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Hi everyone, hope you are doing well! Because of the circumstances (that goddamn bitch trump winning), I probably won't be posting anything like art for a while. Remember, don't let hope die. If we unite, fight against it, then eventually, we will win. Be careful and be safe!! Best wishes, Rose🖤

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pomni!!!!!

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Ummm…. Dumb little animation I made. (no audio)

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I cosplayed Mabel and to my astonishment, only one person guessed that I was Mabel. Where did all the tbobs go then, huh?

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Also here’s a spooky story……. (trigger warning: blood and self harm topics)

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The buzzing light faded into darkness, like freshly spilled blood on a truce flag. It dissolved on my tongue, the sickly-sweet taste settled in my throat, so artificial it burned. But it was my reality, my life, my world. This is my truth, and I won't ever escape it. I was on the ground as the blinding white cushioned walls changed into a wooden mess, with more cobwebs than wallpaper on the wooden walls. I closed my eyes, waiting patiently—no, in reluctance—for the rest of my world to transform. It was comforting, really, a change in scene, another fear waiting to haunt me. It was new, and that was the only thing that mattered.

This was the only reason I am and am not insane.

I finally opened my eyes, taking in my surroundings with an imaginary dose of numbing medication. I shoved myself up onto my feet. I was in a bedroom. It may have once been beautiful in the past, but it was all tattered carpets and rotting wood now. A big window was in every corner of the room, making the room feel the tiniest bit less claustrophobic. A bed that practically had rags for sheets stood in the middle of it. On the left side of the room, a long desk was pushed against a wall with a chair in front of it. The desk had papers littered all over it, and a globe, a part of it looked broken off. A long time ago, it might've been a study.

I realized that I probably shouldn't have been able to see any of this because of the almost ultimate darkness. There was a sort of vignette filter over my field of view of the manor, so I was seeing it like there was a dim lantern illuminating it. It was a part of the illusion. I stared down at myself, my bleak gray gown flowing below my knees. The atmosphere had the characteristics of a corpse. The air was stale and cold. Dead.

I exhaled and turned around to see a big oak door, double the height of myself. My brain, eternally foggy, drearily told me to open the doors and get over it. The sooner I got attacked and scarred the sooner this would end. I pushed open the door and saw myself looking into an almost infinite hallway, shaded just enough for my mind to think that the darkness moved. I took a few ginger steps forward, making sure to be light on my feet. I knew that I would get jumped at and scared out of my mind, I knew, but it was as if my brain didn’t acknowledge the fact.

I finally made it to the end of the hallway, only to find another doorway. The door wasn’t fully closed, so I peeked through the crack and saw it. Stringy black hair like dusty cobwebs, and a thin bony figure, its limbs disfigured. There was the sound of raspy breathing that I could’ve sworn whispered: “Hungry”. It was leaning over something. Through the crack, I thought I smelled the strong metallic scent of blood. I stumbled backward, my brain yelling and screaming, trying to get through the impenetrable fog and tell me to run.

But the fog was too heavy, wasn’t it?

My feet felt like they were nailed onto the ground, no matter how much my brain tried to order, plead, beg for them to move, they stood like Medusa paralyzed them herself. The world suddenly faded out into a gray landscape then it returned just as quickly. The door was gone. The monster somehow had closed most of the distance between us. With its black holes for eyes, stared straight into me as it slowly sucked my being out through my eyes.

The eyes are a gateway to the soul, they say.

Its rod-like hand shot out towards me and closed around my neck. It lifted me off the ground and I gasped and flailed for air, slapping at its arm weakly as the world slowly faded around me. Just as the last bit of light started to dissipate, a snarl echoed through the hall as I was released and thrown across the hall, and then I crumpled onto the ground like a straw doll.

I laid there, just for a moment, just for a second—just too long. A howling cry, monstrously deep and distorted but shrill and human, and all the same got louder as heavy uneven footsteps pounded down the hallway. Adrenaline almost exploded through my veins and splattered over the clawed-up walls as I scrambled up and frantically tried to find a way to escape. It was against my better judgment, which told me to stay put because this illusion couldn’t hurt me. But my better judgment? It was like it was put on vibrate.

I ran back to the place the door to the room I had started in was. But it wasn’t there. A layer of suffocating sweat covered every inch of my body. I turned my head back, my whole body trembling. The monster’s limbs surrounded me before its mouth opened, revealing rows, upon rows, upon rows of jagged teeth. The darkness, a million times darker than anything else, swallowed me whole. I could almost feel the teeth jut into everywhere on my body, the pain so excruciating that my screams were barely audible over the furious pounding in my ears—the darkness suddenly faded until it wasn’t there anymore. No more pain, but the shrill sound coming out of my mouth never ceased. I collapsed, the floor catching my fall, sobbing until I was gasping for the tiniest breath.

