Shooting the Moon

Audie/Audace/Aurum, she/they. Mid 30s. White, Disabled, Chronically ill, Plural. NO MINORS. I am not kid friendly. Artist, writer, crafter, and whatever else pays the bills. Fuck ICE. Free Palestine. Protect trans kids. Sex work is work. My links + socials: AO3: audacenoire Support Me + My Work: venmo: @audacenoire cashapp: $audacenoire My Wish List: https://throne.com/audacityinblack My shop fronts: https://ko-fi.com/audacenoire https://audiesoddities.etsy.com

[audacityinblack]

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Happy PRIDE Month!🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

As most of y'all already know, I've been trying to move out of my deteriorating housing situation to be closer to my family. I'm a queer disabled enby living in the Deep South and my family is my only support, but as of now they live an hour away. Without them, my mental and physical health have also been deteriorating.

Over the past two months, my financial state has been so dire that I've had to dig into my moving savings to be able to feed myself. I've had to take out a total of $300 and I really don't want to have to do that any more, so I'm also going to be raising regular survival funds. I've got the paperwork in to put me on the waiting list, but I need to make sure I have the money on hand for the initial rent deposit, security deposit, U-Haul fees, and any other expenses I may have to deal with. At the moment it's looking like I'll need to replace my mattress. I have most of what I need, but I need to replace what I took out as soon as possible.

I make and sell handmade jewelry on my Etsy shop, including custom items. I plan on having some Pride themed items in stock this month.

GOALS:

Moving $300 Everything Else $500

PAY LINKS k: https://ko-fi.com/audacenoire p: https://paypal.me/audacenoire c: https://cash.app/audacenoire v: https://venmo.com/audacenoire

ETSY SHOP: https://audiesoddities.etsy.com/

[audacityinblack]

Received a $50 donation this morning! Thank you!

[audacityinblack]

Thank you so much to the person who bought the three pairs of earrings!

[audacityinblack]

Current Goal Status: Moving $40 / $300 Everything Else $50 / $500

[cheaphalloweencostume]

“be gay do crime! but sex is yucky and crime is wrong!” ass website

[cheaphalloweencostume]

okay, we managed to get through the “you can be gay and not have sex” part, and im feeling charitable and i wanna talk about the “do crime” part

so many responses of “its nice that you’re privileged enough to be able to steal from Target willy nilly!” and that’s not at all what this is about. like, yeah, shoplifting and loitering and graffiti and breaking the rules is, obviously, part of “do crime”. but they’re not parts you have to do.

would you help someone get an abortion where it was illegal?

would you help a trans friend get healthcare that had been criminalized?

would you shelter someone fleeing persecution, even if the law said not to?

would you help a gay couple stay together when the state decided their relationship was unlawful?

would you report someone else for breaking the law? will you snitch on your hungry neighbors for stealing food? on your homeless neighbors for sleeping where they’re able?

would you break laws to protect someone you love? a community you love? yourself?

you can and you should

[wheelie-sick]

I think there is an inherent injustice in expelling students (particularly minors) from school.

like.

you misbehaved and instead of addressing the underlying issues driving your behavior we are removing your access to education (and therefore cutting you off from a large percentage of possibilities for your future) unless you have parents that are competent at homeschooling, parents with enough money and willingness to send you to private school, or parents willing and able to move to another school district. sucks to suck.

and we all know that the students most likely to misbehave in school are also most likely to be disadvantaged and/or have abusive/neglectful parents. these kids are the least likely to be able to be adequately homeschooled, sent to private school, or moved to another school district. even when these things do happen they don't solve the underlying struggles leading to the behavior.

behavior doesn't happen without cause. you can't solve misbehavior with punishment. setting someone up for failure in life by cutting them off from possibilities for their future is cruel.

[redstonedust]

idk how to explain it but im never truly comfortable with the way people insinuate that all older folks are inherently bigoted. it always feels like it kind of hand-waves away personal responsibility like ohhhh grandpa cant help homophobic, hes old. well ive met plenty of older folks who are normal about gay people. i think grandpa could be better. i think we should hold grandpa to higher standards.

[thatgirlonstage]

Please don’t let fandom ruin something you love. Walk away and unfollow the fans and enjoy the thing by yourself, or find a limited circle of people who ignore the discourse, or get your irl friends into the thing and collectively ignore the Internet community, or blacklist from here to the moon if you need to and only ever scroll through your rarepair ship’s tag on AO3. But don’t let fandom distort a show or a movie or a book or a comic you used to love so badly that you can’t enjoy the original anymore. Please. It isn’t worth it.

