Hey Guys, Important Update From Mona. They Have Arrived In Central Ghazzah And Are Able To Continue Their

Go follow:

Yousra El Bagir, Bsonblast, Modathir Zain Alabdeen, Yasmine Al-Magied, Sudan Updates, Sudanese Diaspora Network World, Nas Al Sudan, I Am Sudani, Sudanese American Physicians Association.

The links are all there. Please follow and educate yourself about Sudan. Partake in their fundraisers. The presence of Sudanese activists is much bigger on IG and on Twitter than on Tumblr. Educate yourself there and start partaking in the movement. It needed to gain more momentum 13 months ago.

I don't usually do fan art, but I'm really vibing with artist OhTheSunnySide's (on Twitter), character designs and stories! Not used to drawing human-like pixel art, but I think I did okay within an hour!

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[Image Description: A pixel art graphic of a character with brown skin, long and wavy white hair that reaches past a slender neck, pointed ears, full lips, eyes with a yellow-orange pupil and dark eyeliner, white eyebrows, and a white star-shaped mark in the center of their forehead, with thin white lines beneath each eye.

The character has yellow markings on top of their ears, a center line of their bottom lip, and triangular marks on their cheekbones. The character has a golden arch above their head.

The artist's watermark named "bloomzeye" has three hearts inside the b and two o's.

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Crying is natural; the skies cry, the birds cry, the trees cry. When it's one thing after another, I feel like I wanna cry. I probably should. I know I need to let my body release. But at the same time, I don't want to. Because crying is letting go, resting, pausing, regrouping. But when you feel like you can't do any of that, not yet. You just wait until you can. Or you don't.

– Me, bish.

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(dis)comfort in your absence.

the short film that i worked on from mid november to the end of december! i've already received my score so i think i'm allowed to post it now. it's the first short film that i've ever made & i don't have a lot of experience in animation & and know NOTHING about sound design so please ignore the flaws v__v pretend they don't exist.

animated in adobe photoshop & adobe premiere pro

for the background noise / music i downloaded a few lmms files that i found online and played around with them a little bit

representation in media is so worthless when it comes at the cost of perpetuating antiblackness in order to uplift other marginalized groups

‘the truth about turbulence’ - just a little doodle from a frequent(ly anxious) flyer.

mmmm I’ve been mainly reblogging posts about P@lestine on my side-blog, and now my side-blog is gone…this is not suspicious AT ALL

Ummm? My side blog @lil-bloomz is gone? Or I can’t see/access it from being logged in on mobile?

I rly hate the Satanic Panic & the moral panic surrounding violence in video games in the 90s, coz it's now impossible to talk about the social implications of violent video games in a realistic sense.

No, violence in video games does not create serial killers in the way most people imagine it would.

However, it's very important to notice how after 9/11, a lot of violent video games pivoted their content from silly gratuitous cartoon gore to more realistic military shooters set in the Levant from a US American lens. It's also important to notice the connection of these games & their toxic online multi-player voice chats to Gamer Gate in 2014.

It's obviously not as black & white as it was presented in the 80s & 90s, I dont think everyone who played early Call of Duty games is a white supremacist who wants to join the military to kill people in the middle east, but I think it's dangerous to pretend like video games or any media can't have an impact on the way people think about violence.

I think what makes all the difference here is how that violence is portrayed, what the message behind it is, what the motives are behind the people who crafted that message, who the victims of that violence are, how they are portrayed & the greater cultural context that surrounds it.

a post i wanted to make for a few days now, when i was calmer

when the genocide started last year i went into a depression, because i knew the past decades of islamaphobia were leading up to this. again. so much effort was put into making middle easterners not human, but background characters who only exist to get shot at by western militaries. its normal to you that brown people die for literally no reason, and the western military is more of a unquestionable force of nature.

but here online, in left leaning web spheres, people pretend its different. we support poc! we support brown people! we'll show our support through being mad at news and making art! when i see white people make a brown oc, or put another girl in a hidjeb, or any number of poc tokenism, i'd always side eye it. of course there are people i trust. i dont befriend people i dont trust, but the rest? it always felt like it was just another trait to make the character stand out, in the same way you give them magic powers or an animal familiar that isn't a crow or a cat, or make them 6' 7" because your friend's oc is 6' 6". "Heh, this character's not white OR black, but this really cool third thing." (or fourth thing because they have japanese ocs)

So how am I supposed to feel? That things are getting better because I'm in a space that promises me that they think I'm human? I grew up in a Red city, and they still treated me fine to my face. Yeah, the fact of the matter is I wasn't visibly arab enough to be scary to them, but it's the same day-to-day mundanity that comes with tolerance. I'll be treated fine, but what happens when cards are on the table?

well now i know the answer!

white people are uncomfortable because now there is a price on human lives, and they're asking for your help. no more ambiguous handouts, no more "i'll donate to a reputable charity once every few years", you fucking hate that you have to grapple with the fact that there has been things you could've done all along to help the people around you on the verge of death. instead of coming to terms with that you created excuses, like every bigot does when they don't want to accept people of other identities. you're just like them.

i personally won't forget the people that admit to blocking and reporting cries for help from a genocide. i won't forget the people that questioned why someone would go to the people that claim to be anti-fasc for help. i won't forget that islamophobia has always existed in left-leaning circles. nobody should trust you, because you've made it clear you don't trust them.

all their history reduced to nothing bc xbox decided that all their resources should go to the 36228th call of duty and a new fallout sequel bc now there is a show on and they need the hype to sell more. the future looks terrible. Thanks for nothing.