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piebaldpins · 3 days

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Please ignore that I’m reposting this, I had a whole lighting layer turned off :’) I know most people probably wouldn’t have been able to see the difference but I would have and it matters to meeee 😭

Anyways I’m very sleep deprived but here’s strikerrrr

But more importantly his lovely lovely horse bombproof

#my art i guess #helluva boss fanart #helluva boss #helluva boss striker #hazbin hotel #helluva boss bombproof #bombproof #striker #fanart

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piebaldpins · 4 days

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Burger time for fizz, sleep time for me. I did not get a single day of rest before starting another big ass piece.

But I am so very happy with it. The little details are always my favorite part about pieces like this and the quieves are SO fun to draw.

#my art i guess #helluva boss #helluva boss asmodeus #Asmodeus #fizzarozzie #fizzmodeus #helluva boss fizzarolli #fizzarolli #fizz x ozzie #helluva boss fanart #Fizzarolli fanart #asmodeus fanart #helluva boss precious

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piebaldpins · 9 days

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A Very Human Moment Pt. 2 electric boogaloo

aka Angel fumbles the bag expeditiously

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piebaldpins · 9 days

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My first shaker charm!! He drops tomorrow in the shop at 3:30 PM PST (5/25), along with some other standees designs! The fizz is my favorite he is the TEENIEST lil guy.

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piebaldpins · 10 days

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they’re so Lilo and Stitch coded 😭

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piebaldpins · 11 days

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Just another day in the fizzarozzie household (I like to think Oz would sent this to Bee) 🤭

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piebaldpins · 14 days

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Can you draw oboro?

yeah

#I’m gonna chew on him #habs he’s so fucking cute

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piebaldpins · 20 days

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My Experience Buying eSIMs for Gaza by Maia Kobabe

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Full transcript below the cut:

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My Experience Buying eSIMs for Gaza

Project organized by @ connectinghumanity_

by Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks

Page 1

In Fall 2023, I saw instructions on instagram for how to purchase an eSIM card and submit it to be distributed to someone in Gaza.

Download an eSIM app-> Select Middle East as the region-> Purchase-> Screenshot the QR code-> Do not activate-> send to [email protected]

Image of Maia looking at eir phone. “That sounds easy, I’ll buy one.”

I emailed an Airalo eSIM QR code to gazaesims on Nov 17 2023.

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By January 2024, it hadn’t been activated yet. I bought a second one from Nomad and sent my new QR code and resubmitted my old one.

Image of Maia looking at eir phone. “How long does this usually take, I wonder?”

By February neither had been activated, but Connecting Humanity kept posting about needing more. I bought a second Nomad and resubmitted all of them on February 15, 2024.

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The Nomad eSIMs are much cheaper than Airalo, but what I didn’t realize is that they expire even if they haven’t been activated. At the end of February I decided to try a third company, Simly. Here’s a price comparison:

AIRALO: $39 USD for 3GB, never expires

SIMLY: $22 USD for 3GB, never expires

NOMAD: $16 USD for 3GB, expires after 8 weeks even if unused, only offers in-app refunds

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Connecting Humanity asks folks to wait at least 3 weeks before resending a QR code that hasn’t been activated yet. On March 7 Mirna Elhelbawi posted:

We send EVERY esim we receive. Bear in mind that we are dealing with people at a war zone. They might take it and get killed before activating it, they might take it and their phone gets lost or destroyed. They might take it and search for days for stable internet connection to activate it, and some of them activate it unsuccessfully due to lack of knowledge and the horrific situations they are in. ~Connecting Gaza

By early April, my first Nomad eSIM expired unused. I resubmitted my three remaining eSIMs.

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Suddenly, two of my eSIMs were activated on the same day! The Airalo I’d purchased 4.5 months earlier and my second Nomad.

Image of Maia looking happy and surprised.

Image of Maia looking very intensely at eir phone. “I have to make sure these don’t run out!”

I began buying top-up packages immediately.

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I felt like I had planted a seed in the fall and waited all winter for it to sprout. Seeing it activated was like watching the first new leaves break the soil.

Image of Maia with a watering can labeled “data”, sprinkling water on two little sprouts. “Watering my eSIMs!”

Sadly, only .07 GB of data was ever used on my Nomad. It was never used again after that first day.

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But my Airalo has been in constant use for over a month now. I check on it every day.

