Having to chant “let them pray” while building a wall around people who are praying is truly terrifying for 2024

gaming elf

practice piece

Fatalis - Dragon of the Evil Eye

Hey everyone! Alright figured I should do a proper introduction or something? Most of you will know me already given this is spawned from the Twitter situation, but if you are stumbling on this from somewhere else then hello first of all! Online I'm best known by the name Nomax, active as an artist for over 10 years by now, and able to call this my sole profession for I think 6 or 7 of those years by now? Phew. My OC/Sona/Character goes by the same name, mostly for simplicity's sake, really. Painted Dog who I initially had many plan for. A whole story, maybe put down into some comics or at least some kind of illustrated story of sorts... but as is the case for many of us artists working freelance it was hard finding the time for it, so by now all the lines between the different universes for him are blurred and he simply finds his place in relaxation paintings to take my mind off of work. He is VERY good at standing somewhere and looking into the middle-distance I'll have you know! So here you go, have a bunch of art of him. This is what you filthy freaks want, right?!

I'm so angry I could piss glue

some misc scribbles of this chara i adopted from theunibou the other week ! you can see his original design waaaay tiny in the second image alskdjfd

im not sure of his name just yet but i believe he's a librarian of some sort or at the very least has an affinity for collecting rare books.

Whenever I see people try to differentiate what is “Israel” and what is the “Palestinian state” I always have a very awkward feeling - which is why I think a lot of people need to reevaluate how they speak about Palestine and Israel, specifically what they define as occupied Palestine.

My father’s family is from a village in Jaffa (the district), which is now part of what most people define as “mainland Israel” or an “undisputed” part of Israel - like that land was acquired legally or ethically and an unequivocal part of what is Israel vs what is considered (at least to some) Palestine (the West Bank & Gaza). 

My father’s family had the choice to flee or die and to this day cannot return home to Jaffa. It leaves me with a strange feeling when people discuss a hypothetical “two state solution” as if that land is inarguably Israel and the West Bank and Gaza is inarguably Palestine - my family is not from the West Bank or Gaza, they’re from Jaffa. Proudly Palestinians from Jaffa - they’re not Israeli and never be Israeli, they predate the modern colonial state of Israel.

When people talk about occupied Palestine, they’re usually referring to the 1967 borders and the increasing settlements in the West Bank, when Palestinians talk about occupied Palestine, we’re talking about all of it - every corner of what people define as “mainland Israel” there is a story of Palestinian dispossession - It includes my family and thousands of others. 

Leaving this map here for people to get an idea of how much destruction of Palestinian life and communities happened in what people see as an “undisputed part of Israel” - there is a reason the Palestinian population here plummeted in 1948. 

In short:

"Here are your tortured poets. All from Mahmoud Darwish to Dr. Refat Alareer to Khaled Juma, these are tortured poets. Tortured by longing for a home they can never return to, tortured by the world they were born to for BEING BORN. Palestine, home to the tortured poets department." [@/folkoftheshelf on X. April 20th, 2024.]

Smoking cigarettes is bad for your health. Smoking green paint made of arsenic is worse~

More shenanigans involving Dante, a character from my wip illustrated novel about 19th century artists. Back then, most paints are made of highly toxic ingredients such as lead, mercury, and arsenic (for the the infamous color: Paris Green).

The soundtrack too. I remember it being kind of boring. Maybe it was better than i remember but i dont think it stood out

every time I remember "Aiden Pearce's Iconic Cap" I lose my shit. Literally the most boring nothing just-a-guy video game protagonists ever designed, painfully generic even for an ubisoft protagonist, and the hat is literally just a black baseball cap

Sybil... go play Pseudoregalia, it's so fuckin good ✨