#commission from another facebook friend

[thatstruwu]

happy lunar new year with a blackmadhi gift from my bestie at 3am

[kyra45]

Commission scams

What are commission scams? - These scams occur when someone messages you on Instagram/Facebook/etc and asks you to draw their pet/son/daughter because they really love your art style and saw you had commissions open. They may not have liked any of your drawings or had and previous contact. They will ask you if you do commissions even if you clearly have stated yes.

What is the scam? - The scam occurs when they ask you if you would take $300 or more for the commission. While amount isn’t too unreasonable for a commission, it may be far more then your usual asking price which should be a red flag that something isn’t right. They may also ask if you’ll accept a check for payment and if you’ll deposit it with a banking app which is another red flag for not being a legitimate customer.

How is it a scam? - The check they will send you is a fake check that will bounce if you deposit it no matter how long it might take to go through. This check is not legitimate and you won’t be scamming the scammer just because you deposited it. The money isn’t real and it isn’t theirs either. You’ll just lost your money and they have no plan to pay you for your work.

What can you do? - Have a clear terms of service for commissions and ask questions regarding payment plans if your suspicious of the commission requester. If they turn hostile, block them once you deny their order. And alert your Art friends.

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Are there other versions of this scam? - On occasion, someone may steal artwork from other users and pass off a commission sheet as theirs and take commissions that they can’t actually do. They’ll take money and orders but are really not intending to fulfill them.

Anything else? - Sometimes these are art scams where someone says they’ll pay you for using your art in a mural. Unless this comes from a legitimate business account or a real account, this is yet again someone trying a fake check scam.

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If you found this information useful, feel free to share this post to your friends! If you really appreciate it, I accept pocket change or words of support. Hope this helps! I also post guides on how to spot scam blogs.

[teoft]

It's like Tumblr has become almost a diary for me, thanks to no character limit and a read more button. This atmosphere of acceptance and understanding helps a lot too.

I'll get back to posting actual art, juggling with Twitter and Bluesky along with commissions is taking up a lot of my time.

Anyway, thoughts about art community and being social

For the longest time I've had this feeling of being an outsider in this vague community of artists that see as colleagues of sorts. Like I meet all the "criteria" of being in the group, and yet don't really feel like I'm part of it. Well, it seems I am right in some way, and the reason is that they interact with each other, while I sit here drawing alone.

Unfortunately I've always been prone to isolate myself from others. I grew up feeling like I should be ashamed of loving to draw, since it was always fanart monsters, creatures and cool guys instead of "proper art" like animals and portraits. Before social media, I only drew for myself and never showed anything to anybody. I hid my art from my family, from the world, so that I wouldn't be judged. I think it is one of the biggest reasons why I have trouble interacting with people in the context of art (tbh I'm shit at being social anyway but that's a whole another problem).

Even when I had a scanner and means to post my art online, I never did, due to the whole "if you put something online it'll be there forever" mindset. My first actual account anywhere online must've been Facebook in 2010ish, where I only had a few friends. It was the perfect place for me to finally post anything online, and so I did: I used to post pretty much everything I drew on there. Slowly gaining courage, I eventually made my original Tumblr account, then Deviantart, Twitter, etc.

Still, all I did was throw my art out there in hopes of somebody liking it. I didn't really know how to interact with the people who commented on my posts, so instead I mostly just... made more art. I did have some friend groups here and there, but either they ended up falling apart or my social battery drained in such a way that I slowly drifted away. I had gotten used to just being by myself and relying only on myself in the online art world.

During my design studies, I started putting more thought and work on promoting myself, so that it could be one career path for me to take. My mindset was that I'll work hard and become "big", even if it meant that one post gained me just one follower. In 2020 I ended up going viral with a meme and suddenly getting tens of thousands of followers. It was great and a welcome boost of morale, but unfortunately 2020 was otherwise one of the worst years in my life.

