Welcome To My Imagination

*i regularly update this post with any new info i find so please always reblog the original post*

Donations

help buy e-sims for people in gaza

donate to get food packages to gaza - care for gaza

palestine children's relief fund

world food programme

donate to ahmed (@/90-ghost on tumblr)

support palestinians: buy a keffiyeh from the last and only factory in palestine - hirbawi

emergency relief for gaza - pious projects

palestine red crescent society

save palestine - islamic relief canada

send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association

click to donate - arab.org

help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction

donate for the recovery of hisham awartani - gofundme

Petitions

petition to investigate war crimes committed by israeli military

demand ceasefire - amnesty international

open call for immediate ceasefire

american government call for immediate ceasefire

american government to stop funding israeli military

ceasefire and increase humanitarian assistance - oxfam au

petition to get canva to address their pro-israel stance

invoke the genocide convention to call for ceasefire in gaza - world beyond war

suspend israel from international sports - diem25

UK to expel israeli ambassador - change.org

gaza healthcare workers for nobel peace prize - change.org

teachers around the world demand ceasefire - teachers for palestine

gaza call for lasting ceasefire - oxfam (UK)

end israeli occupation - parliament uk (UK)

email your MP - medical aid for palestine (UK)

protect gaza civilians - islamic relief (UK)

stop fuelling genocide - action network (USA)

@ biden: call for ceasefire now - move on (USA)

ceasefirenow.com - jewishvoiceofpeace (USA)

call congress and demand a ceasefire - uscpr (USA - they provide a script of what you should say, so don't worry about it)

australia call on israel to stop attacking palestinians - apan (AUS)

immediate ceasefire and increase in humanitarian aid in gaza - actionaid (AUS)

email your MPs - stand with palestine (AUS)

‼️ australian senate to investigate australian citizens in the IDF for war crimes allegations - fpm (AUS)

‼️ arms embargo on israel - cjpme (CANADA)

sign to send letter to MP for ceasefire - nccm (CANADA)

ceasefire now! - ijv (CANADA)

ceasefire and allow aid to enter gaza - oxfam (CANADA)

call on your local mayor and council to demand ceasefire - LeadNow (CANADA)

cessez-le-feu et un couloir humanitaire - le mouvement (FRANCE)

écrivez aux député-es et sénateurs-trices - association france palestine solidarité (FRANCE)

write to your député - assemblée nationale (FRANCE)

skydda civilbefolkningen i gaza! - mittskifte (SWEDEN)

singaporeans call for immediate ceasefire (SIN)

contact your elected reps and demand a ceasefire (GERMANY)

write to the EU demanding a ceasefire (EUROPE)

multiple actions you can take to help palestine - plant een olifbloom (NETHERLANDS)

den haag, maak nú werk van vrede in israël/Palestina - the right forum (NETHERLANDS)

māori call for palestine - ourActionStation (NZ)

special visa for palestinians in gaza with family in NZ - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

deem israeli actions as war crimes - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

basta ao genocídio em Gaza! - awaaz (BRAZIL)

globo e grande mídia, parem de desumanizar civis palestinos - the intercept (BRAZIL)

Campaigns

‼️ justice for palestine

friends of al-aqsa

❥ UK-specific

❥ International

palestine action

islamic relief canada

decolonise palestine

text/call campaign for people living in USA

fax campaign for people in the USA

‼️ BDS movement

please let me know if you have any more links. i will add them in. and please reblog the original post!!

UPCOMING PROTESTS

PALESTINIAN LITERATURE READING LIST

i’ve updated the list.

‼️ - means urgent attention needed

Gil-Galad origin story of the day: he is the son of Finrod and Amarië. Or rather, he is the son of Finrod and Edrahil.

We are told that Amarië wanted to follow Finrod into exile, but was not permitted to. So she didn’t. In the general confusion that occurred, I imagine it would be easy for someone to disappear (Amarië is angry now, she is just ignoring everyone, give her a moment and she will come back, right?). Nobody hears about Amarië following Finrod, it’s Edrahil who follows him instead (by the time her family realizes what happened they are already on the ice). Is Amarië pretending to be a guy because it’s easier at the moment? Is Edrahil a trans guy who used that moment to come out? Who knows.

When Beren comes to Nargothrond, Edrahil decides to follow Finrod into the danger again. The moment he picks the crown and asks Finrod to choose the steward it be given to, he also asks him to choose the guardian for their underage son. 

The events of Tol-in-Gaurhoth are already one of the most dramatic moments in Silmarillion, let’s make them even more depressing by making it the moment Gil-Galad loses both of his parents

Míriel þerindë

He learned his lesson

Nah you guys don’t get it. For all that Gandalf complained about Pippin, he better than anyone else knew that Pippin was absolutely crucial. Pippin accomplishes a very impressive feat: not only does he manage to see something in the palantír (most hobbits would perceive nothing, as these stones were designed for use by high elves), but he manages to close his mind against Sauron. That is a seriously impressive feat of ósanwë given Pippin’s youth and almost total inexperience. The only clue Sauron manages to glean from the meeting with Pippin is that he is in Meduseld: which Pippin probably did not even directly give to him. Pippin did not tell Sauron his name, so Sauron is led to believe that Pippin is Frodo. I remind you, in the books, the Good Guys manage to trick Sauron, by making him believe that Aragorn has claimed the One Ring. They can only do that because of Pippin’s ridiculous feat of ósanwë. Far from sabotaging the mission, he is the one who allows it to succeed (albeit, not on purpose). This is why Sauron doesn’t think anything is fishy when Aragorn wins the Battle of the Pelennor Fields by controlling ghosts: that would be consistent with the idea that he is using the One Ring. Which Sauron believes that Pippin brought to him. This is why Sauron pulls out his old “play nice and weak” card from his Númenor days. He first of all believes that Aragorn is a lot more powerful than he actually is, and secondly thinks that the Ring is beginning to affect him.

