heres the raw illustration without color correction, and what i have left of the sketch
i drew this with a mouse!!! my new stylus nibs arrive on christmas (hopefully) so this was originally gonna be a sketch that i'd polish up but as usual i got distracted with rendering. this ended up being really fun!!!
CHRISTIAN YU
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i do not pity israel. never have, and never will.
each night that gaza experiences is deadlier than the last, as idf soldiers record propaganda tiktoks, make rave parties and grwms and fit checks, gloat over having food and water, and film themselves deriving sadistic pleasure from torturing their hostages and victims and desecrating the dead.
Palestinians have to display their martyred before the camera for you to believe the atrocities that the zionist entity has subjected them to. they cannot even mourn in private. the apartheid entity murders them in cold blood, and you deliver the killing blow by doubting them.
babies whose families have been killed will never get to know their own name.
i can't reshare a tenth of the videos and photos that cross my timeline. i have seen more dead children in the past month than i have known death my entire life.
israeli settlers burn olive trees, bomb bakeries and fishing boats, shower white phosphorus and earthquake bombs on the captive civilians of gaza. you already know about the disastrous effects of white phosphorus, but earthquake bombs were last used during ww2 to wipe out entire cities.
how holy is the land that seeks to be built over the mass graves of thousands of children? is it holier than the miracle of a child being born in this hypocritical world?
all 11 universities in gaza have been bombed. academics should be agitating right now, especially those who call themselves "decolonial thinkers." destruction of universities is a sinisterly deliberate act to sabotage the Palestinians who will survive this great catastrophe.
the act of cleansing your hands before prayer is extremely important to muslims. no part of us can remotely comprehend the grief of the mother who refused to wash her hands from the blood of her children after losing them in a zionist airstrike over gaza. "I swear I won't wash them, I won't wash my hands, how else am I supposed to sleep near my kids."
it is only both moral and right when one side defends itself. the other side are the price of war, no better than insects and cattle and sheep left to die within the four walls of the slaughterhouse.
this situation should not be up for debate, but let me finish with one final thing : do your research about Palestine. HOWEVER. you do not need a degree in middle east studies to object to an ongoing genocide. if someone outwits you in a debate about historical details and every nuance of a subject, you were and will remain entirely correct in objecting to a genocide.
may those martyred rest in peace and be reunited again with their loved ones in heaven's eternal vastness.
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE.
glory to Palestinian resistance. from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
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RIP Peep
I haven't read or watched banana fish bc my heart already can't handle it, but there's sth I'm curious about - in garden of light, does Eiji know Ash is dead? like, does he ever find out what happened to Ash?
Oh he knows (I never want to know his reaction when he first heard) and I’m pretty sure he’ll never fully be over it. He says this to Sing and Akira (Ibe’s niece) near the end of GoL and it makes me emotional every time I read it:
The way Eiji and Sing talk to Ash’s belongings and photos, as if he’s sitting right there in the room, his spirit will never die to them, but you can still see the grief in both of them. I ran out of space to post all the pictures, but you can read GoL here.
At Eiji’s second home in Cape Cod:
Sing talking to “Ash”
And the time Eiji sees someone who resembles Ash breaks my heart:
It’s not only GoL, but also the photo book that Eiji published called New York Sense where the whole thing is basically another love letter to Ash.
Link to pt 1 Posted by @ash-callenreese
It took 6 years for him to dig up Ash’s pictures again, and then they’re overflowing in his photo book and gallery. We don’t know for certain, but I doubt Eiji ever married, and Ash will remain his first and only love.