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I don't post enough about my comic here—the first volume of Vitalism is now up for sale on IndyPlanet!

There's both the standard spot color edition as well as a (less pricey) grayscale variant, and it's also available as a digital download!

You can find my site link in my bio, and from there you can find where to get a copy under the Store link if you're interested 💉

#webcomic #indie comic #indyplanet #horror comic #comicfury #webtoon #glitchcore #weirdcore #art #my art #my ocs #original content #rpg maker horror

transcockiness

able bodied people who follow me PLEASE READ THIS i am literally begging you

hey. y'all are wearing masks right? kn95s or n95s if they're available to you? indoors when you're in public? when you go to the grocery store? to the mall? to your crowded job? to the DOCTOR?

i'm immunocompromised, and it isn't safe for me to go out anymore. including to get medical care, but i don't have a choice. i have to do it anyways. and i'm one of the "lucky ones," who can go off my immunosuppressants if i have to, and "all" i'll deal with is an extremely painful very long pain flare that will render me severely dysfunctional for at least a month (as in, unable to turn a doorknob dysfunctional), to make it less likely (but still not impossible!) that i die from the infection. there are people with organ transplants, with other conditions that don't allow them to lessen their immunocompromised status. these people are dying because no one wants to put a piece of cloth on their face.

i live in a very liberal area and most people still do not mask. the pandemic isn't over. 1 in 10 infections lead to long COVID. they're starting to find that long COVID is a neurological disorder. do you realize what that means? for each infection you get, for each infection you spread to a disabled person because you refused to wear a mask because it's "inconvenient," there's a 10% chance you or they will become permanently, severely disabled. you could literally kill people. is it really worth it just to be able to "breathe a little easier?" if you have trouble breathing under a mask you should see a doctor if you can. you probably are high risk, too.

most of my followers here are trans. you all know how terrifying it is to have your government, the people around you cast you aside and care less if you get hurt, if you Die. that's what it's like for disabled people. you all know that what the government says means bullshit. the CDC doesn't give a fuck about disabled people, their guidelines leave us to drown. eugenics is normalized. i don't have to tell you how demoralizing it is to know that most people don't care if you're dead. please, please, please extend compassion to disabled people around you. because there ARE disabled people near you, it is the biggest minority that exists (other than women).

news articles will say it's safe to go out in public without a mask (which is false) and then in tiny lettering add "vulnerable populations should protect themselves." my pharmacy has a message that says "the CDC recommends avoiding vulnerable populations." so what about us? what are we supposed to do? masking doesn't protect you unless those around you mask. do we have to never leave our houses ever again so that we don't DIE? we all know how horrible lockdown was. i am very depressed day to day because i am stuck at home almost all of the time.

y'all love my writing, clearly. i hope you also care about me as a person, and people like me, enough to take a small, simple action that will literally save lives. i hope you can hear the desperation i feel through my words and that you decide you won't cast people like me's well-being aside, the way yours has been cast aside by others. because otherwise, disabled people's suffering and deaths are in Your hands. i am begging able-bodied people: WEAR A MASK.

do not argue with me about this. i will block you. able bodied ppl should rb if ur blog is 18+. idc if it doesn't fit the "aesthetic"

A U.S. study suggests 1 in 10 people are getting long COVID after an omicron infection, a lower estimate than earlier in the pandemic

#please start masking indoors again i am begging you

tosrcountdown

🌠 2 Days Left! 🌠

Last for today, artist Martin Wright graces us with even more of the powerful ninja, Sheena Fujibayashi! An agile fighter that uses the power of seals and summoning, she makes for one of the most important characters in Symphonia’s story!

martinwdoodles

And here’s piece Number 2!! 💜💜💜

I was thrilled to be a part of this countdown project, if for no other reason than it gave me a great excuse to draw my first proper illustration of my favourite ToS character.

I love Sheena, and I’m so happy with how she came out! 😊 I couldn’t tell you how many times I redrew literally any single part of this picture, lol. Her face in particular, and her big puffy ponytail were went though a ton of revisions right up until I finished. ^^;

I had a lot of fun drawing this and the other piece, so huge thank you to the organisers for allowing me to join in on this project! ✨✨

#friend art

ms-demeanor

IF YOU ARE PANICKING ABOUT THE OHIO TRAIN DERAILMENT AND CHEMICAL SPILL PLEASE READ THIS

A post describing the incident in a panicked tone has been circulating. That post makes some extremely overstated claims, including that a huge number of animals will die and that there is a media blackout of the story. This is is information that was made as an addendum to the post (OP saw the info and made it their pinned post after seeing the correction) and some people were looking for a way to share the updated info without having to share the triggering post. So, here's why you SHOULD NOT BE PANICKING about the Ohio train derailment and chemical spill:

Here is the New York Times reporting on this on February 4th.

Here are NBC and The Daily Beast reporting on this on February 5th.

Here are People Magazine, the Sacramento Bee, The Daily Beast again, CBS News, Reuters, and Reuters again reporting on this on February 6th.

Here is CNN reporting on it on February 7th.

The EPA response profile has been active and updating since February 4th.

I want to preface this by saying THIS IS NOT GOOD, and we shouldn't act like nothing is happening. This is bad. This is a serious environmental disaster. There are currently risks to humans and animals, and risks to humans and animals will be ongoing for quite some time at various levels.

However I think that "this will kill all the pets in the area and will lay a swathe of poison from Ohio to Mexico, burning the world between" is perhaps something of an overstatement and I'm aware that folks are upset about this but holy shit let's please try not to catastrophize the catastrophe.

