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aBEARlitionism ⍝ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ⍝ ˚˖𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆

#digital art #illustration #acab #1312 #idk what else to tag this #ID in alt

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an artfight attack for @floodkiss from 2023 that i meant to post earlier but just didn’t get to. but this is one of my fav characters i attacked so posting it now!!

#omg <333333 it's plinth #i seriously love this so much <3333 #this reminds me that i need to give her a little makeover/revamp soon! #artfight #not my art #the dark crystal

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Happy new year, I hope January is treating you with kindness and you are all taking care of yourselves. I know that Blue Monday is coming up soon, so I hope you are all well supported and cherished in this time!

A couple of exciting things are happening in my life! If you are in France, my work will be a part of the canadian focus exhibit, D’un océan à l’autre at Angoulême BD. I received 2 grants to work on a mid-length comic later this year-mid 2025. I had to push the deadlines back a bit because I am also about to start a mentorship through CAKE (Chicago) via being awarded the CupCAKE award! 🧁✨ Plus some other smaller works that I've been doing. I am so grateful for these opportunities and I hope I can make the most of them! I am also excited to visit the USA for the first time ever! I will be very busy and stressed, but very happy and excited all the same (I am already kind of stressed and overwhelmed...)

I think I told myself a couple months ago that I would start doing some "blogging" in addition to posting art, and I want to document my process as I work through these bigger projects! I have been in such a rut since I finished art school and it feels like my life slowly got started again at the end of 2022.

Things I still need to do: [] update the email, call, mail, fax, about ceasefire document [] post an older comic [] last 2 commissions sketches (I'm sorry it's taken so long!) [] update pinned

I've also been participating in political life in my city again, so I have been going in between worn out and feeling nourished. It is funny how organizing can break our hearts and save our lives all the same... and so I may also be spending time figuring out how we can safely archive our work so that it may serve the community in the future as well.

2024 will be about love and friendship for me and i hope it will be for you as well. I am so deeply happy that I decided to make tumblr my main art space, it has brought me a lot of joy for the past few years! I appreciate you!!! Do you have anything you're looking forward to this year? Any successes from last year? I feel very nervous but excited about 2024!

#diary #i might be procrastinating just a little bit right now... #january 2024 #even less time for fanart than last year 🤧

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My 2023 Summary of Art! I had many wonderful experiences and opportunities. I feel so grateful that despite everything, it was a decent year for me. I feel like I am starting to feel a bit more comfortable and confident with my art to the point that experimenting feels organic to me? Thank you for joining me in another year of making art!🌷✨🌿

#2023 art summary #2023 summary of art #my art #illustration #artists on tumblr #thank you for making this a nice space fore me! #i hope to do more environments next year.... #i'll mostly be working on comic so that's very exciting for me! #happy gregorian new year! #to describe later! sorry!

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hello! hi! ૮꒰ ˶• ༝ •˶꒱ა ♡

#illustration #my art #art vs artist #art vs artist 2023 #artists on tumblr

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A wonderful T'Pring x Una commission made by @floodkiss

#i had such a wonderful time drawing!!!! #thank you <3333 #star trek

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my circle of stars druid, YOLAN, and my college of glamour bard, MIFFY ⋆⭒˚｡⋆

#dnd character #dnd art #dungeons and dragons #artists on tumblr #digital art #illustration #radiant citadel #oc art #original character #image description tba #yolan was used in a horror one shot and miffy is my character for the radiant citadel module! #yolan was scarier than the villain lol #drow elf #drow #aasimar #fallen aasimar #druid #bard

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Say "NO" to Genocide - Call, email, mail your reps (Canada)

Me and my friend spent some time today writing letters to the House of Commons, plus we have been calling MPs daily. I haven't seen too many resources for this floating around on tumblr, so here's a lengthy guide on how to do this plus some sample scripts! Long post ahead since I think it will be most helpful to dump everything in one spot to reference. On desktop, use CTR F/CMD F to search for the topic -> Phone / Email / Letter Mail / Contacts / Demands / Scripts / Fax

Update 1 - Nov 23: Updated emails with "mailto" hyperlinks, edited demands, added fax section, added scotiabank pres fax number.

