there will be blood timber amv
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last chance to evacuate
as you may know, israel has begun its ground operation in rafah. they dropped leaflets last night ordering people to evacuate, and bombing in east rafah has already begun.
The border is about to become unreachable.
We have literal hours until no-one, all the GoFundMe's you've scrolled past, all the people desperately begging on TikTok, will be able to escape.
Give now. Give whatever you can.
I am fundraising for the Odeh family, which is only 3k away from meeting its goal.
you will not get another chance.
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A lot of you on here feel waaay too comfortable admitting that you don't and refuse to listen to rap music, and I'm not loving the incredibly reductive takes on rap because the kendrick/drake beef has it on some of yall's radar for the first time in your life.
I'm not going to sugar coat it-- for americans especially, if you consider music a significant interest of yours but still feel the need to search for acceptable reasons to keep yourself ignorant of black music, or think of rap as a monolith of hate and violence and not equally as diverse as any other genre, or can only name nonblack rappers… you should be embarrassed of that. And your embarrassment should not keep you from being active about exposing yourself to unfamiliar art and broadening what you listen to.
'I don't understand what they're saying/they rap too quickly' I'm surprised by how much I keep seeing this-- speed is not a stylistic trademark of most rap music, & clearer diction as a performer is much more necessary in rap than other genres?? Statistically rap has a lower bpm (here's an example of one person's study) average than other genres. (of course these aren't all-encompassing, but you can look into this yourself using sites like bpmdatabase.com.) Do you really feel overwhelmed by speed listening to Kendrick or Biggie or Nas or 2Pac, or have you never actually listened to their songs?
'I have to look up the lyrics'-- so what? is it a bad thing to take an extra few seconds to engage with an artist's work? If you listen to lyrical music, do you care when it's the artists you listen to? Why does the thoughtful art consumption everyone talks about not also apply to black art?
'there is too much violence and misogyny and commercialism' this is not unique to rap, or true of all rap music. Artists exist that talk about other things, the way they exist in all genres. There is an entire wikipedia page listing alternative hip hop musicians and rappers if you consider seeking it out too much labor. Click one!
'i find it unrelatable'-- who cares? Being unable to engage with art you don't find wholly relatable is a deeply childish and self centered way to exist. You get on here reblogging feel good navel-gazey posts about the shared human experience and caring for one another, but a rapper talking about living with violence or poverty is stretching the limits of what you can imagine or empathize with too much for you to care about it? You don't find that embarrassing to admit to?
You don't have to love rap, you don't have to incorporate it into what you listen to every day, but a lot of you need to be aware you're parroting reagan era anti-rap (& antiblack) pearl-clutching talking points, and it's a very ugly look. It isn't racist if your favorite genre isn't rap, but you need to do some serious self reflection if you consider it inherently less artistic, intelligent or positive than 'whiter' genres when you don't actually listen to it. I am looking at you, people into other counterculture genres-- it's crazy how much I see this from self-professed punks and metalheads especially lmfao. If expression, counterculture art, anti-censorship in music and the right for raw and unfiltered music to exist matters to you as much as you say you do, you should care about rap's relationship to censorship & fight for its legitimacy just as much as what you listen to.
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final artbook proof done:) going with unlimited preorders format so everyone who wants one can get it! (store currently not open-- will be as soon as stickers and prints are finalized in summer)
-155 pages
-it's a mix of sketches, doodles, wips and finalized pictures.
-will be shipping internationally from US where the manufacturer is.
Anonymous asked:
Hello!! About your artbook, I was wondering what will be in it? Like, would it have some of your old yugioh art in it, or is it art from more recently??? Thank you so so much!!
it's a mix of both, but not too much yugioh. it does have my 10page kaiba/jono comic (the in color one) ! it has a mix of art from mostly 2018-present, most of which has been posted online or has been otherwise exclusive to patreon. i'd say it's 60% finished art(mostly new, just by the fact that i'm happier with it, but some old stuff, even from 2016.... also the fact that my old computer ans the OG files for most of my stuff is forever gone😭) and then the rest is wips as well as comics (my kiraodo comic and the first wip chapter of my original comic hunky dory.) i want to try and offer discounts to my patreons but idk how itd work practically, i need to look into how.
more stickers that'll be up for order. finally finished catboy breaking bad ones and then DS9 and general trek ones too:)
final artbook proof done:) going with unlimited preorders format so everyone who wants one can get it! (store currently not open-- will be as soon as stickers and prints are finalized in summer)
-155 pages
-it's a mix of sketches, doodles, wips and finalized pictures.
-will be shipping internationally from US where the manufacturer is.
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Soulbunni still hasn't made her moving goal!
Soulbunni is still experiencing transmisogynoirstic harassment and still needs our help! Soulbunni, a Black Trans fem content creator and activist has been on the receiving end of an endless wave of harassment for months on end after being doxxed. Please share her story!
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some misc movie stickers that'll be avaliable at my store : ) !
Anonymous asked:
do you have any tips for artists who want to get more confident with their lines?
i'm not very confident in my lines myself! i don't think it's a requirement to make awesome art, i love a hatchy feathery line bit, some of my favorite artists online use it. but i would say figure drawing and fast sketches with ink pens. figure drawing is my favorite, and you can do it online pretty easily for free just video searching:) but if it's boring just take a ballpoint while watching your favorite show amv video game edit whatever and go ham.
nobody asked but the how to draw manga books that raised me cause i didnt have the blue one raise your hands up
last proof of my art book is a go ^_^ !! the store won't be up til we're finished with the stickers, but then it'll be up for preorder:)
Anonymous asked:
did you go to uni for arts?
no, i went to uni for packaging design for reasons right now incomprehensible to myself</3
Anonymous asked:
do you still use references or are you at the point where you don't need them anymore?
i use references, no shame! it depends on what it is. if i've drawn it enough to be comfortable with it, no. usually for anatomy i don't use reference, but other times i take pictures of myself, like grabbing my wrist hard to see how the skin bunches up, pressing my hands to my face, stuff like that. but no i mean, i think if you want to draw stuff you have no idea what it looks like (and i'm the kind of person that can't see any image in my mind when imagining stuff, zero apple or whatever), you kind of have to use a ref if your goal is some sort of versimilitude. same with how a certain material looks. i dont think u can ever have all of that in your head.
right now i'm painting a commission that includes a cat on his hind legs firing two guns, so plentiful references employed lol! i seldom draw any of those things.
rediscovering bishonens. mindless draw
other old art i found doing spring cleaning lawl