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I'm also on Cameo and offer voice requests for $10 or more!

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Chapter 4 (page 11-20) Also I have a helper now! Big thanks to @lime-ether for assisting me~ (go check em out and their work too!)

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little gift as my thanks for your work ^^ a short tale about Hazel being lost in the woods and meeting a deer friend~

OOOOOOOUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAA SOO COOOOOOL!!!!!!!!! OMG I LOVE THIS!!!!!

THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR THIS!!!! This is beautiful!!! 🥺✨💕✨💕✨💕✨💕 it’s so nice to know that there are others cryptids out there who have Hazel’s back it’s just fills me with life UGH 💕💕💕💕💕💕

(ALSO I SEE THAT BIRD FLIP AT THE END— I LAUGHED SO LOUD OMG)

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Did that doodle a while ago, Ivy in a pirate costume is doing a tap-dance -

remember kids don't throw away your old tvs, play with them or something else when the internet goes down 👍

Or do detox

Preparing for youtube boycott, I downloaded lots of content to watch meanwhile and couldn't resist making a pirate costume for my avatar

Remember that if you wanna be a pirate, do it as safely as possible and save well your treasure (physical drives and USBs are better)

Hope you all have a good day, evening and night!

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Ehehehehehe.... heh..heheh

Boogeyman from wurmwood by @daleespringdraw

Og post: there

Thanks to ghostpiro

and Andrew De Xavier in tiktok

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Boogie purr-

btw random thoughts, i thought this place sounded like my favorite song (at the beginning) so-- hear this --

Ehhhhh Ivy's worst enemy is her impulsiveness -

I probably will post this in Bluesky-

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Unironically the best way to escape a depressive spiral is to start manifesting your inner jevil / pinkie pie . Depending on how evil you're feeling

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Heyo! I just started reading your comic and exploring your work in general and I am THRILLED! I can't wait to see and I am already making theories and jokes over the story x) [also Boogie reminded me a chimney brush PFFFTT poor Hazel hallucinates from lack of sleep and talks to her brush, then eats all the food from stress and doesn't remember it]

AHAHAHAHDBVAHFHAHBS OMG HE’S BRUSH NOW!!!!!!!

Thank you so so much!!! I’m happy you’re enjoying my work so far! Also gosh Boogey look like a chimney brush lmao. Giant soot monster. Poor Hazel having to talk to her mean chimney brush 😔

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THIS.

Because support isn’t just clicking “like” and moving on.

It’s letting the creator know why you liked it, what it made you feel, what you noticed in it that others might have missed.

It’s sending a friend a message saying, “Hey, that part you drew? Genius.”

It’s telling your favorite author that a single line in their story stuck with you all week.

Silence can feel like emptiness, even when the views are there.

One thoughtful sentence, one silly reaction, even one “I love this so much” is more than enough to turn someone’s whole day around.

And it’s not just about “supporting content.”

It’s about nurturing people’s creativity, showing them they matter, that the time and heart they put into their work actually reached someone.

If you have a favorite artist, writer, musician, or friend who makes something — don’t keep your appreciation a secret.

Tell them. Tag them. Leave a comment.

Not because they need it to keep creating, but because it’s the smallest, easiest way you can give back to the joy they gave you.

People used to comment on web comics.

People used to comment on fanfiction.

People used to comment on fanart.

People used to comment on OCs.

I hate "content" culture.

I hate "consuming content" and scrolling immediately to the next thing.

People used to be excited about the art that other people created.

People used to want to share that excitement with creators.

I hate this future.

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SO... YOUTUBE AI AGE VERIFICATION

For anyone that is a little lost about this topic, I'll do a quick summary: This August 13th, Youtube implemented in the US an AI that goes through your search history, to determinate if you're under 18 or not, and the only way to appeal against the AI, is to show a selfie, your ID or similar. Which is BAD, link HERE

This has to do with other stuff, mainly in the UK about political bills, stuff that I don't have the capability to talk about.

First thing clear, DO NOT GIVE ANY OF THIS SENSIBLE INFORMATION TO YOUTUBE, you'll put yourself in risk if any information gets leaked out, similar case that happened recently was the "Tea app" data breach, that was hacked and leaked lots of IDs and drivers license of multiple women.

Second, this gives place to censorship (Reporters can get banned or have their channels linked to their IDs, to give an example), limits places of artistic expression and affects people who watches "childish" videos, besides is completely HYPOCRITAL with the types of ads that youtube sometimes has and the inappropriate videos in youtube kids.

That's why people wants to boycott youtube, starting today, August 13th.

I don't live in the US, so why am I joining? Cause this is REALLY WORRYING as a precedent of how things can turn out later and I don't want more people to go through this ridiculous censorship.

Before giving tips that I found around of how to deal with this, I want to give a warning:

DO NOT harass people who can't join, some people really need stuff like youtube to study and sometimes can't afford other mediums, besides, you'll push away people from the boycott, we need to bring people in, no push them away.

This is not a "won't be in youtube for a day", this most likely can take weeks to months, or even not work out, but if we don't try then we would definitely lose the battle.

If you're learning about this after the 13th, don't feel bad, you can still join anytime

Now that you know about this, what you can do? I searched for tips to the boycott to make a list (Still search about this if possible)

The majority of the tips comes from HERE, credits to him

Cancel Youtube Premium Subscription and if possible, list the AI age verification as the reason.