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge!

X

[serecenhawke]

Regrets of an almost kiss

[audacityinblack]

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Happy PRIDE Month!🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

As most of y'all already know, I've been trying to move out of my deteriorating housing situation to be closer to my family. I'm a queer disabled enby living in the Deep South and my family is my only support, but as of now they live an hour away. Without them, my mental and physical health have also been deteriorating.

Over the past two months, my financial state has been so dire that I've had to dig into my moving savings to be able to feed myself. I've had to take out a total of $300 and I really don't want to have to do that any more, so I'm also going to be raising regular survival funds. I've got the paperwork in to put me on the waiting list, but I need to make sure I have the money on hand for the initial rent deposit, security deposit, U-Haul fees, and any other expenses I may have to deal with. At the moment it's looking like I'll need to replace my mattress. I have most of what I need, but I need to replace what I took out as soon as possible.

I make and sell handmade jewelry on my Etsy shop, including custom items. I plan on having some Pride themed items in stock this month.

GOALS:

Moving $300 Everything Else $500

PAY LINKS k: https://ko-fi.com/audacenoire p: https://paypal.me/audacenoire c: https://cash.app/audacenoire v: https://venmo.com/audacenoire

ETSY SHOP: https://audiesoddities.etsy.com/

[audacityinblack]

Received a $50 donation this morning! Thank you!

[audacityinblack]

Thank you so much to the person who bought the three pairs of earrings!

[audacityinblack]

Current Goal Status: Moving $40 / $300 Everything Else $50 / $500

[audacityinblack]

New beads for Pride themed projects. 🌈💕

[audacityinblack]

I just made my first in-person sale.

[makingqueerhistory]

We could really use some patrons/one-time-donations right now!

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

[yourunderwaterskies]

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

[aloeverawrites]

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Humanity in War

Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,

Kaya

Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu

[audacityinblack]

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Happy PRIDE Month!🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

As most of y'all already know, I've been trying to move out of my deteriorating housing situation to be closer to my family. I'm a queer disabled enby living in the Deep South and my family is my only support, but as of now they live an hour away. Without them, my mental and physical health have also been deteriorating.

Over the past two months, my financial state has been so dire that I've had to dig into my moving savings to be able to feed myself. I've had to take out a total of $300 and I really don't want to have to do that any more, so I'm also going to be raising regular survival funds. I've got the paperwork in to put me on the waiting list, but I need to make sure I have the money on hand for the initial rent deposit, security deposit, U-Haul fees, and any other expenses I may have to deal with. At the moment it's looking like I'll need to replace my mattress. I have most of what I need, but I need to replace what I took out as soon as possible.

I make and sell handmade jewelry on my Etsy shop, including custom items. I plan on having some Pride themed items in stock this month.

GOALS:

Moving $300 Everything Else $500

PAY LINKS k: https://ko-fi.com/audacenoire p: https://paypal.me/audacenoire c: https://cash.app/audacenoire v: https://venmo.com/audacenoire

ETSY SHOP: https://audiesoddities.etsy.com/

[audacityinblack]

Received a $50 donation this morning! Thank you!

[audacityinblack]

Thank you so much to the person who bought the three pairs of earrings!

[audacityinblack]

Current Goal Status: Moving $40 / $300 Everything Else $50 / $500

[snitchanon]

"You know that thing would eat you if you died, right?" I say, pointing at your potted fern.

[whitewolf-the-unforgiven]

Pookie.

[sky3sth3l1m1t]

Ah yes, a content label on an image with just my face, on trans day of visibility tumblr? You’re gonna be transmisongynistic on any day? Our censorship is why there’s no safe space for trans women on the internet do better tumblr

[eye0ewe]

no for real what the actual fuck @staff explain yourselves. now.

[audacityinblack]

I just bought a bunch of sick beads I'm gonna use in some Pride themed pieces this month. Stay tuned!

[kuchipachi]

white flag by lucia gallipoli

[dogwoodbite]

[ID: a white lace curtain with the words "I DIDN'T ASK TO BE BORN / BUT I CERTAINLY DIDN'T / ASK TO DIE / EXCEPT FOR WHEN I DID / AND I THANK GOD / HE NEVER LISTENS" added with white interfacing just above a flower motif border /End ID]