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Sometimes a creative outlet is a fun little hobby and sometimes it's a lifelong affliction. Like I crochet because making little woven animals sparks joy and I'm a writer whether I like it or not because I'm tormented by visions

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I know I haven’t been here for a while, but I have a friend in a dire situation and she really needs help getting her partner’s family from Venezuela to the US—if anyone can donate to her gofundme, we’d really appreciate it! https://gofund.me/44de21d7

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do it weird do it scared do it shy do it anxious do it lonely do it cautious do it with shaking hands. but do it.

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See also, "We're in a drought; conserve water!" Meanwhile, bottled water companies and golf courses for rich folk empty the aquifers.

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the real danger of spending too much time with friends is you stumble out of ten days of happiness and good food like oh my god THAT was real life. my job means NOTHING

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Watched a great talk today about web/technology accessibility, and the speaker pointed out that yes, accessibility is important for people with permanent disabilities, and we should definitely care about that. But also accessibility helps EVERYBODY, because everybody will, at some point in their lives, find themselves in situations that accessible technology can help with. Here are permanent, temporary, and situational disabilities that accessible technology can help with:

Remember that whether something is disabling or not depends on the situation, the environment, the technology, etc. We’re ALL disabled at some point. It is important to support permanently disabled people, but it is also important to remember that accessibility helps us all!

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“Must have reliable transportation” = “this is how we legally discriminate against poor people who take the bus”

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During the most poor and homeless period of my life, I had a lot of people get angry with me because I spent $25 on Bath and Body Works candles during a sale. They couldn’t comprehend why the hell I would do that when I had been fighting for months to try and get us on our feet, afford food, and have an apartment to live in.

Those candles were placed beside wherever I slept that night. In the morning, I would move them and set them wherever I’d have to hang out. At one point I carried one around in my purse - one of those big honking 3-wick candles. I never lit them, but I’d open them and smell them a lot.

I credit that purchase with a lot of my drive that got me to where I am today. I had been working tirelessly, 15+ hour days with barely any reward, constantly on the phone or trying to deal with organizations and associations to “get help at”. It’d gone on for almost a year by the end of it, and I was so burnt out, to the point that I would shake 24/7. But I could get a bit of relief from my 3-wick “upper middle class lifestyle” candles. They represented my future goals, my home I wanted to decorate, and how I would one day not be in this mess anymore.

When we moved into the apartment, and our financial status improved, I burned those candles every single day. When they were empty, I cleaned them out, stuck labels on them, and they became the starting point of my really cute organization system I had ALWAYS planned to have.

So whenever I hear about someone very poor getting themselves a treat - maybe it’s Starbucks, maybe it’s a home deco item, maybe it’s a video game… I don’t judge them. I get it. I get that you can’t go without anything for that long without it making you go crazy. You need to pull some joy, inspiration, and motivation from somewhere.

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HELP! Let people know WE STILL EXIST!

Hey everyone, wondering if you guys can do us a favor. Youtube algorithm has screwed us over along with the fact that we haven't had many ways to promote our stuff. We neglected Equestria Daily and just informed them of the short and the fact that we've been back for a while.

But we are constantly getting comments like "I haven't seen an update from you guys in years!" despite the fact that we have been updating.

And we just saw a pony channel with 19k subs and 45 videos get a premier with over 1k viewers, meanwhile we have 44k subs and 216 videos and our premiers get up to around 50 viewers at most.

We're really trying to put out more content so the algorithm stops ignoring us but it's barely working.

So if folks could make an effort to let people know we're still here and we're close to releasing our first season finale and have a whole new season planned out and in production, it would really be appreciated! Any way you could think of like posting our videos, talking about recent episodes, letting servers and friends know we're still here...

It would really mean a lot to us to get people back.

Our YouTube channel is https://youtube.com/@ponieswithpockets

As a bonus you can let them know we have a discord fan server as well: https://discord.gg/BCVP58hdxQ

Please help us re-grow our little fanbase! We're sure a lot of people miss us and don't even realize we're not gone!

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Raised: $0

Trying to raise money for an important move so I can finally have my own room and more space for our things and just a better all place to be.

I will finally dub the rest of Lovestruck Derpy if I get enough donations to help with the move!

Anything that reaches the recording stage will be made eventually, but the edit and video goals will become a focus to get it done ASAP and then reaching 100% will get it released as soon as it can be.

Costs this should cover:

-Application Fee

-Deposit

-Rent for 2 apartments for the moving month

-Movers

-Moving our storage stuff

-Any fees for wear and tear on the old apartment

-Making our income look better

-Getting a new bed

To Donate:

Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/jitterbugjive

Paypal donate link is found on Lovestruck-Derpy's blog page on browser.

If you can't donate, a reblog for signal boosting would be appreciated!

I will have more fundraiser goals on my mod blog @jitterbugjive later

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Go Ghost for 6 Months and do These Things.

1. Social Media Detox

- Cut off toxic people

- Unfollow people who don't add any value to your life.

2. Prioritize Your Health

-Eat clean

- Get in shape

- Develop good habits

- Fix your sleep schedule

- No partying/drinking

3. Expand Your Knowledge

- Watch Informational YT videos

- Read Books

- Take notes

4. Take Action

- Start some side hustle

- Start an online business

- Take you social medias seriously

- Track your progess

- Stay consistent

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"This reads like a 20k post" is just casting a spell on said post

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That time of the month again where I need some extra money for bills and food, plus I'm hoping I can save up for an upcoming convention! Please consider getting a commission from me!

Also note that I have a new commission type open called Pose Sheets which are torso up avatars you can get for youtube videos and games or whatever else you can think of. You can find details in the information section of my commission sheet.

Commission info found here: https://jitterbugjive.tumblr.com/post/171478773489/forgive-the-balddumborat-title-thats-my-fa

Note: Slots are per person, not per commission, so if you buy a slot you can get more than one commission. I don’t really have a limit for how many someone can get, just as long as they are aware it will take time to get it all done.

Please email me at jitterbugcommissions@gmail.com to get a slot!

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This made my heart crack open and melt 😭❤️

Today's update was drawn by me, JitterbugJive

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Time to feed unprofessional managers what they’ve been dishing out for far too long.