You CANNOT tell me this isn’t the scene where he realizes he likes izuku?????
LOOK AT THAT FACE.
This morning, Shaima - the mother of three beautiful sons and a beautiful one-year-old daughter, Amal - sent me a message to help spread her campaign for her and her family. The following is from her GoFundMe page, which was organised on her behalf by a friend of hers, Brooke Cole:
"I am Shaima from Palestine, Gaza. I am a mother of four children, Magdy, Walid, Abdel Rahim, and Amal. My husband travelled to Egypt to get medicines two weeks before the October 7 war on Gaza. I faced very great challenges and responsibilities for my four children in the absence of my husband, as he was traveling and the crossing was closed and we could not see each other. The extent of the suffering I was feeling cannot be described. I reach out to you today with a heavy heart and ask for your urgent assistance. I have left my home and been displaced more than 6 times with my children. I live in the war-torn Gaza area, facing unimaginable challenges, with water shortages, food scarcity, and constant threats to their safety. Amal’s nephew, who was born a few days before the war, and her cousin, who went to Egypt for treatment, did not see her. Amal's infant nephew has a problem with his peripheral nerves, especially his left hand, and it also means a problem with his right foot, because there are platinum nails inside it, which restrict the movement of the foot. He will need to be evacuated to Egypt as soon as possible to treat his nerve damage and increase his quality of life as he grows."
You can donate to the GoFundMe to support Shaima and her beautiful family and ensure her children's nephew gets treatment for his foot injury. If you cannot donate, then please share! The fundraiser is at $1,200+ when the family needs a total of $30,000.
Let's do what we can to help Shaima and her family!
reminder that visibly religious people belong at pride. that person wearing a hijab is not a threat to you. that person wearing tzitzit and a kippah is not a threat to you. someone simply wearing an item that is culturally or religiously important to them is not a threat to you. however, your aggression upon seeing a religious person at pride is a threat to them.
something I don't think white ppl really understand is that when you have a poc character, that characters race is actually instrumental to their story. there are the obvious examples - Hazel levesque (hoo), katara and sokka (atla) are characters whose backstories wouldn't work if they weren't their specific races (black and native respectively) but you also have the characters whose personalities are informed by their race - miles morales is the personification of black boy soft masculinity, while devi vishvakumar has a specific type of brown girl insanity. if you are a white person you can't really ever claim them, because they are poc with specific experiences that you, a white person, will never really understand even when these are not explicit. relate to them, sure, but don't claim them. a great example of this is sid pakam from grand army - every person ive seen who say they don't like him or that he has a 'regular coming out story' has always been white. because, to quote tee noir, 'he's gay! children of colour from immigrant families, we won!" sids story is NOT your regular coming out story - it's about coming out as queer when you're the child of immigrants. this also affects his relationship with his family - his parents don't accept him partly because they're conservative but also because they're scared - this is another thing that puts their son in danger in a country that is constantly shitting on people with their skin colour. even his relationship with his sister is the specific desi sibling relationship. other great, but more subtle examples of this are luz noceda (the owl house) and charles rowland (dead boy detectives). luz is labeled as a "troubled kid" not just because she has ADHD, but also because she's afrolatina and thus recieves less sympathy than a white girl in the same position would. charles may be white passing, but he has piercings and a cricket bat and that Desi Boy swag that me and alot of other indian guys I know have. his death was an actual hate crime. we also see this in his relationship with his mom - yes he's worried about her because she's his mum, but it's also because they share the experience of being poc in the house of an abusive white man. his race is important, even if its rarely mentioned. you cannot write poc characters without giving them poc characteristics and backstories - otherwise, its just performative diversity
I'm Nour Alanqar, and reaching out to you during a time of unimaginable hardship. I am 26 years old, married to Ashraf Ismail, who is 32, and together we have three beautiful children: Hussein, 6, Rajaa, 5, and Youssef, just 10 months old. Our lives have been turned upside down by the devastating war in Gaza, and we desperately need your help.
My daughter Rajaa is a radiant beam of sunshine, bringing boundless joy, warmth, and love to everyone she meets.
On a dark night at the beginning of the war, our area was subjected to massive bombing. The explosions reached our home, forcing us to flee into the night, running amidst periodic explosions and searching for survival. We made our way to southern Gaza by morning, seeking refuge in Rafah.
This is our home, filled with our memories and moments of joy and happiness, now reduced to rubble. Its destruction shattered our hearts.
In Rafah, we found shelter in a crowded warehouse filled with strangers, all of us struggling to find basic necessities like food, water, safety, and cleanliness. Despite these challenges, we were again hit by direct bombardment. My husband was injured in the shoulder, and the scene around us was filled with blood and corpses. The cries of my children in those moments still echo in my head.
A fragment of what it once was, and now, what it has become.
We moved several times to places described as safe, only to face new tragedies. During this period, my precious daughter Raja contracted hepatitis, adding to our suffering.
It was incredibly difficult for me to endure these disasters, especially as I was in the process of giving birth. Youssef was deprived of proper breastfeeding and the necessary nutrition for his age. Hussein's right to education and a safe childhood have been cruelly taken from him.
My baby Youssef, whom I clung to throughout the war, running with him through the rubble of shattered homes to escape.
At an age when Hussein should have been enjoying his childhood, all his rights were taken away from him.
Please, consider helping us during this critical time. Every donation, no matter the size, brings us one step closer to safety, stability, and a chance to rebuild our lives.
Propaganda:
It depends on the kind of magical girl world you put him in. I feel like he'd absolutely THRIVE in a world like Pretty Cure, with his smarts, kindness, and utter determination to save and help everyone he can; but those exact traits would absolutely tear him to shreds in the Puella Magi system.
Overall, though, I think being a magical girl would be pretty fitting for him; he's a kind person who wants to save everyone, but isn't afraid to get down and dirty when it comes down to it and it's clear he has to fight.
For any Shoto Todoroki stans, go to Ross because there are toooons of figures. I went to like 8 stores today and I'd say 6 of them had multiple Shoto figures. The last one even had these giant ones for 10 bucks and another had a bunch of these others for 10 bucks too.
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