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color the sentence that’s true about you
I was tagged by the lovely @teafiend
i’m over 1,65 / i wear glasses or contacts / i have blonde hair / i often wear sweatshirts / i prefer loose clothing over tight clothes / i have one or two piercings / i have at least one tattoo / i have blue eyes / i have dyed or highlighted my hair / i have or have had braces / i have freckles / i paint my nails / i typically wear makeup / i don’t often smile / resting bitch face / i play sports / i play an instrument / i know more than one language / i can cook or bake / i like writing / i like to read / i can multitask / i’ve never dated anyone / i have a best friend i’ve known for over five years / i am an only child
I will tag: @kl125 @fricchead @flamingfalcon3 and anyone else who wants to do it!!
Let's talk friendships.
Why do you constantly put yourself in situations where you feel left out?
Why are you allowing yourself to be the friend that walks behind the rest of the friend group while they giggle and talk amongst themselves?
Why do you allow yourself to be with people who use you to feel better about themselves?What for? The name of friendship?Acceptance?
That loneliness you think you'll feel being alone is it any worse than sitting in a crowded room while everyone else forgets your existence?
The period in time where you're alone is for growth. It's for you!
What if one day you just disappear for a whole and you just come back better? Better mental health, better physical health just better overall.
You're going to leave this earth alone, you do realize that right? So why are you wasting your time with people who couldn't care less if you were around or not.
My darling, there's always going to be someone in your life who'll truly adore you at your lowest and best.
Someone has to be the one to tell you those people you keep hanging out with aren't your friends. In a friendship do you think you're supposed to feel left out? Used? Abandoned? Absolutely not!
You're such a beautiful soul and you do not need someone else to validate it! Once you validate yourself you'll attract the people who are best for you!
Like the wizard liz once said 'you have not met all the people that will love you yet'
I know it's easier said than done but trust me finding happiness within yourself will absolutely set you free.
It's not easy to heal, it's not easy to step away from what feels familiar to you, it'll never be easy but 5 years or so down the line you'll be soooo proud of yourself, love.
All my love
-Cleo
Heavy on the “you could’ve just told me” because we’re grown…
just wanted to let you know, i'm proud of you and i'm glad you're here. you are cared about. you do belong on this planet. it's good you're alive and i hope the world treats you kindly. <3
I love this explanation sm!!
Ty for this💜💜💜
You accurately assessed that Mike is not best with words, that he does better with quiet reassurance and physical touch. So why didn't he do any of that when El was crying and begging for him to love her? Why couldn't he go over to her and put his arm around her to comfort her, hold her hand, kiss her? Why did he maintain such perfect distance even after it was clear she hadn't found someone else and she desperately wanted his love?
If it was just the words he struggled with, why couldn't he show he loved her in his own way to ease her worries? It's not like he's never kissed her before. They are in a relationship and it wouldn't be unexpected.
And you can't say El wouldn't want him to, because she was literally begging him to prove his love to her.
I assume you mean in that moment, after the "you're a superhero" "not anymore" lines...
First of all, there's a narrative that needs to be told. Can't really get around that. There needed to be that little bit of a barrier, a little bit of conflict for Eleven's part of the story to progress. Like I said before-- the point of that conversation was not about Mike's feelings for her. That conversation was about how El felt about herself, and how she believed everyone else to feel about her. Even if he did try to hold her and kiss her and do whatever else might "convince" her that he loves her, I don't think she was in a mental state to accept it. She already believed she was unlovable now, long before he even came to visit. In that moment especially, with emotions running so high, I fully believe she would have just shoved him away if he tried to push her, even if that was what she wanted most from him. (PTSD does crazy shit sometimes, trust me.)
I don't think Mike would have wanted to push that boundary, either. Both out of respect for her and out of fear of making it worse. He's too insecure already about his own worth, especially now that she is pulling away from him-- and has been pulling away from him for months, apparently-- and a good portion of what we see of Mike for the rest of the season is him battling with that helplessness he feels. He talks to Will about it several times how he wishes he could have the courage to love her openly. A more confident boy might have swooped in and made it all better right away, but he was scared. Someone more suave might have been able to charm away the tears with poetic words and kisses on the hand, but we all know Mike is no Casanova, and as nice as it would be to be able to do that so easily, it's not realistic, and he understands her enough to know it wouldn't work like that either.
