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killing myself. wasnt planning on shading but whoopsie my hands wont stop

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高杉さん~ ♥️ (#FGO)

(Takasugi san~ ♥️)

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and-- it's my commemorative valentine illustration for shacho 😌✨(I'm late I'm so sorry---)

I seriously I'm squeaking rn- cause this would be the first valentine for sugi in Chaldeas !🤸✨ (We finally receiving an interaction with him ! ✨)

the fanbase in twt(x) is going wild with amazing fanarts I just cant- 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️✨(bow down)

so to make up with it- I thought of drawing shacho on his first ascension 😌✨(cause dayum- I fudgin' live for his first ascension -- it was love at first sight okeh--*sweats*)

this has been sitting in my gallery for a while now-- 👁️👁️✨ about time I set my shacho free ehe-- and alot more of him is glaring daggers at me 😤✨

have a great day-- I'm probably never gonna shut up about him again for the next few days once I get back to the pres- 🤸🤸🤸✨

(DO NOT REPOST USE /PRINT /TRACE MY ARTWORK)

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(#honkaistarrail)

" Friend , the game has already begun ..."

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Penacony is officially out ! ✨🤸🃏🎩

how's everyones exploration at the interactive map ? 🧐✨

so damn-- I honestly knew I had to come back real quick to experience it myself! 👀✨🙏

another Aventurine illustration for everyone is here-- cause hecc-- seeing his cutscenes for the new story line is making it hard for me to keep still and watch-- 😤✨(pls imagine that hand is you- 🤸🤸🤸)

so yeah- his expressions Is really something 👁️👁️ - I cannot wait to see the story unfold-!

Anyway-- finally back after a bit with another hsr fanart- cause damn I've been sick for a few days-- 💦💦✨ I hope I fully get back with my element 😭✨

(DO NOT REPOST USE PRINT TRACE MY ARTWORK/ AI IS PROHIBITED) #YueArt

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how you can help palestine

*i regularly update this post with any new info i find so please always reblog the original post*

Donations

donations currently reaching gaza:

‼️ help buy e-sims for people in gaza

donate to get food packages to gaza - care for gaza

donate direct aid to gaza - ehab rida (longtime activist and volunteer, has been carrying out donations and humanitarian projects in gaza since 2021)

palestine children's relief fund

world food programme

aid to gaza - taawon/bank of palestine

help gaza’s children

urgent humanitarian aid to palestinians - anera

medical aid for palestinians

urgent support for medical professionals in gaza

donate to ahmed (@/90-ghost on tumblr)

he is born, raised and based in gaza. please help him reach his goal of $50K to get his family to safety across the rafah border into egypt. as of right now… it’s $7.5K per person to evacuate gaza.

help journalist yousef escape gaza to treat his cancer

help mohamed evacuate gaza to get treatment for himself and his daughter

support palestinians: buy a keffiyeh from the last and only factory in palestine - hirbawi

secondary donations:

emergency relief for gaza - pious projects

palestine red crescent society

save palestine - islamic relief canada

send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association

click to donate - arab.org

help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction

donate for the recovery of hisham awartani

one of the three palestinian students shot by a racist in vermont for wearing kufiyas and speaking arabic. hisham’s injuries have left him paralysed from below the chest.

Petitions

‼️ urge icj to invite gazan journalists to testify

international cultural workers to strike from german cultural institutions for their complicity in oppressing palestinians and promoting genocide - strike germany

petition to investigate war crimes committed by israeli military

demand ceasefire - amnesty international

open call for immediate ceasefire

american government call for immediate ceasefire

american government to stop funding israeli military

ceasefire and increase humanitarian assistance - oxfam au

petition to get canva to address their pro-israel stance

invoke the genocide convention to call for ceasefire in gaza - world beyond war

suspend israel from international sports - diem25

UK to expel israeli ambassador - change.org

gaza healthcare workers for nobel peace prize - change.org

teachers around the world demand ceasefire - teachers for palestine

president whitten: reinstate samia halaby retrospective NOW - action network

location specific petitions

gaza call for lasting ceasefire - oxfam (UK)

end israeli occupation - parliament uk (UK)

email your MP - medical aid for palestine (UK)

protect gaza civilians - islamic relief (UK)

stop fuelling genocide - action network (USA)

@ biden: call for ceasefire now - move on (USA)

ceasefirenow.com - jewishvoiceofpeace (USA)

call congress and demand a ceasefire - uscpr (USA - they provide a script of what you should say, so don't worry about it)

note: you can call everyday. they tally the number of calls per issue. so more calls = higher chance for them to take action. p.s. you mainly go to voicemail so don’t worry about phone call anxiety. fight through it just this once please.

no forced displacement! - action network

australia call on israel to stop attacking palestinians - apan (AUS)

immediate ceasefire and increase in humanitarian aid in gaza - actionaid (AUS)

email your MPs - stand with palestine (AUS)

