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Black Card Summer…IS BACK!!! ☀️

We're coming with another Art Telephone, Comic Challenges, Writing Challenges, and MORE! Let's get excited for a fun summer! Read a bit more about each event below!

ART TELEPHONE! 🎨

Our favorite art game is back again with LONGER times to work on your pieces and another community commissioned art piece to kick us off! Want a chance to play? Sign ups are live NOW! Sign ups!

4 PANEL COMIC CHALLENGE 💬

You'll have four weeks to create a 4 panel comic using the theme Summer Vacation as your guidance! At the end of the challenge the comics will be displayed in a digital zine that everyone can read for FREE, but can donate to help us support charities! The deadline is July 12th! Submission Form!

Blackout Fiction and Black Out Poetry! ✍🏾

We're doing some writing workshops for Blackout Fiction and Poetry! Interested in attending? We have a Interest Check for available days! But move fast! Interest checks are open for 24 hours only! Interest Check!

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Let's have a fun summer! ☀️🥂

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I am being so serious when I say: if you have the financial and time privilege to get a group of friends together and make an indie project, PLEASE do. Indie games, indie animations, indie comics etc etc

the art industries are kind of in the shitter. It’s not so much because of AI (though that doesn’t help) but because studios just aren’t hiring people and funding projects anymore. People who’ve been in the industry for decades are finding themselves struggling, and once you have a mortgage or kids it’s harder to do something as risky as making something on your own.

completing projects is hard. it takes a lot of time and effort, and most people can’t afford it. so if you CAN afford to make art, even at the risk of no financial gain, I strongly encourage you to be as resilient as you can. We’re at a point where these industries are not going to turn around by themselves, and waiting for jobs to open up again in order to get experience and portfolio work might not be realistic.

people have been making art and telling stories longgggg before we were getting paid for it, and people aren’t going to stop just because no one has hired them to do so.

for everyone else: support indie artists when you can!!!! That person who made that cool indie game or youtube animation or webcomic might be doing this full time! your support might be the only reason they’re able to keep doing it.

and if you have already started an indie project: you’re so brave and I’m very proud of you!!! in fact, drop a link to it in the reblogs if you want! 👇

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I’m going to pretend that I know how to *really* use tumblr. It’s the only social media that I genuinely like and use

there's a jam on itch.io right now that's taking submissions for a charity bundle for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. if you have any completed games or books, comics, tools, game assets, etc. consider submitting something (no nsfw content permitted)

the bundle will launch in february and be a pay-what-you-want model with a minimum $8 donation.

submission are still open until 01/18/24.

itch.io

Palestinian Relief Bundle

A game jam from 2023-12-25 to 2024-01-18 hosted by ghosthunter. 🌿🍉 Palestinians are being persecuted from their homes in an ongoing genocide

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Ummm? My side blog @lil-bloomz is gone? Or I can’t see/access it from being logged in on mobile?

The people of Gaza are asking for YOUR help today. Here are some VETTED campaigns you should donate to and share widely.

(may 23rd):

Help Almoghrabi family to evacuate Gaza strip (@amjad20011) - Amjad needs to evacuate with his wife and his son, who isn't even 3 years old.

Support Ruba's family's urgent evacuation (@rubashaban) - Ruba's family are lacking the basic necessities of life; she has an elderly father who desperately needs to be evacuated.

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.

Help Belal and his family to evacuate from Gaza (@alaajshaat) - Belal has lost too much to this war and needs to support himself and his family.

Help Ahmed's family evacuate (@malkzaeem) - Ahmed needs to save his wife, 4 children, and severely injured father.

Help Ezzideen Shehab and his family evacuate (@helpezzideen) - Ezzideen, a young doctor, and his parents, siblings, and young brother Mazen urgently need to evacuate.

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

Support three orphaned children and their mother (@abedbahlool) - TW Graphic image. Asmaa is a mother of three and lost her husband due to the aggression.

Help save Bassam and his family (@lailashaqoura) - Bassam has five young children and has already lost 9 members of his wife's family.

Save Firas' family (@prosolitudeeee) - Firas is a of two children, a 10-month-old boy and a two-year-old girl, who are in need of safe haven in Egypt.

Help Hani's family evacuate (@skatehani) - A Palestinian skater trying to evacuate 10 members of his family.

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

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.

Marah needs to save her family (@marahsalem) - Marah is trying to get reunited with her family, which consists of 5 members who need to urgently evacuate.

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

Yosof's family needs to evacuate (@yosofzaeem) - Yosof’s family needs to evacuate urgently; member of their family needs medical attention.

This list is supposed to call you to action. Please do not scroll past without contributing. Choose at least one fundraiser to support today. $5 can save lives. If you cannot donate, share these campaigns.

Looking for more campaigns?

Please please please donate to the PCRF

Or donate to the Cartoonist Cooperative's e-sim drive that provides a handy guide to how it works and why it's important