#too big a number

[oh1thehorror]

The fact that the number is now 30,000? Just a few months ago it was 9,000. This is a rate of death greater than the US-Afghanistan war. This is a rate of death that should not be happening in the first place. By this point, if the genocide doesn’t end now, and Palestine isn’t freed now, then they might not make it till the end of this month.

(Those 30,000 people- that’s about 30 UK high-schools worth, if that helps you visualise it- ALL of them, we’re people. All of them had hopes and dreams and loves. Maybe some of them liked the same books as you and me. They all were looking forward to a future we all deserve. 30,000 people. Gone like they’re nothing, and gone in the most brutal, disgusting of ways. Allah, rest their souls.)

Need I remind you, Ramadan is just around the corner. The Holy months are just around the corner. The sparse defences that Gaza has- if you can call men dressed in no protective gear, fighting with makeshift weapons that- to slightly lessen those Israeli attacks will have to fall away, because we are not allowed to fight in those few months. We all know Israel isn’t going to honour religious traditions; certainly not of the Palestinians, who they bombed in their churches at Christmas.

The Zionists will make a new massacre of them whilst they are defenceless, no doubt turned in prayer to God to receive them because if the ceasefire doesn’t come by then, it will never come.

It’s nothing short of the violent 75yr occupation we’ve seen for so long. It’s nothing short of the Nakba. Every year, it gets worse, and every year until this one, there was little discussion about it. The regime should’ve died without the blood of 30,000+ martyrs staining it.

I'm never forgetting the Palestinian babies that were left to starve to death then rot in their beds by the IOF.

I'm never forgetting the Palestinian doctors surrounded by bodies of dead children begging the world to stop the slaughter.

I'm never forgetting the Palestinian children who held a press conference in English to beg the world to stop murdering them because they want to live.

I'm never forgetting the Palestinian Priest who said "We will not accept your apology after the genocide" to the world.

I'm never forgetting the Palestinian Imam who used the speakers of the Mosque, not to call people to prayer but to call out to God while the world around them was burning from American supplied Israeli bombs.

I'm never forgetting the grandfather who held his dead grandchild in his arms. Or the father carrying the remains of his two children in plastic shopping bags. Or the mother holding her dead child in a shroud. Or the father sitting among the rubble after he lost his whole family. Or the girl trapped under a broken building begging for people to save her family first. Or the boy who cried when he saw his brother alive. Or the girl who asked if she was still alive after being pulled from the rubble. Or the boy who carried the remains of his brother in his backpack. Or the old man the IOF used for a photoshoot before they shot him dead after getting pictures. Or the little boy wearing plastic gloves to pick up the remains of his family. Or the graves desecrated. Or the body of that small baby girl left alone in a tent because no one knew who she was or if her family was alive, small and alone and not one person who knew her name to bury her. Or the young boy who was shot in the street while his sister watched from the window. Or the men and boys who were stripped naked in winter. Or those tortured. Or those made to stand in open graves. Or the people who were raped by IOF soldiers. Or Palestinian workers kidnapped by the IOF and then labeled with wristbands, each one reduced to a number, then made to walk back to Gaza to be killed in the world's largest open air concentration camp. Or the people of Gaza starving because Israeli Zionists are blocking aid trucks. Or the Israelis dancing and celebrating the death of Palestinians. Or the lies spread by Zionists and their supporters. Or the people profiting off the oppression and deaths of Palestinians. Or the people of the West Bank being killed or kidnapped by the IOF. Or old woman who was older than the creation of the terror state of "Israel" who was shot by snipers for saying that. Or the Israelis dressed up as Palestinians to enter a hospital and kill three Palestinians in their beds. Or every single Palestinian currently kept in an Israeli prison. Or the journalists, doctors, poets, men, women, children, and the unborn all massacred. Or the fact that WCNSF exists now. Or the woman who refused to wash the blood from her hands. Or the dead, unburied and unmourned.

I'm never forgetting those who chose silence in the face of a genocide.

I may not know all their names but I will not forget the over 30,000 Palestinians dead. Or the over 60, 000 people hurt. Or the unknown number of people missing, still lost under the rubble. Or the 12,000 children slaughtered. An entire generation crippled or murdered.

I will never forget these things when Palestine is free.

