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my svsss comic about sqq and his little personality split (what if)

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The local queer centrum asked us all to support the ban on conversion therapy in the EU initiative, so now it's My Job to do it seriously.

We still need so many signatures. Damn. So. Many. Signatures.

Come on people, we can do this!!

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Even though they were both Luo Binghe... For what reason had that one been able to meet this sort of Shen Qingqiu, while he had only met a rotten bastard—vindictive, petty, and jealous to the core? For what reason?!

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put it on twitter and forgot about here orz…

chapter 67 cezhou was soo married, i needed to draw them

(i am fond of these, so closeups!!)

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– This young master, why are you standing in the rain?

– My fan is dirty.

(from ch 107)

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fem chu wanning in lingerie .. self indulgent art 😞🙏

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that one ref but fem ranwan + lingerie because cwn looks good in lingerie

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I WANT TO KISS CHU WANNING!!! ohhhh how i LOVE CHU WANNING!!!

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technically, shen twins!

[ID: A fan comic. Panel 1: A young Shen Jiu, who carries a baby Ning Yingying on his back, and his old master, Wu Yanzi, come across a dying Su Xiyan. While Wu Yanzi looks through a pouch he stole from her person, Shen Jiu simply stares as Su Xiyan touches her infant son’s cheek.

Panel 2: When Shen Jiu kills Wu Yanzi to save Yue Qingyuan, blood splatters on his cheek. Two babies are on his person, one secured to his front, and the other behind his back. Yue Qingyuan approaches, horrified.

Panel 3: Shen Jiu, dressed in Qing Jing uniform, holds toddlers Ning Yingying and Luo Binghe to his right and left hip respectively. All three have their right eyebrow raised. He is ranting to someone unknown, “I cannot believe cang qiong is incapable of something as simple as child rearing!” Beside the speech bubble, there is a small text that says, “NOTE: child rearing is not simple, and ying-er and binghe are hardly ordinary.”

Panel 4: Toddlers Luo Binghe and Ning Yingying are holding hands, looking up at Yue Qingyuan. Ning Yingying exclaims with a smile, “Are those gifts for us, Yue shibo?” Meanwhile, Yue Qingyuan holds up a stack of gifts, beaming. His eyes are just barely seen from above the stack. END ID]

everyone totally thinks sj gave birth to both of them—he only did with nyy

the babies are so incredibly smiley. so bright. yk who else is incredibly smiley? yqy. naturally, everyone thinks sj was yqy’s abandoned lover.

yqy’s regret and self loathing levels are THROUGH. THE. ROOF. in this au. dw tho qijiu sort it out in the future

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(x)

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The only logical option left.

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My Experience Buying eSIMs for Gaza by Maia Kobabe

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Full transcript below the cut:

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My Experience Buying eSIMs for Gaza 

Project organized by @ connectinghumanity_

by Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks 

Page 1 

In Fall 2023, I saw instructions on instagram for how to purchase an eSIM card and submit it to be distributed to someone in Gaza. 

Download an eSIM app-> Select Middle East as the region-> Purchase-> Screenshot the QR code-> Do not activate-> send to gazaesims@gmail.com 

Image of Maia looking at eir phone. “That sounds easy, I’ll buy one.” 

I emailed an Airalo eSIM QR code to gazaesims on Nov 17 2023. 

Page 2

By January 2024, it hadn’t been activated yet. I bought a second one from Nomad and sent my new QR code and resubmitted my old one. 

Image of Maia looking at eir phone. “How long does this usually take, I wonder?” 

By February neither had been activated, but Connecting Humanity kept posting about needing more. I bought a second Nomad and resubmitted all of them on February 15, 2024. 

Page 3

The Nomad eSIMs are much cheaper than Airalo, but what I didn’t realize is that they expire even if they haven’t been activated. At the end of February I decided to try a third company, Simly. Here’s a price comparison: 

AIRALO: $39 USD for 3GB, never expires 

SIMLY: $22 USD for 3GB, never expires 

NOMAD: $16 USD for 3GB, expires after 8 weeks even if unused, only offers in-app refunds 

Page 4

Connecting Humanity asks folks to wait at least 3 weeks before resending a QR code that hasn’t been activated yet. On March 7 Mirna Elhelbawi posted: 

We send EVERY esim we receive. Bear in  mind that we are dealing with people at a war zone. They might take it and get killed before activating it, they might take it and their phone gets lost or destroyed. They might take it and search for days for stable internet connection to activate it, and some of them activate it unsuccessfully due to lack of knowledge and the horrific situations they are in. ~Connecting Gaza 

By early April, my first Nomad eSIM expired unused. I resubmitted my three remaining eSIMs. 

Page 5

Suddenly, two of my eSIMs were activated on the same day! The Airalo I’d purchased 4.5 months earlier and my second Nomad. 

Image of Maia looking happy and surprised. 

Image of Maia looking very intensely at eir phone. “I have to make sure these don’t run out!” 

I began buying top-up packages immediately. 

Page 6

I felt like I had planted a seed in the fall and waited all winter for it to sprout. Seeing it activated was like watching the first new leaves break the soil. 

Image of Maia with a watering can labeled “data”, sprinkling water on two little sprouts. “Watering my eSIMs!” 

Sadly, only .07 GB of data was ever used on my Nomad. It was never used again after that first day. 

Page 7

But my Airalo has been in constant use for over a month now. I check on it every day. 

I will never know the person I am buying data for and they will never know me. But we are connected by the same strings of hope and grief that connect us all. 

Image of two hands holding a phone, which is connected to a flying kite. 

Page 8

On April 5, 2024 Connecting Humanity reported they had sent more than 250,000 eSIMs to Gaza, equivalent to approximately $6.3 million donated! You can visit gazaesims.com for more info, instructions, and discounts. Here are my referral codes: 

MAIA5367 for $3 off Airalo 

MB772 for $3 off Simly 

MAIA66GF for $3 off Nomad 

If you need more incentive, the Cartoonist Coop is doing art rewards. Visit cartoonist.coop/esims4gaza 

Page 9

Image of Maia, weighing two options. “Buying an eSIM is easy and can make a very direct impact. It can also take a lot of patience and could get expensive over time if you commit to keeping the eSIM topped up indefinitely.” 

If an immediate one time donation is more your speed, I recommend Operation Olive Branch and Gazafunds, two places to find Gofundmes aiding Palestinian families. 

gazafunds.com

@ operationolivebranch on insta

linktr.ee/opolivebranch 

-Maia Kobabe 2024 

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You can read more about the horrific conditions of these camps here and here

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Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

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What is your Hogwarts house?

Actually I've already processed all five stages of grief in regards to a beloved author from my childhood very publicly making the jump from "milquetoast liberal with unexamined biases" to "actively dangerous bigot who will double down into perpetuity" and will no longer be basing any part of my identity on her intellectual property! Thanks for asking!

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I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

Switch to linux, it's free and it's good.