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I'm about to be out of work for an unknown number of weeks and I don't think it's common knowledge here that I DO take commissions. Mostly art but I'm also down to edit fiction or essays or whatever and I'll even write fiction if you pay me

I don't do enough outside of art to give a good estimate so that would have to be discussed. As for digital art, it's $30 per work hour. You don't pay for sketches and I don't start the timer for work until you're happy with the sketch and flats chosen. I also pause the timer if there's something I have to learn mid project. To give you an idea, I did a Skeletor piece that was $800 and it came out like this once it was all printed and everything:

It was exactly what she wanted with it being realistic towards the top and simple towards the bottom. She wanted two prints, one for herself and one for the friend she gifted this to

This is my most recent piece and it was a birthday gift for a friend but is a better representation of the type of thing I normally do wrt colorwork

Anyway. Feel free to share this around. Or you can dm my art blog @smjaygal. I'm pretty sure if you skim my tags, you can see more examples of art I've done. I'll be working 10 hours over the course of 2 weeks after next week and really need to pay for food and bills and stuff. I want to get ahead of the game so I don't have to make any begging posts

But yeah! Vann absolutely takes art commissions!

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got asked “why are you open on Easter Sunday?” by a very angry woman at work today…my literal sister in christ it’s because you are also here

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STOP asking queer mormons why we stay despite the homophobia and START asking homophobic mormons why they stay despite the core tenet of kindness

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I don't know if this is heresy or whatever but I was popping around twitch and then I had a startlingly clear mental image of Heavenly Mother as like. your favorite streamer's beloved wife. who is rarely actually in content but you know she's there and is always spoken highly of. do you see the vision. do you think God streams minecraft.

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I'm about to be out of work for an unknown number of weeks and I don't think it's common knowledge here that I DO take commissions. Mostly art but I'm also down to edit fiction or essays or whatever and I'll even write fiction if you pay me

I don't do enough outside of art to give a good estimate so that would have to be discussed. As for digital art, it's $30 per work hour. You don't pay for sketches and I don't start the timer for work until you're happy with the sketch and flats chosen. I also pause the timer if there's something I have to learn mid project. To give you an idea, I did a Skeletor piece that was $800 and it came out like this once it was all printed and everything:

It was exactly what she wanted with it being realistic towards the top and simple towards the bottom. She wanted two prints, one for herself and one for the friend she gifted this to

This is my most recent piece and it was a birthday gift for a friend but is a better representation of the type of thing I normally do wrt colorwork

Anyway. Feel free to share this around. Or you can dm my art blog @smjaygal. I'm pretty sure if you skim my tags, you can see more examples of art I've done. I'll be working 10 hours over the course of 2 weeks after next week and really need to pay for food and bills and stuff. I want to get ahead of the game so I don't have to make any begging posts

But yeah! Vann absolutely takes art commissions!

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Dallin H. Oaks is who Jesus and the prophets were talking about when they said woe be unto lawyers. At least he’s clear about it

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The Crimes of Brigham Young: the Briefest Introduction

If you're going to be LDS long term, one of the facts you have to accept and make peace with never trying to dispute, is that Brigham Young was a horrible person.

We don't openly talk about this as a community, so you can reach adulthood without ever having to wrestle with this too much. But that makes it all the more shocking when you discover how bad he was.

To say he was deeply flawed doesn't do it justice. Your uncle who says hateful stuff at the dinner table and disrespects his wife and children is deeply flawed. Brigham Young is so much worse than that, by several degrees of magnitude. He introduced and was complicit in extreme violence that was unnecessary and unjustifiable. By the standards of his day and ours, from the perspective of those inside the community and outside, he wasn't a good person. If what you imagine a good leader to be is the King Benjamin definition of someone who does good for his people and doesn't enrich himself from their labors, that's not a test Brigham Young can pass. At all. Not even a little bit.

There's too much history to get into, but here are the basics:

Brigham Young enriched himself constantly from other people. He gave himself the largest allowance of any Church leader in our history. He was living in finery when the rest of the Utah Territory was living in deprivation and squalor. He abused his position within the Church/consecration to make sure he never went without. D. Michael Quinn is the best authority we have on church finances and, to summarize his work, Church leadership has only improved over time in terms of leaders not abusing Church resources. But that was very easy to do because of how much Brigham Young abused them for his personal benefit.

The fact that he was openly racist and introduced slavery to the Utah Territory, undoing the work of Joseph Smith to put black and white Saints on more equal fitting with each other is no secret. The Church openly admits to that one now, which is good. We need to be honest about the harm the institution has done in the past towards black people, and we're doing better on that front.

Where we still fail is the overwhelming amounts of violence and genocide our people engaged in against various indigenous tribes across the Midwest and in the areas of pioneer settlement in the Intermountain West. You may have heard of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, which is the event where John D. Lee murdered a group of innocent white travelers that were passing through Utah. What you may not know is that skirmish was part of the larger Black Hawk War against indigenous tribes that included over twenty years violence, in which our people were consistently the aggressors. Mountain Meadows is the one you've heard of because, true to American form, we only acknowledge white wrongdoing when it hurts other white people. The number of indigenous people who were murdered in genocidal violence by the hands of our people, at the express orders of Brigham Young, is undeniable. It's well-documented history.

This is just one extermination order that exists in which senior Church leadership calls for the total extermination of entire indigenous tribes and nations. They used the Nauvoo Legion to do this.

