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Going through some old stuff I made as a kid and found this, what are they arguing about? I do not remember lol but I want to know.

2014!? Damn that's old!

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But I can't stick to just one! I like them all! :(

Continuation of:

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BTW there's been alot of changes made to this clangen and it's charecters since I've gad to keep recoding due to update issues or corruptions. I need to update the lineup. Here's a Dancingpaw in the meantime ;)

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Sooooo ummmmmmm this is something that's probably going to piss a lot of people off, but I feel like I really need to say it.

If you get a message from an account claiming to be a Palestinian fundraiser, it is a bot. It is a scam. You need to report & delete the message and encourage others to do the same.

I know because I get messages on this account DAILY. I have a very high follower count and I'm pretty active and I interact with my followers a lot, and apparently that all adds up to one big bot magnet.

Bots following and messaging this account was a MASSIVE problem before Tumblr fixed its new account policies. I used to spend literally hours blocking and reporting the hundreds of bots that I would get following me each day.

I learned a lot about bots and how to identify them. The easiest way is with no avatar, "untitled" in the blog description (BTW if your avatar is still set to default PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD change it because you run a substantial risk of being accidentally blocked & reported as a bot).

One of the dead give aways of a bot was what I call "word salad" names. Three seemingly random words strung together making no sense, always adjective, adjective or noun, noun. If you reported a lot of these bots, you'd notice the same words kept showing up.

Nowadays, I am bombarded with fundraiser requests and sometimes, they don't even bother to hide the fact that they're a bot. The avatar is default, the blog title is "untitled," and the blog name is a classic randomly-generated word salad.

However MOST of the requests I get come from at least semi-legit looking accounts. There are pictures, a name, a story. Never mind that I've gotten that message three times from different accounts.

Sometimes, they claim to be vetted, but the whole vetting system essentially adds up to "trust me bro." There is no way of guaranteeing that this account isn't just lying about being vetted, claiming to be vetted by a false person, or are using the identity of a real Palestinian to scam people.

Previously, I've seen a lot of people getting attacked for raising questions about these fundraisers and getting attacked for being racist or for harming Palestinian families in danger, like Tumblr isn't a website famous for its scams and the words "The Arkh Project" "All or Nothing" or "Miss Officer and Mr. Truffles" mean nothing to you.

I personally have been scammed by people claiming to be charities on Tumblr before, specifically, The Leelah Project which used the name of a trans teenager who died by suicide to swindle people out of their money.

Luckily, there are actual, respected charities out there you can give money to if you want to help the cause:

Palestinian Children's Relief Fund

Palestine Red Crescent Society

United Nations Relief Works Agency

Islamic Relief

World Central Kitchen

Médecins Sans Frontièrs

One of the hardest things to accept about the situation in Palestine is that realistically, there is very little that your average outsider can do to change it. However, these large, well-respected and trustworthy charities are out there doing the hard work to keep people alive, and should be where the donation money is going

These scam bots feed on people's naïvety and need to believe that they are making a difference, and even worse, feed on the fear that by ignoring them, it somehow makes you a racist doing direct harm to a refugee family, when in fact they are using the suffering of Palestinians to take away money from those in need.

As far as fundraisers that don't send out random asks for donations, I honestly don't know. You'll have to do the work yourself and approach with much caution.

Be careful out there.

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Y'know it's pretty hard finding your niche when you have 600 ocs and you love them all not to show them off.

It really spices up your sims worlds I highly suggest it

Plus you never run out of charecters to draw

And screw consistency, let your audience chose one they like the most and build from there if you wanna or just do it for pure fun.

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Rat bastard

I was looking into colour point genetics and bengal genetics, Mousestar would've been born completly white, since he's a snow mink bengal, his dad Riverbadger is a snow Lynx bengal non agouti carrier since his mother wasnt another bengal and a burmese cat and Mousestars mother was a snow sepia bengal patterned cat.

Not showing the family tree because spoilers :) but did I get that right?

(Not me showing you this to also say the clangen wouldn't update so I had to delete it, but good news is that I learnt how to code cats in)

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Old art of Cookie and Frello

Cringy overprotective brother trope, I know, but I think Frellos sign was pretty funny.

By the looks of it, he has already beaten the shit out of someone.

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Reminder

GoFundMe does not work in Palestine. Do not trust people who claim to be Palestinians yet have set up GoFundMe accounts.

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Some quick tips to spotting accounts that are pretending to be a Palestinian needing mutual aid. Please keep in mind that not all of them are scam accounts, and that some may legitimate blogs who just aren’t too knowledgeable on how tumblr works. This guide is based around what I go by when checking certain blogs and usually it’s a quick giveaway the blog is a scam.

Please read this post too from my other blog before you tell people don’t donate to gfms:

1. You was sent the ask as someone who regularly shares Palestine related content such as regular news updates of posts by other Palestinians who are regularly giving updates. You may also get these asks from sharing a popular post that is from the Palestine tag. If you post often about Palestine, you will always start getting these asks. These askers don’t care if you state don’t send the asks. They will anyway. Unfortunately minors also get sent asks.

