due to certain issues at home (homophobia, mainly), silas needs to leave. she’s leaving in secret, because we believe her parents would try to stop her if they knew. that means she’s limited to packing whatever they won’t notice, and whatever will fit in one suitcase. we’re planning for her to get here sometime in November, but the exact date isn’t decided yet.
i live with my family, who all know about this and are excited to meet silas! i don’t have a job because of a recent decline in my mental health, but i’m searching for one that i can manage. we have enough money to cover her plane ticket, but i’ll need to buy a few things in order to prepare for a new person living here and we’ll need some way to support ourselves until i get a job. that’s where this post comes in!
we have a ko-fi for our advice blog, and we’ve also made a cashapp in case anyone wants to help us out. this is not urgent, so don’t feel bad if you’re not able to contribute or want to give your money to someone in more dire need! i am willing to crochet for anyone who would like recompense, or promote you if you’d like!
- They clean your air - They give you something to name - They give you something to take care of - They teach you about care, needs, and resources - They make you look like you’re good at decorating
Here are some of mine:
But some people, because they’re overwhelmed or simply can’t figure out how to start, think that plants are out of their reach.
31 days of tricks and treats! Use hashtag #drawtober2018 for a chance to be featured!
We’re steering our spooky boat to new tides this year! We will only be featuring on twitter and Instagram, but thought you lovely folks here would at least like the calendar! Looking forward to seeing you all join us!
1. Gather your buddies. 2. Pick an unsuspecting 13 year old (preferably with OCs) 3. Send them fanart. 4. Sit back and watch dreams come true
as someone who made shitty ocs when i was 13 (and still does), if someone who was really good at art did fanart of my ocs when i was a kid it would have made my whole damn year. do it
Hey, people who go to conventions, let’s have a chat.
This past weekend a whole bunch of my friends were at 3 separate conventions and all of them were tweeting very similar experiences with convention goers: being told their art was the wrong ship, or their favorite characters were bad, or that their art was in some other way unacceptable. People placed food and bags on their work, or complained about their prices to their faces. It’s happened to me. I’ve had people tell me they hate the characters I have prints of to my face. I’ve had adults tell me my ship is disgusting. I’ve had people complain about the quality of my art. These are my favorite characters, that I’ve made art of, in the hopes to share my art and my love for those characters with other people.
Artists at conventions are at work. For some people, this is their full-time job. And they put passion and love into the things they create. They put time and money into creating the things we take for granted at cons.
Can we stop treating artists like they’re not people, with feelings? If you think something about the work at a table is a genuine issue, bring it up with con staff. If you don’t like a character based on something in the show, that’s fine. You can discuss it with your friends, not with the person who has put time into making art of that character. Don’t put your food and water on paper merchandise. If you don’t like the price of something, you are not obligated to buy it.
Please, just. Think before you speak. Be kind. And if you don’t like something, you just walk away. The artist isn’t going to change who they are or what they draw because you told them you hate it.
Hey, yeah, just adding that this applies to cosplays and panels, too! We all work so hard to do what we do, let us be proud of what we’ve made.