It's almost exactly the same as how Lucas approaches Max, to be honest-- trying desperately hard to get her to understand that he supports her and cares about her, but not so insistent that he just kicks down those walls for her anyway. (Given how hard Mike was grilled by Max in S3 for being possessive/overprotective/not letting her be her own person and handle things on her own, regardless of how wrong Max was contextually, I'm pretty sure he learned his damn lesson.)
Also, as always, the plot gets in the way before they get a chance to properly communicate. If the police had not whisked El away immediately after that scene, and there had been more time for emotions to settle and for them both to find the right words, they could have worked it out. El could have calmed down enough to be receptive to the things Mike was trying to tell her, and probably accepted any hugs or kisses or cuddles he offered. In a perfect scenario, that could have happened. But for the purposes of the story, and the self-acceptance obstacles that both characters have to face, it just doesn't play out that way.
REAL SHIT
guys i need you to be less comfortable making super negative comments abt a character in the tags of a random post abt that character. like i support haterism but make your own post. please stop and think about whether op, a person who is interested in this character enough to make posts abt them, wants to hear all that. i see this too much from people reblogging from me and it makes me embarrassed that you’re reblogging from me. you are being rude
You are enough
Urgent Help Needed To Save My Beloved Family
Can You Please Help
My name is Sameer Al Khaldi. I am a Palestinian refugee living in Gaza with my family of 17 people in a tent facing the worst war in human history. During the current Gaza war, my house was completely destroyed resulting in the loss of my business and all our belongings. Me and my family have since been displaced in the streets with no shelter, lack of access to food, drinking water, and healthcare necessities. Despite we were camping in areas which were announced as safe, we faced an imminent danger of death by Israeli airstrikes in our camping neighborhoods several times which resulted in serious physical and psychological impacts on us as well as my little grandsons. I am writing this fundraiser hoping to get help with your generous donations to evacuate Gaza immediately to a safer country.
Before the war, we were having a normal life in Gaza having our own business and working hard with my sons and brothers to be able to survive under the Gaza siege. We were preparing for my daughter's wedding which was supposed to take place this summer but unfortunately she got all her wedding dresses and belongings gone with the destroyed house. She's now left with nothing hoping to be able to get married to her fiancé in a safer place one day. One of my sons was supposed to complete his high school education this year and was passionate about enrolling in a university to study business but the war deprived him from this success and left him hopeless while seeing other students in the west bank receiving their high school certificates while he's left behind. I hope this fundraiser with your generous support would help him to get out of Gaza and continue his education and achieve his life goals abroad. The funds collected through this fundraiser will be used to pay for the travel expenses for myself and my family of 17 people including 9 adults and 8 children. We hope one day will be able to rebuild our lives peacefully and get back to stable conditions with safety and protection for our kids like other children in the world.
i really dont understand how you can grow up your whole life hearing stories about holocaust survivors and maps of giant family trees of hundreds of people where only 2 or 3 survived or families that were separated and had to leave people behind to die and not empathize with palestinians and instead have the complete opposite reaction and say none of this is happening and that its not a genocide... i fucking hate the world so much
FACTS!!!
Reasons why Mileven drama/breakup and Byler endgame in ST5 are unlikely
Looking at the whole show, we can see two constants regarding these relationships:
-Mike and El keep overcoming external and internal obstacles, and always end up together again
-Will's homosexuality is hinted at from the start, as well as his deep feelings for Mike.
Regarding the latter, this creates the expectation to have Will accept his own feelings and then his friends do the same.
In S4, it's clear that we got the first. Will's monologue didn't achieve the coming out, but he did express his love for Mike, albeit disguising it as El's feelings. He basically sacrificed himself in order to support Mike, who in turn was able to support El, who then managed to (barely) save Max.