[inkskinned]

having good & true friends will literally save and protect you in a million unfathomable ways. like okay we have written so many times about lovers. but the way a platonic friend laughs and cries with you. the way they hold your hand at 14 years old and at 34. the way they keep a little silver tie to you, touching base over and over and over. how you can go years without talking, only to re-meet and discover: oh shit! you're still cool!

there are people who have been in my life for more than half of it, and i have loved every version of them. do you know how fucking beautiful that is. yeah love will save the world. but the way friends love you is gonna save the you.

[nova-rpv]

a redraw of the first drawing i posted here to celebrate the fact that ive been in tumblr for more than a whole year posting my shit and havent deleted my blog in panic yippee \:D/ (mushy rant in tags)

[starry-bi-sky]

mmmmmm read a disciple shen yuan/shizun luo binghe fanfic about two days ago where the first chapter was the Immortal Conference arc, and SQQ was the one who had to be pushed into the abyss (he was still the villain) except Luo Binghe was refusing and was like, lowkey losing his mind about SQQ being so close to the edge. SQQ ended up having to be the one to fall in himself because of the system's punishment system. The rest of the fic is leading up to that moment. But like, MMM i've been obsessively thinking about that first chapter for DAYS ever since.

now i've been in svsss for a grand total of *checks watch* a week. but god obsessed with that. I want to write/read a fic where disciple SQQ goes a little nuts down there. Like keep all of the things that make SQQ, SQQ, but just. Throw in a little bit more trauma in there. A little bit of a mental break. Let him go a little nuts as a treat. Just a tad unhinged. I wanna see him go, just a little, "god fuck it, i've tried so hard to change this shitty story's outcome and it feels like everything i've done has been for nothing. I'm going to die in this world no matter what I do, I've been doomed from the start, so might as well die the way I want to." and he just, breaks a little! Under all the stress.

He still retains the traits that makes shen yuan, shen yuan, like his overwhelming kindness. But he's just! yk. A little less patient. Paranoid. Jumpy. Colder. A little more aloof and closed off. A little more Shen Jiu. He's no asshole child abuser, but he was a Number One Hater in his past life and he's leaning into that old habit a little more now.

(On a totally coincidental not-at-all related note, there's not enough SJ-and-SY-are-the-same-people fics out there that i've found. This is totally unrelated...)

The Endless Abyss turns the mind into an over-sharpened blade, and SQQ is both fascinated and perhaps a little excited to explore a place that doesn't have a lot of info on it in the mortal realm, but still terrified out of his mind. And he's no Luo Binghe, he doesn't have the sheer brute strength and power to just bulldoze his way through, so he has to be a lot more sneaky and cunning if he wants to survive.

The fic itself role-swapped LBH and SQQ so that SQQ was the half-demon (which lowkey fucks) and LBH the human, but I'm equally-if-not-more obsessed with the idea that LBH remains the half-heavenly demon and SQQ the human. If only because I keep thinking about SQQ befriending some demons (particularly and specifically a group of succubi) and they grow very attached to this Human Cultivator so through magic plot stuff they create some kind of seal/illusion/talisman that makes SQQ appear as a demon because a human cultivator in the endless abyss may as well be the equivalent of putting a giant neon target on your back.

And iirc Shen Jiu was taught demonic cultivation by that one guy(?? i've only been here a week so im not caught up in ALL of the lore yet) so that could totally happen here.

(On the other end of the realms, poor Shizun Luo Binghe is just. losing his fucking mind over losing his most precious and beloved disciple. About .5 seconds from burning down the peaks himself. somebody sedate him.)

The Endless Abyss sucks and SQQ is having a really terrible time and can feel himself going lowkey mad, but also holy shit look at all this WORLD-BUILDING. look at all this flora and fauna, and oh if he had the equipment for it he'd be writing all of this down. ALL OF IT. He was kinda-sorta-already planning on never leaving the Abyss as some sort of fucked up self-exile and self-preservation thing, but now he might? actually just?? never leave if he can help it, like he lowkey likes it down here.

anyways the next time anyone ever sees SQQ again he's got hair so long its almost touching the ground and he's either in rags and half-feral or he's been completely dolled up by his adoptive succubi sisters and still about three seconds from biting anyone who tries to touch him. (he's also lowkey trying to book it back down to the abyss even if he has desperately missed all of his friends and shizun)

[bunnieswithknives]

Is Wolf and / or Flowers in any kind of relationship? Aside from Flowers being madly in love with reckless fun, that is

No Wolf/Flowers unfortunately, the ship I have in mind is significantly more insane.