“How was it?” Voice E asked over the mic. The condescending drawl was barely concealed. Whenever I came out of the illusions, screaming and hyperventilating, they all sounded like I put this on myself.

I stared straight at the camera in the upper corner of the room, a blank, empty expression plastered across my face. Then all I could see was red. I rammed into the corner of the room and clawed at the cushioned walls until I was sure my nails were bleeding. “You know that won’t do anything.” They said it with a tsk-tsk tone. I felt so much but felt so numb all at once. I growled like a rabid animal ad bit down on my hand, gnashing my teeth into the flesh until I drew blood. I could hear the snarl on the other end of the speaker and a shuffling of feet as a rod of electric pain singed my nerves. I collapsed with a yelp and gasp of pain onto the ground. Tears slid down my cheeks like hot knives. I sucked a breath and closed my eyes. And I laughed.

And laughed and laughed and laughed.

(if there’s any grammatical errors, just let me know!)

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Happy Halloween, y'all!!!!

Another spooky season comes to an end!!!

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We need to end the violence. And the only way we can do that is together. Go out and vote.

"Kamala Harris has earned an eleventh-hour show of support from Palestinian, Arab and Muslim community leaders."

On October 24th, a collective statement titled "Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Progressive Democrats and Community Leaders Statement on Presidential Election" was published.

The 100+ signees include current or former leaders of Palestinian, Arab and Muslim organisations, the leader of Phoenix, AZ's largest mosque, Jewish activists and other elected officials. All of them have been listed at the bottom of this post.

You can read the whole statement here but I've also copy-pasted it's entire contents below.

Read. The Whole. Thing.

It is concise and will only take you a few minutes. While you read, recognise that these words are not representative of every single person belonging to these demographics. Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims are not a monolith, and have a right to feel any way they do about this election. To those who do not belong to these groups - refrain from adding your personal commentary in the tags, and understand how excruciating of a place this statement must have come from for both the authors, signees and the communities they represent.

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Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Progressive Democrats and Community Leaders Statement on Presidential Election

As Democrats and leaders in the Palestinian, Arab, Muslim and Progressive communities in Arizona, we the undersigned make the following statement, published on 10/24/2024:

This past year has been very difficult for all of us. With over 42,000 Palestinians killed by Israel using American-supplied weapons and no end in sight despite all our struggle for a ceasefire, we approach the presidential election heartbroken and outraged.

We know that many in our communities are resistant to vote for Kamala Harris because of the Biden administration’s complicity in the genocide. We understand this sentiment. Many of us have felt that way ourselves, even until very recently. Some of us have lost many family members in Gaza and Lebanon. We respect those who feel they simply can’t vote for a member of the administration that sent the bombs that may have killed their loved ones.

As we consider the full situation carefully, however, we conclude that voting for Kamala Harris is the best option for the Palestinian cause and all of our communities. We know that some will strongly disagree. We only ask that you consider our case with an open mind and heart, respecting that we are doing what we believe is right in an awful situation where only flawed choices are available.

In our view, it is crystal clear that allowing the fascist Donald Trump to become President again would be the worst possible outcome for the Palestinian people. A Trump win would be an extreme danger to Muslims in our country, all immigrants, and the American pro-Palestine movement. It would be an existential threat to our democracy and our whole planet.

When we think of Trump in power again, we recall that even a genocide can get much worse. Trump just said that Netanhahu must “go further” in Gaza while criticizing Biden for “trying to hold him back.” His biggest donor, Miriam Adelson, who demanded in 2016 that Trump move the US embassy to Jerusalem if elected –– which he then did –– is now telling Trump to allow Israel to annex the entire West Bank. Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, Smotrich, and the entire far right in Israel want Trump to win and grant Israel total free reign. We cannot give them what they want.

Trump must be defeated. The only way to defeat him is to elect Kamala Harris.

Voting for Harris is not a personal endorsement of her or of the policy decisions of the administration in which she served. It’s an assessment of the best possible option to continue fighting for an end to the genocide, a free Palestine, and all else that we hold dear.

We are deeply frustrated that Harris has not yet met our movement’s demand that she break with Biden, defy the powerful extremists enforcing the status quo, stand with the majority of Americans, and pledge to uphold US law and international law and condition aid to Israel. Still we believe there are clear reasons to hope that we can win positive policy change with a Harris administration and a Democratic Congress.