I will never know the person I am buying data for and they will never know me. But we are connected by the same strings of hope and grief that connect us all.

Image of two hands holding a phone, which is connected to a flying kite.

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On April 5, 2024 Connecting Humanity reported they had sent more than 250,000 eSIMs to Gaza, equivalent to approximately $6.3 million donated! You can visit gazaesims.com for more info, instructions, and discounts. Here are my referral codes:

MAIA5367 for $3 off Airalo

MB772 for $3 off Simly

MAIA66GF for $3 off Nomad

If you need more incentive, the Cartoonist Coop is doing art rewards. Visit cartoonist.coop/esims4gaza

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Image of Maia, weighing two options. “Buying an eSIM is easy and can make a very direct impact. It can also take a lot of patience and could get expensive over time if you commit to keeping the eSIM topped up indefinitely.”

If an immediate one time donation is more your speed, I recommend Operation Olive Branch and Gazafunds, two places to find Gofundmes aiding Palestinian families.

gazafunds.com

@ operationolivebranch on insta

linktr.ee/opolivebranch

-Maia Kobabe 2024

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piebaldpins · 20 days

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Okay actually but what colour are Fizz's fingers. I want to say they're naturally black and he puts something on it, because in Oops, when he gets a new arm it has black fingers as opposed to the white fingers on the other side.

He wakes up with black hands,

and spends most of the day with white fingers.

For some reason, though, while singing, his fingers go black for one shot.

Earlier, in Ozzie's, his hands are pure black, but the knuckles are pink.

(The rings around his arms go in and out in this episode, but some of it might just be perspective.)

Well, at least mostly -- there's exactly one shot where his fingers are coloured differently, and it's right after he and Asmodeus but into the song.

In this shot, at least, it seems to be mainly for contrast, which makes total sense.

In Mammon's Magnificent Musical Mid-Season Special, though?

His fingers are all over the place.

It starts with the standard of his fingers all black, which I'm guessing is the standard for him.

Throughout the competition, they mostly stay that way, save for the pie competition, which seems to be a whole costume so I can give it a pass.

But then...Two Minutes Notice.

It starts off with Fizz in black, as seems to be standard for him.

Once he starts tearing his clothes off, though, they seem to...change.

Then he sings his fun song, and at the end of the first verse, we get this shot,

which immediately transitions into this shot.

This one is just particularly egregious because of the juxtaposition. It's the same thing from different angles, and it just has me transfixed.

It's mostly white fingers for the rest of the scene, with a few exceptions,

but it's mostly white fingers for the rest of the episode.

In the new trailer, he seems to have gone back to black full-time.

This isn't even bothering to get into his scarring, which seems to change with every appearance, but at least that I understand. That's splotches around a place we don't normally see, but the thing is, the fingers could have an in-universe explanation beyond simple animation errors. Like he probably does have both arms as options or something, I could buy that! But what is happening.

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piebaldpins · 24 days

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What if they had matching outfits? 😳

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piebaldpins · 25 days

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love language

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piebaldpins · 1 month

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the problem with autism is sometimes you want to do something (brave) but you need someone to gently walk you through each step so you know what will happen. and people don’t like doing that

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piebaldpins · 1 month

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Mays surprise pin! It’ll be up for preorder in my shop for 24 hours, then up in the patreon shop until the 8th! Any extras go to patreon!

Grab it here!

#my art i guess #hazbin merch #hazbin #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin hotel #hazbin angel dust #angel dust fanart #angel dust #cherri bomb

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piebaldpins · 1 month

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hello! i’m a first time customer from your shop, and i was just wondering when orders can usually be expected to ship. obviously no pressure, i understand running a small business is complicated, it’s just been a few weeks since i ordered and im curious :3 tysm for all the art you make!!!

Hi!! (First off tysm for your order)

Usually in-hand orders are processed in 1-2 weeks (I don’t have a car, so a family member usually picks them up on weekends) sometimes it can take a little longer if there’s stuff going on and nobody can come by- or if I have a big batch of preorders I’m shipping that are taking me a while to get through, but that’s generally how long for in-hand items!

If it’s a preorder though then production takes a couple months! I try to post updates on my Instagram so that’s where you can see any samples and the finished pins when they arrive and are getting ready to ship!

I’ve got a batch of in-hands going out this weekend so if you haven’t gotten an update by then feel free to shoot me an email with your order number and I’ll check it out! Sometimes things get missed!!

#ask box

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