Based on that, I think we have two possible scenarios for S5:
-Will won't confess his love to Mike openly. He has accepted that Mike and El love each other, and we see him having moved on from this right from the beginning of the season. His coming out as gay will still happen though, and Mike's acceptance of that will be crucial for Will.
-Will will confess to Mike that he's in love with him - I'm thinking of the close-up of his face during Mike's monologue in S4, when he says "And somehow I thought telling you how I felt would make that day hurt more." Will clearly feels the same way, but maybe hearing Mike confess this to El gives him the courage to confess it to Mike as well.
No matter which scenario we'll get, I think the focus will be on Mike's acceptance of Will's homosexuality, on him being different, but Mike making him feel better for it. It's possible that Mike might mess it up, not knowing what to say, but no doubt he will be accepting of Will's sexuality, and I think this will give power to Will to be freely himself (and maybe kick some butt).
However, from a storytelling perspective, I really don't see Mike suddenly realising he loves Will and not El. It would be extremely bad writing, because they have been telling us that Mike and El love each other since they first met in S1.
If they had not planned for them to be endgame, they would have sunken the ship already. There were plenty of opportunities. But what we got instead were relationship issues and them being able to work through these issues.
Mike not being very articulate at telling El how he feels about her has also been a constant since S1. However, this finally got resolved at the end of S4.
That's why I think that ST5 will start of with a strenghtened bond between them and their love won't be tested any more.
Mike finally told her how much he loves her, El has no more reason to doubt him. Mike doing a 180 degree turn and realising he lied to El would be equal to creating a new character for Mike. It also would spit on everything they took the pain to show us of Mike and El's love during the whole show.
From a storytelling perspective, this would be total self-sabotage. Why waste a whole series to tell viewers that two characters are in love and then saying "Surprise! It was a lie all along!"? What would be achieved by that?
If it had been their goal to show us that romantic feelings can change, then they would have had to tell a completely different story and would have sowed the seeds for doubt from the very beginning. Instead we got nothing but soulmatism for Mike and Eleven (including their relationship issues, because they overcame those).
Also, remember that this story is about defeating the big evil with love. El is the super-hero. Destroying her biggest source of power (love) would make it impossible for her to win against anyone.
Apart from all this, considering everything that needs to be wrapped up in S5, there simply is not enough time to have Will confess to Mike, Mike figuring out his new feelings, getting up the courage to tell El, the drama of breaking up the main ship of the show, have El get over it, establish Mike and Will as a couple, get all their friends' support, AND defeat Henry.
This is why they resolved Mike and El's conflict in S4. Because there won't even be time for their established relationship to have any drama. This is why they already showed us that Will accepts and supports Mike and El's love, so the love triangle situation has been resolved as well.
The only thing left to resolve is Will's coming out to his friends, which doesn't need to take up a lot of time. It could be one or two scenes.
Oh for sure. I don’t even have Netflix and I’m going to see Season 5 through another website. It’s really easy to boycott.
That’s also why I don’t have an emotional attachment to the actors themselves, because you never know what they support and who they support.
I need everyone to remember that it's not just Noah Schnapp and Brett Gelman who are supporters of the genocide in Palestine, it's also it's also Shawn Levy a producer/director, and Ross Duffer who signed a thank you letter to Biden thanking him for military supply.
But it's also ALL OF THE CAST THAT HAVE BEEN SILENT. And if you think it's because they can't with Schnapp's recent behavior Amybeth Mcnulty has spoken about it, and Joseph Quinn participated in an auction for charity. Granted one has a smaller role and one has been released from his contract but there's no rule in this stuff it's about action and I think that's loser behavior.
I get that it's going to be popular either way of a boycott but Netflix is expensive and pirating is pretty easy. Be a fan of the show but remember who made it.
Urgent Relief ... 🚨
Please listen to me and help my family 🙏💔
Im Mohammed Alhabil from Gaza , I am a father of three young children "Ahmed , Osama , Mira ", My wife and I are trying as much as possible to save what remains of our children’s childhood.
