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As part of his promise, Hussam sent 20% of your HelpGazaChildren donations ($4000) to Mahmoud AbuSalama for the 5th time now, including the earlier North Gaza Campaign (as location on our notion site) to buy food and necessary products for families still surviving the dire situation in North Gaza. The food package contains, as you see in the picture below: flour, lentils, canned food, formula, diapers, and women pads!
Please continue donating and spreading the word — every penny means so much! Feel free to share our campaign link to other platforms as well!
Donate to our GoFundMe which goes directly to Hussam, who manages camps in Rafah, with NO middleman in between!
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[Quick ID: The video is of Mahmoud speaking in front of bags of flour and a tumblr sign. There are captions to the video in english. The image below is of groups of packages of items in front of a tumblr sign.]
"A cishet person must have made this, no queer person would ever portray queerness in this way."
"This artist must be white."
"No SA victim would ever handle the subject in this way."
"No woman would ever write women like this."
"This creator is obviously neurotypical. Everyone with autism/ADHD/depression understands-"
Nope.
People who make these blanket statements are very frequently proven wrong when the creator comes out as a member of that group. And even when they aren't proven wrong, even in cases where the creator isn't from the group in question, actual members of the group who don't fit whatever arbitrary criteria are being expressed will see these statements and feel excluded and erased.
Not everyone in your group is going to share your experiences. No single individual gets to personally decide what does or doesn't count as a "valid" expression of trauma or being part of a particular group, and creators are also not obligated to out themselves in order to "prove" their validity.
If something doesn't resonate with you, all that means is that it doesn't resonate with you. You don't have to like it. But you don't get to decide what it means to someone else.
Week 1 done! I made a goal for this week to draw at least one sketch a day. I have been working on so many longer term projects that it kinda burned me out. So finishing a sketch a day has been working me back into feeling satisfied with my art.
I feel like it also has helped me to draw faster as well. the very first sketch took about an hour. I definitely was not happy with that. I tried to follow a method of sketching that I saw from an artist I admire. Turns out it really didn't work for me. You can see in day 2 that I tried something different, I redrew the sketch for that day but focused on the silhouette and shape of the pose. Something just clicked for me.
My favorite sketch is day 4's sketch of malleus sitting. I love the pout and the overall vibe.
Malleus Draconia fumbling stumbling slipping on his soap when he hears this ring from Ramshackle while he's taking a bath at Diasomnia (he has supersimp hearing)
grabbing you by the collar. hey. hey. you're an orv fan right? you like found family-isms and insane dynamics right? hey you should read return of the mount hua sect. aren't you a reader? don't you want to be like kim dokja or something? come on you want to read this soooo badly. i'm biting you as i say all of this btw.
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Ashraf is one of the brightest minds in IT in the Gaza Strip, lost almost everything; his job, house and other things and his wife gave birth to his second child during the genocide.