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birchlogz · 1 month
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redraw of a redraw from 2022!!!!
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birchlogz · 1 month
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People in Gaza have been saying this would happen since the very start, as soon as the occupation started corralling everyone into the southern part of the strip they said this would happen. We watched it happen as the “safe” zones grew smaller and smaller and every time Rafah was targeted by air strikes even before this. And no one who could actually stop this lifted a finger. It’s been 129 days.
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birchlogz · 2 months
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Finished commission for @birchlogz!!!!!
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birchlogz · 2 months
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and a commission wip for jolly @birchlogz my friend jolly birchlogz.
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birchlogz · 3 months
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technician (oc) and v1. perpetually lonely engineer versus uncaring predatory battle-borg
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birchlogz · 3 months
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MOONSAULT goes off sale January 1st! Get it while you can!
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Over the two month sale period, Moonsault has surpassed our wildest expectations and we're incredibly proud of it. If you'd also like to take a look and enjoy a wonderful fanzine before it's no longer available, please pick it up on itch.io!
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birchlogz · 4 months
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i'm broke and have hospital bills to pay. in better news, i'm selling art!
sketches and small drawings on paper, size ranging from 5x5 cm to an A4 sheet. various mediums. price ranging from $10 to $30 US.
example pieces:
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[image ID: six drawings in pen, oils, pencil and watercolours, three in each image. they are all relatively realistic. /.End ID]
disclaimer: being sketches, many of these pieces have miscellaneous text on the backside and/or were not painted on the highest quality paper. these sorts of issues will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
illustrations from my new skin for the old ceremony project, each the size of an A4 sheet. various mediums. price ranging from $35 to $50 US.
example pieces:
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[image ID: four drawings in pen and oils, two in each image. each piece contains an illustration and sone handwritten text - the lyrics to the songs from new skin for the old ceremony. /.End ID]
larger paintings. oil on glass (approx. 70x100 cm), oil & watercolour on paper (100x140 cm), oil on embossed metal plate (approx. 55cm diameter). prices in the $200-$250 US range.
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[image ID: an oil painting of two grappling figures, painted on a window. /.End ID]
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[image ID: a watercolour and oil painting of two bare Chested figures, one lying down and the other kneeling. /.End ID]
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[image ID: an oil portrait of Jon Moxley, painted on an embossed metal plate. /.End ID]
if you are interested in any of the above, feel free to contact me through tumblr DMs, email at [email protected], or discord at tzaraat. i'll show you which pieces are available, and provide all necessary information.
disclaimer: much of my work is done on medium-low quality substrates (i don't like dropping entire paychecks on supplies, and i am no longer in school) or on found objects (like the window and plate). in addition, i often work on improperly primed or entirely unprimed substrates, or experiment with paint chemistry and the likes. as such, i can't really guarantee archivability. if any painting seems to me particularly fragile, i will disclose it and we can discuss what should be done with it.
i'm open to negotiation re: pricing and the like. feel free to contact me even if you can't afford it right now, and would like me to reserve a piece for a later date.
i also have a ko-fi:
thank you all ♡
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birchlogz · 4 months
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B005t this please
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birchlogz · 4 months
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Konosuke Takeshita wearing Majima Goro entrance gear to AEW Dynamite (11/15)!
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birchlogz · 5 months
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MOONSAULT IS LIVE!
After months of wonderful work, MOONSAULT, a pro wrestling charity art anthology, is finally here! 20 incredible pages of community artists' work for just $10, all to fund direct action for trans rights in the UK with Transgender Action Block, with an extra $15 tier for awesome artist goodies! We hope you enjoy all of the incredible work that's gone into this zine <3
[cover art by @p3rcht]
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birchlogz · 5 months
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How To Be Anti-Zionist WITHOUT Being Antisemitic
Yes! It's possible! But it's not automatic.
This post is by no means comprehensive, but bear in mind rule one of the Internet: You CANNOT tell the difference between a well-meaning yet uninformed leftist, and a neo-Nazi sockpuppet pretending to be a leftist to spread antisemitic rhetoric. Reading and absorbing the information in this post will help you avoid dipping into antisemitic modes of thinking.
