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Commissions Open!

~ We can only accept money through Ko-Fi (Paypal) currently, although feel free to reach out/ask questions about whether through asks/dms, asks would be answered privately ~

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Art Examples ::

> Do backgrounds for an extra cost as not used to them yet!

~ Can also just give $5+ for support which helps for supplies! (ie; markers) We may draw a little doodle for supporters <3 ~

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Prices / Options ::

> We do characters/backgrounds/ect. (NO NSFW!)

Traditional drawings :

Pencil Drawing - $7.50 | Markers/ Colored - $25

|| Special- "Full Page" - $50

|| Physical items; (8x10'') Painting - $50 +$10 for shipping

Digital Drawings :

Sketch/Uncolored - $12 | Colored - $20 | Full render - $25

>> Pet portraits $10-20 (Digital or Traditional)

-- Pet portraits not physically recieved if traditionally. Only paintings (which can be animals) are shipped /info --

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PSA: never discuss private affairs in your DMs, especially contraception and abortion. Social media moguls will absolutely sell you out to the government. There are already cases of people being charged based on evidence in their DMs.

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"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????

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folks in the U.S it comes to no surprise that 17 states are filing to drop Section 504. What's Section 504?

Section 504 protects against DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION in schools, workplaces, and as of May '24, includes gender dysphoria as a potential disability.

The ADA protects this but there are 17 states that are tryna to scratch this from effect.

please, please.

Call your representatives. Flood their phone box. Specifically, call your State Attorney General.

This person does a better breakdown but please.

We cannot lose the Disability protections, especially when we have so few.

If you aren't in these states, spread the news like wildfire.

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it’s small joys saturday y’all let’s get it

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Scoliosis gang rise up..!

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Opened commissions!!

Fullbody/Halfbody/Headahots don't affect prices, just specify what you'd like! <3

(Ko-Fi account; Can only accept Pay-Pal)

Examples of some of my art:

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People will say things like what's the point of working to fix our infrastructure, real meaningful change won't be fully achieved within my lifetime. Like don't you want a better world for the next generation, don't you want the youth to not have to suffer like you have?

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An illegal toxic dump site in Croatia, the theft of water from a major aquifer in southern Spain, illegal trading of ozone-depleting refrigerants in France: This is just a sampling of the environmental crimes that European countries are struggling to stop. The lack of accountability for these acts stems in part from the European Union’s legal code, which experts say is riddled with vague definitions and gaps in enforcement. That’s about to change. 

Last week, EU lawmakers voted in a new directive that criminalizes cases of environmental damage “comparable to ecocide,” a term broadly defined as the severe, widespread, and long-term destruction of the natural world. Advocates called the move “revolutionary,” both because it sets strict penalties for violators, including up to a decade in jail, and because it marks the first time that an international body has created a legal pathway for the prosecution of ecocide.

“This decision marks the end of impunity for environmental criminals and could usher in a new age of environmental litigation in Europe,” wrote Marie Toussaint, a French lawyer and EU parliamentarian for the Greens/European Free Alliance group, on X...

The new directive uses the term “ecocide” in its preamble, but does not criminalize the act by laying out a legal definition (the most widely accepted definition of ecocide was developed by an international panel of experts in 2021). Instead, it works by providing a list of “qualified offenses,” or crimes that fall within its purview. These include pollution from ships, the introduction of invasive species, and ozone depletion...

The new law holds people liable for environmental destruction if they acted with knowledge of the damage their actions would cause. This aspect of the law is important, experts said, because it means that a permit is no longer enough for a company to avoid culpability.  

“If new information shows that behavior is causing irreversible damage to health and nature – you will have to stop,” a member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands, Antonius Manders, told Euronews. 

Advocates like Mehta hope that the EU’s move will have influence beyond Europe’s borders. The principal goal of the Stop Ecocide campaign is for the International Criminal Court to designate ecocide as the fifth international crime that it prosecutes, after crimes against humanity, war crimes, crimes of aggression, and genocide. At the moment, environmental destruction can only be prosecuted as a war crime at the ICC, and limitations in the law make this extremely difficult to do...

Kate Mackintosh, the executive director of the Netherlands-based UCLA Law Promise Institute Europe, told Grist that the ICC is unlikely to adopt an ecocide law if other countries do not do so first. 

“It’s not something you can just pull out of thin air,” she said, adding that any international legal doctrine has to have a precedent on the national level. “That’s the way states are going to accept it.”

The EU’s 27 member states will have two years to adapt the new legislation into their penal codes. Afterwards, their implementation must be reviewed and updated at least once every five years using a “risk-analysis based approach,” to account for advancements in experts’ understanding of what might constitute an environmental crime. Mehta said that despite its omission of some important offenses, the law sets an important example for other countries. Several days before the EU vote, Belgium adapted its criminal code to include the directive, making it the first country in Europe to recognize ecocide as a crime.

The ruling “shows leadership and compassion,” Mehta said. “It will establish a clear moral as well as legal ‘red line’, creating an essential steer for European industry leaders and policy-makers going forward.”

-via Grist, March 6, 2024

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A guide to designing wheelchair using characters!

I hope this helps anyone who's trying to design their oc using a wheelchair, it's not a complete guide but I tried my best! deffo do more research if you're writing them as a character

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part of why i recognize little to no difference between so-called "recreational" vs "medical" drug use is because i recognize stress as a medical issue. mind-body dualism has us all convinced that stress is an ephemeral emotion that doesn't affect our bodies, but like daily stress, particularly if you're also disabled in some way, just Will Kill You. it can destroy your organs, overclock your brain, weaken your immune system... the effects of prolonged and consistent stress are underresearched (because then we'd have to question how we allocate labor. lmao), but they're there. if you use weed every day for no reason other than you need to force yourself to relax chemically so you can have fun and take your mind off stress, that is indistinguishable from medical use to me, having discarded mind-body dualism.

