a really great organization that i don't see any posts about here is HEAL palestine. it was founded by steve sosebee, who was a founding president of the PCRF before leaving in late 2023 to refocus his efforts on heal palestine to better meet the needs of palestinians impacted by the genocide. the organization provides palestinians in gaza with food, clean water, shelters, "makeshift classrooms," and even medical evacuation for some children when it's possible--their services are pretty wide.
you can donate here if you would like to send a tax-deductible donation to an organization. also, i don't think any evacuations are possible right now, but if you're in the united states and you'd like to welcome medically evacuated children in the future, i highly recommend signing up for their newsletter or following them on social media so you can stay updated in case any children evacuated by HEAL come to your area for treatment. welcoming these kids at the airport is a really moving way to provide them with moral support, entirely for free.
it was moony, WORMTAIL, padfoot and prongs, and i'm sick of people pretending it wasn't.
They wouldn't have put peter's name second in the list if he wasn't as much a part of the group as the other three. peter wasn't an afterthought, the marauders weren't a trio. yes, he betrayed them, but not until years later. years after the map had been made and years after they'd shared a dorm. they were just four best friends against the world - moony, WORMTAIL, padfoot and prongs.
IDK who needs to hear this but using a trans person’s pronouns is a matter of safety.
If you're still learning them, practice. Put their pronouns with their contact in your phone. Work at it. Because if they get misgendered in front of strangers, they’re now forced to decide if its safe to correct you.
Choosing between your identity and safety is exhausting and disheartening. Lots of trans folks have to do it daily, and I promise it'll be a major relief to have one less person in their life who makes them go through that.
the supreme court is run by nothing but ignorant, controlling cis men who don't care about the lives of women and i am so done
i’m not doing bad enough to deserve or need help because i’m happy sometimes and i can usually function “normally”.
but i have cuts covering my arm and i’m eating badly.
but i shouldn’t be doing those things because i should be able to cope and i’m not doing that badly.
but i clearly can’t cope if i’m resulting to these negative coping mechanisms.
but i’m not like going to kms or anything.
but i wouldn’t be complaining if i didn’t wake up tomorrow.
Is it normal to have a paralyzing tic where your whole body goes limp it last a few seconds to a a few minutes and I'm conscious during it or should I search into it?
stop invalidating people, start validating them!
use whatever the fuck terms you want!
use xenogenders, use microlabels, use neopronouns! who cares! it isnt hurting anyone.
so what if your gender/orientation/pronouns/whatever is weird or "cringe"? its yours! you can describe yourself however the fuck you want
(Anti xeno/anti neos/anti microlabels/anti mogai and other bigots dni.)
What are tics?
Tics are sudden, recurrent, and meaningless motor movements or vocalizations
Tics are either Simple or Complex.
Simple tics MOTOR (movement) tics: brief, meaningless movements, such as; eyes blinking, eye movements, grimacing, head jerks, or shoulder jerks.
Complex Motor Tics: slower, longer, more purposeful movements, rarely seen in the absence of motor tics. Ex) touching objects/people or oneself, dystonic movements, obscene gestures (copropraxia).
Simple Vocal Tics: sudden, meaningless sounds or noises Ex) barking, sniffing, throat clearing, grunting.
Complex Vocal Tics: includes utterance of syllables, words, phrases, or statements, odd patterns of speech, ecophenomenon, or obscene, inappropriate and suggestive statements (coprolalia).
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Actually no one should be having sex. All of us are aged-up minors and the passage of time is inherently problematic
call my friends and tell them that I love them, and I'll miss them, but I'm not sorry
A genuinely friendly reminder that this is how the books end: them together, living their lives happily. Villanelle doesn't die and gets a linguistics degree.