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Little bits of art from a science and fantasy illustrator. Also a big fan of Doctor Who, ST: DS9, reading, and Neil Gaiman. Frequent reblogger of nature, especially Salticidae. she/her
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On this year women's day, all we could think about are Palestinian women in Gaza.
Nearly 9,000 women have been killed in Israeli attacks in five months. Another 2,100 are missing and presumed dead, while 23,000 have been wounded and over half a million are displaced.
“Palestinian women, especially in the Gaza Strip, are exposed to the worst humanitarian catastrophe,” Ashraf al-Qudra, the health ministry’s spokesperson, said on Thursday.
Dozens of women and girls have also been detained and face harsh conditions in Israeli custody, including sexual abuse.
Women in Gaza also struggle to find menstruation products and access the necessary pregnancy and post-natal care. The consequences on reproductive health, including a rise in stress-induced miscarriages, stillbirths and premature births, have increased significantly.
Women in labour are undergoing caesarean procedures without anaesthetics, and a shortage of post-operative care such as medication, antibiotics and pain relief further exacerbates the situation.
According to the health ministry, 5,000 women give birth monthly in Gaza under “harsh, unsafe and unhealthy” conditions caused by Israeli bombing and displacement.
There are 60,000 pregnant women in Gaza suffering from “malnutrition, dehydration and lack of medical care.
There have also been repeated cases of Israeli soldiers mocking Palestinian women by posting videos and pictures of themselves rummaging through personal belongings in Gaza homes, making derogatory comments and posing with women’s underwear.
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D: I suppose it's inevitable, as every T&C probably gives rights to every "free" site we post on the rights to use our data this way, but it is still awful to know that a relatively open platform will go the same way as every other social media platform and sell your data. Maybe it's time to Glaze every piece at least.
What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?
An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:
I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.
Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.
A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)
So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.
#Open AI#selling information#privacy concerns#Midjourney#art theft#machine learning#Tumblr business#profiteering
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Past extinct ecosystems are so fascinating and alien to us, especially for only having whispers of what was there through fossil records.
ftr I am forever going to be bitter that the post I wanted to be "let's talk about extinct ecosystems and how cool they are!" got derailed into yet another post just talking about a single taxon like the millions of other posts on palaeoblr
#extinct ecosystems#ecosystems#extinct animals#paleontology#polar tropical forest#sponge reef#what came before
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It does get harder not to call it genocide when the Israeli government told Gaza Palestinians to move to the south if they didn't want to be bombed. And then, bombed 1.5 million people and called it a victory when they rescued 2 hostages. This after "accidentally" killing hostages earlier in the war.
They are carpet bombing Rafah. The over 1.4 million Palestinians in Rafah are being targeted at what is now 4 in the morning for them. They are posting their goodbyes.
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I realize it's a giant tangle of foreign policy and there are many reasons (internally, future prospects, past guilt) why the US supports Israel wholeheartedly without question, but as a country, we got so angry at Saudi Arabia killing Jamaal Khashoggi, but here, where apparently, in a war where the highest numbers of journalists are being killed, the US is saying nothing publicly besides a gentle plea for Israel to please not kill the civilians.
And yet, we also see this creating a precedent, where if Israel is allowed to commit these war crimes with impunity, Russia would be happy to do the same to Ukraine and China to Taiwan.
And it's that whole ridiculous Skittles argument again. Can't trust anyone if one of those Palestinians might be a Hamas fighter, but as any insurgent expert would tell you, killing women, children, journalists, and starving a population is just going to create a bigger population of people that resent you with more people that might consider that they have nothing to live for but violence or vengance.
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Loving the aesthetic. Only little niggle is the perfect spots of the stars is a bit distracting.
Strange roadside buildings where you shouldn’t ever go.
