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Hello 🖐
I am aya living in North Gaza with my three children, and we are facing starvation in the northern region. We have moved more than 13 times trying to find a safe place, but there is no safety anywhere.
I am asking for your help to protect my children and get us out of this imminent danger😥.
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If anyone can, please donate to help!!
I send only the best wishes and hope you and your family will be better soon!
Deku's first day on the job is going great
Anotha doodle of Finley I did during work
Just some very quick practice sketches of emotional Punk Rock Branch because I can't stop thinking about my AU.
I'll elaborate on the story eventually. But basically, after Branch reunites with Poppy in their adulthood, they reach a point in their relationship where Poppy tries to get him to reconnect with his past he has been shutting out, in an effort to help him as well as understand his reasoning behind leaving the way he did. Since he had been bottling things up for years as a defense, that was a huge struggle for him. During the process, Branch reaches a breaking point which leads to a huge fight with her, where he shows a deep vulnerability he has never allowed himself to feel. In this moment his walls break down and he tearfully tells her the truth about his past. I envision him seeing/finding something that sends him into a panic attack.
Idk! This was one of the first scenarios that I created in my head for my AU and I will get around to making this scene one of these days. I'm just rambling rn 😂
I love this Omg
Fitch, holding out a mug: I made you coffee, Vaggie.
Vaggie, absentmindedly taking the mug and leaving the room: Thanks dad.
Fitch:
Fitch, touched: Dad?
Vaggie, slightly mortified: DAD????
inko <3
refs
i literally never do this but idk i was just drawing and they happened SDFKLSDKL
my girls do not yet have names bc i am cosmically bad at coming up with names and also inexplicably picky about it but def feel free to suggest some DSLKFSDKL
also for why damian is even involved,
"if you ship this thing it's because you're too naïve to understand that it's toxic and that you wouldn't like a relationship like this" actually it's because I see one of them as a mentos drop and the other as a bottle of coke zero and I want to watch the mess they'll be together
hot artists don't gatekeep
I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard
Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.
Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.
Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.
Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.
SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.
SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.
Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.
Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.
Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.
Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.
Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.
Happy Birthday to Izuku, the bestest of best boys
No more bags under my eyes.
what's your "if I won the lottery I wouldn't tell anyone but there would be signs" thing? mine is getting a fully green kitchen
I've been reading some stuff on punitive justice, and it made something click for me that I've observed a lot online but haven't been able to put into words before.
When someone does something wrong, that's bad, and the damage it does needs to be repaired while the person needs to try to do better in future to minimize repeating harm. We learn it in preschool - say sorry, don't do it again. If they keep at it, remove them from the situation where they can do the harm until they prove they're responsible enough to go back in.
So if it turns out someone DIDN'T do anything wrong, that should be a relief! There's no damage to fix, no internal errors to correct. Less work for everybody, literally no harm done. False alarm, all good.
The thing I've observed is, lots of people want them to have done something wrong. There's almost disappointment when it turns out there's no harm done. And I think that's because of this general undercurrent of punitive justice as morally righteous and desirable: someone does something wrong, you get to punish them. Turns out they're innocent? That's disappointing. Find another reason you get to punish them, or find another bad person you get to punish. But at the core of it is that desire to punish someone. Someone you can hurt in a way that makes you a better person for hurting them.
This particular brand of almost cannibalistic pseudo-justice is super common in tumblr, one of the most ostensibly liberal spaces on the internet; I see more borderline savagery in online discourse here than in the actually toxic parts of the internet that are just openly cruel for cruelty's sake. It's always thrown me for a loop, and has frankly also hurt me, because on the rare occasions I get personally dogpiled, it only actually stings when it makes me worry that I've legitimately hurt someone. If I did something wrong, or more realistically when I inevitably do something wrong, that would make it good and right for people to give me shit about it every day until I'm dead.
The thing that clicked for me most recently was this bit in Ijeoma Oluo's Be A Revolution:
Punitive justice is specifically, uniquely appealing to people who have suffered injustices. Of course it's the Tumblr zeitgeist. Everyone here is a marginalized person failed by at least one system. Punishing someone for perceived injustice is how someone the system has deemed worthless proves their value in blood, even if the person being punished hasn't harmed you directly - even if they haven't harmed anyone. "Righteous" anger isn't about the target in these cases, it's about the inflicter. This is how much my pain is worth.
And that kind of violent validation is so alluring and so very dangerous. It seeks an outlet, wearing the justification of justice. Who's in reach? Who's an acceptable target this week? What's a good reason to use?
Is there anything they could do that would make me stop?
Kacchan smiled
It's funny to me how I used to post art and be incredibly anxious to know if anyone liked it, but now I post if I remember to and feel like it in the moment, as well as not care about the amount of likes or comments. If I see a comment on time, I'll likely reply, but I'm not hoping or waiting for it like I used to.
It's very freeing, ngl
Genuinely can't get over how recently in fandoms any characters that have conflict w eachother, big or small, you absolutely cannot ship them because it's x, y, z. Along with the ppl that make up senarios that didn't happen to "prove" or explain why its bad, you can say you hate a ship w/o treating ur hcs like its the truth.
I feel like thisll become worse because of how unbelievably bad media literacy and reading comprehension is. No the ship isn't toxic ur just fucking stupid. how can you say you like/love a peice of media yet misunderstand or ignore whats typically hand fed to you by the creator.
🐇 🥦 vs class A
HBD 🎴 🥦
Fem Kacchan
Been a while so I revamped my impsona
(Now more accurate with my body type)
Match Her Energy 💅
This audio from Ghost Stories is so Broppy so I made this
Fish men
more......of them
MASHLE: MAGIC & MUSCLES S02 OPENING - ANIME VS MANGA
dedicated to Aera (@books-are-my-life-stuff)
The initial art I made to explore my Broppy Parent AU- In this AU, Branch and Poppy marry and he becomes king. While enjoying and adjusting to married life and responsibilities, Branch wakes up in the middle of the night one evening to discover they now have an egg?? So this story dives into how they navigate parenthood despite not being ready for it :)
My newest AU that I have been so invested in creating. In this one, Branch and Poppy were childhood friends until he left Pop Village on his own, feeling abandoned by his brothers while mourning the loss of his grandmother (after escaping the bergens). Instead of waiting around in his bunker, he leaves to forget about anything tied to his past. Poppy remains at the village working to be a good princess and teacher, but still misses this one piece of her past. Years later, Princess Poppy and Branch reunite once again when she ends up needing his help...but he's a rock troll now? Can they rebuild what they once had even though they come from such different worlds now?
I have lots of plans and things for this AU but that's essentially the outline I'm working off of :) It's full of romcom tropes bc I'm a sucker for romance. I hope you like it bc I sure do!