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Abandoned Stone Hands Sculpture, Japan. 埼玉県南部現机石亡噂の巨大龙白山手。— toshibo

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Stormy landscape by Penry Williams (1855-1885)

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Heads up everybody, @tamorapierce's First Test graphic novel is on FOC at comic book stores in the US this weekend! So if you're planning on getting a copy, and have a local comic shop you can order from, now would be a great time to do your pre-order!

Especially because for some reason it seems that the publisher decided not to solicit it in the "Previews" catalogue properly!? but only as an additional late supplement, which means it doesn't go in the catalogue that customers see, and it doesn't necessarily get seen by shop-owners either unless they take the time to check the updated additional items stuff online, which is usually toys and imports and stuff like that, not graphic novels??? Especially not actually popular bestselling author graphic novels...!?

(I cannot think of a better way to not sell your comic than to not put it in the damn catalogue that people order from.)

So I'm worried that there will be much fewer orders for this book than there should be, and it won't sell for crap, and then we won't get any more, so if you want one and you have a comic shop near you PLEASE consider ordering it from them, or at least letting them know it's a thing you would be interested in purchasing if they had it on the rack, so that they are least know that it exists and can maybe order some copies to sell!

(because what the heck why would they do that...!?)

Please reblog to let people know asap!

Have a sneak-peek at some of the artwork inside, too:

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GAZA NEEDS YOU. DON'T LOOK AWAY. YOU CAN SAVE LIVES. Below are some VETTED campaigns to support the people who have been experiencing an active genocide for almost a full year. DONATE DONATE DONATE. If you cannot, share widely.

(June 1)

Help Iyad and his family (@iyadsobhei) - Iyad is an elderly man who has been living in dire conditions with deteriorating health; he needs to evacuate with his wife and eight children. This fundraiser currently has NO FUNDS.

Help evacuate Hani's family (@skatehani) - A dear friend, and a Palestinian skater trying to evacuate 10 members of his family; he has lost his father to injustice. Less than halfway to his goal.

Help Husam and his family (@husamthaher) - Husam desperately needs to save himself, his wife, and 3 young children.

Ahmd needs urgent evacuation (@ahmd-iyd) - Ahmd has lost his livelihood to this genocide, and needs funds to help his family evacuate and rebuild their life.

Help Mahmoud Abu Hamam and his family (@ma7moudgaza) - A college student who desperately needs to evacuate to Egypt.

Help Iman��s family find safety (@imaneyad) - Iman has a family of 7 who need to find safety.

Help Mahmoud's family evacuate (@mahmoud0qassas) - Mahmoud and his family need to get to Egypt. His brother in law needs medical attention ASAP.

Support Ruba and Amal's family's urgent evacuation (@rubashaban @amalshabn) - Ruba and Amal's family are lacking the basic necessities of life; they have an elderly father who desperately needs to be evacuated for medical care.

Help Omar evacuate (@omarsobhi) - Omar is a 20 year old Palestinian student who wants to save himself and his family from this genocide.

Support Fahmi and his family (@fahmiakkila) - Fahmi's life has been turned completely upside down, and he now finds himself responsible to save his parents, sisters, & brothers - 7 members.

Save a displaced Gazan Family (@ranibra) - Rania is married with five children, her husband needs medical care. She is now responsible to save her children. Help them evacuate.

Save little Yusuf and his family (@ahmednabubake) - Yusuf is in an intensive care unit fighting for his life in Gaza; he needs urgent evacuation alongside his family.

Save a family trapped in Gaza (@mohamedalanqer) - Mohammed Alanqar and his family are living in fear, urgently needing financial assistance to escape to a safer environment.

Help Gazan children survive (@aymanayyad81) - Fadi Ayyad, an 18-year-old from Gaza seeks the funds to help his family survive these gruesome conditions.

Save Tawfik and his family (@tawfikwaleef) - Tawfik is an engineer from Gaza who urgently needs to escape Gaza with his family.

Help Tahseen and his family (@tahseenmush) - Tahseen and his family are from northern Gaza and need urgent help to survive this genocide.

Help Nader's family to evacuate from Gaza (@nadershoshaa) - Nader and his family, consisting of six members, are currently displaced in the south; help them evacuate and survive.

Don't ignore this list—your support is URGENTLY needed. Each fundraiser here is an opportunity to help, and it has been made easy for you to find these fundraisers. You can easily save lives. Pick at least one to support. Once again, your donation can save lives. If you can't donate, please share these campaigns.

