DONATIONS FOR GAZA

As you probably know, the situation in Gaza gets worse every day. At this stage, every donation, no matter how small, might make a difference between life and death for someone trying to escape Rafah.

Donate as little as 7$ today and you get a sketch or a small illustration of yourself, an animal, a friend - whatever it is that you want.

You can find the full spreadsheet of families here: Operation Olive Branch

or you can donate to one of the randomized gofundmes from here: Gaza Funds

Send me proof of your donations and the details for the artwork you desire.

Depending on how busy this gets, commissions might take two days or more.

*Biggers commissions are available for bigger donations! You can see illustrations I did in the past here.

First you procrastinate on the task because it is not a big enough deal to get done urgently. Then you procrastinate on the task because it has become such a big deal that doing it is overwhelming. You would think that this implies a middle point where it is just big enough of a deal to get done easily, however the inherent perversity of the universe's causal geometry prevents this

It’s true that you shouldn’t run from your problems, but it’s also true that you just gotta keep moving. You need to tackle why you feel bad head on and work through it, but there’s a fine line between working through your problems and ruminating on them.

You have to sit with bad feelings; if you want to feel better, you have to let yourself go through whatever it is your brain wants to go through. But you can’t put everything on hold to do that, or you’ll just feel a hell of a lot worse. You gotta keep living your life, even if you have no idea what to do next. Accept that you can’t change your circumstances and keep making the right decisions in each moment. You can only truly control how you behave. You can only change how you react.

It’s not fair and it’s not going to be fair, but you deserve better, and you have to make better happen for yourself. No matter how bad you feel. No matter how much your conditions suck. No matter what happens. Just keep moving.

The fastest way to shut down my "freelance life means I have to constantly be working" thoughts is to remind myself that if I was a boss holding a worker to the standards I hold myself to, their union would hunt me for sport and nobody would blame them.

TikTok comments I saw in the wild about engineering students in college that made me laugh.

Huge shout to my friend from an undergraduate philosophy program who started working out every single day, not for health benefits or to become conventionally attractive or whatever, but because -- and this is a direct quote -- he was concerned that otherwise he might "become lost in the world of signs and forget the things they signify". I have thought about this every single time that I've worked out since.

there was no perfect path. you did not get punished. your life did not unravel when you made a left turn. the memory will always be there. you can visit whenever you want. there is no alternate timeline where you made a better choice and got a happier ending. you were a little girl chasing the ice cream truck, playing hopscotch, swinging and aiming for the never ending blue. yes, the grief was waiting up ahead. but so was the miracle of saturdays in a car headed wherever you wanted to go. enough sky to wrap around every wound. friends who, despite your perennial bouts of silence, kept an ear close at all times.

do you ever look at Successful™ people your age and feel like you’re just floating your way thru life like a very bewildered and directionless bumblebee

the day i get rid of my crazy fear of failure and my procrastination, it will be over for you all.

DO NOT apply for a master degree they have essays in there

it’s so comforting thinking about how much growing I still have left to do like its ok that so much of adulthood seems impossible and ridiculous to imagine myself coping with to me now because I won’t be the same person when I have to face so many of these things and I’ve already changed so much and become so much more capable than I was a few years ago and that’s gonna carry on and I will be more ready one day

Maria Popova, 17 Life-Learnings from 17 Years of The Marginalian

A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde

Economic Freedom in Europe.

by landgeist