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I need to give guibert a sister to have a sore relationship with

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Urgent Appeal 🥊

Hello my friend 👋

My name is Mohammed, I live in Gaza City and I am 19 years old. I have lived through the full horrors of war — hunger, displacement, fear, relentless bombings, destruction, and so many other painful experiences 🥹😭.I never created a donation link before, and I haven’t received any kind of help throughout this devastating war 🥲💔.

I was so happy when the ceasefire was announced, and I dreamed of starting a small shop to earn a living. But sadly, the war returned — even more violent and destructive than before 😭.Our area has now been declared a dangerous combat zone, and we lost our home — the only shelter we had 💔.

Worst of all, my father was seriously injured: he tragically lost one of his hands and an eye, and he is now completely unable to work or support our family 🥲😭.

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Please, for the sake of humanity and for the sake of my family, consider making a donation to help us survive 🙏💔.

I just created the donation link, hoping that someone out there might lend a helping hand.

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Hello my friends: There is a friend of mine Hamza who lives in Gaza, he is 23 years old, he is a person like any other person, he loves education and loves studying, Hamza was excelling in university before the war started, but look how things changed, he became unable to move because he is sick with thalassemia and needs medicine and treatment outside Gaza urgently, and now due to the lack of food he cannot move, please donate to him so he can live a decent life outside Gaza, please donate, and also these days the Israeli military operation will include all of the Gaza Strip, so the situation is getting worse now, please donate.

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i call dis one "is there any dignified way to ask for pussy" u fags will do anything at the museum but your JOBS......

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Attack of Virgil for @inquissien !!

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This is your captain speaking and yeah we’re not landing. I just feel like we’ve got a really good thing up here and I don’t want to ruin it. This is my home and you are my people

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Played The Pale Beyond, loved it, here's my Shaw

More various details about him below the cut

Weirdly tall, only dwarfed by Kurt among the crew.

He's an insomniac, though he's a heavy sleeper once he finally falls asleep.

He's farsighted and probably needs glasses.

Smoker, but manages to successfully wean himself off them before he runs out.

Covered in more tattoos and scars than I bothered to draw. If The Temperance has the supplies for it, he'd probably tattoo any interested members of the crew.

His hair grows another ~5 inches by the end of the voyage. He blondes very easily in the sun, and ends up with surfer-esque hair (think Owen Wilson). He also starts prematurely graying from stress.

He's pretty hairy, but since it's all thin and blonde, most don't realize.

Comes from a big family, but he isn't close to any of them—they didn't even know he went to Antarctica until they read about his safe return in the papers.

Has a bit of a death wish at first, but is more-or-less able to shake it off once he realizes he needs to step up or everyone dies. Even then, he didn't really fully believe he'd be making it home up until the moment he actually does.

Doesn't mince words and is pretty straightforward. At first, he tried to maintain some level of decorum and chain of command, but as soon as he actually takes command that all goes right out the window and he shifts to being blunt and honest with folks.

Gets along best with Hammond, as they have similar senses of humor.

Templeton can barely stand him (<- I was constantly gaining and then immediately losing his loyalty). He disagrees with just about every major decision Shaw makes but the results speak for themselves.

He has a lot of respect for Grimley and, in any other circumstances, the two would likely be pals. He think's Grimley's mutinous song is pretty cool (<- I have been listening to it looped while drawing this).

Runt reminds him of himself as a kid, and one of his biggest regrets is not leaving the boy safe in port.

Has a soft spot for Dr. Nutlee, he calls him "Art"

He resents Hunt for being too weak to handle the position and leaving him, with his zero experience, in charge. By the end of the game his rage has simmered down, but he still hates the man.

Things I didn't need to look up that I, nevertheless, looked up for this:

The history of the cigarette—filters were added to cigarettes in the 1950s, so Shaw's cigarette doesn't have one

How sunbleaching works—the UV rays destroy the hair's melanin

Relevant time period—the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration lasted from 1900–1920ish. I decided to narrow it down to taking place between 1909–1914 based on the end of the Nimrod Expedition (the first to reach the south magnetic pole) and the start of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (at first just so I wouldn't have to think about the complications brought about by the beginning of WWI, but then I decided that since the game is set in an alternate universe I can just decide to not worry about WWI). This time period would have been during the Edwardian Era, but since Shaw's backstory would have mostly taken place during the late Victorian Era, I kept my research focused on that period.