FIND MORE CAMPAIGNS HERE

إذا انت من غزة و بدك إضافتك إلى القائمة التالية - اضغط هنا

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I finally made the meme I've had in my head for over a year

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I love you and I hope this summer is everything you’ve dreamed of and more

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Made the worst brownies ever created just now

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

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Yous are pro mental illness until it becomes as real for you as it is for them.

yall are pro mental illness until they hallucinate

yall are pro mental illness until they dissociate

yall are pro mental illness until they self-isolate

yall are pro mental illness until they're paranoid

yall are pro mental illness until they split

yall are pro mental illness until it's too Scary for your comparatively neurotypical brain to handle

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Hello 👁

Do you like body horror? Do you like art? Do you like things that are creepy, unsettling, and also kinda hot?

My name is Ziggy Baker. I'm a trans woman and a visual artist, and I make creepy body horror art! My biggest inspirations are H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński, and in my work, I explore the horrors that come with having a body, my relationship to my own body, and most importantly, how to have fun with photography and photo manipulation!

If you enjoy the work I do, I have an online store where you can purchase prints of various sizes.

>> STORE <<

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Your self respect needs to be stronger than ur feelings

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If you are currently sitting or laying down this moment ask yourself if you are resting or rotting. Change your behavior accordingly

#IM GONNA MOVE IN A MINUTE OK

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Sign the petition to demand the creation of a new international law requiring fast-fashion garments to come with a statement of the human cost and environmental harm caused by their creation.

We all know fast fashion is bad for the planet - slave labor, environmental waste, air and water pollution, and unsustainable practices are just a few of the ways they impact our planet, our health and our lives. To date, the fast fashion industry is the 2nd largest consumer of water and is single-handedly responsible for 10% of global carbon emissions (that's more than all international flights and maritime shipping across a year combined). Even the simple act of washing these clothes releases 500,000 tons of microfibers into the ocean each year - that's equal to 50,000 plastic bottles. Fast-fashion is the 3rd leading cause of the climate crises we face, yet is rarely addressed.

Knowing these stats is one thing, and understanding them is important. Being aware of them is somewhat informative. But as long as we keep turning a blind eye to the issue, the stats are only going to get worse, and nothing will change for the better. Ignoring the issue or brushing it under the rug won't help anything. So what if we could see the real-world damage done by each of the garments we buy?

In the same way that cigarette packets have shown the harm their products do to our bodies ("SMOKING KILLS", lung cancer visualizations, etc.), what if fast fashion manufacturers & retailers had to show the harm their products do to our planet?

[Image ID: A type-writer font has been used on a brown craft paper background. The text reads: "32 animals lost their habitat to the field where my crops were planted - 2 of those animals are already endangered species. 2,700 litres of water were used in my production. I was made in a sweatshop enslaving men and women aged 16 - 45, and children aged 6 - 14. I contain 0.22kg of carbon dioxide dye." End ID.]

This is a mock-up of a label / statement for a single T-shirt, with researched statistics and educated estimates for the information I couldn't find a calculated answer for.

Now imagine labels / statements like this for every single piece of clothing: how many toxic chemicals are in those new jeans? How many litres of water did that shirt take to make? How many animals were skinned to make those cute fur-trimmed boots? How many children made that jumper? How many people were forcibly removed from their homes, so production companies could plant crops to grow the materials used in clothes manufacturing? How many families were evicted for no reason other than corporate greed? How many trees were cut down? How many animals were displaced or killed?

Would you really want to buy those items of clothing if the answers to those questions were staring you in the face?

If this information was stated in clear, accessible ways on both the website and the ticket on the actual garment, this would dramatically reduce the number of people buying fast fashion items. It would also reduce the profits being made by fast fashion companies, and could lead to many of them being forced to choose between changing and becoming sustainable, eco-froendly and ethical brands, or shutting down due to being boycotted.

Who would really want to knowingly buy things that are made by slaves, or which cost a family their home, or which contributed to deforestation? Who would continue to buy fast fashion items knowing this is the damage caused by them, when sustainable alternatives are an option?