2. The ask has odd formatting such as having odd quotation marks in it or unusual formatting that may indicate it’s been edited and copied from somewhere else. Often the ask is the same thing as the post itself minus a link to a donation site. These asks rarely change so searching it should pull up if it’s been sent to other bloggers and sometimes the asks are edited only to add new phrases to them in time.

3. The account is almost always a few days old or a week old or long depending on how often they have sent asks. Usually some may even be an hour old and reusing a familiar pfp/ask.

4. The blog has a few Palestine related posts or posts from random tags reblogged to pad out length and then no more. They will have no original posts besides the pinned post while occasionally answering asks that they may have received but otherwise nothing else and no further updates given either.

5. They may have a Linktree link that is called “GoFundMe” as if indicating they have a GoFundMe there. However, they don’t. When clicked on, the Linktree actually goes to a PayPal account whose name may not even match the one their supposed name is. They’ll say it’s a friend, but it’s just the same person not someone else. You’ll see this same name across multiple accounts after a while usually giving away it’s not legitimate even under a different theme.

6. The text used by the blogs are often real stories stolen from legitimate fundraisers and searching parts of it in your preferred search engine should pull up the sources. These sources make no mention of a tumblr account either or don’t have the PayPal account associated with them in the info. Scammers often impersonate a real person in need and will ignore you if you show them the source they copied from.

7. Legitimate Palestinians often link to their own GoFundMe posts that their friends have set up or post links to other social platforms they are found on. They will regularly post updates when possible, post sources to support them when necessary, and also generally have some method of verifying their legitimacy. They may often share links to support others as well or give links to charities that have been shown as reliable. They will have more original posts than just a single pinned one and regularly speak to other tumblr accounts beyond just an ask. Please don’t bother them with asks about possible scam accounts. There are many guides out there that can do that for you if you search. You may find verified fundraisers too.

8. Scammers don’t know anything about Palestine and will often have trouble once you ask them anything beyond the mutual aid post. They don’t know the languages decently and you can tell it pretty easily if you’re one who uses it regularly. Whatever the scammers use is often just copied off the site they got the post from. Sometimes the text is just reused from past scams such as asking for insulin that doesn’t last long.

9. These scammers can and will use names stolen off real Palestinians to look more legitimate and trustworthy. They change names constantly once one of their PayPal accounts is shut down.

10. If you do see a GoFundMe link on a blog, don’t immediately assume it’s a scam just because it’s a relatively new account. Check the post notes to see if anyone’s verified the account yet or wait a bit as it takes time. You likely can search around to see if anyone’s posted anything where the blog has been vetted by others. You may also see if the GoFundMe is referred to on other socials or on lists that compile verified and vetted fundraisers.

Please don’t let these scams deter you from sending support where it needs to go. Even if you can’t donate personally, there are other ways to help. If you are sending money, please make sure that it’s going to where it’s needed and the place it’s sent has been verified accordingly. If you find a blog is a scammer, and have been able to prove it, please make sure to alert anyone sharing the post and report the account.

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Some old Bluffclan drawings I was making.

Imagine the clans medic handing you your own ass literally.

Oddtuft had the keen eye skill, so she senses something V E R Y off with this one cat who keeps frequenting the borders and just looking at this cat gives her the willies.

Foxpaw is demented and we love him for it, he and Oddtuft had a high platonic like and I liked to think that Foxkit saw her as a big sister, that'd make him and Starlingstar the only cats who like Oddtuft in the whole clan sadly, as a paw I see him styling his fur to look like Oddtufts because he looks up to her.

Oddtuft became a medic because I imagined she was abut too fierce for battle, she's a absolute sweetheart, but girliepops be carrying ALOT of pent up anger.

But Bluffclan corrupted :( and I've tried coding in cats in another save but I really idk how to code cats in, I don't know where to look on the discord and when I click on the file I need to edit it opens up in a Internet browser and you can't edit it.

But I really really wanna do this run again!

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But 'where I come from' or what I've been through does not define me, and I am more than a just a by-product of everyones hatred and harm.

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Spreading

And Free blocklist in notes ;) you are welcome

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Wow Democat has really taken a turn for the worst hasn't he?

He has stopped seeing sense and has become Demoncat

(This is a coincidence due to being a sketch, but Demoncat is in)

As for this blog?

I have just given up, I have zero clue where it's going since I can not stick to one plan ever, I can't focus on one thing and my mind just does what it wants no matter what I want, me and my mind are the same thing but it never feels that way, me, my mind and body are just separate things.

Enough pointless ramble

I'll just draw whatever and if yall find interest in a charecter or series do not hesitate to ask the oc and we will go from there. I'm letting yall decide what you are interested in.

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If you are trans I need you to stay alive.

Stay alive for every other trans person fighting, stay alive for every trans person who is no longer here, and most importantly stay alive for yourself.

They don’t get to erase us! They don’t get to take away our rights, and treat us as less than human. Don’t let them erase us, and don’t let them make you a statistic. Don’t let them win.

Stay alive

If you won’t do it for yourself, then do it for others. Do it out of spite.

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Their brother has to lend them one of his brain cells on occasion.

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Ghost Writer is struggling.

He has decent concepts and can't decide what to work on. He loves all his charecters and wants what is best for them.