#until we learn otherwise

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

a very pink conversation

#'loving everything with reckless abandon' aka Zest For Life #we should all stay zesty yk yk #attempting to play with lining and single hue palettes #starting with pink bc its The Best Fucking Color Ever. #if you disagree. well. respectfully youre Wrong <3 #i want my art to be... Softer... #cozy perhaps. but also dynamic. Much Practicing Happening Tonight #hopefully some learning as well! #scribble garnish #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #welcome home fanart #wally darling #julie joyful #until otherwise stated/confirmed wally is very aroace to me #to my current understanding he loves everything deeply and without discrimination #or reckless abandon. as said above. #wait no. With reckless abandon. with.

[et-in-arkadia]

i can’t stop thinking about how

-aziraphale still has no idea that crowley went to heaven when aziraphale was in danger, risking his entire existence by walking directly into the belly of the, well, angelic beehive

-aziraphale doesn’t know what crowley learned there: that gabriel was judged and cast out for vetoing the final world-and-time-stopping extinction-level event, “armageddon the sequel,” and that the metatron was part of the trial that punished gabriel

-crowley warns aziraphale that heaven will end life on earth, but he doesn’t explain how he knows that. aziraphale thinks he can make a difference because he isn’t aware that there’s already a specific, catastrophic plan in motion. even when crowley implies heaven will be up to no good for humanity, it then becomes more imperative for aziraphale, rather than less, that he go to heaven to act as a mitigating and tempering force (because aziraphale is—lest we forget—“the soft one who still believes in magic and people being basically good and all that”)

-from everything aziraphale knows from his perspective, he’s making the right decision to help a heaven bent on ushering in a new age. he doesn’t have crowley’s side of the story, and crowley never gives it to him

-a simple “i went to heaven masquerading as an angel to save you and there learned that gabriel was cast out after his apparent love for a demon caused him to try and thwart impending total destruction” could’ve gone a long way but it’s also very clear neither of them are listening in the final scene because they’re both so anxious to be the one heard

#good omens 2 #good omens 2 spoilers #like gabriel my head is too full of too many thoughts and no space to contain them #aziraphale #crowley #i know we are sad about aziraphale’s choices but consider the limits of his information and millions of years of brainwashing and #when you tell a true-believing idealist they alone are the key to making everything better #that’s that #until they learn otherwise

[soars22]

I’ve had a wild thought.

You know how the duck was missing from the Federation video where they were explaining the Cucurucho cookies? This is a crazy theory, but after Purgatory and the Eye being ElQuackity, I wonder if the duck is Quackity-like, it’s a similar thing.

Like. Think about it.

We know that Quackity is in hell or limbo or whatever and there’s that theory floating around about how he’s in a coma (the constant beating we’ve heard in the background of his streams is totally a heart monitor) and I just- the thought hit me and wouldn’t leave me alone.

There’s too much of a coincidence for me with Quackity possibly being in a coma and the Federation duck being absent at the same time. Quackity is the duck and I don’t know how to feel about it.

#qsmp #qsmp quackity #qsmp elquackity #qsmp federation #qsmp purgatory #like what does it MEAN #IT HAS TO MEAN SOMETHING #RIGHT?!? #I feel like that it’s always sunny in Philadelphia meme #with the red string theory guy #we are the same this theory man and I #is it real? probably not #but I will vibe until I learn otherwise #(I’ve connected the dots) #(you didn’t connect shit) #(I’ve connected them)

[gxlden-angels]

I really am just religious trauma wrapped in a trench coat at this point huh?

#Had an issue in therapy that I couldn't quite get at #basically we couldn't figure out why having a diagnosis mattered to me #and I finally wrote/talked out my thoughts #and it's because the 'bad parts' are the only part I allow myself to have #all my good traits are 'from the lord' so I need bad traits to exist #otherwise I'm nothing #so I have to cling to having observed bad parts to stay human #it's a weird transitional state to me #I'm clinging onto the bad parts but if they're a diagnosable disorder then they aren't me #they aren't who I am #but if the good parts of me are from the lord and for him #then they aren't mine #I don't get to keep those #and we're trying to take the bad parts of me before I've established the good parts #or that's what it feels like #basically I'm scared of being nothing at all in that in between state #and the label of 'disordered' gives me something to grasp to without holding onto the symptoms themselves #it gives me wiggle room #until I establish myself as a mix of good and bad #I just have to learn how to claim those good parts first #anyways that's how my trauma therapy has been going #haven't even met the religous trauma coach yet #there's so much to unpack holy shit #ex christian #religious trauma

[quietwingsinthesky]

I mean rn I wish you would write a fic w a description of 11089 so I can draw them 👉👈 :lookingaway:

bold of you to assume i even know what they look like alsjfjgljdksk

things i know about 11089’s appearance (revealed to me as if receiving prophecy):

1) You know those posts about how the ultimate image of androgyny in our society ends up being people who are skinny and hairless and sexless? so there’s our starting point, the horror story of that being forced upon you because it’s more useful for you to be as similar to the rest of the crew as possible because then you can simply be quantified by the amount of resources you can provide versus those you take. because every single time i think about this spaceship, it becomes an even more dystopian situation because how else would they survive when they were underprepared and have no way of getting help.

1a) what i’m saying is there’s a very good reason they’re instantly fascinated by visual modes of self-expression like dyeing hair. (similarly fascinated by other bodily changes, whether natural, like when Donna gets a burst of freckles across her face when she’s been out in the sun, or unnatural, absolutely transfixed by piercings and good for them.)

1b) they are going to be so much better off once they’re living on the TARDIS and can put on some weight and some muscle from running around with aliens and let their hair grow out all fluffy and uneven (and eventually accidentally turn it orange through hair bleach mishaps and keep it that way)

2) related, but they tend to prefer bright colors on other people rather then themself, for the most part. fun sometimes but attention-grabbing in a way that layered shades of gray are less so. so however they dress, it’s with a trend towards darker colors with little splashes of brightness from accessories or such.

3) set in stone for me now is the idea that where this story ends up going is ‘Someone Has To Keep An Eye On Donna And Her Completely Human Friend, John Smith’. If a Donna can’t survive being a human metacrisis or whatever with all the Doctor’s memories in her little human brain, why should Ten 2.0 be any different. Donna gets mindwiped, but Ten Again goes voluntarily to keep living, to stay near her, a measure that will mean if her memory starts itching her about some ‘Doctor’, she’ll associate his face with John instead and stop digging.

Which wraps back around to 11089 because I’m now very attached to Another Ten getting FOB watched and 11089 wearing it on a chain at all times. It’s definitely a totally normal and reasonable burden for them to carry their friends’ lives around their neck. this is very healthy behavior and does NOT show a lack of ability to set boundaries in situations that will end up hurting them or a need to prove that they can be useful that overrides everything else. they’re fine. this will not end up going horribly wrong as the guilt of hiding these things from people they love gnaws at them, and they start looking for any other solution only to find dead end after dead end and get desperate enough to start thinking ‘well, if the doctor couldn’t figure it out, maybe if we had another timelord-’

3a) but that’s not important. what’s important is watch on a chain that they can never ever open.

#PART FOUR) in the super secret self-indulgent third act of this story that only exists in my brain. they end up getting injured a lot. #you know because of the [REDACTED] after jumping into the [REDACTED] to avoid the consequences of their actions. #fun thing about not being at the future seasons of doctor who yet is that i can just make shit up with the information i have available #does later seasons contradict it? probably. but im not there yet so its my town babyyy. the entirety of the secret third act that is only #canon to this OC on tuesdays and thursdays is that i don’t know so im making shit up. #which means until im proven otherwise i can imagine that 11089 gets to spend a decade in [REDACTED] with [REDACTED] learning basic #boundary setting. because they hate him. and also becoming a worse person to survive. and getting some fun scars along the way. #we are so far from the basic premise of ‘oc who falls in love with rose’ its so funny to me. that is still a thing that happens its just. #theres More here now #ask #dw oc

