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hi! i am once again posting for the Abu Shammalah family's vetted gfm campaign. pls make sure to follow and boost his accs: @ahmed322 and @ahmed8311.

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Donate to Help the Abu Shammalah Family Find Safety and Rebuild, organized by Ahmed Abushammala

Dear Friends, Family, and Kind Strangers, I am writing to… Ahmed Abushammala needs your support for Help the Abu Shammalah Family Find

PLS HELP THE ABUSHAMMALA FAM

Displaced four times from our home, they now find themselves living in a single, overcrowded room with our cousins – ten people crammed into a space meant for one or two. The lack of privacy, the absence of basic necessities, and the constant fear for their lives have made their situation desperate.

i was finally able to talk to ahmed a while ago. i got his permission to share to you all what a lot of us and people before us had been echoing since the dawn of humanity.

the poll i made was me trying to relate and connect with the tumblr userbase who faces rental probs, and homelessness. i am hoping that you see yourself in their place. housing is a basic human right. just like land which gives us bread and rice. it is not really an up for debate issue. and this is also why oppressed and exploited ppl fight with their life for their security, for their dignity, for their identity, for their family and for their children's future. can we help ahmed raise the necessary funds for his family? this gfm was created last april. still at 22% of completion. can we give them hope and support? this is #161 on @/el-shab-hussein, @/nabulsi and @/moayesh gsheet; also posted by @/el-shab-hussein here

thanks to all who advocated for the abusweireh family so far. please continue doing so. you keep them afloat in the middle of everything. also, i beg everyone again to not hesitate to help other palestinian families pls! a small amount goes a long way. a reblog might be the reason someone donates. a simple post can alter their lives. show them that we care and that palestinian lives matter. pls.

everybody keeps saying "it should not happen to you first for you to finally care" or wtvr variation of it before but like i still do not see enough users w huge platform doing shit. and i am so sick and tired of it. stop ignoring the calls for help jfc there is an ongoing humanitarian crisis! your interests can literally wait omg

happy ace awareness week!!!

i was worried that i wouldn’t be able to finish it in time,,,

according to my calculations you’re fucking HOT

julance day 2! lance in glasses + turtleneck ayyy

no bc. like. the eighth sense is getting EVERYTHING right.

it's compelling. like. you feel like you KNOW where the storyline is going, what's going to happen next, and then BHAM! NO! something entirely different happens. its never boring. and it makes the wait for the next episode jittery and anxious and it leaves you on tenterhooks BUT THAT'S THE POINT! its meant to leave you guessing. its got this "impending sense of doom" vibe to it that i referred to in a previous post, but that describes the current vibe of jaewon and jihyun's relationship and the atmosphere surrounding it: its thrilling.

characters can breathe!!! and we can breathe with them! jaewon and jihyun are allowed to have scenes where its just them alone, immersed in a hobby that THEY like, and you're there with them! they get to have scenes with so many other people that aren't just with each other. they get to form real relationships with their boss, their therapist, their new and old friends. and each relationship and dynamic brings something new, each dynamic formed between jaewon or jihyun and the people around them is made to allow a certain type of conversation to be had for jaewon and jihyun that they can't really have with someone who isn't that character, for example jihyun can only really openly speak to his boss in the same way jaewon can to yoonwon or his therapist. jihyun can't talk in that same manner to anyone else, nor can jaewon. at the same time, it also soooo BEAUTIFULLY illustrates how performative we can become in certain relationships and situations and around certain people, and how unhealthy and detrimental that can be for us - look at jaewon and taehyung, who are meant to be best friends, but are anything but it.

its such a QUEER show. it takes the small little scenes you'd normally see in a white western heterosexual movie, like the two love interests linking their pinky fingers together to then clasping each other's hands and smiling shyly to the side, to sitting opposite one another on a train and just gazing and gazing and gazing at one another, to calling a taxi after your not-a-date-but-its-so-a-date to go home in and the taxi is literally stood right there waiting but you can't let each other go ..... its taken all those cliche scenes and made them feel so ... new and fresh and vibrant and so so QUEER and any queer person watching the show FEELS those butterflies in their stomach.

oh to see a main character who is asian and queer actually GO TO therapy, and imply that jaewon has been going for 10 whole years to therapy. to have his mental illness be given a name (depression!), to have him talk about his issues so openly!!, to discuss what the struggles of being in your mid-twenties feel like!! to see him talk about how burdensome he finds it being "nice" to everyone and wearing a mask all the time and ultimately his therapist telling him straight that, "in fact, in life, you don't need to be loved by everyone." or when jihyun's boss stood up for him and fought eunji over how she treated him bc she KNOWS jihyun would never bc he isnt a confrontational person, but jihyun's boss did not stand for it, and how she continues to just give him the correct life advice as and when he needs it.

the romance. the chemistry. the way jaewon and jihyun pull you into their bubble. the way you feel the excitement and joy and apprehension and tension and heartache and disappointment between the two of them. YOU feel it. and thats all down to the way the show has been shot and the muuuuusic (oh my god the muuuuusic) and the way the camera is used. it makes it feel personal. in first person. not you watching them, but rather, you BEING them. the way you can FEEL how nervous and anxious jihyun gets when he is in ANY kind of social situation. how you can FEEL the quiet anger and the exhaustion from being so performative and the lack of patience in jaewon like a ticking timebomb when he's around taehyung. you do, you just FEEL it.

anyway. the eighth sense might just be (who am i kidding, it already is) on its way to claim the title for the best bl of 2023, and its only april.

「…誰だって、ほんとうにいいことをしたら、いちばん幸なんだねえ。」  “…a person creates happiness around them when they do something good.”

- Campanella, from 銀河鉄道の夜 by Miyazawa Kenji

Lim Jisub as Jaewon | The Eighth Sense

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jihyun popping the trot mixtape in and the trot music playing was actually so funny i genuinely giggled 🤭

i also just love that so many scenes between them and their dialogue just feels so... real??? like nothing seems contrived or abstract. their conversations can range from light-hearted banter to something more deep but it always feels real to who they are and their position in the world (jihyun coming-of-age and jaewon going through transition into the real world). and idk i just love that the most about this show, i think. it's real

am I finally free