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addendums: cult classic tv overlaps with early supernatural seasons somewhat, i am aware, just choose based on the cultural context in which you read your first fic.
for weeaboo crew i was thinking of examples like hetalia, black butler, soul eater, etc--popular anime absolutely included but the distinction is that people who were into dragon ball weren't necessarily going to anime club every week and making deviantart stamps about yaoi, but people into ouran high school host club ABSOLUTELY were.
homestuck is in its own category because homestuck changed fandom forever at a critical time which just happened to be when i was growing up in fandom. harry potter, lotr, star wars, and twilight are in their own categories because they were such multimedia juggernauts they had entire archives dedicated solely and only to their fic that spanned multiple franchise reboots (books -> movies -> extended universes). (i acknowledge star trek technically would fit under this but at the time culturally it had more overlap with other cult classic tv fandoms.)
honorable mentions that didn't make it to the list because i had to pick-and-choose with the 12 answer limit: the final fantasy franchise (axed because i am not familiar enough with the fic scene to know if it was as iconic of a gateway drug as, like, naruto or twilight or star wars fic), a general YA lit category (YA lit outside of twilight only went mainstream slightly after this time period), the MCU (i have a hate boner for the MCU), a broader "american superhero comics" category (this would be valid as an option but i don't have the space)
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hello!
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People & countries mentioned in the thread:
Congo - M23, Cobalt
Darfur, Sudan - International Criminal Court, CNN, BBC (Overview)
Tigray - Human Rights Watch (Ethnic Cleansing Report)
the Sámi people - IWGIA, Euronews
Hawai'i - IWGIA
Syria - Amnesty International
Kashmir- Amnesty Summary (PDF), Wikipedia (Jammu and Kashmir), Human Rights Watch (2022)
Iran - Human Rights Watch, Morality Police (Mahsa/Jina Amini - Al Jazeera, Wikipedia)
Uyghurs - Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) Q&A, Wikipedia, Al Jazeera, UN Report
Tibetans - SaveTibet.org
Yazidi people - Wikipedia, United Nations
West Papua - Free West Papua, Genocide Watch
Yemen - Human Rights Watch (Saudi border guards kill migrants), Carrd
Sri Lanka (Tamils) - Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch
Afghans in Pakistan - Al Jazeera, NPR
Ongoing Edits: more from the notes / me
Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh/Azerbaijan (Artsakh) - Global Conflict Tracker ("Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict"), Council on Foreign Relations, Human Rights Watch (Azerbaijan overview), Armenian Food Bank
Baháʼís in Iran - Bahá'í International Community, Amnesty, Wikipedia, Minority Rights Group International
Kafala System in the Middle East - Council on Foreign Relations, Migrant Rights
Rohingya - Human Rights Watch, UNHCR, Al Jazeera, UNICEF
Montagnards (Vietnam Highlands) - World Without Genocide, Montagnard Human Rights Organization (MHRO), VOA News
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Our son Sam has told us that the D&D art file we use for a screensaver on various devices bothers him.
Because it makes him frustrated that he can’t look at some of them longer. He wants to know what is happening in some of them.
I told him that is one of the reasons we play Dungeons & Dragons, so we can go find out together, in our collective imagination.
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palestinian literature
okay! so as a literature major… i figured i would also suggest some palestinian literature for you to read.
fiction
❥ Against the Loveless World - Susan Abulhawa
Nahr is a woman born in 1970s Kuwait to Palestinian refugees. The story follows key details of her life and switches between her past (and all the hardships she endured as a palestinian woman) and the present (where she is kept in solitary confinement in israel) and all the events that lead up to her capture.
Difficulty: High (it’s a book that may make many uncomfortable as it presents graphic violence of all sorts and negative opinions towards israel and jewish people. however uncomfortable though, it is a book that forces one to think about history of the marginalised and the suffering and hatred that can follow extreme levels of cruelty that blur any sort of nuance with which a victim might view a community connected to their oppressors. this is a story less about the oppressors though, and more about the pain and suffering of a woman displaced from home multiple times and the trials and tribulations that followed)
*note: sexual violence mention
❥ A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum
A story that touches upon the immigration experience, misogyny, oppression, domestic abuse, and cultural expectations and taboos—through the eyes of three generations of Arab women.