Refrain to use/watch Youtube (Or use it in your desktop with an ad-blocker and/or VPN)

Support content creators in social media, merchandise, kofi/patreon and similar (Only if you can afford it)

Download and archive stuff for you to watch

Use alternative websites to watch stuff

Use physical media if possible to watch content (Have an old mp3 that I filled with my music, other examples are CDs, DVDs, VHS, videogame consoles, etc)

Spread the word to family and people around you, especially vulnerable people like kids and elderly

I've never written a serious post and English isn't my main language, if I made any grammatical mistakes or misinformed, please call me out.

ALSO, gotta leave this here:

The best way to take this, at least for me, is as a way to detox a little from the internet, at least a part of it. Don't lose hope nor give up, the best thing you can do now for yourself is create stuff, in my opinion. Draw, sing, write, whatever, even if things look quite grim, we can just prepare for the worst and expect the best. Hope you all can have a good day and a better one tomorrow

I may try to make a list with ideas in the meantime, free games that I can find around, etc. Have to see if my studies allow me so...

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so like idk if anybody has pointed this out yet but Undyne’s not just a fish girl.

She’s a dunkleosteus girl.

(its the teeth that give it away.)

Anyway so the dunkleosteus was an ancient predatory armored fish from the Silurian to the Devonian period, with thick bony plates all over its head. She really is an “armor fish” monster!

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So yeah, not sure if you guys heard the news or not but today, August 13th, started the AI age verification in YouTube US, and people started boycotting and I'm joining too

Even though it's not affecting my country (i think), I still find all of this situation very frustrating and a REALLY BAD IDEA

I feel sad cause I wanted to join the community later this year, but oh well...

Most likely, I'll talk later about this with more details and after checking if there's any news, but yeahhhhhh...

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aww he does care

just.. not in the cute way

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Cats

thanks for idea to @tumiyu

the cutest (and my favorite here) cat is Brook. You can see a lot of grey hair in him , muhehehe fluffy big cat.

Manny is loaf

Closeups to boys

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Take of the day: on opinions about disarment, I trust people who had experience with war more than unbombed folks.

What makes me not believe in absolute pacifism. It is easy to sit down drinking cappuccino/IPA/dubai labubu matcha with working electricity and no air raid alarm, and talk about all those high culture concepts of no borders and no weapons, in the center of empire. Secret is, when you are actively invaded every so often, you cannot afford giving up your means of self defense.

Great example of it is Budapest Memorandum. Before, Ukraine had the third biggest nuclear potential in the world. President Kuchma gave them up for a promise that the land will stay untouched, and borders will stay protected.

In 2014, russia invaded in Ukraine. In 2022, russia did it officially. We remember Volnovakha, Bucha, Mariupol, Bahmut, Irpin. Spiderweb helped to take down multiple bomb airplanes, reducing russia’s means of shelling civilians. If Ukraine had not had any military, there would not be Ukraine anymore.

If you live at heart of empire, it is arrogant to expect invaded countries give up their weapons. If you want demilitarization, make empires do it first.

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If Ukraine has no choice but to accept “de facto” occupation — that’s because WE failed.

Not because Ukrainians failed, not because some mysterious “shit happened”, but because for years we ignored all the warnings, repeated all the mistakes of history, kicked the can down the road and refused to do what it takes to defend the rules and principles that enable sustainable peace and prosperity. This is on us.

We are the architects of this de facto defeat, so now we are trying to pretend it came out of nowhere and we did the best we could to stop it. In a spectacular display of unbombed westsplaining, Mark Rutte is suggesting that everything will be OK in the long run, like it was OK in the Baltic States after decades of de facto occupation by jolly old Uncle Joe Stalin.

Well, I have shrugged off a lot of dumb hot takes about my country over the last few years, but this one is literally sickening. Rutte is revealing that the latest genius 5D chess move to save Ukraine is to casually throw millions of people into a black hole of oppression, torture, rape, kidnapping, murder and destruction of national identity — “de facto, but not de jure”.

And the proponents of this plan will keep a straight face while they cite the misery of the occupation of the Baltic States as a shining example that Ukraine should happily walk into.

In his FT column, Gideon Rachman says little to fill the gap in Rutte’s world view: "The Soviet Union’s annexation of the Baltic states after 1940 was never legally recognised by the US and most European countries. But it was a fact of life, until, eventually, the Baltic states regained their independence."

Yikes, let’s unpack that. The occupation wasn’t “a fact of life”, it was a fact of death. “Eventually” was after decades of deportations, killing, grinding terror and violent attempts to turn everybody into russians. “Regained their independence” was being crushed under Gorbachev’s tanks while western leaders pleaded with us to give up our fight for freedom.

So… this is the path to peace we are supposed to offer to Ukraine with a smile? These are the glorious new security guarantees that will erase the shame of the Budapest Agreement and allow Ukrainians to have faith in the future?

There are even US Ambassadors talking about how countries can “earn” certain territories and therefore presumably “deserve” them. Would it be paranoid of me to wonder if we just opened the door for Russia to “earn” Narva and Vilnius “de facto”?