‼️ australian senate to investigate australian citizens in the IDF for war crimes allegations - fpm (AUS)

‼️ arms embargo on israel - cjpme (CANADA)

sign to send letter to MP for ceasefire - nccm (CANADA)

ceasefire now! - ijv (CANADA)

call on your local mayor and council to demand ceasefire - LeadNow (CANADA)

cessez-le-feu et un couloir humanitaire - le mouvement (FRANCE)

écrivez aux député-es et sénateurs-trices - association france palestine solidarité (FRANCE)

write to your député - assemblée nationale (FRANCE)

skydda civilbefolkningen i gaza! - mittskifte (SWEDEN)

singaporeans call for immediate ceasefire (SIN)

contact your elected reps and demand a ceasefire (GERMANY)

write to the EU demanding a ceasefire (EUROPE)

template of letters you can send (EU)

guide on how to contact your MPs in EU

p.s. if the template is outdated, just use it as a guide and add a few sentences here and there that reflect the current situation. i can’t find any recent templates so :/ at least this is something

multiple actions you can take to help palestine - plant een olifbloom (NETHERLANDS)

includes: links for donations, emails to MP, emails to media, links to petitions and demonstrations

den haag, maak nú werk van vrede in israël/Palestina - the right forum (NETHERLANDS)

māori call for palestine - ourActionStation (NZ)

special visa for palestinians in gaza with family in NZ - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

deem israeli actions as war crimes - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

basta ao genocídio em Gaza! - awaaz (BRAZIL)

globo e grande mídia, parem de desumanizar civis palestinos - the intercept (BRAZIL)

Campaigns

‼️ justice for palestine

reach out to countries to back up south africa’s invoke genocide convention at the ICJ

‼️ international criminal court

submit evidences of israeli war crimes

friends of al-aqsa

❥ UK-specific

urge your MP to speak up for palestine

hands off al-aqsa

stop administrative detention

petition for UK to stop arming israel

❥ International

boycott puma — email them to end their partnership with israel

boycott coca-cola

palestine action

join the resistance

islamic relief canada

urge your MP to rally for ceasefire

decolonise palestine

poster campaign to raise awareness on the war crimes being committed against palestinians

text/call campaign for people living in USA

text CEASEFIRE @ 51905 to call for a ceasefire

text RESIST @ 50409 to send a letter to your representatives to pass HR3103–a bill that prohibits tax dollars from going to israel

download 5Calls app to contact members of your congress | (more info)

fax campaign for people in the USA

go on this website to send 5 free faxes per day

here’s a link to a pre-written fax copy you can download to send (the first link on the linktree)

here’s a video that explains how to fax your senator (it’s very easy and all you need is a valid email address)

‼️ BDS movement

get involved in boycotting companies associated with israel

palestine diaspora network

global strike guide - join the global strike!

please let me know if you have any more links. i will add them in. and please reblog the original post!!

UPCOMING PROTESTS

PALESTINIAN LITERATURE READING LIST

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Page 14 preview. Been slow working on this thing. Will do another post with full pages on tumblr once I finish everything up to page 18.

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legacy

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Fate's Refusal to Honour (or at least properly research) Depictions of Non-Japanese Figures 2: Electric Bogaloo ft. Wandjina from the Current JP Summer Event

Disclaimer: While I am an Australian, I am NOT of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent. Therefore, I am coming at this issue from an outsider's perspective. If there is an Aboriginal person, or more specifically of the Mowanjum people from the Kimberly regions, please PLEASE correct me if I am wrong on any front.

The culprit behind the events of the current Summer story in the JP servers has recently been revealed to be Wandjina, a creator Dreamtime figure from the Mowanjum people's culture.

In any other context, I would be thrilled to have an Australian figure in FGO, but the problem here is the figure they use.

Wandjina are sacred to the Mowanjum people, and therefore one needs to go through Aboriginal Law to obtain the right to use the Wandjina's image.

In Australia, this resulted in an actual conflict between a non-indigenous artist and aboriginals. You can read more here, but one quote to note is from an Aboriginal man of the Darug people, Chris Tobin: "Aboriginal law is very specific on what you can and can't do with wan[d]jinas." Another quote on this topic is made by the owner of an Aboriginal art gallery, Adrian Newstead: "Only a few Aboriginal artists ever win the right to depict wan[d]jina, and only then after years of initiations and ceremonies..."

I am NOT attaching an image of FGO's iteration of Wandjina due to this. Not only is her appearance only Aboriginal on a surface-level with her 'dot art' aesthetic (dot art* is only a recent addition to Aboriginal culture, created back in the 1970s), having no resemblance to an Aboriginal person (note, that while many Aboriginal people are white/pale, FGO continually chooses to depict people of colour as light skinned as possible. And yes, I know she's blue, not white. There is literally no records of her being blue skinned; is this because Wandjina's are associated with rain????) but she is also not very Wandjina looking? These figures do not have mouths, have large eyes meant to resemble the eye of a storm and are typically depicted with elaborate headdresses. That little glowing boomerang on her head is not exactly elaborate. And WHY does she have a boomerang??? Because she's Australian???? By that logic, every Japanese figure needs to have a katana. #GiveMurasakiaKatana2023.

