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I'm not American but here's all the hugs for my us friends

Stay strong

Stay alive

I love you all <3

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lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)

if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.

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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.

I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.

I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.

If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.

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To all my trans friends you must stay alive. Simply being alive is an act of defiance. If all you do in these next four years is stay alive then you have won.

Your existence is beautiful and wanted and needed in this world. We have persisted through people like Reagan, we persisted through the first Trump term, we will persist again. We will always persist. You cannot let him outlive you.

Stay alive. Not only for you but for the people that love you and for the world, to show that we will always be here no matter what and we DESERVE to be here. Stay alive, no matter the cost.

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no matter how the election turns out, our path forward is the same. engage in your local community, not just through voting but through all kinds of grass-roots activism. learn about indigenous groups near you, their needs, how you can help them. support local black activist groups. form an affinity group. start a community fridge. get to know your neighbors, the ones who are sketchy and dirty and speak weird and are hard to get along with. the way out will always be through community. no supreme victory or crushing defeat; we must choose over and over again, forever, to live through the good and the bad together, as one.

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any trans person reading this I love you

any woman reading this I love you

any poc minority reading this I love you

any queer person reading this I love you

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anyway my hot take is that the modern night-of live reporting model is bad and probably should be illegal. democracy is not a spectator sport and the fact that news outlets are allowed to exploit partial vote counts for ratings is ghoulish. there is nothing you can learn the night of a major election that has greater value than waiting the several days to a week that it will take, and always has taken, for the final vote totals to be established

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we owe too much to each other to give up.

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Tapping the sign.

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Information on DIY HRT, in case anyone needs it.

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With the protests happening in my city I'll take a short social media hiatus to calm down

Hugs you all

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Chapter 17 is done!

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to everyone that's asked me to explain cell shading: hi! here's 15 minutes of me doing that. i hope you enjoy!

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wish they let kohane keep her glasses.

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Iris's first cosplay!

[Characters from CTC]

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i think im just not worth getting close to