My friend Abdul is an African LGBTQ+ refugee who needs more help than I can give him to survive at his camp.
$6,000 seems like a lot, and it is, but he would really be grateful for anything. If you have $1 to spare he would absolutely appreciate that. this is not a circumstance where not reaching the goal means it was pointless. I don't get paid much because I'm a full time student but he always appreciates and needs what I can give him.
If you can't use GoFundMe for any reason I also take donations through these other money transfer services.
Ko-fi: Nervesnebula, Cashapp: nervesN, and Venmo: @nervesnebbin
I'll try to update this post with how much I've raised through these apps at the end of every day. I'll also try to post updates I get from him tagged as #Abdulfund on this blog, if he has anything he wants to say. Thank you.
raised via ko-fi, venmo, and cashapp
At first, sorry for poor my English.
I can’t draw enough pixels last 1-2 years, It’s due to my house.
My house is in deep in the mountain (Mt.Kumano). I didn’t talk with human. 30~ days as usual.
There is no hospital, no car, no youth, no friends, and no families.
I’m about to go crazy.
Honestly, This is worst time in my life.
I want to seeing cityscapes on daily basis, and draw them more.
but I have not enough incomes to live in Tokyo or other city.
If you like my works,
Please guess about becoming my patron.
You can pay from $1.
(I do not prepare special rewards at this time.)
You can be my patrons at this page/site :
https://www.patreon.com/1041uuu
If you don’t want to pay with patreon, Message me.
thanks. and sorry for text post.
Yuuta Toyoi
https://www.patreon.com/1041uuu
There are FIVE DAYS left in my Kickstarter Campaign and we're 500 dollars away from securing funding for these 7 designs and 2 colors! Go go check it out!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1385812760/princes-of-hell-an-enamel-pin-collection
I tested positive for covid even after a week of recovery, meaning this is 2 week's pay that are cut because of this. We're in financial trouble because of this, so anything helps!
I'm opening up commissions, please email me at starlightsammyart at gmail.
My current slots are 1/4. Thank you so much for considering me!
Policies:
I'd need to be in-contact with you throughout the process to ensure the art piece is as you wanted
either pay half upfront/half at end or all at once
I need your email for an invoice through Paypal
You'd have a week to pay / I'd have a week to finish*
If any complications arise or if I need to cancel, I can resend the money back in full.
Refunds are available but I'd need to be told so I can send you back your money
For any questions feel free to ask :>
*(time varying on complexity of the art piece )
April 27th is World Tapir Day! Celebrate a vey special day for some very special animals with artwork I've put on some stuff! Available now at redbubble.com/people/c-rowles -- click "Explore Designs" on my page to see them, along with even more art!
shrike inspired deinonychus can stab someone in so many ways
MILESTONE RAFFLE WINNERS 🎊
Congratulations to the winners of Boundless's first milestone raffle! It was a fun challenge to reimagine some non-Dotty OCs as Dotties! This is also a better look at the variation Dotties can have. They're not just limited to white fur! Thank you again to those who participated, I hope you enjoy.
Winners can reach out here or via email [contact@uglytheater.com] for full resolution / isolated / non-watermarked images
A piece about survivors guilt.
This comic isn't perfect. I started it back in October 2023, and every time I picked up my pen, I wept.
I bring this to you today, on 9/11, in hopes that you reflect on this day a little differently than how most Americans would. Let it move you to continue to boycott, protest and challenge your family, friends and colleagues. You have a bigger impact than you would believe.
Thank you for reading this with an open heart.
From the river to the sea...
I'd like to bring to attention the fact that the figures depicted above are a gross undercount of the actual number of deaths. I scoured the internet high and low to source my findings and not a single one could break down the devastation that befell an individual ethnicity. Instead, they lumped a bunch of ethnicities together, provided a general timeline, and called it a day, reinforcing the sheer scale of dehumanization propagated in the west. The only consistency between all the articles I looked up was the 4.5 to 4.7 million figure I've included above, and even then, they were all published by western media news outlets... the very same that have been so unreliable and complicit in the genocide of Palestinians today. So I have to take everything they say with a grain of salt.
We are not just numbers.
All of us have ambitions and desires and lives worth living.
With that said, this is your friendly reminder to:
Donate an e-sim
Donate to PCRF to provide Palestinian children aid
Donate to Pious Projects to provide woman with feminine hygiene kits
Donate to CareForGaza to provide food to displaced families in Gaza either through their Gofundme or their paypal
Donate to any of the vetted gofundme campaigns on GazaFunds to help Palestinians trying to flee Gaza.
And if you or someone you know sees or experiences a hate crime and can afford it, SUE. This is a more effective use of your money than most realise. The reason zionists act with impunity is because of the normalization of white supremacy and oppression of ethnic minorities. Challenging that in any capacity tells them that there are consequences to their actions and makes them think twice before engaging in hate crimes and helps raise all of us up against the systems currently in place that let them get away with it.
If you can't donate or spend any money, you can:
Do your daily clicks.
Boycott targeted companies on the BDS list (if you're like me and you don't want a single dollar to go towards anything supporting Israel right now, you can use Bdnaash to double check what products are okay to buy, but the BDS list is sufficient as it is a strategic attack and proven very effective thus far)
Flood your representatives emails and voicemails with how you won't be voting for them unless their politics align with an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Attend a protest, be LOUD.
Challenge your circle of friends, family and colleagues with conversations about Palestine. (THIS IS THE MOST UNDERRATED AND MOST EFFECTIVE THING YOU CAN DO)
and if you're really up to, be disruptive in any capacity that you can think of towards major corporations benefiting from this onslaught. (i.e. halting military manufacturers from production + shipments, sticking boycott stickers on products at your market etc)
And finally, if your country wasn't mentioned in the above excerpt, it was no deliberate omission on my part and I encourage you to come forward and tell your story about the suffering of your people so that this may be a learning opportunity for everyone.
You are seen.
You are not alone.
Thank you again if you've read this far.
From the river to the sea...
Hey fam! The Mouse is refusing to recognize the unionization efforts of its production workers. If you're not familiar with what PAs or PMs do, I'll outline it briefly. The tl;dr is that NO ANIMATION WOULD GET DONE WITHOUT PRODUCTION WORKERS. They are the glue holding together every single production of your very favorite cartoons!
They take notes in all the meetings with the artists.
They make sure the artists are meeting their deadlines (and showing up to the meetings in the first place).
They help us navigate studio servers to find the files we're looking for.
They send us our time cards, and make sure we get paid!
Production workers do all this and more, often for minimum wage. The hardships that they suffer as a result--the long hours, the unpaid overtime, the abuses of power--are horrific.
You'd really think that they'd be compensated fairly for these jobs! Can you imagine trying to live in Los Angeles or New York on minimum wage with a job that definitely won't allow you time to pick up a second or third one??
This has to stop, and you can help.
All that Walt Disney Animation Studio's production workers ask is that you add your name to this petition! That's it.
This isn't some Change.org petition. It's not going to sell your email to spam companies. This is through IATSE (our union)'s website.
TELL DISNEY YOU STAND WITH PRODUCTION WORKERS!!!