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🥃BONUS STRETCH GOAL REVEAL: COVER PRINT🍷

Two weeks still remain in our pre-orders period, and all of our stretch goals have been unlocked! To celebrate, we're adding one more item to the line up:

🔒150 ORDERS: all physical bundles receive a print copy of the main zine's cover!

🛒ORDER HERE: https://skkangstzine.bigcartel.com

@bsdfanhub shares appreciated! 🥃🍷

#one week left! #zines

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Do you plan on selling prints again any time soon? I would love a copy of your Utena "Orpheus Looked Back" piece

hello! i very much want to but keep finding new and exciting ways to be busy 🥲 for now i'm just sell in person at cons BUT that particular print is on redbubble bc i was once asked about shirts of it! you can find it here in two sizes as both prints and a variety of other items 🙏 sorry for the inconvenience!!

#ask #anon #prints

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from hark a vagrant

#ensemble stars #enstars #rinne amagi #eichi tenshouin #offscreen niki also. i guess #wataru if we want to get a little crazy with it

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Remember the first Flour Massacre? Well, CNN has finally dropped the official Israeli story to give you an investigation that basically repeats what Palestinians have been saying all along

#palestine

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my piece for the ikesoren zine! leftover sales are on now @ikesorenzine ❤️

#ikesoren #fire emblem path of radiance #fire emblem radiant dawn #tellius #ike #soren #fe9/10 #fe9 #art

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ultimate

#tokyo color sonic #tokyo colour sonic #takatsuki kagura #kagura takatsuki #kurahashi kairi #kairi kurahashi #kagura x kairi #art #HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERI 🎉

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🥃COVER REVEAL🍷

The date draws near: two weeks remain until preorders open for Kogarashi: a Soukoku zine!

Today we reveal @velaversal's stunning cover for the zine, an intimately tender piece capturing twin flames that burn bright in the dark, and only brighter when together.

More reveals will follow in the upcoming two weeks before pre-orders open, including the merch items and the cover for the zine's NSFW add-on! 👀 Be sure to keep an eye on our socials to stay up-to-date with the fruit of our contributors' labours!

#❤️❤️❤️ #zines

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we never dance, do we

#transversal #tvsl #laur aios #arc yu #laurarc #ocs #oc #original characters #art #is there anything on earth i love more than ocs...........

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BuddyBuddy

stream hero

#tokyo color sonic #tokyo colour sonic #tcs #mirai zaizen #towa sebumi #zaizen mirai #sebumi towa #bumpeace #i think tcs has like 3 fans on tumblr so probably no ship hashtags. still we ball #mirai x towa #towa x mirai #art #for my dear friend eri who torments me with info about this series #probably in retribution for all of my own torment for the past several years #anyways sorry i've been gone i collect health issues #eri

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Your art is absolutely stunning!! Do you have any tips on how to achieve the watercolor/paint effect (i hope this makes sense) you have in pieces?

hello! for the water marbling effect i do i answered an ask about it here, but additionally i like to use a lot of textured brushes and use coloured lineart to preserve luminosity (i usually do all my lines in red set to linear burn and then colour over them later if i need to). i guess additional stuff i might do is flatten the work to a new layer, duplicate it, and then set it to something like exclusion or pin light and liquify that as well. here's an example! the first is basically a completed piece and then the second i've duplicated a flattened version, created some blurring and liquified some areas, and then set it to pin light at 50% opacity. you can do subtle stuff with it or make it more experimental!

#ask #anon #art help #i think was my tag?? #the first ask is probably more what you're looking for i just like doing this technique :''D #wait let me put this in my oc tags i haven't drawn her in so long #paraverse #mab

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happy new year 🎉

#x/1999 #x1999 #kamui shirou #fuuma monou #clamp #clamplove #fuukam #art #i think this is it guys i think this is our year <- delusional

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definitely a year 🫡

#art summary #art summary 2023 #art #was sick in march 🥲 and february. and april. and may #fuck it we ball tho

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orpheus looked back

#described #thank you! 💗

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commission of lucien/xu mo from mlqc for @seiyakoufighter!! 🫶💜🦋 thank you vampy!!

#mr love queen's choice #mr love lucien #mr love mobile #mlqc lucien #mlqc xu mo #mlqc #commission #art #so many fun details..........

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Just heard an interview with the director-general of Gaza's Health Ministry Dr. Munir al-Bursh in which the interviewer asked: what remains available in northern Gaza as viable options for medical centers and relief teams to intervene following Israeli strikes?

To which Dr. al-Bursh replied:

The only thing available is death. People are bleeding and dying on the streets, as is happening right now after the Indonesian hospital and Kamal Adwan hospital were both destroyed.  This morning, a woman came carrying her fetus’ head, she could not find anyone to deliver her baby. We assisted her at the entryway of the medical center. The truth is, there is nothing but death now on every street, on every corner, and in every alley. Death is the master of the situation. This is genocide. This violent bombing is intended to annihilate the Palestinian people, it is intended to annihilate the health system, it is intended to kill children. Since this morning, we have been receiving children in our arms. Our hearts are frozen, our minds are frozen as we hold these innocent children. These are executions, this is genocide. People in Gaza City have been crying out for help since last night because of a fire that has been burning their area and their children. They have been burnt to death. Last night ten of the Najjar family came to us with severe burns that exceed 60% or 70%, so death is their solution. Death is easier for them. Many wounded people are arriving to us now, and this small hall in the Jabalia Medical Center is filled with wounded people who prefer to die because there is no treatment, no medicine, no painkillers. We had four surgeries tonight, and by God, by God, there is no anesthetic medicine for them. The doctor told me either they die or I try. I told him to try without any drugs. This procedure was filmed, and the patient was screaming in agony, but what do we do? We have a choice: whether to let him die or try. What can I say? God, these scenes no one can even imagine.

