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Do you want to know how to help the people of the DRC? Go donate money to focuscongo.com, that's one possibility.

You can also donate physical objects in high demand right now, if you have the $ to pay for international shipping prices, and send to this address [10 Avenue Des Messagers, Quartier Les Volcans, Commune de Goma, Ville de Goma, Province du Nord-Kivu, République Démocratique du Congo]. They need just about everything you use in a day to get by.

Clothing, socks, jackets, coats, (All sizes from infants to adults), purses, tote bags, backpacks.

Blankets, pillows & cases, bed sheets

Shoes, (All sizes!)

Cutlery, pots & pans, plates, cups, mugs (preferably plastic for the cups & plates so they don't break during shipment)

Over the counter medication & med supplies: ibuprofen (Advil), hydrogen peroxide, pain killers, bandages, bandaids, hand sanitizer, acetaminophen (Tylenol), cotton balls, gauze, deworming medication, compression wraps, saline solution, topical pain relief (Icy Hot), hydro-cortisone, detail, anti-funga treatment, surgical tape.

Baby formula, vitamins, water purification tablets, lifestraws, hair care / skin care products, pads & tampons, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, wet wipes, baby wipes, diapers.

However! If you are in the U.S., you can send (shoes only) your packages to this address in the U.S. [Exile International, Entrance F. 3534 West End Ave. Nashville, TN 37205, United States] which will ship them to the previously listed address, so it's less cost for you!

And finally, you can also go volunteer with Focus Congo! Fill out the application here, and email them at info@focuscongo.com, make sure to attach your resumé / CV, so they assign you to work that best suits your capabilities. Foreverjuicebae / juicebaeinthewild is one such volunteer and she posts regularly about the conditions of Congolese people in the DRC.

Please reblog! Likes don't help, reblogs spread the word.

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hi! do you still do art in exchange for donations to gaza?

hello, they’re closed right now, sorry!

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heyho:3 what's that icon of yours? is that you?

heyho! yes, it’s my oc sona, i decided to make a new design since i haven’t revisited the old one in 2 years or so. here’s a better look at it :]

this is the second design that i use on my carrd. the heads can be rotated on and off for versatility (my design hack so i don’t get bored of them)

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If I must die, let it bring hope Let it be a tale 🪁🍉🇵🇸

resources below!🕊️

DONATE:

Buy an eSim for someone in Gaza

The Palestine Children's Relief Fund IG: @thepcrf

Sulala Animal Rescue IG: @sulalaanimalrescue

Care for Gaza, a grassroots organisiation in Gaza that gives care packages to Gazan families

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees

GET INVOLVED:

Join your local rallies!

Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) Twitter: @APAN4Palestine IG: @apan4palestine

Justice for Palestine Magan-djin (Brisbane) FB: justiceforpalestinebrisbane IG: justiceforpalestine.magandjin

Justice for Palestine Melbourne FB: FreePalestineMelbourne IG: freepalestinemelb

Wage Peace, Disrupt War (Australia) IG: disruptwars

BOYCOTTS:

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Australia

LEARN:

Decolonise Palestine

If you have any additional resources or funds that aren't listed, let me know and I will endeavor to add them on.

170 hours later and this behemoth project is completed. After being moved to tears three times by Dr. Alareer's poem, I needed to create something. Hopefully this honours his memory.

Hoping to get some funding from local orgs to get this printed into a physical booklet for distribution.

From the river, to the sea!

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dragon meat, you, and me

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kiss of the divine

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Grahh allow me to be corny but,,, i found you through your newest dunmesh piece and was instantly mesmerized, so i dig through your page a bit - and even though i dont know nearly anything about most of your fandoms, the way you draw and write about feelings and relationships feels so genuine, you made me care about these characters im not even familiar with.

I've been going through a pretty shitty time as of late but looking through your account made me feel a bit ok again

🥹🥹 this is one of the best things i could hear as an artist… thank you so much for finding and enjoying my art!!! digging into bonds and emotions of characters are what i love to draw most so hearing i’m doing them well is a relief 💞 i hope things get better, anon! sending you lots of love!

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don’t worry about me. goodbye, big brother

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hey do you know if palestine still needs e-sims?

yes

buy an e-sim here!

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imagine if your plant au ww grew and mutated like the plants in trimax. cuz it's not often, but sometimes they almost seem to Melt. limbs fusing, growing tendrils, extra joints, all the fucked up shit.

vash did it once or twice i think, but as a plant himself didnt seem that bothered to me. but as a human mentally, i feel like wolfwood would Panic to destabilize like that. anyone would, i think. its kinda playing on an innate fear in humanity

(pretty sure this was supposed to be a domestic comfort au but i couldnt help thinking about this haha whoops sorry)