On the PHONE / General Tips

Introduce yourself and identify yourself as a constituent by providing your postal code or address.

Ask to speak to the MP directly, but do not be surprised if you must speak to the MP’s staff instead. Staff can help move your issue forward.

Give the reason for your call and explain your concern.

Focus on one or two main concerns per phone call. Do not unload on the MP or their staff with all of your political concerns at one time.

Ask clear and pointed questions that require some explanation.

Ask for a commitment to action.

KEEP IN MIND Tips for Calling MPs:

Tell the MP that this issue will matter to you in the next election.

Avoid revealing party affiliation or sympathies. If you show that your vote is already cast for a certain party, the MP may not have the incentive to respond to your requests.

Be as brief as possible while outlining concerns.  Show that you respect their time.

Remain calm and respectful in dialogue. Be willing to work with them.

Follow up: Find out what actions were taken as a result of your call, and respond appropriately.

(Source: CPJ.ca)

CJPME Call Tool - Fill in the form, there will be suggested talking point. The tool will call your phone and then patch you through to your MP. If voicemail, state your concerns in 30 seconds. No address input will default you to call Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly.

EMAIL

Be sure you sign your email with your name and mailing address so they know you are a part of their riding.

You will most likely receive a PR-type response or no response at all, but please still send these. It disrupts operations, and it still contributes to pressuring your MP to act on behalf of your riding.

LETTER MAIL

Mail may be sent postage-free to any member of Parliament at the House of Commons address. You just need to use an MP's full title if they are Cabinet members. Cabinet mebers have "The Honourable" attached to their names.

Postcards are efficient in that they are small pieces of card stock and can be a short message plus demands, no need to get use envelopes.

The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0A6

CONTACTS

Find your MP - ourcommons.ca - Contact the MP of your riding, any of the contacts below, as well as any cabinet members in your city or province.

Prime Minister [phone] / [email protected] *FAX: [phone] /*If faxes are closed at the House of Commons line, try their local offices! (See below under "FAX" for fax guide!)

Deputy Prime Minister - Chrystia Freeland [phone] / [email protected] FAX: [phone]

Minister of Foreign Affairs - Mélanie Joly [phone] / [email protected] FAX: [phone]

Minister of International Development - Ahmed Hussein [phone] / [email protected] FAX: [phone]

Minister of National Defence - Bill Blair [phone] / [email protected] FAX: [phone]

Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group (CAIL) Stéphane Bergeron (*he's not a chair or vice chair of this group, but i want to warn that stephane WILL argue with you, so call after hours if you are scared of confrontation 😭☠️) [phone] / [email protected] Anthony House-father (Chair) [phone] / [email protected] Randall Garrison (VC) [phone] / [email protected] Marty Morantz (VC) [phone] / [email protected] The Honourable Ya’ara Saks (VC) [phone] / [email protected]

Embassy of Israel [phone] / FAX: [phone]

DEMANDS

Summarized from resistance groups such as H/mas, H/zbollah, PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine), DFLP (Marxist Democratic Front got the Liberation of Palestine), CJPME (Canadians for justice and peace in the middle east), and other anti-war, anti-imperialist, IRL Palestinians.

Canada needs to...

Call an immediate PERMANENT ceasefire to end bloodshed

Send humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Institute embargo on all military exports to Israel

Close the embassies, and sanction Israel diplomatically and economically.

SCRIPTS

Use these as scripts for calling, emailing, and mailing. I suggest adding some of your own sentences and changing the subject lines (for email) so they don't end up in spam.

Example from Canada: Stop Arming Israel - World BEYOND War 

As we mourn the thousands of people in Israel and Palestine who have been killed in the past few weeks we refuse to stand by and allow the only true winners in war — the weapons manufacturers — to continue to arm and profit off of it.

