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Thank you so much to everyone who donated! We were able to reach double our goal and raised $200 for Palestinian causes! I've been way busier than I thought I'd be these past few weeks, but the commissioned artwork should be finished soon!

Hello everyone, I am opening up donation commissions! Specifically for these donation drawings the cause I want to focus on is the ongoing genocide and humanitarian crisis in Palestine. It is more important than ever to donate to help Palestinians as Israel's attacks only get worse by the hour. It may be easy to feel disconnected from something happening on the other side of the world, or that there’s nothing you can do to help. However, even just a small act of kindness can change someone's life. I know this small donation campaign won’t single handedly change the world, but I am hoping it can be that small act of kindness that someone needs right now. 

So, how will this Donations for Drawings campaign work? It’s pretty simple, you donate to a cause that helps Palestinians and I will draw something for you! The more you donate, the better the drawing will be, but no donation is too small! This campaign will run for 2 weeks from 5/29 to 11:59pm PST on 6/12. Additionally the campaign won’t end until we reach the goal of at least $100 in donations (but we can go over the $100 goal in the 2 week timeline). I am accepting donations to family fundraisers, eSims, and donations to organizations/charities, however escape funds and eSims are a priority right now. If you need help figuring out where to donate, here are some options. This isn’t every fundraiser out there but it’s a good place to start.

Family Fundraisers (These are all vetted fundraisers): Gaza Funds (If you’re having trouble deciding on a family to donate to this site will automatically suggest a fundraiser when you open it) Operation Olive Branch Help Gaza Gaza Evacuation Relief Fund fundsforgaza | Instagram | Linktree

eSims: https://gazaesims.com/

Organizations/Charities: PCRF CareForGaza Supporting Displaced Families in Gaza https://piousprojects.org/campaign/2680 State of Palestine | World Food Programme Doctors Without Borders The National Emergency Appeal: Medical Aid for Palestinians Crips for eSims for Gaza | Chuffed | Non-profit charity and social enterprise fundraising (if you can’t donate an eSim yourself you can donate here)

Once you donate you need to send proof of your donation to me. This can be done through a direct message or this google form https://forms.gle/bUzTb4bgCefc3Wec8. Proof of donation should include a timestamp, what type of donation you made, and how much you donated. Please remove or blackout any personal identification or banking information. Also, specifically for eSim donations you must also show that you forwarded the eSim to gazaesims@gmail.com. I am only accepting donations made during 5/29 or later.

For the drawings themselves, I am up for drawing anything (though I’m best at drawing dragons), Oc’s or Canon characters, just nothing that is NSFW, gore, or has hateful imagery. In your message please include a link to the character's profile (like a toyhouse page or wiki for canon characters) and/or include a reference image. The more you donate the better the drawing will be! Images of Palestinian solidarity can also be included in the drawing for free if you’d like, just specify that in your message. Additionally, these drawings will likely be posted to promote this donation campaign as well as donating to Palestinian causes in general. I can either tag you in these uploads or you can remain anonymous if you wish. 

Thank you for reading all of the info for the donation commission! If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Additionally, if you want to help Palestinians but unfortunately can’t donate, there are still so many ways you can help! You can participate in boycotts https://bdsmovement.net/get-involved/what-to-boycott, do your daily click https://arab.org/click-to-help/palestine/, call and email your representatives to demand a ceasefire, and keep yourself educated by listening to Palestinian voices and learning from resources like https://decolonizepalestine.com/.

This months shop update 2/18-2/19

Here's the Secound batch: Assorted Sculptures - Slither Wing, Trapinch, and Appletun

Etsy Shop

“We Have Always Survived” Cone 5.5 stoneware, underglaze, glaze, nichrome wire $1,500cad

20% of sales profit will be split and go to a trans aid organization in Canada and the US.

Huge thank you to Martina Lantin for putting together this NCECA - (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) exhibition “Beacon” at The Leonardo in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Exhibition runs March 25-29, opening Friday, March 28th 6-9 NCECA bus tours - Wednesday-Thursday Collector’s Bus Tour ONSITE: Thursday 1:35-2:35

Video link!

