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[dtaphanel]

A new Bitsy game from me. This time you take a little walk around a garden, learn about some plants, fall in love. This is my second game, thank you for playing!

WELL TENDED

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Rebuilding Live: A Mother's Plea for Hope and Safety in Gaza🕊️♥️

A year has passed since the war began, and we are still alive—living bodies, but without hope, without passion. Our bodies are exhausted by constant fear and displacement. I am Noor Al-Anqar, 26 years old, married to Ashraf Ismail (33 years old) and a mother of three children: Hussein (7 years old), Rajaa (5 years old), and Youssef, our infant (1 year old).

At the start of the war, our home was bombed and completely destroyed. We fled from the north to the south in search of safety, only to realize that there is no safe place.

•This is our home, filled with our memories and moments of joy and happiness, now reduced to rubble. Its destruction shattered our hearts.

I’m writing to you from my tent, which neither shields us from the cold of winter nor the heat of summer. After suffering through the harsh summer heat, we now await the winter with dread, living in torn tents and wearing tattered clothes, amidst severe shortages of basic necessities like food, water, clothing, and most importantly, safety.

•This is our tent, which does not represent any meaning of the word 'home'.

•My children are the heartbeat of my heart.

Hussein, who should have started his education by now, has lost his right to learn.

Rajaa, my precious little princess, has contracted hepatitis due to the lack of proper healthcare.

And Youssef, who was just one month old when the war began, is now taking his first steps, but they are steps into an uncertain future.

My children are the most valuable thing I have in this life, and I promise you, I will defy the impossible to ensure they are alright. The war has forced me to start a fundraising campaign to help myself and my family during these harsh times. To my friends on Tumblr, if you cannot donate, you can still help by sharing our story. Every bit of support or help could be the light that guides our path.

Thank you in advance.🙏🕊️

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[dtaphanel]

Hello 🕊️

My name is Noor, a mother of three from Gaza. The war forced us to leave our home and flee south in search of safety. During these painful events, my husband was injured in his shoulder. Since then, we have been moving from place to place, trying to find shelter to protect my children.

I have started a fundraising campaign because I want to provide my children with the minimum level of safety and basic necessities. We are in desperate need of your support. Every donation, no matter how small, has the power to change our lives and save us from these harsh conditions. And if you can't donate, please share our story so it can reach those who can help.

Our hearts are grateful to everyone who extends a helping hand. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

🙏🌷

Of course!

[dtaphanel]

Hey, I came here after seeing your Mushishi art crossposted (uncredited 🤮) on Reddit, and I just have to say that I love your art style and your sensibilities for composition and content!

Thanks so much! That's really kind of you. That reddit user is just karma farming, I think. They tend to pop up every couple of months, do the exact same thing, and then disappear. It's irritating, but nothing for it. I really appreciate you being here, of course!

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I’m sorry you’re in so much pain. There’s nothing I can say that would magically remove that pain but I do hope one day you’re free of it. I hope that day comes soon. I also have to say I believe your work is absolutely beautiful. I found you through your recent piece for tumblr about James Baldwin’s novel. I can’t wait to see more. Okay bye!

Thank you so much! This is so lovely. I just saw a doctor last week, made an appointment to see a neurologist, and got new meds. So hopefully there will be less pain!

[dtaphanel]

To celebrate the James Baldwin Centenary and Pride, we commissioned the very talented @dtaphanel to create art for Tumblr inspired by Baldwin’s debut novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain. 

This powerful novel follows John, a stepson of a Pentecostal preacher, as he grapples with the complexities of his identity on his 14th birthday. The image depicts John lying on the ground, fully immersed in a religious vision and surrounded by members of the church—here rendered as saints (as members of the Pentecostal congregation will refer to one another). The image beautifully captures one of the novel’s most climactic scenes. 

Read an excerpt from Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin:

“He knew without knowing how it had happened, that he lay on the floor, in the dusty space before the altar which he and Elisha had cleaned; and knew that above him burned the yellow light which he had himself switched on… .  

He wanted to rise—a malicious, ironic voice insisted that he rise—and, at once, to leave this temple and go out into the world. He wanted to obey the voice, which was the only voice that spoke to him; he tried to assure the voice that he would do his best to rise; he would only lie here a moment, after his dreadful fall, and catch his breath. It was at this moment, precisely, that he found he could not rise; something had happened to his arms, his legs, his feet-ah, something had happened to John! And he began to scream again in his great, bewildered terror, and felt himself, indeed, begin to move—not upward, toward the light, but down again, a sickness in his bowels, a tightening in his loin-strings; he felt himself turning, again and again, across the dusty floor, as though God’s toe had touched him lightly. And the dust made him cough and retch; in his turning the center of the whole earth shifted, making of space a sheer void and a mockery of order, and balance, and time. Nothing remained: all was swallowed up in chaos.”

[dtaphanel]

This year marks the 100th anniversary of James Baldwin, an incredible writer and activist who fearlessly delved into the complexities of race, identity, love, and class. To celebrate Pride and the centenary, we teamed up with the talented @dtaphanel to create this incredible Tumblr artwork inspired by Baldwin’s first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain. Published back in 1953, Baldwin once said, “Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." 

This is the second image in Danielle Taphanel’s series which captures a gripping wrestling scene from the book. It shows the intense face-off between Elisha, a respected teen in the church, and John, the troubled stepson of a preacher. It’s a scene filled with cruelty, curiosity, confusion, and even a hint of pleasure. Taphanel’s artwork, done in the style of ancient Greek classical wrestling called Pankration, brings this moment to life. 

Made for Tumblr, the art is not featured on any edition of the book. 

[dtaphanel]

This month, in celebration of Pride and James Baldwin’s crucial contributions to queer literature, we commissioned digital artist Danielle Taphanel, @dtaphanel, to create a Tumblr-only, reimagined cover for Baldwin’s debut novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, one of America’s greatest classics.

Danielle Taphanel, a self-taught, disabled, non-binary, first-generation Filipino-Latino artist who loves plants and folklore, delicately captures the mosaic of themes presented in a book titled after a beloved Black American spiritual song of the same name.

This year marks 100 years of James Baldwin, an iconic writer and activist whose work explores the complexities of race, identity, love, and class with searing foresight. The digital-only artwork was made exclusively for Tumblr and is not featured on any purchasable edition. 

[dtaphanel]

Untitled, art by me, words by Hagai Palevsky.

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[dtaphanel]

My mum really loves your art!!

That's SO sweet! Please thank her for me!

[dtaphanel]

I really loved your artificer comic and would love to see more when you feel up to it! <3

Thank you! I have every page so far up on my ko-fi gallery. If I went back to it, I'd probably have to rewrite and redraw some things, but I'm incredibly happy to hear you like it.

[dtaphanel]

Happy equinox! Patreon is my only steady income as a disabled artist. High-res print-ready files and line art are over there!

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Who would I have been if I didn't read Dragonball as a kid? Thanks, Toriyama-sensei.

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Thank you for all the kind messages and support. I'm just trying to make it day by day for right now. I keep all your messages and reread them whenever things are hard.

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2023 Sketchbook - Part Two

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2023 Sketchbook - Part One

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Posted a 12-page comic for Patreon.