PENNY DREADFUL 1.02 NOSFERATU (2024)

Fundraisers that could use a boost!

Qusai Atef: 4% progress, has received no donations for 2 days!

Mohammed Zaa'tar: 18% progress, has received no donations for 3 days!

Eman El-Madhoun: 10% progress, has received 1 donation in 3 days! Old fundraiser got closed down (linked is the original).

Taim's family: 11% progress, hasn't received donations in 2 days! Only received 2 donations in the past week.

Thank you Mohammed Ayesh for helping these people! If you want to help him here's his fundraiser as well.

Important addition:

Dr. Anas Ayesh: he is battling a cancer that has metastasized, and he is hemorraghing severely. He needs all the help he can get, please if you can spare anything donate right away.

I have terrible news. For no apparent reason, gofundme has disabled Nader's contact from being able to recieve and transfer the money from his gfm to Nader and this has been the case since December 17th, 2024. This means that despite being 95% raised of his goal, he can't actually access the funds bes been fundraising and he has to start all over again because gofundme also won't respond to his contact asking for help and trying to resolve the issue.

Below is his new fundraiser. He asks that you donate here, and that they need the funds because the corridor to exit Gaza will be opening. His vetting information is on the pinned post of my blog.

Please all help us we have not received money since 12/17 until now and the time for opening the Rafah land crossing is approaching and we need your help please donate

study of the love note

there is something about the action of folding that is integral to the love note. once folded, it’s charged with a furtive and hopeful magic, like finishing a spell

also while im waiting for my tea to steep, since im petty, and they cant fire me any more than they already have i can tell you about the Button That Makes You Lie To People because i CANNOT stop thinking about it and its driving me fucking nuts

i worked at a fancy gourmet coffee shop, but not everyone who came in knew that or cared, so we’d occasionally get ppl who got all their coffee knowledge from starbuckses. starbuckae? starbukakke

anyway sbux has this thing where they’re literally just wrong about what they call some drinks. for example, a cappuccino is traditionally a double shot of espresso with milk foam, like a few sips of drink, but at starbucks the smallest possible “cappuccino” is 8oz and espresso with that much milk? is really just a bastard latte. 

but to explain that to someone who doesnt know better takes time, and there a line forming, and a latte… is close enough to what someone who thinks of a cappuccino as a 16oz drink is expecting. so if someone asked for a “large cappuccino” we were instructed to go “okay :)”, plug in a large latte, and then, before they could see, scroll down to the secret buttons, the forbidden buttons, the deceit buttons, and press the one called “cappuccino”, in “quotes”, which would not only put a cappuccino on their receipt, but would send a message to the barista, across the room, who would then make a latte, see the pink “cappuccino” indicator, and go 

“large cappuccino? :)” 

and i just, like, that’s just, i love how, food is made up and not real

Kyogre Fishing Lure, 2022-09-18

– Kylie Cheung, ‘On Trial for Crimes Committed Against You’: Mohammed El-Kurd on Palestine and ‘Perfect Victims’

consumed by it

the people working at wall street journal are a tar pir

"I know tens of millions of people were displaced, murdered and raped to the extent that the descendants of the people who survived this still feel the ripple effects of it so why can't we do it againnnn 🥺"

@bauliya

Sadanand Dhume (the author) is a noted sanghi Islamophobia who basically exists to launder the BJP/RSS’ reputation in western liberal institutions.

lovethis animals

kanye can’t be saved, it’s time 2 move on.

after i finished the work for my thesis—which cost a bunch of money that i paid myself (the school only gave me a $200 grant—which i spent entirely on dyes, everything else was from my kroger job), i realized that i was going 2 need 2 store my stuff—but i couldn’t afford a storage unit and i was leaving the state.

so i kept my work in the fibers studio thru the summer—just until i could figure out how i could store my stuff. three weeks before fall semester the new fibers professor came in and threw ALL of my work away—without asking anyone in the department or anything. this is when i learned that if i wanted to continue with a career in the arts, i’m going to have 2 come out of pocket 4 everything.

if i wanted 2 be successful (in the traditional sense—thru academia and the museum/exhibition system), i either had 2 be wealthy or i would have 2 find a way 2 get rich people enamored enough with me 2 support me (which i have no interest in doing). it was very disheartening and it took me a year 2 recover.