not sure how to get people's attention anymore but i have to ask you all to support @ma7moudgaza2. i've shared his fundraisers multiple times before -- and the last couple ones were donation match requests that did not get any attentions; some other bloggers made illustrations and posters; and there is an ongoing raffle for his benefit too (please check it out, it's a beautiful piece.) still, it is going so very slow.

so i simply want to appeal to your sensibility: mahmoud managed to get a tent thanks to the support, but his next goal is to buy a solar energy system so that his family can light up their tent and charge their phones. they need $2800 asap and so far they got just around $500 of that amount in longer than a week.

this is a verified campaign.

the amount indicated on gofundme does not correspond with the current short-term goal! so please just keep donating & sharing and check @ma7moudgaza2's updates on his blog.

$10,793 USD raised of $25,000 goal and barely any progress!

(UPDATED!!!) here are some people that have reached out to me recently with their fundraisers. LINKS IN NAMES. status as of 09/19/24. i've checked that all fundraisers listed here are vetted.

1. Abedalrahman Alhabil (€83,683/€120,000) -- Abedalrahman, his parents, and his five siblings were displaced when an Israeli attack destroyed their home. Abedalrahman's father is in urgent need of evacuation and surgery, as he suffers from chronic heart disease and high blood pressure. (@abdullahgaza) 69% of goal reached. INCREDIBLY SLOW PROGRESS.
2. Asmaa Ayyad (€20,911/€45,000) -- Asmaa and her family of eight were displaced when their homes were destroyed by Israel. They need funds to evacuate to Egypt before they suffer any more loss. (@asmaayyad) 46% of goal reached.
3. Hashem Al-Shawish -- (€10,097/€45,000) Hashem's wife, Samer, recently gave birth to their baby, Omar, in a tent. Omar has already needed emergency medical attention as a result of poor living conditions. He, along with Hashem's mother, wife, four brothers, and two sisters need funds to evacuate. (blog terminated. can't find new one.) 22% of goal reached. INCREDIBLY SLOW PROGRESS.
4. Doaa Jad Al Haq -- (kr212,156/kr300,000) -- Doaa and her 5-year-old autistic son, Omar, evacuated to Sweden, but Omar was extremely traumatized by the horrors in Gaza. He needs treatment so he can recover. In addition, evacuation funds are needed for the members of Doaa's family that are still trapped in Gaza, including 11 children and her father, who has been incapacitated by a stroke. (@doaaomar1234) 71% of goal reached.
5. Aya Alanqar -- (€12,831/€15,000) Aya and her husband Jihad need funds to evacuate themselves and their three young children (Abdelrahman, 7 years old, Jori, 5 years old, and Adam, 2 years old). Their home was destroyed by Israel and they have been forced to move over thirteen times. (blog deleted. can't find new one.) 86% of goal reached.
6. Muhammad Shehab -- (€10,514/€25,000) Muhammad desperately needs funds to evacuate himself and his sons, Zaen and Yahya, from Gaza. They have already been displaced nine times and are at risk every day. (@zeanyahya1) 41% of goal reached. INCREDIBLY SLOW PROGRESS.
7. The Shehab family -- (€55,957/€85,000) This family's original goal of 50,000 has been reached, but has now been raised to 85,000 as the family has added more people to their fundraiser (as they can't make their own), including a 3-month old baby. Please continue to support this family!! (@danashehab) 66% of goal reached.
8. Mahmoud Al-Sharif -- ($10,503/$60,000) Mahmoud's wife, Soha, just gave birth to her and Mahmoud's fourth child on 8/12/24. Please please help this family of six, including the newborn, get to safety. (@mahmoud-sharif) 17% of goal reached. INCREDIBLY SLOW PROGRESS.

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THE SITUATION IN POLAND RIGHT NOW IS TRAGIC AND IT'S GETTING WORSE

Southern Poland is under massive flooding, towns and villages are failing to keep the water away, some are already under water.

Here is a fundraiser to help the victims of the flood

please rb or donate if you can

armand hating theatre as an art form just in general throughout most of the series (maybe except devil’s minion, but let’s be real, armand is almost manic in devil’s minion; he loves and admires nearly everything during that time) and especially the theatre of the vampires is such an interesting detail to me especially when you also consider it in the context of him also finding western art repugnant in tva.

i think this is something that deeply echoes his own distrust toward narratives (the appeal that he gets seduced by anyway) as we know it from his conversations with daniel:

so you can also link it to armand being interested in things as they are; in their texture and clear purpose in the semantic network of the world, their sense outside of beauty:

but this is – again! also a religious matter. he finds those attempts of western art to be distasteful because they obstruct the divine; and, ironically, what is divine, is also to him what is raw and real; and that rawness is not necessarily beautiful or devoid of the social element. when amadeo longs for the simplicity of eastern orthodox icons; that is to say, he yearns for the world. he wants it all. and this is what that particular era of western canonised art; what the worship of beauty only, denies. and further, the obvious link to his own objectification– but that’s a topic for another post.

ALT

Nesma got this message five months ago. It's been way over five months and she hasn't reached her goal. She hasn't gotten to safety yet. She made this fundraiser on 22nd March, 2024. In four days, the fundraiser will be six months old. Six months of fundraising on multiple platforms, and she still hasn't reached her goal.

It has been two hours since she received even a single donation. Please help her. Don't let her fundraiser stagnate. Please donate whatever you can. If you are unable to do so, please share it.

133,351 USD / 150,000 USD

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I SEE THIS $20 AS IF IT WERE $100♥️♥️

I am not exaggerating when I say that I read her words to me every time I open my campaign link and I feel happy that I am not alone but that there are those who care about us.

My friend, you have the opportunity to help, why not seize it? I will never forget everyone who helped me by donating or by spreading the word about my campaign. For six months, I have been asking for your help to escape the hatred of the Zionists and get out of the war zone.

Every dollar will be used to save my family. Do not stop doing good

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at this point devil’s minion really could be some underrated fanfic

there was an excellent post once comparing claudia's attempt to kill lestat vs lestat's drive for patricide... (please link me if you have it saved) it said that of course lestat loved claudia, because they were so alike-

“"I mean I dream sometimes that I might kill all of them," I said. "I kill my brothers and my father in the dream. I go from room to room slaughtering them as I did the wolves. I feel in myself the desire to murder…” - lestat in vampire lestat

"the secret is, louis, that i want to kill him. i will enjoy it!" - claudia in iwtv

but i think what we're forgetting about is:

“‘I’ll care for the old man.’
‘Kill him,’ Lestat said.
 ‘Are you mad!’ I answered. ‘He’s your father!’
‘I know he’s my father!’ said Lestat. ‘That’s why you have to kill him. I can’t kill him! If I could, I would have done it a long time ago, damn him!” - louis & lestat in iwtv

which is not to say that i disagree... the opposite, really; i think lestat might love claudia even more knowing that she attempted what he could not. tangentially, i know this post is getting away from me, but i also think lestat loves louis so much for killing his [lestat's] father.