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Hello, I am Hala, a mother of a child who has been living in Gaza under bombardment for more than three months. I was forced to leave my home and move to at least 7 areas in search of safety. We live a life devoid of the minimum necessities of life, with the struggle to obtain water, electricity, and food. My three-year-old daughter is unable to provide her with baby formula, Pampers, and even clothes. We have nothing. We left our home with nothing and cannot return to it. For a long period without work or any income, and with a lot of loss of life and money, my house was damaged, as was my husband’s wedding hall and his workplace. As A mother is unable to protect her daughter from hunger and death. I only want safety, and there is no safety in Gaza. We are forced to leave the country under these harsh conditions of displacement, killing and starvation. The image of my child crying for fear of death is still in my mind. I do not want to lose her soul in these massacres. But getting out of Gaza to save her, to keep her alive, requires a lot of money that we do not have. I started this campaign trying to get out of Gaza with my daughter and my husband across the Egyptian border, and if that fails, I will use this money to spend on my family and try to rebuild and compensate for the losses we suffered. We are extremely grateful for any assistance you can provide, and thank you from the bottom of our hearts for considering our appeal for support during this difficult time.

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Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

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what i think this album did was separate people who treat taylor as taylor swift the human vs taylor swift the brand

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I have enough money to purchase 2 hozier tickets for me and my honey. I do not have enough money for the GOD DAMN FUCKING FEES

$80 per ticket for GA in the back is like, doable okay, I have listened to him since 2014 and never seen him live. I can stomach that, my partner enjoys him and loves me so I don’t think $160 for both of us is too much.

But why the fuck are fees per ticket? Like $33 per ticket is insane to me

#hozier #Ticketmaster #seatgeek #service fees #capitalism #Kansas City

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Taylor last summer: if I had a nickel for every Speak Now release that occurred around the same time a man caused me mental issues, I’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened twice

taylor last fall: if i had a nickel for every 1989 release that occurred in the immediate aftermath of a situationship from hell that at the time felt like love that i was ready to die for i’d also have two nickels and it would be even weirder that it happened twice

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Look I would 100% medically transition if I could guarantee I would look like EITHER Sam OR Dean Winchester AND get to still have a great rack of tits.

Until that day I will remain as I am 😔

#trans

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With Mother’s Day approaching:

What do you get for your mother who you are not speaking to but still have to get a gift for so she doesn’t make your life even worse?

#Mother’s Day #narcissist

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Anyone know where I can watch Love Lies Bleeding? They didn’t keep it at my theater long enough for me to see it

#love lies bleeding #bisexual #lesbian #gay #lgbtq #movies

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#never #but it’s tempting #it’s so sexy #I’m not immune to the propaganda #I would absolutely never #but back when I was working 2 jobs I really wanted to

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Made an incredibly healthy decision for myself. Very proud of my progress cuz me 4 years ago would not have had the wisdom to tell that man no!!

#men #fuck men #personal

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Currently working on a new crochet project- the Vicky Dress from Hobbii yarn

I need to make 4 of these for the top of the dress, I’ll join them and then work in the round for the body.

Beginning new projects is the hardest part for me lol but once it gets rolling i am unstoppable.

The pattern is free and the all the yarn I needed for the whole dress was on sale for like $30 including shipping (to US from Denmark)

#crochet #fiber arts #dress #crafts #fashion #art #hobby

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Taylor Swift at Patrick Mahomes' Charity Gala

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This album is about how two men broke her heart just months apart and how she was quite literally going through a mental breakdown while trying to put on a front while performing for millions of people on a world tour but you wouldn’t know that because you’re either so caught up in trying to figure out who each song is about or your so caught up in your hate for her that you’d rather make fun of her in her most vulnerable, raw, and honest state just to make yourself feel better

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also not to keep the convo going, but what's wild to me is people saying she's not only appropriating but also romanticizing, as if she has said anything on this record to indicate anything but that everything was awful and literally almost killed her.

TRULY one of my major takeaways from this record is that taylor found this entire thing to be one of the most foreign, horrifying experiences of her life and she would move heaven and earth to try to ensure she doesn't experience something like it again.

#Taylor swift #TTPD #not to make everything about me #but the people that are acting like Taylor swift is making it up #and appropriating mental health language #remind me of the people who minimize my pain and suffering #when I reach out to them for help #you can not know how someone is suffering

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i don’t know if this is anything but you know all the football imagery in the alchemy? what else happens in football stadiums? eras tour. and we joked all fall that eras tour was Barbie’s dream house and football was the mojo dojo casa house. so what if the alchemy we don’t need to fight is maybe our relationship as fans to Taylor.

“I haven’t come around in so long but I’m coming back so strong” she hasn’t toured since rep and she missed us.

“Hey, you, what if i told you we’re cool? That child’s play back in school is forgiven under my rule” she addresses the listener directly here, as she does in other spots in the album but specifically in but daddy i love him where she grapples with outsiders (and fans) judging her. Here she’s saying ok back to you, we’re good. Under my rule it’s all forgiven.

“Cause the sign on your heart said it’s still reserved for me” what do we do every night on tour? 🫶🏼 we’re always hearts opened for her, regardless of all the critic and push back we give her. Idk

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a really interesting theme i find in taylor’s work is that of being a fool or fooling someone else. love is looked at from this lens of a thing that you have to tricked into. which is really juxtaposed by her belief of “it is fate.” i think it somewhat comes from how openly and hugely she loves vs her view of herself as something that brings disaster. and also some pretty formative experiences when she was a young girl going into adulthood and how she felt used and unworthy and small. hence, all the trickery to make someone love her and trying to be in control, whether she’s the one starting it or ending it.

in cowboy like me, she talks about how she’s conned all these men, and they’ve all fallen for her. she takes what she wants from then and then she bolts. “i use to switch out these kens, i’d just ghost // rip the bandaid off and skip town like an asshole outlaw” she meets a boy, falls in love, and when they break up, she moves on quickly and goes to another one to not feel distraught, and when this new boy makes her fake promises, she does the same thing to him and moves on with someone else. she’s in control.

and then “i think there’s been a glitch,” and with joe, she thought it was gonna be something casual and they tried that but it turned out to be one of those things that supposed to last. her con finally works. after all these tries, she’s finally masterminded her forever, and she doesn’t even feel bad because he knew. but then, she realizes that she failed yet again, it didn’t work. she didn’t con her way into a sweet forever, but rather forever conned her. once fate gave her something, she tried to control it, but she failed.

she tries again. she’s been talking with this boy from her past again, and she thinks that this time, bolting will work and she will find her happy ending. what she though was fate, meant to be, all the pain of her long term relationship and her leaving was supposed to meant something, but turns out that this time the script flips, and he was the conman and he was selling her a get-love-quick scheme (loml). and she doesn’t even get to bolt! he’s the one who leaves her behind (“i’ll never leave, never mind” - loml), and she can’t even complain.

all’s not well because it doesn’t end well because she didn’t end up with anybody. instead of trying herself again, she’s just begging someone to change the prophecy. and the alchemy still implies something not in her hands being a huge factor, and who are they to fight it? they have to abide by it. and ofc she equates love to religion and sees fate as a belief system. she wants it to work out, and it hits her hard whenever it doesn’t. i’ve been thinking about this since the album release and seeing some other posts, and my unpopular opinion is that i think it’s still something she believes in despite *gestures broadly* but after last year, she doesn’t wanna control it anymore. she doesn’t wanna mastermind and do all the work, she just want it easy and she wants it to be simply good to her.