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The other day I told a friend of mine that I never forget to take my ADHD meds because I fucking love my ADHD meds. I'm in my late 30s, I didn't finally get a diagnosis and meds until less than two years ago, and they have changed my entire life.

And he raised his eyebrow at me. We'd been discussing addictive medications a few minutes before, like the Tramadol I finally got from the pain specialist to take once a week or so to give me a break from my chronic pain, so I reassured him that methylpenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) is not addictive (at least not in people with ADHD).

His response? To raise his eyebrow even harder and say "Well it sure SOUNDS like it's addictive!"

And I had to explain to this man - who works in a healthcare related job by the way - that just because medication makes you feel good and helps you, just because you look forward to taking it, that doesn't make it addictive or dangerous. And he wasn't convinced.

The simple fact that I was excited to take a daily pill that has literally changed my life, after decades of fighting to get that medication, made him think I shouldn't be taking it so often. That it must inherently be dangerous.

I'm not even in America, but I'm pretty sure this attitude began there and then spread over here to Europe. This Puritan idea of "if something feels good, you must beware of it. Pleasure is dangerous, it is sinful, it is addiction, it is evil."

I know too many people who subconsciously believe that pleasure = addictive = dangerous = bad. Joy is a slippery slope to hell.

So here is your reminder for today that you don't need to be afraid of feeling good. If something improves your life, use it. Even if it is addictive - learn what that addiction means, whether the addiction is inherently dangerous or not, and whether the benefits outweigh the drawbacks and risks.

My ADHD meds are, in fact, not addictive. But I will take them every day because they make my life orders of magnitude easier. I will enjoy them every time I take them.

My tramadol is addictive. I will still take it. I will keep it on a schedule to avoid becoming addicted, primarily because addiction in this case would mean reduced effectiveness. But I am not afraid of my painkillers. They are life changing.

Take your meds, everyone. Don't let anyone scare you away from doing something that improves your life.

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Love is not a reward for being good. You don't need to stay perfect without making any mistakes for someone to love you.

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with rare disease day coming up, i want to say a little about some of the obstacles that i have faced specifically because of the rareness of my disease. i am the 64th case in recorded medicine of my condition.

i do not feel safe naming my condition publicly due to its rarity. as in, this is my most well-documented disability, meaning that it appears on all my medical paperwork and my disability paperwork. my employers all know about it, and how rare it is. my mom tells everyone who will listen about my condition. i've had to tell pretty much every medical professional i interact with all about it. for that reason, if i were to name it online, anyone who rode in a lyft with my mom, or any pharmacy tech who's ever processed even unrelated meds, or my irl former boss, would immediately know it was me. i don't have any privacy about my condition irl. i'm visibly disabled, and it is very hard for me to avoid the kinds of assumptions that people make about my body.

i have to be an ambassador for my condition to every doctor i meet. they look at my chart, and ask me what that name means. i have to explain what it is, how it works, what the impact is on my life, what causes it, and what the treatments are. this includes with specialists in the organ system it effects, because...

because there are no specialists in my condition! there is a specific research hospital that has treated some patients with my condition, but even the doctors who treated me there were actually specialists in a totally different disease! i was actually nearly turned away from their clinic because my tests were negative for their actual specialty, and my mom and i had to repeatedly explain that no we weren't there for that, we were there for one specific doctor that had done some research ten years ago on a condition that nobody else in the hospital had even heard of before. again, being an ambassador for my condition that i was hospitalized for, on the verge of dying from it

insurance. my condition does not have an insurance code. insurance codes are used to approve treatments for each disease. for example, if you have the code for iron deficiency anemia written in your chart, then you can get approved for iron infusions. but there isn't a code for my condition. so when i became iron deficient due to complications of my condition, they couldn't approve me for infusions until my iron deficiency became severe enough that it could be diagnosed as full blown anemia. they basically had to list one of my complications as its own condition in my chart, because at least that had an insurance code, to get me in to see any doctors at all.

medications. medications in the USA, where i live, are protected by patent and developed to be shared on the free market. that means that if you don't have enough "consumers" for your medication, there's no demand, and therefore no motive to sell it. when a medication was developed for my condition, that improved QOL and helped slow progression, it was never even submitted to the FDA, because there was no demand. this means that not only is this medication not listed as covered by literally any insurance company, but it is not produced commercially. i have to order a thirty day supply from a "compounding pharmacy" where they make the medication custom for each order, and then ship it to me every month. i have to pay out of pocket for it every single month.

being a specimen. frankly this part doesn't bother me, because if i can contribute to research, then hopefully other people won't have to suffer from it like i have, but part of my treatment has always been participation in research. i make living tissue donations, where whenever biopsies are taken to check progression/if my meds are working, i donate extra to be used for research purposes. when i die, i plan to donate my body to the specific research team that wrote the one paper on my condition that exists. but there's not much research on my condition at all. when i met with the research team, they gave me a ton of materials for the more common condition that i do not have. i'm worried that when my current doctors retire or move on, nobody will continue the research, and my condition will remain difficult to treat and mysterious to medicine.

i have a condition that i will never see in a positivity post. i have never met another person with my condition, and i don't ever expect to. there are no support groups for people with my condition, no discord servers, no facebook pages. but i'm not in this alone. there are lots of people who also have "case study level" illnesses (illnesses that aren't common enough to do larger scale research on). and hopefully with healthcare reform and disability activism, we can lift each other up.

other people with rare diseases, i love you!

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i always mean it when i say i love you btw