theicekat

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https://gofund.me/d70f515c

This is my current big and most important project! We need funds to help bring my wife permanently to Canada, starting wtih $1290 to put in the spousal immigration paperwork. Every penny adds up, so please share and donate if you can. It's been far too long apart, and things don't look great in the US for people like us.

Please help if you can. We just want to be together again.

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It's my go-to

The Addams Family

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Saving for myself!

been working on this little site of links to (mostly historical-ish) transgender docos, books, magazines etc to go with my new trans history instagram if anyone else loves transexual links enjoy!! 💖🏳️‍⚧️ u can have a transgender movie marathon without having to go to 20 random websites to hunt them down

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Notes to self, but also yes!

Oddly specific kinds of fanart I am ALWAYS a slut for

1. Stained glass window/church murals of characters

2. In-universe magazine covers

3. Redraws of scenes from canon in the style of a real Netflix show or video game

4. Drawing characters with way cooler outfits than they have in canon for the sake of cool outfits

5. Character design breaking down each layer and piece of a character's outfit

6. Mimicking historical art styles (e.g. vintage posters, Victorian portraits)

7. Sprawling landscape paintings of the setting that you can barely even tell is fanart because its just a beautiful landscape

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Beautiful cats!

Art by Juan Ruiz

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Saving for myself!

btw I’ve found these stretches from the WAK blog very helpful when knitting a lot:

Plus make sure to take breaks regularly - and stop if anything starts to hurt!

especially with gift knitting I know it can be tempting to push through it for a deadline, but it’s really not worth causing long term injury. (And anyone knit-worthy should be understanding of that, imho.) Stay well :)

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I'm obsessed with carousels! We visited the Herschell museum back in the 90s, and it was amazing!

Non-horses of “Art of the Carousel” by Charlotte Dinger and William Manns

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I have nothing to add at the moment. <3

“Hamas shouldn’t have attacked”

🙃

The Israeli genocide of Palestinians has been ongoing for 70 years.

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This is so visceral. I've walked in corn monoculture fields and it's creepy as fuck, even in midday. I bolted for safety and a leaf cut across my throat just enough to be scary. I did not return to the corn field. Thanks for the warning.

Wheat fields are more mystical than fields of other crops. You are 7,000 times more likely to meet an old god or see a portent of doom in a wheat field than in a field of like… soybeans.

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Good to know.

Huge thank you to Squarespace for fucking automatically opting peoples' websites in to let AI train on our site's data without letting us know. Real cool.

ARTISTS WHO USE SQUARESPACE, HERE'S HOW TO DISABLE AI CRAWLERS ON YOUR SITE!!

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I feel this to the core. It's hard. And I'm still here.

Ya know when people told me "when you're finally safe enough that you can leave survival mode and start to let go of and process your c-ptsd/trauma things are probably going to get really, really bad before they slowly start to get better" I thought that was reasonable. I did not understand that by "things are going to get bad" they meant "you're going to find yourself in the worst mental state of your entire life, but dw, that means it's working" and tbh I simply wish someone had been more clear.

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Pixie vibes. lol She doesn't know how to make sad eyes quite like that though.

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This is the catest bird ever.

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This tracks.

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Yeah... I will not use AI for my art or writing, thanks.

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Looking forward to this!

Guess what? A whole group of subscription authors have gotten together to bring you a LGBTQIA Valentines Day surprise 😘

All you have to do to access it FREE is follow me here: https://reamstories.com/lupercalia or follow any of the authors involved before Feb 14th. Full list of authors to be posted soon!

And on February 14th you will get the link to download the anthology.

That's it - pretty sweet huh, or is it pretty spicy?? (Hint: Our story is pretty spicy as Poet and Campbell share their first Valentines Day together with a little spanking!)

[theicekat]

Adopting a gratitude practice and mindset saved my life. It wasn't fast, but it slowly helped change my perspective to looking for the good things, and it pulled me out of depression enough that I was then able to seek help. Your mileage may vary.

Positivity is literally my 34th strength on a list of 34, so this doesn't come easy. It's work. Some days it's really hard work.

Today, I am grateful to have lived through my stroke last year. I'm grateful for family and friends. I'm grateful for Pixie, my best little buddy. Im grateful that THS made it affordable to get Pasha and Purrsy fixed so I can keep them in our furrever family. I'm grateful for all I have, even if it isn't perfect. I'm in a position now to work myself up from this baseline, and I am. Slowly but surely.

Happy holidays, whatever you celebrate!

This Yule, I'm celebrating the return of the light in so many ways.

(Image passed around Facebook, I don't know the originator.)