Difficulty: Medium (it deals with a lot of aspects of oppression and misogyny but nothing too terribly triggering. though it may cut deep for a lot of women, especially arab women. it’s a book written about arab women, for arab women)
❥ Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands - Sonia Nimr
A historical folkloric novel about a palestinian girl, Qamar, who develops great healing skills and travels around the region, sometimes dressed as a man.
Difficulty: Easy (hehe it’s a fast-paced story full of adventure and pirates! and through all the adventures qamar goes on… although she never finds a home, she does find family along the way)
❥ Salt Houses - Hala Alyan
The novel follows the story of a displaced family, the Yacoubs, over multiple decades in the various places they move to—from Jaffa to Kuwait to Amman to Paris and then finally Boston. The plot challenges and humanizes an age-old conflict we might think we understand—one that asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can’t go home again.
Difficulty: Medium-High (the story is heartbreaking and very raw but also beautiful and lyrical and presents the experiences of different generations of the yacoubs in a very nuanced and authentic light)
❥ Minor Detail - Adania Shibli
The novel begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba―the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people―and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand. 25 years later a girl starts investigating this very crime and becomes particularly obsessed with it, mainly because it happened exactly 25 years before she was born.
Difficulty: High (as you can tell by the summary, it dives into really serious crimes and atrocities. a very haunting but worthy story to read)
*note: sexual violence mention
❥ The Parisian - Isabella Hammad
After the First World War (1914-18) shatters families, destroys friendships and kills lovers, Midhat Kamal goes on a journey of self discovery. The novel touches upon the tangled politics and personal tragedies of a turbulent era: the struggle of Palestinian independence from the British Mandate, the strife of the early 20th century, and the looming second world war.
Difficulty: Easy… ish (as easy as reading about colonialism and war can be)
❥ My First and Only Love - Sahar Khalifeh
After many decades of restless exile, Nidal returns to her family home in Nablus, where she lived with her grandmother before the 1948 Nakba. She was a young girl when the resistance began and through the bloodshed, she had fallen in love with a freedom fighter, Rabie, the only man she ever loved—him, and all that he represented: Palestine in its youth and spring. Years later Nidal and Rabie meet and through his encouragement, Nidal decides to look into her family history and discovers that her absent mother had been a nurse and lover to a Palestinian leader. The story follows an epic but heartbreaking tale of love, emotion, desire, urgency and political immediacy.
Difficulty: Medium (it is a truly heartbreaking but beautiful story with the most brilliantly strong narrative voice and the most bittersweet of endings. it will definitely move you to tears in the best way possible)
non-fiction
❥ The Question of Palestine - Edward Said
Said traces the fatal collision between two peoples in the Middle East and its repercussions in the lives of both the occupier and the occupied—as well as in the conscience of the West. The book renders a timeline of events in Palestine as well as the Middle East with precision.
non-fiction is always a difficult read so i’m not gonna bother outlining any difficulty haha
❥ I Saw Ramallah - Mourid Barghouti
An autobiography of a poet who recounts his decision to leave his country in 1966 to pursue his studies before trying to return to Palestine only to find out that he had been exiled. He was a Palestine a while ago and now he is a refugee with no home to go to. He then starts a 30-year struggle to get a permit to visit to Ramallah, his homeland. Barghouti writes from a place of exile and displacement, highlighting the struggle many palestinians like himself faced in their relationship with home and belonging.
❥ The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - Rashid Khalidi
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians told through pivotal events and family history. A deeply insightful and thought-provoking read.
❥ The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappé
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In our communicative world, few modern catastrophes are concealed from the public eye. And yet, Ilan Pappe unveils, one such crime has been erased from the global public memory: the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1948. But why is it denied, and by whom? The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine offers an investigation of this mystery.
A deeply honest and empathetic account of the atrocities carried out upon the people of Palestine. Pappé challenges colonialism and racism using in-depth research and critical analysis. Must read.
