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hey! i can answer this!

basically, most if not all gaza fundraising was happening on gofundme simply due to name recognition and brand trust. however, gofundme quickly proved itself to be actively complicit in the genocide through its targeting of palestinian fundraisers for deletion and suppression.

my own friend siraj lost over $27,000 he had painstakingly raised over several months when gofundme arbitrarily declared his previously verified fundraiser fraudulent. he instantly lost access to food and housing for his entire family and has not been able to regain that progress since.

by contrast, chuffed has basically never given gaza fundraisers any problems. it actively promotes palestine-related fundraisers on its front page.

chuffed has also been used by the sameer project, crips for esims for gaza, and other palestine orgs for over a year now. after a particularly bad wave of deletions (of which siraj was a victim) people began migrating their fundraisers to chuffed, and it's become the go-to host site for new crowdfunding campaigns.

so if you see a fundraiser on chuffed, that's why!

my friend siraj has since moved his fundraiser to chuffed. if you got something out of this post, please consider donating to him. he needs ~150 euros to afford food for his family.

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so itchio has shadowbanned any games tagged with 'nsfw', 'adult', or 'erotic' so they don't show up in searches, and several devs have reported that their r18 games have been removed from the site with no warning

you know, maybe the internet shouldn’t be controlled by payment processors and terf lobbyists. and maybe people should be more concerned about this rise of censorship on queer media.

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hee hee april fools

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(bonus emmett and dragon)

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happy (belated) valentine's day :3c

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Can't Have Nice Things

The Ketamine King Musk has shutdown the IRS's Free Tax Filing system.

Of all the things a government could off, a way to Freely calculate and file your taxes seems like a good one. But the richest man in the world thinks we shouldn't have that.

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wow what a week, pass the yaoi

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also did everyone enjoy the barbie movie? i did :3c

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sorry i've been so inactive. first sketch of the year! merry crimbus

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happy valentines day, here’s emmett and emery making valentine’s chocolate Very Poorly!

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Hey, can y’all rb this if it’s okay to send you messages asking about your ocs, cause on god I wanna interact with y’all but I am terrified of being annoying lol

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extremely flawed that when you private message / answer that it doesn’t save to an outbox

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9 and 18, spill the truth >:3

9. What are your file name conventions

My file names aren't super organized but I try to be kinda descriptive about what the content is? Like, for example, character and/or client name(s), any sort of themes (mer au, modern au, dancing, sleeping, clothes swap etc etc.), what it's for (doodles, sketch, illo, commish, etc.), and then the date in MonDD YYYY format. Usually it looks kinda like this:

emery hornt sketches Nov16 2022.psd

It helps me be able to spot at a glance what I was drawing + when I drew it when the thumbnail isn't super clear or if the file has been updated recently and moved up in my file directory (I like to sort by date modified!).

18. An estimate of how much art supplies you've broken

Hard to say.... in traditional media, a lot of art supplies are brittle if they're not good quality so I've def dropped color pencils enough that the core is entirely smashed and no amount of sharpening will get a stable point that won't just fall off as soon as it touches paper. There's brushes I've ruined bc I forgot to wash off the acrylic paint... Clay that's dried to un-usability... I've broken at least 3 styluses too from my gorilla grip hands.... Uhhhh let's just say A LOT 💦💦💦

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12, 19, 29 and 30!

12. Easiest part of body to draw

For me, it's the hands! One of my faves to draw :3c

19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw

uumhgmhgng shoes maybe? but only certain angles, otherwise shoes are my enemy

29. Media you love, but doesn't inspire you artistically

I love!!! Omniscient Reader!!! but I'm not very compelled to draw for it, there's so much good art out there for it already and im like [no thoughts head empty] o)-( I feel like the best art for this is super experimental and directly quotes the text, but i lack the free time and brain cells to make some myself /o\

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated

Erm.. what's considered underrated.... like less than 100 notes...?

Maybe this doesn't count because I never formally posted it, but this CG that I drew for my thesis game Prince & Knight is something that I'm really proud of :'3c

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an ask game! feel free to drop a number in my ask box, or answer a question yourself in my ask / submission box :3c

Weirdly Specific Artist Ask Game

Didn't see a lot of artist ask games, wanted to make a silly one.

(I wrote this while sick out of my mind last year and it's been collecting dust in my drafts, I might as well let it run free) 1. Art programs you have but don't use

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)

3. What ideas come from when you were little

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasn't supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it)

7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate

8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in

9. What are your file name conventions

10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

12. Easiest part of body to draw

13. A creator who you admire but whose work isn't your thing

14. Any favorite motifs

15. *Where* do you draw (don't drop your ip address this just means do you doodle at a park or smth)

16. Something you are good at but don't really have fun doing

17. Do you eat/drink when drawing? if so, what

18. An estimate of how much art supplies you've broken

19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw (food, nature, etc.)

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways

22. What physical exercises do you do before drawing, if any

23. Do you use different layer modes

24. Do your references include stock images

25. Something your art has been compared to that you were NOT inspired by

26. What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended

27. Do you warm up before getting to the good stuff? If so, what is it you draw to warm up with

28. Any art events you have participated in the past (like zines)

29. Media you love, but doesn't inspire you artistically

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated

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hewwo, changed my icon. will i be posting more here now that twitter is a burning hellscape? the answer is