Multiple media reports state that Harris’s national security advisors are open to re-evaluating policy and conditioning aid to Israel. On October 13th, the same day the administration threatened to re-evaluate military support if Israel did not improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza and reduce civilian casualties in the next 30 days, Harris tweeted: “Israel must urgently do more to facilitate the flow of aid to those in need. Civilians must be protected and have access to food, water, and medicine. International humanitarian law must be respected.” In Michigan the other day, Harris expressed clear empathy for the suffering of the people of Palestine and Lebanon and the impact of this devastation on Arab Americans. She pledged to do “everything in her power” as President to end the war in Gaza, end the suffering of Palestinians there, and achieve “a future of security and dignity for all people in the region.”

Beyond Harris’s statements, we know that her decisions as President will be shaped by the larger Democratic Party coalition that includes a growing force pushing for Palestinian human rights. Our Arizona Democratic Party passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in January. Every single member of Congress who has publicly called for a ceasefire in Gaza or for an arms embargo is a Democrat. The major national unions, civil rights groups, and progressive organizations that have called for a halt to military aid to Israel are all working to elect Harris.

On the other hand, the Republican Party coalition offers zero opposition to unconditional support for Israel and zero support for Palestinian human rights. Instead Republicans urge the US to join Israel in bombing Iran, call to “bounce the rubble in Gaza” and “kill ‘em all,” and would likely support the Israeli far right’s drive to annex Gaza and the West Bank.

What about a third party? Many in our communities believe this is our best option. Unfortunately, there is not a single third party member of Congress or even state legislator in America. In our electoral system, no third party candidate can win this election. But voting for them could make Trump president.

The polls show the presidential election is extremely close and that it will be decided by 7 swing states, including Arizona. While voting 3rd party may be strategic in non-swing states as a protest of the current US Israel/Palestine policy or as a step to qualifying the Green Party for public funding in future elections by winning at least 5% of the national vote, doing it in Arizona or other swing states in such a close election could bring disaster.

Some argue that if Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim voters and our allies vote for a 3rd party candidate and intentionally throw the election to Trump, taking credit for defeating Harris, it will prove our power to decide a close election and “punish Democrats” for complicity in genocide. Unfortunately, this is not how power, politics, or change works in our country. When Ralph Nader helped throw the election to Bush in 2000, he was rejected by millions for whom he was once a hero, banished ever since to the political margins. When Jill Stein helped throw the election to Trump in 2016, she remained relegated to the political fringe, becoming less powerful not more. If our communities ally with the Green Party to defeat Harris, we risk marginalizing ourselves as they did by alienating the tens of millions of voters who support the cause of Palestinian freedom and are fighting to defeat Trump by electing her.

Instead, by helping to elect Kamala Harris, we can say, “Despite it all, we gave you another chance and helped put you in office to defend democracy and uphold our highest American values. Now uphold them: end the genocide and secure Palestinian self-determination. We will fight every day to hold you to it.” If Harris and Democrats win, we will wage that fight with more allies among the American people, Congress, and the White House than ever before. If they don’t deliver, we will have a mandate and mass support to hold them accountable through every nonviolent tool of democracy, including protests, resignations, civil disobedience, primary election challenges, and even potential mass noncooperation. It’s a difficult path, but the one that offers the most hope.

The first step –– and our best choice in this horrible situation –– is defeating Trump by electing Harris. We urge you to join us.

Signers (affiliations listed for identification purposes only):

Maher Arekat, Founder, Palestine Community Center of Arizona

Usama Shami, President, Islamic Community Center of Phoenix

Fadi Zanayed, Vice President, American Federation of Ramallah, Palestine - Arizona

Shams AbdusSamad, Secretary, Maricopa County Dem Party; ADP Exec Cmte Mmbr - At Large & SCM

Samir Mufarreh, Palestinian American Christian Community Leader

Jordan Harb, Lebanese American Youth Leader

Stephen Mufarreh, Attorney, Palestinian American Christian Community Leader

Misaal Irfan, Pakistani American Community Leader

Samara Hamideh, Palestinian Youth Organizer

Mohamed El-Sharkawy, Palestinian American and a Muslim leader

Ala Rumah, Syrian American Activist

Dina Hamideh, Coordinator, Arizona Palestine Film Festival

Salauddin Choudhury, Bangladeshi Community Leader; DNC Delegate CD 5; LD 14 SCM

Hani Hani, President, American Federation of Ramallah, Palestine - Arizona

Dr. Navid Khan, Pakistani American Community Leader

Deena Mufarreh, Chair, American Federation of Ramallah, Palestine - Arizona

Syed Nasir Raza, Progressive Pakistani-American Community Leader; AZ Progressives

