#venusmagic

[venusmage]

Local woman has the worst week of her life, hometown invaded by hell

[gilgalahad]

The Sunflower Knight

[hojdarna]

Original by @venusmage

This piece would swallow whole days trying to get contrast right so I had to leave it for a while and then I moved.

The background is a panorama collage I made and traced. I wanted sunset lighting but it looked too messy.

[hamdi-shiltawi]

🇵🇸‼️‏Hello guys.

I am Hamdi Al-Shaltawi from Gaza City. I am addressing you because of my urgent need for help to provide a humane life for me and my family after the destruction of our home and the lives of my family. Everything disappeared. We are out in the open. There is no home for us. I humbly ask you to help me I lost my close friends. I lost people in my family. Our house has been destroyed and there is no safe place to live.

‏Unfortunately, our home was bombed and destroyed during the initial events, causing severe psychological and physical damage to me and my family due to the catastrophic situation we are currently living in. My family and I are suffering from severe shortages of food, supplies and medical equipment, in addition to high prices that make it difficult to meet our basic needs. We cannot even access clean drinking water. The loss of our homeland has exacerbated our suffering, and our daily life has become a constant struggle for survival. The urgent need to leave Gaza

Given the current deteriorating situation, it is imperative for me and my family to leave Gaza as soon as possible once the Rafah border crossing with Egypt opens. I hope it will open soon, and we need to raise the necessary funds quickly to ensure our safe passage. The cost of exiting Gaza through the Rafah crossing is approximately $5,000 per person.

This is our home and our shop, which was our source of livelihood after it was destroyed by the war

Verified by: @irhabiya @90-ghost @gaza-evacuation-funds

No donation has been made for 8 days The last donation was 5€ Try to help me collect donations. If you cannot donate, share my story 🍉🇵🇸

@90-ghost @irhabiya @imjustheretotrytohelp @nabulsi @wellwaterhysteria @woomeme-funds @neptunerings @gaza-evacuation-funds @gazavetters @buttercuparry @venusmage @victormcdicktor @dlxxv-vetted-donations @dl2647745 @dlxxxvii @dlxxxv-blog

[waspgrave]

my wonderful wife @venusmage drew my dragon age protagonists and i am in love with them all over again 💖

[bl3ss3dbyt1amat]

TAV APPRECIATION POST!! i TRIED to get one of each race but. im gonna be honest i had trouble identifying which tavs were meant to be half elves. and also half elves are pretty much just elf lite so like

is it obvious i didnt realize how hard it would be to fit everyone in when i made the canvas size. they are SQUISHED TOGETHER. dog is barely visible (or at least he would be if i turned the opacity up on all of them). anyway! tavs in sort of order:

bottom left (deirdre fawn) - @mooreaux

middle left (drifa) - @seahagart

top middle (bonnabelle) - @gobb

bottom middle (dagmar) - @aimoplaysbg3

middle middle (lunara) - @basketobread

in the middle of the left and the middle having a weird time (dog) - @bashcrandicoot

top middle (malas) - yours truly!!

bottom righter than middle (lilith! is lilith a tav? i think so) - @bludazey

top righter than middle (otholil) - @venusmage

bottom right (morgan) - @tadpole-apocalypse

top right (anma) - @zellk

[wrdn-tabris]

i got some art of rowen commissioned by @venusmage and i am so so happy with it!!!! she looks so cute and badass and i love her ;w; everyone go check her art out!!! shes amazing!

[editoress]

@zacksfairest thank you also for indulging us all with what we really want to put out there: more stuff about our OCs.

challenge: make a poll with five of your favorite OCs, and then tag five people to do the same. see which one is everyone's favorite

@rinnysega @corellianflyboy @venusmages @javert @ali3nboyfriend

[lvllns]

book recommendations!

i got tagged by @rosebarsoap and @narrativefoiltrope!! thank u both!!

i'm gonna taaaaag @pensdragon @pinkfey @waspgrave @venusmages @queerbrujas @princesshoneytea and anyone else who wishes to do this!!

the last book i read: excluding manga, the red threads of fortune by neon yang!

a book i recommend: always always always the darkness outside us by eliot schrefer. do you like science fiction? would you like to experience the slow unraveling of a mystery aboard a spaceship as two young men gradually fall in love amidst the backdrop of Shit Being Weird? do i have the book for you! i still think about this book two years later. it had me staring at the wall for three days after i finished it contemplating life and what it means to be human.

a book that i couldn't put down: i will not bang on about the previous book so here's a different queer science fiction novel, winter's orbit by everina maxwell. science fiction, political nonsense, trying to solve a murder, slowly falling in love. it's just so good.

a book i've read twice or more: i've read tithe by holly black like. a dozen times by this point. i love the modern faerie tale books so much.

a book on my TBR: re-coil by j.t. nicholas! more science fiction! this time with the ability for people's consciousnesses to be backed-up and then downloaded into a new body!

a book i've put down: i've only ever put down two books. thr*ne of glass and ac*tar. it's a no from me.

a book on my wishlist: somewhere beyond the sea by tj klune! the sequel to the house in the cerulean sea! i'm greatly looking forward to meeting back up with arthur, linus, and the entire group of kids.

a favorite book from my childhood: i can't pick one so the immortals quartet by tamora pierce!

a book you would give to a friend: the city of brass by s.a chakraborty. doesn't matter if you like fantasy or not. you get this book. read it. read the whole trilogy.