Canada exported over $21 million in military goods to Israel in 2022, including over $3 million in bombs, torpedoes, missiles, and other explosives. - 2022 Exports of Military Goods 

Weapons companies across Canada are making a fortune off of the carnage in Gaza and the occupation of Palestine.

This is a call to action. It's time to stop letting these weapons companies profit off of the massacre of thousands of Palestinians. Find a location near you, get friends and allies together, and interrupt their business as usual to demand they stop selling arms and military technology to Israel.

Send an urgent message to demand Canada stop arming Israel and push for an immediate ceasefire to your Member of Parliament, the Prime Minister, and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, and Defense.

Dear [recipient's full name goes here], We are witnessing genocidal violence playing out in Gaza right now. Thousands of Palestinians have been killed, nearly half of them children. With a blockade on water, electricity, fuel and food, a quarter of all buildings razed to the ground, and over a million people displaced, UN experts have denounced Israel's actions as crimes against humanity. Meanwhile, weapons companies across Canada are arming -- and making a fortune off of -- the carnage in Gaza and the massacre of thousands of Palestinians by selling weapons and military technology to Israel. I am calling on you to do two things: to take immediate action to institute an arms embargo on Israel and to ensure Canada pushes for de-escalation and a ceasefire in Gaza. Sincerely,

Script Sample 2 from Palestinian Youth Movement

^This will open up a pre-written email in your chosen email app or site. Fill in the recipient line with the emails of MPs you wish to contact.

Script Sample 3 from CJPME's Email Campaign

^Complete the form to send an email to Prime Minister Trudeau, your local MP, and the leaders of the NDP, Convervatives and Greens. Canada must OPPOSE A SECOND NAKBA and dispossession of the Palestinians in Gaza by pushing for a ceasefire.

Script Sample 3 for mail:

(a mix of mine and a friend's)

I am writing to ask you to take immediate action to stop the genocide Israel is committing against Palestinians in Gaza as well as the onslaught of those in West Bank.

There is blockade on food, water, electricity, fuel, and the use of internationally banned white phosphorus to exterminate Palestinians. Aid is not able to enter Gaza because of this blockade. UN experts have named Israel’s actions as genocide citing numerous war crimes they continually commit.

While over 10k civilians have been martyr’d (4.2k of which are children), Canada has not even been able to NAME such crimes as genocide or call for an official ceasefire. This is not enough.

Canada needs to:

Call an immediate ceasefire to end bloodshed

Send humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Institute embargo on all military exports to Israel

Close the embassies, and sanction Israel diplomatically and economically.

FAX (NEW!)

Using faxzero.com is simple, just follow up the steps on the website. No fax machine required! Tell officials your demands and customize your letter by noting their complicity based on their role as a politician or gov official. Or keep it brief and simple, in large legible letters. 

Demands could include:

That you are a “Canadian” constituent That you are demanding an IMMEDIATE AND PERMANENT CEASEFIRE IN GAZA; That you demand a total withdrawal of financial (taxpayer) and commercial support and arms for continued occupation in Israel’s 70+ year occupation in Palestine; That it is shameful that [X] is choosing not to speak up for the deaths of more than 11,000 Palestinians, half of whom are children and thousands of others displaced; That Palestinians like all people, deserve life, dignity and justice; That Israel is breaking multiple international laws daily and Canada MUST meet its international commitment to promote and defend human rights under the Geneva Convention; That not putting these actions in place will harm constituents and undo acts of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples and other marginalized communities in Canada by not protecting the Indigenous peoples of Palestine; That unless there is concrete and everlasting action taken place, that there will be no peace until Palestine is free, and subsequently that you will not be voting for them (if applicable) in the next election.

