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I’m the biggest eepy but later today I plan on posting another one of the comics I made. Then maayyyybbeeee I’ll be working on a Slade one afterwards. We’ll see, cause I might do a bunch of world-building instead
#btw y’all should check out my kofi#that’s where the world building is#unfortunately it’s behind a paywall but#gotta finance my life somehow#shameless plug
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Photo of Chris and Neil in their Dancing Star looks x
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Are you slowly going insane over your OWN ocs?
No, I've been infected by brainworms the entire time. Nothing slow about it.
But honestly, no... It's not really about my characters to me. I love my characters, of course, and I love telling stories, and I hope to keep making art of my characters every day until I die.
But it's not about them! They're not REALLY what I love, what I love is people! And I hope I can leave the world with a hundred different love letters so my readers can feel how much I love them for even one day longer than I am here.
My characters are a conduit through which I can give that to people. I want nothing more than to make someone feel a little more loved, a little more seen, and a little less alone. And my characters are the best way I know how to do that.
So for that, they're incredibly important to me... But they're not for me. They're for you!
So I hope you enjoy them
and I hope you can feel that I love you through them.
#personally I dont like to use the word insane to describe myself or others#I struggle with many things but when it comes to my characters#I am nothing but concrete#determined#and absolutely positively headstrong through and through.#I don't take myself too seriously#And I don't hold too much sacred that I do#I really just want to make the world slightly better#for even one person#anyways.#asks#izzy-fishy#oh this is also why I hate like... advertising#and locking anything behind a paywall#and just. all of that stuff#I wish I could just make money drawing whatever and everything I do were free with no issues#but the best way for me to pay my bills and make more art is for some of it to be for money... so.#unfortunately I dont get to truly live my dream#where I spend all day teaching people how to draw and making them art they love#ALAS!!!#capitalism
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"It's beautiful seeing catholic youth coming together"
The catholic youth:
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Thinking about the Watcher Entertainment paywall debacle again and the two most unbelievable parts of it to me are
That they told Variety they were going to eventually remove all their old content from YouTube and then claimed they were never going to do that after the announcement backlash
That they were originally going to charge their patrons, people already giving them monthly payments to make their shows, an additional monthly subscription payment to be able to watch the shows they were funding
#watcher entertainment#unfortunately companies putting things they used to let people access for free behind a paywall is par for the course these days#so it doesn't terribly surprise me that WE made a move to abandon their non-paying audience members#but these two points are even further beyond the pale than just 'yeah we can't afford to keep giving away our shows'
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i had thought i put apple behind me.... but alas my old nemesis.....
#shut up danni's talking#i switched to android in january and its so refreshing you don't even know#i only occasionally whack out my old iphone if i need a second phone while watching smth#however my mum dropped hers in the toilet (lol) and so her phone is fucked up#i'm trying to transfer her shit over onto my phone in the meantime until she finds a new one#however i am just about ready to tear my fkn hair out bc apple is absolute shit#the only decent app that transfers stuff between two phones is locked behind a paywall and im not paying like £20+ for one use w no guarant#and itunes is hopeless. i want to cry. i am going to be trying my best to convince my mum to try android but she doesn't wanna#she's too familiar w iphones and she wants to have the same thing her partner has bc ease so unfortunately#in any case if i can't transfer her shit onto my phone i'm gonna get rid of my shit so she can at least use its functionality#either way i will still hope for apple to go full bankruptcy or get majorly dropped
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Despite being failed over and over again by their federations, players are expected to compete against top teams around the globe, at the height of international competition. Players are being asked to perform at the absolute highest level when they do not have the highest level of care or resources from their federations.
For some teams, that might be a lack of preparation; Haiti plays a fraction of the number of games the USWNT does and still qualified for the World Cup. Or it might be a lack of funding; Canadian players asking for their wages to be paid while their federation claims they have no money. Or a lack of resources; France, a top program in women’s football both professionally and internationally, has a national team with only 3 full-time staff; whereas our CBA with U.S. Soccer requires 22 to 24 “professional support positions” dedicated to the WNT — and that doesn’t even include communications staff, security, and so on…
In many cases, there’s simply a fundamental lack of respect for the women’s game. Worse, sometimes it’s all of the above.
