#i donate monthly :-)

[unpretty]

incidentally the radiotopia independent podcast network is like. 1,000 donors short of their goal for 2024. i think it's worth giving them money just to support the memory palace and ear hustle, but even if you don't listen to any of their shows i think they deserve to be more successful than true crime slop networks with five minutes of casino ads every ten minutes

[just-barrow]

bit late to the party but I donated to our national animal protection agency in honor of Lou's love of animals and this wonderful, positive fandom 🧡

happy holidays, everyone! 🌟

@alliwantforchristmasislou

[911bts]

If you can afford to help (and want to) the industry workers who are affected by the strike financially, here is where you can.

Info about the fund from its site:

"...the Entertainment Community Fund is a national human services organization here to meet the needs of our entertainment community with a unique understanding of the challenges involved in a life in the arts.

We help with Emergency Financial Assistance, Affordable Housing, Health Care and Insurance Counseling, Career Development & Management, Senior Care, and more."

All donations are tax-deductible as well.

[ragnarokhound]

can vamp Tim give Jason a blood transfusion if needed? 🤔

in your vamp/wer verse I mean

Oh, that's an interesting question! In my vampire!Tim/werewolf!Jason verse and the accompanying fic, Tim drinks almost exclusively off of Jason because a) Jason loves it and b) Tim would near-starve himself otherwise :') (and he kind of does anyway, Jason has to bully him into feeding). So the only blood inside Tim at any given moment is usually Jason's original blood anyway. But can Tim give that blood back in an emergency?

tldr: yes, under certain conditions. lol

My reply was getting long because this kind of speculating is my favorite game to play, so if you're curious about what those conditions are and how I reached that conclusion, more details are under the cut:

In this verse, Jason is the kind of werewolf who doesn't have a lot of control/retained personality when he shifts, but he DOES have a lot of meta powers. (As a treat for becoming a mindless, violent monster lol ur welcome Jay)

One of those powers includes rapid healing ala deadpool/wolverine (unless the wound is inflicted by silver, ancestral or otherwise) so it would be remarkably difficult for Jason to reach the point where he even needs a blood transfusion. But let's consider that worst case scenario, in which Jason has suffered enough silver-inflicted wounds that his healing factor breaks and he needs blood, yesterday. Wuh oh.

Tim is the #1 candidate to consider for a Jason blood transfusion because that's his gamer fuel of choice - but for Tim to be a viable donor, it would depend on the length of time it's been since Tim drank from Jason, and how much. They're on a time limit because Tim's body doesn't replenish blood on its own, he has to steal it.

Brace yourself for the suspect use of rough science facts in the middle of supernatural fantasy speculation about vampire/werewolf AUs, lmao

So supposing Jason has about 12 pints/5.7 L of blood in total, he could lose maybe 5 pints/2.4 L of blood at a time without dying (and that's a high estimate, he'd start going into shock way before that lmao), AND it would take him weeks to restore that blood - if he were human.

Luckily for Tim, he can steal quite a bit from Jason without killing him because of the handy dandy werewolf healing factor that restores Jason's blood almost as fast as Tim's dusty ass can absorb it. (Tim's veins @ Jason's blood: 𝔪𝔬𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔦𝔷𝔢 𝔪𝔢). Unluckily for Tim (and Jason), Tim has about a zillion hangups over drinking that much all at once. Aw.

A brief google search tells me that in an average human body, red blood cells live about 120 days. For simplicity, we'll say that Tim being a vampire and having weird vampire powers counteracts Jason being a werewolf and his blood having weird werewolf properties - so when Tim is full (and I mean full) of Jason's blood, he's good for somewhere just under that 120 days.

The blood isn't immediately starving in Tim's stupid vampire body because it's strong, sexy werewolf blood; it stays hydrated for a million years and could thrive like a dandelion in a crack in the sidewalk, let alone a perfectly good, albeit abandoned, vascular system. (Jason's blood @ Tim's veins: 𝒾𝓉'𝓈 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁 𝑒𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓉𝑒)

That being said, Tim starts getting very hungry near the end of that time frame as the blood is used/dies, and that time frame shrinks every time he bleeds (which is often, RIP Tim). But he'd still have a solid month or so of healthy, viable Jason blood pumping through his undead ticker. (unless Tim gets REALLY beat up lol, which is not unlikely OTL)

SO all this to say: can Tim give it back?

I would say yes, IF Tim has fed recently, and he's fed A LOT. Otherwise, he just straight up might not have the blood to give anymore because his stupid husk of a body already used it all.