[werewolfbneimitzvah]

I get so tired of people saying that underage people are too young to transition in terms of taking hormones or that even the younger adult years might be too young. Turns out your body naturally does irreversible things to itself if left alone even though you're supposedly too young to know what your gender is. But apparently it's evil or abusive or irresponsible to replace those irreversible effects with different irreversible effects. Or even just make them happen slightly later so kids have more time to really think about which irreversible effects they want. No, the only moral choice is to force one kind of irreversible effect on kids and not allow there to be any choice at all ever. Making that potentially wrong choice for them is somehow the only good option. Farquaad-ass "some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice i am willing to make."

#this is a vague about someone i was following but am not anymore #apparently they detransed which fine! good for you! I'm glad you learned more about yourself! #but your experiences are not universal. not as a trans or detrans person #there is no universally good age or waiting period or procedure or anything for getting to decide what gender you are #or what you want to do to your body #there is no perfect universal amount of therapy or guidance (parental or otherwise) #especially because some people's genders evolve! #i consider myself to have been a girl. and been a nonbinary girl. and been nonbinary. and now I'm very man-aligned #and who knows how I'll think of myself in another 10 years! 20! 50! #if I'm a woman in 10 years then good for me! i won't have been not a guy right now though. #maybe there's no perfect body solution for me. maybe there is and I'll find it #point is. there will always be people making wrong decisions or decisions they regret #we want to minimize that of course! obviously! but the solution is not going #''you must wait until your age is whatever arbitrary number that someone else decides and in the meantime your body is going through #permanent changes anyway no matter what you want or know about yourself because some people you'll never meet made the wrong decision'' #that's just fucking bad and stupid #anyway. i had to vent. I'm going back to listening to ycdt and playing stardew valley now

[layzeal]

once again thinking about MDZS' flashback placement, and how we get to see wei wuxian's sadness and regret over how he treated lwj during sunshot before we actually see their first bad fight in the yiling courier station

like, sure we are told even by wwx himself that hgj and the yllz had a feud, but the only "feud" we've seen early on is their silly teenage rivalry, and before we get to the point where their relationship is strained, we already receive bits of pieces of information that point out to lwj being worried about him, lwj trying to reach out and being denied, and finally wei wuxian's lament over what he was already beginning to understand as a misunderstanding

and we haven't even seen that fight yet

(these are just some examples i could think from the top of my head, but there are def more. what i basically mean to say is that i think it matters that we see these right before the xuanwu cave, lotus pier destruction and wwx's return flashbacks)

#interestengly we also learn that wwx thinks the yllz is an arrogant prick before we properly meet the yllz in that courier station haha #this is why i dont buy mdzs as enemies to lovers tbh. by the time we meet sunshot wangxian #present time wangxian are already flirting and wwx is even catching on to his own feelings #i think maybe because the donghua changed the flashback order to make for a more compelling season 1 #(which it did amen) #and the season finaly SLAPS and it HURTS bc it ends in that big wangxian fight #but in the novel we don't see that fight until after the events of carp tower #you're never led to believe that wangxian ever disliked each other except in the very beginning #and even then that gets debunked really fast #man. the thing is that i totally understand why adaptations changed the flashback order #the donghua was releases seasonaly. which means they need strong hooks at the end of each season #which is why they pushed the teenage flashback and wwx's return to season 1 #cql aired weekly both online and on television for the general public #so they had to go with a straightforward once and for all flashback #cause otherwise things would get way too confusing in case you missed an ep #like. changes had to be made for the sake of the media #but mdzs rly was meant to be experienced through wwx's messed up and broken little memory pieces 🥺💕 #modao #lace speaks

[masonsystem]

hmhmmm (almost) all of the kgpr character's first official appearances for funnnnn