My experience with FIFPro this year has given me a whole new perspective on our progress in the global game. Yes, the USWNT enjoyed our recent victories on equal pay and working conditions. But our blueprint can’t be copied directly by other nations, not yet, even if there are a few parts that might work. Teams can learn from our approach, especially in how we used the World Cup platform, created bylaws for our union, hired an executive director and legal representation and identified problem areas to prioritize in bargaining. While these are good first steps to take, many teams and their players are starting in a different place than we did, left exposed by a lack of protections, lack of resources, lack of interest and varying levels of systemic sexism.
So I’m making a call to action — even for myself. Taking a breath is fine, but putting down the torch is unacceptable. We need to continue to support players who are advocating for themselves within their federations, confederations, and FIFA.
We cannot let the spotlight of the World Cup be the only thing to highlight these disparities and injustices — the desire to create change must shed its own light even after the tournament has ended. We have to keep having these conversations after the confetti has been swept away, the stadiums have emptied and we build once again for 2027.
We have to follow the lead of these players and teams when they ask for help. When you see a team release a coordinated statement, share it. If there’s a direct way to support, help out if you can. Public support and scrutiny all help keep the pressure on federations and organizations to do the right thing, all the way up to FIFA.
Every team’s path will be different, but the end goal remains the same. All players want the same thing: the opportunity to play at our absolute best and to show the world the beautiful game on its biggest stage.
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it’s so hype that you’re looking to get aurum published physically!!! I’m defo going to see if it’s possible for me to get a copy, might be tricky cos the Atlantic Ocean is in the way
i think u mentioned in ur FAQs that you’ll reupload to AO3 when it’s published, im wondering will that be the sonic version or the new version?
MOLOOOO ty for ur support 😭💖 I have no clue what the timeline on this will be, but whenever I get it published I’d be happy to help try and get a copy over to you hehehe :D
Tho I guess I have to reword my FAQ a bit more clearly heh ^^’
It’s not going to ever go back up on AO3 in any form. That would directly compete with the success of the book itself and would ultimately do more harm than good, as writing is something that I’d love to, well, make a living off of. Unfortunately, can’t exactly do that if it’s also available for free, competing with sales. 😅
#sorry to disappoint!!!#unfortunately the book will be… behind a paywall so to speak#i have no idea how publishing works rn but i’m hoping i can keep the price at an affordable range and not like. too expensive
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I have rediscovered, after many months, that meditation does actually work. I've only meditated 8 minutes a day for 3 consecutive days and I'm already having an easier time thinking, concentrating, and coping with my anxiety. I'm pretty sure stopping meditating is part of the reason my mental health has been getting progressively worse.
So yeah, I wouldn't recommend it for everyone, but if you're a low energy person with loud, busy thoughts like me, you should definitely give it a try.
#me#anxiety#granted i stopped partly bc it started feeling like a chore and partly bc the app i used put all their shit behind a paywall#but i found one recently that's really good and has lots of free resources#i need something that actually tracks my progress bc i have the hardest time holding myself to it otherwise#and honestly while i have a great memory it unfortunately doesn't extend to things pertaining to my health lol#and when i do remember half the time i get this mental block that prevents me from actually doing it
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ALSO to clarify, you all can still request drabbles/oneshots and drawings from me just as requests to my inbox! The comm option on kofi is just a way to support me and get priority and better communication on requests :0
#i know some people were feeling bad about requesting so much and stuff like that#so this is just an option?#but i don't want to put up a financial barrier esp since i know some of you are kiddos and don't have your own income#unfortunately if i self publish that WILL be behind a paywall so hopefullh that's okay :(#if you really want to read it and don't have a way to pay for it we can try to figure something out!#that's still up in the air too but i'm working with a freelancer for ebook covers rn 👀#ALSO ALSO discord sever is still (always) open!#thinking about streaming tomorrow as well a little earlier for the overseas friends!#okay i'm done rambling
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nothing can fix me anymore im going to start doomposting
#the thing that could fix me (new hobby) is unfortunately locked behind a paywall called “buy fabric” and also a skilltree called “sewing”#however i did find some neat patterns just have to translate the chinese lables on em#literally eas fighting for my life not to explode at those kpop plushies that are infantilisibg the shit out of those grown men bc like#they are the same species of plushies as the cotton dolls i want to make 😔😔
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🖤 30 day lookbook challenge! 🖤
day 9: 1950's movie star
inspired by Life Magazine's Marilyn Monroe At Home in Hollywood: Color Portraits, 1953 article (for @bashfulcookies's 30 Day lookbook challenge!)
