#support a struggling queer artist!!!

[m00n-beamz]

Support a struggling, estranged queer artist on ko-fi

Hi there : ) My names Meg (they/them), a 21 y/o artist living in Canada. I've been living on my own for over a year now. I am estranged from my abusive family and I am struggling to get by. I lost my job in March due to me being tracked down by my said abusive parents and have been applying for retail jobs and artist jobs (anything that'll hire me), but have not been hearing back from anyone. In the meantime while I'm looking for a job, I am worried I won't be able to get by on my savings for much longer.

Any amount of support will be greatly appreciated (I'd literally love you). If you can't give support financially, reblogging and sharing this around does just as good < 3

In addition to the living situation, I am dealing with cptsd, depression, anxiety, and I am not able to afford diagnosis and treatment for other mental illnesses that I am struggling with. A more stable income would help me afford these things too. I am not even able to start thinking about gender-affirming surgeries because it's way out of my budget (my budget only includes rent and groceries atm).

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I am currently working on a graphic novel project, writing for the story and designing characters. The story is a fantasy, about searching for joy and rediscovering life. I'm taking lots of inspo from greek mythology- especially with Artimis.

Also, I'm creating a painting series that involves A LOT of nymph and elf smut. If you'd be interested in seeing updates on that, I'm going to be posting my process on ko-fi, along with excerpts from the story that I'm writing. I will do a commission for $10 as well if you'd like too.

Please support me if you can, even sharing helps a ton < 3 Any support is sooooo appreciated.

I also have a shop selling the cutest little crochet stars and stickers- http://moonbeamsart.bigcartel.com

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[mindlessbugs]

me when i post an animation that took hours and i get zero notes

(please please please go check it out please 🙏🙏🙏😭)

[shinetroll]

If anyone's willing to help, I'm moving tomorrow and out of money. I could use some help covering my electric bill and gas for my truck. Anything would be appreciated. I'm open to commissions, or if anyone has the kindness to donate, I'll draw a thank-you doodle.

https://linktr.ee/cabbagepig

[lestcat-de-lioncourt]

Really not vibing with drawing again… my friend commissioned me to do some art and keeps lying that they’re gonna pay then ghosting me and getting funny if I bring it up. It’s been like a month now? Maybe more. I can’t keep track how long. And they made me sign it so now I can’t sell it anywhere else. Likewise on the day they promised they would (they have had my details for 2 weeks now) they posted all over Facebook that they were gonna go out and get wasted and then keep saying they are buying tickets to gigs all the time? Kick in the teeth and pretty grim they made me do it all and did that.

They said it was perfect so it’s not that which is the problem. Uh? Don’t treat artists like this? This is why I rarely open my commissions. I’ve been trying so hard recently to draw again and be motivated and this was not what I needed.

[datwinky]

Reasons I'll like but not reblog an artist's art:

1. I am, it's just in a queue

2. It's art I really like, I just don't want it on my blog (which is just an archive for posts I want to go back and look at later)

3. It's something I like but don't really understand the context of like a fandom I'm unfamiliar with or OCs and don't want to reblog because it makes tagging difficult which messes up my organization

4. It would go on a blog (either main or side) where I have no followers and don't have the blog TO gain followers or communicate with and it literally would not spread to anyone for that reason

5. I've been on this site for 8 years and even then have memory issues and use likes as a way to mark what posts I have and haven't already seen/reblogged

6. And the one you want to hear the least: yeah. Sometimes art is nice enough for a like but not a reblog. It's called preferences. It's not a matter of technical skill or effort put into the piece or fandom they're not in or whatever. Sometimes you just don't vibe with something that much. That is NORMAL. A like and no reblog there shows, at least for me, "hey I can appreciate the concept behind it/technical skill/etc" but I won't reblog because for some other reason I just don't like it enough to have it on my blog. If the idea that not everyone will like your art enough to show it around to your friends is that big of a blow to your ego then you need to stop posting it because that is EXTREMELY unhealthy. It does you no good and only serves to ruin your relationship with your art. Stop

I have had it with this likescolding. “Tumblr doesn’t have an algorithm so likes don’t actually do anything” motherfucker I am not clicking that heart to give some post better ~algorithmic visibility~ I am clicking that heart to help my internet friend microdose on serotonin as god fucking intended

[xxbattiepupxx]

gonna revive this account and try to link names across my socials :3 also gonna be posting artwork and promoting my commissions cuz i cant find work rn

[aspeneyesart]

Hey, I'm really sorry to have to do this but I'm having a really difficult time recovering both financially and nervous-system-wise from a hellish few years of abuse and mounting health problems and I'm just... not ok. Very basic self-care like being able to unclutter my home or even go outside to get some sun has fallen by the wayside as I struggle to catch up on a chronically backlogged commission queue while paying off a literal mountain of debt in the high tens of thousands and being continually derailed by illness flares. I'm trying to put more attention into my shop but it's so early on and I'm still working through so much debt from illness that it's not able to fill the gaps I had hoped right off the bat. I hit an absolute wall the other day, completely shut down, and realized I can't keep going without help. More details are in the link, I'd really appreciate shares or even just reading. Thank you so much to everyone who's helped so far ;;

[darlingillustrations]

WOW! I sold 150 of my Cat Lady For President sticker in ONE DAY, and the orders keep coming in!