Ashraf Elgamal, President, Arab American Organization

Salina Imam, Charity Program Leader

Sawsan Tannous, Chair, American Federation of Ramallah, Palestine - Arizona

Saher Afzal, Pakistani American, Arizona Education Association member, and Exec board AEA local

Nathan Mufara, Chair, American Federation of Ramallah, Palestine - Arizona

Dr. Jaffrey Khazi, Community Leader

Hashim Hamid , Palestinian American Community Elder and Retired Businessman

​​Ameena Arekat, Palestinian American Health Care Worker

Mo Al Hwan Bahu, Palestinian American Christian

Deanna Dabbah, Former President, Arab American Anti-Discrimination Cmte, Fountain Hills, AZ

Dr. Hazem Jabr, Palestinian American Dentist

Jack Saba, Syrian American Entertainer & Democratic Voter

Ramzi Arikat, Palestinian American Business Owner in Phoenix

Shaikh F Shams, LD13 PC & State Cmte Member, Bangladeshi American Community Leader

Hussein Jabr, Palestinian American Doctor

Md Ibrahim Faisal, Bangladeshi American Progressive Democrats

Dean Dabbah, Community Activist, Fountain Hills, AZ

Mazen Arekat, Palestinian American Business Owner

Sujat Jamil, Bangladeshi American Progressive Democrats

Rocky Francis, Iraqi American Businessman

Hazem Arekat, Palestinian American Businessman

Arif Mahmud, Volunteer

Qumrul Ahsan, Precinct committee member LD13

Shahriar Anwar, LD13

Menassa Abinader, Lebanese American; Owner, Mejana Restaurant

Charlotte Hosseini, Sedona Resident ; Concerned citizen and voter

Tan Jakwani, Muslim Community Leader

William Havel, Iraqi Refugee

Jennifer Loewenstein, Jewish Voice for Peace - Tucson ; Arizona Palestine Network (AZ PAL)

Jessica Burke, Jewish Community Member & Progressive Activist

Bob Lord, Former Arizona Congressional Candidate, Jewish Community Member

Rachel Port, Jewish Voice for Peace -  Tucson

Laurie Melrood, Jewish Voice for Peace - Tucson; LD 20

Rep. Mariana Sandoval, LD 23

Rep. Quantá Crews, LD 26 ; State and Precinct Committee Person

Martín J. Quezada, Former State Senator

School Board Member Patti Serrano, PC and State Committee Member LD 13, 2020 Delegate

Kai Newkirk, Co-Chair, Arizona Democratic Party Progressive Council

Erika Andiola, Immigrant Rights Leader & Bernie 2016 Latino Outreach Press Secretary

Mikkel Jordahl, Attorney

Belén Sisa, Former Latino Press Secretary for Bernie 2020 and DACA Recipient

Salil Deshpande, LD18 State Committee Member; DNC Standing Committee Member

Dan O’Neal, Progressive Democrats of America - Arizona State Coordinator

Armonee D. Jackson, President, Young Democrats of Arizona

Eva Putzova, Former City of Flagstaff Councilmember

Emily Kirkland, PC LD 8; Former Executive Director, Progress Arizona

Melissa Galarza, Chair, LD12 Democrats

Cameron Bautista, Youth Organizer & School Board Coordinator, KeepAZBlue Student Coalition

Nick Collins, LD 12 State Cmte Member, Progressive Council Interim Steering Committee

Ken Kenegos, LD 18 PC, member Progressive Democrats of America

Michael Bradley, Arizona Palestine Network, LD 4 PC

David Higgins, Co-Founder, Arizona Palestine Network (AZ PAL)

Natacha Chavez, Precinct committee person LD 22

Sarah León, Community organizer

Elizabeth Hourican, CODEPINK Phoenix

Emily Verdugo, Community Leader

Kyle Nitschke, LD 6 State Committee Member

Barbara J. Taft, Leadership Team, WILPF US Middle East Peace and Justice Action Committee

Nicole Gutiérrez Miller, State and Precinct Committee Person, LD 12

Dianne Post, International Human Rights Attorney

Lindsay Love, Owner & therapist at TherapyLuv, PLLC ; former CUSD school board member

Joan Etude Arrow, Founder, Arizona Progressive Action Community (AZPAC)

