edit - thank you for those who shared & msgd me for commission. especially to those who donated to my kofi i appreciate the kindness so much. i hav enough now for rent this month & other expenses 🥹
i really hate to beg so often, but rent is due in 3 days and im 180$ short. i'v been working on comms nonstop to try and open more slots before the month ends but stress and overuse is starting to make my hand shake and its impeding my ability to draw quickly
im expanding my slots from 10 to 15 bc of urgency. if you could so kindly share this or my commission post itd be greatly appreciated. i do character portraits where you get 3 separate arts for 50 USD, like these
otherwise if you like my art and like to support me some other way i hav a ko-fi. thanks for rreading & if u share, itd help out a lot
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reposting my friend's gfm here ! copy pasting from the link:
Hi, my name is xtine and I'm helping my friend C raise funds to escape their abusive household. C will be traveling from the midwest to the west coast. The trip will take 28 hours by car and span 2,000 miles.
C initially had some money set aside, but due to unforeseen circumstances with the rental car company, their escape was set back, and the delays have extra costs. Since they quit their job in anticipation of this trip, they no longer have a steady stream of income to cover these surprise costs. C is applying for jobs and doing gig jobs, but the interview process is slow and gigs don't pay steady.
C is currently shipping their items across the country first, and using a rental car to travel with their large dog to their destination.
Here's the breakdown of how the money from this GoFundMe will be spent:
shipping packages cross country ahead of the trip (~$200 per package for 2 packages = $400)
will go towards the gas money from traveling (~$350)
the hotels + meals for human and doggy along the way (~$250)
any amount past the travel costs will be used as wiggle room for the first month of rent as C gets on their feet at their destination ($500 + $500)
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this far!! We appreciate anything you can contribute!!
reblogs are appreciated!
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hey. as an viet american i dont think ppl should hav to apologize for putting “free palestine” posts in the “stop asian hate” tag. especially palestinians
ik they dont want backlash from americans and for others to resent their cause if they feel palestinians are “appropriating” “stop asian hate” so im talking to americans here, theyr being forcibly evicted, bombed, killed en masse, ethnically cleansed, and just casually being war crimed
im not making this “oppression olympics” i just want others to understand theyr extremely desperate. and social media is their ONLY recourse since the news outlets wouldnt cover them and even now that they are (and only bc it was trending on sns) its filled with pro israel propaganda and their own hashtags r being suppressed, so they hav to get their cause trending somehow
the way i see it when they make parallels to “stop asian hate” theyr trying to appeal to us and asking for solidarity not “undermining” or “appropriating” it. from what iv seen palestinians hav always stood with others across borders and overseas even when they r one of the ones who hav suffered the most
and i think everyone who supports “stop asian hate” should unquestionably support “free palestine” especially asians since palestinians are west asian and especially americans considering the us gives $3.8 billion yearly to israel and funds 20% of israels overall military budget that they use to brutalize and bomb palestinian civilians
so to the asam, as one asam to another, if you are squabbling with pro-palestinians over “this hashtag is mine!!” when their own hashtags are being censored, instead of sympathizing with the palestinians, our west asian siblings overseas who are going thru what could arguably be called genocide ............ please get your head out of your ass
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supporting palestine: u.s. citizen’s beginner’s guide to calling congress
5/22/2021: i’m making this for anyone who is a u.s. voter intimidated to call congress, as a person who has trouble speaking on the phone and didn’t know how to call congress 5 days ago
5/28/2021: edits made to the script & description of HR2590 since i paraphrased the bill incorrectly. apologies!