I will need to place another order from my sticker maker, so if you want to secure your own Cat Lady For President sticker, get your order in ASAP to ensure I can order enough to fulfill your order.

Direct Link to purchase: https://darlingillustrations.com/store/cat-lady-for-president-kamala-harris-sticker/

One man's "childless" cat lady is that same man's next President. I am SO EXCITED to vote for Kamala Harris in November. Who's with me?

STICKERS and COLORING SHEETS are now for sale in my online shop:

Link to buy stickers.

Link to buy coloring sheets.

[neil-gaiman]

Wonderful Neil,

Seeing as we’re such dear old friends, I was hopeful you might be willing to signal boost our crown funding campaign. Our little upstart theatre company is struggling, as are so many at present, and you’ve been so incredibly kind and generous throughout the years, to your fans directly, and in your support of others, and well… you know how you are…. The absolute loveliest. We’d be forever grateful.

https://givebutter.com/nioVbN

Warmly,

Crave Theatre Company

While I was a tiny bit disappointed to realise that you weren't trying to raise money for a crown, but that you were in fact raising money for a theatre company for queer and BIPOC artists to do cool stuff, I wasn't really that disappointed. I hope you make enough to get a crown as well.

[hyunjining]

Stray Kids Hyunjin & His Love of Queer Media 🏳️‍🌈

This is just a little self-indulgent post to show appreciation for Hyunjin’s consistent support for queer artists and their work because it makes my heart happy. If you would like to give this post some love on Twitter too, I would really appreciate it!

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During an interview in 2018, Hyunjin revealed the items in his school bag, one of which was the feminist short story collection Someone Harmless to Me by Choi Eunyoung (title translation may vary), which features a lesbian love story.

Book Description:

Hyunjin also recommended To The Warm Horizon by Choi Jinyoung, a post-apocalyptic novel featuring a love story between two women (May 2024).

Book Summary:

An interview with Choi Jinyoung about the queer/lesbian themes in the book:

In an interview with Bugs, Hyunjin recommended the song “1-800-273-8255” by Logic and its music video, which features a gay man struggling with and then ultimately accepting his sexuality. He remarked that the video was hopeful and could make viewers cry (March 2018).

Music Video Description:

Hyunjin is a fan of Troye Sivan, whose songs (such as “Youth” and “for him.”) he has sung on live and at concerts, as well as during monthly evaluations as a trainee. They met in May 2023 and Hyunjin ended up as a feat. on the remix of “Rush,” a song about gay party culture and intimacy.

Hyunjin is a fan of Frank Ocean, a bisexual man. He has been heard on live whistling “Thinkin’ Bout You,” a song Frank wrote about another man (February 2024).

Hyunjin recommended “Sweet” by Bren Joy, a queer man, and met him after attending his concert soon after (April - August 2024).

About Bren Joy:

When asked what artist he’s been listening to lately (August 2024), Hyunjin replied with a line from Green Day’s song “Bobby Sox,” written by bisexual lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong. The lyrics say both “Do you want to be my girlfriend?” and “Do you want to be my boyfriend?”

About Billie Joe Armstrong and Bobby Sox:

If you got this far, thank you so much for reading!!!

[superdillin]

It is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day

And I have some big feelings, as a part of the diaspora. Remembrance Day is an inappropriate title for a time in which Armenians still face genocidal forces. Just last year, Azerbaijan, armed by Turkey, ethnically cleansed over 280,000 Armenians from Artsakh. The illegal colonizer state of Israel, currently in the midst of their 6+ month-long genocide against the Palestinians, has placed the Armenians who call Jerusalem home under threat and siege.

The Armenian struggle and the Palestinian struggle are deeply linked.

In his rise to power, Hitler is quoted to justify his actions against the Jewish, Roma, Queer, Disabled, and other victims of the Holocaust, to say "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"

Echoing these chilling words, Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish wrote:

Who Remembers the Armenians? I remember them and I ride the nightmare bus with them each night and my coffee, this morning I'm drinking it with them You, murderer - Who remembers you?

The trauma sustained during a genocide is not limited to the people experiencing it right now. The echoes of that trauma leak forward into the next generations, passed down through survival, and that is so insidious. My grandmother got to live, but did so believing that her parents did not love her, because the trauma they endured prevented them from expressing it. Abuse and unhealthy attachment were passed down because that starving hunger for love and acceptance was passed down. It is so deeply cruel and unfair that our oppressors get to reach through time and hurt our children's children.

We need to band together and stop the present-day abusers, the genocidal monsters that oppress the people of Palestine, Armenia, Congo, and so many others.