cc: earrings / eyebrows / top / hair (recolor*)
thank you to the cc creators! @sclub-privee @angissi @serenity-cc @pipco @simpliciaty-cc
#cookies cas challenge#my lookbooks#moongoblinsims#maxis mix#sims lookbook#s4lookbook#simblr#marilyn monroe#1950s#1950s sims#the recolor was behind a paywall and I'm not about that life so I reuploaded#I tried searching all over for it but unfortunately all of the links went to simsd*m
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Another great 4* review.
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Someone needs to make a webcomic site that isn’t corporate as hell and doesn’t show an extreme bias towards their “official” or published comics because man am I so tired of the only decent webcomic sites having garbage practices and ruining all the fun of online creation
#don’t even get me started on that ‘daily pass’ bullshit all of them are doing now#literally the reason I stopped reading webcomic unfortunately#literally anything popular is now locked behind a paywall past like 3 chapters#I remember the old let days of those same sites where like. freedom was a thing#now things feel just as censored and cash grabby as they would be if you just contacted a large company#webcomic#webcomics
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no I don't wanna romance him I want to peel apart his layers I wanna know what makes him tick I want to get to know him I wanna be his bestieeee
#this is about a character in a choice game#I am SO curious about what made him Like This (very interesting) but it's unfortunately behind a paywall lol
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LOS ANGELES — Ja Morant dressed in his green Nike sweatsuit and bolted the visitor’s locker room, saying to no one in particular, “See you boys tomorrow.”
Dillon Brooks was dressed in his sweater, jeans and dark glasses, and out of the arena before reporters were even allowed into the dressing area for interviews.
The Grizzlies’ two most notorious trash talkers bounced out of their NBA-mandated duties to answer questions after games on Monday following the toughest loss of the year, in which they both played a major role.
Their refusal to be accountable could be considered an example of what Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins identified before Game 4 as a lack of maturity on this team.
“We’re far from where we need to be from a maturity standpoint,” Jenkins said. “This is all experience that you can only gain from. So, nothing’s gonna change overnight, but when we wear it, and we understand the struggles we’re going through individually, collectively, on, off the court and all that stuff, and we sit down and we honestly talk about it, and we face it, you’re hopefully gonna turn the corner for sure.”
The Grizzlies went out after Jenkins said this and lost 117-111 to the Lakers in overtime and now trail this first-round series 3-1. For most of the series, Jenkins and the players have lamented an inability to pay attention to the finer details of the game plan at the most important times. They have also been dogged by Morant’s hand bruise, which kept him out of Game 2 and followed a tumultuous March in which he was suspended for misconduct off the court, and by the controversy Brooks caused for lambasting LeBron James following Memphis’ lone win in this series.
All of those issues trace back to the same basic theme of being immature as a team. The Grizzlies entered the season as the NBA’s fifth-youngest team, but Danny Green is on the Cavs now, and Steven Adams hasn’t played since January because of a knee injury — so you could argue they’re younger than they were when they started. Both Green and Adams were counted on as elder statesmen, voice-of-reason, playoff-tested vets whose voices are either gone or muted by injury; for in Adams’ case, it’s much easier to lead by example.
James tied the score Monday night at 104 with 0.8 seconds left on a driving layup over Xavier Tillman Sr., who was guarding him, and Jaren Jackson Jr., who came over to help from the left side and nearly blocked the shot. But James started from the top of the key and drove to his right. Both Brooks and Desmond Bane were on the right side of the lane, and Bane said it was in the Grizzlies’ game plan for one or both of them to slide over and help Tillman cut James off from getting to the rim.
Neither of them moved.
The King sends it to OT pic.twitter.com/EhmqQHLbrn
— Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) April 25, 2023
“It always comes down to game-plan discipline,” said Bane, the Grizzlies’ high scorer with 36 points. “LeBron has been a strong right-hand driver since he’s come into the league 20 years ago or however long he’s been in the league. He gets to his right hand, and you know, we got two guys on that side that are supposed to be in help, but you know, didn’t execute. It’s pretty much as simple as that.”
