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Symbols of Palestine
Hello this a long shot call, am Rajaab Edward a citizen of Palestine. I am here to request for your support to help get my insulin (Humalog), just an injection for today to save my life please I beg.I was diagnosized with type 1 diabetes and due to current situation in Gaza I'm unable to get my insulin injection as a result I'm here begging for little financial support to help me purchase insulin for this week. Am sorry if am sending you again this request, kindly donate any amount please. My donation link is in my pinned post๐ต๐ธ
i donโt have the means to financially support you iโm so sorry. reblogging this in the hopes that this gets to someone who can.
Symbols of Palestine
Just the average Sunday afternoon...
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Some resources and fundraisers links: Operation olive branch https://decolonizepalestine.com https://gazafunds.com
DONATIONS FOR GAZA
As you probably know, the situation in Gaza gets worse every day. At this stage, every donation, no matter how small, might make a difference between life and death for someone trying to escape Rafah.
Donate as little as 7$ today and you get a sketch or a small illustration of yourself, an animal, a friend - whatever it is that you want.
You can find the full spreadsheet of families here: Operation Olive Branch
or you can donate to one of the randomized gofundmes from here: Gaza Funds
Send me proof of your donations and the details for the artwork you desire. YOU CAN SEND IT THROUGH DMs OR EMAIL ME (email and useful links here:)
Depending on how busy this gets, commissions might take two days or more.
*Biggers commissions are available for bigger donations! You can see illustrations I did in the past here.
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I'm crying really crying, this is the sweetest most gust-wrenching post that my eyes had the chance to look at!! TT
I'm so happy we came up with the idea!!!( ยด;๏พ;โ;๏พ;)
Now Odysseus getting inked is one of the most random and in a way cute headcannons ever! ๐
Like:
Agamemnon: Hey, Menelaus. Where is Odysseus? Cannot find him anywhere
Menalaus: Probably by the ships. It was resupply day today.
Agamemnon: But that was hours ago. What on earth is he doing?
Menelaus: Yeah you are probably right let's go and check it out
*They find Odysseus on the beach sitting on a rock while a Scythian probably covered in tattoos of his people is tattooing his upper arm*
Agamemnon: Odysseus, what in the gods' names are you doing?
Odysseus: Oh, can't you see? I am getting a tattoo from this man. He is very good actually.
Agamemnon: Seriously?! We are at war and this is a military camp!
Odysseus: Don't worry, he's cool. I checked.
Menelaus: But weren't you wounded a couple of days ago? Surely shouldn't you be taking it easy? I know they call you "equal to gods" but you ain't immortal
Odysseus: No worries. I am accustomed to pain. This is nothing.
Agamemnon: Even so! That is not a king's behavior. What is wrong with you?!
Odysseus: Why not? Besides look!
*shows his half-done olive branch tattoo*
Odysseus: Olive for my homeland, flowers for my wife and the bittersweet fruit is my dear Telemachus. I want my family with me. I might die tomorrow and my body will not be buried to my land. I want my family with me to the funeral pyre...
Menelaus: *sniffing loudly* You know, brother, you have to admit that is the most fucking adorable thing ever!
Agamemnon: Humph! Whatever! *turns around to hide a manly tear*
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Even better imagine the funny and adorable interaction with Penelope! Hahahahaha like:
Penelope: *sees the tat when she prepares Odysseus for bed* Darling...what is this exactly?
Odysseus: *innocently looking for he had forgotten he had it* Oh, this? I got it at war...
Penelope: But but...this isn't exactly the most...noble behavior isn't it?
Odysseus: Well...it wasn't very "noble" where I was, Penelope but still look here...
*touching the branch*
Odysseus: Olive branch for our homeland...our bed and palace...
*tracing the tiny flowers*
Odysseus: Flowers for my beautiful wife, whom I longed for, for years
*pointing the olives*
Odysseus: the sweet fruit of my dear Telemachus whom I never saw growing and this...
*touching a tiny detail that looks like the silhouette of a bird*
Odysseus: The bird, the swallow coming home is me. I swore to come back to you no matter what I would need to do. Back to our land and our sweet Telemachus
*Penelope smiling now touched and embraces his neck*
Penelope: I still am not sure that I like this idea but it looks good because it is you who has it...
Sorry guys hahahaha ๐ random cheesy brainstorming. Blame my dialog with @aaronofithaca05 for it hahahaha ๐
You're one if not the most influential person in my headcanons, first the skythian tattoo, now this, oh god... So much inspiration!!!!!!
Isn't it freaking adorable how both Odysseus and Penelope could remember down to exact detail what clothing she had packed for Odysseus before he left for war even 20 years later?!
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And she packed them herself. She didn't use the help of any servant or slave to do it. She wanted to prepare her husband herself. What is even more is that all the clothes were of vibrant colors which had me thinking;
What if Penelope deliberately prepared vibrant colored clothes for Odysseus solely so that she could see him from afar for as long as possible?! And man I can so imagine her doing the same! Like standing on the top of the hill where the palace is, wearing a vibrant dress that floats in the wind, holding baby Telemachus in her arms and watch Odysseus's bright tunic on the ship and Odysseus turning his head to look up at that aetherial figure on the hill almost leaning over the ship to see her JUST FOR A LITTLE LONGER until he cannot see her anymore and this is where he keeps looking at his island becoming smaller and smaller to the horizon, shedding tears of goodbye
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Man ninjas are cutting onions around me again!!!
Remeber how we used Hunger games rethoric to talk about the met gala like the capitol and the games? I think we could use catching fire to understand the celebrity blockout and its repercussions.
While celebrity culture is absolutely being fed to us to undermine and overlook the palestine situation, I think we might be targetting the wrong people here. I'm specifically thinking about a conversation in the hunger games catching fire movie between Plutarch and president Snow. After the second rebellion starts to sprout, Snow worries that the current victors (AKA Katniss) will be taken as a symbol for the uprising. So, what to they do? Ump up their screentime, work on their PR, glamorize their image. As they put it, one second you're watching children die on the streets, the next second you're seeing people debate what the wedding cake will look like. And this is all intentional: they want their districts to get angry at Katniss and Peeta and start seeing them as opressors, dropping them as their symbol. And it would've been very effective if it weren't for the quarter quell, which victimized the couple and made them back into symbols.
The thing is, us redirecting our hate into celebrities and celebritie culture might discract us from the real problem here. It's easy to block Zendaya, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande of whoever you want, but that won't solve the situation in Gaza. Think about it, what's the best we're going to get? What's the most they will be allowed to do by their pr teams? Most want to remain apolitical, uncontroversial, and singers and actors are tied to management teams and contracts who won't let them speak up anyway. Celebrity culture should be dismanteled, but not for gaza. The press should be dismanteled for palestine. Two party systems should be dismanteled for palestine. War propaganda should be dismanteled for palestine. Hypernationalism should be dismanteled for palestine. Islamophobia should be dismanteled for palestine. Social media has helped families flee to egypt and educate people, blocking celebrities isn't the best move for us. As Finnick Odair says, remeber who the real enemy is.