This animation was inspired by a little zine I sketched out. I liked it so much, that I decided to turn it into a pixel art animation!
For my dear friend in G/\za 🍓. No matter what happens to her or myself, I am forever grateful to be under the same stars as her, all these miles and oceans apart. Besan's GFM link @bisanalbalawi18
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Star Scene Image Description: An animated pixel art of a simple star drawn with a thick black outline. The star's face has two arches that curve down into black oval eyes with small light shines, looking to the right.
Around the star is a dark purple pixel font in lowercase words that reads: "we are under the same STARS".
The placement of the words are: above the star: "we are under", on the left: "the", and on the right: "same", and below in all caps: "STARS"
The background is a solid white color, detailed with light purple diamond-shaped stars and small flecks representing twinkling stars. The details are also animating in the background. END ID
Moon Scene Image Description: An animated pixel art of a simple moon drawn with a thick black outline. The moon's face has one arch that curves down into a single black oval eye with a small light shine, looking to the left. The moon is drawn in a waning crescent shape, with dashed lines connecting the moon's points to make a circular shape.
Around the moon is a dark blue pixel font in lowercase words that reads: "we are under the same MOON"
The placement of the words are: above the moon: "we are under", inside the dashed lined circular section: "the same", and below in all caps: "MOON"
The background is a solid white color, detailed with light blue swirls and diamond-shaped stars and small dots. The details are also animating in the background. END ID
Cloud Scene Image Description: An animated pixel art of a simple fluffy cloud drawn with a thick black outline. The cloud's face has two arches that curve down into black oval eyes with small light shines, looking to the right.
Around the moon is a dark green pixel font in lowercase words that reads: "we are under the same CLOUDS"
The placement of the words are: on the right with each word below the next: "we are under the same" and below in all caps: "CLOUDS"
The background is a solid white color, detailed with light green clouds and wide "M" arching lines drawn for four birds. The details are also animating in the background. END ID
Sun Scene Image Description: An animated pixel art of a circular sun drawn with a thick black outline. The sunrays are drawn connected together in each arching U-shaped point. The sun's face has two arches that curve down into black oval eyes with small light shines, looking up.
Around the sun is a dark yellow pixel font in lowercase words that reads: "we are under the same SUN" The placement of the words are around the sun from the the bottom left, curving around the sun, back down to the bottom right.
The background is a solid white color, detailed with light yellow squiggly-wavy lines representing sun rays. The details are also animating in the background. END ID
How Wonderful - Note Scene Image Description: A four-lined, pixel art sentence in black color that reads: "how wonderful we are to be under the same stars!" The layout for the sentence is: "how wonderful", "we are", "to be under", "the same stars!"
Animating below each word is a dark blue looping line, where each loop connects with the additional line underneath the next word.
The background is a solid white color. END ID
Outro Scene Image Description: A pixel art of the words "by" in black, with the artist's name "bloomzeye" in a purple pixel art font style, with three small hearts inside the center of the "b" and "o"s. Each heart animates within three frames to change colors from purple: blue in the "b", pink in the first "o", and yellow in the second "o". The background is a solid white color. END ID
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400+ people were killed in gaza last night.
I’ve been absent for days — we were suddenly evacuated after the surgical ward at our hospital was targeted. That night was hell.
I came back hoping for a bit of hope… but seeing the donations drop broke me more than I expected.
To the world: Do you think we’re lying? Is the BBC lying?
We’re being killed — in streets, in tents, even in hospitals.
We are human. Educated. We had jobs, dreams. Now we’re just trying to keep our families alive.
Please, share this. Help us be heard. Donate. Share. Speak up. Maybe it will reach a heart that cares.
While standing in line trying to get some food in the southern Gaza Strip, he yelled at the journalist Fakri Ibrahim, saying: 'Send this picture to Israel and the world.'
The war has returned after 15 months of death and genocide. We have never rested. We are losing people every day, most of them children and women... The bombing is everywhere. Our children are afraid...The sound is frightening.😭
There is no food, no drink, no medicine, the crossing is closed and everything is expensive.
‼️We don't want to die. Please donate and help us so we can buy food and medicine for my mother and save ourselves from death. Just donate. 😭🙏😞🫂‼️
looking at (vetted) gofundmes for people trying to escape palestine and i don't know how many of you actually click on the gofundme links you reblog but i would like to point out, for what it's worth, just how amazing it is that so many have raised so much money. it may overall feel like a drop in the ocean but the fact that several gofundmes have raised tens of thousands of dollars is amazing. it is so expensive to leave gaza right now, and people still need money after they escape. but regardless of what propaganda the US, UK, canada, and other western nations are trying to pump out, people across the world are doing what they can to help these people survive. many of them are still very far from their goals (like this one and this one and this one) and some of them are very close to high goals (like this one), and some of them have reached almost double their original goal.
and that's not even addressing direct aid or organizations that take continuous donations for distribution of food, menstrual products, etc. the PCRF has raised $16,000,000 of their target goal of $20,000,000 to fund current aid and long-term relief efforts in gaza. ANERA's febuary 13th update discusses the material ways they helped palestinians today:
(ANERA donate link)
my point is, it often feels like the world is turning a blind eye to palestine. but i would like to point out that there is an important difference between "the world" and "western political leaders and media narratives". a breathtaking amount of real people, the people who make up the world, are trying to help. in the face of israel attempting to commit genocide, the world is saying No. These people deserve to live. and literally sending millions of dollars internationally, through the internet connection that israel has desperately been trying to destroy.
it may not feel like it matters in the grand scheme of things. but to the people who get fresh clothes, or a hot meal, or blankets, or the kids who get new toys, or to the people who are able to bring their families to safety, it matters to them. go make someone's day better. i've linked so many options with ways to do that.
shayma escaped gaza before the crossing closed and has been struggling to care for her family of 16 in egypt. rent is skyrocketing, and now her brother needs help funding his master's degree. she just lost her childhood friend and her friend's family, she needs support right now.
she didn't ask me to post this, i just wanna show her there's still people out there who care. please help her
I have nothing to give. all I can do is reblog. I want to help. And this is the only way I can.
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