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It's time for some festive fall prompts with Art Fright!

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Graphics made by Scribedhearts.

Happy October!

I haven't purchased a HP item in close to a decade - I use the books I already had as doorstops or to prop a laptop up for meetings nowadays.

There is NO "death of the author" with JK Rowling - she controls and continues to profit from her IP, and uses that money to fund hate groups.

Pajiba

How Many More Times Can We Say It? Your Harry Potter Addiction Is Funding Transphobia

When one person can give £70,000 to a hate group's legal funds, maybe it's time to bin the Dobby plushies.

gave my pinned post an overhaul so it has the ✨fancy✨ without being too over the top. plus added more organizational tags for funsies 😁

Hello, unfortunately my previous account was deleted so I will retell my story, my name is Ahmed Al-Dani, I am 14 years old. I live in Gaza, where I was born amidst ongoing conflicts and wars. In 2008, while my mother was pregnant with me, a phosphorous bomb fell near our house, and I inhaled the toxic gas. This led to genetic deformities that affected the growth of my teeth and hair.

Throughout my life, my family has tried to find solutions to my health problems, and we have visited many doctors in Gaza. The treatment recommended by the nurses was dental implants, but each tooth costs about $1,000, which is beyond our means.

My treatment journey began, but the ongoing conflict has made things more difficult. My family and I have been displaced more than seven times in the past ten months, and we now live in the southern part of Gaza without work or income, relying only on savings that we hoped to use for my treatment.

Please support me or share my story to help me continue my treatment and travel outside of Gaza, where I can complete my dental implants and take care of my health. The total cost of coordinating the travel and medical treatment is $50,000. Every donation, no matter how small, will be a beacon of hope for a better life.

Thank you for your generosity and helping me get a chance at a new life.❤️❤️

https://gofund.me/4258a923

I really hope you get the healthcare you deserve!

Please support me

, I'm Karam Al Nabih from Gaza. My home, dreams, and university have been destroyed by the war. I'm a software engineer in my final semester, and I'm urgently seeking your support to rebuild my life and help my sick mother.

Please consider donating, even a small amount like 10 or 15 £, as every contribution makes a difference. If you can't donate, please share my story to help me reach my goal. Your support means the world to me.

Reblog pin post

Donate here: https://gofund.me/a9d0f2d7

Thank you so much! 🙏❤️

Vatted by @nabulsi @90-ghost

I hope you reach your goals!

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!

[francis]

nothing crazy, just a doodle that i ended up painting while zoned out listening to a video essay. lots of errors but it took an hour from start to finish so that’s par for the course lol. speedpaint and other stuff below the cut

speedpaint:

also, been pretty inactive on socials largely due to health issues. the fatigue and pain are ever present. there are a number of things i’m wanting to do (both art related and not) but who knows when my body’ll let me get around to it. saying this not in a “pity me” way though, just figured i’d share my status for anyone who’s curious!

Hello everyone!

This is a server for Project Moon Artists!!

We are currently hosting a server-wide animation collaboration, “Reception”, featuring Angela.

We need more artists to backup the project or take the part (3) that was recently dropped!

Why else should you join?

📚• We will host many server wide projects and competitions

🌙• A fun, friendly community of people who share interests

🪽• An accessible server that looks good (well, soon… we will be revamping and adding more channels as soon as the Angela project is finished or close to finished!)

📄• We will soon be hosting a competition for the new channel name and icon!

Come find your people!!

You don’t need to be an artist to join, if you like PM then you’re welcome to join.

We are also partnered with Moonframe, another discord server. 🌙

REBLOGS VERRRYY APPRECIATED!

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.

Want to help an unemployed college student that's not allowed to have a job and get a super swaglistic drawing for real fricking cheap and eternal gratitude in return?? Then I'm your guy!!

DM me on Discord!!!! I'm Forkbirtuna there as well!

Ko-fi

Support Forkbirtuna on Ko-fi! ❤️. ko-fi.com/forkbirtuna

Support Forkbirtuna On Ko-fi. Ko-fi lets you support the people and causes you love with small donations

PLS PLS I'LL DO ANYTHING AAAA (I'm new to using PayPal and Ko-fi so pls be patient, I will ask questions 😭)

Older than history itself

What if the oldest vampire was a Neanderthal girl 🤔

reblogging for future reference! i’m wanting to study the style of a visual novel, “the arcana”, and this looks really helpful to start me on that process!

here's the style analysis template from today's video!

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!

i don’t know much about gravity falls, don’t engage with it either, so…

tumblr, why are you recommending so many gravity falls posts to my feed 😭😭😭

Genuinely the #1 thing you can do to make sure trans people around you get gendered correctly is to just lead by example. Saying "hi this is [x] she'll be joining us today, could you show her [y]" is 100000x more effective and less scrutinizing pressure than a pronoun circle.

some of the pngtuber sprites i made for @astral-pr0jectile !! see them in action on astral’s twitch!!

[francis, ayelet]

gore and dialogue versions beneath the cut <3

may play around with filters later :3

i love these!!!

Teen hood

Another bundle of ocs drawings without context, but now medieval edition :)

Please don't ignore me

Hello, I'm Lina from Gaza🇵🇸🍉. I'm part of a family of 8. I'm married with two young children. We've been bombed, besieged, and starved. Sadly, I've lost many of my family members❗ and I can't afford to lose any more. With a heavy heart, I'm asking you to help me spread my campaign. Please, what I'm asking is too much. Can you write a post about my story and share it with your friends? I desperately need your support. My father and brother were injured in the bombing and are in critical condition. They need to travel for treatment. I need your support. The genocide is still going on

You are my only hope for survival.

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@ana-bananya

I really hope you and your family get the support yall deserve! I’m currently unable to donate directly, though I’ll likely open commission work in the future where the payment i accept is folks donating to campaigns like yours.

If any of you can, go donate to this family, or reblog this post if you can’t!

[francis]

a wip :3

blood is so fun to draw oml

it really does feel like the next uncanny valley sonic. one would think that this mistake wouldn’t’ve been repeated, but here we are 😭

So incredibly disappointed with the Minecraft movie look so far.

1. What are the outfits for the cast

2. This could've been a whole animated movie, the humans look so out of place in the realistic block world

3. The animals...what the hell...is that. Human teeth, looks exactly like the first sonic trailer abomination...

4. "I am Steve" 🙂‍↔️

scheduling some posts with art i’ve done lately!

first one: hennessy, wingedmenace’s chara

many thanks for inviting me to do one :)) !!

@caustic-caffeine and I did a collab!! :)

I need to say something and I need y'all to be calm

if it isn't actively bad or harmful, no representation should be called "too simple" or "too surface level"

I have a whole argument for this about the barbie movie but today I wanna talk about a show called "the babysitters club" on Netflix

(obligatory disclaimer that I watched only two episodes of this show so if it's super problematic I'm sorry) (yes. I know it's based on a book, this is about the show)

this is a silly 8+ show that my 9 year old sister is watching and it manages to tackle so many complex topics in such an easy way. basic premise is these 13 year old girls have a babysitting agency.

in one episode, a girl babysits this transfem kid. the approach is super simple, with the kid saying stuff like "oh no, those are my old boy clothes, these are my girl clothes". they have to go to the doctor and everyone is calling the kid by her dead name and using he/him and this 13 year old snaps at like a group of doctors and they all listen to her. it's pure fantasy and any person versed in trans theory would point out a bunch of mistakes.

but after watching this episode, my little sister started switching to my name instead of my dead name and intercalating he/him pronouns when talking about me.

one of the 13 years old is a diabetic and sometimes her whole personality is taken over by that. but she has this episode where she pushes herself to her limit and passes out and talks about being in a coma for a while because of not recognizing the limits of her disability.

and this allowed my 9 year old sister to understand me better when I say "I really want to play with you but right now my body physically can't do that" (I'm disabled). she has even asked me why I'm pushing myself, why I'm not using my crutches when I complain about pain.

my mom is 50 years old and watching this show with my sister. she said the episode about the diabetic girl helped her understand me and my disability better. she grew up disabled as well, but she was taught to shut up and power through.

yes, silly simple representation can annoy you if you've read thousands of pages about queer liberation or disability radical thought, but sometimes things are not for you.

art dump art dump (who knows when i’ll post this on insta)

[francis, ayelet, falyn, berry]

first three images: post-art fight stuffs

the rest: from the revenge chain!

been slowly getting back into the art making groove, but health stuff has been more pressing to deal with. such is life

you have a boyfriend????

not entirely sure how to interpret this question so i’ll interpret it as you just not knowing i did :p

yes, i do, he’s @boxxed-upkr (unboxxed_kr on instagram)!

I finally made the meme I've had in my head for over a year

you can give seven days of internet connection to someone in gaza for just 6 USD

gazaesims.com is a website dedicated to helping people donate esims for people in gaza. (for the ultimate guide to donating an esim, see http://tinyurl.com/gaza-esims) there are multiple options for where to purchase an esim to donate, for the price i listed you want to use nomad esims. you can get a $3 discount by using someone's referral code from the notes of this post. it also will give the referrer credit to buy more esims! (you can only use a referral code on your first purchase) @/fairuzfan also a tag for esim referral codes here, some of which are nomad. BACKPACKNOMAD is another code to get $3 off your first purchase, it's been working for some people but not others so try out a referral code instead if you can't get it to work. also it took over an hour for the email with my information to come through so don't panic if it doesn't show up right away. (logging back into your nomad account seems to have helped some people get their emails to send!) NOMADCNG is a code for 5% off any middle east region nomad esims from connecting gaza. it can be used on any purchase, not just your first but is generally going to give less off than the first-purchase only codes, so use those first. it can be used in combination with nomad points. AWESOME NEW CODE: nomad esim discount code for 75% off any plan, NOMADCS25 do not know how long it lasts but this is an amazing deal esp. since they are really low on esims right now! (nomad promo codes do not work on plans that are already on sale, unlimited plans, and plans under $5)

weekly tuesdays only code on nomad web, PST timezone! it gives 10% off plans 10gb and above. NOMADTUE

for the month of may, first time referrals give 25% off for a person's first purchase and 25% off the referrer's next purchase! it's a great time to use someone's referral code from the notes if you are a first time buyer.

troubleshooting hint 1: if you are trying to pay through paypal, make sure you have pop-ups enabled! otherwise the payment window won't be able to appear.

troubleshooting hint 2: if you are trying to purchase an esim using the provider's app, it may block you from purchasing if your phone does not fit the requirements to install and use their esims. use their website in your browser instead and this problem should go away.

edit as of 5/21/24: holafly (israel and egypt), nomad (regional middle east), simly (palestine and middle east), mogo (israel), and airalo (discover) are currently in the highest in demand. here is a purchase guide i made that covers all of the esim platforms, including these three platforms. if it has been more than 3 weeks since you initially sent your esim and your esim has not been activated, you can reforward your original email with the expiration date in the subject line. you can see gothhabiba’s guide for how to tell if your esims have been activated. if your esim has expired without use, you can contact customer service to renew or replace it.

Weirdly anti-millennial articles have scraped the bottom of the barrel so hard that they are now two feet down into the topsoil