Yearning Heda

This is a little excerpt from what I like to call a throw-away story. These are stories I will write 5k-10k over a brief period and then have no clue where to take them. Sometimes, sections will stand out to me when I re-read them.

Finally, the day of the meeting arrived. Lexa stood in front of her closet, her mind racing with the unusual complexity of choosing the right outfit. "What do you wear to a meeting with someone you are contractually going to be sleeping with in order to create a child?" she muttered to herself. The question was as surreal as her situation.

everyone please read this and share if you can.

Brazil is going through one of the worst climatic crisis ever seen.

i live in the southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul. we have been suffering from extreme, nonstop rainstorms for a week now. the rivers are flooding, reaching 4-6 meters above their natural level. people are being rescued by helicopters, neighborhoods are being evacuated. entire cities are slowly but surely becoming submerged in water. 60 people missing and counting. 32 deaths and counting.

and this is not new. last november also had a flood like this one. 50 dead, many material losses. it happened again this january, with thousands being left without power or water for days.

three catastrophical disasters within less than a year. three disasters only a few months apart.

this is not natural.

unsustainable agricultural practices and politics led to this. a complete disregard for nature led to this. greed led to this. always greed.

when it comes to the climate crisis, i cannot stress this enough: we need to act now if we still want to live. disasters like this are going to happen more often and they're going to be much, much worse. this flood is being considered the worst climatic catastrophe in the history of my state. i don't know how long it will take for another bigger one to happen and take its place. i just know it will be sooner than it should.

links to donate (if you can't donate, sharing already helps a lot):

link for non-brazilians (paybox)

link for brazilians

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will update more links later. in the meantime, pray for us.

❗️NEW RELIABLE DONATION LINKS❗️

LINK - fundraiser by @badincolono on instagram, accepts donations in dollar and euro.

LINK - cozinhas solidárias, to feed the people affected by the floods. also accepts international donations through a paypal linked in the page.

LINK - s.o.s. chuvas, a fundraiser organized by CUFA (central única das favelas, or single central of the favelas in a rough translation). accepts international donation via paypal listed on the post.

LINK - donations to GRAD Brasil (response group to animals in disasters, in a rough translation), dedicated to rescue the animals in disasters like this one. accepts international donation via paypal listed at the bottom of the page.

please share and consider donating if you can. $5 is around R$25 for us and it already helps so much.

again, thanks so so much for sharing. i wasn't expecting to reach this many people and i couldn't be more thankful for it. thank you, truly.

I'm very tired of this "queer college students should stop supporting Palestine, they'd kill you there!" I watched a hijabi ask a trans man, "but what name do you want to go by?" A butch giving a woman their hoodie so that she could keep her hair covered after the cops took her scarf. Muslim girls making sure the lesbian couple got through the system together. Religious men making sure green haired protestors got out safe. A Palestinian girl with an ex-southern baptist fiance, who definitely isn't a practicing Muslim, whose parents were raising hell for her. I don't want to hear it. Solidarity forever, free Palestine.

Queer muslim here. I couldn't have said it better myself. We are not free until all of us are free.

shannon elle

With the Reddit 3rd party app crackdown and the ongoing horseshit Elon Musk is pulling with "X", I realize a lot of people here might be pretty new. So I put together a quick and easy guide for using Tumblr for anyone new who might need it.

*choking gurgling blood dripping from my nose choking and gurlging on the blood pouring out of my nose*

Reviews are in! Reviews are glowingly positive! Reviews are glowing like the cloud we All Hail.

We finally did it, y’all! We’re married 💍