Tattoos in the Victorian Era—Exceedingly common among criminals and sailors. Shaw was both. Shout out to https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/ for having a database of criminals AND tattoos from this period, very cool and helpful!!

The History of Smuggling in the Victorian Era—it was on a significant decline from the beginning to the end of the 19th century. Shaw's gang was very much an outlier at this point in time.

Expected punishments for smuggling—The Probation of Offenders Act 1907, among other reforms, dramatically cut down on the number of criminals sent to prison by giving judges the power to dismiss or conditionally discharge a defendant, even if they have been found guilty. This Act is how Shaw was even offered a "plea deal" in the first place. I'm not familiar enough with any legal systems to know how realistic this is, but then again this is an alternate universe so if I'm wrong actually no I'm not. So there

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it blows when my art doesnt get as popular as itdid before for self-esteem reasons but also it is SO much harder finding comms now. of course its because something like say hlvrai or tf2 is way bigger than any of the games im into now but also,

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this machine shoots yankee colonizers :3

my self indulgent "those movies made me sad so nowi am going to fulfill my sick fantasy of Agency and Triumph by drawing myson as a revolutionary" doodle

edit: ack my quality.... click on it to see him nicies

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sometimes i think about pale from kasha's perspective and remember shes powerful as fuck for being a young journalist trapped on the ice with a bunch of closed off jerks/straight up liars. she should be at the club

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this machine shoots yankee colonizers :3

my self indulgent "those movies made me sad so nowi am going to fulfill my sick fantasy of Agency and Triumph by drawing myson as a revolutionary" doodle

edit: ack my quality.... click on it to see him nicies

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Yeah I'm Filipino, I forgot you were too. Ig I'm just bitter because like I want to love the place but I find it hard to not see the colonialism as total destruction of what my family could have been. Idk I guess your post touched on some personal things sorry for going off in your asks

it sucks that youre bitter, i get it, i am too and a lot of people are, but like. patronizing me like im a white person for caring about our sad backwards shithole country is really a deeply strange move. i was almost certain you were white for calling the country a hostile shithole but knowing youre filipino???

and saying those things while assuming im white too.. it's really odd, like. you want me, as an assumed white person, to agree with you with frankly insensitive generalizing remarks? idk man

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The thing that sucks about the Philippines is they had a baller culture and they have a generally high social demeanor but they have been colonized by like everyone and going to the Philippines is kind of like signing your own death certificate if you want to go anywhere but some of central luzon. So I guess what I'm saying is caring about the Philippines in general is micro dosing for hating several colonial powers and having a complex feeling towards the country as is today. Anyway try sisig

im filipino

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sorry it's hard to form a proper response to this ask because i can't figure out if it's coming from like a . white person who has strong feelings about the country or a filipino with. well., complex feelings about the country.

just in case you are the latter, i Also have complex feelings about the philippines, but saying "had" a baller culture feels. idk, much of it has been taken away by colonialism but indigenous people with ancient practices do still exist. and there is still value in a post colonial culture. idk you have to make something of it I guess.

for the record im from southern Luzon and have lived there before without dying once, and sisig happens to be my favorite filipino food ✌️pinangat is a close second

The thing that sucks about the Philippines is they had a baller culture and they have a generally high social demeanor but they have been colonized by like everyone and going to the Philippines is kind of like signing your own death certificate if you want to go anywhere but some of central luzon. So I guess what I'm saying is caring about the Philippines in general is micro dosing for hating several colonial powers and having a complex feeling towards the country as is today. Anyway try sisig

im filipino

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The thing that sucks about the Philippines is they had a baller culture and they have a generally high social demeanor but they have been colonized by like everyone and going to the Philippines is kind of like signing your own death certificate if you want to go anywhere but some of central luzon. So I guess what I'm saying is caring about the Philippines in general is micro dosing for hating several colonial powers and having a complex feeling towards the country as is today. Anyway try sisig

im filipino

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arrgrh I have so many thoughts about Shaw and his connection (and disconnect) to his home and culture and how it relates to how he acts and the things he does and his relationships with people but how do you like. Draw that.

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ok the second movie in the trilogy is really long and in general its kind of depressing to watch movies about filipino revolutionaries falling apart and dying and watching americans win so do i wish to finish it..

microdosing on hating america by watching and discussing tarrog's films about filipino revolutionaries