#in order of release too btw! 🤓☝️ #excluding characters like rin and kisaragi's mom cuz theyre so minor.. maybe ill add them later? #and including haruka and takane as seperate people cuz why not brother #oh and yakitsu is seperate from ayano too of course #u could argue yakitsu appears earlier in the novels (specifically novel 3 right before kano psychologically tortures shintaro) #but i guess i wanna just collect the first visual appearances #otherwise id be including lyrics and the like and just bejwkfjdks #anyways! everybody gets an appearance around 2011 and 2012 except for tsukihiko and yakitsu #who only gets an appearance later in 2013 #though of course we dont even learn that its yakitsu until much later #but again that might not even be yakitsu IDKKK its hard to seperate her from ayano in general #kgprambling #edit: finished the manga and that is indeed yakitsu #kagesave

[samuraisharkie]

It’s funny how some things can just instantly transport you back to the times you felt small and helpless. Getting iced and ignored in a group/ group chat. Struggling to understand something. Feeling lonely. Getting weird looks. Being laughed at. Suddenly I’m back in elementary school wondering why everyone picks on me, middle school wondering what’s wrong with me and why I can’t make friends, high school being pushed and shoved and ostracized. And I know I’m an adult now, and if people want to act immature and treat other people like garbage then it’s their loss not mine, but it always shocks me that for all of those things I repeat to myself, for my years of working on my self confidence and growth and understanding, how quickly I can be brought low from others. The little kid that felt like no one would ever care about them is still there somewhere. Realizing the struggle will never be over is depressing

#vent #bro this is why I don’t like servers with people I don’t know we’ll #*well #someone asked me a question bc they were interested in something I said and I responded with a slightly long message explaining #then for two hours there was just absolute silence in that channel. finally everyone just pretended the convo didn’t happen and moved on #edit: actually checked and it was almost four hours. #there is 95 members in that group chat #it’s so fucking stupid. it shouldn’t make me feel that way. #I feel like an over dramatic bitch feeling hurt from it #I was wondering why the hell I felt so down about it and couldn’t just move on and it occurred to me #that it was probably bc i haven’t exactly healed from that happening growing up #at least one of the reasons I mean #hell I’m grown and it STILL happens everywhere #and sometimes I just get so tired not knowing what I did to get that sort of response. I get so tired #at work someone summed me up to another person by saying I’m ‘pretty awkward but work hard’. I thought I got along w them pretty well #least I thought we were cool until he said that. made me realize that I was still too weird for him #the reason he likes me is just because I bust my ass trying to actually work. it’s not because of anything outside of that #I learned to be outgoing w my coworkers bc otherwise they project stuff onto me and speak for me #I still got the ‘you’re a little too quiet and don’t involve yourself with the group’ talk from my manager #i keep to myself. then I’m creepy and no one knows me well enough to care when I do speak #and then the moment I say more than two things I’m talking to much #realizing that the struggle never ends even outside of school fucking sucks man

[allofuswantgwinam]

idk how we’ll ever have peace in this world when everyone just wants to retaliate with violence for everything. ‘It happened to me so I want revenge and idc if any innocent people get hurt/murdered in the process” I want fucking out lol of this world I am so serious

#I am disgusted by humanity every single day #this shit is FUCKED. it’s fucked. #we are all fucked #the masses do not care about things #the masses likes to live blindly #or “not my country not my problem’ #or as I stated before I keep seeing posts from people in Israel who are like ‘I was blah blah blah by hamas’ #‘everyone should die in hamas bc im upset’ ‘bad things happened to me so it should continue to be a cycle and never get better’ #that’s what they might as well fucming say #and it’s more than just that. everything. people want fucke duo things to happen to others bc it happened to them #isn’t that some fucking shit #and there’s so many things that make me upset #it feels impossible the more I look into things #and observe people and learn #im disgusted #don’t even come for me to argue bc im not arguing #all everyone does is argue with eachother and be mad #im fucking tired of it #until we listen and understand eachother as a whole.. we’re just fucked #can’t convince me otherwise #im gonna keep going and all that bs but I’m absolutely defeated by the world rn #shit is ridiculous in so many ways #im also not saying someone shouldn’t be upset about what happened to them #I just don’t understand why the fuck you would want it to keep continuing #shameful #this isn’t fixing anything. people are dying. innocent people. #im sick of this repetitive bs of a sick world we live in #im only 25 #I am not excited for my future #I do t even wanna bring a child into this world