If he tried to give Jason blood around the time he's getting hungry again, when Jason's blood is on it's last legs after sustaining an active vampire without reinforcements for weeks to months, it wouldn't be as effective as a blood transfusion from someone who can make their own blood and therefore has a fresher supply.

tldr (again lol); Tim could become a blood donor for Jason, but only once he's regularly letting himself drink from Jason, and drinking until he's full.

[ghosted-jazz]

Close to their goals!

Hi! It's been a long time since I posted and I normally don't post this sort of stuff since this is an art blog.

BUT. I have a platform, and I should use it.

Here are some GoFundMe links that are pretty close to their goal!

Any donation is helpful, if you can't donation, just spreading the word is good enough!

[howlingmoonrise]

i fucking swear if i have to see ONE MORE UNTAGGED POST about a gaza fundraiser with disturbing images attached i will fucking riot

[ken-katayanagi]

Goodbye Puppet History. I hardly knew ye!!

[badolmen]

The absolute fucking whiplash of going to send someone a donation on PayPal and seeing that they have the exact same legal name as me.

[umanta]

ah

[windydrawallday]

Thanks to a curious buddy I started to prep a sort of table of possible prices for my art to offer commissions in the future...

Something that was always HARD for me to set because ya know, my art style jumps in quality here and there and I was always nervous offering such would break my nerves and end up overwhelmed by the responsibility %D

(That and because I have a love-hate relationship with pricing my work on my Graphic Design business irl... )

But hey! If there are people interested, is for a reason I guess. Still, thinking someone sees my work as worthy to throw money at... will never stop making me flabbergasted.

[smaller-comfort]

Red cross is giving out the sickest t-shirts for donations right now.

Got complimented on my veins today, hell yeah.👍

[weregreatatcrime]

Hey yall don't skip on local food drives and charity work. I just got about $200 worth of groceries from one that will last me upwards of two months if I freeze and manage shit properly, including a couple nonfood items like toothbrushes, face masks, and laundry detergent

Don't be afraid to go sign up for these things, even if you're not "that poor", even if you think it's embarrassing, just fucking go do it. I'm emotional and in tears from how much this donation service does.

And if you do have the money? Go give a couple bucks to local charities rn, trust me, they're VERY good at stretching what they get and these volunteers work their asses off in the heat to get food and help to those who need it

[cinnamontoastensketches]

I've been teasing so much Guzma that I needed to make sure everyone knows this comic is still about Volo and Seren

[loveisinthebat]

Monthly Hat-on-ground Post

Hi, it's Batmun, You might know me from the bats. At least I hope you do, if this is really how you meet me you have my sincerest Condolences. Mostly because I'm a big fan of gallows humor, which you'll see a lot of here. Anyway! I'm a TransGirl in Oklahoma, which, next to living in Florida, is the closest I can be to being publicly executed by the state for Existing /hj. Mercifully for me My Home situation is stable and prevents me from seeking HRT or even gender affirming Clothing so I'm in a great position to hide from the bulk of the Complete Terror that I'm staring at. Meaning, There is No Immedate Emergency, And I am Technically Safe However, I can't really get a Job so Money is incredibly tight. This is where the hat comes down. Like a street performer Juggling Cola bottles and spare sandwiches , I juggle Bat pictures to offer to the world as sharing my comfort animal / Hyperfixation seems to be the only social deed I'm capable of functionally performing every day . So , much like the Busker tipping his hat for spare change, I do the same Once every month to scrap together some change. It won't be enough to escape, and I accept that, SO , Let me tell you Exactly what that money will go to :

Upgrades to things I need ( Pillow, Keyboard, Room fan , Canned air to clean PC )

Self-care in the form of small, frivolous Purchases ( Plush, McDonalds , Takis , Incense, )

Putting Some of the Money into Savings ( I'm currently under the minimum Threshhold so the bank is taking money from Me every 3 Months as penance for being Poor ) If you want to throw some coins my way, My Cashing App Code Is $WitchBatty , Everything is appreciated in advance.

[carrion--comfort]

Had a lost cat yowling outside my door last night...it probably belonged to someone in my same apartment building but it didn't have a dang tag so I had to take it to the only open shelter at that hour which was a good 30 mins away. Kitty was not very happy but didn't claw or try to run. The last lost cat I picked up at least had a tag so I could bring it back to its home address and put it back inside (since the front door was swinging open, which explained how it escaped...)

Anyways while at the shelter I was surrounded by kitties so obviously I was set upon by the urge to adopt. These two senior cats both call to me...Chicken Noodle has a top tier name but Leonidas looks like he walked out of a Looney Tunes cartoon...