He should perhaps have remembered that Aragorn is named for Fingolfin. Fingolfin’s mother-name, Arakáno, would properly be translated to Sindarin as “Aragorn”. Most people would not show up to an enemy fortress with an army they knew was far too small, and start a battle they knew they would lose. But Fingolfin famously did exactly that.

When you read the line “fool of a Took!” It is important to understand that in the context of Gandalf calling himself a fool on several occasions. Galadriel too sees beyond the veneer of foolish naivety in Pippin. She gives him and Merry belts that almost definitely were once her brothers’. A golden flower on a gift from Galadriel can only be a golden lily, the sigil of the House of Finarfin. Galadriel, while all hell was breaking loose in Tirion, raided her brothers’ rooms and took their belts from when they were little kiddos, hauled them across the Helcaraxë, and then held onto them for three Ages before giving them to two hobbits she just met. Merry, of course, is comparable to Angrod and Aegnor: his great deed is done in a moment of beserk rage, and it is a feat of strength. This then implies that she is comparing Pippin to Finrod. That’s one hell of a complement coming from Galadriel: but as I just pointed out, entirely warranted. Pippin manages to reproduce Finrod’s feat of radio silence, in the face of torture by Sauron. Which again, is extremely impressive given that Pippin is far younger and less experienced than Finrod was.

You see me <3

Maehdros with pigtails? Sure 🤭🤭

Thinkin abt Laurelin’s fruits being chinese lantern fruit, and Telperion’s flowers being pitcher plants…

The Trees themselves are also clearly banyans imo

And since banyan trees are a type of strangler fig, the Trees spread their roots/those extra trunk-looking things along buildings and Anything Else, spreading the light more efficiently

Tar-Miriel; Last Rightful Ruler of Numenor

The Strelitzia flower symbolizes freedom, and also represents immortality. White symbolizes purity and death depending on where you are in the world. Pearls symbolize faith - it was once believed pearls were angel tears collected by oysters and it is therefore bad luck to wear them and will bring you misery and sorrow (they were also usually blamed for an unhappy marriage).

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So who wants to sob with me over the fact that Tyelpë sacrificed his city’s one potential fighting chance so that three other cities could be guaranteed their own

Me. Me. I want to sob. Me.

There’s so much loss in the fall of Ost-in-Edhil! There’s so much that can’t be regained! People loved this place, it was the cultural capital, and it got turned into a giant “Attack Here First” sign and just

fuck me holy shit

I also want to point out that the Three were… never wielded in conjunction with each other? We don’t know how much power the three of them together could have held, and we don’t know the defense they could have managed. Let alone at the hand of their maker.

My point here is really that he very much had the chance to not send them away, and with the three of them there, there’s a nonzero chance that Annatar’s attack would have failed. We genuinely do not know (and neither did he)

Now, there’s also every chance that his attack would succeed regardless of the Three; I think it was objectively the right choice to send them away (because nobody knew if they would be enough, and it would be far, far worse if they didn’t succeed, and Sauron captured them), but my point here is that he did potentially have the chance to confront Sauron then and there, and win. (He was suspicious enough of Annatar at that point to keep the Three a secret from him. Even if he didn’t know for certain that Annatar was Sauron, he almost certainly knew that Annatar was far more powerful than him, and he also knew Annatar was a threat. It was enough.)

He sacrificed his city’s one potential protection to guarantee three other cities their own.

you know it continues to kill me that he’s just.

so ridiculously good? I think that’s why I’m so angry that he came to such a bad end and so emotional about everything, because he was really the best of his whole House and it was every good thing about him that was exploited as a weakness

because you’re right, the Three weren’t ever wielded in conjunction with one another, he never even considered letting them work together to aid him. he was focused on keeping everyone else safe and giving everyone else the fighting chance he might have kept for himself.

I can’t actually answer this coherently because I’m going to like. Lose my mind and devolve into sobbing about what a good person he is. but. everything you said is Right.

Not to get too deep into seeing imaginary parallels, but consider that his family sacked Alqualonde, Doriath, and Sirion, and his rings helped protect Lothlorien, Rivendel, and Mithlond… 🥺

Lalwen transed his gender, and decided he wanted to be king. Now I have a Lal-galad for my army.

Fingon, Maedhros, Maglor and Galadriel in their hunting garb

Fingon, Maedhros, Maglor and Galadriel in their hunting garb

ganlink i did before there was an official Ganonorf hehe

Imagine a feanorian or a nolofinwean etc traveling back in time to the years of the trees-

And finwe, of all elves, clocks onto something being wrong before anyone else, bc he grew up in a time where it was killed or be killed and he wants to know why his grandkid(s) went from an elf who has never seen a day of strife in their life, to a hardened warrior with ptsd seemingly overnight.

Finweans Gen 3 (grandkids + celebrimbor) trying to prevent The Tragedy™️: haha hey, grandfather 😬😃

Finwë, feeling Every Survival Instinct Reactivate: Indis get my spear the face stealers are back-

The Finweans, having no idea wtf he’s talking about but not liking it all the same: the what now-

the three hunters

a couple more of maitimo because i can't seem to get enough of him

starting the year off with some sauron…..