[tkingfisher]

When I was in seventh grade, we had an assignment in English class to write out the answer “if you were given one wish, what would it be?” I had possibly been waiting my entire life for an adult to ask me this and immediately laid out my carefully conceived plan, whereby I would be transported to a fantasy world to have cool adventures, live out a happy life, and at the moment of my death, be transported to another fantasy world to start over having more cool adventures, on and on forever. Between lives, my memory would be erased (I was fairly sure that immortality made you batshit otherwise) and I would start each life at age twelve, with childhood memories retroactively put into place, so that I did not have to waste valuable Cool Adventure time on potty-training, learning to walk, etc.

It was not until the next day when the teacher handed back our papers and commented “Most of you wished for world peace,” that I realized just how thoroughly I had botched the assignment.

[aw-bean-s]

National just won the nz election and will most likely be forming a coalition with ACT. This country is fucked.

#They're going to be restoring fees on prescription medication #Also fucking the school system by requiring and hour of reading writing and maths every single day up until year 8 #Which means that only private schools will be able to have any flexibility to learning #ALSO they have no active interest in doing ANYTHING about climate change #And a lot of interest in not restricting oil drilling in nz #They also want to cut social funding which means kicking a lot of people off the ben who need it but Nat thinks they dont #And on top of all of this one of the only friends who still talks to me voted for them and I don't know if I can look at him the same #The right and left aren't as extreme here in nz but Nat will still fuck over a lot of people i care about and I just can't do this #God we were going to a concert together but now I just feel sick #Thank god they backed down on getting rid of first year fees free uni #Otherwise I know a lot of people who would probably have to drop out before the fees got much bigger #I am literally never going to be able to leave home at this rate #It's only going to get more and more expensive #I am going to have to live in a house with my father forever

[mossy-rock-in-a-field]

Several weeks ago, my retirement-age mother requested that I play Baldur’s Gate 3 for her because she has trouble with controllers/keyboards and wanted “to see what all the fuss is about with that cute wizard boy.” For context, my mother and I have done this sort of thing in the past with certain RPGs (dragon age, mass effect, etc.), but it’s been a few years since she’s personally requested a game like this. Basically, I control her Tav but let her make all the choices so she can determine how the story plays out without worrying about mechanics. She treats it like a choose-your-own-adventure book.

Anyway, here is a list of some of the things my mother has said and/or chosen to do throughout the course of BG3 in no particular order:

She is (obviously) romancing Gale. She is quite smitten with him and his passion for books and learning; she also thinks he’s polite and qualifies as “relationship material.” She also REALLY likes the things he’s said about his cat so far (my mom is a cat lady), so I know she’s gonna flip shit when we meet Tara in Act III.

She’s playing a normal druid Tav with a generally good alignment. Her favorite spell is Spike Growth because she thinks it’s hilarious whenever enemies walk into the AOE and die. I usually end up having to cast it at least once per battle per her request. Sometimes twice.

Contrary to her alignment, my mother tasks me with robbing every single chest, crate, barrel, and burlap sack we come across; this also includes people and their pockets. The party is always at max carrying capacity. ALWAYS. She doesn’t like selling things because “what if I need them.” The camp stash is in literal shambles. There is no hope of organizing it. She’s got like fifty seven sets of rags and a billion pieces of random silverware.

