Art I Did For A Friend’s Bday

Collab with @choqofloresz on insta

looking at (vetted) gofundmes for people trying to escape palestine and i don't know how many of you actually click on the gofundme links you reblog but i would like to point out, for what it's worth, just how amazing it is that so many have raised so much money. it may overall feel like a drop in the ocean but the fact that several gofundmes have raised tens of thousands of dollars is amazing. it is so expensive to leave gaza right now, and people still need money after they escape. but regardless of what propaganda the US, UK, canada, and other western nations are trying to pump out, people across the world are doing what they can to help these people survive. many of them are still very far from their goals (like this one and this one and this one) and some of them are very close to high goals (like this one), and some of them have reached almost double their original goal.

and that's not even addressing direct aid or organizations that take continuous donations for distribution of food, menstrual products, etc. the PCRF has raised $16,000,000 of their target goal of $20,000,000 to fund current aid and long-term relief efforts in gaza. ANERA's febuary 13th update discusses the material ways they helped palestinians today:

(ANERA donate link)

my point is, it often feels like the world is turning a blind eye to palestine. but i would like to point out that there is an important difference between "the world" and "western political leaders and media narratives". a breathtaking amount of real people, the people who make up the world, are trying to help. in the face of israel attempting to commit genocide, the world is saying No. These people deserve to live. and literally sending millions of dollars internationally, through the internet connection that israel has desperately been trying to destroy.

it may not feel like it matters in the grand scheme of things. but to the people who get fresh clothes, or a hot meal, or blankets, or the kids who get new toys, or to the people who are able to bring their families to safety, it matters to them. go make someone's day better. i've linked so many options with ways to do that.

[Image description Tweet from rapscallison "[Benoit Blanc voice] and nine to the race of men, who above all else desire—what? powah. precisely. but they were all of them deCEIved. for ANOTHAH ring was made" with a bad photoshop by me of Elrond with Benoit Blanc's face sitting down, with a speech bubble above his head connecting to the tweet.]

SAVIOR,

Harry’s got such a unhealthy relationship with how he expresses his affection towards others, often falling into a cycle of deify the person, giving then an inhuman amount of perfection that someone cant live up to. Harry most certainly views Kim as a savior of sorts, but Kim can’t take up that title, he’s just human, he makes mistakes too. Don’t get me wrong I want them to hold hands as much as the next guy but Harry’s gotta get his shit together before he participates in any kind of relationship, he can’t rely on someone else to be the human side of him, he’s gotta do that for himself. It’s not a healthy way to enter a relationship, all it will lead to is both parties getting hurt (we’ve seen this cycle before). Harry can’t keep devoting his life to making others happy, he needs to do things for himself. I could talk about this for hours but alas I will not clog your brain with my ramblings.

i can't draw silly comics of my stardew valley farmer romancing villagers because I made him Kabru

I could draw him in the mines though

hate these things so i decided to memorialize them in pastel

TF2 ya!

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A week late, but HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOB!!