Throughout the years people have come and gone, so the only constant for me has been myself, and my drive to develop my skills. Thus it's been too easy for me to just isolate myself. In a way it has been my strength with regards to art, but sometimes I wish I knew how to make lasting connections. I think/know I might be autistic to some degree, which adds to the difficulty of being social. Though, to be honest, I don't know if I'd gotten this far without my autistic hyperfixations.

I guess the thing I need to do now to fix this problem of loneliness and isolation is to just... slowly try and be more social. To reply to comments and talk to people. All of which is easier said than done. Still, just gotta take that first step and then keep going.

Despite lacking the kind of community I yearn for, it seems I've made a name for myself, enough so that people seem to take pride in knowing me. Or at least that's the impression I've gotten a few times. But still, I am happy that I've had a positive effect on people. After all, my two main motivators in art are that I like doing it, and I like when people enjoy my art.

[shadowfoxsilver]

Commission scams

What are commission scams? - These scams occur when someone messages you on Instagram/Facebook/etc and asks you to draw their pet/son/daughter because they really love your art style and saw you had commissions open. They may not have liked any of your drawings or had and previous contact. They will ask you if you do commissions even if you clearly have stated yes.

What is the scam? - The scam occurs when they ask you if you would take $300 or more for the commission. While amount isn’t too unreasonable for a commission, it may be far more then your usual asking price which should be a red flag that something isn’t right. They may also ask if you’ll accept a check for payment and if you’ll deposit it with a banking app which is another red flag for not being a legitimate customer.

How is it a scam? - The check they will send you is a fake check that will bounce if you deposit it no matter how long it might take to go through. This check is not legitimate and you won’t be scamming the scammer just because you deposited it. The money isn’t real and it isn’t theirs either. You’ll just lost your money and they have no plan to pay you for your work.

What can you do? - Have a clear terms of service for commissions and ask questions regarding payment plans if your suspicious of the commission requester. If they turn hostile, block them once you deny their order. And alert your Art friends.

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Are there other versions of this scam? - On occasion, someone may steal artwork from other users and pass off a commission sheet as theirs and take commissions that they can’t actually do. They’ll take money and orders but are really not intending to fulfill them.

Anything else? - Sometimes these are art scams where someone says they’ll pay you for using your art in a mural. Unless this comes from a legitimate business account or a real account, this is yet again someone trying a fake check scam.

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This guide is from my other account, but I’m reposting it here as a backup. If you found this guide useful, please let me know and share it to your friends.

[queer-ragnelle]

This might be a specific/niche question, but at what point in a projects lifespan do you recommend starting to shop for a sensitivity reader/editor? I know the answer is probably ‘nuance’ but idk if you have a certain take I’d be interested in hearing it since it seems like you’ve worked with a few

It highly depends on your project and what you intend to do with it. I only know how to go about acquiring sensitivity readers I paid out of pocket because I always intended to self-publish. If you plan to get an agent and query to publishers, I don't know where in there you would get sensitivity readers, if at all.

Sometimes free trades with strangers does more harm than good as people don't always take it very seriously. But it wouldn't hurt to trade feedback with a friend or writing group on a handful of chapters just to get a vibe check.

If you're going to bring someone in and pay them to give calculated criticism, you'd ideally have the entire manuscript "done." Then you order the readers by relevancy to the plot. That is, who's expertise is applicable to the most words.

So first my editor went through because sometimes entire chapters had to be rewritten. It would be a waste to have someone sensitivity read a portion which doesn't make it to the final draft anyway. The editor analyzes every word, sentence, paragraph, chapter, and manuscript carefully so it's nearly in its final form before paid readers get to it.

After the edit, I gave it to my Zoroastrian reader. Since the religion is so integral to the plot, I needed to be sure it was handled correctly. Anyone depicting real historical events or an old, lesser known culture/religion is obligated to do the best they can in depicting it sensitively and accurately, even if the story is fantasy.

Next came my Arthurian reader who gauged not only the execution of Arthurian content, but whether the Zoroastrian stuff was communicated effectively enough for someone entirely ignorant to understand.

Last came the people who were paid to read the full manuscript, but whose expertise only applied to a smaller portion of the content, such as my Jewish reader.