a book of poetry you own: cracks knuckles i'm actually sad bc i can't remember if i saved all my poetry chapbooks from undergrad :( however! the year of blue water by yanyi was. amazing. incredible. i know i saved it because it just changed me so fucking much. salat by dujie tahat was also fucking incredible. they spoke to my poetry class and they were a DELIGHT!

a nonfiction book: broken by fred kay which is about the suspicious death of alydar, a famous thoroughbred stallion.

what are you currently reading: the horse god built by lawrence scanlan which is about triple crown winner secretariat, focusing heavily on his groom, eddie "sweet" sweat, and the influence eddie had on the stallion. also diving into looking at how grooms, black grooms specifically, are often overlooked when it comes to the entire package of a race horse.

what are you planning on reading next: oh man probably intimacies, received by taneum bambrick, who was my poetry writing professor (and many other classes professor lmao), and it's a poetry chapbook! and then following that, i will probably pick the tensorate series back up with the descent of monsters by neon yang!

[aelyosos]

what does your heart look like?

tagged by @katsigian & @swanfey to take this quiz for some oc's of my choosing. thank you both, this quiz hurtttt. 🗡️🩸

tagging, no obligation: @bunfey + @turbulentpumpkin43 + @venusmage + @detect-thoughts + @lilactiefling + @lichposting + @littlebirdofprey + @rhyiona + @desnas + @ghoulgeists + @vape-president + @lesbiandice + @death-ward + @three-of-crows + @liurnia + @halkuonn + @telumendill + @swordcoasts + @tokkionline + anyone else who'd like to 💛

a tangled ball of red strings

Who are you without the company of others? You aren’t sure, but you know that you aren’t fond of whoever it is. You are an actor, a pretty face and a pleasant song. Many idolize you, or love you, but you can never be sure of how sincere it is. Your heart is buried under the letters they leave you, sealed with a kiss. It can’t be untangled from the red strings they’ve attached to you. You deserve to find something, someone, true and faithful to hold your heart in place. You don’t have to be everything to everyone.

commentary below ✂️

initially i wasn't sure how i felt about these results as i read thru em, but i quickly realized it's very, very ocean. i feel he puts up a lot of diff faces when he's w somebody vs being by himself. ocean is quite down-to-earth, but he also hides behind lies, esp when it involves feelings. he's not honest bc he doesn't want to get too close.

the line, 'it can’t be untangled from the red strings they’ve attached to you', is when i really realized this quiz had him. bc i feel on the outside, ocean makes likes he doesn't want the commitment. he doesn't want any attachments. but that's in fact, very much what he needs and wants.

this result, i felt, had a lot to do with isolation and loneliness as well, which r key themes for ocean.

[venusmage]

Illustration for a local Tarot Reading class.

[motherbean]

A SURVEY MEME

i was tagged as @neonjawbone but I'm gonna answer over here~ (tagged by @psshaw)

LAST SONG: According to Spotify it's Peninsula by Dinosaur Pile-Up, which is a victim of the morning shuffle. Lately I've been cycling through King Gizzard's Murder of the Universe/Father John Misty's Fear Fun/the Darktide OST

CURRENTLY WATCHING: Westworld season 1!!!! I've never seen it, and I think it's schlockier than the cultural zeitgeist remembers. I think William and Logan should make out.

LAST THING I RESEARCHED FOR WRITING PURPOSES: synonyms for thrust, the meaning of the word ingénue, unrelated

9 PEOPLE TO TAG: UUUUUHHHH who do i even know, @grimewar @flowersoffrost @brutalfish @venusmages @waspgrave @jasperrex @thebrightestlodge

thats all i got

[abysswatchers420]

cel and chan doodle rendition of @/venusmage 's comic, lol

[hamdi-shiltawi]

Please, you will not pass by. 🍉

Donate and reblog until the campaign is achieved to help build my house and get out of the impasses, siege, war, and travel outside Gaza 🙏💔

Iam Hamdi Al-Shaltawi from northern Gaza. I was displaced to Deir Al-Balah. My family and I created my campaign to help my family and save them from the suffering they are experiencing. Our lives, our hopes and ambitions have been destroyed, our livelihoods have been destroyed, we have lost dear friends and many relatives, our house has been completely destroyed, we live in a plastic tent in the middle of an UNRWA school and we suffer from the heat of the sun, which causes headaches, migraines, body allergies and many diseases. There is no food, water, medicine or basic life necessities and the prices are very high, we cannot buy anything

hope you will help and donate to me through the link to my campaign on the GoFundMe website, and I invite you to share it with your friends.

I am and my family is in desperate need of money My campaign still raised only €220/€20,000 (~1%)! Please consider donating even €5 if you can, any amount means a lot, or at least share/reblog to help reach more people 🙏

Verified by : @90-ghost @imjustheretotrytohelp @irhabiya @gaza-evacuation-funds @sar-soor @nabulsi

@90-ghost @nabulsi @sar-soor @imjustheretotrytohelp @icyandthefrostbites @labutansa @el-shango-drew-and-shot @jimstumblings @yt00ka00 @tamamita @wellwaterhysteria @woomeme-funds @quiteemocowboylover2 @irhabiya @neptunerings @ms-demeanor @venusmage @casualtheoristdeer @zesty-lesty

[waspgrave]

Thinking about Mara and her parents (drawn by my wife venusmage)…look how cute they are. They’re ‘divorced’ atm and her mom is a weird immortal shadow dog sometimes but Mara will fix that

[franticbindings]

Commish of my boy Osrin I got from @venusmage Something has him disgruntled.