[canisalbus]

I really like Machete and Vasco, but I was wondering how many more OCs you have? I remember seeing some kind of dog deity on your twitter account and I've been wondering who it was ever since. 🤔

You can find most if them in my toyhouse! I still haven't added some of the most recent ones, like Ludovica.

My stats there seem to claim I have 97 characters listed, but none of them are as developed and active as Machete and Vasco. Many have just a design and a couple of core traits.

Unfortunately I can't say which one you might've seen back in twitter.

[cowgirls-blues]

A 5'2 baddie in a corduroy hat (by this 5'1-and-a-half artist)

A young Morning Wrensong from @worldsbeyondpod (and Taro, of course).

@quiddie I absolutely cannot resist if y'all call for fanart in the fireside (or the show for that matter), you know. PS this is the broom Ame isn't supposed to do her chores with and almost flies in the Children's Adventure.

PPS couldn't picture her with anything but this dark brown pixie cut and dark blue hat because of @rebe-draws' own very cool design

[shepscapades]

digging through files to find some stuff to post for the trick or treating made me realize I have. A LOT. Of old/forgotten-about projects, doodles, and comic concepts that I just never finished or totally pretty much finished and just never posted LOL

So over the next few weeks or so I’m gonna try to go through some of it and see what I can’t post :D

[bonefarm]

Something no one tells you about owning parrots is how much casual abuse will just end up on your social media feeds.

“We can’t handle this Macaw he’s a nightmare” and it is a picture of a WHOLE ASS ENTIRE MACAW in a 12x12 cage with nothing except one perch and then there’s a little “need what we paid $4000.00”

Four fuckin grand and you couldn’t give him - at the minimum - a decent cage and one toy?!?

[bisexualmcqueen]

NEW FIRESUIT IN ACTION

[earlier draft]

we've come a long way since 2017 (technically my first attempt was 2013 woah). (also, thank you to CSP. love u clip studio). i may make a comparison post for his suit design over the years bc this is at least the 4th main iteration now?

also dont mind him in the first pic hes mildly concussed. can someone make him sit down maybe

[redsea8me]

ougghhh… dinotrux.. dinotrux if you can hear me… I remember the throat hold you had on me during covid….. I’ll return to you….

[itwoodbeprefect]

i have. a question

[kerryweaverlesbian]

(I love Sam. Btw. This is playful.)

*(this was near the start of season 10, he persuaded a misogynist guy to sell his soul so he could follow him to Dean. The guy was then killed by Dean so I guess he's in Hell now. RIP I guess (Ripped Into Pieces))

[volivolition]

DAY 4: DRAMA - Put on your prettiest face for the masses!

gonna start adding silly captions actually. [POINTS ACCUSINGLY] MELTY FUCK (AFFECTIONATE)!!

[evercelle]

hi ever!! ive been following your blog since early 2021 i think (im bad with time so bare with me here) but i just wanted to say your art is Incredible. the composition, color choices, lineart and shading always blow me away. did you go to college or any art schools or are you entirely self taught?

and another question; are you moving on from xiaoven, or do you ever plan to? your xiaoven work is my favourite <3

tysm for sharing your work with us!! best of luck ^_^

i'm self taught! if u draw literal hundreds of pictures of your favorite blorbo over seven years you will definitely improve in all of those things...!!

i'm returning to xiaoven, actually... lol some friends and i are currently organizing an xvx fan event right now!! we're still working on the back end stuff, but we'll be posting event info in the next couple weeks. i hope lots of people will participate, either to visit or to also exhibit their xvx works! if hyv won't give us any new venti or xiao crumbs we will, in the time honored tradition of xiaoven fans, simply make it ourselves <3

(and thank you! i know i haven't been posting much... but i promise i've been busy :'))

[aromanticduck]

New nerd/geek diagnostic check. Ask them to identify this shape:

If they say 'icosahedron', they're a nerd.

If they say 'd20', they're a geek.