She MUST talk to every animal and corpse in the game. I think five hours of her total playtime so far (47ish) has been spent speaking to animals as many times as humanly possible. Like, I was thorough in my own playthroughs, but this is on a whole other level.

She did NOT get Volo’s lobotomy, but she did let Auntie Ethel take her eye in hopes of a cure for the tadpole. I did not understand the logic then. I still do not understand it now.

She is far more interested in fashion than equipment stats. Do you have any idea how much gold I’ve had to spend on dyes just to make things match? SO much. Same vibe as that “please someone help me balance my finances my family is starving” tweet but instead of candles it’s thirty thousand fucking bottles of black and furnace red dye.

We broke the prisoners out of Moonrise, but they got on the boat too early and bugged the fight by leaving Astarion and Karlach behind. Wulbren Bongle somehow got stuck in combat mode even after engaging the cutscene on the docks below Last Light; he he kept trying to run ALL THE WAY BACK TO MOONRISE nine fucking meters at a time while I frantically tried to finish the fight with the Warden, otherwise Wulbren would have run straight into the shadow curse. (I would’ve let him go; fuck Wulbren Bongle, all my homies hate Wulbren Bongle. But my mom didn’t know that, and she wanted to keep him safe. So.)

She had me reload a save like eighteen times to save the giant eagles on top of Rosymorn Monastery. Wouldn’t even let me do non-lethal damage just to get past things. I think getting that warhammer for the dawnmaster puzzle took us like an hour and a half alone. (Yes, I know you can use any warhammer, but SHE didn’t.)

She’s started keeping an irl notebook to keep track of her quests between play sessions. She writes down ideas and strategies when she thinks of them during the week, then brings them to her next game session at my house. I think she wrote about three pages on possible approaches to the goblin fortress alone.

She insists that I pet Scratch and the owlbear cub before every single long rest, no exceptions. Sometimes I have to do it multiple times until she is absolutely sure that the animals know exactly how much she loves and cherishes them. She has also commissioned a crocheted owlbear plush from a friend of hers and is very excited.

I’m sure there’s a bunch of stuff I’m forgetting, but those are some fun things I thought of. She’s enjoying the game and is telling all of her retired friends to get it and play it for themselves. She asked me “what is Discord” yesterday and I think my life flashed before my eyes.

anyway shout out to my mom for being neat

Part 2 — Part 3 — Part 4 — Part 5

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #gale #gale of waterdeep #astarion #gale dekarios #laq talks #I talk #she stares at me real hard after she makes a choice too #like squinting to see if my expression gives anything away #if it was a good or bad call #I keep my face blank as shit it’s hilarious #I have not told her I’m writing fanfic for this game #nor will I ever #jesus christ

[blackpearlblast]

a rundown on the listed e-sim platforms from this tweet from mirna el helbawi. visit esimsforgaza to learn about this effort. (they also have a tutorial on how to purchase an esim and send it to them)

update v10 (4/9/24) nomad (regional middle east), holafly (israel and egypt), simly (palestine and middle east), and airalo (discover) are currently in the highest in demand. platforms. if it has been more than 3 weeks since you initially sent your esim and your esim has not been activated, you can reforward your original email with the expiration date in the subject line. you can see gothhabiba’s guide for how to tell if your esims have been activated. if your esim has expired without use, you can contact customer service to renew or replace it.

troubleshooting hint 1: if you are trying to pay through paypal, make sure you have pop-ups enabled! otherwise the payment window won't be able to appear. (this issue most frequently seems to occur with nomad)

troubleshooting hint 2: if you are trying to purchase an esim using the provider's app, it may block you from purchasing if your phone does not fit the requirements to install and use their esims. use their website in your browser instead and this problem should go away.

nomad

you can use a referral code to get $3 off your first purchase and also make it so the person whose code you used can buy more esims for gaza. many people have been leaving their referral codes in the replies of this post and supposedly a referral code may eventually reach capacity so just keep trying until you find one that works! BACKPACKNOMAD is another code to get $3 off your first purchase, it's been working for some people but not others so try out a referral code instead if you can't get it to work. NOMADCNG is a code for 5% off any middle east region nomad esims posted by connecting gaza. it can be used on any purchase, not just your first but is generally going to give less off than the first-purchase only codes, so use those first. it can be used in combination with nomad points. (nomad promo codes do not work on plans that are already on sale, unlimited plans, and plans under $5)

weekly tuesdays only code on nomad web, PST timezone! it gives 10% off plans 10gb and above. NOMADTUE

nomad also seems to be kind of sluggish sometimes when it comes to sending out emails with the codes. you can look for them manually by going to manage -> manage plans -> the plan you purchased -> installation instruction and scroll down to install esim via QR code or manual input then select QR code to find the QR code which you can screenshot and email to them. often just the act of logging back into your nomad account after purchase seems to cause the email with the code to come through though.

mogo

mogo's website is fucking annoying to navigate and i couldn't find any promo codes, but their prices are massively on sale anyway. you have to pick if you want your esim to be for iphone, ipad, or android for some reason. according to statcounter, android makes up approx. 75% of mobile markets in palestine while iphone represents approx. 25%. so i would probably recommend prioritizing donations of android esims but if you can afford multiple, try buying an iphone one too? if i can find any official direction from the connecting gaza crew on this i will update with it.

a good referral code to use for mogo is 8R29F9. the way things are worded are confusing but as far as i can tell, if you use it we both get a 10% discount on your first purchase. (the referrer gets a 10% voucher that allows them to top up in use esims, they are someone who i know has bought a lot of esims and will be able to make good use of the top-up discount vouchers!) also upon signing up it automatically generates a password for you which you can change by downloading the app. (check your email to find your account's current password)

holafly (also looking for holafly esims for egypt now)

holafly is pricier than the others and the only promo code i could find was ESIMNOW for 7% off. someone in the tags mentioned GETESIM7 as another 7% off code they had received, so if you have already used ESIMNOW or can't seem to get it to work, try GETESIM7. referral codes only seem to give 5% off and they don't stack. (i don't remember the source, it was on some sketchy coupon site i don't want to link to and only can recommend because i tried it myself) you can also use my referral link for 5% off if you can afford the 2% worse deal on your end, it will give me $5 credit which i can put towards buying more esims. connecting gaza has also posted the promo code HOLACNG for 5% off but since it is less than the 7% off codes and as far as i can tell does not give credit towards others to buy esims like the referral links, i would consider it lower priority for use.

simly (note: simly must be downloaded as an app to be used, the website link is to help people confirm they are downloading the right app)

i have not personally used simly so i am going to be going off of the sixth slide of mirna el helbawi's instagram guide, with some corrections from someone who has successfully purchased an esim from simly. after downloading the app and making an account, search for palestine or middle east and purchase your preferred package. the page the app takes you to after your purchase should have the QR code to send to the esimsforgaza email, it won't show up in your email receipt. someone kindly left her referral code in the tags of this post, it gives $3 off your first purchase and will give her $3 credit to put towards purchasing more esims for gaza. the code is CIWA2. (if this referral code doesn't work, try one from the notes of this post!) according to someone in the notes, ARB is a simly promo code for 25% off esims that is still working as of march 3rd.

airalo

some people have noted issues trying to sign up for airalo using the browser version of the website, it worked for me but if you are struggling you can give the mobile app a try and that should work. you can use a referral code to get $3 off your first purchase and give the code suppler a $3 credit for buying more esims. KARINA9661 is a code sourced from this post which is also a wonderful example of how using people's referral codes can really make a difference. if for some reason that referral code isn't working, you can find more in the notes of the original esim post i made here.

@/fairuzfan also has a tag of esim referral codes for various platforms!

(note: mogo and holafly both link to israel esims as there are no general regional packages for the middle east like on nomad and the esims for gaza website specifically linked to the israel package on mogo, so i linked to the equivalent on holafly.)

