[francis, Ayelet]

pick your poison 2024

hihi in the art fight discord server i have two minigames i made pinned in #prompts. this is the updated version of one of them :3c no credit necessary to play, but reblogs appreciated!

very healthy individuals

this month is july, yall know what that means…

Art fight! …..

Okay, not just that….

Fourth of July?

Well, yeah, that is part of it, but I’m actually referring to

Disability Pride Month!!!

To everyone (but especially other disabled folks);

Whether your disability is physical or mental, visible or invisible, cureable or uncurable, professionally diagnosed or not, or something you’ve been grappling with for a while or just recently…

Always remember these things!:

You are just as valuable, worthy of love, and deserving of respect as non-disabled folks;

There is no such thing as “not being disabled enough” to seek out the support you need;

It’s very okay to ask for help— you are not weak for doing so;

You are not lazy, useless, or a failure for merely experiencing the symptoms you experience;

Your life is not inherently less meaningful or fulfilling, just because you’re unable to do as much as a healthy person;

I’m very proud of you all for pulling through and getting to today, even with all the struggles (yes, even if I’m a stranger to you /gen)

I hope you all have a wonderful July and beyond! Be sure to take care of yourselves and be kind to yourselves!

what does your unfinished art gallery look like?

ohhh boy. there are like, over 150 WIPs, doodles, experimental stuff, etc in one of my procreate folders. that folder is essentially my sketchbook, which i started very early into 2023.

click/tap “keep reading” to see some of what’s inside that folder 👀

[francis, maddox, cecie, inanna, ayelet, rubithin, callie, savreel, nereida, and… me. yes i’m there too]

we got shitposting:

we got some wips i abandoned:

(who knows, maybe i’ll redraw them. they’re too old for me to wanna keep as is though)

we got doodles:

there’s obviously a lot more i could show but i’ll leave yall with these for now!

My name is Tarneem Sami, and I live in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of Gaza City 🇵🇸🇵🇸🍉with my three children. My husband, Ahmed, was killed while trying to get supplies for us. We have fled from place to place, living in constant fear amid severe shortages of food and medicine, hoping only to survive this brutal war.

‎‏Please help me. Please help me to save my children from hunger and diseases. We are suffering a lot 😭🙏🏻🍉😭

https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-cry-from-gaza-a-mothers-plea-for-her-childrens-survival?attribution_id=sl:6a5086ee-18c7-4464-b69b-fab802b1e9b9&lang=en_US&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

i really wish for the best for you and your children! i’m not yet in a place to donate directly, but i hope others who may see this will. good luck out there!

if you can, donate to those links! if not, please reblog this post; thank you!

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TIME SENSITIVE

Help me help my former coworker cover the last of her medical expenses and leave the greedy hospital for good!

The last post lost traction 4 days ago, and I had to dip into my savings AND take out loans instead to help C pay to get discharged. Only for the hospital to keep surprising us with even MORE hidden charges! 😡😭

C's region's local government does NOT offer aid for these types of situations, and she is currently estranged from her family.

If you don't believe me, here's the full story in parts:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

⏫ Translation in alt text, just tap on "ALT" on the lower left corner of the images to read.

She needs to pay $152 (₱8,800) within the deadline the hospital gave her, which is 3-5 days from yesterday (August 7 our timezone), so the latest due date is August 12 our timezone. That would be August 11 in most places across the world.

I also want to be able to help C get back on her feet after she's finally freed from the hospital, so she'll need help covering food, lodging, and other misc expenses. I believe $50 (₱2,900) will cover that for a while.

Please, we are getting desperate. Neither of us have the means to cover this at the moment, and we'd appreciate if you can reblog this post if you see it.

$0/202

(₱0/11,716)

Pαyραl

She doesn't have a P*yp*l account, so I use my account from my more active days as an artist and act as her proxy.

Everything here will be sent to her ASAP.

Please do not tag this as d*nations or the like.

Please share this post when you see it!

shitty chronic fatigue pro life tip:

listen to death metal when you’re trying to stay awake to work on something!

i’m only half joking

that’s what i’m doing right now and it’s 1) quite a good time, i love metal and 2) actually helping me get something done that i’ve been meaning to get done for weeks :)

Redoing my character references (including redesigns as needed). After I finish Cecie’s, I may reblog with more info on the three’s dynamic 😌

[Edit] Cecie’s is now attached! Now that I got the M3 completed I’ll be taking a break from sheets to do some scenes. Though many more reference sheets will be made in the future…

Cecie’s Lament Characters

Francis, the demonic warlock patron.

Maddox, the half-elf wizard-turned-warlock.

[Edit] Cecie, the elf soothsayer.

A brief note on elves and demons (under the cut):

Elves:

My elves age differently from humans, maturing far slower and then leading prolonged lives. The average elf’s life expectancy sits in the 500s, though some have far exceeded this thanks to good medicine and magic practices. In elf-dominant cultures, an elf isn’t considered an adult until their 80s, at which point they will leave the home and venture out into the world to gain broader experience (and find a specific skill to hone in on). Trips like these often take decades to complete, with 20 years being considered on the short side.

Half-elves live shorter lives, but have the same maturation rate as full-blooded elves. They are still expected to participate in the same customs as full-blooded elves (if they want to be “respectable”, anyway). For Maddox, that means that he left the home in his early 80s and became a mercenary until his 110s (at which point he returned home for Cecie’s sake).

Demons:

“Demon” is just a shorthand term for all entities who were created to be or transformed into the servants of a deity. There’s a lot I could share about them, but I’ll save that for a separate post in the future (if folks want me to share the lore, or if I feel like doing it myself.)

“Demons” in my worldbuilding are not connected to Christianity, or any other real-world religion. They share some superficial similarities, but with vastly different origin stories and mechanics.

If you want to fight off the existential dread of capitalism, I highly recommend donating to your local food bank if you can afford to. I'm on SSI so I don't have a whole lot to give, so to maximize my impact and get the most good out of what little I can give I donate $5 to the food bank every month because the food bank can feed at LEAST 20 people with $5. They can buy food in bulk. As in, crates of food for a single dollar. Monetary donations go so much farther than your old cans of tomatoes or whatever.

And like! I can't change that I'm disabled and poor. I can't change the economic and political system I live under. But I can feed 20 people every month. So I do. Does it make a difference in the grand scheme of things? Maybe not. But it made a difference to those 20 people. That's a lot of people! That's a whole crowd!

And it's selfish because I do this specifically to make myself feel better. But those 20 people probably wouldn't call me selfish. His Holiness the Dalai Lama often says (paraphrasing) the way to be happy is to be kind and compassionate towards others, so if you want to be selfish be wisely selfish and help others. And he's not wrong! It helps! I feel better AND 20 people get an extra meal. Win win.

I am Amira from Gaza🍉. The war destroyed everything I own. I lost my father, my home, my job, and my university. I can't bear any more. Could you please donate or share my story to help protect us 🙏?

i wish you the best of luck with everything!