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solocien · 15 days

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cure for artblock: doodle touhou

#my art #fanart #touhou #touhou 17 #wily beast and weakest creature #urumi ushizaki #牛崎潤美 #東方鬼形獣 #東方project #touhou project

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solocien · 20 days

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SHEEPLES

#THESE ARE GORGEOUSSS #oh my god i love these designs so much!!!!#the kind of art that fills you with a comfortable warmth #like a small fire in a hearth in november #rin's art is incredible they never cease to blow me away #💞💕💗💖 absolutely lovely #reblog #friend art

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solocien · 25 days

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i really believe that discussing the character with someone who shares ur interpretation is the closest u can get to modern day philosophy. we are like plato and aristotle but talking about a fictional guys trauma

#me and silver about law

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solocien · 25 days

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yeah i know megan thee stallion’s dress at the anime awards was jojo-inspired but come ON. first thing i thought of when i saw it was putting it on fem law <3

#my art #fanart #one piece #one piece fanart #trafalgar d water law #female trafalgar law #one piece trafalgar law #trafalgar law #trafalgar one piece #one piece bepo #one piece law #heart pirates #shachi #penguin #bepo

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solocien · 26 days

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Reblog if its ok to spam you with boops

#BOOP ME BITCHES

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solocien · 27 days

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Happy Birthday Kasane Teto ‼️‼️‼️ i can’t get this earworm out of my head

#my art #fanart #utau fanart #utauloid #utau #utau teto #kasane teto #teto kasane #utau kasane teto #haraguchi sasuke

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solocien · 1 month

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it goes against so much of what i stand for to share "palestinians are humans, they have hobbies, they have pets, they laugh and cry" kind of posts because i've spent so much of my life and career completely rejecting the notion that we should humanize ourselves, that we should ever be defensive, that we should entertain this racism at all

but it breaks my heart when i have to share them from people in gaza, who are using their five minutes of internet connection, their 25% of battery charge collected from a macguyvered car battery, emotionally exhausted, thirsty and hungry, sleeping in schools that have turned into refugee shelters and still making the time to say "please, i am human too, i am still alive, please fight for me" in english to appeal to the only people who have the power to help

i shared a tweet from a jjk artist in gaza i follow about a bts photocard being found in the middle of the rubble. even the love of anime and kpop and sports is no longer just a hobby, but an appeal to humanity. what was once a source of joy is now proof of life.

the worst part is that you won't find this content in arabic. palestinians don't post like this in arabic. but when they translate themselves, they recognize that they must humanize themselves first. it's an unspoken understanding of dehumanization, one that has dictated a whole region's understanding of the value of human life. in arabic they speak with dignity, with anger, with sorrow. in english, they appeal for their existence.

i share these posts not just because we have to reach everyone we can, because im being asked to and i will not refuse. but i also share them because they're evidence of how deep the racism has run. at what dehumanization leads to. of war crime after war crime. this too i will not forget.

#palestine #reblog

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solocien · 1 month

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the file is literally too big to post on its own so ive had to deal with screenshots this entire time BUT im super excited to have been able to do this commission of Maomao for my amazing buddy @coppertrapinch !!!! <333

#my art #fanart #the apothecary diaries #maomao #apothecary diaries #commission work

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solocien · 1 month

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I made my heart pirates/gorillaz parody art into actual (fake) album covers! There’s 30 in total <3

I’m having a shop drop on my Etsy on April 1st!!! I'll be listing these cases + some recent watercolor originals!

