Hey, we're fundraising to help our friend replace the belongings she lost in an IDF strike on Gaza!
You might have seen this post floating around about our friend Swin who went to volunteer as a medic in Gaza, and whos residence was bombed the night before she was able to escape through Rafah.
Well, she's home! And we're so grateful to have her back, but the explosion utterly destroyed a lot of her belongings, including her phone, and left her with some minor injuries that'll need some care.
We'd like to raise some money (around $2000) on her behalf to replace this stuff; it doesn't sit well with us at all that Swin should go through so much to help people and be left with nothing but a bill.
We'd really appreciate any help, whether it's through sharing this post or donating, and there's more info on the Gofundme page!
>>Here's the link to the Gofundme!<<
We'd also like to mention while we've done this with Swins consent, she's requested privacy while she recovers. If you've got any questions or concerns, please direct them our way! (my dms and asks are always open, and you can reach out to darling @classychassiss who's drawn our banner and helped me organise!)
So I haven’t talked about this on main before, but the situation in South Gaza has gotten so horrifying that I’m p much throwing caution to the wind to desperately plead for eyes on this. I’m raising awareness about stories from activists in Gaza right now, including one of our own.
My lovely, wonderful friend Swin (aka tumblr user @combaticon) was deployed as a volunteer medic to a Gaza hospital on the 9th.
When the bloodshed started, she heard they needed extra hands in Gaza, she spoke Arabic and had the training, and she went.
I’ve been in contact with her throughout. She’s so incredibly brave it takes my breath away. My heart bleeds for these children she’s taking care of and how resilient they are is… astonishing.
Swin and these poor people have been under siege for so long, and they’re in desperate need of critical supplies. They have to filter water through their clothes, and it’s getting dangerously cold. Foods finally been getting through, but there’s not enough blankets and jackets to go around and there’s no fuel for the generators.
Their comrades in the West Bank have been completely pushed out by settler thugs. It’s incredibly unsafe to even be doing humanitarian work for Palestinians. Remember this the next time a Zionist tells you they’re doing this to ‘feel safe’. The IOF is arming lynch mobs.
On a personal note, this has been the most gut-wrenching week of my life. Every day when I wake up without a text from her I feel so much fear. I fight back the grief but I don’t know how to help or what to do. It’s terrifying.
Swin has asked for nothing, absolutely nothing other than something it can show the people around it to make them feel like they’re not going to be abandoned. To make sure they’re not forgotten in some pit praying Rafah opens before Israel decides to slaughter them all.
Today was a bad day. She’s alive but beyond worrying about her privacy now; she’s asked me to share this and to beg that we not lose steam and forget about them. Please share this, and please keep being fucking annoying and loud and digging your heels in with fury because we cannot let these people die silently.
I love transformers art so much. It has so much range to it in media choice and style and composition. Becoming a tf fan and immersing myself in the art on here has genuinely made my art so much richer. I've considered approaches I never would have considered before.
So many fandoms fall into this well where one art style/approach gets popular and then everything flows around it. Sometimes it's so strong you can literally break the fandom's art into eras. But transformers art seems to do the opposite. At least on Tumblr
It's repaired a bit of my brain that's been damaged by the wildly popular mass produced art styles that are so popular on instagram (and I imagine twitter also). I love so many of the transformers artists on here you are all so creative and your art is so diverse and it brings me so much joy
Hello hi. I wanted to share w/ you that you, Voidid and Sara Pitre-Durocher are huge massive inspos for my ever-changing art style and I say tysm for being like. Super talented all the time? ♥️
AW THANK U 🥺❤️ Theyre both fabulous artists thats so flattering
the Perth heat finally hit my city this week and I am filing away your funny robots to get me through what unairconditioned hours await me. thank you for the robot juice
oh good god I’m so sorry, I hear it gets especially rancid in Perth