Amidst all the images coming out of palestine of death and destruction created by the zionist occupation, i think it is important that we take a moment to remember palestine as it was- seen and captured through the eyes of talented photographers like Shahed @shahednhall and remember exactly what was senselessly lost in the past few months.

This is Al-Azhar university, where Shahed used to study. She was an exemplary student, and used to get regularly invited by her teachers to give lectures.

Since the university was bombed and destroyed by the IOF, all she has left are these pictures. Even through all the violence and death around her though, she still makes sure to keep up with her studies through the university's online programme.

This is a shop Shahed had visited only some time before october. She told me it was run by an artist who painted these beautiful home items, and engraved them by hand with customers names. Shahed had photographed them because they were so eye-catching and beautiful, and had sent the woman her photos so she could use them to promote the shop.

Shahed has told me this shop isnt there any more. She is currently trying to get in touch with the woman who used to run this shop again, but shahed doesn't know if she is even alive or not.

Shahed has an eye for beauty in all things, and it shows in her work and in conversation. It has taken on a different meaning now when so much of everything she knows has been stolen by the occupation from her and other palestinians like her.

In her own words:

What had been a hobby of collecting moments for her has now become something of an archive of all the things in Palestine that have been lost to the zionist occupation.

Shahed's outlook on her photography tends to colour our conversation as well. She finds it is more productive to talk to me about her hope for a better future, rather than all the bleakness around her right now.

I don't know how anyone can look at her photos and think of anything but hope

The mainstream media in the west and elsewhere can lie all they like- but we will know always that palestine was and is a land full of beautiful people. Never forget that the death, illness and destruction in palestine today was something imposed upon them by the colonizers, and has been imposed upon them for decades.

Shahed doesn't like to share images of misery with me, but please remember that she and her family are suffering right now. The happy children in the pictures, her little sisters, are suffering from severe hepatitis and are no longer recieving treatment due to overcrowding at what hospitals are left in gaza. Shahed herself has been weak and ill for days, narrowly surviving multiple massacres in just the past few days while trying to get food for her family. They all got displaced just last week due to the intense bombing in khan younis, and in doing so have lost precious funds that could have gone into food and clean water. They are starving.

Shahed is only 21 years old but the responsibility of taking care of all 17 of her family members rests solely on her shoulders.

TIME IS RUNNING OUT. PLEASE HELP SHAHED EVACUATE HER FAMILY TO SAFETY.

She has only gotten $47k/80k, and she needs to get to $50k within this week.

This gfm was verified and appears on hussein @/el-shab-hussein and nairuz @/nabulsi list of vetted fundraisers (#224) so please dont hesitate to donate whatever you can, and please keep sharing!!!

Take this as a call to action, please repost her her fundraiser in your discord servers, in your whatsapp groups. Repost her photgraphy and share her story on whatever social media you have reach, so that people can help because i really cant get her to her goal in time alone.

UPDATE FROM SHAHED:

As we near shaheds short term goal of 50k, donations have already started to die down and i am sorry to say this but that CANNOT stand.

SHAHED NEEDS TO RAISE THE REST OF THE 80K AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. MAYBE EVEN WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK

This is because she has informed me that while she has already registered her siblings and father for evacuation with the hala travel agency in egypt, she has struck a deal with the travel coordinators that if she is able to collect the rest of the amount soon then the rest of the family can be evacuated together as well.

With seventeen family members, adults being priced at $5k per ticket and children at $2.5k, shahed needs to raise nearly $70,000 for their travel fee and then another 10k to account for the exorbitant commission (upto 30%) that gazan bankers demand to do the wire transfer of the money to gaza.

I know i have been saying this for weeks now, but the situation really is beyond desperate. If shahed isnt able to scrounge up these funds in time for when the egyptian border opens, most of her family including herself will have to stay behind and miss this chance to get out of gaza when they still can. And with tensions being escalated everywhere by the zionist occupation, we dont know when they will get a chance like this again.

