*firmly grabbing all beginner artists by the shoulders* you have to embrace inconsistency. inconsistency is good because it means you are learning. if you focus too hard on making all your art look the same you are really just holding yourself back and forcing yourself to make the same mistakes rather than develop and grow. style and consistency can come later on when your grasp on the fundamentals is stronger. now take this juice box and get out there and make some art.
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.
This is Kafra, south Lebanon tonight. Right now. Israel is dropping missiles on Lebanon as it intends to pull it into war. Lebanon is already a struggling country. And there is no coverage of this in the West. This was taken by a resident on the ground of kafra.
its so sad to me how many people are like “femininity is only oppressive and evil and corrupting and a weapon for the male gaze, i hate that i embody some forms of it”
like so many people cannot enjoy their gender expression because they think theyre betraying women or smth. i really hated femininity on myself and i said “if it sucks hit da bricks” but like. guys. you can enjoy things. its ok. you dont have to overanalyze it. you arent betraying all women if you decide to wear some eyeliner. you dont have to do everything with your body for the bettering of society. its your sack of meat, have fun with it while you’re here.
Biological sex is not and has never been a binary. The complexity of the natural world cannot be contained in neat little societal boxes. Stop using science to justify your bigotry.
Now, Palestinians lost their right to even be just numbers.
"Yesterday, Israel achieved one of the main objectives of its war against Gaza's health organisations. The death toll of thousands has been causing a worldwide uprising of anger against Israel, which increases every day as the numbers increase. With the health system collapsing, the health administration can not count the numbers of deaths and injuries. Starting today and to the end of the war, perhaps even years after, we won't know the real death toll. They will be buried in mass graves or be left in the open or under the rubbles for their corpses to rot. We would have liked to say that Palestinians are humans, lives, faces, and names, and not just numbers. Now, Palestinians lost their right to even be just numbers. The world was too cheap to leave them with even just that"
woke up to the absolutely gut-wrenching, horrifying news that mexican magistrate jesús ociel baena, the first nonbinary person to occupy that position in latin america, was murdered in their own home in aguascalientes alongside their partner
they were very beloved by the queer community in mexico and not only are we mourning, we are raging
rest in peace, magistrade. your legacy will prevail, and you will not be forgotten
”safequeer” is such a fucking self-righteous label. “Here are the identities that are safe and here’s the ones that are not :)” shut up dawg omfg. I do not at all feel safe around y’all.
pretty much if you’re completely anti-porn i think you’re a goober but if you refuse to discuss the downsides of porn in a patriarchal society then i think you are a weak minded simpleton
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