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i'm not dead guys i promise

i do want to change her design a bit .. that's for later tho

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i'm thinking of naming my iteration tmnt: phantom or something like that but i feel like that name is taken

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remember when i said the next thing i posted would surely be a finished piece? that was a lie

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for this week's wip wednesday i all i have is a meagre messy leona growth chart with a size comparison splinter in the background. please take my offering.

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donnie donnie donnie (i'm a bit obsessed)

what do you think it's listening to?

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this adhd shit gets serious yall im sorry i havent been posting i just cannot get myself to stick to a drawing

on another note i am currently working on tmnt: inverse! you should go check it out over here https://twitter.com/tmntinverse

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Best Pali orgs to donate to at this time? Am thinking PCRF.

don't donate to orgs right now, donate to people. gazans need huge funds to evacuate to egypt, get treatment, buy food and other necessities. it is the most urgent and the best way your money can have the most impact.

here is fundsforgaza linktree full of verified gofundmes you can choose from

here is the operation olive branch spreadsheet full of gofundmes organized by different factors such as families, age, number of children, medical conditions as well as how close they are to meeting their goal etc

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tmnt mirage issue 41 is so silly

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for those who would like to support Palestinian olive farmers, equal exchange has Palestine-sourced olive oil! they're an amazing worker owned co-op that works closely with local farmers to support sustainability and pay fair wages.

i frankly cannot afford it, but i know some folks can and would like to get some. it comes in packs of 6 bottles, so if you can get 6 friends together, each person can pay for one bottle!

they also have some of the most delicious coffee and hot cocoa mixes that i've ever gotten, and the same approach applies. given how horrific farming and labor practices are in both of those industries, i highly recommend supporting them and getting some amazing products in return if you can afford it.

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In 1937, the Basque city of Gernika came under severe bombing by the Nazi Luftwaffe and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria.

Picasso was so affected he painted the piece Guernica:

Today (December 8, 2023), Gernika created their own haunting demonstration in solidarity with Palestine:

(If you unmute, beware, there is the very loud sound of an actual air raid siren.)

It's a human mosaic and includes the mother with dead child from Guernica.

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HELLO i'm back after weeks of silence. hi. i've been highly unmotivated but i'm making moodboards for tmnt: phantom

more under the cut

i also made some moodboards for tang shen, the shredder, and baxter stockman :3c

i don't want to jinx myself by saying art is coming soon but i am working on a ref sheet for the turtles, splinter, april, and casey. trust they will be finished some day 🙏🏽

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[ID: A digital sketch of Leo and Raph from Ninja Turtles 2003. They sit on a couch together, with Raph leaning his head on Leo’s shoulder and gesticulating with his hands, an annoyed expression on his face. There’s an arrow pointing to him labelled “just having a nice time complaining about some shit”. Leo is sitting ramrod straight with a severe expression, but he’s visibly crying. There’s an arrow pointing to him labelled “Realizing he’s having a once-in-a-lifetime experience like when a cat who hates you sits on your lap”. End ID.]

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I can't stop thinking about that video of cobalt miners in the congo with little to no protective gear struggling to pull other miners out of a collapsing mine

The fact that they're working to death LITERALLY for billion dollar corporations ran by CEOs who get to relax in mansions and on yachts makes my blood boil

This is violence of capitalism and colonialism

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LOOK AT HIM

Ok here’s the slight style shift starring Donnie!

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After getting over the initial shock and heartbreak of this tweet and this reply, it hit me that (and I don't know if this is a cultural thing here in the middle east or an Islamic one)

A child has to be named even if they're stillborn.

For a child to not be named, that means there's no one left to name them. They were killed along with their entire family.

I hoped I was wrong, but I checked the list of victims of Israeli attacks and found this:

Israel has ended 47 Palestinian bloodlines over the course of this genocide (or perhaps more), so you might think that this little detail isn't that important, but I don't think we should get used to cruelty of this proportion, no matter how consistently Israel commits it.

The number of victims isn't just a number. These are people with full lives and hopes and dreams.

It's enough of a disaster that these families were wiped out, but in murdering them, Israel didn't just deprive them of their lives, hopes, and dreams. It deprived them of even the dignity to name their children.

It continues to deprive the remaining Palestinians of their most basic human rights.

What did the Palestinians do to not deserve food or water or electricity?

What did their *newborns* do to not deserve lives or at the very least names?!

This is the most harrowing form of terrorism I can think of. The genocidal Israeli occupation is the most despicable terrorist organization the world has had the displeasure of knowing.

The whole world should be deeply ashamed that it's not only allowing such heinous war crimes to be committed, but in a lot of ways, it's enabling them.

I don't know how anyone can be neutral about this.

Stand with Palestine, stand against the occupation. Against genocide.

ربنا يتقبل الأطفال دول و أمهاتهم و عائلاتهم اللي الاحتلال قتلهم معاهم شهداء، و ينتقم من إسرائيل و أي حد بيمكّنهم أشد انتقام في الدنيا قبل الآخرة.

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i'll just leave this here for anyone who sees "from the river to the sea" as a threat