Elizabeth Ogren, LD5 PC and State Committee Member

Jenise Porter, PC and State Committeeperson AZ LD18

Dave Wells, United Campus Workers of AZ, PC LD9

Andreas Clayton La Grow, Community Organizer

Robert Flamida, Palestine Community Center of Arizona, Member

Dr. Marannagan, Autistics for Peace

Bonnie L Lynn, State Committee Member

Frederic Artus, LD 5

Isabel O’Neal, State Committee, PC LD 14, CD 5 Immigration Advocate

Deborah Arekat, Democratic Voter

Asfandyar Khalid, Na

Kathy F. Yontz, PC LD12

Pardis Baradar, LD 12 PC

Grace Wagner Democrat LD8

Laiken Jordahl, Community organizer/advocate

Kathryn Soderquist, Constituent, AZ LD 9

Jana Rose Ochs, Progressive Democrats of America, Progressive Activist

Victoria Eloisa Ramos, Community Leader

Aaron J Essif, LD17 PC & SCM, PDA, Indivisibles

Judith Hilton Coburn, Member, CodePink Phoenix, PDA, Phoenix Anti War Coalition

Dev Gautam Dogra, Progressive social democratic student from The University of Arizona

Peggy Thomas, Progressive Democrats of America activist

Anne Khoury, Concerned citizen and voter 

Emily Williams, Democrat LD 12

Molly Donnelly, PC LD 12

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Not my music stopping and me having a premonition that I should go and work on something other than a smut scene💀💀💀

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I’ve been kinda busy but I was able to make a few pieces, so this is an art dump ig?

Ford would look at fidd’s pic and say “I’ll think about it”, then when he sees that goofy ass pic of bill he’s going to summon a fuckin “SMASH” button and spam it. Weirdo. That some of my heart belongs to.

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AHHHHHHHH THIS IS SOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOD. ITS EATING AT MY BRAIN BUT THATS THE BEST PART. THE VOCALS THE VOCALS DJEWJNJKJ AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

we’ll meet again

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Whenever I want to sit down with TBOB, I always have like, a pack of sticky notes, a pencil, and access to the internet. I LOVE solving the codes. Makes me feel like I have more than five brain folds.

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ASYDJSHDHISMJISNHWJ I GOT THE BOOK OF BILL!! IT CAME IN EIGHT DAYS EARLY AND OH GOD AHHHHHHHHHHH. IT LOOKS SOOOOOOOOO GOOD!!!!! ALL THE PRAISES TO THE AMAZON GODS🙏🙏🙏

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this is everything.

Is this anything

hwuh?

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HELL YEAH!!!!

Is it weird I like drawing heart broken bill….?

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Is it weird I like drawing heart broken bill….?

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how I feel about gravity falls ships (pines twins edition)!:

younger pines twins:

dipper x pacifica: I love this ship so much!!! They complete each other!!! Practically canon.

mabel x pacifica: they would be the best sugar and salt couple ever!! Love this!!!

mabel x gideon: nope. Gideon is too manipulative and pushy and doesn’t match her, but I am curious about someone that would like gideon and gideon would like them back.

dipper x wendy: if dipper were the same age as wendy then obviously, but if he isn’t, then it’s a no.

dipper x bill: I literally gagged writing that. No way. Even though dipper is like ford in several, he can’t be swayed as easily as him and has a problem trusting people he’s just met. And bill would literally appear out of nowhere in his dreams. He’d call bs to that.

dipper x mabel: 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️ get the hell away from me. Ur ass don’t deserve this show😡

older pines twins edition:

ford x bill: YESSSSS. A HUNDRED PERCENT YESSSS. NO ONE WILL EVER BE ABLE TO SWAY ME INTO THINKING ANYTHING ELSE. THEY WERE TOGETHER. THEY BELONG TOGETHER. IT IS CANON.

ford x fiddleford: they would be the cutest couple ever. Forehead kisses and holding hands and talking about being nerds together. Such couple goals💕💕

stan x fiddleford: bonded over a egotistical and self centered ford who treated them badly. Can one hundred percent see this happening after ford was thrown into the portal.

stan x bill: it wouldn’t work out. They’re both con artists and can see through each other’s tricks. But that could also be something that they bond over so I kinda don’t know…..

bonus: I’m a fan of toh and gf, so stan x eda. It would be fuckin hilarious if eda was the woman that stan married in Vegas. They would definitely bond platonically now because they both got a chance to be someone’s parental figure. They’re both big softies in the heart and willing to do anything to protect their families. But just me, if I got someone as hot as eda, she won’t be able to get rid of me…. Rose x eda forever…

I felt like writing an essay because well—I’m very bored and enjoy procrastinating.

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What if bill wasn't defeated.....?

Everything is gone now....