Thinking About Sheikh Jarrah Makes Me Feel So Sick. The Palestinians Living There Are Refugees / Descendants

the word lover but in urdu/hindi:

chitchor (heart stealer)

deewana (initially means mad)

majnu (a popular trope)

dilruba (usually referred to a woman, means the pleaser of my heart)

mehbub/mehbuba

aashiq (referred to a man)

saajan/sajni

preyasi (i think it's from bangla but it deserves to be on here)

sanam (gender neutral? ig?)

ok i'm sure you get this asked a lot but i haven't seen it - just how did you get/develop your art style? i love it so much!! it's so pleasing to look at.

why thank you! honestly “finding my art style” was a huge thing for me back when I was starting out. I went from style to style pretty wildly, and it was really only when I realized that art style is more about technique & how the art is made - rather than just how the faces look or whatever - that I actually fell into the current style I now have. I made a little “art journey” chart under the cut so you can kind of see what I mean! This really only covers about /half/ the different styles I tried out, especially in the early days.

I know that it seems as though things cooled down in Palestine after the ceasefire, but they haven't. Sheikh Jarrah is now under blockade, no one from outside of the neighbourhood goes in or out smoothly, and sometimes Palestinian residents resort to sneaking in. The court order to forcefully expel Palestinians to replace them with settlers is still awaiting.

Silwan, also in East Jerusalem, has been facing severe colonial violence and segregation and is awaiting the same faith as Sheikh Jarrah, where the residents of 6 neighbourhoods out of 12 are going to be displaced and expelled by Israeli authorities and U.S. settler organizations.

Facebook and Instagram are deliberately censoring Palestinians, labelling almost every post, story, and comment as sensitive content. Not to mention the Israeli paid censorship of hashtags such as #SaveSheikhJarrah & #FreePalestine.

The Israeli MFA is investing millions of dollars to attack, blackmail, and censor celebrities and official bodies that support Palestine, pushing further the instrumentalization of antisemitism to counter the criticism of Israel, and Palestinian liberation. These tactics are both harmful to Palestinians and Jewish communities actually facing antisemitism, colonial, imperial, and racist oppression.

Palestinians in 48 (Israel- Occupied Palestine) are facing colonial oppression on multiple levels; Israeli Police are violently arresting online and offline activists for engaging in peaceful protests and for advocating for Palestinian liberation, Israeli's are firing Palestinian workers and company employees, while also boycotting Palestinian local products, and physical assaults in the streets are still very much a thing.

In Jaffa, there are approximately 300 forced expulsion orders for Palestinian houses, by the state-owned colonial real estate company ' Amidar '. An estimation of 20,000 Palestinians are now living under the threat of being homeless. This is just a continuation of what Israel and its neo-liberal colonial companies have been doing to Palestinians in 48 ' lands.

Since May 10th, more than 25 Palestinians were killed by the IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces) in protests in the West Bank. Since the "ceasefire" Israel invaded al Aqsa, detained 500+ Palestinians, surrounded Silwan & Sheikh Jarrah, demonized the entirety of Palestinian society in Israeli and right-wing (but not only) international media, protected armed Israeli civilians in assaulting Palestinians, and let Israeli civilians/soldiers/police officers who shot Palestinians dead, walk free.

Don't Stop Talking About Palestine.

Save Sheikh Jarrah.

Save Silwan.

Save Jaffa.

Free Palestine.

Denis Forkas

Cool Tip

If you are like me and always need to be working on something to keep your anxiety under control, during this quarentine why not helping scientists by looking at pictures of some neat penguins? or even galaxies?  There’s this site call Zooniverse, where you can help on scientific projects by analyzing pictures and data!  Right now my favorite project has returned, called Penguin Watch (where yeah, you get to watch penguins, it’s amazing)

you basically have to analyse photos looking for penguins, their chicks, eggs or even predators and human interaction But there are lots of interesting projects you can help in areas such as biology, physics, history or even art: 

Oh and the best part, some institutions even accept it as volunteering/service hour requirements for graduation and scholarships!! It’s helping me a lot during this time, so I thought it was worth sharing 

My Manga List (2019) Part 6

Momochi-san Chi no Ayakashi Ouji

Summary:

Momochi Himari after being an orphan inherited a house out of nowhere. She decided to occupy that house despite of the warnings she received. According to the folks the House of Momochi is haunted. There she met three guys who live in the house, Aoi, Yukari and Ise. Then she discovered something unusual about them. What will happen to Himari’s peaceful life when she decided to stay there?

