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Do you hear free art quests

Possibly. What did you have in mind?

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Some art that reminds us of the tragedies of the world. Remember that the West holds itself up as a beacon of justice, yet they never actually help anyone.

Palestine will be free.

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hi!! do you have other palestinian mutuals that we may follow? want my dash to be full of palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Hi, here are some of my favourite Palestinian tumblrs: @fairuzfan @el-shab-hussein @palipunk @nabulsi @plomegranate @killy @7amaspayrollmanager @fallahifag

If I’m missing people feel free to add 🤍

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Hello. I just got in contact with a group in Seattle making "solidarity" art and I wanted to know what that means to you. Is acknowledging the horrors in Gaza the most effective way to make Palestinians feel seen? Or is there more value in incorporating symbols of resilience, like olive trees, watermelons, and spoons?

By acknowledging, I mean create something enraging, like depicting the drastically different living conditions on the Palestinian and Israeli sides of the border wall. Healthy people in open farmland on one side and a warzone on the other. Or is it better to include a little hope? One idea I've been mulling over is painting a Palestinian child and IDF solider in a way that suggests David and Goliath (I found out the most common charge against Palestinian youths is throwing rocks). Another is Gaza as a torn tapestry with Mother Palestine sewing over and repairing the rips with tatreez.

I guess the real question is: Do you think most Palestinians would appreciate an attempt at comfort, or is it better to simply grieve with them?

Thank you so much for sending this in. My personal take is the most inspiring imagery are symbols of resistance. For example, this poster is embedded in many Palestinians' minds (click) as a prime example of resistance. I love images of olives and flowers not because they're soft, but because they represent life to me. Something I also adore is Rafeef Ziadah's poem "We Teach Life, Sir" and Samah Fadil's "Then, A Palestinian was Born," as words that speak to me as core parts of Palestinian resistance.

I think you can definitely mix strength and grief, or comfort and grief together when talking about Palestine. Refaat said it best: "the most dangerous thing I have is an expo marker but if an Israeli soldier were to come to my house I would use that expo marker and throw it at them." To us, the idea that we have to resist is grief and the grief moves us to resist. I personally really love the david and golaith imagery because it reminds me of the poster below.

I guess this is all to say that you can mix them together, the grief of seeing people dying and the strength of resistance against the oppression. What's the most effective thing is portraying the truth: Israel kills and Palestine resists.

Here is the image. I highly encourage everyone to print out this poster and post it around town if you're able. Or even post it around social media if you can, and link back to palarchive so that people can see there's so much palestinian art and history that they can explore.

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↳ pencil tests by james baxter

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From the River to the Sea🍉

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[download here]

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did i never post about these guys?? whoops this is alyx and corey. two gamers on a couch archetype but theyre butch4butch.

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YOU KNOW WHAT it's a crime no one has said this before but whoever drew Jessica Drew's eyebrows knew what the fuck they were doing.

Them thangs look so nice 😭😭

Every time she came on screen I was like 'Okay Miss Naomi Campbell! Okay Tyra Banks. Let these hoes have it with the Shea Moisture twist out'

Like we really about Hobies amazing design but can we talk about Jess???

Eyebrows? Threaded. Lashes? On. Skin? Moisturized Melanized and smelling of Cocobutter

Like please tell me you've stopped and appreciated how PRETTY they made Jessica. Like they designed her to be fucking GOREGOUS

The LIP GLOSS! She has on CHEEK HIGHLIGHTER.

She has light brown eyes likes Hobie!!! (I think Hobies are grey but whatever)

They literally decided to take away Spider-woman's mask just to show you Jessica's face. Like her face is never hidden ever.

You WILL see the melanin

LIKE !!!???????!!!!!

THE FIT TOO? The multiple belts? The popped collar?

Meanwhile Peter B out here in a robe. Miss Drew would rather be caught dead 😭😭 she's like yeah this leather jacket hot as fuck but I look good

I need you to understand this woman is literally my mother she gave birth to me. Idk that baby cause I'M her first child tf

Also in my head she's Bajan. She was born in Barbados. Just so you know

whatcha'll know about that?! Y'all don't know about Miss Drew imma tell you that

put some respect on my mamas name

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hey this isn't like me at all but is anyone paying attention to the fact that they just banned all gender affirming care for under 19s in alabama? is anyone paying attention to us at all?

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Some DA blorbo introductions using this template - all menaces to Thedas 

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character redesigns for an old project idea

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I think at some point in time we need to sit down and start explaining to artist who want to make a career out of art that there are FAR more options than just "living off of commissions" and "posting my art online and praying I get paid for it".

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The more you look at this picture, the more anxious it becomes.