All regular spots are open right until the end of the month! If you get some money for the holidays, why not treat yourself?🥳
Shares appreciated!❤️ #art#comms#commsopen#commissions
IT'S HOT OUT! Let's draw them! Got a character with any sort of goth-inspired looks? I'm discounting halfbody illustrations of them from $170 to $140 for August-only!
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An illustration of a goth-fashion woman with pale white skin, long black hair with bangs, black lipstick, combat boots, a cross choker, little black dress and fishnet sleeves and tights carrying an umbrella while on a sunny summery beach. She is looking down at surprise at a bright red crab. The sand behind her is piled up like gravestones. There is a doodle of the same character next to this illustration, advertising that goth-style character art is $140 USD this month
⚠️ EMERGENCY COMMS ⚠️ Hi! My medical bills are being sent to collections and I need to move out! I will do art for you if you help me prevent this from happening!
"Emergency comms! Domations of $25 or more will get some art in return. Hey there, I'm Vega. I'm currently between jobs and in a whopping $5.3k of medical debt. I've also been informed that I need a new place to live. Anything helps. Thank you!"
a brown bunny robot with tan speckles skates along with her glowing rainbow skate attachments, her eyes glow a soft magenta and trail along as she zooms forward. she's wearing an orange jacket with paint splotches, a black shirt, blue jeans with tears in the knees, and a black shirt. along with a blue hat with paint splotches, which have pompoms on them, gently flowing along.
Much like b/Black people, disabled people, queer people, and other groups pushed out of everyday life all keep saying in various words and intensities over the years:
shit has hit the fan, will continue to hit the fan, and yes, this is going to be tedious and deadly to fix.
But we do, in fact, need to turn off the fan, remove the faeces, sterilise all surfaces and objects in the room, and LEARN what went wrong.
The time will pass either way. We need to accept our current situation to plan how to fix it.
Seek community with people who feel safe:
actually warm, stable, secure, NOT upsetting, worrying, or 'wrong'. ("Oh, I want to trust them, but..." then DON'T. "But what about--" NO.
If you need something from them to survive or help someone else, take the risks you think you can survive the worst outcomes of sustainably. But otherwise, please value yourself and your wellbeing. If not, please value yourself because I do.)
TRUST YOUR GUT.
Yes, your gut can be wrong. Your gut can be racist, sexist, or otherwise shitty. It can keep you from connecting with people who mean well but can't match your expectations while trying to help.
But it's among the best advice I can give.
It's not easy to tell who is safe(r) or not; I'm sorry. I wish it were easy.
It's not your fault if you get it wrong! That's the point of being young and inexperienced: you haven't been alive long enough to experience what you need to know to stay alive and healthy(ish) yet.
You may need to question dangerous situations for your own sake. (Ideally BEFORE you get near them, but please: it's not your fault if you don't realise until later.)
If no one else and no other organisation, Samaritans is probably your best bet. Otherwise, you can search online but PLEASE. Fuck, there is no general advice I can even give here.
You want "near you" / local, and f2f / in-person where you can. Unfortunately, people of same demographics are most likely to care, but this is NO guarantee, nor should it be.
If you know tech shit:
VPN is probably helpful, depending where you live and what you need to know.
If you don't know tech shit:
only ask people certain questions face to face / in person. Turn your devices off, batteries out, and in another room.
Make it a game! Like training to be a spy, yeah?
Staying alive, you can learn or run. You can help others, even when you don't know wtf you're "meant" to be doing.
If you need to recover in the closet to be who you are later, there's nothing wrong with you.
If you need to kick the door down to breathe, I'll kick with you. ("Together, we have great strength of feet!")
This is so fucking stupid, but fuck it. It's where we're at.
Whatever your journey of processing this and surviving it looks like, you are not weak.
Even fellow chronically ill people: your bodies are not weak.
We are surviving the utmost fuckery -- despite Seymour's directions -- while the arc of history bends to conviviality.
Got money?
(e.g. your income or livelihood is stable enough not to affect covering next month's needs, plus some fun for a life worth living)
Now may be good to invest in local organisations.
Time, energy, money, equipment, networking, social media, cleaning, babysitting, etc.
My opinion? Focus on: youth groups, public health education, adult retraining, intercommunity outreach, and mutual aid.
Plus any fallible online orgs you believe in, e.g.
Internet Archive, Wikipedia, Posteo.de, Ecosia, PillowFort, Signal, SonarPen, specific indie devs and artists, Nebula, MakerTube.net, LiberaPay, Artisans Coop, etc.
LINK YOUR FAVES too! 📝 🫵📑
Repeated small support is more reliable than big irregular donations, but 'better is always better'.