Shahed has told me it is likely she wont be able to be online as much soon because even after getting displaced again, the bombing has followed her there too. Network outages will be expected, and i genuinely worry about when i might hear from her again. She is very sick, and very tired as well. I am really scared for her. Please dont let her go now, she needs help now more than ever.

Please spare any amount you can, and please keep sharing her fundraiser wherever you have reach outside of tumblr too. We cannot rest, and i really need you to lend me a hand in sharing her fundraiser cause again i cant do this on my own, and we cannot afford to fail her when we have gotten her so far.

Hello.

I am Laila Shaqura, a Palestinian, displaced from northern Gaza to the south due to the war.

We live in very difficult conditions here, especially after entering Rafah. There is no safe place to go. We now live in a tent west of the city of Rafah, where insects, garbage, and epidemics spread due to the lack of necessary treatments and clean drinking water. We were all infected with hepatitis and it was very difficult. In addition to that, the very high temperature here in the tent, the bombing and destruction everywhere, we live in terror here.

Our future and education have been destroyed, neither schools nor universities.

Amon was supposed to have finished high school this year, and then I would go to university and fulfill the dream of years, but unfortunately everything was destroyed. Our homes, our memories, and our childhood were destroyed.

Even the basic necessities of life have become unavailable.

In fact, we are struggling to survive.

There is no safe place and there is no solution but to leave the country, but unfortunately travel costs are very high.

My uncle set up a fundraising link for us to help evacuate us to safety.

Please help us and share it on your page or with your friends, thank you🩶

When sorrow and difficulties strike hard, hope becomes the lone star in the dark sky. This is the story of Amira, a 23-year-old girl who found herself bearing the burden of her family after her father's death three years ago due to the coronavirus.

After my father's passing, I found myself taking care of my family, consisting of my mother, sister Noor, and brother Abdulrahman. My mother, suffering from high blood pressure and diabetes, faces health problems that further complicate their situation. But courage and determination drive Amira forward.

I worked as a teaching assistant at the university while pursuing a master's degree in data science, and also worked as a programmer in a company. My life was going smoothly until war came and destroyed everything.

My university, workplace, and home were completely destroyed, forcing them to flee south in search of a safe haven. Now, I and my family live in tents for displaced people in Deir al-Balah, where they suffer from water shortages and the spread of diseases, posing an additional challenge, especially for my immunocompromised mother.

This is a brief about our daily suffering.

Please help me, my mother, my sister and my brother to go out to treat my mother because she suffers from widespread diseases because her immunity is weak and help us to complete our educational journey, me and my brother

🍉 Vetted by 🍉

@nabulsi post link 💙

@fairuzfan post link 💙

@sar-soor post link 💙

@90-ghost post link 💙

Screams of oppression

We have not screamed since the beginning of the disaster, from our bombed homes to our burned tents, from our slaughtered bodies to our severed heads.

We will scream all at once as if it were the last sound in the universe. Our loud screams will extend into deserts and mountains and between buildings, forests and seas.

History, the earth and the future will scream with us. Truth, justice and injustice will scream with us. The sky will scream with us and it will come upon everyone who saw us swallow fire. And the blood did not cry out for us!!

Today, I am launching a distress call to all the free people of the world, to the people of humanity, to help us rebuild our destroyed home.

Note: My campaign is moving towards the second goal, 20k. Please get me to it by the end of this week 🙏🏽

My hope and dreams are on you 🙏🏽

♦️The campaign was verified by @nabulsi , and its number is 219 in the campaigns file prepared by @el-shab-hussein.✅

17,644 / 20,000 CAD

40 CAD have been raised in the last four hours. Siraj's fundraiser has been stagnating for quite a while, with hours going by and resulting in little to no change. The number of donors have also dropped significantly.

I'm begging you not to forget about Siraj. It took over ten years to build his house, which put him in debt and he lost it all to the occupation. Please help him rebuild his life in Gaza. Keep donating and sharing, please.

no one likes to talk about this but doctor who majors at tumblr university really got the short end of the stick

supernatural majors get to write essays on cryptids and salt and destiel. potter majors get to mix potions and study runes and divination. This is so specific to the sort of career options they're angling for. They will get jobs with this sort of education.

meanwhile if you're majoring in Doctor Who, it's just normal fucking classes. physics and biochem. one out of the two Whovian specific classes you can take (time and space) is just physics again. They don't even bother to change the syllabus. where's TARDIS care and maintenance? Where's Gallifreyan history? What about dealing with regeneration? They really do not give a shit.

you can really tell where the budget cuts manifested and who exactly got fucked over to fill the board's pockets. not worth the 120k tuition at all. you might as well just go to reddit community college.

I have actually taken a class called “search for extraterrestrial life”. this was just my normal college curriculum at regular real-life college. they didn’t even try.

chase me if you must, but i’ll be the one to capture you

close ups

ppl keep asking what fandom this is from. it is from a fandom of one (1) and that one is me. it is from my brain. my heart. my very gay and horny soul.

She is the world's cutest rat (and there's a lotta cute rats out there)

i dont know if this has been posted before. i'm sure it has. but when i did a search for "jerma dick" and "dick jerma" and "ultraviolet dick jerma" i didnt get any results so i'm just gonna post it anyway

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You cant get this on any other website

Ah, but yes you can! Ordinary Sausage on youtube has spent years providing content for anyone who'd like to see just what would happen if you made a sausage out of whatever you can think of:

Recently Mr. Sausage has also been putting more time into his non-sausage videos, including stuff like Chicken Boiled in Nuclear Green Kool-Aid and Carbonated Eggs. Check it all out if you aren't prone to being easily grossed out.

The straight up whiskey sausage

Noor doesn't want to die burned in the tents. She must live like the rest of the children in the world. Please help her by donating at the link gfm🙏😭💔

@90-ghost @nabulsi

this fundraiser has been vetted (#157) and is low on funds ($5,400/$70,000)

abeer, who runs the blog, is the brother of nour, the girl in the photo. she has congenital heart disease and needs to get to a safe & sanitary place asap. please donate if you are able!

it really hurts me to see so many gazans asking us for help, though that's through no fault of their own. they've been forced to use a social media site that they're probably not familiar with (because tumblr has kind of faded out of popular consciousness), to interact with us in a second language, to distinguish themselves from the scammers who are taking advantage of genocide, and to ask strangers for help. i don't think there are any cultures where it's easy to ask for help like this, but i'm intimately familiar with how humiliating it can be in arab culture. please be kind, gracious and helpful to the gazans in your inbox. this is a desperate time for them, and in addition to the physical danger inflicted by "israel", the prices of basic resources in gaza are extremely high due to scarcity, and those that manage to escape to egypt are financially exploited by landlords there and have an extremely difficult time finding work due to their unofficial status as refugees. these families will continue to need our help and i hope we can all continue to provide it to the best of our ability.

masterpost of palestinian fundraisers

operation olive branch fundraiser spreadsheet

But how can I tell if they are real:

Any advice?

Yes! Use tumblr’s search feature to look up their URLs. If they’ve been vetted by Palestinians, there will be a post about it. The users el-shab-hussein and nabulsi made a vetted fundraisers spreadsheet that comes up in a lot of search results too, I’m on mobile and don’t have it on hand presently but it’s easy to find!

Reminder to Click for Palestine today!

Click for the other causes as well if you can!

A knockout! You guys have voted for me to draw and post the entirety of the House of Glass, so here's the next part that follows directly from this.

If you're enjoying this comic, please consider donating to Amira, a 23 year old who was displaced and forced to flee to the southern part of Gaza. Her home, university and workplace has been destroyed, and she's the only source of income for her family since her father passed away. You can read her tumblr @amira-world!