You would think a group of people who were exterminated with orders like these would know better. But that's the trouble with unhealed trauma: it keeps you from learning from the worst things that happen to you and makes you repeat them instead.

Brigham Young didn't want to live adjacent to indigenous people in the Utah Territory and surrounding areas. He wanted their anhialation. He wanted to take their lands and their possessions. That's what he did to indigenous people who helped our people survive in terrain and elements they weren't prepared to live in. He rewarded them with violence, dishonesty, and betrayal.

There are many reasons you will hear me say that I want a one-on-one socker bopper fight with Brigham Young in a Wendy's parking lot. He has a lot to apologize for, to me and many other people. You cannot begin to understand what that means if you've never seen the scope of how much harm he did.

I love y'all. I'm sorry if I'm the one to tell you this, especially if your people were involved and you were lied to about it. You deserve the truth. That's why I'm telling you. We cannot heal from what we don't acknowledge, and so much of the way we are today as a community is a direct result of all this violence. It's why our people mistrust outsiders, attempt to solve problems with unnecessary violence, and discredit any criticism for their loyalties to the prophet and senior Church leadership. It's who our people have been for so long, there is real intergenerational fear in trying to be anything else.

But that healing is necessary so we can stop repeating the mistakes of the past.

The Book of Mormon teaches in 2 Nephi 9:40:

I know that the words of truth are hard against all uncleanness; but the righteous fear them not, for they love the truth and are not shaken.

We are comfortable acknowledging this to be true about outsiders. Do we believe it when it concerns our own? Do we actually care more about what is right, rather than who we want to believe is right?

Such examination requires faith, honesty, and courage. Truth doesn't have the power to destroy faith, only flimsy and undeserved certainty. And if your certainty was based in falsehood, then best to dispense with it so you can live more fully in the truth.

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evangelicals being like "god made men to do This and be like This and women to do That and be like That that's just how it is" and it's just a picture of a white man and woman following traditional gender norms makes me so insane like you boring fascist fucks. god made 2 million species of beetles. god made whales, ducks, humans, and 1500 other species capable of same sex behavior. god made fish and amphibians that change sexes. god made more than 30 different intersex variations in human beings. god, in his infinite curiosity. wake up!!! fuck!!

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Pointing out that the Rapture as a concept is a little less than two hundred years old - it's originally from the 1833 - that really buries the lede on how recent it is. Bc the modern evangelical take on the Rapture is from a book published in 1970. That predicted the Rapture would happen no later than 1988.

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were the disciples buddies with each other or was jesus just like all their mutual friend

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file this one next to "socratian poetry" under "tumblr users trying to sound smart by using specific language and revealing they don't know what they're talking about"

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God I'm wearing my favorite top and shorts combo but because my mother permanently lives in my fucking head, I don't get to just enjoy being young and hot. I have to hear how trashy and slutty I look uuuuuuuuugh

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Whenever I'm in the Mormon side of TikTok it's kinda bizarre because it'll be a video of someone mentioning Heavenly Mother and then in the comments someone with a user name that looks like their social security number says something like "Um, aktually that's a heresy" and it's like, My guy, my brother in Christ, we Mormon do not give a flying frick about what some middle aged virgin with a bad haircut decided was a heresy back in the middle ages.

What you call heresy, we call a damn good start, now hop on the spaceship or get outta the way, we hieing to Kolob, bitch.

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the church says not to pray to or worship Heavenly Mother but they never said i couldn't like. send her a fax

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@diteach what are they gonna do? Not pray for someone who needs it? It's not like anyone reads the names out loud

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You are a Child of God

Therefore, it is beneath your dignity to kiss the earthly rings of tyrants and shine the boots of oppressors.

Remember that your kingdom, like Christ's, is not of this world. When Jesus taught that we should render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's he meant money. Not souls. Not the dignity and self-possession that is ours by birth.

It is against our religion to accept violence from the State—not for ourselves, and not for others. Read D&C 121-123 again. That's what they say. That's what they mean.

How can we hold any other position when the Prophet Joseph Smith was executed through vigilante justice? How can we choose false imprisonment for anyone when it was exercised against our own people so many times?

The God who told our prophet and our people "fear not what man can do" in the face of state violence will not forgive us if we side with jailers of the innocent. Not in this moment. Not in any moment.

Seeking redress against state violence is a sacred duty bestowed upon us by God. D&C 123:7 says "It is an imperative duty that we owe to God" not to allow such things to stand as long as there is anything we can do to stop it.

If you need the words to express to the Trump supporters in your life why supporting the current administration is immoral and unacceptable for us as a people, here they are. To love our neighbors as ourselves means we cannot tolerate their oppression because it (allegedly) benefits us in any way.

God has withdrawn protection and prosperity from our nation because our people have supported and allowed this evil to happen to our neighbors. It will continue until those who are responsible repent. And if they don't, the promised suffering that was promised to our own oppressors will come upon us:

13 Also because their hearts are corrupted, and the things which they are willing to bring upon others, and love to have others suffer, may come upon themselves to the very uttermost;

14 That they may be disappointed also, and their hopes may be cut off;

15 And not many years hence, that they and their posterity shall be swept from under heaven, saith God, that not one of them is left to stand by the wall

There is moral rot among the Saints in the United States. If we do not purge it from among ourselves through repentance and restitution to those we have harmed through this corrupt administration, we will be destroyed from the earth by that administration. We will fall into the pits we have dug for our neighbors. And we will have no one but ourselves to blame.