looking after Sharaf’s family’s fundraisers. Like @amotleycrew said, they are so close! Just $2,000 more and we will all have been a part of saving this family. It’s easy to forget, but that is REAL.

I know the sheer quantity of pleas for help can be overwhelming and numbing, but Sharaf’s friends and family have a number of other fundraisers, too. I can vouch for the validity of every single one of these!

Please please, if you have the means, donate to Doha’s fundraiser above. If you do, let me know and I will match your donation in the following fundraisers. Your one donation will help multiple families!

If you can’t donate, as always, please share! A reblog helps, too. You may be the person who gets this on the dash of someone with the means to donate $25, $50, $100 or more!

does anyone know how to stop the body from keeping score? i have shit to do

 "Then the king ... ran towards Sir Mordred, crying, 'Traitor, now is thy death day come.'" Illustration by N.C. Wyeth for The Boy's King Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, Edited for Boys by Sidney Lanier (New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922).

Combat log: The effect Ibuprofen has ended.

Me: *instantly ragdolls*

biggest mindfuck is the fact that it can be so so difficult to tell the difference between when it's time for "do it bored/scared/stupid but by jove just do it" and when it's time for "if it sucks hit the bricks"

made a flowchart

Scientists have finally proven that memories are not exclusively stored in our brains.

Anecdotal stories of organ transplant patients exhibiting strange new behaviors have existed for decades (like a vegan heart transplant recipient suddenly craving cheeseburgers from a specific restaurant) but this is the first time the phenomenon has been clocked in a lab.

— what are we holding onto, sam?

my favorite video of all time ever

Whaght are zey doing tu zis poor rat- [gasp] zat is PERVERGHTED ! ... WHAGHT ARE ZEY FILLING HIM WITZH? EE IZ GETTING TOO BIG! HOOOOHHHH...! OH MY GAHD STOP TOUCHING IM ! ZHIS IZ PERVERT BEHAVIOURE! HOOH! STOP IT! AUUW..... WHAT A TERRIBLE DEATH! SsTOP TOUCHING HEIM !

zis is like a medeval TOGHRTURE.

whathellwas even zat . OOOOO MY GAD. oh it- preetty cuute. OOOHHOOHOOHHOGGOOOHHHH OH MY GADDD THGAT WAS VEURY SCHARMING... OOH my gad he is DEAaaadddd... ohhh not ze daaaawwwg... ooooohhh nnooo you are feeling him wiz ze wader of ze hose...he iz also veury shcarming zey look veury cute like zis...i wont liiieee to yoU !

OH!

EWWELIKE A LAMBB...

FRRREAK.

MONSTAEUR

AAUOOUGGGHHH ZIS POOR ANEMAL. OOOOOOG

they should invent blankets that make you feel warm (good) but don't make you feel warm (bad)

cephalopodssss

Hey, USAmericans? Wanna save your country? Run For Something!

I personally recommend this organization:

Sarah McBride (who will now be the first openly trans person to serve in Congress) is a Run For Something alum. I've seen their candidates run and win in my own state — those candidates helped save us (and my gay marriage) from the worst impulses of our slimy Republican governor. So they get my stamp of approval.

Here's the thing: The U.S. federal government has extremely broad but shallow powers. The real depth of power — to decide what gets built where, what the schools actually teach, who gets support and how the laws are enforced — if they are enforced at all — a lot of that happens at the local level. A lot of that is decided by local officials who may be running unopposed right now.

So I cannot stress this enough: VOTE IN THE OFF-YEARS. RUN FOR LOCAL OFFICE. You'd be surprised who can get elected down-ballot — sometimes an independent progressive can win in deep red trump country where a run-of-the-mill Democrat wouldn't stand a chance.

the ultimate she knows moment

Husband and I appeared in his oncologist’s notes as “very pleasant young couple.” We are a pleasure to have in class.

everyone more pretentious than me is an insufferable poseur and everyone less pretentious than me is a clueless philistine

romantic and sexual partner.