#esims for gaza #esims #gaza #palestine #free palestine #connecting gaza #despite not having used simly myself i'm fairly experienced with esim services at this point so i will likely be able to answer some #questions and i also have someone familiar with simly i can ask if i am not sure of the answer myself. so please go ahead and ask questions #if you're struggling with donating an esim from any of these sources!

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I think what's so interesting about Gideon as a narrator at the anniversary dinner is the fact that there's clearly tensions that she's just not picking up on because she's only there to eat a dessert.

But these people are all the immensely powerful leaders of the Houses and consider themselves to be in competition for literal godlike powers and the favour of the emperor.

There's so many little snippets that are potentially intriguing: why is Teacher trying to prime the Ninth to consider the Fifth a threat? Why are the Third and the Sixth "sizing each other up like prizefighters"? The Fifth absolutely knew what they were doing when they sat the teen heads of the opposing cults near each other.

Through Gideon's lens, Magnus' speech is a little awkward jokey thing. But...the seneschal of the House that is known to be actively trying to absorb another House is saying it's such a shame they're all so remote from each other and what do they all have in common (and it's so quiet you "could have heard a hair flutter to the floor") - that had to feel a bit different to people who aren't Gideon.

Palamedes' is dissecting the meaning of "Master Warden" and at one point compares it to a prison warden. 'Dulcinea' asking about whether Magnus and Abigail have children is perhaps less small talk and rather more pointedly political. Harrow's apparently stilted conversation with Protesilaus is clearly her actually probing his limitations like he's a bad Chat GPT-run chatbot.

And then 'Dulcinea' tells Gideon she liked the dinner because it was "useful". In her typical "I never lied to you" way, Cyth wasn't lying when she said Abigail had to die because of her hobby - Abigail Pent let loose on the Facility would have risked blowing Cyth's cover sky high. But what does a Canaan House look like where after the dinner party, the Fifth go down to the facility, get a key, and survive to continue their 'the Houses are going to get along or else' agenda? We've seen Fifth House soft power on a smaller scale in HTN: and it looks like inviting a teenager round for coffee, lulling her into a false sense of security with small talk, and then physically preventing her from leaving the room until she does what you want, while smiling the entire time. A series of little coffee chats could probably have led to a lot of cooperation in Canaan House, one way or another.

Gideon jokes about Silas marrying Ianthe because of their similar colour pallete, but it does raise the fact that there seems to be some tension around the Third, its succession, and the *point* of Ianthe. Why is Silas openly saying Ianthe should have died at birth? Combined with Judith's comments in the Cohort Intelligence Files about succession on the Third, it feels like there's something else being said here that Gideon isn't picking up on.

And of course, Harrow wasn't the only one desperate to become a Lyctor because her con was unsustainable. Presumably at some point Corona and Ianthe would be expected to marry, or at least take on more separate roles as Corona prepared to take over the throne and Ianthe was funneled off elsewhere. At some point, their package deal would have become unsustainable and Corona's cover would have been blown. But much as Harrow wants to become a Lyctor so she can reveal the state of the Ninth without repercussions, Ianthe is probably in part motivated to become a Lyctor for the same reason. Because otherwise, what would Ianthe's expected role have been? Amidst the suggestion of anxiety about the Idan succession, the dinner party also presents the fact that the reason Abigail and Magnus' infertility isn't a succession crisis for the ruling family of the Fifth is that Abigail's younger brother dutifully married in his early 20s and had kids. We know there are branch families in Ida - Babs is from one. He may be a prince, but he's not treated well, and you do get the sense that the stakes to stay in power in Ida are high.

We don't learn anything about the political situation in the Houses themselves during HTN or NTN, but in the wake of Canaan House, you have to suspect there are a number of tensions and concerns.

#the locked tomb #tlt meta #Is Ianthe's “going to see a man about a queen” seeing to the political situation back home in Ida? #Which must have been devastated by her ascension and Corona's apparent death?