#my art #fanart #one piece #one piece fanart #heart pirates #one piece heart pirates #trafalgar law #trafalgar d water law

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solocien · 1 month

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i can’t sleep and don’t want to bother my friends anymore so i’m just going to ramble into the abyss

so fun fact about me: i dilligently collect coins

i’ve been collecting coins since i was a kid and keep them all in a wooden box that has the word “COIN” on the front of it. it’s not something i often tell people, and not because i think it’s embarrassing, but because its pretty mundane comparatively

like, when someone thinks of me, i highly doubt the first thing that comes to mind is that i have a wooden box full of loose coins

but regardless, i am immensely proud of my coin collection. i often think about how, if i was faced with a situation where i had to give up all of my belongings, i would grieve the most over my coin collection. because there is so much substance and wonder inside this little box in my little room, and its wonder that isnt shared by anyone else in my family

just a few days ago, i was with some family assisting with a move, and a family member found some coins and set them aside for me. i was gazing at them in my hands (really close to my face because im blind as a bat even with glasses) and was told that i was “very strange”

and yeah, maybe i am strange. maybe i am an oddity of a 22 year old easily marveled by a piece of round metal. but i don’t care, because i have a 2 pound wooden box in my room filled with metal that is precious to me

and by now you might be wondering “just what kind of coins do you even have?” that is an amazing question, my love. i have so many strange coins and each one tells a unique story. each one fills me with amazement and images of the life it might have lived before ending up in my possession

some of the coins i picked up off the street because they were extra shiny. some coins i kept because they got so corroded that you can’t even make out what it is anymore

a penny that was flattened by a local train, one of many that my cousins and i laid out on the tracks and ran as the train approached in fear that one of the pennies would shoot out from under the wheels. none of them did, and as the train passed and the passengers gazed at us through the windows, we excitedly retrieved our scorching hot, flattened pennies and ran to show our parents. those cousins i havent seen in many, many years now, but i still have that penny, and the vivid memory of that day

i have a coin commemorating the 100th anniversary of Sears, a company that is barely holding on by a thread anymore, but one that my father fondly remembers getting monthly catalogues for as a child in the 60s

pennies run through gimmicky machine presses at amusement parks, ones that i would beg my parents to let me put my pennies through, chosing to hold onto the physical memory of the trip instead of a piece of candy or stuffed toy

my all-time favorites of my collection, however, are the coins i have from all over the world

i have pennies and quarters from Canada, easily mixed up with American currency at small tourist attractions or in vending machines and laundromats, especially where i am in New England

but i also have coins from across the oceans and thousands of miles south of me towards Central and South America. Austria, Spain, Japan, Germany, Russia, Ireland, England, Panama, Coasta Rica, Aruba, France, Sweden, Poland, Mexico to name a few… all from completely different times and cultures

The 1942 German reichsmark… what kind of stories could it tell through its caked on grime? perhaps it was left in a car, or accidentally stepped on, or given from one child to another

or the Panaman centesimo balboa from 1968. perhaps it was once carried in a student’s pocket, or exchanged for some food

what about the 1892 Swedish öre? maybe it was once used to attend a sports club, or saved in a jar for something special

these are just some of the coins in my collection that render me speechless in awe, even the coins from my own country and state, as plain and simple as they might seem, hold so much inherent sentimental value. the decades, and sometimes even centuries, that these coins have lived through, the events they must have seen and hands they must have touched. call coins disgusting all you want, but these coins are my treasures. they’re my look into the vast world around me that i’ve yet to really explore myself

someday soon i will be able to travel across the globe to places i’ve only dreamed about. someday i’ll be able to afford to leave my tiny subrural town in this tiny state and fly across oceans and experience new adventures and find even more coins to tell me stories of people just like me living lives as different and yet as similar to my own

these coins are a bridge to amazing things, and i truly do love each and every one of them with my whole heart

now is the time where i would apologize to my friends for being annoying, so i’ll just apologize to the void. sorry for rambling and good night <3

#not art #sol rambles #just needed to get that out

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solocien · 2 months

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maybe i am suddenly neck deep in this pikpiece au. maybe i am. maybe i do have like 10 sketch wips now for this pikpiece au because the more i replay the pikmin games for the five thousanth time the more ideas i come up with maybe i m

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solocien · 2 months

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do you guys see my vision

#my art #fanart #one piece #one piece fanart #pikmin #pikmin fanart #monkey d. luffy #trafalgar d water law #trafalgar law #one piece trafalgar law #one piece luffy #eustass kid #eustass captain kidd #one piece eustass kid

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solocien · 2 months

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i don't like to yuck people's yum but i have to say that my least favorite thing to come from the current state of Artists on the Internet is the idea of a sketchbook as something nice and pretty and shareable. like i love me a notebook full of gorgeous art don't get me wrong but that is NOT what a sketchbook is. a sketchbook is my friend who i carry around everywhere like a purse chihuahua. it is the physical manifestation of my notes app. it is the container into which i wring my brain out. it is my therapist. and most of all it is filled with absolutely terrible sketches that should never see the light of day.