You will get feedback you disagree with. Leave a note for yourself and see if the next reader says the same thing or if only one person disagreed with your writing. There will be times readers don't like an entire character. You'll have to decide whether it's better to cut that character out entirely and write into the gap they left behind or ignore the advice. KEEP ORGANIZED!!!

What I do is create a new file for each of these readers while I have my "master manuscript” separate where all the changes will be applied. This way no comments on the reader's files will be "resolved" or deleted. You can always refer back to them just in case you want to reverse a change or reference what their exact advice was so you can apply it to future writing.

You can start "shopping" for these people now. Network. I got my Zoroastrian reader because I'm mutuals with a Zoroastrian blogger here on tumblr, but they couldn't do it, so they connected me with someone on Instagram who not only practices Zoroastrianism, but is a queer editor too. They fit the bill exactly to sensitivity read a story about queer Zoroastrian Ragnelle. I found my editor, who wrote his own Gawain book, from a Facebook writing group (hell). Another reader came from Discord. A second tumblr mutual took my cover commission (and read the whole book for good measure). A third tumblr mutual is formatting the inside for me. But in between all these people were, literally, dozens of duds. People who suggested more racial tension, or confused Ragnelle's brother Gromer with her Persian love interest, or said the Persian mythology was "distracting from the romance" yet seemed to take no issue with the Green Knight mythology, or tagged the instances of gender non-conformity as "unrealistic." So stay strong, keep searching, and get a contract drafted to protect yourself from thieves before you send your manuscript.

I hope that explains things! Not every writing journey will be the same, but that's how I did it. Good luck on your projects and on gathering your team! Take care. :^)

[malinkasnuttley]

Good day, unknown people of the internet. Today I wanted to share my joy somewhere, and I decided it had to be here, where everything indirectly started and where more people could enjoy this wonderful madness.

Let’s just say that yesterday, while procrastinating, I was browsing Tumblr and saw that some people were complaining that Mr. Qi was being drawn too skinny. I didn’t think much of it until I was trying to do my homework and remembered an artist I’ve followed since the beginning, and she draws muscular male characters REALLY WELL. I went to talk to her, and she didn’t have commissions available at the moment due to an event she’s organizing, but she gave me her prices for her November schedule. Honestly, they're a bit high for my college student budget since it’s about the same as my lunch money for three weeks.

So, I made a joke post on my personal Facebook that literally said, "Hello, I'm looking for 9 lovely people willing to chip in 5 dollars to hire an illustrator who draws big and muscular men so she can do a Mr. Qi commission."

Honestly, it wouldn't be the first time I've talked about Mr. Qi there; many of my friends are also Stardew Valley fans, and we generally see it as something funny, so I knew more than one person would laugh and play along with the joke. WHAT DIDN'T CROSS MY MIND is that I have several artist friends who know how to draw. So, two friends messaged me, saying they couldn’t pitch in money but would gift me a drawing just because they found the whole thing so funny.

BUT then, I log into Facebook and find this gem on my profile, done by another artist friend (different from the ones who had already messaged me), with the message: "I don’t know if he’s buff enough for you, but this is my contribution to the cause."

We’re all dying of laughter at this, and indeed, my other two friends are working on their drawings as well, AND I COULDN’T BE HAPPIER TO BE SURROUNDED BY CHESTS.

In case you’re interested, I think I’ll upload the drawings here; I don’t know if Tumblr will have an issue, but Facebook didn’t.

Also, if you want to support my friend, she’s not very active, but you can find her on Instagram as raigambre_, and the artist I wanted to commission (in case you’re curious to see her work) is named Vanreito, and she’s also on Instagram and Facebook.

P.S.: Sorry if this text is a bit limited in language, English is not my first language.

[strangetreemp4]

Good afternoon people ! I come here to show you another one of my oc's!