The purpose of an intentional burn at the site was as a containment measure, because it is better to temporarily have extremely toxic chemical byproducts in an evacuated area than it is to allow an extremely carcinogenic chemical to slowly disperse.

There was a similar chemical spill in New Jersey in 2012 (still not a good thing! Not something that we should let go lightly!) and it did not result in "all pets dying" or a mass poisoning of rivers and streams.

Here is the DHHS Toxological Profile for Vinyl Chloride, a nearly 300-page document that goes over risk factors and harms caused by the chemical. Given the tone of the original post, here's what people probably want to see right now:

At the moment, there appears to be one man who claims that his pet fox died as a result of exposure to the vinyl chloride, and it sickened some of his other pets. There is some discussion of dead chickens and one dead hawk was found. Dead fish were found in some bodies of water, and the EPA is monitoring other bodies and has issued directives for dams and spillovers to collect chemical runoff to prevent as much downstream contamination as possible. At the moment, it is very difficult to say whether there will be a significant amount of acute animal deaths (wild or domesticated) as a result of this, though I would guess there will be a very significant increase of cancer in the area in the coming years.

One reporter at a press conference from the Ohio governor was arrested, he has been released and the AG's office is investigating his arrest. There are a lot of photos of the derailment and its consequences on social media and other news websites, and it does not appear that anyone is preventing people from taking or sharing photos of the disaster.

Look. I am not someone who thinks that you should blindly trust the government. There are huge issues here. This is a disaster that happened for a number of reasons, many of which are related to absolute shit regulation of chemical transportation and which were probably exacerbated by overworked railroad employees who got fucked over for the sake of the economy in December. There is bad shit here that is worthy of criticism, there are legitimate things to be concerned about.

But just because I don't trust the government doesn't mean I think it's a better idea to trust a shitpost account on twitter that provided "evidence" in the form of an instagram account posting screenshots of text messages from one guy who had a collection of exotic animals he wasn't able to retrieve from the evacuation area and a tiktok video.

There are definitely things to worry about with this, but please don't panic.

Also look, if the news is too miserable and you don't want to look at it too much but you want to at least pretend to stay informed, the Daily Beast's Cheat Sheet is a constant stream of paragraph-long reports on breaking news. Two of the stories I linked up above are from the Cheat Sheet. Just. Keep it open in a browser tab and check headlines once a day, okay? This has been news for an entire week, if People Magazine is doing human interest stories on it there isn't a media blackout please don't get your news from twitter or tumblr please I am begging you.

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If you see someone who is panicking or spiraling because of the original post, please consider linking them to this post.

valtsv

when a character says "please don't do this" and they're begging: 🥺

when a character says "please don't do this" as a warning:

By Pemi

Game Boy Color sewing machines – sewing machine control software in a GBC cart, GBC connects to machine via GBC link port

Source videos: [1] [2]

Side-by-side and historical overview: [1]

#WHAT #this is so fascinating

theinternetchola-deactivated202

in the shadows are we ever really alone?

#liminal spaces

kobikiyama

Terada House

Terada Hirate Sekkei

#this gives me anxiety lol #love it #liminal spaces

jules-hoard-of-stuff-deactivate

Hey. Don't fucking use Shutterstock.

So. I'm in deep shit because Shutterstock has no cancel plan button. Let me explain. Long story short, tried a free trial and tried to cancel after the free month was over. I called, they helped me cancel my account.

And then I got charged. Again.

So I call again. I think it gets cancelled again.

And then I get charged again. And I call again, get it cancelled. Repeat.

Keep in mind, I'm a fucking college student. I don't have much money to begin with. At all. My only money is for testosterone, groceries, and emergencies, and OCCASIONALLY one nice thing every like. 3 or 4 months.

So I email them, after continuously trying to get ahold of them for 8. Months.

And I get this.

Read that closer, folks.

They're charging me for the months worth of trying to cancel, thinking it was fine, and then trying to cancel again, only to be lied to.

Don't use this shit. I thought I was getting a free trials and then was gonna cancel, and instead I've had money charged every 3 months, and then told I have to pay 160 dollars for the shit I already paid for.

I know this ain't yelp but like. Fuck this bullshit.

jules-hoard-of-stuff-deactivate

IM FUCKING SORRY????

jules-hoard-of-stuff-deactivate

I tried to delete my payment method.

I am going. To explode.

foldingfittedsheets

This happened to me once and I literally just shut off my card. Is that an extreme response? Maybe. But it was easier than the bureaucracy.

zoobus

If you can, I think it would be worth sending a complaint to the FTC, especially as you have a lot of what they would ask for already. They might not be quick, but they're typically the regulators that do something about subscription fraud.

This release was updated at October 29, 2021 10:00AM to correct an earlier error.

It might not immediately resolve your issue, but it might help stop them from robbing others in the future

headspace-hotel

Yeah all of this seems super illegal

hypermega-bummerboy

Hey, just so you know, if any company pulls something like this, you can go to your bank and have them issue a stop payment. That will block any future chargers.

I had to do that with my mom a couple of times after she subscribed to home delivery of some snake oil that they wouldn't cancel. Remember, you are your bank's customer and they will generally try to help with issues like this.

#lot of this shit going around lately

natalieironside

Imo the most important thing a writer (or any artist) can be is earnest. You can have no technical skill whatsoever and write a complete stinker and you'll still have a story some readers will fall in love with, so long as they can tell you really meant it and really gave it a shot. Everything else is artifice.