#i was definitely in that boat of ‘pretty sketchbooks ruined sketchbook keeping for me’#but i gotta say #best thing i ever did was getting used to the art of the messiest scribbles youve ever seen #cus damn my sketchbooks are MESSES but theyre messes full of love and ideas #i keep a little sketchbook on my desk for when ideas pop into my head #i use my sketchbooks to draft out paintings so i dont ruin my paper #i ruin the pages of my sketchbook with ink that the book isnt made for because i love seeing the pages warp #i love filling my sketchbooks with my notebook doodles #treating these shits like a scrapbook sometimes #that has been the best thing for both my motivation and creativity #cus no one HAS to see your sketchbook #no one has to be privy to the lack of aesthetic gesture drawing or goreous planned out guache scenery paintings you do #you can fill your sketchbook with literally anything and no one has to know!!!#thats the magic! the mystery! of keeping sketchbooks #reblog

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solocien · 2 months

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you wouldn’t lie to me, right?

#note to self #don’t binge read oyasumi punpun while reliving your own sexual trauma #tanaka aiko #aiko tanaka #oyasumi punpun #goodnight punpun #おやすみプンプン #my art #fanart #watercolor fanart #ink drawing #pen and ink #watercolor

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solocien · 2 months

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Not an art post but i made a bluesky page <3

#not gonna rant about the current state of social media rn but ohhh my goodness i really could #i really really could #not art

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solocien · 2 months

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#me with the artist i admired so much in high school #who responded to my ask and then followed me #and THEN became my friend!!!!#if you see this i won't name drop you in the tags but you probably know who you are and im so thankful every day <3 #reblog

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solocien · 2 months

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BOYCOTT EUROVISION FOR ISRAEL PARTICIPATION.

I am the Eurovision gay this time of year, I love this show. Not only is my country hosting 2024 but it's also in a city I love, but I can't watch as people sing about peace and love while Palestinians are getting killed by one of the participants.

I've complied a couple of petitions, open letters and information regarding Eurovision: Eurovision isn't the highest priority regarding Gaza, but this show is marketing & tourism for countries, Israel is using it to pink wash their politics

According to SVT, Swedish television network in charge of Eurovision 2024 in Sweden Malmö, Eurovision is apolitical, and therefore Israel qualify. They refer to any calls for boycott meaningless ( via )

SVT statement:

Eurovision has always been political, and was created as a celebration of peace after WW2. Songs are statements, and EBU took action by banning Russia and Belarus for the invasion of Ukraine. It's a way to show sympathy and solidarity, which Gaza is in need of now.

Why Eurovision is so important to Israel is the opportunity of pink washing, and appearing liberal and LGBTQ-friendly, that the show encourages. This leads to great marketing and tourism for the country, alqueerian on twt did a great thread about it:

Full thread

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Here are a couple of petitions, open letters and links to encourage the ban of Israel in Eurovision

And if all fail: we boycott

Here are two petitions for the ban of Israel: Petition 1

Petition 2

A list of emails and contact information for broadcasters regarding Israel participation: copy, paste and send. Document

It's created by verilybitchie on YouTube who also made a great call to action video I can recommend

And for Swedes, I think it's extra important for us to speak up; here's what we can do:

Open letter via Björk & Frihet, a charity in Skåne offer letters to sign but also have pdf version to print at home!

This is also a letter regarding the contest being held in Malmö, a city with a long history fighting for Palestine! Sign here

Meanwhile, don't forget your daily clicks to help Palestine while we wait for EBU to stand by their words and prove we are united by music!

#free palestine #reblog

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