Sign off with your name, address and postal code (if applicable, furthering that you are a resident on the stolen Indigenous lands otherwise known as “Canada”) Extended fax list: Scott thomson (president of scotiabank) - 416-866-5929 joe biden / whitehouse - 202-456-2461

(source: @/harlo.gif on IG)

#canadian politics #palestine #canada #canada stop arming israel

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✦ LUMINOUS ZINE PREVIEW : NATALIE ✦

Today's zine preview is a partial cover reveal from @floodkiss! Preorders end at 23:59 PM EST tonight ! *:･ﾟ✧

✦ [ SHOP OPEN !! ] ✦ CARRD

#oh it's meeee

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i have more free time now! so i am opening commissions starting now until the end of the 2023 ♡ if i get 3+ commissions with this round, 50% will be donated to a local (canadian prairies) organization.

you can message me here with an idea or send me an email - nataliemark(@)proton(.)me. check out my "i quit twitter" special <3

🦋 commission info & terms of service & fee examples

#art commisions #commissions open #artists on tumblr #illustration #character art #fantasy #fanart #commissions #in CAD btw #deciding between 1) resource centre focusing on social inclusion and harm reduction 2) a SW action group 3) FN women's shelter/crisis centr

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hi! i update my "bulletin"/pinned! i haven't been posting as much fanart because i've been busy with other work! the project i co-managed with lainey/@endless-swords and our internet friends is now available to read for free (see pinned). we raised 235 USD for diyhrt(.)cafe !! iirc, the site is hosted by folks in "canada" so that's 300+ in CAD.

also, i did the cover for @jjkwlwzine which folks should def check out!! pre-orders end just before my birthday, so be sure to treat yourself on my behalf <3

i hope to open commissions soon since i'll have more free time for the rest of 2023!! i hope everyone has had a good summer, i went to cowboy country, went to a community run chinese canadian history museum, and i got a new tattoo and a stuffed cow 🐄✨

#update #i started self teaching html and css coding and i'm obsessed w people who update their personal sites so i'm doing it here as well lol

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scene from Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black, adapted and illustrated by me ! i love these 2 to death !!!

#holly black #modern faerie tales #the modern faerie tales #kaye fierch #rath roiben rye #artists on tumblr #comics #roiben #fairies #my art

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hi ! i noticed that your comms are closed and i was wondering if you happen to have some sort of price sheet anywhere? thank you!

sure! i have details listed on my carrd page, but here are the basic fees:

full body $90 / half body $70 / portraits $30-$40 + $30 for detailed props **additional figure discount dependent on concept (usually reduced by $20)

i'm only accepting commercial work atm, but you are welcome to send an email with your prospective timeline! thanks for the interest 🤠🫶🏼

#ask

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To be in service of House Jupiter…

Josephine and Seren for @pysics

#artfight #artfight 2023 #artists on tumblr #oc art #digital art #illustration #character art #team vampire #ocs #other people's ocs #dnd character

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the raffle portion for this ends tonight @ 10 PM CDT. The fundraiser is continuing until the end of august!

co-live, co-laugh, co-love 4 diyhrt.cafe aka clx3 4 diyhrtcafe is live!!

clx3 4 diyhrtcafe a collectively published comic zine produced by a group of queer and trans artists across North America for digital distribution, with proceeds going to diyhrt(.)cafe.

Available for digital download on my itch.io page!

Artists: Lainey Williams // Em // Michi // Celeste // Han Olliver Book Design & Co-Organizer: Natalie (me!!)

Additionally we are over the halfway point for our raffle✨, which ends August 10th, and I am delighted to announce that in addition to an original ink drawing from Jade (@yellghoul), I am adding some of my own risograph prints for a second winner! Michi (one of the comic contributors) has also added some work for a third winner! (Read the dev log on the itch page for more details!)

Thank you for all of the support so far, diyhrt(.)cafe ensures that people who cannot access prescription are still are able to safely obtain HRT. Seeing harm reduction in action fills me with so much joy and love 🤠

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✧ CONTRIBUTOR — NATALIE✧

Please give a warm welcome to Page Artist Natalie! We're so excited to have you on this project! *:･ﾟ✧

・✦ @floodkiss on TWT and Tumblr

#it's meeeeeeeeee #hiiiiii #fanzines #fanthologies #luminous fanzine

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Is it okay if I share your art of Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan on discord?

links that go back to my work is okay by me 🫡

#ask #posting this public incase others want to do the same since i know a lot of fandoms have discords now