My French kitten, his name is Salocin Rain and he loves making new friends... just don't ask what he was doing in 1945-

This art was a gift I received from the artist Zeradias! You can find her on Facebook if you want to talk to her or make a commission, but I'll let you know, she's Brazilian (just like me-)

[brokenmusicboxwolfe]

Just a reminder that if you suddenly show up in my activity with something like, oh….

“Hello there, Your creativity and skill as a photographer shines through and it’s clear that you have a unique and beautiful style that is all I want and it’s always a pleasure to see what you would come up with next. I would like to appreciate and support you by purchasing some of your photographs, let me know if you're interested”

I will believe that there is a 99% chance you are a scammer. In fact, I have been the victim of a scammer that used a LOT more skill than your generic phrasing.

In fact, I got this exact same “comment” on a post when they were using a different identity. I blocked them, yet here it comes again with a new name attached.

So, to anyone out there that posts things you make, particularly photos and art, BEWARE. If you get posts like this, or someone saying they want to do a collaboration, proceed with extreme caution.

Do not reply. Especially if the phrasing is, like this, utterly non-specific to your work.

Wait and see at the very least. There is a good chance you will see a cut and paste version of their comments show up on another post.

Investigate their blog, especially if they claim to be an artist that wants to work with you. Do a reverse image search, even if their posted art looks like the work of one person. The one that scammed me had stolen their art from a grandmother on Facebook!

Also know that they can use AI to fake art. My scammer used AI to create a convincing WIP of our “collaboration”.

No matter how desperate you are for money, how difficult and distracting your life is, how flattered you feel by someone liking your art, etc, stop and think over ANY offers for commission, collaborations, or purchases. Look for anything at all that doesn’t seem right, and then don’t ignore it.

And a key thing to know about banking…A cashed check does NOT mean the check was good! You can even call the bank and be told it’s all fine, only discover even weeks later that it was a fake and YOU are the one on the hook.

Look, I am NOT going to say every person that contacts you on Tumblr is trying to scam you. In fact I once had an honest to god commission for a sculpt! (and if you see this I hope you still like the dragon!) But the fact is I was also scammed over one of my swamp iris photos too. Both are possible.

The pride and satisfaction of someone paying you for something you make is unforgettably beautiful, BUT the depths of shame and humiliation at being scammed is an indelible scar you will never completely get over. Take extreme care, and if in the slightest doubt just DON’T! Plus, ya know, block is your friend….

[aristsagainstarttheft]

Regarding Lambydance, I request that this post not be accepted/published publicly as Superbiaamoris can be rather vindictive when they feel they've been wronged, and pointing out their harassment and hypocrisy definitely qualifies. I would like to remain off their radar for the moment.

Also, there is no art theft involved, though Superbiaamoris does have a history of such under another name. 

At minimum, I am hoping for any further submissions from Superbiaamoris to be heavily scrutinized and the current one to have an editor's note mentioning the submitter is not neutral to the situation as they most definitely have a personal axe to grind (ignoring that the claims they make are falsehoods).

Superbiaamoris also has an established history of attempting to raise personal armies on various platforms to go after targets of their ire; said platforms include Tumblr, Twitter, Bluesky, Cara, DeviantArt, Reddit, KiwiFarms, TikTok, YouTube, Twitch, Discord, Facebook and more.

The "tracing" in question is of I believe SenshiStock images which explicitly allow for artists to do whatever with the images so long as credit is provided. Lambydance also does not accept public commissions; only private ones from friends of which Superbiaamoris most definitely is not. 

Further evidence can be located at the following:

Antics over the last few years on a github repository - https://github.com/SecretAgentSquirrel/Samanthaprater-Defyinggravityagain-EruzaArto-Tigerlily-2024/commit/0bb720b372dd4efefc19a81a1c732c53cb153c96

Where all of the Bluesky harassment took place - https://bsky.app/profile/realsuperbiaamoris.bsky.social

https://bsky.app/profile/realsuperbiaamoris.bsky.social/post/3ky55ctt77u22

LambyDance's only public posts - https://www.reddit.com/user/lambydal/

The reddit spamming, harassment and ban evasion is documented in a thread on KiwiFarms which I shall not link to but can be easily found. Yes, the submitter has a 362 page KiwiFarms thread (created 12/24/22) and a KiwiFarms account (created 8/6/21). 