When Adams joined the Grizzlies for training camp in October 2021, the Memphis core of Morant, Bane, Jackson and Brooks had just experienced its first playoffs. In an interview at the time with The Athletic, Adams said he was joining a “super, super talented group” that, you guessed it, lacked maturity.
“Mostly the way you can tell if a team is mature or not is in the playoffs,” Adams said. “It’s a completely different game in the playoffs. When you get there, there is a lot of things, like, we might have a string of really bad possessions, and as a player you might be playing super bad, but then the ability just to keep at it and just switch it, that’s major maturity there. Coaches are very crucial on the details, because again in the playoffs, these things really matter. It all comes down to a couple possessions. You can choose any of those possessions. ‘Oh, I should have shifted one foot over.’ Those details are major.”
Two seasons and two playoffs later, with or without Adams on the court, the Grizzlies still haven’t learned. James, who has been in 18 NBA playoffs and won four titles, is exploiting Memphis’ underbelly.
“You’re playing against a team that exploits a lot of those details,” Jackson said. “So it’s a little bit glaring at times. They run a lot of pick-and-rolls, get mismatches. And sometimes they might be looking slow, like they’re just milking the clock to get really what they want each time down. And if you’re playing, you can’t have any mistakes. So a small mistake really will look like a big mistake against a team that kind of just capitalizes on that.”
When told what Jackson said, James nodded and grunted with interest, as though Jackson was onto something. But knowing better than to say something silly about an opponent in a playoff series, James stiffened and gave a boilerplate statement that was so full of platitudes and clichés, we would have been better off discussing the nice red and white sweater he was wearing. It’s the polar opposite of how Brooks reacted after Game 2 when someone asked him about a brief, heated exchange he had with James on the court.
James’ other big bucket in Game 4 came against Brooks. James drove left this time, drilled a leaner off the glass and drew contact from Brooks for a five-point lead with 29.4 seconds left.
It was a serendipitous moment for James, who not only had to endure days of questions about Brooks calling him “old” and “tired” but also a punch below the belt from Brooks in Game 3. Brooks was ejected for that one but not suspended.
James, at 38 and 115 days, became the oldest player to record at least 20 points (22) and 20 rebounds (exactly that many) in a regular or postseason game on Monday. The Lakers also haven’t lost since Brooks needled James with his words — an obviously unfortunate event in hindsight for Brooks and the Grizzlies. James is best left unprovoked. Without external motivation, James has occasionally been known to brood and sulk toward teammates. When he has something extra to play for, he never misses.
“What I tell our guys all the time, what’s got us here is our confidence and our swag,” Jenkins said. “But then we also gotta be able to go out and back it up and do it on business terms.”
The Grizzlies have not done that in this series.
Morant was suspended in March for wielding a gun in a social media post while intoxicated at a Denver nightclub. Morant and his friends have also been accused of assault or menacing behavior — at times with a gun involved — on multiple occasions over the last year. Morant has denied any wrongdoing in those instances.The team chalked them up to a lack of maturity in the 23-year-old superstar. In Game 4, Morant finished with 19 points on 8-of-24 shooting. His potential game-winner was blocked by Anthony Davis at the end of regulation, and Morant also seemed to reaggravate his bruised right hand earlier in the game.
So there were any number of things to discuss with Morant, who in December told ESPN he didn’t see any team in the Western Conference that could stand in the Grizzlies’ way. (The quote was “I’m fine in the West.”)
Now the Grizzlies are on the verge of being knocked out of the playoffs in the first round by the seventh-seeded Lakers. Morant didn’t want to answer for it. Bane said the Grizzlies can’t stick to the game plan, and Jenkins said they struggle with maturity.It’s a problem that hasn’t gone away.
“There’s no better time than the playoffs, and it’s (under) a microscope,” Jenkins said. “Obviously we’ve definitely faced our fair share of adversity, especially in the last couple of months, March in particular. Our guys gotta find a way to respond.”
#sorry for putting these entire articles in the post but the athletic does give gift links and most of the articles i want to post are behind#a paywall -_-#anyway it sucks man#i don't care for the lakers though i like a number of their players#i like this memphis team like they have some great talents especially jackson jr and bane#and ja morant is obnoxious but he's a hell of a player#but all season they mouths been writing checks that their wrists cant cash#and unfortunately#now the chickens are coming home to roost#we'll see though#aint over til its over
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