We lost our home, all our dreams and memories were destroyed, and everything we built over the past years was lost. We have become without shelter or a place to live or live in. 😞💔
PLEASE HELP AND STAND BY US
We were displaced from Gaza to Rafah at the beginning of the war, and we survived the genocide that occurred, We somewhat found some peace there as it was a safe area, but unfortunately, after Rafah was attacked, we left under bombing, destruction, and gunfire.
My children and I saw death, and we were displaced again. To Nuseirat, as it is somewhat a safe area, but there is no safety after the attack on Nuseirat a month ago. We have lived an unforgettable experience of fear, death, and genocide, and now I wish that everything would end and that I and my young children would be saved from all of this. They have no fault in what is happening, so I created the link so that they can have a better life and escape this genocide that is stalking them and eliminating their childhood 💔💔
So please, I am speaking to the human inside you. Please help me and my children survive this war and do everything you can to help me through this 🙏🙏💔
Im vetted by @90-ghost , @el-shab-hussein
Please help us start a new life away from everything that is happening and live in peace with my innocent children ❤🍉
Save our life,please!! 🙏🏻🍉🥺
Hello again, I am Aseel from Gaza, I live in war, fear and destruction, we have been living for almost a year now but we do not know how long, we have been displaced from our home more than 11 times,
every time I was displaced to another place I prayed that this would be the last, but then came the idea of forced exit to search for safety where there is no safety, we got very tired and our bodies were exhausted, we no longer had the energy to continue, we lived hunger, thirst, cold and all the difficult conditions that humans cannot imagine,
we did not imagine that a day would come when we would live all of this, I lost my family and my childhood home, even my friends are no longer there, I was left alone!! I am looking for salvation from death, I fear death and I dread it, the idea is terrifying to leave your dreams, ambitions and the life you planned for and go from this world, we do not deny death but we do not want to live it now,
I had a beautiful life, suddenly I do not know how I lost my life, we live in a tent that can only accommodate 3 people, made of nylon that no human can bear, just standing in it for more than two minutes during the day is enough to melt you, in addition to insects, diseases and lack of privacy, imagine all this!! Can you live??
Things here are more difficult than you imagined, reality is painful
We wake up every day to the smell of death, I have been surrounded by tanks and helicopters more than 4 times, each time I do not know how to survive? It seems that my death has not come yet
I do not want to die!! 🥺
Please help me save my life and get out of here, life is impossible
Your donation will save my life, it is the only way, hand in hand we can achieve the goal please
This is Eman a Biotechnologist from Gaza. Asking for help is not easy. It's not easy at all. You have no idea how mentally and emotionally tiring this is. But when thinking that the price is my family's life, getting out of here safely and achieve my doctoral degree dream, it just pushes me more and more to do this until we reach our goal. I'm here as I try to reach out to more people asking for their help to support our family's campaign so we can survive while all you have to do is literally donating even by just the price of your morning coffee or maybe a simple breakfast, So I think I'm not asking for so much. We're really tired of living under these catastrophic conditions for a whole 10 months. Your generosity will not only change our lives but also remind us that even in our darkest hour, we are not alone. https://gofund.me/d597b8e2
Hi there, Eman. I'm a biotechnologist just like you. I looked up your work and saw your research on identifying genetic risk factors for ischemic heart disease and celiac disease. That's really admirable work, and I hope you can one day achieve your dream of studying for your PhD in Malaysia. For now, I've donated what I can to try and keep you and your family safe.