TL;DR - Superbiaamoris has a history of obsession, anger management issues, mental illness, habitual lying and stalking, of which Lambydance is one of the current targets.

[kitsoa]

Since becoming a partial/full-time mute with my diagnosis, I keep thinking maybe I'll gain better habits about interjecting literally anything that comes to my mind during casual conversation. But nahhhh I'm pretty sure it's making me worse. I can feel myself vibrate with tangible thoughts as my siblings are musing about shit. I'll type it in my speech reading app but it takes too long. And then I have to type preemptively knowing I'm gonna lose the context of my comment. Positively maddening.

It's hard for me to express my support or feel like an attentive and positive friend. I've already had to clarify to a friend of mine that I'm not harboring any hostile feelings. I'm pretty good at communicating that usually. My ASL lessons have paused a little as I prioritize just isolating myself instead of the temptation of just being with people. I have to mentally prepare before social situations cause I have to condition myself to be cognizant of my choices. It's not good to isolate, but like, it's probably where I am most comfortable right now.

My recovery timeframe has extended significantly since my recent check up. I hit the 2 month mark on Monday and I will have a follow up with the same prescription of tasks in another 2 months. If surgery is brought up, I have zero clue how I'm going to begin the next teaching year under the restrictions of surgery recovery which is remarkably more unforgiving than what I'm doing now. I'm only grateful that I'm hitting the summer break soon. I hate that I'm not working, but I'm actually opening up painting commissions to help my situation out. My greatest worry is that this won't be enough.

Some pros right now is that I'm losing weight with all this rest and strict diet, though it's occurred to me I've got some nutrients deficiencies since I was exhausted shopping at a super market with my mom. Haa. The free time away from work, though ending very soon, has been the biggest weight off my shoulders and it has me rethinking how I commit myself to things.

Emotionally I've been struggling with the lack of singing. I was told not to listen to music that much to help with this but I can't really follow that. I just want to sing. And sing loud. And sing joyfully. And sing with my friends and strangers alike. It makes me so happy to just use my voice frequently and casually. I visited the church I work at for the first time in many weeks and it was pleasant to see people and they missed me, but sitting in the congregation with the damn hymnal unable to sing just rubbed salt in the wounds. I don't think I'll be going again at least for a few weeks.

This is probably where I'm most honest about this journey as I have so many faces to upkeep on Facebook. I can't imagine telling all my acquaintances the bad news that this effort is not paying off as much. What started as a silly musing about being a little adhd chatterbox turned into an entire update haha. I got this...

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

From La Stampa (translated from Italian):

“Make Finance Great Again,” Trump family makes its own cryptocurrency and allies with Silicon Valley It will be called “World Liberty Financial,” will have tech investors and real estate developers from Chase Herro and Zak Folkman to Steve Witkoff inside. Sons Eric and Donald Jr. will coordinate. And his backer Tyler Winklevoss jokes, “Donald has been orange-pilled, indoctrinated.” Jacopo Iacoboni Sept. 17, 2024 Updated 11:00 a.m. 3 minutes of reading

