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My adaptation of the God of Arepo short story, which was originally up at ShortBox Comics Fair for charity. You can get a copy of the DRM-free ebook here for free - and I'd encourage you to donate to Mighty Writers or The Ministry of Stories in exchange.

Again it's an honour to be drawing one of my favourite short stories ever. Thank you so much for the original authors for creating this story; and for everyone who bought a copy and donated to the above non-profits.

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Some one peice Snapchat

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Is that BIRD SEED I see...

you wouldn't mind sharing, would you

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Bring attention to this campaign!

Hey, you there. Reblog this!!!!

Now that I have your attention:

Some of you may know that I was recently in Palestine.

While there, my resolve to do everything in my power to help only strengthened, and I came back wanting to check in on a few of the campaigns I had adopted. To my disappointment, a couple of them were frozen or reported, even though they had been tirelessly vetted and verified.

The worst part is that there are talks of a temporary ceasefire happening again, with the Rafah border crossing opening once more, and my friend Fidaa fears that after all of the hard work, she might not be able to get her two young children (a toddler and a baby) out. She is their sole provider right now.

So we have set up a temporary fundraiser for her on Chuffed, while we work to get her funds unsuspended (if we can). We have to act fast. Please know that two things are true: giving even a very small amount helps, and if you are unable to right now, spreading this campaign and getting more eyes on it helps.

The goal is $15,000 USD. We're starting this off at $285. Please help me get eyes on this.

You can also donate through Paypal directly. This would provide immediate access as well.

This campaign has been vetted here and here. I appreciate anyone who gives or helps this campaign get seen.

Thank you again for any help. Tagging for visibility:

@27moremoons @sivavakkiyar @tamamita @chexcastro @secretpremonition @aire1111 @gracelandmp3 @inyourcity @starsplitter @irangp @vilecrocodile @melimelu @lotus-tower @cygnettes @elliot @phobic-human @killy @golgothas-hymn @gabajoofs @death2germany

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A few of the more creative spellings of Christmas I’ve come across while looking for Dear Santa letters in old newspapers this year.

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If ever need an easy and tasty meal for less than 20 dollars(at least it was for me) , get yourself some salmon, lemon pepper, garlic powder, onion power, and rice. Saute the salmon after seasoning it, let it get well and done while your rice cooks either in a rice cooker and boiling. After both are done, mix the rice and salmon with a little teriyaki sauce, and there you go. It is pretty easy, and depending on how much you are, it will last you a couple of meals.

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The homesickness of liminal spaces

‘Hiraeth: a Welsh phrase for homesickness or yearning for a home to which you can not return, or for one that never existed in the first place. this phrase relates to liminal space with many of the images we relate to liminal space being artificial, a place that never existed in the first place, and the ones that are real are places that are no longer functional, old malls, deserted playgrounds, gas stations at night all places that used to have people in and on every day. People are the important thing in this equation, most places now as liminal spaces are used as familiar places devoid of people, bereft of life, devoid of what makes it familiar. The familiarity of a place one may have a memory in but have forgotten until seen again but in a new context.

Age affects all even places, with most just being kept up with and reworked to fit our ever-growing idea of sense. A mall in the early 2000s and a mall now are in different places even if it's the same mall. The website HowStuffWorks explains it better than I could and even goes into how COVID helps further this idea. Many real liminal spaces are places of transition or places in between where you're worn down by time and abandoned, losing the thing that makes them familiar, the livability of the space. Well-kept abandoned buildings from malls to gas stations in between modern and old school are the most common spaces that can give one a sense of nostalgia and yearning for what once was even if they had never been there before. its pace that we all have been but never paid much attention to until they were gone, it the mundane sense that was taken away from them that makes them liminal.

The internet has captured this greatly with artists and urban explorers alike posting pics or art of images that give one a since homesickness for the images and places, Unlocking memories that may never have been. Old Minecraft servers are a good example of this, I did not use online Minecraft a lot but a video by Cresendex on YouTube called (Liminal Space - the Fear of Forgetting) touches on his childhood memories and their relationship with liminal space. The video goes into how in exploring his old Minecraft servers he came upon many things that he had forgotten, explaining to the viewer what had been made for and how seeing it then without his old online friend made it feel wrong.

The way he explains the other liminal space in his video was very personal but relatable, I may not have been in Minecraft servers, but I do have an old computer that I found after looking into this topic and logging back into it was a trip to the past that I didn't know I needed. After opening it, I was met with an old screen saver, an old steam file,as well as my old youtube. The whiplash of it all was both nostalgic feeling but also a little unsettling on how this one device had saved a me I no longer recognized. The idea that this one device staying stagnant while I move on and grew up was one I had not thought of when putting away in storage, by accident I made myself a time capsule. It was and in between me now and then, a transition that happened without me noticing. That in between is what makes a liminal space like that what they are, we can tell what it was or what it should be but we don't know what happened to get it like there. The missing bit of information is what unsettles us, but also makes us long for it. It's the mermore that were there or that relate to it that make us crave these places or images. The homesickness for something that can never be again.

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Keep having to periodically go to the bathroom at my work because my hands are so cold and they have the air dryer for the hands and it only blows hot air and I just need the hot air on my hands or else they keep going numb

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What is Duolingo goes reminders for classes, like what does that even mean

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You ever think too hard about a fictional character and a fictional universe whether your own or someone else's and just feel dread sadness, love care, and so many emotions that you hardly feel in real life...no just me

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I just need to talk about this I have we have this one ladder that we use for everything around the house and we always just said it to the side of our yard and I swear every ducking time I touch that ladder I get like don't know if it's poison oak or poison ivy but it makes me itch so bad and I'm allergic to anything it's just the latter I've checked in the areas that we've left it there's no poison ivy there's no poisonous Oak it's just poisonous in itself or it hates me

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2018 was five years ago let that sink in