#i don't know how to tag these anymore

[volcanolotus]

I Need To Leave Again

I had to run away from home a long time ago but the pandemic made it difficult to live on my own, which made me have to go back. I'm a black NB neurodivergent artist with depression and living here is actively undoing a lot of mental progress i've been making. Not only that, but my mom is making it abundantly clear she doesn't want me around, and this is months after she had already said i was a three year setback, and dumping heavy shit about how she can't wait to be dead. My grandmother justifies all her actions, and everyone downplays my trauma, accuses me of living in the past, and guilt trips me for doing things that a child would do (i'm not very old and i acknowledge that children aren't angels but my family constantly went overboard). I don't want to wait around for my mom to kick me out, or put set an unexpected deadline I won't be able to make (just yestarday she asked me when I was going to leave) so I'm asking for help.

You can dono to me via

pypl: @/volcanolotus cshpp: $StreetMaguro

[woozi]

WOOZI on SEVENTEEN winning Artist Of The Year in MAMA 2024

[bamgeut]

YEJI | IMAGINARY FRIEND (2024)

[seventh-district]

Making Incorrect H:SR Quotes Until I Run Out of (hopefully) Original Ideas - Pt. 3 - Random Screenshot Edition

[Pt. 1] [Pt. 2] [Pt. 4] [Pt. 5] [Pt. 6]

[asreoninfusion]

Doujinshi Interest Check

Back in day, as some of you may know, I was a huge collector of FFVII doujinshi. I drifted off into different fandoms and stopped collecting as much, but I still have over 500 books that I own.

The problem being, I am going to be moving and changing living situations soon. I will not have the space to keep my collection, and it has been so long that I feel like they'd be better off going to people who will enjoy them anew anyhow.

So, the question is.

Are there still avid doujinshi collectors out there? Would people be interested if I were to sell the books?

There are a lot of big name doujinka from back in the day, Kiki and Nightflight, Yubinbasya, FINALWORLD's old stuff, and a fair bit that was pretty rare for me to get back then and would be even rarer nowadays. And plenty of stuff in between as well.

Majority is Sefikura and Zakkura. However, there are also other pairings, mainly permutations within SOLDIER (Seph/Zack, Seph/Gen, Angeal/Zack, Zack/Kunsel, ASG-ish, etc.), and a couple of stray Turks, Vincent, an Aerti or two.

Some examples:

(These are just some examples, of course. There are more. Many, many more...)

This is an insanely huge undertaking; if I'm honest, I've been thinking about it for years, but just didn't have the energy, there is so much.

But if I know there are people interested, I'll probably get off my ass and start making a proper sales post sooner, because I hate to let people down once they're excited for something. So please spread the post around and let me know if you'd like to see them up for sale!!

(I'll need figure to out how to price them and where to list them and how I'm going to organise the whole thing, but I'll worry about ironing out those details once I know if the interest is there. No point putting all the work into that just for it to be met with dead silence, lol.)

[skullsemi]

Got my mind thinking about the glittering lady, so random Goldie sketches!

and them of course

[maudiemoods]

They deserve a little treat!! Maybe they aren't so evil

Thinking they've just been misled and mistreated! They're not evil, but they're also not good. They just need someone to show them there's more in life and that's where y/n comes in!

[everestgale]

This is how I feel every single time I send off one of my voice drawings to people, without exception, without fail. And it's pure joy for me (I like being a gremlin) :]

Thank you for supporting this unofficial "EG draws other people's voice designs" mini-series! If you want to see all the ones I've done so far, it's under "#other people's voices" tag!

There are so, so, so many more voice designs that I want to draw, everyone's designs are so wonderful and cool, and if I could, I would draw every single one of them!!! And I will draw more in the future! But unfortunately, I will be traveling on the 17th and won't be able to draw that much for a few weeks, and there are also a few projects that I've put on the back burner for a while... So this last post with Bear's Broken design is the last one in this little series for a while <3

...

...

...Unless?

[the-pudding-is-a-lie]

Today I had some news, thoughts and complex feelings to process. I am glad I managed to work through it with some art. I am posting this for everyone who might feel guilty for not feeling sad enough when similar news reached them. It's ok. Just because someone is part of the family doesn't mean we have to love them.

There are many many reasons why I disliked this Grandmother of mine. She was cold, she was rude and inconsiderate, always demanding to be serviced. I only remember seeing her happy once - when she had a dozen people to command around for her birthday. She was all the things I never want to be.

I named this "Talking to the inner beast" when I worked on it today. I intented to actually draw a beast, all teeth and many eyes. But it turned into a crow by itself and now I feel more like this is my way of sending her and all my grievances with her off into the darkness of the night.

After finishing the last page till now I have finally managed to properly cry my heart out. All that is left to do for now is to tell her once more: Farewell, Grandma. I hope you find peace. I truly do.

[lambentplume]

Maui Fires & How to Support Relief Efforts

(Posted on 8/10/23) Hi, I'm Jae and my family is from Lāhainā. I watched my hometown burn down this week. The fires caused immeasurable loss in my community so I'd like to spread awareness of the situation as well as provide links to support local organizations directly assisting survivors. I'm pretty sure most of my following is Not local so I'm writing with intent to inform people outside the situation, but if you're reading this and happen to have family in the affected area that isn't accounted for, message me and I can send you the links to the missing persons tracking docs + more localized info!! If you'd like to skip down to how to help and follow community organizations, scroll to the bottom of the post after the image.

