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Hello everyone, I am a house maid in Gaza Palestine. I am here requesting financial support for Layla, a daughter of my employer Mrs Hussein who died three days ago after being shot on the chest by the Israeli army. Her Daughter Layla is diabetic and she urgently needs insulin. Kindly help me purchase insulin for her. Donation link is available on the pinned post

HOW TO TELL IF A DONATION IS FAKE (3 steps)

read carefully. i know you want to help but blindly supporting people without filtering out will ended up de-platforming actual palestinians who need help.

1. look at this writing from pinned post. no one writes like this—it's very much AI generated. not only this person is fake and stealing donations from ghazans, they are also very lazy.

2. Check their blog. it's suspiciously sterile whilst only reblogging every single news article that contains US liberal buzzwords that doesn't connect to eachother; trans news, feminism, etc. what normal person makes a page specifically for donation filled with news articles unrelated to that?

3. and also none of the reblogs have tags. not for filing or anything alike. there's no opinion we can get from them about the actual topic. and say this is a personal account; what miserable folk would only reblog conflict news, if they're not only doing it just to get the news' audiences attention?

these kinds of bots already don't have feelings, so don't bother bullying them off. i encourage you to put your energy into just spreading the word about being careful and raise awareness about palestine instead.

as a note, DO NOT CLICK DONATION LINKS THAT YOU CANT SEE THE WEBSITE FROM it could be a phishing website. it could have trackers. we don't know. be wary—there are shit people.

lastly, here are some safe WEBSITES YOU SHOULD HEAD IN TO DONATE TO PALESTINIANS (if you're able to)

Palestine Children's Relief Fund

PCRF

PCRF

The Palestine Children's Relief Fund was established in 1992 by concerned humanitarians in the USA to bring injured and sick children for fr

Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders - USA

Home | Doctors Without Borders - USA

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) treats people where the need is greatest. We are an international medical humanitaria

eSims for Gaza (by mirna elhelbawi — this is the one afaik that actually works for Ghazans)

Esim Donors for Gaza

Esim Donors for Gaza

I hope this helps and be safe out there. From the river to the sea.

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A Call for Help Amidst the Devastation in Gaza

My name is Hanan Al-Salout, a Palestinian mother and children's counselor. I write to you today with a heart heavy with indescribable pain and sorrow, due to the loss and destruction my family has faced as a result of the war.💔😢

The relentless violence has taken everything from us our home, our livelihoods, and even the sense of safety we once had. I lost my job, and my husband He lost his job too is fighting with all his strength to keep our family standing amid unbearable suffering. 💔😓

But the greatest pain is seeing my little child, Yaseen, who is not even two years old, live in constant fear. Every day he wakes up to the horrors of war, sheltered by a torn tent that no longer protects us from the cold or the wind. 💔

My elderly mother-in-law is also suffering, as the catastrophic conditions of the war exceed her weak body's ability to endure, causing her to suffer from anemia and severe weakness, leaving her in a pitiable state! 😢💔

Winter storms have destroyed the last bit of shelter we had, leaving us exposed to the harsh elements. We have sold everything we own,

Now all we have left are our prayers and hope that your compassionate hearts will hear our plea.

This war has turned into an extermination of innocent families, children, and dreams. We live each day in fear of becoming another number in the growing list of casualties. 😢

We plead with you to look upon us with mercy. Your support could be the difference between life and death for my family. 🙏🤍

$2,120 USD raised of $20,000 goal

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Donate to Donate to Save Hanan Al-Salout's Family in Gaza, organized by Gregory Lewin

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Black Characters and Blushing

entropyalarm said: When describing embarrassment, blushing is typically used as an indicator. I’m white, but I recognize that darker skin tones shouldn’t show blush the same way as lighter tones. My friend, with medium skin, told me it only shows in her nose and ears, felt more as intense heat radiating from her cheeks than a visible color change. What is your insight on handling blushing? I feel this is especially important for proper portrayal of PoCs in romantic situations.

Anonymous said: You’ve written some great advice for describing black characters, but I was wondering whether you have any advice for describing a black character blushing? I have face blindness, so I’m having a lot of trouble with this. (otherwise I could just look up pictures and describe those) So sorry to bother you!

I’m glad you’ve asked. It bothers me how often I’ve heard “Black people don’t blush” which only seems to be another way to dehumanize Black people (and defeminize Black women) for not possessing this base human reaction, even if it’s not always notably visible.

Everybody blushes. Or rather, can blush. It’s the physical act of blood rushing to the face, ears, and other areas of the body; how visible the output doesn’t dictate whether one blushes or not.

While fairness has its part, I think blushing and how visible it is has a lot to do with the individual (some folks have better blood flow) + the undertones within their skin.

I’m going to steal my undertones chart from the Skin Tone Guide here:

As shown above cool skin colors have undertones that mostly fall under red/pink shades.

I’ve seen dark cool-skinned people with naturally rosy cheeks. I can only imagine when they blush, those reddish undertones are emphasized or brightened.

On the other hand, warm skin is usually in the golden, orange spectrum. Not so much reds. Still that doesn’t mean red coloring doesn’t appear on dark warm skin tones.

I have warm medium skin with golden orange undertones, and I definitely get flushed from extrinsic factors, such as if I exercise hard (I turn a berry-red coloring), plus the winter cold pinkens my nose like Rudolph.

I’ve also had friends call me out on blushing, but I can’t tell you exactly how that looks for I’ve never checked a mirror at the time, though I imagine it’s like a slight tinting or an enrichment of the undertones in the skin, brightening them, paired with a “coral to dark red” reddening.

In general, though, it can be redundant to constantly refer to blushing to show shyness or embarrassment with characters of any skin tone. It seems blushing is one of those things that happen more often in stories than daily life. Kinda like green eyes.

For variety, also consider these indicators: 

~Pages from the Emotion Thesaurus, seriously every writer should buy this book 10/10 would recommend.~

To reiterate; dark (cool) skin with red/pink undertones might show blushing more notably than warm skin, as an enhancement of those reddish undertones. 

Dark (warm) skin without red undertones, more “richening” of the undertones with pink to dark reddish coloring as an influence, likely depending on how harshly they’re blushing.

In any case; if you’re describing the blushing from the character’s perspective, it makes more sense to focus on heat and sensation.

Followers, any personal experiences or thoughts?

~Mod Colette

Listen.

EVERYBODY knows (or should) that you DO. NOT. STOP. in Vidor, Texas. 

It’s best to just run out of gas elsewhere. Whatever you do, black folks, DO NOT STOP IN VIDOR, TEXAS. 

There’s a good chance you’ll get lynched or just come up missing - and I’m not joking.

also do NOT stop in Harrison, Arkansas!!!! (relatively close to OK and MI) a nazi town with a BIG KKK organization.

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