YEAHHH yeah Yeah………. Fantastic tasty concept… i’ve considered that before but never poked at it too deeply because he doesn’t have a lot of power and if he uses all of it to result in a destabilized form, he’d die. from what i’m assuming out of the scenes i remember, the destabilization tends to happen after a great burst of power so…

tw body horror, blood

but let’s say his body Is able to keep up with it and he does accidentally start to destabilize. my first thought was that he wouldn’t be cognitive when it happens and if he was, yeah i think he’d freak out 😭 he already has a disconnect with his own body in more ways than one so seeing these feathers engulf him and his body shifting in ways it never had would scare him. i also think he’d benefit from his history with vash though and having bore witness of the “monstrous” ability time and time again, he wouldn’t be as petrified by it

along with the fact his body had been fucked up by serums and the EoM experiments, after he has a moment of calm to himself, he’d think of it as no different. it’s just now more obviously visible to people other than himself. i think the main thing that would scare him is the losing control part because he’s Also witnessed what that was like for vash 😔 like said, his body is wholly unfamiliar territory for him and since it’s New for humanity too, no one has any solutions, even vash. every new found thing is played by ear and both vash and wolfwood are hopeful that whatever vash knows will apply the same for wolfwood.

it’s a fair assumption considering what wolfwood inherited is a bit of vash’s energy; what’s given to keep him alive was vash’s originally. i have thoughts about that but none i can verbalize properly,. but have some more sketches and thanks for sending this in for the brainworms

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Hi, I've been a fan of your work for a while and wanted to tell you it's amazing!

The way you draw them is so dear to me, especially bashful Wolfwood 💜

Thank you for sharing your art! Hope you have a great week!

wahh thank you so much!! 😖🥺 and i’m glad to hear that!! bashful wolfwood is one of my favorite things to draw ever. to me, he’s not rly the shy type so i must enjoy it in Moderation, but whenever i get an idea for it and get to put him in a situation where he’s exploding, im like yeahhh✍️✍️✍️

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Hello hello! I read your tidbits for plant ww au and if you don't mind me asking, how come ww is no longer able to verbally communicate? Did dying and reviving take away some of his physical capabilities? Or is that simply a consequence of becoming half plant? 🤔 ww being alive is all that matters but I'm so curious!

hello!! at the time, i think i made it that way because of him becoming half plant-ish? admittedly, i didn’t give the logistics too much thought but he doesn’t make a lot of sounds and doesn’t speak, like dependent plants. it Probably means that something physically has been affected, but i haven’t researched enough into what i want that to be :’] i also think since he woke up again, he hasn’t felt the particular urge to communicate verbally/found viable enough solutions to make do. he isn’t able to communicate with plants either in the shared consciousness way.

if i go deeper into this au, i might change more things around… i’ve already started adjusting what capabilities he should have as being a revived guy from a little less than half of vash’s power + love. ashamed to say i haven’t given too much thought into plants hcs and full capabilities either!! i always forget what they’re capable of in canon ;;

anyway, i hope that answers it!! and here’s some doodles i drew while thinking of how to answer this question!

a small comic - he has plenty of little feathers so i went and made use of them

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hi! I’m an artist who would like to do commissions for Palestine, but I don’t really have an art account/social media presence. as someone who has done commissions for Palestine, do you think there’s a way that I could do something similar, or another way that I could contribute my art for the cause? thanks for your time 🙏

hello! i think i can only advise you keep a look out for people hosting artists for palestine events and joining a team as an artist. on twitter/tumblr, you could search using phrases/tags such as “artists for palestine” “art exchange for palestine” along those lines.

currently, there’s these two i know of who may be accepting artists, i’d recommend you reach out to them via DMs! there’s cartoonist cooperative and sitcomabed’s organized event, both on twitter.

there’s also fandom organized ones so if you dig in the fandom tags, you might come across organized events recruiting artists to do commissions for donations. i don’t think these are currently recruiting, but examples i can find right now of these organized events are Fire Emblem rally for Gaza, Star Wars artists for Palestine, and Grishaverse Artists for Palestine.

if you’re comfortable with the idea, i think trying to host your own and try to invite friends/artists to join might be ideal! i haven’t checked discord art servers yet but if there are servers that allow for planning events like this, i think that could be a good way to gather artists if not by DMing artists on social media.

doing your own commissions for donations is still completely viable!! make sure you know your own limits though and keep a careful track of finances however way you can. i used spreadsheets to keep track of every donation and the processing fees from paypal + stripe if you intend to have an option for indirect donation. it’d be best to focus on 1-3 charities such as for care for gaza, e-sims, pious projects, pcrf, and evacuation funds gofundmes from those in palestine that need to leave. doing it on your own is not difficult, just make sure you’re transparent with your progress and stay organized.

if you ever need a reblog/retweet/share anywhere, dm me the link! i’ll be more than happy to share and hopefully give you a bigger reach! that was my first time hosting something like that, so i can’t say my advice is the best either but if you have more questions on how to host your own, my dms are open for that as well.

hope this all helped in some way, good luck!!

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commissions for 🍉

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commission by @ruporas from their sketch/chibis for gaza (click)! thank you so much this is soooooo cute!!!!! my babies....

check out their work, its so nice!!!!

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these are open again for today! here are more examples, some of the finished comms from this past week ⬇️

EDIT: These are now closed.

🍉 hi, i'm taking chibi/sketch comms! everything earned will go to e-SIM donations and the mentioned organizations. payment accepted through my ko-fi or proof of donation through DMs/email 📧

please make sure to read my T.O.S. before commissioning me! these will be open for a week, until 2/1.

CareforGaza Twit / Pious Projects Gaza / Guide for e-SIM donation

STATUS: OPEN until feb 3rd, 12:00AM