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it’s that time again folks….i need some help

worked myself rly hard and i made enough for rent this month! but by prioritizing my legal case for staying in this house, i lost my SNAP benefits so i have nothing to buy food with until they process my appeal. i would like help buying food, covering my utilities and hopefully drs appts i really need.

help a black trans and very disabled person stay afloat if you can afford it!

v: avibb

pp or z: please inbox me but b patient because i am on mobile :(

c: $avibb

do not tag this as don*tions please!

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Guess what's free to download!

#paganism #pagan #hellenic polytheism #hellenic paganism #hellenic pagan #pgm #greek magical papyri #witchcraft #witch #witchblr

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sag-dab-sar

there's a massive cadre of people on here who can best be described by the phrase "be gay do war crimes"

#Michi.

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The way yall treat Palestinian bloggers on here is so fuckin disgusting.

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Update: North Gaza Project!

Mahmoud Abu Salama is doing an amazing thing in North Gaza! This program is to help Deaf Palestinian women use their pastry making skills and distribute food to families in need, which is helping both the women make a bit of a living and feed the hungry.

By donating, we’re helping Mahmoud hire more women who take pride in helping both themselves and their communities! So please feel donate if you have a few dollars to spare, or spread the link if you're unable to donate!

HelpGazaChildren Notion Site || #helpgazachildren tag

GoFundMe Link

[Quick ID: Video of Mahmoud Abu Salama speaking to the camera with women sitting on the floor behind him as they put together packages of pastries. We then get a closeup of the women who sign to the camera.]

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to add to the whole proud faggot thing: i rmbr at age 15 me and my friend (both newly out) would say faggot all the time until a teacher told us off and my friend (v cocky) said actually miss i can reclaim it to which the teacher was like ...its still a swear word ur still not allowed to use it like its not that deep. and that was a sort of revelation like 'oh yeah this word obvs holds meaning and whatever but at the end of the day us reclaiming it isnt revolutionary its just two kids who got their hands on a new curse word to use' & ever since then i try to figure out whoevers using faggot in a useful or meaningful way vs whoever is just excited to use a forbidden word. n i think for a lot of ppl its the latter

So for context, I saw a post where someone had left a comment with Israel apologia, and someone else responded by screenshotting their blog, which has a cutesy Tumblr aesthetic, and added a screenshot of another post about what it called "Smol bean Zionism." I noticed the blogger's bio also said "proud faggot," so I tagged the post:

"Are we ready to admit the 'proud faggot' is not contradictory to the smol beanification but part and parcel to it?"

I see sentiments on Tumblr that "I call myself a faggot to scare the tenderqueers," but I think the cute harmless approach and the edgy approach are two sides of the same coin. Molly Rose on substack writes about how she as a Black woman could never get away with "tenderqueer" behavior. She writes: "As far as I can tell, the hallmark of a true tenderqueer is an unwavering avoidance of responsibility or culpability at all costs, paired with the use of social justice and personal advocacy language to ensure that lack of accountability." The real problem with this type then is not that they're too sensitive, but that their sensitivity is a tool by which they act like they could never be in the wrong. So we see a soft type and an edgy type, but both wear their victimhood on their sleeve to feign superiority and avoid any kind of interpersonal conflict. The former will invoke queerness or neurodivergence to guilt trip you, and the latter will act above it all and treat you like you're stupid for even caring. It's "enough discourse, we should be making out with tongue" when trans women try to talk about transmisogyny, etc.

With all these discussions of the "tenderqueer," It's easy to forget that "queer" was that transgressive word said to connote political radicalism, or rather, speak political radicalism into existence just by uttering that very word. And while I have heard people prop up "fag" and it's equivalents as the solution when the former has been watered down, they are not getting to the root of the problem. If the problem is that some have turned the supposed magical powers of a word into a political dead end, the solution is not to go find other magical words to replace it. I am aware and respectful of the fact that to some, these words really are a political statement, or a symbolic gesture that they're not afraid or have moved beyond past wounds. Any word is what you make it. But to get back to your point, yeah, some people have that same teenager's mentality of getting their hands on a new curse word. And it does not automatically make them meaningfully transgressive or even interesting.

#Good post op #TW: F slur / #TW: Q slur /

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Please share this around

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I believed in you and your love. Please do not let me down and save my family from this war. Take them out of Sudan so that they can enjoy some stability and security.