We need to uplift art made by those who survived, and by those who are surviving. Art is always targeted by the oppressor to erase cultural identity, to destroy legacy, and to break spirits. Support Palestinian and Armenian poets, and artists, and writers.

If you are one of the many who never learned about the Armenian Genocide, learn today. Ask yourself why people worked so hard not to educate you on this piece of history.

[renthony]

One of my least favorite things in fandom spaces is when people try to uplift one piece of queer media by bashing a different one.

I've seen people use The Owl House to shit on Steven Universe, I've seen people use both Warrior Nun and A League of Their Own to shit on Our Flag Means Death, I've seen people use Interview With the Vampire to shit on Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss, I've seen people use basically every other popular queer novel to shit on The Locked Tomb, and those are just examples off the top of my head. It happens with basically every new queer media, and it's been happening for as long as queer media has existed. I don't expect it to disappear any time soon, but it still makes me tired.

People act as if there's a set number of slots for queer art, and whatever fills those slots has to be the height of perfection or the artist has somehow betrayed "the community." The thing is, there is no singular "queer community," no queer art is ever going to speak to every single queer person in the world, and the answer to queer art you don't like is to go support the queer art you do like and let the art you don't like exist for the people who do.

Queer inclusion in mainstream media is always going to be a struggle and a source of disagreement. The answer is not to tear everything down, the answer is to go support the queer artists who are making the shit you'd like to see instead. Especially indies.

"This is bad rep! This is trashy! This is soulless! This is making us look bad! This is hurtful!"

Mm-hmm, yes, that's your opinion, but I have to ask: is it those things to literally every queer person, or just you? Because there is no queer person on this planet who can speak for all of us.

[thelaurenshippen]

I struggle with how much being online is useful or good anymore, if it ever was. I want my art to speak for itself and, increasingly, I’m allowing that to be the extent of my presence online. I think it’s important to take action in the real world in whatever way I can and, on here, I think my role is to provide a place for feelings. I’m going to keep doing that. I’m going to keep doing it in my queer body that has a uterus, because that’s all I can do. I’m going to keep loving my community and making space for other voices as much as I can.

Atypical’s shows are made by queer people, by women, by trans artists, by Black artists, by neurodivergent artists, by disabled artists. I don’t really have the luxury of funding other artists’ works at the moment, so I try to show my support to communities I’m not a part of in other ways—through listening to their work, through mentorship, through calling out the shows I think are great.

so tell me what audio fiction has made you feel something recently. tell me what’s brought you joy, what’s made you cry, what’s made you feel less alone. and I’ll keep trying to do all those things for you too.

[lestcat-de-lioncourt]

Well I’m not making any commissions before they pay anymore, I hand drew a replica of an old original piece of mine they spied and liked which wasn’t for sale but they really wanted it and… well I didn’t want to give it away so I offered to replicate it. Instead of do a print. They approved it, said they’re going to frame it for their new place and everything and then just ghosted for like a week. I’m only charging £15 and it was pretty hard esp as I’m in a lot of pain atm with un healed injuries… and I just asked if they were still interested and they got aggy at me and made me feel bad for asking and now are just not speaking again either after saying they just needed to get stuff done yesterday. Ughh. I didn’t sign up for this. I wish I didn’t go into art I swear down. I love it which is why I did but, christttt be respectful about our hard work. If I just get a no answer, I can sell it elsewhere but atm I’m making nothing because I’m in limbo. And apparently I don’t seem to even be allowed to message them about it either.

I also got super stressed recently and removed most of my art from my walls in a Give Up stint, but I ended up tearing one of my most special old pieces I made at my peak point in drawing horror cartoons and I just… ugh. Man my brain went “that’s a signal it’s over”. But my kid came in and noticed the next day and requested I put them all back up (which made me feel like I had a reason to keep doing art) and I said I would whilst he was at his grandmothers house but he was like hmm ok and but I didn’t as I didn’t feel up to it as it’s a big job and my back is basically out again, but he specified about the key on the canvas piece so I did manage to put that one up for him. That was warming. He makes me feel like it’s worth doing it still as I’ve lost the passion almost totally until I actually get started on something and then it comes back.

[genericpuff]

breathe

okay, because I don't want to give Smythe any more attention tonight, let's acknowledge the comics that came this far, seeing as the winner likely isn't going to. So from me to y'all, a big congrats to the nominees for their hard work that got them to where they were today! It's a damn shame none of you walked home with the award for Best Webcomic tonight, but you're all making great efforts in the medium of webcomics and deserve to have those efforts recognized and celebrated. Please keep creating, keep writing, keep fighting.

Y'all, please go read the comics that got nominated, send them all your love and support, I hope you find a new favorite! If you do wind up enjoying any of them (or all of them) please feel free to reblog this post with some of your favorite pages or positive vibes!

[3ternal-sl33p]

“Palestinian queer artist Bashar Murad believes in the power of popular culture to reach people. Who else is supporting the Palestinian struggle for self-determination?”