[Id: A drawing of Falin and Marcille in a flower field of white flowers. The scene is awash in the fluorescent green of spring. Marcille holds onto Falin’s waist as she dips her. Her eyes are closed and her mouth is open in happiness. Falin shares that happiness, although she wears a shy smile instead of a bold one. Her hands rest at Marcille’s neck. The girls are surrounded by morning stars and there is a doodled heart between the two of them. /end Id]
"what use is it to be an illustrator of children's books when the world has sentenced the children of your country to the death penalty, to vanish, to genocide?"
some of baraa's illustrations:
this is an illustration for youssef, whose mother is remembered running desperately into the hospital asking if anyone had seen a "small white boy with beautiful curly hair, his name is youssef," a description which was remembered by millions when she finally identified his body:
this illustration is for young omar, who was hugging his little brother and teaching him how to repeat the shahada after him (a prayer spoken by muslims before their death) as he lay on his hospital bed:
"we want a new year that doesn't kill us or our children, we want it a year without blood, without screaming, without pain, we want a new attempt to get our lives back, or something that resembled our life, even if life is a lie we still cling to it, return life to us—a new year's card unlike any other year:"
A comic of shou and ritsu. They are aged up. Shou is chubby, with curly hair held back by a green headband and a a beard. He wears a green vest over a white polka dotted undershirt and a hamster patterned tie. Ritsu wears a blue suit, a pinstriped undershirt, a grey tie and glasses.
(Frame 1) Shou says, I’m off to work honey!
(Frame 2, Ritsu holds a purple coffee mug saying): Aren’t you forgetting something?
(Frame 3, a chibified Shou says): Oh, right!
Frame 4, Shou gives Ritsu a forehead kiss
(Frame 5 is an image of a collection of keys on a band. There is also a hamster keychain attached.)
Shou says: Thanks for the remin-
But is cut off my Ritsu who says: Honey, I meant your keys.
[id: A drawing of Serizawa, drawn darker than canon and with curly hair getting kissed on the cheek by dimple. He wears a shocked, blushing expression while dimple has a scrunched up expression. In one of serizawa’s hands, he holds a pencil. /end id
[id: Various drawing of yoshioka mamoru and cloud dimple. In most of the drawings, yoshioka is being possessed by dimple. In the yoshioka drawings, there’s drawings of him smoking, grinning, and sticking out his tongue. In the biggest one, he sits and grins at the viewer alongside fart cloud dimple doing the same thing. The other drawings include dimple getting his cheeks squished, him floating alongside yoshioka, and him in a tiny suit. The text is scattered. In a drawing of possessed yoshioka laughing, he says “then the guy ran into a hurricane! Ahaha! There’s no way he’s that stupid” One box text to a small yoshioka says yoshioka, another says “tiny yoshi all I can think of is xan help.” There’s a blehh by yoshi sticking out his tongue, a text next to a shocked dimple saying “me when yoshioka” and finally “I can’t believe I drew a MAN this many times… throwing up” /end id]
alt: a drawing of tome from mob psycho and ada from chainsawman talking. Tome is drawn as a high schooler. She has tanner skin than canon. The two are situated in front of an aquarium tank. Asa is telling tome about starfish as tome thinks “she’s cool!”
[id: A drawing of sailor Serizawa and ekubo from the official art. The two of them are pictured in front of some ocean waves. Serizawa is drawn with darker skin than canon and curly hair. Joyously, he winks at the viewer while holding up a buoy. Coming out from that buoy is ekubo who is just a little transparent. He smiles wickedly and holds two flags, one white and one red. /end id]
I love this one so much. There’s popular fandom consensus, in the Asian fandom that this guy has a ton of Yakuza tattoos. You see artists draw this all the time. I’m sure that was initially done because it was hot, but here’s an interesting attempt to delve into the implications.
What kind of person joins the Yakuza and what might their lives be like?