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Blog introduction post (last edited: 20 jan)

Hi welcome to my blog! I like posting art I've made of characters from whatever fandoms I'm in.

This blog used to be solely about bloons but I changed it since this was my main and I didn't want to restrict myself to a single fandom.

Also here's my sona :3

(Needa make myself a new pfp soon... hmm)

2-0-0 Wizard Monkey ⭐️

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she would wear this shirt to me

answering a couple questions i got on this post since i realized ppl genuinely wanna know:

tl;dr:

israel lets very, very little aid get into gaza. even the UN can't get in as much as they want to. funding individual families, gazan led initiatives, and mutual aid collectives operating out of gaza ensures gazans can provide for themselves and pay for the extremely expensive aid that is available.

with all the civil infrastructure destroyed by israel, the situation on the ground has devolved into unrestricted capitalism, driving up the price of aid (that should be free!). this makes it more urgent for people to have funding for daily survival.

the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.

as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.

the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.

ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.

and the municipality of gaza itself is fundraising to rebuild water infrastructure.

all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!

long answers under the cut!

if you wanna donate to a charity that's absolutely fine, but the thing is most charities (and even the UN!) are unable to make it into gaza in the first place, leaving aid rotting at the egyptian side of the border or subject to israeli settler attacks

not to mention, charities and nonprofits also maintain a paternalistic colonial relationship with the indigenous people they are trying to help, determining what aid they need for them instead of returning power to them and letting them make their own choices

i'm not here to say that one option is better than the other, just that they achieve different things and are equally legitimate. there's an attitude among people who question the legitimacy of these gofundme campaigns that somehow the people promoting them are telling them not to donate to charities. nobody is stopping you from donating to charities. we are just asking that you do not dehumanize the very real gazans in your inbox just because their method of asking for aid is more direct and risky.

unfortunately that's exactly what has happened. because israel destroyed all of gaza's more formalized infrastructure, it seems that organized crime and rampant inflation has taken its place. aid is supposed to be free, but in order to save for evacuation or the cost of living, people have started selling them at an inflated price. and aid that is truly free attracts intense, large crowds that are dangerous to navigate.

this was posted on abc a few days ago

it's pure, unrestrained capitalism. i've had multiple palestinians describe this situation to me confidence. that's why everything's so expensive now. why people have to rent out tiny plots of land for their tents to sit on, why my friend @siraj2024 still has to buy tarps to cover the broken windows of the overpriced bombed out apartment he rented, and why a bag of flour can cost a thousand bucks in the north.

even before israel closed and then bombed the rafah crossing, the egyptian hala travel agency was only allowing people to cross the border if they paid a hefty $5000 USD per adult / $2500 USD per child bribe. it denies doing this, but the hundreds of stories from palestinians say otherwise.

with regard to the economy, here in america we saw something similar happen in the wake of hurricane helene and milton. the podcaster margaret killjoy describes how she saw dual economies rise after asheville was fully cut off from the rest of the country - some people offered each other supplies for free in a sort of mutual aid honor system, and some people required payment when they lent supplies because they themselves needed to buy stuff for their families. these dual economies exist in gaza too. and this means they all still need money to survive.

A friend of mine draws Velvet and Veneer a lot and ended up inspiring me to draw Velvet :3

I might draw Veneer sometime in the future

please rb when u see this!

many palestinians have asked me to share their gofundme links. most are still far from their goals so please donate if u can ♡

last updated 8/23/24

@/mahmoudayyad ~ gofundme (€2,936 raised of €100,000 goal)

@/88mohammed ~ gofundme (€3,974 raised of €100,000 goal)

@/hayanahed ~ gofundme (€77,378 raised of €100,000 goal)

@/abedalazeiz ~ gofundme (€28,146 raised of €90,000 goal)

@/ahmeadhilles ~ gofundme (€10,161 raised of €80,000 goal)

@/ranin3344 ~ gofundme (€7,581 raised of €80,000 goal)

@/safaa18mero ~ gofundme ($10,110 raised of $75,000 goal)

@/mo-shamia ~ gofundme ($60,295 raised of $70,000 goal)

@/verylovesalad ~ gofundme (€3,305 raised of €70,000 goal)

@/rehamalostaz ~ gofundme (€20,621 raised of €70,000 goal)

@/abdalhadiaburas ~ gofundme ($3,531 cad raised of $65,000 goal)

@/ghadak24 ~ gofundme (€1,915 raised of €60,000 goal)

@/heba-baker ~ gofundme (€3,714 raised of €60,000 goal)

@/abuadamfamily ~ gofundme (€57,315 raised of €58,000 goal)

@/rhq2744 ~ gofundme (£8,175 raised of £55,000 goal)

@/yahyaahmed5 ~ gofundme ($1,278 raised of $50,000 goal)

@/rasmi-gaza ~ gofundme ($1,979 raised of $50,000 goal)

@/sameer-24 ~ gofundme ($2,095 raised of $50,000 goal)

@/ghaziyounes1967 ~ gofundme ($4,052 raised of $50,000 goal)

@/helpfamily ~ gofundme ($6,321 raised of $50,000 goal)

@/aseelo680 ~ gofundme ($13,332 raised of $50,000 goal)

@/mayadayyad81 ~ gofundme ($37,395 raised of $50,000 goal)

@/ebrahimyasseralangarsworld ~ gofundme (€686 raised of €50,000 goal)

@/aseelo680 ~ gofundme ($13,332 raised of $50,000 goal)

@/odayalanqar ~ gofundme (€2,625 raised of €50,000 goal)

@/yazan-familyy ~ gofundme (€10,851 raised of €50,000 goal)

@/yasminalbalawiigaza ~ gofundme (€37,372 raised of €50,000 goal)

@/essaq ~ gofundme (€1,365 raised of €50,000 goal)

@/noorabd1992 ~ gofundme ($8,592 raised of $45,000 goal)

@/asmaayyad ~ gofundme (€11,219 raised of €45,000 goal)

@/lina-gaza ~ gofundme (€35,156 raised of €45,000 goal)

@/kefahfamily ~ gofundme ($966 raised of $40,000 goal)

@/falestine-yousef ~ gofundme ($13,516 raised of $40,000 goal)

@/bshaeromars-blog ~ gofundme ($14,836 raised of $40,000 goal)

@/husseinshamia ~ gofundme ($32,371 raised of $40,000 goal)

@/noor-alanqar ~ gofundme (€20,372 raised of €40,000 goal)

@/save-mohamed-family ~ gofundme (€22,163 raised of €40,000 goal)

@/drahmedhamad2 ~ gofundme (kr6,158 sek raised of kr400,000 goal)

@/mohammednasers-blog ~ gofundme (€2,600 raised of €38,000 goal)

@/salem-baker ~ gofundme (€5,971 raised of €38,000 goal)

@/mohalwadya2 ~ gofundme ($2,177 raised of $35,000 goal)

@/abedallhferwanagaza ~ gofundme (€2,862 raised of €35,000 goal)

@/m430235341 ~ gofundme (€16,560 raised of €35,000 goal)

@/mohiy-gaza ~ gofundme ($18,197 raised of $31,000 goal)

@/abdallahblog0 ~ gogetfunding ($990 raised of $30,000 goal)

@/fidaa-family2 ~ gofundme ($14,850 raised of $30,000 goal)

@/ahmedabuomar ~ gofundme (€2,444 raised of €30,000 goal)

@/ahmed-mohammed1 ~ gofundme (€5,060 raised of €30,000 goal)

@/mahmoudkhalafff ~ gofundme (€24,530 raised of €30,000 goal)

@/ahmed-ziad ~ gofundme (£9,570 raised of £30,000 goal)

@/monashamali ~ gofundme (£13,743 raised of £30,000 goal)

@/drfarhatblog ~ gofundme ($5,070 raised of $29,500 goal)

@/mohammedshehabnew1 ~ gofundme (€6,427 raised of €25,000 goal)

@/abdelmutei ~ gofundme (€10,523 raised of €25,000 goal)

@/nedaapalestine ~ gofundme (£8,099 raised of £25,000 goal)

@/motaaz37 ~ gofundme (kr30,953 sek raised of kr250,000 goal)

@/abood-gaza2 ~ gofundme ($2,110 cad raised of $30,000 goal)

@/mhammemosa10 ~ gofundme ($1,606 raised of $20,000 goal)

@/saveyouseffamily ~ gofundme (€4,028 raised of €20,000 goal)

@/fatma93-gaza ~ gofundme (€5,404 raised of €20,000 goal)

@/save-hijazi-family2 ~ gofundme (€12,878 raised of €20,000 goal)

@/karamalmadhoun ~ gofundme (€14,709 raised of €20,000 goal)

@/ashraf-baker ~ gofundme (€19,220 raised of €20,000 goal)

@/omargaze ~ gofundme (£4,779 raised of £20,000 goal)

@/hanaa-yousef ~ gofundme (£10,914 raised of £20,000 goal)

@/yousefjehad0 ~ gofundme ($3,405 raised of $15,000 goal)

@/ayaalanqarsblog ~ gofundme (€9,313 raised of €15,000 goal)

@/ahmadresh ~ gofundme ($7,708 raised of $10,000 goal)

@/musababed ~ gofundme (£4,526 raised of £8,000 goal)

@/dinamahammed99 ~ gofundme ($3,173 raised of $6,000 goal)

I've been thinking of tryna interact with the wir community more, and so I'm gonna be drawing y'all's OCs!

Might also open my ask box for requests :3

(Fast belongs to @aninonimosstuff-blog )

Reimagined this in a different style bc I felt like I could do better

I love the art style and characters of Don't Starve, so you might see me draw more of the survivors soon :3

(Edit: fixed a few mistakes)