They want to do a kind of “make finance great again,” along the lines of MAGA, the election slogan and the Make America Great Again campaign. Donald Trump's sons, Don Jr. and Eric, of course with their father's imprimatur, are about to launch a new cryptocurrency platform that will be called “World Liberty Financial,” and will allow users to make even massive transactions without a bank getting in the way and extracting fees (and with a very low level of tax tracking, it should be added). A couple of concepts familiar to bitcoin fans, for example, but which the Trump family now has ambitions to decline on a large scale. It is not certain that this marriage between Trumpism and decentralized finance, DeFi, is a harbinger of only positive developments. The board of “World Liberty Financial” will also consist of former crypto investors such as Chase Herro and Zak Folkman, and Steve Witkoff, a real estate developer and old friend of Trump. But thanks to documents filed with the U.S. Federal Election Commission that we have been able to read we know that in general the entire Trump campaign - Make America Great Again Inc. - received money not only from Musk, but cryptocurrency from billionaire twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who lead the cryptocurrency company Gemini: about $3.5 million in Bitcoin on July 19, the day after Trump's speech at the Milwaukee convention. The Winkelvosses also poured in money to America PAC, the tech investor-backed group that Musk helped launch in 2024 (Trump had bragged that Musk was giving him $45 million a month; Musk said his contribution is “at a much lower level”). Another co-founder of a cryptocurrency exchange, Jesse Powell, boss of Kraken, and venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz (who created a16z) who have invested billions of dollars in cryptocurrency startups, have also made endorsements and poured money into Trump. In short, for the Trump family to embark on this big cryptocurrency project is a natural consequence of the fact that these are almost becoming a Republican asset in the campaign, and the “libertarian” wing of the old Gop is now a kind of very, very rampant ideologized “cyberlibertarianism.” The real boss of the “tech bros” according to many is not Elon Musk, but Peter Thiel. Zuckerberg's longtime partner in Facebook, co-founder of PayPal, Thiel's fortune has at least doubled during the Trump presidency. Palantir-a much-discussed software company variously accused of extracting data from Americans and profiling them-has managed to get a contract from the Pentagon. Other donors to MAGA Inc include Jacob Halberg, Palantir's princely analyst, and Trish Duggan, a wealthy Scientology funder and friend of the tech bros. Trump's vice presidential candidate, J. D. Vance, traveled to Silicon Valley and the Bay Area, celebrating a dinner at the home of BitGo CEO Mike Belshe, 100 people each pouring in between $3,300 a plate and a $25,000 roundtable. Trump in 2021 called bitcoin a “fraud against the dollar.” A few weeks ago, speaking in Nashvill at the bitcoin fan conference, he promised, “The United States will become the crypto capital of the planet.” Better than his friend Putin's Russia, although this Trump did not say so explicitly. The fact is that after his speech, Tyler Winklevoss ran on X (now the realm of cyberlibertarians) and joked that Donald had been “orange-pilled,” making a Matrix analogy, had been “indoctrinated,” or had finally seen the real reality behind the appearances.

[thatstruwu]

is it really true love if your husband does not hold your inhaler (/j) for you

(again read the tags thanks a bunchhh)

[kyra45]

Hello Reddit transfers! Here's some scam spotting tips

Hi! I'm Key (Or Jess), and I'm here to give you some tips to spotting scams. Think of my blog as a subreddit but with several posts a day that often show a scam post or give scam information. All this info is done as a hobby so I'll give you a rundown on the basics of how pet donation scams work here. If you like my hard work, feel free to throw me pocket change or check out my Ko-Fi where I take art commissions. Or just say thanks!

If you share a popular/trending text post, you may get an ask from a blog who wants you to share their pinned pet post. They'll ask you to answer the ask privately but urge you their pet is very ill and needs aid quickly. Commonly, this pet is a cat. But on occasion it's a dog. The ask will tell you their not a bot/etc and are just a person, promise!

If you check the blog, turn timestamps on under dashboard settings. By doing so, you'll get to see the date their pinned post was made. Usually, these posts are only a few hours old or even a few days old so always take caution if you see it's a post that isn't very old. This isn't always a red flag for a scam post, but it's advised to pay attention since you'll see these kind of things often enough since the scammer barely changes up their pattern.

Scrolling the account should also show you how many posts the blog has made. Often, you'll only find roughly 100 posts that are always made within minutes of the other. These posts come from a trending tag of the day generally and are rarely tagged since their just shared all at once and then nothing else. You will usually also see the archive has been turned off since the blog is set to only dashboard view and only accessible to logged in users. This measure isn't always a sign of a scammer, as users can have real reasons for this! But it's a common tactic for scam accounts.