Earlier this week, Hurricane Dora passed south of the Hawaiian Islands, bringing strong wind gusts that caused property damage across the islands. On Tuesday August 8, high winds caused sparks to fly in the middle of Lāhainā town, knocking out power lines and immediately igniting drought-ridden grasses. The fire spread quickly and destroyed the entire center of town, the harbor, and multiple neighborhoods including Hawaiian Homes (housing specifically for Native Hawaiians), parts of Lahainaluna, basically all of Front Street, and low-income housing units. There is only one public road in and out of town, and after a very hectic evacuation period that road has been mostly closed off except to emergency responders, thus it is extremely difficult for anyone to leave town to get help. The nearest hospital is 20 miles away in Wailuku, and most grocery stores in town have burnt down.

As of Thursday, August 10, over 1,000 acres have been burned and 271 structures (including homes, schools, and other community gathering places) have been destroyed. Cell service is still extremely spotty, many of the surrounding neighborhoods deemed safe for evacuees are still without utilities. There are currently confirmed 53 deaths but that number is expected to increase as search-and-rescue efforts continue. Countless families have been displaced and many have lost the homes they lived in for generations. Places of deep historical significance have been reduced to ash, including the gravesites of Hawaiian royalty, the old Lāhainā courthouse where items of cultural significance were stored, and Na ‘Aikane o Maui Cultural Center. To add further context: Lāhainā has a population of about 13,000 residents. EVERYONE I know has been impacted in some way--at best forced to evacuate, at worst their house was burnt to the foundation, they cannot find a loved one, etc. I'm still trying to track down family members and it's been over two days. My neighbors down the street had homes last week and now many don't have ANYTHING. The hotels are taking in residents (tourists are also being STRONGLY urged to leave so that locals can recover). Without open access to the rest of the island, Lāhainā residents are now dependent on whatever people had in their homes already as well as disaster relief efforts coming in, but it's been difficult to organize and mobilize due to the location + conditions. People who have made it out are in shelters where no blankets or medicine were provided. Friends and acquaintances from neighbor islands are preparing aid to send over. Community response has been incredible, but the toll on the town has been immeasurable. My parents were desperately walking through town yesterday, my mom sounded absolutely hollow talking about it on the phone with me. It's horrifying. Below is a satellite map with data from the NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System showing the impacted areas from the past week; all of the red blotches were on fire at some point in the last three days.

Here are ways you can help:

If you have the means to donate:

Here are three donation sites verified by Maui Rapid Response, which also lists FAQs for people who are wondering about next steps.

Hawaiʻi Community Foundation - Maui Strong Fund accepts international credit cards. Maui United Way

Maui Mutual Aid Non-monetary ways to support:

If you know anyone who is planning to travel to ANY Hawaiian island, not just Maui, tell them to cancel their trip. Resources are extremely limited as is. Advocate for climate change mitigation efforts locally, wherever that is for you. The fire was exacerbated by drought conditions that have worsened due to climate change.

Lastly, remember that these are people's HOMES that burned, and Native Hawaiian cultural artifacts that have been lost. Stop thinking of Hawaiʻi (or any "tourist destination" location, really) as an "escape" or a "paradise." If that's the only way you recognized my home... I'm glad I got your attention somehow, but I would ask that you challenge that perspective and prioritize local and native voices. For transparency, I don't currently live in Lāhainā, I've been following efforts from Honolulu. My parents and brother have been updating me and I've been following friends and family who are doing immediate response work. I'm doing my best to find reliable and current sources, but if I need to update something, please let me know. If you're going to try to convince me that tourism is necessary for our recovery, news flash ***IT'S NOT***!

Thanks for reading.

[amelia-yap]

AUEGH

[telamons]

No matter how bitter the truth that awaits me, I will press on.

[celtrist]

I just vented out a whole rant about how aromantisim is treated within Hazbin/helluva. I'm not really sure if I should post it for multiple reasons, one of which being I don't want anyone to feel targeted about it or take it the wrong way (like I honestly dont have beef with Al shippers. Gripes, but no beef as I also ship him on occasion).

There was just a sudden burst of frustration I had with it that I think was in part just came from built up frustration from other things. There's things I'd like to have out there, but I don't really think it'd get far or, again, be just taken the wrong way. I don't see a point in posting if people are gonna ignore it, plus it wouldn't change how things are now. If anyone has any thoughts or are curious let me know, but I don't wanna make anyone feel like shit or put a pointless rant out there no one wanted to see. I also wanna keep rants to a minimum as I know people aren't always into that sort of stuff, especially if you don't follow someone for that and you just get an influx of posts of them complaining. And I still want to keep things relatively light hearted around here, at best maybe just some critiques on things here and there.

It's late, I'm on my phone when I should probably just sleep it off, so sleep it off I will.

[bamgeut]

chipi chipi chapa chapa dubi dubi daba daba

[arielrpt]

Lauren Jauregui on Instagram stories.

[makiswirl]

joddaros (and splatinum)