Let's stand on mama

Some Art Fight attacks from this year!

Characters belong to xX_Tortoiseshell_Xx, incowheerynt, and Galon on Art Fight

Fycus doodle that I made a while ago but never posted anywhere except for Toyhouse. I really like how it turned out!

[Start ID: A digital drawing of a red and green dragon named Fycus. They are staring at the viewer with tired eyes, one hand held up to their face and the other holding a digital art tablet pen. Their wings are held up on both sides of them. The background is a dull rainbow in a burst pattern, radiating from the head of the dragon. End ID]

More Pokémon drawings! This time of my favorite little guys, Trapinch, Vibrava, and Flygon!

[Start ID: 3 digital drawings of the Pokémon Trapinch, Vibrava and Flygon. The first drawing is of Trapinch, a bug like Pokémon that is orange and white in coloration. It has a large round head with a jagged mouth, and black eyes with star shaped white pupils. Its body is oval in shape with a white underbelly. Trapinch has four stubby legs. The second drawing is of Vibrava, a bug like Pokémon similar to a dragonfly. Vibrava has a yellow tan body, with green and grey accents. Its head is oval shaped with two antennae, two large green eyes, and two white teeth sticking out of its mouth. It has four thin grey legs, Vibrava also has two pairs of rhombus shaped wings, which have a grey edge and green interior. Two similar looking fins are on the end of its tail. The third drawing is of Flygon, a slightly bug like bipedal dragon Pokémon. Its body is mostly light green, with darker green and red accents. Its head is round with two large dark green antennae. There is a large translucent red shield over both of its eyes. It has a pair of rhombus shaped wings which have a red outline and light green interior. Its arms are small and held close to its chest. Its legs have a dark green top and dark green sock pattern on the feet. Its tail has alternating light green and dark green stripes. At the end of the tail are three rhombus shaped fins like the wings with red outlines and light green interiors. End ID]

drawin the dex collection 4!

There's this sort of anthropomorphizing that inherently happens in language that really gets me sometimes. I'm still not over the terminology of "gravity assist," the technique where we launch satellites into the orbit of other planets so that we can build momentum via the astounding and literally astronomical strength of their gravitational forces, to "slingshot" them into the direction we need with a speed that we could never, ever, ever create ourselves. I mean, some of these slingshots easily get probes hurtling through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour. Wikipedia has a handy diagram of the Voyager 1 satellite doing such a thing.

"Gravity assist." "Slingshot." Of course, on a very basic and objective level, yes, we are taking advantage of forces generated by outside objects to specifically help in our goals. We're getting help from objects in the same way a river can power a mill. And of course we call it a "slingshot," because the motion is very similar (mentally at least; I can't be sure about the exact physics).

Plus, especially compared to the other sciences, the terminology for astrophysics is like, really straightforward. "Black hole?" Damn yeah it sure is. "Big bang?" It sure was. "Galactic cluster?" Buddy you're never gonna guess what this is. I think it's an effect of the fact that language is generally developed for life on earth and all the strange variances that happen on its surface, that applying it to something as alien and vast as space, general terms tend to suffice very well in a lot more places than, like... idk, botany.

But, like. "Gravity assist." I still can't get the notion out of my head that such language implies us receiving active help from our celestial neighbors. They come to our aid. We are working together. We are assisted. Jupiter and the other planets saw our little messengers coming from its pale blue molecular cousin, and we set up the physics just right, so that they could help us send them out to far stranger places than this, to tell us all about what they find out there.

We are assisted.

And there is no better way to illustrate my feelings on the matter than to just show you guys one of my favorite paintings, this 1973 NASA art by Rick Guidice to show the Pioneer probe doing this exact thing:

"... You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. ..."

Gravity assist.

THIS IS PART 2 PART 1 CAN BE FOUND HERE

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Aaaand thats the last previous suncat comic! We will see him again in flashbacks but this was it.

Not.

Not nice