angry vali >:0 member reward for Slydogg!

Thanks, @telinuauthour for being a $20 patron!

In case any system out there needs to hear this:

We’re a system. We’ve been a system for over 30 years.

When we first began interacting with each other, before we had words for it, it was a bit murky. We were very young, and didn’t really understand not to talk about it. We were shamed and scared into silence. Things got really bad after that, for a long time.

Then we found a community, and words for what we were experiencing! And things started getting better! It took time, effort, and a lot of trial and error. It was sometimes stressful, sometimes scary. There are still some things we don’t understand, even after 10+ years of having words for those things and a community to talk to about it. But it did get better. And it’s no longer scary.

Being a system now is so much better. There’s so many more resources than there were even just five, ten years ago. There’s bots, and apps. It is becoming less stigmatized, slowly. And at this point, just within ourselves, we’re so much more comfortable and sure with ourselves. It’s just a natural thing, like blinking. We don’t even think about it a lot. We just are.

We love being a system. We love one another, fiercely.

And we wish the same for all other systems, and plural folk.

Keep existing. Keep communicating. Keep forming community, and asking questions. Stay curious. Forgive yourself (and/or other sysmates) for breakdowns, failures, and mistakes. Celebrate your successes and happy moments. Keep existing.

Smacks lips. Also can we talk about how the Titan and the boiling isles in general has repeatedly been compared to and was clearly based on depictions of the Devil and Hell. With Belos literally calling it perdition this episode. And then Belos, the good Christian martyr who's never willed himself to look beyond this realms hellish surface and has tried to destroyed it because of that, ends up POSSESSING AND BECOMING WHAT HE MIGHT'VE ONCE THOUGHT WAS THE DEVIL ITSELF IN ORDER TO CARRY OUT HIS SUPPOSEDLY RIGHTEOUS MISSION. Like. Belos didn't get too much character exploration this ep until the end but this says sooooooo much it's really on the nose too I.

Welcome back to Steller Saturday Tuesday. It turns out the fae realm is not immune to heatwaves.

btw its interesting the way james tries to imply that like. well the videos that have plagiarism are the ones our dumb stupid annoying patrons requested about bad topics that didnt deserve to have the effort put in to covering them well so basically its fine. like obv thats interesting on its own but moreso the fact that he doesnt actually /say/ it, or like. give a list of the videos hes referring to, just says "those videos are very clear on which ones they were" i think as a nod meaning like "yknow the ones everyones talking about". unless what hes meaning is that like they put a note in certain videos saying "this video was requested by a patron, we here at james somertom incorporated do not espouse these views" which seems unlikely to me. idk methinks maybe it's because there is indeed a lot more than people think and with all the buzz he's not sure which ones have been discovered yet or not, so putting down a solid list that missed some would look like he was still hiding things whereas putting down a fully sourced list would be admitting to wayyyy more than anyone's found yet

Another round of kofi rewards done! Two guys with completely opposite vibes, for @constellation-trolls and @boxxed-juice !

Commission info and slots can be found [HERE]! If you enjoy my art, feel free to support your local trans artist by tipping me on kofi 💙

If anyone hasn’t preordered the Overwatch lore book (Overwatch Declassified) or the short story compilation (Heroes Ascendant) but wants to, Barnes & Noble is currently doing 25% off all preorders until September 8th! Promo code is PREORDER25

My co-worker told me that if I enrolled at least 4 people in the hotel reward program today then she would buy me lunch and also give me money for merch at the Pearl Jam concert. So I of course proceeded to enroll just one person today.

Luci would own these and he'd probably buy Lilith and Charlie some

🖤✨HEADSHOT STREAM CHANGES✨🖤

Hi, yeah, so here's my official announcement about the changes to the monthly headshot streams! TL;DR, the raffle part of the streams isn't changing, but now:

INSTEAD of Tier 2 Twitch subs, you can buy a monthly headshot by subscribing to my Ko-fi membership at either $5 for lineart/color previous headshot or $10 for a color headshot--TWITCH SUBS WILL NO LONGER BE ACCEPTED AS PAYMENT FOR HEADSHOTS (though of course I appreciate you if you sub anyway!)

INSTEAD of unlimited (sort of) free Twitch Channel Points headshots during the streams, I will be limiting these to 10 PER STREAM, and you'll only be able to buy one every 15 minutes or so

ONLY the Ko-fi raffle headshots and the Channel Points headshots will be drawn on stream, everything else will be drawn off stream and posted to Ko-fi by the end of the month!

You can find a link to my Ko-fi by either clicking the banner image above OR clicking here! Otherwise, the next stream will be Jan 16th (with the raffle on the 15th)~

I'm including the same information but in a less TL;DR mode below the cut, if you want more details! 👇👇👇

Yeah, so after talking to my chat about switching things up next year, and after dealing with like...a lot of problems with Twitch subs (primarily not getting notifications from renewals and issues with renewal dates not matching up well with the streams themselves), I've decided to move to a different system!

First up, there will be NO change to the Ko-fi raffle--it'll still open up the day before a monthly stream, it'll still be 7 slots, and it'll still be $6 dollars. Easy peasy!

The big changes are that TWITCH SUBS WILL NO LONGER BE ACCEPTED FOR HEADSHOTS--I just keep emphasizing this so people can cancel before it renews!!--and CHANNEL POINTS HEADSHOTS WILL BE NOW BE LIMITED TO 10 PER STREAM and they'll only be available every 15 minutes to try to make space for anyone who shows up late to the stream! (Though do note that I haven't tested this out, so it mmmight change a little if it doesn't work the way I expect, pbbthth Twitch)

Aaaand instead of Twitch subs, you can now join my Ko-fi membership! As of right now, you can sign up for one of two tiers on my Ko-fi:

For $5 you can purchase either a lineart headshot or have a previous lineart headshot colored once a month! This is the same as the Channel Points headshots but they aren't limited to 10 per stream, you can just buy one once a month if that's your jam!

For $10 you can purchase a color headshot once a month! This is the same as getting a slot in the Ko-fi raffle or as subscribing previously.

NEITHER of these will be drawn on stream, but I will post your headshots to Ko-fi as normal (including the lineart ones) by the end of the month!

These changes should help streamline requests (and keep my terrible adult-ass body from breaking down too badly, pff)--and, frankly, I was not getting everyone's Twitch sub headshots drawn on stream anyway, so nothing is really changing there! :P As for the new tier for lineart, I included it so that there's something available that's still less money than a full color headshot and you don't have to compete for the limited and time-sensitive slots on stream!

(Which, speaking of the Channel Points headshots--IF YOU ARE A KO-FI MEMBER, I won't explicitly ban anybody from buying channel point headshots, but it would be really great if members could try to only buy them if no non-members are vying for them--I'd like to make sure they're available for new folks and those who can't afford to spend real dollars! Thank you for being understanding~ 😘)

I'm super new to Ko-fi's membership system (used to have a Patreon but that's loooong gone), so if there are any problems, we'll try to sort them out as quickly as possible, just please be patient with me while we get this started! And please holler if you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them!

Looking forward to workin' with y'all in 2024~ 🖤🖤🖤

some recent(ish) kofi rewards for my members!

im working through a backlog of these at the moment but still open to new members! my highest tier is now limited to 30 people with only a few slots left...

turned my railway board into girl's night

if someone came up to me and just started beating the shit outta me rn i wouldn't complain

hello, of any the precure media which series is the best to start with?

go princess precure because it’s my favorite :)