#palestine

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"We mistakenly believed we were executing unarmed Palestinians instead of real people"

#palestine

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tuned into Plestia's live with Rahma Zein's second account (she got shadowbanned). key moments:

plestia talked about her adjustment to living in australia. "it's 1:30am now and it's normal for me and many palestinians who live abroad to be awake hours into the morning. i am scared of sleeping. because of the time difference, i'm scared if i sleep i will wake up to bad news. in gaza i was scared of the sound of the bombs, here i am scared of the quiet."

contacting family and friends in gaza is near impossible. "sometimes i feel like a crazy person, calling 20 times in a row hoping that on the 21st time the call might go through."

on the destruction of entire communities and neighbourhoods: "i'm scared when i go back to gaza i won't recognise it anymore. someone sent me a picture of my neighbourhood, and i couldn't tell it was mine at first. all my favourite places, cafes where the aunties used to give me extra food and ask about my day, have been destroyed. i dread looking at my gallery or seeing snapchat memories because most of these people in the pictures are no longer alive."

rahma asked plestia to talk about one story that stuck with her. plestia said "i remember walking one time on the 'safe corridor', that's what they called it anyway, and i saw an older woman clutching onto a donkey cart where her son's body was, refusing to let go of it. i asked my colleague what the smell was, he said it's dead bodies under the rubble. it was the first time i familiarised myself with the smell. the son's body was decaying and the woman told me about cats and animals eating away at it. i've had children talk to me about birds eating away at their parents' decomposing bodies and not being able to chase them away."

"it seems so silly to go to hospitals for minor sicknesses now. i can't even think about how many palestinian children are going to be terrified of hospitals now. there was a girl who was taken to the hospital to get treatment for injuries by one of the bombs, and while she was in the bathroom another bomb landed nearby. the impact from that sent the ceiling crashing down on her.. she got another injury while getting treated for her first one."

"i hate how people talk about our resilience - as if it's okay that this is happening to us. we are only surviving because we have to, because we have no other choice."

rahma brought up the way family homes are set up in palestine and asked plestia to elaborate. "basically, there are floors. someone will live on the ground floor, and then their married son lives with his children on the floor above them, and then their successors above them and so on. so when family homes are targeted, they wipe out entire families. many families officially no longer exist."

"i used to wear my journalist helmet and vest all the time, felt naked without it, even slept with the vest on sometimes until i realised it only made me more of a target. they didn't give me any protection, only headaches and back pain."

"i am an optimistic person, i loved covering sweet sentimental things, like at my graduation asking parents of top graduates how they feel about their children graduating. that's what i love reporting on. i wanted to cover things like that when i came back to gaza, show the beautiful side of gaza that the media didn't really show, but i didn't have the chance." "do you think they'll give you right of return?" "i can only hope."

plestia mentioned how hard it was being a journalist with limited access to the internet, charging facilities, no mics, lack of equipment and how difficult it was uploading things. rahma asked her what's one story that wasn't really recorded or posted due to these constraints; plestia said "the evacuations. sometimes they informed us about them, sometimes they didn't. you have no idea how hard it was, everyone looking for their family members, making sure every one was there, taking to the streets in 5 minutes and not knowing which way to go. i remember i went to my friend's house for shelter for 30 minutes before the first evacuation was announced and we ran to another family's house, stayed there for 2 days before another evacuation was announced. me, my friend, and that family all evacuated together to another family's house. there were already so many people there seeking shelter, it wasn't just one family staying there. none of us knew how long we had in any place."

before october 7th, palestinians were used to limitations on electricity. plestia used to plan her day's tasks around when the electricity was working. "for example when the electricity was on from 12 to 4, i would say i will do my laundry and charge the phones during this time. life wasn't exactly 'normal', but all of us pray to have those days back in comparison to what we are experiencing now." plestia also said that cars are running on cooking oil now because there is no fuel.

on hygiene: "many pregnant women have to give birth without any pain medication or medical attention. once we ran out of medicine, that was it. women who had to get C-sections couldn't stay to recover or get followup treatments because someone else needed the bed. we have no water, no tissues, no pads, barely any bathrooms. in the shelter schools you have to wait an hour before even getting to use the bathroom because of how many people are there."

"something you don't hear about is how many people die because of sadness. there's so many ways to die in gaza, because of the bombardment, because of starvation, the lack of resources, but i also know many elderly people who died because their hearts couldn't take it anymore. i have been in gaza before and lived through 4 aggressions, but nothing compared to this one."

a recurring sentiment that was echoed in the video: "sometimes i thought to myself: who am i recording this for? because we've already shown everything, we've already talked about everything. everything has already been said, the proof is everywhere, nothing i talked about today is new." rahma said the first video posted about what's happening in palestine should've been enough.

she is 22 today. plestia's closing words: don't stop talking about us, don't stop boycotting, don't stop protesting, please don't get bored of fighting for palestine.

#palestine