Poetry
❥ The Butterfly’s Burden - Mahmoud Darwish
A compilation of three books by renowned arab poet Mahmoud Darwish that touch upon the life and horrors in Ramallah, love, and a longing for a Palestine before the occupation. It’s just a compilation of the most beautiful and lyrical poetry with thought provoking themes and ideas embedded all the way through.
fun fact! MD is known for writing love poetry when speaking of his country as if he was speaking to a lover. at first glance it sounds like the poem is simply about love but when you look deeper, you realise he has personified his homeland and is professing his undying love and devotion to it.
❥ Poems of Palestine - multiple writers, curated by Fady Joudah & Lena Tuffaha
this is an online compilation of various poems written by various palestinian poets
❥ Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear - Mosab Abu Toha
A collection of poems that emerge directly from living one’s entire life in Gaza, making a life for one’s family and raising a family in constant lockdown, and oftentimes directly under attack.
the title poem is one of the most beautiful yet soul-crushing poems i’ve read.
more poems include lines like: “borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets”
these books are a wonderful way for you to educate yourself on the palestinian identity, their history, their voices and their stories. instead of hearing about the palestinians from the media, why not read what they say from their own hearts? understand them in their purest form.
you may find these books on amazon or your local bookstore. and can probably find e-book pdfs online for free if you search.
happy reading! 💛
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the unexpected joy of the worst summer of our lives by christine mi for vox
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Sciartober Day 31: And the last one goes to the owlfish for the prompt: dark. There are only video reference for this animal along with a few illustrations, but I wanted to do something from one of MBARI's videos. I corrected the forehead to be less sloped, though the mouth might still be too big for this particular fish. Pentel brushpen, Windsor & Newton fine-line marker, and Prismacolor fine-line marker on Canson mixed media.
#Sciartober#Sciartober 2023#SciartoberDay31#deep sea#MBARI#owlfish#fish#animal#Bathylagidae#Osteichthyes#bony fish#art#my art#sciart#October drawings#October drawings 2023#pen and ink#black and white
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Invertober Day 30: The leopard slug, native to Europe and Africa, and also one of the larger slugs measuring between 4-8 inches long. I referenced the patterning off a few different photos, with an emphasis on ones that would remind me more of a leopard. Pentel brushpen, Windsor & Newton fine-line marker, and Prismacolor fine-line marker on Canson mixed media.
#Invertober#Invertober 2023#InvertoberDay30#animal#animals#Gastropod#Mollusc#slug#leopard slug#invertebrate#Limax maximus#art#my art#October drawings#October drawings 2023#pen and ink#black and white#sciart
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Burtonlloween Day 29: And Barrel completes the trio of trick-or-treaters from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Proportions are a bit off since I started this late at night, with the forward hand looking small again. Pentel brushpen, Windsor & Newton fine-line marker, Prismacolor fine-line marker, and red Daiso brushpen on Canson mixed media.
#Burtonlloween#Burtonlloween 2023#BurtonlloweenDay29#Barrel#trick-or-treater#The Nightmare Before Christmas fanart#fanart#art#my art#October drawings#October drawings 2023#drawing#pen and ink
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Monstober Day 28: Shieve Arbiter of Bone from The Court of the Dead series by Sideshow Collectables. As they are a series of statues with lore, there's not much reference for them besides the statues and sometimes the concept art. This series always has complicated costumes and accessories, but they are fun concepts. Front hand is probably too small. Pentel brushpen, Windsor & Newton fine-line marker, and Prismacolor fine-line marker on Canson mixed media.
#Monstober#Monstober 2023#MonstoberDay28#Shieve Arbiter of Bone#Shieve#Sideshow Collectables#Court of the Dead fanart#fanart#art#my art#drawing#October drawings#October drawings 2023#pen and ink#black and white#horror
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Mab's Drawlloween Club Day 27: I had gone through the rest of my lists and hadn't found a subject I wanted to do, so I landed on the prompt mythological, and rather than Western mythology, I went with the Eastern mythology. It's been a while since I've drawn a Chinese dragon, which are known to be deities of water and air. I used some classic elements of their depiction, but also went with a few of my own. It just fits in the space of the page. Pentel brushpen, Windsor & Newton fine-line marker, and Prismacolor fine-line marker on Canson mixed media.
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