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Peace and solidarity.

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He’s Italian.

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I’ve put on my bravery hat and posted my first YouTube video with voiceover commentary! I’d be pleased if you might give it a click. The video features a timelapse drawing video of the image on the left.

In this video, I talk about…things I’m hoping to talk about in this new story time series! One of those is my upcoming Filipino fantasy webcomic, Vestigial Tail. Take a peak at the parts of me I’m willing to turn into media:

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Happy Halloween!

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Introducing a new webcomic!

Vestigial Tail is a sci-fi and fantasy webcomic about Nastursa, an ex-soldier who endeavors to protect Noli, an ailing runaway. The two flee the clutches of an invading empire and discover the truth behind the missing land god—a gigantic being that once maintained the ecological balance of Lappukaliy.

Vestigial Tail explores indigeneity, eco-fascism, and agency of the oppressed through a lens of queerness, disability, and hope. Its aesthetic and imperial-fighting themes draw from my Filipino heritage.

Aiming for a spring 2025 periodical release. In the meantime, enjoy my concept art 💚

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8 Days Left: $3230 of $4000 Raised!

Hello, readers! We’re so close to funding Solarpunk Magazine’s 2025 run of issues. Another big push could get us there; please reblog and share our Kickstarter!

We publish positive futuristic cli-fi. We also feature art and nonfiction. We are a paying market: check out our submissions guidelines if you’re considering sending something our way in 2025.

Thank you! 💚🌞

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Last week on Runaway to the Stars: Talita drives the RC cars, the temp crew stumbles in, workplace harassment ensues. Catch up with pages on runawaytothestars.com! Read ahead on Patreon!

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They have gotten so far and are nearing their goal. Please help them to reach the finish line!!! Remember that these funds are necessary for daily living as the family awaits evacuation.

🕊 Currently at €64,657 / €75,000 - a donation can also get you entered into a raffle for a free commission from me! More info here !

🎨 Art NOT by me - all art credit goes to an artist (who wanted to remain anonymous for now) who gave Ahmed permission to post, and then Ahmed gave me permission to post on his behalf.

🌟 This campaign has been vetted by @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi - #264 on the vetted Gaza fundraiser list. Also verified by @/butterflyeffect.project (line 741)

tags - please share if you can!

@heritageposts @90-ghost @pcktknife @ot3 @riding-with-the-wild-hunt @sabertoothwalrus @effen-draws @aria-ashryver @paper-mario-wiki @valtsv @ankle-beez @jezior0 @schoolhater @komsomolka @appsa

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While most of the arguments attacking the legitimacy of palestinian gfms and the people who verify them seem to boil down to the plain racism and the discomfort with having to think of palestinians as anything other than faceless statistics on your phone or tv screens instead of real living people who want to talk to us, there is a strain of of it that i find more aggravating than anything else.

[image i.d.: senatortedcruz, 6d ago: Friends I will be honest I don't think real life Gazans are taking time out of their day to make brand new tumblr blogs then send asks to big bloggers asking for money.]

This makes my blood boil for a couple of reasons:

FIRSTLY, there is the assumption that palestinians were somehow never on the internet before. The smear campaign against shahed began literally after some users found it impossible to believe that she was a real person who loves photography and to talk to me about her art and how important it was to her. This was IN SPITE of me linking her Instagram that has existed long before October 7th 2023 and has over 6k followers specifically there for her art, which they would have found easily if they had cared to actually read my posts about her.

This is nothing new, because it has always been the general assumption from users in the imperial core that you don't think we from the global south can exist on the internet and see all the shit you say and have opinions about it– but it never stops being shocking to me how thoroughly you are ready to pretend we aren't real people every time. We are directly seeing the results of that wilful ignorance manifest itself cruelly against palestinians in their time of need today.

And then SECONDLY comes the fact that they aren't entirely wrong– reaching out to us on the internet in the middle of a genocide IS insanely hard. There are constant network outages due to the incessant bombing, people have lost their homes and livelihoods, they have lost so much of their friends and families, they are sick and injured, they are struggling just to find any food or any clean water. A lot of people either lost their cellphones while fleeing violence or probably had to sell them and pick cutting themselves off from the world and each other over starving. They are experiencing atrocities beyond our comprehension. A lot of people have given up, especially in the face of the apathy they see from the rest of the world to what they are going through. But that doesn't mean everyone has and that they aren't reaching out to us anyway, often at great cost to themselves, because it is a matter of survival.

Shahed has told me that she has had to struggle a lot to reach out to us. Finding places where there is internet connection is very hard, and she often has to risk going by active combat zones to get a good enough reception to talk to me and others here she has befriended. The danger is even more so at night, and she has told me about how afraid she is at those times because of the presence of iof quadcopters in the area. Sometimes she is able to come by internet connection at night from someone with some solar cells nearby her tent now that running electricity has become so hard to come by in gaza, but she has to pay a high fee to get it from them, dipping into the meagre funds her family has saved for food and water instead.

Every single message that reaches us from gaza comes with a sacrifice we can't even begin to understand.

The cost she has to pay both literally and in terms of the dangers to her life to reach out to us are extremely high, but she still does it all because she is the sole provider for her family of seventeen right now– especially her little siblings Rafif and Masa, who are suffering from severe hepatitis right now and urgently need to get out of gaza so that they can seek treatment in egypt; and her months old nephew who was born just weeks before the genocide began and has no access to baby food or diapers right now.

It GALLS me to see people try to call her a liar for being able to have an internet connection at ALL when i know just how hard she had to fight to get it.

