Dropping the link to my Ko-Fi here in a slightly desperate attempt… because the dentist bill found me…
It would mean the world to me if you could share it around for people who might be interested in cheap commissions that can help me not die before my next paycheck 🥲✌🏻
I will draw anything, but please contact me if you’re unsure about your idea. I don’t do backgrounds, but I can play around and make something anyway! Otherwise, I’m able to do almost anything.
Love y’all <3
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this is going to have me on my hands and knees dry heaving
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"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived.
My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed.
I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.
There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'.
There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.
I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then. It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century.
I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit! So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity.
You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.
And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."
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the other thing about being disabled in academia is everyone is like "yeah we can't do much about the buildings they're old :/" as if "old" being a synonym for "inaccessible" isn't just a constant reminder that the people who built the school did not imagine that someday someone like me might study there
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Minor woodland deity 🌳
I don’t talk enough about Celtic paganism so have a random fact: in Celtic imagery, characters represented sitting with legs crossed are important people such as kings, heroes or deities (particularly Cernunnos who is always shown as such). However, this position is speculated to be a sacrificial way of burying the dead, like with the sitting Gaulish found on the archeological site of Acy-Romance in France. In any case, the cross legged position has to do with the divine.
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If you find any interest in French I’m streaming ACII on twitch (and furthermore playing every AC in order), thought that maybe it would be relevant somehow :]
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I have been facing my blank canvas for three hours now. It’s 8am, I could have been sleeping, and instead my brain forced me to look intensely at a screen until my eyes burn and not even making me draw anything.
The Gods keep giving me stupid ass battles, and I’m not their weakest soldier, I’m just not paid enough to loose my time like this.
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