Clickable URL to the page: https://gofund.me/d597b8e2
Note for my followers that I have checked this blog and can confirm this fundraiser is vetted.
list of vetted fundraisers i have recently received in my inbox:
numbers current as of 2024 August 7th circa 13:30EDT
Mahmoud Abu Swierh @mahmoudswierh 930/12.500 (CAD) https://gofund.me/bd3ccf0b
Mohi @mohiy-gaza 9.420/31.000 (USD) https://gofund.me/f2cd8560
Eman Zaqout @emanzaqoutt 15.773/40.000 (CAD) https://gofund.me/d597b8e2
Abd Alhadi Aburass @abdalhadiaburas 1.169/60.000 (CAD) https://gofund.me/87958962
Raneen Bakroun @ranin3344 5.340/80.000 (EUR) https://gofund.me/a4be45a0
Muhammad Al-Habil @aya2mohammed 20.630/50.000 (EUR) https://gofund.me/62cf3a76
Safa'a Abd (et al) @abedalazeiz @safaabed8 24.998/50.000 (EUR) https://gofund.me/000dd74d
Wafaa Resh @wafaaresh 17.367/100.000 (EUR) https://gofund.me/27fab415
Mohammed Hussein Ismail @m0hammed1 8.194/25.000 (EUR) https://gofund.me/e089ccce
some of these are very far from their goal! donate where and when you can!
more Palestinian blogs that have reached out to me via ask.
part 1 of this post
vetted google doc, i will be referring to this on this post
Help my Uncel’s family , BE THE CHANGE / post / vetted by 90-ghost - €13,838 / €35,000
Help my family escape Gaza / post / #231 on the google doc - $11,859USD / $40,000
Escaping Genocide: Gaza Evacuation for My Family / post / vetted by 90-ghost - €2,336 / €185,300
Helping Ahmed's Family: Escaping War to a New Life / post / #264 on the google doc - €46,203 / €49,000
Help Mohamed To Survive and Restore His Life / post / vetted by 90-ghost - $917 / $20,000
Help Mahmoud's Family Overcome War Tragedy / post / vetted here, here and here - $3,898 USD / $60,000
Urgent Help Needed to Evacuate My Family from Gaza / post / vetted by 90-ghost - €2,498 / €30,000
Please Save What's Left of My Family / post / vetted by 90-ghost - $2,905 USD / $50,000
Support Safaa's Quest To Get Her Family To Safety. / post & vetted by 90-ghost - $5,645 USD / $75,000
Help My Two Daughters Escape from GAZA WAR / post & vetted by 90-ghost - €11,005 / €35,000
In another world, the younger me was not scared of new beginnings and could talk without feeling uneasy. That young girl was full of love and was loved back in return. She wasn’t anxious or worried about her appearance, she could just live.
I wish I wish I wish….
There was a world where my younger self was less hurt and less anxious
-Sel💜
Haters barking:
Milevens pulling this out:
AW YESS IT IS
A Taegi Series, pt. 7: personal space ❌ being attached at the hip ✅
cr. namuspromised, jung-koook, 0613data
Imagine you were taken from your mom at birth to be raised in a lab until you escaped.
How would you feel if the one person who truly listened to you and believes in you, tells you he loves you since the day you met, suddenly breaks up with you because of his internalized homophobia? He has a Jaws poster and sits infront of the fruit section of the grocery store with your step brother.
Come to find out, apparently your stepbrother has loved Mike and Mike was dating/using you as a beard. But it’s okay because you wanted to break up with him and encouraged it, even happy for them.
Now tell me, isn’t that the biggest lie ever told? If I was El, being furious would only scratch the surface. The fact people really claim she needs to be independent has to be the biggest problem that I have with this fandom.
SHE’S been independent, I hope she shares more screentime with her boyfriend, friends and family because she deserves everything
-Sel💜
Hello, My name is Dr. Ahmed M. A. Hamad, and I am from the Gaza Strip. Recently married, I have dedicated my life to academia, with a strong ambition to teach and contribute to my country. Unfortunately, the recent Israeli aggression in Gaza has left us with no home or job prospects, and staying in Gaza is no longer an option.
In search of safety and stability, my wife and I have made the difficult decision to leave Gaza. We are seeking job opportunities abroad and hoping to obtain new nationalities to rebuild our lives. Your support will help us cover the costs of relocation, housing, and the initial steps of our new journey.
We humbly ask for your assistance in helping us start afresh and pursue our dreams in a safer environment.
Any contribution, big or small, will make a significant difference in our lives.
Thank you for your kindness and support.
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Why are tumblr milevens just the best?