If you donāt know- Maui, Hawaiāi has underwent the most devastating, traumatic tragedy thus far. The presence of Hurricane Dora has caused great winds to pick up rapidly, causing destruction & a mass wildfire to spread; completely engulfing the historic town- LÄhainÄ.
Homes were burnt to ashes, businesses, schools, churches EVERYTHING. The people of LÄhainÄ have experienced a burdening loss of their land & home, some have lost a pet, or/and a family memberšThere are still ppl missing; bodies still being found (floating in the ocean, burnt in cars with their ohana or holding on to their other half )
It is truly like a scene out of a movie, but worse. An apocalyptic scene. A destructive heartbreak to all of Hawaiāi. All in all, this is history in the making.
I am sharing this hoping it reaches those near & far so the word can spread. If you feel it in your heart to help in any way possible please read each photo thoroughly, repost, share, follow, donate, or simply just understand that right now Maui is not open for travel. Right now Maui residents are stranded; no running water, electricity, food, clothes, gasoline, cell service etc.
They need time to come back from this. WE need time to HELP them; right now all the people of Hawaiāi have been coming together to help but tourism will only be getting in the way; will only be using up the valuable resources that the people of LÄhainÄ need more than ever right now.
If you reach this, Mahaloš¤š¤š½
the tagged profile mentioned in the pictures are on instagram- please follow for updates & resources/ information.
Other accounts that are good to follow on ig in regards to the LÄhainÄ Fire:
A 19 year old passenger with her baby, who only spoke spanish, missed her connecting flight due to weather and would have been stuck sleeping in the airport but my co flight attendant (who spoke spanish) booked her commuter hotel for her and gave her a free room for the night
Another passenger missed her connecting flight home but since she lived just under an hour from me I gave her a ride from dc to virginia beach
My pilot was contacted by the wife of a pilot heād flown with (who later killed himself) because sheād found a photo of their crew at dinner, so now he takes group photos of every crew he hangs out with, just in case
Another passenger missed her connecting flight and was crying because her mom was in hospice so 2 other passengers who did not know her offered to rent a car and carpool down to jacksonville together
An actor who I will not name but who Iām a huge fan of was in line at the airport pizza place in front of me and my co flight attendant (also a fan) and we were trying so hard to be cool about it and he could tell and he paid for our food because āYou all take such good care of us in the air, we should take care of you on the ground.ā
The van driver for our new orleans overnight heard me say I was vegetarian but wished I could try authentic gumbo and called his friend who is a chef and then drove us to the restaurant where I was given a creole style vegetarian gumbo heād improvised
After a terrible night which saw me and my co flight attendant trying for 4 hours to get hotel rooms from our airline, the night clerk at a hotel finally took over the phone call and reprimanded them on our behalf, dictating the exact paperwork she needed sent over and then expedited the process so she could give us rooms
When I was little I showed a flight attendant a picture of a ladybug life cycle I drew myself, and he sat down in the empty seat on the other side of the aisle and drew a flipping plane and holy cow that was the first experience I had of someone drawing and drawing amazingly well. I wonder how heās doingā¦
I still have the drawings! And the notebook!
The notebook in question:
The terribly childish drawings in question:
LOOK AT THIS
I DIDNāT EVEN REALISE HEāD WRITTEN MY NAME
Flipping heck š¤£š¤£š¤£
Oh yeah, this was a Virgin Australia domestic Brisbane to Sydney flight which Iād done with my family multiple times at this point.
Btw I was 8.
Gerome Gardiner, I have cherished this drawing all throughout my childhood, and if you ever see this, thank you for taking the time on a pretty empty flight to draw me something with such beauty that I have carried it throughout my life.
But I feel I should apologise because I have not kept up my drawing skills and neither have I had much time or energy to do so š
calling every gnc cis person you see an āegg waiting to crackā even as a joke is not cool or funny at all actually it is extremely invasive and weird and you are just reinventing gender roles but making it āprogressiveā
is it just me or is this is an extremely weird thing to say about a random stranger based on nothing but a snippet of an eavesdropped conversation
last time i made a post abt this i got fucking eviscerated lmao but thatās prob bc i had the audacity to mention how this intersects with race and ethnicity, how yāall LOVE to forcibly feminize east asian and jewish men then ignore centuries of harmful stereotypes youāre playing into.
Its absolutely a weird and invasive thing to say. Especially because non-binary people can choose to present in mixed ways instead of androgynously. Especially because everyone should be allowed to choose scents, colors, products, patterns, and clothing that they LIKE, without it having to be based on gender. Because masculine people should be allowed to smell like flowers or wear pretty things if they just fucking want to.
This is something I noticed a TON on Twitter and fucking hated it.
As soon as a man is the LEAST bit feminine, or what white western society perceives as feminine, he will be called a trans girl. And I obviously donāt have anything against trans girls or recognizing yourself in others and shit, but like
You fucking canāt destroy gender roles by rigorously enforcing them.
Stop calling every cis man who likes āgirlyā stuff a woman. Y'all know this is also homophobic as shit, right? Y'aal know thatās also MISGENDERING, RIGHT??
Let people like what they like. A guy who likes skirts and nail polish? Cool. Unless HE HIMSELF says otherwise, heās a guy. Stop this shit.
Real people are not your blorbos to project your experiences onto. If you relate to something that a cis person does, that just means that a cis person is relatable to you, which is not, in fact, a bad thing.
just once I want to see a good post critiquing makeup culture that doesnāt turn out to be made by some janky radfem blog
oh hey!! Iām not a janky radfem I can do it myself!
makeup culture is wack and normalizes a ludicrously high bar as the bare minimum women can do. I saw a ālazy"makeup tutorial the other day that listed 22 separate goddamn products. youāre supposed to buy and know how to use 22 different things on your face just for the privilege of being considered lazy and thatās uuuuuuh whatās the word? bullshit.
Really, five products could work, even 3. Just frame the face, eyes, lips, and youāre done.
0 products also works great
because Iām gonna be real here, the idea that 22 products is a minimum sucks but itās really upsetting that any amount of makeup is the bare minimum at all
I would really just suggest some powder foundation, concealer, mascara and lipgloss/lipstick, or tbh just mascara works too, but thatās up to you
Iām sorry if I didnāt express this clearly enough in the original post but Iām not really looking for more concise makeup regiments. my intention was to point out how itās Bad that makeup is considered a bare minimum at all, regardless of individual feelings on the matter
no face should be ārequiredā to have āa minimumā of makeup. makeup has no health benefits and does nothing but fill the pockets of companies that prey on women and our insecurities.
makeup should not be seen as hygiene because it isnt. get that shit out of your head.
this post: makeup culture is ridiculous and 22 products should not be considered a minimum requirement for someones face. no one should have to do that
the notes: so likeā¦ā¦. what youre saying isā¦ā¦. we need to make the minimum about 5 or 6 instead⦠i gotcha
Really the only makeup you need is eyeliner but thatās just my personal opinion