i'm writing this post on behalf of Haya ( @familyrantise2003 ), who was displaced from her home along with her family in the genocide of Gaza. currently, Haya lives in Egypt with her mother and sister, but the rest of their family is still in Gaza. they have not been able to access basic humanitarian aid, let alone things like healthcare or education.

Haya is asking for help to secure a better future for her family, and to cover travel expenses so she can one day reunite with them. this campaign is extremely low in funds (recently, they went almost a full week with no donations at all!) and has been vetted by @bilal-salah0.

$175 / $50,000

Help us reach the goal.

$185 / $50,000

every time i open twitter it's to some of the worst shit ive ever read

tweet sur les tournantes, avec 800 commentaires racistes (bien entendu les viols en collectif ça existe que dans les cités et les blancs ont commettent jamais), 400 commentaires de meufs qui racontent qu'elles ou leurs potes l'ont vécu en tant que viol et humiliation collective et que tout le monde au collège était au courant, et 300 commentaires de mecs qui sortent "nan mais t'as des meufs qui aiment ça ces sales putes c'est pas forcément du viol"

ok last thing. but what people fundamentally need to get through their heads is the significance of gaza fundraisers not being the same as like mutual aid when you're helping someone get groceries, because it is a genocide. there is insane deliberate scarcity and prices are unmanageable, because there is nowhere nearly enough for everyone, so only people who can pay can eat. and what positioning individual fundraisers as the only course of action does is quite simply give a tiny percentage of random people whose fundraisers take off the ability to pay those prices while thousands of others can't. and every one of those thousands of people without a fundraiser is suffering through the same inconceivably horrific reality. it is giving a few completely desperate people out of hundreds of thousands a slightly more favorable position in a horrific war economy of imposed scarcity. and what grassroots community kitchens do is try to mitigate in some small way that inconceivable hierarchy of who can pay and who can't, by stretching ingredients as far as they can last to cook meals at large scale and give them out at no cost. and obviously people are still going to send money to their friends and families because this is hell what else are we supposed to do but please just think about that before promoting endless individual fundraisers as somehow the most ethical way to help

Operation Olive Branch has a spreadsheet dedicated to mutual aid, local distro, community kitchens, etc. in Gaza.

This is a good place to start if seeking to donate to a community resilience action. Just contact the group(s) directly to make sure they are still active. Life in Gaza and Palestine is full of uncertainty.

"this female character is underdeveloped" TO YOU. I can read subtext and I know all about her backstory and her rich inner life. also she told me personally

Help 5-Year-Old Mariam and Her Family Escape the Horrors of War in Gaza 🍉🕊

Five-year-old Mariam,🕊with her bright pink backpack and tiny hands clutching a red rose, was ready to head to her KG2 class. It was a Saturday morning, October 7, and Mariam was filled with excitement and pride for reaching the next stage of her education. She wanted to surprise her kind teacher with that little rose. But in an instant, her world — our world — was torn apart.

Without warning, the skies filled with the sounds of explosions. The joyful morning turned into a nightmare of dust, fear, and destruction. Her preschool was shattered, her teacher’s life taken, and our neighborhood became a place of ruin. That single day marked the beginning of a relentless assault on Gaza — a place where childhood dreams, laughter, and innocence were erased in moments.

I am Khaled Ismail, a 41-year-old father, and my wife Rasha is 32. We live in Gaza with our three children. Our youngest, beautiful Mariam🕊, is just five years old. Our eldest, Walid, 12, is a boy full of dreams, always hoping to become an inventor. And in the middle, there’s Karim, our 10-year-old, whose laughter and jokes used to brighten our darkest days.

But the war has left scars that words cannot heal. The day of the first airstrike changed everything. Rubble covered their toys, and black dust filled the air. The sound of my children’s cries mixed with the chaos of families running for their lives. We left our home that day, desperately searching for safety. But every step, every shelter, brought only more destruction.

For a year now, we have been displaced, moving from one place to another, only to be met with more violence. Today, our home is nothing more than a frail tent. It offers no shelter from the burning heat of summer or the biting cold of winter. My children’s small bodies are battered by this reality — malnutrition, intestinal infections, heat stroke, and even hepatitis are constant threats.

I have nothing left to change our situation. My children have lost everything. I have lost everything. Their childhood is buried under the rubble, their dreams replaced by survival, and their once-joyful laughter now a faint memory.

I am humbly reaching out to you with a plea to help us escape this endless nightmare. Our dream is simple: to find safety, to give our children a chance at life, to give Mariam and her brothers a future. With every dollar, you offer a glimmer of hope, a step closer to a place where they can finally be children again.

Please, be the reason my family finds peace. Your support, even just one dollar, can make all the difference. Together, we can turn this story of despair into one of hope and resilience. Start today, and be a part of the miracle we need.

Help Mariam🕊. Help my family. Let us find a place to live with dignity and hope. Thank you for reading, and thank you for caring.