Whether it's second-hand fashion at affordable prices, or investing more money in sustainable products which were made with high ethical standards and which cost more money due to the fact their price accounts for the time it took a person to make that item... we can say for certain that sustainable shopping is going to become much more popular if people know how important that change is. Sustainable items last much longer than fast-fashion items, which by design are created to self-destruct, as they are made to be worn a few times and then discarded in order to be replaced by the next trend's items - and as trends speed up, these items become weaker and weaker. This then leads to people spending more money in order to keep up with the newest trends, and to keep replacing clothes they throw out after a few washes.

In contrast, buying sustainable items which are designed to last years means people won't have to spend money on new clothes every few weeks, which means they'll ultimately save money in the long term and actually be able to afford those pricier items which will last much, much longer.

Now, despite the amount of harm the fast-fashion industry causes to people and the environment, the last thing we should be doing is getting angry at those who continue to buy them. Being the target of anger doesn't make large populations change their behaviour - even a cursory look through history books will tell us that much. Neither does being the target of resentment or blame.

But guilt? Shame? Those are two of the most powerful emotions to magnify when you want change to happen in waves.

And frankly, if people feel ashamed of buying something, or if buying something makes them feel guilty... they're going to stop buying it.

Those aren't the only emotions that should be felt, though. Because only feeling guilt and shame leads to feeling hopeless, scared, anxious and depressed. And we don't want that. No matter how bad things get... we don't want that.

The only other emotions to provoke are hope and pride.

If there's no hope for the future, how can anyone be expected to imagine a better one?

You wouldn't think it, what with all the climate crises and disasters we experience around the world and the total lack of commitment made by billionaires, multimillion-dollar companies and corporations and politicians.

But it's true. Scientists in Scotland have discovered bacteria which eat plastic and speed up the decomposition of it. ‘Ecocide’ is now punishable by law. Some countries within the EU are already close to meeting their 2030 goals years ahead of schedule! Thanks to scientists and small, individual changes made on a massive scale by ordinary people who are making small adjustments to our everyday choices, we can and are healing most of the ozone layer before 2050. That is something we should all feel incredibly proud of.

So imagine how much we could speed that process up if more people made those changes. Imagine how much sooner we could heal our planet if billions of people made those changes, rather than millions. Imagine how much sooner we could be seeing the effects of a healthier planet if fast fashion companies were forced to choose between going green and transparent, or closing altogether due to a lack of interest from consumers. Imagine the changes we could create if corporations made massive changes in a short amount of time, in order to save their own profits.

Imagine more labels like this, sitting alongside each other on every single piece of fast fashion clothing. A statement like this beneath every item of clothing on fast fashion websites, which transparently states the harm done.

If every single fast-fashion company and store had to display this on their clothing, on their racks, on their websites, and if there were legal punishments for those who tried to evade or lie... fashion would turn a lot greener very quickly. We'd start seeing more and more labels with "I'm made from 6 plastic bottles! I used to be a newspaper! I had 0 pesticides used on me in my production! I only contain natural dye made from berries, beans and sustainably grown flowers. I was made from apple skins and corn! The people who made me get to go home to their families every night, have days off and the adults made £150.35 each in 1 week! The animal who made the wool for me is free-range and well-cared for! I came from a small family farm, and was created with a closed-loop water system!”

That'd be a much better civilisation to shop in, don't you agree?

That is hope for the future.

That is motivation, which can fuel ordinary people to do extraordinary things and create changes they thought were impossible.

If you want to be a part of creating this change, sign the Change.org petition which demands the the creation and implementation of an international law which will require all fast-fashion products to be displayed with a statement which states the harm done to people and the planet by that garment being made & shipped.

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As artists, I believe it is important for us to know where our materials and tools come from. Whether that’s where our paint is from or who made it and what their values are, or who made the paintbrushes we use and how those bristles were sourced or what the handle was before it was a handle, I firmly believe it is our responsibility to know what and who created the very things we use to create art from.

Now more than ever, it is important for us to be self-aware of how our art impacts us and our community, but there are few times in history when it has been so important to be aware of the impacts our art has on people in other countries who we will never, ever meet or know. Art has always existed as a means of expression, and richer emotions have always led to richer, stronger moments in art. Whether we’re discussing the French Revolution, or a world war, or a social movement concerning human rights or oppressive governing systems being overthrown, or moments of awareness of the world around us… art has always been present, and artists have always been there in the riots and the chaos - some of us will be at the front, some of us will be caught up in the eye of the storm, but we have always been there. Art goes hand-in-hand with social changes; it always has and it always will.

