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Starting your day without husband's cuddles? Preposterous!

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answering a couple questions i got on this post since i realized ppl genuinely wanna know:

tl;dr:

israel lets very, very little aid get into gaza. even the UN can't get in as much as they want to. funding individual families, gazan led initiatives, and mutual aid collectives operating out of gaza ensures gazans can provide for themselves and pay for the extremely expensive aid that is available.

with all the civil infrastructure destroyed by israel, the situation on the ground has devolved into unrestricted capitalism, driving up the price of aid (that should be free!). this makes it more urgent for people to have funding for daily survival.

the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.

as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.

the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.

ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.

and the municipality of gaza itself is fundraising to rebuild water infrastructure.

all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!

long answers under the cut!

if you wanna donate to a charity that's absolutely fine, but the thing is most charities (and even the UN!) are unable to make it into gaza in the first place, leaving aid rotting at the egyptian side of the border or subject to israeli settler attacks

not to mention, charities and nonprofits also maintain a paternalistic colonial relationship with the indigenous people they are trying to help, determining what aid they need for them instead of returning power to them and letting them make their own choices

i'm not here to say that one option is better than the other, just that they achieve different things and are equally legitimate. there's an attitude among people who question the legitimacy of these gofundme campaigns that somehow the people promoting them are telling them not to donate to charities. nobody is stopping you from donating to charities. we are just asking that you do not dehumanize the very real gazans in your inbox just because their method of asking for aid is more direct and risky.

unfortunately that's exactly what has happened. because israel destroyed all of gaza's more formalized infrastructure, it seems that organized crime and rampant inflation has taken its place. aid is supposed to be free, but in order to save for evacuation or the cost of living, people have started selling them at an inflated price. and aid that is truly free attracts intense, large crowds that are dangerous to navigate.

this was posted on abc a few days ago

it's pure, unrestrained capitalism. i've had multiple palestinians describe this situation to me confidence. that's why everything's so expensive now. why people have to rent out tiny plots of land for their tents to sit on, why my friend @siraj2024 still has to buy tarps to cover the broken windows of the overpriced bombed out apartment he rented, and why a bag of flour can cost a thousand bucks in the north.

even before israel closed and then bombed the rafah crossing, the egyptian hala travel agency was only allowing people to cross the border if they paid a hefty $5000 USD per adult / $2500 USD per child bribe. it denies doing this, but the hundreds of stories from palestinians say otherwise.

with regard to the economy, here in america we saw something similar happen in the wake of hurricane helene and milton. the podcaster margaret killjoy describes how she saw dual economies rise after asheville was fully cut off from the rest of the country - some people offered each other supplies for free in a sort of mutual aid honor system, and some people required payment when they lent supplies because they themselves needed to buy stuff for their families. these dual economies exist in gaza too. and this means they all still need money to survive.

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Guess who just finished mk11!

There's just something so deliciously tragic and compelling to me about kuai liang mourning HIS Scorpion while at the same time young Hanzo is right there looking at him with those pretty eyes. You know?

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I have no idea why this post got lots of notes all of a sudden but I'm glad people enjoy cool uncle Tony and baby Lila 🙏

Tony nad Lila Rhodes! Tony’s an ultimate cool uncle™.

I just love drawing Tony judging people.

IG: nat.owe || T: natnatowe || pillowfort: natowe (I do commissions!)

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I MISS DRAWING <- is literally doing everything besides drawing

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Od @natowe 💖

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inktober 2024, day 11 🫂

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don’t cry. amok time stiddy window, ok?

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which ao3 tag are you?

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Shameless self-promotion but we just reprinted these desings!

❤️🌈 Our Etsy 🌈❤️

Here's something I forgot to brag about - I've heard many people looking at our pride stuff say they'd get it, but they are not out/wouldn't feel comfortable with their pride flags so out in the open.

I think it's okay to not be out and proud for many reasons, so i feel strongly about it. Because I myself live in a conservative country and I wouldn't feel safe wearing my own designs in public. So I was thinking about it and came up with these ~subtle~ pride designs.

It's not all I'd like to do but these are all I had ideas for. You can get in on our Etsy, if you'd like. I'm really pleased with how they came out (haha)

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bringing this back after another flood of likes hehe

to all people who's not reblogging my kkir art but only liking it....... i see you, i'm grateful but stop being a coward. not in a way that reblog culture on this site is dying, more like - you like naruto yaoi in 2024??? own it

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saw someone on instagram say “you shouldn’t post your art until it’s good” and that comment filled me with rage so i want to say to every beginner artist or artist who feels their art is not improving no matter how long they’ve been at it. i love you and i love your art and everything you post bears part of you and that is so beautiful. block everyone who says otherwise they are not entitled to freely consume what they rag on.

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A few post-convention leftover prints are now available on our Etsy!! /heartsicle

chomp.

I saw this one Chappell Roan photo and just had to redraw it

a closeup:

//alt text in art

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Lil kids love my 'going to the post office' fit

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『trapped in a dream (can't break free)』

here's my galladay bang piece for a mesmerizing story by raine_write - please check it out and give it lots of love!! 💗

🔗 https://archiveofourown.org/works/59176624 🔞 [heed the tags! dead dove: do not eat]

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It‘s scary to see how very important european petitions get no visibility whatsoever. We had a basic income petition last year which failed because not enough people knew about it. Now we have a „tax the rich“ one that only lasts until october this year and only has around 250k out of 1 mio. signings.

Most EU people go through their every day life w/o knowing about them. There are no ads, no marketing…nothing. I know that costs money though one might think important petitions that lead to a better and progressive life would be supported by the government or ministries in some way, but nooooo

And why should they? It’s petitions that would help out the poor and middle class, but endanger capitalism and their exploitation, sooo: government and business leads for example.

So here the link for those who are interested: