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Hey it occurred to me that some of you here possibly do not follow me on Twitter and thus do not yet know about

http://aseelapp.com

So OK in 2021 the US abruptly withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban promptly seized the capital of Kabul. The US responded by freezing the assets of the national bank at which point the Afghan economy collapsed. There are no jobs to be had, people can't afford to buy food or heat their homes, over 10,000 children under 5 years old have died from starvation and malnutrition this year. Things are incredibly bad.

Foreign aid orgs withdrew when the US government did out of fear they couldn't keep their foreign national staff safe from the Taliban. The UN has classified what is happening in Afghanistan as the largest humanitarian disaster in the world right now.

NPR.org

He wanted his company to be the Etsy of Afghanistan. Now it has a crucial new mission

As international charities pulled out or faced funding issues after the Taliban takeover, Aseel, an online business that sells local crafts,

Enter Nasrat Khalid and Aseel. Aseel is an Afghan company run by Afghan people who live in places from DC to Egypt to remote provinces in Afghanistan. When they provide food, it is food purchased in Afghanistan that people will want to eat, not what westerners think people should have. When Aseel provides clothing, it is Afghan clothing purchased from Afghan shops made by Afghan tailors, not worn out castoffs from westerners. Beneficiaries are not required to do any work for Aseel and are helped regardless of religion or ethnicity. Aseel also provides Afghan artisans access to international customers, helping them not need to become beneficiaries in the first place.

So you can help a couple ways - you can buy an emergency package/donate to a campaign, or you can literally go shopping for any number of beautiful things. It will take about a month for things to get to you from Afghanistan but it's absolutely worth it.

I do also find it interesting that it's canonical that any abilities learnt after level 70 are all made up by the WoL. But a general theme around those abilities regardless of Job is repentance, self-sacrifice, fury, lots of heavenly/divine stuff, and it's like... Is the WoL okay?

But also in my head, thinking about Mono prattling on about Confiteor (Latin for "I confess"), and Alphinaud following nem around the house like, "Bubby? Bubala, are you okay? I don't think you're okay," is just so funny to me.

Mono: "This move is so cool."

Alphinaud: "I am worried for your mental health."

And a little angst just because.

Estinien is not and has never really been someone in tune with feelings, whether they be his own or someone else's.

Alphinaud, being him, eventually has his own feelings bubble over and he confesses to Estinien. In a very long, unnecessarily long, string of almost gibberish because he has to get it all out and if he stops he'll lose steam and shut up completely.

So he spends a good fifteen minutes spilling his heart out to Estinien, staring right into his soul the entire time. And Estinien being Estinien responds with, "Okay."

Just. "Okay."

Alphinaud, understandably thinking that means Estinien does not reciprocate his feelings (he does), just goes, "Oh. Very well. Apologies for that," tears welling up, and he bolts.

And he avoids Estinien. Despite his best efforts to find him so he can clear shit up. Thankfully, they happen to show up at the same tavern, and Estinien manages to convince Alphinaud to have a drink with him. And he explains that he did take in everything Alphinaud said to him, he's just Bad At That Specifically.

They get a little drunk and then have nasty sex.

Okay, so it's been established that when Estinien was unconscious and on bed rest after he was saved from Nidhogg, Alphinaud was at his bedside for literal days. Annoying the fuck out of him.

I keep imagining a scenario where their roles are reversed, where Alphinaud is on bed rest for whatever reason and Estinien is overly concerned and constantly at his side.

And Alphinaud reaches out for him. "Estinien?"

"Yes?"

"You're so..."

"Yes?"

"Annoying."

Cue Estinien being pissed but also it's his fault because even when Alphinaud is down for the count, he still picks on him.

It keeps making me cry laugh.

Shout-out to all the plurals with F/Os.

🌼 Who just have F/Os and that's not a part of their system.

🌼 Who have fictives of their F/Os in their system.

🌼 Who are in relationships with their headmates and their F/Os are separate.

🌼 Who are in relationships with headmates who are also F/Os and that's important to their relationships.

🌼 Who are in relationships with their headmates who are also F/Os and it's very awkward.

🌼 Created systems or adjacent who made headmates of their F/Os.

You're all very valid! 💙

Horny posting time! ✌🏾

When Alphinaud gets real into it, he begs Estinien to fold him in half and pound into him like he's legitimately trying to break him. It's Alphinaud's favourite thing in the world and he wants it every time they have sex.

Until afterwards, when his back and hips and he gotdamn pussy hurt like the seven hells.

"Why do you let me demand you do that? Why do you listen to me? Next time, don't do that."

"No. 💕"

Estinien doesn't listen. He loves wrecking him. Loves trying to break his darling, horny bastard of a boyfriend/husband and make him scream loud enough their neighbours are thoroughly bothered.

And the "even my pussy hurts" conversation happens all over again.