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Donation campaigns - June 11

Below are vetted campaigns I have come across today and compiled into one list to make it easier for us to generate the best possible impact.

Donations for aid (Gaza, Sudan, Congo)

Donate to Watermelon Relief to provide meals for displaced families in Gaza

Check out Operation Olive Branch for campaigns to help rebuild homes and businesses in Gaza

Purchase eSIMs to help Gazans stay connected

Donate to help plant farmlands in Gaza

Donate to Gaza's municipality services to bring basic necessities to people in Gaza like clean water

Verified ways to send aid to Gaza (tents, food, water, etc...)

Support Sudanese refugees in Cairo

Care for Congo: hygine & sanitary kits

Evacuation campaigns (Gaza & Sudan):

Help Hussam save his children (very low on funds)

Donate to Laila and her pregnant mother

Tawfik's family needs our support

Fundraiser to help evacuate a family from Sudan

Mahmoud Hillis wants to keep his children safe

Assist Yehia in providing for his three children in the midst of genocide

Help Ebrahim rebuild hope amidst devastation

Save Maysara's life

Help Alia and her children get to safety

Aya is fundraising to evacuate her family

Donate to Ahmed and his family's appeal

Fundraiser to sponsor Alaa Asfour

Help Suad and her family evacuate to safety

Marah is fundraising for her family's survival

Donate to Iyad's campaign to save his wife and children

Amani and her 3 boys need our support to rebuild their life

Save Marah's family from famine and death

Donate to save Zeina (7), Eileen (6), and Yamen (4)

Support Yazan's campaign

Raffle to save Izzideen's family

Help Amal in her efforts to get her family to safety

Donate so that Ahmed can continue his education

Lama (8), Hussam (5) and Maram (1 month) need our help

Help Firas keep his family safe

Donate to Amira's efforts to save her mother's life

Help medical students in Sudan

Help Mohammed's family find safety

Support Hani reach his campaign goal to save his family

The more you try to make me feel bad for Jamil the worse I will treat him. If you demonize Kalim for him? Forget it buddy I’m going to start a campaign against Jamil and start spreading misinformation

this is how it feels to be a kalim stan in twst fandom

Hey Raven, do you think Kalim is stupid?

The short answer to this would be “no”, but because I like to overanalyze things, let me explain why. In this essay, I will--

I believe when people think of “stupidity”, they tend to think of it in a sense of general intelligence or book smarts, or they equate it to a number or a letter grade on a report card. In this case, one can easily point to Kalim’s poor academic performance and say, “he doesn’t do well in his classes, and he needs to study and try very hard, plus get help from Jamil, just to get a mediocre grade.” All of that is true. However, to call Kalim “stupid” just because he doesn’t perform well in a traditional classroom setting would be remiss.

The nature of schools hosting many students forces them to standardize lessons and teach them in the same way to large groups. The truth of the matter is, these same methods won’t work for every student. Some just work better one-on-one, and others need more specialized lessons for them to best learn. For example, some people are more visual learners, while others are more auditory, and some just prefer tactile or hands-on learning. Just because Kalim doesn’t fare well with traditional classroom lectures and studying/memorization doesn’t mean other methods wouldn’t work better for him. As was previously mentioned, he seems to do well when Jamil tutors him, so this may hint that Kalim may prefer to be taught in a more personalized setting. We see similar instances of Kalim performing well when instructed one-on-one in Master Chef and when Azul lends him his help in chapter 4. This doesn’t make Kalim “stupid”, it just means he has different preferences when it comes to being taught.

Remember that Kalim hails from a very affluent family. The Asims’ money and power have essentially shielded Kalim from most consequences and other unfortunate circumstances of life. Kalim won’t ever understand what it feels like to have financial struggles, or to go a day hungry. He’s so used to getting everything he wants, and that has made him not stupid, but naïve and ignorant of how the “real world” works. Ignorance is not the same as stupidity. (You can also say that Malleus is ignorant, since his country is very old-fashioned (to the point where he had never ridden a car until the Scalding Sands Fireworks event), but you wouldn’t call Malleus “stupid” for not knowing things that were beyond his circumstances.)

One last point I’d like to make is that while Kalim is not book smart, he is very emotionally intelligent, especially when it comes to dealing with others. For reference, emotional intelligence is defined as “the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically”.

Students in Scarabia love Kalim, and it’s for a good reason. He’s very good at understanding them and empathizing with them, even if he’s laid back as a leader. For example, Kalim was able to talk his dorm mates through bouts of homesickness, and he was always willing to support his dorm mates in their other times of need. Furthermore, it was Kalim who was able to placate his angry dorm mates when they were upset with Jamil post-Overblot. The students were willing to give Jamil a second chance, despite all of the terrible things he did, because Kalim convinced them. Who else would be capable of such a feat, if not him?

This carries over to chapter 5 as well. Kalim becomes aware of his own inadequacy (maybe even jealousy?) when Jamil is picked to be a lead performer for VDC instead of him, and Kalim pushes himself to work harder so he can catch up to Jamil. However, he never stops caring about other people. It’s Kalim and Rook that pep talked Deuce and helped him come to terms with his frustration regarding his lack of improvement. It is also Kalim who initially sensed that Vil was going to attempt something heinous to come out on top at VDC. He came running to the scene and knocked the poison out of Rook’s hand, because he knew that something was wrong just from observing Vil. 

We can see several instances of Kalim’s own kind of intelligence, emotional intelligence, especially as he engages with his peers. In conclusion, Kalim may not be the most crafty in a traditional sense, but he has his own insights to contribute, making him fit as the Dorm Leader of Scarabia--the dorm modeled after the deliberation of the Sorcerer of the Sands.

Whoever wrote that Georgina Leech’s phone number is the special menu item of the week, you will be identified and dealt with.

I am pretty positive no one had truly seen that Rachel Zegler interview because the hate the poor girl got for it was so insane for no reason, mostly from adult men who did not give a shit about Snow White before the movie was announced.

She never said they wanted to cut the guy‘s story, she simply said that people will assume the movie is just a romance because they cast a guy in it and that Snow‘s story is not just a love story with him. Like she is not stupid, she knows there is a love song in the movie and that Jonathan has his own arc. She was pushing back at the notion that Snow simply has to be saved by a guy cause he is in the movie. Could she have worded it better? Yeah, but it was also 2022 and people are still talking about it as if the girl has not proven time and time again what a great time she had with him, how big of a fan of Snow White she was before she was casted. Her and Jonathan are friends. They were not allowed to talk about how Andrew‘s character is or anything and she found a way to avoid saying too much. I bet she wished she had said it differently but also what difference does it make? What matters is the final product and no one can really judge it without watching it first.

Mind you all this hate from people that were gonna hate on the movie anyway. I cant with fandoms sometimes.

eeeeehhh???? heartslabyul in cookie run!!?? waaaa??!! (I still haven't played cookie run lol)

also I revised caters design cuz i realized it didnt rlly make sence before lol

poll under cut

KALIM KALIM KALIM KALIM KALIM KALIM KALIM KALIM KALIM KALIM KALIM KALIM KALIM KALIM KALIM KALIM

IM GOING ABSOLUTELY INSANE HES SO AAAAAAAAAA

you all knew this was coming

he's a little down bad but yk what yeah