Oh No Another Ideaaa

Introducing... Cassie Jackson's stardew portrait! Like before, I used this for the base!

This one was a doozy! I couldn't find any of Cassie's main features on the portrait maker (her downturned eyes, wider nose, and longer 4b-ish hair), so I did it myself! I do appreciate there being some different hair textures available, since they made a great reference for the texture and shading!

While it was a challenge, I genuinely enjoyed doing this, partly because I love Cassie as a character, and partly because her design is so different than what I used to draw.

I used to not be good at drawing different features, I really wanted to change that and be more inclusive with my art. With Cassie, I wanted to push myself both with drawing different features and writing a different kind of character! (I don't have many transfem characters, and I need to fix that. Cassie here is mtf, and she hasn't had any hormones or surgeries. I want to be able to properly write the experiences of a transwoman).

So, ramble aside, I am incredibly proud of this portrait!

Hello my friends🍉

I am manal from Gaza❤️

It is not easy to ask for help from others🇵🇸🍉❤️

I hope you can help me with a very small donation❤️

I am asking you to donate a small amount of 30 to 40 dollars, please, this helps me a lot

I got married before the Gaza war, and now I am pregnant and have a baby girl and as you all know, polio is spreading everywhere, and I am afraid of losing my baby girl, and life conditions are getting worse day by day ❤️❤️ So any small donation makes a difference in my campaign to help me save my baby girl.

So please help me provide all the winter clothes for my little girl, special milk, and precious papers for my little girl

I need your help if you can

Please donate to save my little girl and my little family

Every donation, even if it is small, will make a huge difference in my life 😭❤️‍🩹

Help me and my baby🫂🙏❤️‍🩹

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-manal-and-her-family-survive-the-gaza-crisis

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-manal-and-her-family-survive-the-gaza-crisis

I am so sorry for not responding to this sooner

If anyone is able to, please share/donate. I am unable to donate myself, but I will do what I can to help.

cw: U.S. government transphobia

So I just read (through tears) the disgusting executive order "Defending Women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government". I'm asking for help if anyone wants to join me.

They've already removed every webpage from whitehouse.gov that had anything to do with gender equality, and I imagine will enforce the removal of the specific pages listed in the EO across other .gov sites and anything else they find.

For the last several years we were told that "anything you put on the web will be there forever" and we're learning if you have enough money and power that can be changed.

I'm starting to archive resources and documents on an external hard drive in an attempt to maintain records of resources for LGBTQIA+ individuals. I'm keeping it out of the cloud to ensure no one can cut me off from accessing it. I'm utilizing archive.org to save the items listed in the EO and resources across the web at the larger organizations that may be targeted directly.

We learned with the shutting down of TikTok that our information can be turned off and VPNs won't work (if the account was created in the US it got turned off so VPNs didn't get us around that). After personally being hit hard from a security breach at work in January of 2023, I've learned, the hard way, that having physical copies of everything is critical.

We're going to need to create a physical copies of things. We're going to need to go back to creating zines, creating leaflets, to handing a physical document to someone to spread information. If anyone wants to help me, we could create a discord or even a tumblr community since this app is kind of flying under the radar at the moment.

I support us using Jeanne Scheper's Five Key Principles: Towards a Critical Zine-Making Ethos in the journal article "Zine Pedagogies: Students as Critical Makers:"

Repurposed Productivity

Critical Recycling

Anti-Copyright

World-Making

DIY Skill-Sharing

They can erase legislative progress but they can't erase us.

Well put. (Source: Writing About Writing Facebook page)

hang on I’m trying to see something

don’t tell me the name of your pet, just tell me in the tags the name you call them that’s got nothing to do with their actual name

I genuinely want to drop out of college so bad

I hate feeling stuck in classes that I don't like, pursuing a career field THAT I DIDNT EVEN FUCKING CHOOSE

I want to become an artist

I don't want to keep doing this

in light of Trump's inauguration speech declaring multiple national emergencies that require him to take god-knows-what executive actions immediately, I'd like to remember this chapter of "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder:

i wanna draw chonky shane

So i did a fanart challenge thingy and drew shane, and i've decided that i'm gonna draw him more pudgy than what i usually do

i've been trying to be more diverse with the bodies that i draw, (since up until recently, it's been skinny twinks and beefed up guys (absolutely nothin wrong with that ofc, i just wanna get better with different body types, and different characters in general)), and i feel like shane would be a good starting point

like the guy lives off of beer, pizza, and pepper poppers, he's probably gonna have a dad bod lol

and ig this is also a way for me to come to terms with the fact that i'm not skinny, and probably will always be a lil chonky. by drawing people with bodies more like mine, it kinda helps me to hate myself less, if that makes sense.

thank you for coming to my ted talk

you will be rewarded with chonky shane

this is so accurate. do i have proof? hell no, but it's still accurate.

🍝

I think I'm obsessed with over the garden wall

just a lil bit tho (that's a lie)