The post tells you the cat/dog is suffering from some medical condition and claims the op will get paid in a few weeks but they need the money before then and they promise they'll pay you back when they reach their goal. Not all users who make posts like that are scam accounts and many of them are real people who will return the help once they can. The op will also tell you to send money by friends and family because they need it quickly and don't want it held up. Usually they'll have a link that will tell you to send them funds there.

However, you may notice some things are off in the post itself. While the op asks for USD, their pay link says their in the Philippines which is not USD and would require conversion rates to apply. Not all PH-based bloggers are scammers and some are disappointed that some people are. Its sadly a well known thing here that this scammer is from there but no one knows who they really are as every name used is stolen off a private aid group. Another thing to do is check the notes and see how many reblogs are directly from the op. Usually you'll find several.

If you want to, it is suggested to ask the op if they can provide you proof they own the cat/dog if your unsure of the legitimacy of their claim. For example, ask them to write their url on a piece of paper and take a picture of it on top of the pet they supposedly own or even post a short video of them calling the pet and holding the paper in sight. Usually this results in the op likely blocking you.

It's suggested to warn anyone sharing these scam posts and reporting scam accounts under Phishing as it's usually the fastest way to deal with them on a daily basis. This scammer has been doing this for years and even brags about how they get away with it since they make hundreds of dollars doing it and ruin the reputation of the names they steal.

These scammers are also stealing content from private facebook groups and reposting them here without the owner being aware of it. The scam accounts are saving pictures and passing them off as their pet. Watermark your vet bill and pet pics in your aid posts if you want to deter scammers from stealing it for future uses. If you are in a fb group that posts vet bill help, please inform them a scammer is going around taking their posts and reusing it for fraudulent reasons. I have seen cases where some scammers even used pictures off Reddit to use for scams.

[beobhcm]

The scene from this comic was inspired from Sleeping beauty. It's the part when Maleficent dragged her cloak and revealing Aurora lying on the ground. I took inspiration from that scene and commissioned my friend this drawing.

Another idea for my fic anyway:> We all know Desire always ruined Dream's affair from centuries to centuries. Desire didn't want to, but they had to do these terrible things due to their nature. Deep inside, they still loved their brother but they couldn't stop themselves. Until they realized Dream desired to end his life, to be in the sunless land, they knew they would kill him because their function would force them again. So they made an unwise decision was to a deal with a devil and they were fooled. Desire became his slave and Dream had to rescue them. We know in this scene, Dream still hated Desire for what they had done to him, but he somehow pity them after seeing their current situation.

Commision from my friend: https://www.facebook.com/rinz.lizi

[catrwaul]

As it stands right now, here’s my complete Watership Down plush collection! ♥️ In the top photo is my complete set of Chad Valley plushes from the release of the 1978 film. If you think you’ve seen that picture before, you probably have. I lifted it from my old account @soldierblackavar which I cannot access. Ah well.. the three rabbits (Hazel, Fiver, Blackberry) were purchased on Facebook through another collector who just happened to have doubles of all the rabbits. I bought Kehaar on eBay UK. I have a friend that lives over there, who served as a proxy to help me get him, as the seller wouldn’t ship to me. I adore all of them! In the bottom photo is a custom plush of Blackavar, also from the 1978 film! Blackavar is my favorite character, in ANY adaption. I absolutely had to have a plush of him. He was made by carolyns_plushies on Instagram. Eventually I hope to commission her for a larger floppy plush of Blackavar as well, and also a plush of Bigwig in the same position and size as the Blackavar plush shown here. I love all my Chad Valley WSD plushes dearly, but Blackavar is my absolute favorite in my collection. These guys are the greatest. I love them heaps. ♥️

[pannaginip]

(This story was was originally written as part of the 2023 Aries Rufo Journalism Fellowship under Rappler.)

In 2020, Jann Alexis Lappas got a call from his parents who told him that they received a sum of P700 pesos to sign documents.

The documents were, according to Lappas’s parents, attendance sheets for a community consultative assembly (CCA) for San Miguel Corporation-owned Pan Pacific Renewable Power Philippines Corp.’s Gened dam projects, part of the crucial process to secure free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) permitting big projects in indigenous peoples’ ancestral domains.

