Lĩnh Von Valancius Portrait . 2024

My rogue trader portrait! Eh ngl i intedned it to be even more detailed but got burnt out lmao so yeah

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@nananarc, Heartlocked. 2024, Jan. Digital art. Third commission in series for Await the Dawn.

Please scroll down for the astonishing color variation below ❤️‍🔥

It’s such a lovely piece. Any words I can conjure up can only ossify in the face of your marvel, Na. I stared at it so long that when I close my eyes their absence is etched on my retina.

Them 🥺

I don’t know what else to say other than:

It’s the little death one gets after finishing the right kinda book; feeling of a perceptive profundity, some nameless change being incubated by the creativity and masterly expression of the artist. It’s more than a visual experience. It’s moving. Perhaps as you said, it’s one of the best pieces yet—though I have no doubt, it will be surpassed by a multitude of your works to come.

Alternative colors below the cut:

@nananarc kekekekke no i have more than one braincell i swear 🤣

My dear writer friend saying they don't know what to say, proceed to write an essay about it. I love you lmao. It's an honor and an emotional journey for me to draw this piece. Well, that probably is quite visible in the lines and the colors lmao. I just want to give it all, because I love you, I love Ede and Maul, and I want all of you to be ... art. For a lack of better words.

New Vetted Gaza Fundraisers from Palestinians that reached out to me (23-27 March)

27 March

26 March

25 March

23 March

You can enter my freshwater pearl necklace raffle if you donate to any of the above fundraisers! (deadline 31 March 2025)

Click here for my Google Doc with my complete masterlist of all the Palestinian gfm asks I've received

Info on how gfm campaigns are vetted:  See here, here, here, here and here.

See post here for other verified ways to send aid to Gaza.

Mutual Aid Funds: The Sameer Project: North and Central Gaza aid/ Refaat Alareer Camp Aid/ South Gaza Aid

Daily Clicks on Arab.org. Every click made is registered in their system and generates donation from sponsors/advertisers.

See links below for my Masterlists of Vetted Fundraisers from the Palestinians who sent me asks for if you want to help more people! As well as resources for palestinian students if you are a palestinian student!

a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.

certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn't include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.

[Image Description: A simple illustrated gif showing Ibrahim, a young Palestinian man, next to the words "Save Ibrahim's Family; Donate Today! End description.]

I am writing this on behalf of my friend Ibrahim @aburakhiaibrahim. Ibrahim is only 20, but instead of getting to study, work, or enjoy his life, he is living through a genocide.

Ibrahim and his family of 28 are living in the ruins of their home. They are all exhausted and hungry, suffering from the lack of food and other basic necessities and aid in Ghazzah.

As well as this, since the war began again, they have to live in constant fear of bombing. Recently, Ibrahim attempted to film a video, but the sound of bombing was too loud to speak or be heard over.

[Video Description: A short video recorded by Ibrahim, a young man in Ghazzah. He is facing the camera and tries to speak, but the loud sound of a bomb going off startles him. He speaks some works in Arabic as the sound continues. End description.]

Ibrahim and his family need donations to afford basic necessities to survive during this dangerous and unjust situation. Unfortunately, donations are often slow. They have been fundraising for over a year at this point, but they still have yet to reach even 40% of their goal.

Please, share and donate, help to Ibrahim and his family! Your donations and efforts in sharing their campaign make a difference.

Vetted #336 on nabulsi and el-shab-hussein's list

Vetted here by @/gaza-evacuation-funds

I think every computer user needs to read this because holy fucking shit this is fucking horrible.

So Windows has a new feature incoming called Recall where your computer will first, monitor everything you do with screenshots every couple of seconds and "process that" with an AI.

Hey, errrr, fuck no? This isn't merely because AI is really energy intensive to the point that it causes environmental damage. This is because it's basically surveilling what you are doing on your fucking desktop.

This AI is not going to be on your desktop, like all AI, it's going to be done on another server, "in the cloud" to be precise, so all those data and screenshot? They're going to go off to Microsoft. Microsoft are going to be monitoring what you do on your own computer.

Now of course Microsoft are going to be all "oooh, it's okay, we'll keep your data safe". They won't. Let me just remind you that evidence given over from Facebook has been used to prosecute a mother and daughter for an "illegal abortion", Microsoft will likely do the same.

And before someone goes "durrr, nuthin' to fear, nuthin to hide", let me remind you that you can be doing completely legal and righteous acts and still have the police on your arse. Are you an activist? Don't even need to be a hackivist, you can just be very vocal about something concerning and have the fucking police on your arse. They did this with environmental protesters in the UK. The culture war against transgender people looks likely to be heading in a direction wherein people looking for information on transgender people or help transitioning will be tracked down too. You have plenty to hide from the government, including your opinions and ideas.

Again, look into backing up your shit and switching to Linux Mint or Ubuntu to get away from Microsoft doing this shit.

there are multiple options here depending on how comfortable you are digging into your computer's registry. You can either simply disable it surface level through settings or excise it entirely from the system registry

reblogging again as a cautionary tale to please PLEASE fucking make a system restore point before you do anything. i consider myself tech savvy and still nearly bricked my computer. and make sure you know how to access safe mode

More than 1000 people have been killed in a horrific 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand, and the devastation is enormous. To help survivors:

World Central Kitchen are en route to the affected areas.

MSF/Doctors Without Borders also have teams on the ground to aid the injured.

Medical Action Myanmar is also raising funds to deliver urgent aid relief and long-term support to those affected by the earthquake.

PLEASE SHARE THIS POST!!!!!!!!

For the past two years I have been apart of a volunteer club that visits the United Learning Center (ULC) in Phang Nga, Thailand, a school for Myanmar migrant families. I heard so many stories there that moved me in such a way that I promised them that I would tell the world about it. I was honestly astonished that it didn’t have more coverage already. The world had seemed to forget them. So here I drew some of my interactions with them, my friends.

By sharing this post I hope to raise awareness both about the issue in general and to talk about the FED. I have worked with this organization for the past two years and they are the nicest people you have ever met. Their sole purpose is to help the people around them, the people struggling because of this war. They have changed so many lives and will continue to change more. But any and all help is appreciated, and I urge you to do whatever you can to do so.

For more information, go to FED website: fedgrassroots.org and follow them on Insta: @fedgrassroots

Thank you for reading. And to my Myanmar friends—မင်းကိုချစ်တယ်! ❤️ဘေးကင်းပါစေ။