We are in a climate crisis, which threatens all life on earth. All humans. All societies. All cultures. All animals. All plants. There is nowhere left on this planet to run to in order to escape it. Take a moment to absorb that: we still haven’t discovered every part of it. We still haven’t explored most of the ocean, and we still haven’t reached every nook and cranny of every forest or counted every rock on every mountain, or ran our fingers over every inch of every cave system… and yet none of that will offer us a sanctuary to escape the hell we’ve raised.

We can’t run, and we can’t hide. There are only two options left: 1: Cower, and wait for the day we burn alongside the rest of this planet - this planet which we have called home since the first living organisms existed on a lump of rock billions of years ago. 2: Fight to save this planet, and the lives which are lived on it every day - even if we’ll never personally witness the lives of those we save by fighting.

One of the biggest ways we can fight is to take responsibility for our impact. Be that the things we buy, how we travel, the foods we eat or the way we power our homes - it all has an impact and it all leaves a footprint. As artists, we often only think of the emotional impact viewing our art will have on the audience. But it’s time for us to consider the physical, economical and environmental impact of the things we use to create our art.

That is why I genuinely enjoy promoting A Good Company. Whether someone uses the affiliate links or not is secondary to me. I care more about informing people of the possibilities and good causes than I do about whether I financially gain anything from doing so. That is why I love talking about A Good Company and their notebooks made from stone paper. Limestone is what was used to create some of the most iconic classical statues in human history; now we have found a way to use it to create paper and notebooks and envelopes and boxes. Paper doesn’t have to be made from trees ever again - but most people would laugh at that idea.

Think about it: paper made from stone, pens made from grass, phone cases made from plants. How is that anything but incredible? By raising awareness of how A Good Company make their products, and the impact every single product has on people and the environment around the world, I can encourage more people to stop cowering as they wait for the world to burn. Because we’re not out of time yet - we can still fight to save our home, and the homes of every single life on this planet.

Crises aren’t solved by big, flashy action scenes like they are in the movies. The world doesn’t change in single, monumental ways.

Crises are solved by ordinary people doing small things to keep humanity’s soul intact. The world changes when trillions upon trillions of tiny, insignificant movements and changes add up to create colossal waves of change - whether for better or worse.

If the only way you can fight is to take responsibility for the products you buy, that will still add up to more changes than you will ever know. Maybe you fed a child who you will never meet and who doesn’t speak your language or know your name. Maybe you helped a girl graduate school. Maybe you gave a cup of clean water to someone who will never see your face. Maybe you planted a tree which will stand for another few hundred years and become home to generations of different animals. Maybe you helped make the air safer to breathe.

“It doesn’t matter what you buy.” Except it does. What you buy can make all the difference in the world. And isn’t that what art has always done?

Read the rest of this post HERE.

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°• Commissions are now open •°

Available commission slots for April: 4

Available custom slots for April: 0

If you would like to place an order for a commission, please DM me with any questions. When you are ready to place your order, I'll send you a Commission Form in PNG format - all you have to do is fill in the blanks, which can be done either on your phone, tablet or laptop, and then send the edited version back to me. This makes it much easier for me, as it helps me keep all of your information & order together, and it makes it easier for you, since it has multiple-choice questions and everything is easy to understand. At the end, you will receive a digital receipt in PNG or PDF format; you can request which one when placing your order.

Your commission fee is a deposit amount, so that if you either cancel your order later on, or you refuse to pay the final commission fee, I still receive a percentage of payment. This is for my own financial protection, in the event you evade payment once I finish your piece. I will not begin work on your piece until I have received your commission fee.

[Sample pricing for a semi-realistic human portrait commission, standard sized:

Fee: 20% of the final price

Final price:

£9.50 an hour, for 7 hours = £66.50

+ £2.00 an hour for it being human = (2×8=16) (16+66.50=) £82.50

+ £1.50 for the size & quality = (82.50+1.50=) £84.00

+ £10.90 for shipping fees & delivery costs (which I have to pay) = (84.00+10.90=) £94.90

Round it up for the sake of making any conversions easier, and it adds up to £95.00. ]

This is the full commission price you will be required to pay when I finish your piece. You will pay your commission fee within 3 days of me sending you news that your piece is finished. If you do not pay this price, you will not receive your commission.

If you are curious about my art and would like to request something which has not been mentioned in my posters, please reach out to me to find out pricing.

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