WHY YOU SHOULD READ:

- a personal favorite

- f a n t a s y

- m y s t e r y

- plot = 5/5

- art style = 4/5

- ml is a sweet, handsome, softie 

-mc is love

- it will keep you going

- interesting read 

- soft

- lovable characters

- to conclude,  you are gonna love this story bcoz it’s so interesting, and the characers and plot are lovely

Watashitachi wa Douka shiteiru

Summary:

Kougetsu An, a well-established Japanese-style confectionary store where Nao’s mother worked and lived is where she met Tsubaki. However, after a certain incident, Nao’s mother was accused of murder and is arrested. Because of that, Nao was banned from Kougetus An. Fifteen years later, Tsubaki revisits a disapproving Nao, which make the two compete at a showdown for their skills. The hateful Tsubaki who once made Nao’s life a crazy mess approached Nao later to marry him since he has yet to notice that his long-lost childhood friend is Nao. How will Nao react to this unexpected proposal?!

WHY YOU SHOULD READ:

- m y s t e r y bcoz who killed the owner?

- plot = 4/5

- art style = 5/5

- ml and mc are a match in wickedness

- conclusion, only has a few chaps but the entire premise are pretty and the suspense is killing me

Itoshi no Ko, Charlotte

Summary:

Orphans Charlotte and William finally confess their feelings for each other and promised to be together forever. Yet, Charlotte is suddenly killed in a motor accident, leaving William devastated. Death is usually the end of most relationships, but it seems that Will has other plans…

WHY YOU SHOULD READ:

- plot = 5/5 

- art style = 3/5

- resurrection stories

- i n t e r e s t i n g read

- goosebumps

- characters are interesting

- to conclude, this only has like 2 chaps but its too interesting and promising.

The Revelation of Spring and Sons of Snow

Summary:

“As Yuki-onna-sama’s living sacrifice, you shall call upon the arrival of Spring.”

In Fuji Village where the legend of Yuki-onna remains, preparations begin on the morning of New Year’s Day for the ritual to be held on the coldest day of the year. The young men who have inherited the blood of Yuki-onna thus named the Three Houses of the Gokusho, spend their days until the ritual aiding the living sacrifice, the Revelation of Spring. In this enclosed world bound by laws and tradition, the young men uncover mysteries of the village and its rituals. Before long, the village is faced with a situation never before seen.

WHY YOU SHOULD READ:

- plot = 6/5 this story is that good

- art style = 5/5

- can i just say that i love the fact that they incoporated a legend/folktale here?

- characters are lovable

- who is the killer why the sacrifices

-  i n t e r e s t i n g

- conclusion, highly recommended!!

Hakoniwa no Soleil

Summary:

After visiting her deceased teacher’s grave, Asahi Sena ends up saving a man falling from the stairs. The man, Itsuki Tobari turns out to be her deceased teacher’s younger brother. They start to talk about things from the past, about the death of Itsuki’s sister and the 11-year-old boy, Sena’s best friend from the past, who killed her. Where and how is the boy now? Together, they start to find out what actually happened during that tragic day.

WHY YOU SHOULD READ:

- plot = 5/5

- art style = 4/5

- w h o k i l l e d t h e s e n s e i

- m y s t e r y

- both mls are considerate

- mc is strong willed

- super interesting

- conclusion, this bored me at first ngl but this is really good! there’s a lot going on and the characters has their own story

I’m convinced if ppl on this site knew how crappy gifs look before you color them properly, they would appreciate editors more

So pretty 😍😍😍😍

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カーテン(2021)

Portrait of an old woman with a green scarf

Christian Seybold

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