My name is Wes. I’m a ftm trans teen with severe anxiety, depression, and PTSD. I currently am homeless and have been living with my mom and her husband in a motel for the past couple months. My mom is working a job that just doesn’t quite pay enough. Her husband just lost his fast food job because he needs knee replacements and couldn’t stand for as long as they needed him to. I couldn’t hold a job previously because of my mental health.
My younger siblings, a teen sister and a toddler brother, are currently in foster care because it’s illegal to be homeless with young children. We’re running out of time before they revoke parental rights.
I currently have infection in my back teeth on both sides and need mental help and physical help as well. If we can make it another month I can get treatment.
This past Saturday I returned my emotional support dog to my friend who bred him. He’s young so she said he’ll be fine but he’ll never forget me. I gave him up because he was getting sick and depressed at the motel. Even though I no longer have that resource that I really needed I’m going to do everything I can to make him proud and continue working to help find a home for my family.
At the moment that I’m posting this (October 30th 2019, 1:30am EST), my bank is $150 in the negative and we have to pay a night or check out of the motel in 9 hours. We have to have $210 to fix it and pay a night
If we could make it one more month, I’m certain we won’t need to ask for help anymore. A month is about $1200, which covers utilities and housing. So please. Help us get there. I won’t ask for a penny more.
The longer I manage to keep my beloved dog Whipit the more we’re all seeing how bad he’s getting. He’s an old dog with a high likeliness of brain tumors so it makes sense. He flips between being himself and really aggressive. He loves us and he’s usually a really good dog. But when he gets aggressive it’s like he doesn’t know where he is or what he’s doing.
After talking it out we’ve come to the the agreement that we need to have him put down. Due to his aggression no-kill shelters will not take him and since he’s an old aggressive dog he wouldn’t get adopted if we took him to the shelter. He would sit on death row in a depressing metal room until the day they put him down anyways. At least if we have him put down we know he didn’t suffer his last little bit and we can give him a final goodbye.
It’s going to be $300 to have him euthanized and cremated. If you can help I’ll draw whatever you want. I don’t want him to suffer and I don’t want him to hurt anybody.
ok please note i had no idea what i was doing for any of this and theres probably a much better way to construct a base BUT this is what…. ended up happening
the vague shape of it is getting there … . .
needs more bands
MORE BANDS
becoming a flat onion
the top is removed so i can get inside of it
… and then a band of cardboard is placed on the inside to support it ( its standing !! )
the bands are cut on the places where they jut out and then overlapped and taped, so the shape is smoother but its STILL an onion
so i cut the whole damn thing in half and added a big band of cardboard in the middle to lengthen it out. the Orb is being born
its rounded out a little bit more on the sides and then the mouth is cut out
FABRIC
F A B R I C ( this is the point in the game where my gluegun stopped working, and so everything from this point on is glued by me heating the sticks over a candle flame. nice
the seams on the fabric are cut and glued into place ( and hand stitched in a lotta places and a lot of em look, Really bad in the back h hah HA ) and the teeth ( fleece, cardboard to keep em flat, and a little bit of stuffing ) are thrown in the mouth
tongue cuttin
handstitched the seams on the tongue, got the base for it ready and the eyes cut out
the EYES ( cardboard with white on one side, black on the other, and a little thin strip of black going along the edge ) ( also the pupils arent glued down yet hey )
EYES
TONGUE
THERE THEY ARE
tulle time, so much goddamn tulle
SO much of it just everywhere on the back its a mess, the back looks like an awful grape but it doesnt matter its the BACK
heres the Looking Hole ( theres black mesh netting over the top ) - the little pink eye details are also in
and then here it is, this Mess ( tights and boots both are probably gonna change but Oh Well ) i dont know what the tongue was doing so crooked in these shots but its TOO LATE
UPDATE: THERES actually a video of it in motion heyooo