This is my house after it was bombed in June and we are inside it

Save my family please🙏

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instead of continuously over-donating to ao3 when those running the site are racist zionist sympathisers who shut down support of palestine from its volunteers 1 / 2 (among myriad other issues that u should NOT be funding) please direct your attention to these incomplete fundraisers for people in gaza and various tangible operations doing work. this is a call that if u have donated even a cent to ao3 to a) match that in your donations to palestinians/causes and b) stop donating so uncritically and unconditionally to ao3, pressure them. id like to direct u to @end-otw-racism

fundraiser masterpost by @el-shab-hussein

mona

care for gaza

help gaza's children

operation olive branch

the palestinian children's relief fund

unrwa

the palestinian red crescent society

buy an e-sim / donate for mass buying

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This is lovely!! I want to try something similar...

I do want to let you know that WyrdCuriosities is run by a mega racist folkist named Galina Krasskova, though, unfortunately.

Discreet/Practical Travel Altar: My Wallet!

Maybe it's just the Hermes devotee in me, but I love travel altars! I love how discreet they can be, but they can also have a practical use...which made me realize, my wallet is a travel altar devoted to Hermes!

The wallet itself can have a pattern and decorations reminiscent of a particular vibe, energy, spirit, deity...and prayer cards can double as idols without taking up too much space. Plus, anything you keep in it, like money, can be offerings!

I purchased the wallet a while ago from SewSophia--with the colors and map design of the fabric, it was the exact Hermes vibe I was looking for. I added a set of HearthfireHandiworks' bracelet prayer beads on the keyring, and the prayer card is the lovely work of WyrdCuriosities. I've had all these things together in this wallet for years, but it really has been a functional travel altar all this time, who knew! 🤣

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i can't take the majority of posters on this site seriously. everything is "terfy" but nothing is racist. everyone is a misandrist if you put men dni in your bio but no one is capable of misogyny. every kink under the sun is perfectly harmless and are never tinged by our white supremacist and patriarchal society, but if you try and have a genuine discussion about abuse in bdsm/kink spaces you're an "anti" and on the same level as homophobic fascists. everyone wants to apparently help palestine but no one wants to threaten biden with witholding their vote. yall are so unserious it makes my head spin

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the amount of white trans people on this website who go completely quiet when you bring racism into the conversation because they’ve never confronted their own prejudice and hide behind the “im a minority so i can’t even be racist!!” mindset instead of ever actually learning and giving a shit is so tiring what are we doing here

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Won't boycott, won't not vote for genocidal politicians, won't donate... Like what will you do, other than complain about people making you feel "bad" for not doing the bare minimum

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I'm still not really back. Was just checking for DMs from people close to me. I know I harp on about this often but I need to do it again because it's absurd. Ijust want to say the way people on this website treat Palestinians who are trying to inform you and help you is absolutely atrocious and deeply disrespectful. I made a post that got 50k notes where I told people this: 1) I will not tell y'all how to spot Palestinian-pretending scams on tumblr 2) I will do it for you if you ask me about them. 3) I specifically said don't bother any other Palestinians with this unless they give you express permission. People proceeded to flood my inbox with fundraisers, sometimes not even claiming to be Palestinian, fundraisers that were not on tumblr or didn't even have social media accounts linked to them. And then y'all did the same to my Palestinian mutuals on tumblr EVEN THOUGH YOU DIDN'T GET PERMISSION TO DO SO. I continued to verify them out of respect for the Palestinians who were hosting the fundraisers to escape, and that alone. But did any of the people asking me about those fundraisers even donate to any of them? Likely not. I've laid out a list already. How about we make some progress donating to those first before you flood me with more? I don't want to stop people from sending me these (when I reopen my inbox). On the contrary. Please continue. But treat me with respect. I'm not an oracle. Give me the information I need to make the judgement for myself instead of forcing me to run after you for it.

Similarly to this is when I made a post that got 20k notes about orientalism by Edward Said and I made a followup about people reblogging my post and still posting about Dune. The most reblogged version was one that included PDFs for the book Orientalism by Edward Said. Instead of reading it, people DM'd me asking what was orientalist about Dune. What the fuck is wrong with you people? I'm serious. What is the point of our labour if you're not respecting it???

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General reminder to the pagans out there:

Making a supreme goddess figure part of your spirituality? Great! Worshiping a mother goddess? Wonderful! If that brings joy and meaning into your life, excellent!

"Once upon a time long ago, people all worshiped a great goddess until THE PATRIARCHY conspired to overthrow her and replace her with a CRUEL PATRIARCHAL GOD" - that's pseudohistory and conspiracism; there's literally no evidence for it whatsoever, and it can and does drag people down the new age to alt right pipeline.