Don't deny Jewish history in Palestine. There's been a continuous Jewish presence in Palestine ever since the Romans destroyed Judea - and not just the descendants of Jews who stuck around after that; Jews have been making aliyah to Palestine, and specifically the four holy cities (Hebron, Safed, Tiberias, and Jerusalem), for pretty much the entire history of the Jewish Diaspora. Every time Jews got expelled from somewhere, some Jews migrated to Palestine. There was even an attempt, in the middle of the war between the Byzantines and Sasanians in the 7th century, to regain political autonomy in Palestine and reconstitute Judea under the Sasanids (it, uh, obviously didn't succeed.) This is all historical fact, but that doesn't mean any of it justifies apartheid in the modern day. Denying the history doesn't help anyone, it just makes you antisemitic.
Don't whitewash the Jewish population in Israel. Ashkenazim only make up about 31% of Israel's Jewish population, less if you consider that the 2019 study would have counted Bulgarian and Greek Jews as Ashkenazim, when they're in fact Sephardic. The majority of Israeli Jews are Mizrahim who were expelled from other countries in the SWANA region who wrongly blamed their local Jewish populations for the Nakba. There is an internal racial dynamic within Israel where Ashkenazim hold hegemony, and that is worth critiquing in concert with Israeli oppression of Palestinians, but just saying "Jews are white Europeans" is antisemitic and flatly wrongheaded. Jews are an ethnoreligious group whose members come from all racial backgrounds.
Don't invoke classic antisemitic tropes like dual loyalty, or tell Jewish Israelis to "go back where they came from". Most Israelis do not have a second passport, are not eligible for a second passport, and cannot return to wherever they or their grandparents came to Palestine from. Litvak Israelis can't return to Lithuania, their communities were destroyed by the Nazis and then paved over and replaced by the Soviets. Moroccan Israelis can't return to Morocco, they were expelled. American Israelis only make up about 5% of the Israeli population. Jews have always lived on "other people's land", the difference in Palestine is that we're the oppressor, rather than the oppressed.
Understand why Israelis fear the Palestinian Right to Return, even if that fear is something you (rightly) oppose. It's true that settlers always become anxious about the people whose land they stole fighting back, but with Israelis this is even more potent due to two thousand years of antisemitism, and in particular, an event in living memory. In 1932, German and Austrian Jews were stripped of their citizenship, becoming stateless, and when the Evian Conference was held in 1938 to address what to do with the Jewish refugees, all 32 countries in attendance refused to take in more than at most 30,000 Jewish refugees, and that "most" was from the USA and the UK. (Except the Dominican Republic, but that was because Trujillo wanted to bring in a surge of Europeans to overwhelm the country's Black population, so...) When my country, Canada, itself a settler colony, was asked how many Jewish refugees would be allowed into Canada after the war, the infamous response was "None is too many." Golda Meir, then representing the British Mandate in Palestine, and later a Prime Minister of Israel who said and did some awful shit to Palestinians, was not permitted to speak or participate in the conference, she was only allowed to observe as country after country refused to accept Jewish refugees in any large number. (Though it should be noted that Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion, later the first President and Prime Minister of Israel respectively, actually supported this bullshit, because they thought having nowhere else to go would drive Jewish refugees to Palestine. They were right.) Israeli settlers are terrified of becoming a minority, because they do not trust the Palestinians to be any different from the rest of the world. And again, none of this justifies Israeli apartheid, but it elucidates where the Israelis are coming from, and should inform your anti-Zionist work.
Be specific and precise in where your principled anti-Zionism is coming from. To say that "the State of Israel is an openly settler-colonialist venture that has displaced millions of Palestinians and continues to engage in daily human rights abuses and ethnic cleansing" is specific and precise. To say that "Zionists use the Holocaust to play victim and get whatever they want"... do you understand the difference between those two statements? And why the second one might sound like when you say "Zionists", what you really mean is "Jews"?
