CHARITY COMMISSIONS OPEN

I am once again opening up charity commissions to help people in need in Gaza. While in the past, I had charity commissions for the PCRF, with the current concern of an imminent invasion of Rafah, I would like to focus my efforts on individual verified GoFundMe's for Palestinians trying to evacuate and acquire aid.

I would like to focus this time on Fatma Bassem's campaign. Fatma is a nutritionist currently in Rafah, and her campaign has been verified by multiple users, visible on the "Sharing" story on her Instagram. Her GoFundMe campaign includes information and photos regarding her situation. . Her GoFundMe is donation protected, and her Tumblr includes photos and videos.

As of now, Fatma's campaign has raised $15,631 out of her goal of $40,000, as she is trying to evacuate her family. I would like to try to help Fatma reach her goal in any way possible, so that she and her family can be safe.

How my charity commissions work:

If you are commissioning me for a charity commission, please donate to Fatma's campaign and DM me proof of your donation. I will then draw for you whatever you want as long as it's within my personal guidelines. Unlike regular commissions, you can donate any amount of money to the campaign, $1 or greater, and the complexity of the drawing will correspond to the amount you donate- ie, a $1- 10 donation will get you a rough sketch, while a $60 or higher donation will get you a complete piece. If you have any further questions, please feel free to DM me.

Here are some recent examples of my work, in various stages of completion:

I would like to once again thank @minayuri for commissioning this piece and donating a generous amount to the PCRF a few months back:

I'll draw anything within reason- your OCs, fanart, cute animals/pets, horror art, etc! Let's help Fatma reach her goal!

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There is a surprising amount of graphic joy in these Milwaukee transit passes from the 1940s-60s. They were featured in the last issue of ghostsign guru Sam Roberts' excellent BLAG magazine and can be examined in more detail at the Letterform Archive.

"bedtime for bonzo" (1951) will not hurt me

"bedtime for bonzo" does not pose a threat to my well-being

i do not suffer adverse health effects from viewing "bedtime for bonzo"

i am capable of protecting my family from "bedtime for bonzo"

i am safe from "bedtime for bonzo"

this stupid twink wont share his fucking doritos 

is it just me or is the "trans guys are just some boring guys and they make lame music and trans women are cool and interesting and make loud music" jokes almost like. an excuse for why theres not that many trans guys who are popular content creators or musicians or actors or authors or what have you. like blaming the invisibility of trans men on being "boring" and therefore not doing anything rather than oppression.

not to mention the example of music being that people have heard of one singular trans guy who works in a genre they dont like [people really love to act like cavetown is like specifically bad or cringe but thats just what most indie pop/rock/folk sounds like] and theyve heard of a handful of trans women who make hyperpop that they already like [and laura jane grace of course] and its really telling on themselves. theres trans guys making hyperpop and trans women making ""lame ukulele music"" and both of them and nonbinary people making music of tons of other genres. like. cmon. it reminds me of xkcd 385.

also i dont think these jokes are intentionally malicious or anything [most of the time] but it also feels sort of weird to be joking about how boring a group of marginalized people are. im not going to act like its the biggest deal in the world but its sort of low level bullying, innit? and i imagine having this weird expectation to be "cool and interesting" isnt fun for trans women either. its nice to get to be lame sometimes.

Yeah it's super weird, especially because it's repeated over and over, that part is the suspicious part. I even saw it on reddit a few days ago in one of the ftm subs. I do think it's like blaming the lack of trans men artists on trans men being "boring" instead of, you know the bigotry, the erasure, the inequality I think it's also a weird expectation that we all HAVE to live up to what other people think of as "cool" like if we're all not making hardcore metal and being as "SICK" as humanly possible, we are failing at transgender music and therefore are the reason trans men aren't represented as artists enough, which is ummm. okay.

why can't we make soft love songs about being bugs, or whatever. What happens to trans women who don't live up to the metal hardcore aesthetic? Look at Dylan Mulvaney. She made a dumb cutsie girlypop song and everyone acted like she is the founder of misogyny herself. So not only are we ridiculed for the music we make, we're trapped in transphobic expectations of what music we can or should make.

If you expect all trans women to make metal, you'll only see trans women who make metal, if you expect all trans men to make soft music, that's all you'll find! because that's all you looked for! Another thing is like, Oh all trans women music is cool and hardcore rock and roll, but trans men music is dumb and cutsie ukulele music? I wonder what gender those genres are normally associate with? Uhoh we're doing a sexism maybe the person making the joke doesn't have malicious intent, but the joke itself sure does.

my scapegoat is eating your straw man

thinking about sigilyph again... in pokemon go it can only be found in greece and egypt, so i thought it would be fun to design an alternate form around that

amen brother…

Bowl with Fish, Iran, probably Kashan (late 13th–mid-14th century).

My favorite part of college is the bog full of poison

a lot of the coverage of the Palestinian genocide is focusing on the US student protests and the narrative is constantly in danger of shifting away from what the protests are actually about and a lot of the language is now speaking in terms of police brutality, silencing of free speech, etc. It's not a radical thing to say that this isn't exactly helpful to the Palestinian cause if the actual reasons for the protests aren't constantly front and center. A lot of people have already made this point. I do not think the genie can necessarily be put back in the bottle with how the protests and the police reaction to them are entering the public consciousness of the USian people. A lot of people are or will become aware of these protests through the lense of these simply being instances of police brutality, and police brutality is a critical issue that many USamericans are very passionate about thus making it difficult to reframe the context of these images of police slamming white professors into pavement towards awareness of Israels decades long illegal occupation and systematic and indiscriminate displacement and murder of Palestinians. What I feel needs to be done is try to reframe these images flooding the internet not *away* from issues of police brutality and homesoil fascism, but in the wider context of imperialist governments taking the lessons they learn oppressing "foreign peoples" and turning them inwards. That police brutality is not disconnected from imperialist mass murder. That the one thing connecting the assaulted USian protester and the trans israeli denied gender affirming care for refusing to serve in the fascist Israeli military and the Palestinian child buried alive for the crime of being Palestinian... the one thing connecting them is that, sooner or later, they are all victims of power. Our rights are granted to us inequitably, unevenly, and are just as quickly stripped away when we do not serve the interests of fascist power. We are either a tool of the state or an enemy of the state. The Palestinian, not the innocent or the guilty but the human being Palestinian, is murdered because she can not be useful to the state while she is still breathing. She can never have the "privilege" of being a tool. I'll say it again: We outside of Palestine who can go to protests, who have families, who are able bodied, who can work, who can keep their head down or speak without immediate retaliation have the "honor" of choosing to be a tool of the state or an enemy of the state. The Palestinian has no choice.

There will always be an armed cop ready to arrest you and kill your brother as long as there is a bomb ready to drop on the heads of Palestinian children. Fascism trickles up and inward.

due to the thesis inherent in seinfeld's writing the principal cast of the sitcom would likely not survive a visit to silent hill as they would be unable to achieve the personal growth necessary to overcome the monsters facing them

thinking about sigilyph again... in pokemon go it can only be found in greece and egypt, so i thought it would be fun to design an alternate form around that

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