There is also the issue of Cnoc na Riabh. While it is funny to think that she's a foreigner because of an Australian influence, Yaraan-doo is also another Aboriginal figure. And it is slapped onto a white girl for a fan service event. I'd just rather Fate leave Aboriginal culture alone and just do, like, Ned Kelly or something if they're going to continue like this.

More resources and info under the read more!

You'll have noted in the quotes that I've edited an 'n' into wanjinas. This is so I didn't confuse anyone: both can be the correct spelling! I just stuck to what I thought FGO was using for their Wandjina.

Here's an overview of what wandjinas are and their inappropriate use in art: https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/arts/what-are-wandjinas

Here's another page about an inappropriate use of Wandjinas (note: it's only a short synopsis about a documentary that covered the incident, I'm uncertain if you would be able to get access to the documentary outside of Australia): https://www.creativespirits.info/resources/movies/who-paintin-dis-wandjina

It should also be noted that the two websites I've linked above are from the website Creative Spirits. While it is run by a non-Indigenous person, the person behind it is currently transitioning it to be an Aboriginal owned and run resource. You can read more about how this site is run in his About page.

*If you want to know about dot art's origin, here and here are some resources on them. However, this article brings up something interesting that I would like to bring back to FGO Wandjina's dot art aesthetic. It notes that "the term 'dot painting' stems from what the Western eye sees when faced with contemporary Aboriginal acrylic paintings" (emphasis mine). All three articles note that dots were used to obfuscate sacred symbols and artifacts so that those who were not initiated into their cultures could not see what these figures were. In that case, what the hell is the dot art seen on Fate's Wandjina supposed to represent? In this article, it talks about the symbolism in Indigenous art. Fate's Wandjina has none.

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You're thinking of I-IV, Artemis, Babbage and Orion's artist. Lancelot's artist is Shimadrill and his art is just like this

Lancelot is not the only one happy to see us apparently

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Fate grand order will never stop finding new and creative ways to spite me. Every single year I go "Okay I don't want to be upset about fanservice bias this time so I should stop expecting things" and every year they keep finding new ways to make me unbearably mad. Last year it was the alt Douman designs, this year it's Oberon being fucked over while all his other fellow LB6 SSRs get shiny new alts. It makes me so unbearably upset and I hate hate HATE it so much, why do I have to cry about stupid shit like this after EIGHT YEARS

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GWitch is fascinating because since season 2 started I've found myself liking less and less of the overall narrative with every new episode with it reaching a crescendo when I realized that a character who I didn't even know was one of my favourites until recently had an absolute wet fart of a narrative conclusion but I'm still seeing people go on about how much emotions this season has made them feel so it's very "Uh...huh.."

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I love beast lair, where else will a mod suddenly wake up and reveal that several things the fandom has held as gospel for years was most likely manufactured by someone who actually got banned from the grandorder sub for making "controversies" up for shots and giggles

https://forums.nrvnqsr.com/showthread.php/3173-Fate-Apocrypha-Free-Range-Spoiler-Thread?p=3270665&viewfull=1#post3270665

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Over the past few months I've been doing illustrations of LB6 characters in preparation for the big release with my master OC. It was basically an excuse to force me to attempt different designs/poses but the whole experience was pretty fun even if I specifically have no desire to draw Morgan (deceptively unpleasant outfit to draw) and Melusine (looking for art references was such a pain) again. Also bonus doodles I did for when Heian Kyo got released

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honestly i think I have read a fanfic that goes into exactly that

i lied this isn't an fgo blog. now put your pants back on we're going to talk about the socioeconomic implications of omegaverse worldbuilding.

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My weird hobby on Tumblr is to like the post of a user who blocked me just to see if my likes continue to just he rejected by them.

It has been a year and counting and still yes!

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@thatkazguy nope, Pako was always Karna's original designer. Apocrypha's initial idea was an MMO and there were a lot of different artists involved. Some came back and "claimed" their kids in FGO (Karna and Atalante being an example) others didn't (Semiramis, Shakespeare and Siegfried)

pako’s comment for Karna in FGO Material III:

“…Though Karna-san is considered as ‘handsome’ in contemporary Japan, I don’t think he would be considered as one if this is how he looked when he was alive. He has no beard, he’s too thin, and his eyes are dead.”

PAKO HAHAHAHA ISN’T IT YOUR FAULT

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Back when I was active in the MHA fandom years ago I remember not really understanding why Mineta attracts so much vitriol and now that I've read a hobby drama post I honestly still don't