Avoid double standards. Unless you genuinely believe that all white people should be kicked out of the Americas and return to Europe, don't apply that same belief to Israeli Jews. There is no post-Israeli future in Palestine that doesn't involve Jews living there. See points 1 and 4. And just to be clear, avoiding double standards cuts both ways. There is also no just future that involves the continued apartheid and ethnic cleansing of Palestine. It's evil, fascist, and genocidal for Israeli military officials to say that for all they care Gazans can go jump into the sea.
For fuck's sake stop putting the Neturei Karta on my dash. The Neturei Karta are a fringe group of Litvish Haredim who split off from other Haredim in Jerusalem. They're very publicly anti-Zionist while also being visibly ultra-Orthodox, so they get a lot of attention, but they're also Holocaust revisionists who attended and spoke at a 2006 Holocaust denial conference whose other speakers included David Duke of the KKK and several outright Holocaust deniers, and their leader defended Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a president of Iran who claimed Jews made up the Holocaust. If you want anti-Zionist Jews, there are plenty of us. Check out Jewish Voice for Peace, Independent Jewish Voices, or even the Satmar if you really want Haredim. Don't give the fucking Neturei Karta any oxygen.
Finally: Zionism is not a euphemism. Zionism is not "when Jews do a thing I don't like," and a Zionist is not "a Jew I disagree with/don't like". Zionism is a nationalism, and like all nationalisms, it hasn't fully delivered on the liberation it was created to provide, and it's oppressed others in the process. Zionism will never go away until the material conditions that drive Jewish nationalism - that is, global antisemitism - are addressed, and yet the Palestinian right to liberation is not and must not be contingent on the end of antisemitism. This is the fundamental problem at the core of the issue: Zionists believe Jewish safety will only come from a Jewish ethnostate with a Jewish majority, and since everywhere on Earth is populated by someone, it may as well be in Palestine, given the Jewish historical roots there. And they're wrong. They're doing horrific, evil, genocidal things in the name of Jewish safety, and they're wrong to do so. But we can condemn Zionism from an informed perspective, rather than from an ignorant one, and in doing so avoid antisemitism and strengthen our anti-Zionist work. The last thing we want to do is spread Nazi rhetoric in the name of Palestinian liberation.
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birchlogz · 5 months
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HEY! If you like my wrestling art, you HAVE to check out the piece I did for @moonsaultzine, which officially drops on the first of November! My piece is all about some notable instances of vehicular violence in wrestling history.
This zine features a lot of other talented artists in the wrestling fandom, and all proceeds will go to Transgender Action Block, an activist group combating transphobia in the UK. For more information, please visit @moonsaultzine.
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birchlogz · 6 months
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SECIAL ANNOUNCTMENT FROM KT!
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Good morning to y'all. Today we have a special announcement...
I'M PART OF A COLLABORATIVE ZINE!
That's right, earlier this summer I've had the pleasure of working on #MoonsaultZine , a zine about narratives in pro wrestling.
The zine will be out on itch.io on November 1st, and proceeds will be going to Transgender Action Block, an activist group fighting for trans liberation in the UK.
I am happy to be involved in the pro wrestling artist community, and I believe this zine is a highlight of what we can do together. I hope you keep on the look out for when this releases because this is all going to a great cause. Until next time, have a good one.
(More art can be found through my Instagram, @tatarkak_draws.)
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birchlogz · 6 months
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birchlogz · 6 months
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YAKUZA FANS IM BEGGING YOU TO LEAVE ME ALONE ABOUT CALLING HIM RANDOM I'M A PRO WRESTLING GUY PLEASE
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someone in the wrestledream crowd has an enormous sign that is nothing but a png of a random character from the yakuza ganmes
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birchlogz · 6 months
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someone in the wrestledream crowd has an enormous sign that is nothing but a png of a random character from the yakuza ganmes
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birchlogz · 6 months
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LOOK ALIVE
MAJOR ZOMBIE DOLL DROP SOON!!
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