“Your servant, Mrs. Bridgerton. Always.”

Penelope and Colin in anticipation of Bridgerton Season 3!

The Harmony for Humanity art raffle fundraiser deadline has passed with us raising $2600 USD in donations for displaced families in Gaza. A HUGE thank you to everyone who contributed to this effort! From everyone who donated, to the artists who volunteered their skills and time for the prizes, to the writers who created fics to show appreciation to the artists and brought in more awareness to this fundraiser, and to the organizing team for doing all the tech and promoting work in the background and making this project possible. It is due to your generosity, compassion, and goodwill, that we were able to come together as a community and do some real good in this world, giving aid to the families in Gaza who need it more than ever.

Of the total donations, $1300 USD has been donated to Care for Gaza and $1300 has been donated directly through our public fundraiser page on the Palestinian Children Relief Fund site.

A video recording with receipts is available on the Transparency page of our website.

All winners have been randomly selected through an online raffle generator by me and they have all been contacted via email. Please check your emails to see if you have won and respond within 3 DAYS so we can get your prompts to the artist as soon as possible! If there is no answer after 3 days, we will reroll for a different winner. Once the artworks are finished, we will be sending out an exclusive art book to every single donor!

Thank you once again from the bottom of my heart for your collective efforts <3

Hello, friends. Today is the LAST DAY to get tickets in the Harmony for Humanity Art Fundraiser for Charity 🍉 for a chance to win custom artwork from any of 20 Harmony artists + a guaranteed exclusive H/Hr artbook! Each ticket is $5 and you only need to get at least 1 to receive the exclusive artbook after the event!

Get your tickets on our website: www.harmonyforhumanity.net

More info on my previous post

I would like to announce my participation as an artist for a charity art raffle for Gaza. The Harmony for Humanity initiative was created as a community effort to provide aid to displaced families through recognized organizations such as the PCRF and CareforGaza.

For a chance to win art of your choice from 20 wonderful artists (including me!) + get a guaranteed harmony artbook, consider entering the raffle. I don't normally do commissions, so this is your chance! There is only ONE day left! Check out this post for more information or go directly to the site: harmonyforhumanity.net

Even if you are not a Harry Potter fan, consider donating through the PCRF fundraiser page officially set up here.

"Home is where the heart is." A cozy moment by @arwaisherenow  

Arwa is a participating artist in the Harmony Art Raffle for charity 🍉 For a chance to win art of your choice from Arwa + get a guaranteed H/Hr artbook, check out this post.

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times..."

Art by Lynne who is a participating artist in the Harmony Art Raffle for charity 🍉 For a chance to win art of your choice from her, check out this post.

"And it might have been a good idea to mention how ugly you think I am, too,” Hermione added as an afterthherought. “But I don’t think you’re ugly,” said Harry, bemused. Hermione laughed. ~Order of the Phoenix

Art by Sakura on lofter who is a participating artist in our Harmony Art Raffle for charity 🍉 For a chance to win art of your choice from Sakura + a guaranteed H/Hr artbook, check out this post.

50+ Art prompts and endless fic inspiration… Introducing "Harmony for Humanity (Writer’s Version)!"

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In response to the Harmony Charity Art Raffle for G-a-za organized by @arishatistic, the writers of the Harry/Hermione community have taken initiative to create their own way to contribute to the effort. This art based prompt event takes harmony art from each of the 18 artists volunteering in the raffle and asks writers to choose any of those prompts as inspiration to write a Harmony piece.

The rules are simple, click "keep reading" to find them below:

It must be based on one of the h/hr art prompts in the following collection: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/HarmonyForHumanity_WritersVersion/requests

The fic(s) must be at least 1k words.

It must be exclusively about the pairing Harry and Hermione.

The two major purposes of this writer’s initiative is to show some appreciation for the volunteering artists and to raise awareness of the raffle’s existence so that more people in the community can come together for a good cause. As such, you are asked to:

Cite the artist in your Author’s Note

Mention information about the charity raffle in your A/N by linking to the Harmony for Humanity’s official instagram page (https://www.instagram.com/harmonyforhumanity_/) or the announcement by Arishatistic on reddit (https://redd.it/1bkb3pr)

For more info on how to do that / or get A/N examples to copy paste, see the guide in our Rules

More than one person is allowed to claim the same art prompt. However, we do encourage people to try and spread out to give love to artists who may not have any art prompts chosen yet, so that everyone gets some appreciation.

The raffle was set to end April 6th, but the deadline will be extended to to try and get some prompt fulfillments and more people a chance to contribute to the community effort. You can and are encouraged to continue fulfilling prompts even after the raffle deadline passes; although at that point, it won’t raise awareness about the raffle, it will still show appreciation to the artist volunteers.

For a comprehensive review of the art raffle which this event is in response to, check out the raffle's official instagram page or this tumblr post.

“He closed his eyes at her touch” by Lynne on lofter.

Lynne is a participating artist in the Harmony Art Raffle for charity 🍉 For a chance to win art of your choice from her, check out this post.

“A Dance for a Lifetime” by @nili_huni

Nili is a participating artist in the Harmony Art Raffle for charity 🍉 For a chance to win art of your choice from Nili, check out this post.

As a long time artist in the Harry x Hermione fandom, I am heartened to announce this community’s first ever Art Raffle for Charity: Harmony for Humanity! This is a huge initiative where 18 Harmony Artists from around the globe have graciously offered their time, effort and skills to the cause.

Each Raffle Ticket is 5 USD. 1 winner will be randomly drawn for each Artist. Winners will get to decide the prompt for an H/Hr scene they want drawn. The full list of artists can be viewed and tickets can be purchased on our website.

All donors will be emailed an exclusive digital art book with all the created art prizes after the event!

100% of proceeds will be donated to CareForGaza and the PCRF, both of whom are charities providing direct humanitarian aid to displaced families and orphans in need.

Please share and reblog this post, even if you are not part of the fandom or unable to donate at this time! More eyes on the charity equals more donations and aid available for displaced families.

For full transparency: receipts and a spreadsheet document will be made available to everyone where all donations are tracked and updated regularly.

Important Links

Official Website: Harmony for Humanity

Our Fundraiser Page on the PCRF Website (for direct donations)

Official Instagram and Twitter

If you have any questions, feel free to comment below, DM me or @hms-harmony-discord, or email [email protected]!

Harry and Hermione as Gryffindor Royalty 👑

deserved.

"Do you remember our first kiss?" Hermione asked.

"Of course I do." Harry replied, thinking back to that night on the Astronomy Tower where he had whispered he was afraid he had lost the battle and abandoned all restraint and logic to make the first move.

"You're wrong," Hermione had whispered when they separated, touching her swollen lips.

"What?" Harry had asked.

"You're wrong about losing. You didn't lose, Harry." She smiled slightly. "It was a stalemate. A tie. We both fought it, I think. Our feelings. But in the end, we both threw down our crowns at the same time and accepted the fact that sometimes, you can't always fight it. And you know what?"

"What?"

"You taste like pumpkin pie."

Now, years later, he looked across the table at Hermione who had just finished the slice of pumpkin pie on her plate and was looking at him with a glint in her eye. Every Autumn they made it a tradition to have a date outside, with the leaves falling down, and the aroma of pumpkin pie surrounding them.

"You know what?" Harry echoed her words from all those years ago.

"What?"

"If I kiss you now, I bet you'd taste like pumpkin pie too."

Seeing footage of the aftermath of the flour massacre in Gaza is so painful

"Where is my daughter? Tell her I don't want flour anymore"

"My brother was shot holding a bag of flour. He kept holding on to it so they kept shooting him"

"Why does flour have to be stained with blood?"

Over 100 have been killed. Every single one of them hungry. Every single one of them has someone waiting for them to come back with the bag of flour.

Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war against innocent civilians. Israel ambushes starving Palestinians and shoots them. Israel is not fighting a war to defend itself. This is another episode of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.

a man self immolated in front of the israeli embassy in washington dc yesterday. not just any man. an active member of the us air force. he live streamed his death, and said that he refused to be complicit in a genocide any longer. he said that compared to what palestinians were facing every day, setting himself alight was nothing.

let me reiterate. an active duty air force member burned himself alive because he was so disgusted by what the us government was openly supporting. he live-streamed his own suicide, so the whole world could bear witness as a man in his military uniform set himself on fire to protest his government’s complicity in the horrors that we have all been forced to watch happen in real time. he became a new horror. footage of the immolation blurs him out the moment the fire catches, but you can hear him. it is over in seconds, really, but you can hear him screaming. he shouts “free palestine” until his body physically cannot make any sounds other than guttural screams of agony. and then he falls silent. a police officer arrives and points a gun at his still burning body, shouting at him to get down on the ground. and it is over.

his name was Aaron Bushnell. he was twenty five years old. and he isn’t here anymore because the political ruling class has decided that genocide is perfectly fine as long as it preserves imperialism. in the coming days, people will try to discredit him. to say that he was mentally unstable. they will try to bury his actions to save face and defend israel’s propaganda. do not let them. aaron knew what he was doing. he knew what he was doing when he put on his military uniform, set up his twitch stream, and made his final walk up to the embassy. he knew what would happen to him when he flicked that lighter. do not let them forget. aaron’s blood is on the hands of the political ruling class.