Vetted by @90-ghost

i wish people could understand that it's fine to love a story for its insane or fun character/relationship dynamics and tight plot and themes that resonate with you (or gameplay/visuals/prose/whatever specificity its medium has) without trying to pass it off as anti imperialist or anti capitalist when its politics are vapid at best or use radical language as cover for its very liberal view of the world. and no im not simply talking about brotherhood or arcane here but a lot of shows/games that talk a big game about Empire and its horrors only to flop terribly on it, but still be appealing for other reasons

i like tlt and its message is meant to be anti imperialist but imo it's not great at it, though it is very good at other themes such as how sexual violence permeates the world. i like black sails a lot in terms of how insane the characters are but for all its big talk about the evils of Empire it only begins adressing race in s3 and only with black people, indigenous people dont exist in it. yes, i would probably be less mean about fmab if i didnt see it called an anti imperialist masterpiece. and while i adore 03 i wouldnt call it a great anti imperialist work either though it tries so much harder on the subject than mangahood ever does. chainsaw man has anti capitalist themes but i wouldnt call it an anticapitalist manga, bc that theme remains at rhe margins of what it's really trying to do/say. i adore signalis the more i get into it and find it to be one true silent hill spiritual sequel that nailed it, and also it is very obviously anti communist and it's wild to see people call it antifascist when its politics are basically "communism imagery and allegory scawy". arcane did a p good job at showing how quickly seemingly nice pleasant people fall into dehumanization of Others but i wouldnt really call it pro revolution

i think it's fine to admit that most of the stuff you like can have tepid politics! it doesnt make it lesser. that's gonna be like 99.99% of art. you can make something interesting out of it but you really dont have to try to sell it to others as Revolutionary in the political sense

both! the whole "fascists can't make good or meaningful or resonating art" falls apart if you examine the premise and classical works for more than two minutes. im always struck when people say "wow can you believe racists like star trek" im like...... i can? i dont even mean that in the sense of "star trek IS racist" (ive never seen it) but like any piece of art can get reinterpreted and recuperated. you got genuine fascists who say disco elysium is their favourite game ever and who'll actively deny the creators are communists.

art isnt gonna save you, politically at least. it can expose you to other perspectives, it can give you the will to live and change--this i will never deny. it can influence you politically maybe; some people started reading marx after playing disco elysium. but art is ultimately communication, it isnt a magical beam that bakes you with Ideology. i know this is a sit with a lot of artists who wanna believe their story can singlehandedly change the world and inspire people to revolution or something, or that if they watch enough disney shows that vapidly depict revolution they will be inspired when the revolution one day magically comes at their door, but thats just not gonna happen either

i wish people could understand that it's fine to love a story for its insane or fun character/relationship dynamics and tight plot and themes that resonate with you (or gameplay/visuals/prose/whatever specificity its medium has) without trying to pass it off as anti imperialist or anti capitalist when its politics are vapid at best or use radical language as cover for its very liberal view of the world. and no im not simply talking about brotherhood or arcane here but a lot of shows/games that talk a big game about Empire and its horrors only to flop terribly on it, but still be appealing for other reasons

i like tlt and its message is meant to be anti imperialist but imo it's not great at it, though it is very good at other themes such as how sexual violence permeates the world. i like black sails a lot in terms of how insane the characters are but for all its big talk about the evils of Empire it only begins adressing race in s3 and only with black people, indigenous people dont exist in it. yes, i would probably be less mean about fmab if i didnt see it called an anti imperialist masterpiece. and while i adore 03 i wouldnt call it a great anti imperialist work either though it tries so much harder on the subject than mangahood ever does. chainsaw man has anti capitalist themes but i wouldnt call it an anticapitalist manga, bc that theme remains at rhe margins of what it's really trying to do/say. i adore signalis the more i get into it and find it to be one true silent hill spiritual sequel that nailed it, and also it is very obviously anti communist and it's wild to see people call it antifascist when its politics are basically "communism imagery and allegory scawy". arcane did a p good job at showing how quickly seemingly nice pleasant people fall into dehumanization of Others but i wouldnt really call it pro revolution

i think it's fine to admit that most of the stuff you like can have tepid politics! it doesnt make it lesser. that's gonna be like 99.99% of art. you can make something interesting out of it but you really dont have to try to sell it to others as Revolutionary in the political sense

Ambessa is so so abusive to Mel precisely because she thinks that this is what good parenting is. She is embodying hyperrealization of cultural standard that is fundamentally messed up and built on violence and conquest. They are the parts of herself that bring her alive, and that she finds to come naturally to her. How do you raise a daughter so deeply unlike you, when your way is the only way you know to stay alive, especially in Noxus?

Because Ambessa loves her daughter! Deeply! Stupidly! And that love does not point her to kindness or adoration the way so many of Arcane's other parents are pointed - it points her to fear and violence, because to Ambessa, that is what love is. Her voice lines in the game literally indicate this - she considers motherhood and battle to be two sides of the same thing, conflated into one cohesive whole. How can her mothering be anything but a fight against their nature, to ensure they will survive anything she fears?

And the Black Rose is then the embodiment of those fears made flesh. There is actually something after her, her family, her children. There is something that has killed her son. There is something that has taken her daughter. What kind of mother would she be, if she did not fight for them?

Nevermind that this was an enemy she delivered to their doorstep. Nevermind the ways her own politicking have places Mel under risk. Nevermind that Ambessa has herself triggered actions that placed her daughter directly under a gun. This is the way to ensure her family will be safe.

Ambessa: "no! We must distance ourselves, she is safer as our enemy"

Meanwhile Mel Medarda:

"What the fuck"

“As we implement our new strategy of replacing tents based on areas and encampments most in need, we want to share with you this story of a family in dire conditions - this is the brother of the honorable martyr Refaat Alareer.

We have known about this extended family and the area they live in since mid July. However, it was not until this week that we could come in and serve this encampment of destroyed and makeshift tents.

Just to show you that no one in Gaza is immune to the suffering and pain, Refaat Alareer’s family, despite his magnitude as a Palestinian scholar and activist, is living in some of the worst tents we have seen.

It was our honor to assist them and respect the legacy of the man who we are so fortunate to have been given permission to name our camp after. Check back later in the week to see how we provided tents for Refaat’s brother’s family and supported the encampment that needed so much help.”

Please continue to give so we can serve these communities with shelter this winter. The Tents, Cash Aid, and Medical campaign: