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{Over the past weeks, media outlets, international institutions and NGOs have shared a myriad of Data with us. Since then numbers have gained a new meaning for me. Take the number 6 for example.
Six is the number of wars a 16-year-old Gazan had to survive to be alive today. Let that sink in, six wars in 16 years. Can you even call that a childhood?
According to the World Food Programme, 4 out of 5 starving people in the world are in Gaza.
23 out of 36 Hospitals there have been bombed
53 health facilities destroyed
121 ambulances attacked
370 schools and universities reduced to dust
455,000 homes destroyed, displacing 85% of residents in Gaza
112 Journalists have been killed in the last 3 months, which makes this the deadliest conflict ever for journalists. More deadly even than the entire Second World War.
In 2023, 507 Palestinians were killed by the Israel army and settlers in the West Bank alone.}
i thought too hard about insect motifs got a little silly and made... a lot lmao these versions of the characters are from @sm-baby's amazing digital carnival au!! full images and rambling about insect choices are gonna get stuck under the cut... it'll be a bit long and i will be putting photos of real bugs down there so be mindful
pomni: "butterfly"
inspirational species are black swallowtails mostly for the shape, and malay red harlequins mostly for the pattern
carnival pomni's actually the one that kickstarted this whole set... i drew her hat in a way that reminded me of butterflies, went "wait...", then i fully leaned into it :)
jax: "centipede"
there was no specific species for jax. without being able to use color, they were too similar to pick any out... i have included a giant centipede just for reference though since it was mainly larger centipedes i used for inspiration
anddd there's a little bonus sketch for how pre-sentience jax might've looked with a centipede outfit... he gets a bug scarf and some goggles!
ragatha: "ladybug"
inspirational species was the twice-stabbed ladybug chosen because the inverted color scheme looked the best out of all the ones i tried, and also because it's a metal name and we know ragatha's good with a knife... stabby stab... i did add more than two spots to the dress though, it just looks cooler lol
gangle: "spider"
inspiration was the spinybacked orb weaver which i was absolutely ecstatic to find because come on that is the perfect spider for gangle like look at it!! it looks like her mask, it's got red, it's got gold on the limbs, literally twinning
zooble: "mantis"
inspiration was the spiny flower mantis which, like with gangle, i feel is pretty much perfect for zooble... they come in many colors (including pink), have abstract patterns, and it gave me the excuse to cover zooble in spikes :D fun
and no kaufmo because i'm lazy and he's dead (sorry kaufmo fans but am i wrong), and the rest don't have bug names that i know of?
i still want to draw the carnival characters in their regular looks sometime, i just got really really inspired by the idea of secret skins and bug-themed outfits and went a liiittle haywire :P
anyways if you read all that you're a real one and you've got too much time on your hands... if you didn't, i understand, i get wordy, sorry :'D okay i think that's all byeee
there's a strike for monday, dec 18th btw for everyone who didn't hear about the first strike long enough in advance
palestinians are asking you not to use your credit cards/spend money on dec 18th. there are other asks but this is the primary and most important one.
This will remain unfinished. I wanted to just get it over with and post it lol
someone PLEASE draw over this with stormbringer chuuya im begging
me core:
tHeY aGe tOo mUcH bEtWeEn sEaSoNs ToO bE PoRtRaYiNG aGeLeSs bEiNgS.
Good. I hope for season 3 they look ancient to you. I hope David Tennant’s crow’s feet are deep enough to drink wine from. I hope Michael Sheen’s waist grows another couple of inches and pops a button right off his waistcoat. I hope they add a little grey to Crowley’s signature red and I hope Aziraphale walks with a cane.
I hope between now and season 3 you can open your mind to the fact that they are by far the best two actors to fill those roles. And if they kept portraying Crowley and Aziraphale right through their 90s it would still be canon and be fucking epic.
tell your baby that i’m your baby