Just because YOU are unable to imagine yourself in that situation when you are in your comfortable homes with an easily available connection, DOESN'T mean there aren't people who are willing to fight to be heard and get the help they deserve. And of course, this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the struggle that comes with crowdfunding when you are in gaza.

Your “cynicism” comes from a place of privilege and doesn't help anyone. You are only insulting all the palestinians who work so hard every day to reach out to us, all so some truly heartless people can call them bots or scams for being able to reach out to anyone at all.

WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. SHAHED HAS TO REACH 80K WITHIN THIS WEEK TO EVACUATE HER WHOLE FAMILY.

WE HAVE ONLY JUST CRACKED 68K/80K, AND THERE IS STILL A LONG WAY TO GO.

Please donate to and share Shahed's fundraiser as widely as possible. Take it to your whatsapp groups, to your discord servers, your instagram stories. Repost her story and her photography, repost the link to the raffle at @journalsforpalestine wherever you have reach because there is only so much i can do with the deadline looming so close to us.

This CANNOT wait. You've gotten her this far, let's get her through this last stretch too.

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13 Days Left to Fund City of Hope, Solarpunk TRPG!

Just 13 days left to fund City of Hope, a solarpunk TRPG written and illustrated by the Solarpunk Magazine co-editors-in-chief! Please share or donate; we’re so close to our goal! See our campaign here.

City of Hope is a tabletop role play game set in the 2050’s. You and your team must navigate the city and discover what it truly means to achieve utopia: is it an end state? A system of maintenance? How can you ensure that all aspects of living are equitable? How can you ensure not a single demographic is left out of the process?

Introducing the latest character type: the Falconer! The Falconer holds no direct command over nature; instead, this character works with a team of trained birds of prey to help maintain the City of Hope.

Embody a mystical connection with raptors as humans have done so for thousands of years! Draw from a variety of falconry cultures when crafting your narrative. Scout the urban skyline with a peregrine falcon, or perform abatement duties with a team of Harris’s hawks. Partner with a red-tailed hawk and hunt small animals to nourish your team. If you choose Falconer, what will your story say?

All proceeds from City of Hope’s crowdfunding will go directly to maintaining Solarpunk Magazine for 2025. Pledge $20 for a pdf copy and $50 for a physical copy knowing your money will land in the pockets of a Solarpunk Magazine author or artist!

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Ghost Pokemon - Halloween 2023

Thank you for the support on this project! Now to the next one!

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there's something very scary about the way we argue and entertain discourse on israel or on settler colonialism when, on the ground, israel has totally isolated northern gaza and is currently systemically liquidating jabalia (a refugee camp in northern gaza) just as they have, from the very beginning, said they would do. just as large swathes of israel came to be in 1948, to 1967, to the west bank today. there's something scary about watching indigenous people undergo a genocide in real-time in 2024 like they're squatters on some prime property while nobody moves except to argue about semantics. there's something scary about people being trapped and killed like fish in a barrel while you can text them and follow them on social media and watch their pleas in video as soldiers and tanks come closer. what the hell is this

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Last week on Runaway to the Stars: Talita loses sleep and gains little, Mel is up to something, coworkers of various sizes discuss their temps. Catch up with pages on runawaytothestars.com! Read ahead on Patreon!

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20 Days Left to Fund Solarpunk Magazine for 2025!

Hi, everyone! We’d like to share our appreciation for those who have supported Solarpunk Magazine recently and in the past. We’d also love to focus on our current funding campaign, which will provide us with the revenue needed to keep our magazine running through 2025: here is the link to our campaign.

By the end of 2024, we will have published 18 entire issues full of positive futurism. Many of our writers are first-time published authors, live in the Global South, or are otherwise disadvantaged within the mainstream publishing industry.

Our editors of color have created “Colorful Roots,” a yearly issue that features authors and artists of color exclusively. Our humble team of 5 is deeply moved by our readership and supporters.

Donating to or sharing word of our Kickstarter campaign ensures that we can keep publishing uplifting, solutions-focused climate fiction. A few dollars shared with our campaign is a few more dollars in the pockets of our 2025 cast of authors and artists!

This year, we’re also tacking on a little something extra—City of Hope, a solarpunk TRPG written and illustrated by our EICs, will serve as a purchasable tier! A $20 pledge will earn a printable PDF of the game. $50 will nab you the hardcover edition.

Thank you for your support! 🌞💚

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a sluge 😔

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It is my pleasure to finally be able to share with you the project that I've been working on for the past 2 years!

For my final project for my masters degree, I decided to create a visual development artbook for an animated movie adaptation of the Leviathan trilogy by Scott Westerfeld. This 100+ page long book contains all the research that I put into this project, from sketches and concept art to final designs and illustrations, as well as explanations of my creative process.

I am aware that the timing is not ideal, but I promise that this has absolutely nothing to do with the upcoming Netflix adaptation! That adaptation wasn't announced until after I'd completed my project, and I had absolutely no idea that it was happening. This is a fully fan-made project, and has no affiliation with Scott Westerfeld whatsoever.

All that being said: I hope you enjoy! This was a very long labour of love, and I am so so happy to finally share it with you all. These books hold a very special place in my heart, and it is my sincerest hope that my work manages to do them justice.

LINK TO THE COMPLETE PDF

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Introducing City of Hope, a Utopian Worldbuilding RPG

Our editors-in-chief are working on a new role-playing game currently titled City of Hope! Here is a link to the prelaunch page on KS. More info to come!