i had a lot of questions but i asked myself “if i could only make 1 phone call to each of my officials, which way would be the most effective?” so i’m going to try to be as thorough as possible
this guide will be specifically about calling your elected officials to support HR2590: a bill to protect the human rights of palestinians and ensure u.s. taxpayer money isn’t used to fund israel’s further annexation of palestinian land in violation of international law
the united states provides $3.8 billion to israel annually and is responsible for making up 20% of israel’s overall defense budget
i encourage us citizens to call congress in addition to emailing & signing petitions because calling is the most effective way to get your voice heard and disrupt congress from home. emails and petitions these days are mostly read by algorithms and responded back with auto replies, and while the issues are counted, there’s no guarantee an actual person will see it
finding & calling your officials
find your city’s district representative here and click on their name to be redirected to their individual site. (or if you don’t know who that is you could just google “your city, state district representative”) find their office locations and call their LOCAL DISTRICT office. local offices are less busy and calls are more likely to go through
here is a script to base your representative call on:
“may i speak to the staffer assigned to foreign policy” ¹
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“hello my name is [NAME] a constituent ² from [CITY] and i am calling about palestine to request [REPRESENTATIVE] cosponsor HR2590 to protect the human rights of palestinians and ensure u.s. taxpayer money is not used to fund israel’s further annexation of palestinian land in violation of international law. i am opposed to the use of my taxpayer's dollars to fund israel's apartheid and brutalization of civilians in palestine”
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“thank you for your time, goodbye” ³
¹ talking to the correct staffer will get your message where it needs to go faster. but if they are unavailable skip this completely and give your message to the person currently on the phone
² its important to mention that you’re a constituent because officials care more about the voters in their district than others outside of it
³ they may ask for your number and/or street address before this so be prepared to give that information. if this is a voicemail say instead: “my callback number is [#] thank you for your time, goodbye”
find your senators here and click on their names to be redirected to their individual sites. find their office locations and call their LOCAL DISTRICT office first
here is a similar script to base your senator calls on:
“may i speak to the staffer assigned to foreign policy”
“hello my name is [NAME] a [STATE] constituent from [DISTRICT #] and i am calling about palestine to request [SENATOR] cosponsor HR2590 to protect the human rights of palestinians and ensure u.s. taxpayer money is not used to fund israel’s further annexation of palestinian land in violation of international law. i am opposed to the use of my taxpayer's dollars to fund israel's apartheid and bombing of civilians in palestine”
“thank you for your time, goodbye”
done! if your call seems too short, that’s fine! what matters is the substance of your call not the length. if you feel like leaving a voicemail is useless and calling is a waste of time unless you talk to a real person, it’s not! your voicemail will be counted and sorted under the issue you stated, so as long as you made your request clear you’re good. it’ll just get logged faster if you talk to an actual person.
also if you can i recommend calling everyday until your representative cosponsors it :) on average it doesn’t take more than 5-10 minutes to make 3 calls in my experience (because i run into voicemails most of the time)
tips
1. say at least one sentence about how this personally affects you to make your message stand out and show the staffer you care. example: “as a taxpayer ...” “as an asian american...” “as the child of a veteran...” etc
2. research them and appeal to their concerns. this can be as easy as looking up their twitter. for example my representative recently made a statement supporting the aapi community so i chose to appeal to them like so:
“as an asian american myself i thank [REPRESENTATIVE] for their support of the aapi community, but i ask of them to extend the same sympathy to the asians overseas who are being brutalized by israeli forces funded by us taxpayer dollars like mine”
3. if your representative supports israel say that you will donate to their opponent, support campaigns against them, or not vote for them in the future to get them to care
4. if you’re going to do any or all of the above it would be helpful to write it out beforehand if you’re nervous you’ll forget or fumble during your call ... like i did ......
5. but it’s also okay if you fumble because it’ll show them that you’re human and you care! as long as your request is clear and they know that this is important to you as a constituent, you’re good. remember to be kind to the staffer as well, they’re human too, and you want them to side with you!
you can do it !!!
all this comes from my own experience talking to legislative aides on the phone for the past few days. but again, i didn’t know how to do this a week ago, so if there’s anything i’m missing please let me know! i will also update this post if any of the information i presented here is wrong
if you can’t call
you can also text your elected officials to email them by sending “RESIST” to 50409 and “PTFDZN” to 50409 to sign a petition in support of HR2590.
it’s really easy to use, i tried it out myself and got emails back from my officials so it works!
(you can also use it to identify your representatives and get their numbers which saves you the time of going through those links i provided, BUT it will only provide their dc office lines, which have less impact than calling their district lines)
i hope this helps !
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my 2020 tumblr top 9 💃🏻🎶
wow ... there sure is ......... wei wuxian !
ofc the shitpost art takes the first spot
white backgrounds . ground breaking
the way 5 of these r commissions [+1 a commission sample] lmao
did not get to draw as much as i wanted this yr. most of the stuff i drew were commissions ... as evidenced here
interesting to look at i guess. i made this with jetblackcode’s tumblr top 10 except i formatted the 9 on my phone w insta layout app since im not rly into that long scrolling format. hopefully next yr i will make more interesting art ! perhaps even a background if im lucky
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as of july 4th 2020 nearly one year after elijah’s death in august 2019 the officers who killed him have not yet been arrested or tried for his murder
justice for elijah mcclain petition
support black lives matter
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