This development came as a surprise to Lappas because prior to the incident, as early as 2019, the community had already thumbed down the project’s progression when 300 elders issued their first of many Resolutions of Non-Consent against the dams.

According to a June 2021 FPIC report, if the Gened-1 dam pushes through, will submerge communities in the barangays or villages of Bulu, Magabta, Poblacion, and Waga in Kabugao town, and Lt. Balag in Pudtol town. Some 7,465 out of Kabugao’s 18,782 recorded 2020 population would be affected by this flooding. Another 4,995 in Baliwanan, Kumao, Lenneng, and Karagawan are projected to be negatively affected by the project.

Lappas and his group of Isnag friends would continue to post updates about the dam negotiations on their personal Facebook pages, but Kabugao Youth would only be formed in December 2020, fresh off of the heels of Typhoon Ulysses.

Social media is a core source of information and connectivity in Kabugao, being comprised of 21 villages and communities, many of which are remote.

As the movement gained traction, the Kabugao Youth network gradually became a frontliner in the struggle to oppose the dam.

[National Commission on Indigenous Peoples or] NCIP FPIC guidelines state that no meetings, negotiations, or assemblies related to the FPIC process should be conducted outside of the affected ancestral domain.

At the same time, according to Solano, the NCIP is not supposed to conduct or facilitate activities to directly convince the IP communities of the merits of the projects [...]

In January 15 of 2021, 300 Kabugao Isnags passed another resolution opposing and banning the proposed hydroelectric power projects, but then-regional director of the NCIP Marlon Bosantog declared the resolution invalid as only 20 of the elders were “authorized” in accordance with a heavily contested December 23, 2019 resolution and proceeded with the issuance of the [Memorandum of Agreement or] MOA.

Said December resolution, which named 209 “authorized elders” to negotiate in behalf of the Isnag community, was found by the community, RA Cortes Law, and the NCIP’s own regional review team (RRT), to contain many irregularities including signatures of deceased individuals and duplicated signatures.

Many other irregularities have been reported by the elders of Kabugao in their resolutions and legal cases before the Office of the Ombudsman, as well as by Kabugao Youth in their regular postings to the local community.

The MOA would also generate much more opposition as the Isnag community was exposed to the exact terms of the dam and what they stood to lose, with individuals from the community claiming that they had their signatures and identities forged on the documents.

On May 18, RA Cortes Law also filed an electoral protest in behalf of the Isnag community and Isnag elder Roland Apilit to nullify the election of [John Amid] as [indigenous peoples mandatory representative or] IPMR for Kabugao, Apayao citing irregularities in the IPMR selection and the approval of IPMR selection guidelines without the approval and knowledge of the Isnag communities.

According to the NCIP on multiple occasions, the FPIC has been provided, allowing for the issuance of a certification precondition (CP), thus allowing Pan Pacific to continue with the project even through opposition.

As for the opposition of the Isnag community, the NCIP claims opposition is part of the agenda of the communist left.

On multiple occasions, the NCIP issued statements downplaying the opposition to the project as activity of the Communist Party of the Philippines – New People’s Army – National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF).

NCIP Chairman Allen Capuyan is the executive director of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), while NCIP Regional Director Marlon Bosantog is the former spokesperson.

In order to proceed with the issuance of the MOA and the CP, NCIP higher-ups including Regional Director Atanacio Addog held efforts to advance the damming process using the forged documents with the individuals named as authorized elders in the December 2019 resolution instead of redoing the process amid staunch opposition from the local Isnag communities in Kabugao.

Kabugao elders share the sentiment [to keep fighting], writing their desire to keep the waters clean: “(We) would rather let the Apayao River flow freely and the same be inherited by the youth and those Isnag of Apayao yet unborn rather for their enjoyment and appreciation, rather to pass on an ancestral domain buried beneath a reservoir coupled with kilometers-stretched on filth brought by siltation and sedimentation.”

2023 Sept. 14