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Snake, two ways. Watercolor and digital. For sale on Redbubble here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/brainmurk/works/25423302-amethyst-snake?asc=u&p=t-shirt&ref=artist_shop_grid&style=mens

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Snake, two ways. Watercolor and digital. For sale on Redbubble here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/brainmurk/works/25423302-amethyst-snake?asc=u&p=t-shirt&ref=artist_shop_grid&style=mens

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Help Me Confront My Stalker

My name is Andrea and I am a freelance artist from western North Carolina.

I have been sharing my artistic vision online since I was a young girl. When I was in my mid teens I had the unfortunate circumstance to meet a woman via an art / fan website for popular cartoon TV shows and movies by the name of “Kimberleigh”. This woman was taking the artwork of other people and claiming it as her own, and was banned from this website. She spent a few years “following” the artists from that site that were instrumental in her being found out. I was one those people.

Unfortunately for me, at that time and still today I use my real name with my artwork, and income from selling my artwork is my livlihood. This has made it very easy for Kimberleigh to find out who I am, where I live, and many more details about my private life. Over the past 15 years (yes, you read that correctly. This situation has been ongoing for 15 years. Half of my life.) the contact from this woman has come and gone in phases, however in the past 5 or so years it has rampped up considerably, to the point that she has gone so far as to write elaborate stories about how I supposedly have commited violent sexual acts against her while “we were in college”, how she has lost jobs because of me, and probably the scariest of all, has created many webpages including Google maps screenshots of my home and address, with private details about my life and family, and written insane and disgusting accusations along with it. She has done everything she can to attempt to sabotage my private life, going so far as to contact the animal rescue I volunteer my time at with accusations that I am a violent and dangerous person that harms animals and disabled people for fun.

To top all of this off, she has now began to claim that I have actually been doing all of these things - the things that she has been doing to me for countless years - to her. She bosts that SHE is the victim, and I am the agressor, that I stole artwork from her and cost her a job at Disney or Dreamworks (this changes often, and sometimes will even be Apple or some other high profile company.) She accuses me of being a sexual predator that raped her and writes long, lewd and graphic statements about her fantasy and sick sexual obsession with me.

This entire situation has come to a head with Kimberleigh filing restraining order paperwork against me from her home state of California in an attempt to legitimize her claims that I am somehow harassing her.

That’s where this GoFundMe comes in.

I’ll admit it - I don’t have a lot of spare cash. The life of a freelance artist doesn’t give way for many frivolous expenses, and having to buy plane tickets to fly across the country with little notice really isn’t in the budget.

So I ask you: if you can spare anything, even if it’s just a dollar, please help me out by donating. Help me go face this horrible stalker in court and set in motion legal proceedings to make this stop.

I need to purchase this plane ticket within the next week, and it will cost roughly $500. Any money that is donated over that will go toward hotel, food, etc while I am out there. If there’s a considerable amount beyond donated, it’ll go toward hiring a lawyer to begin civil proceedings against this woman to make her pay for the now-years of harassment she has put me through.

Thank you for reading, and please consider sharing this even if you can not afford to donate.

https://www.gofundme.com/helpfightkimmaugh

We got a new addition to our family this week. Meet Pretzel! He's a shy little cutie that we just took in from an owner that hadn't handled him in over a year. He doesn't have an ounce of aggression in him and LOVES to cuddle up in your shirt and hang out. He's never eaten anything but live before and is, unfortunately, covered in scars that we can only assume are from prey. He ate his first f/t mouse with no fuss at all. We're so proud of this little fella, and happy that our snek family has grown to three.

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corn snakes

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A beautiful boquet of boops.

Last night Lucille had to come out while her viv was being cleaned. She was afraid, so we put her favorite box-hide on the bed with her. She spent the next hour peeking out from safety.

#ball pyyhons #lucille ball #Lucy ball #python #sbake #snek #snake #noodle #snoot #boopasnoot

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for the pet owners with a mental illness

have you fed your dog? cat? bunny? gerbil? mouse? bird? rat? fish? hamster? chinchilla? have you taken your dog outside? have you changed your animals water? it’s cage? it’s bedding? have you given your pet water? have you given your pet proper exercise or played with it? have you given your pet attention?

I know that I struggle to remember to change my fish’s water from time to time because of my depression and that I have no energy because of it so here’s this post. take care of your pet lovelies and while you’re at it make sure you take any meds you need to take.

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This is the best as a snekowner with mental illness.

Is snek still in box sleeping? Check. Water full still? Check.

Ace, done for the day.

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A Plea

As those of you that are followers of mine on Facebook know, I suffer from stage 4 Endometriosis. This passed Monday I had an elective historectomy to attempt to alleviate the pain and suffering that I have endured for years.

To put a long story short, the surgery went badly. The endo was worse than expected so they had to back out and instead of doing the surgery laparoscopically as intended, they had to make a 11 inch incision from hip to hip.

Shortly into the surgery I began losing a fair amount of blood. I had to have a transfusion.

My uterus was calcified - completely hard, and somehow my bladder had moved forward and down, so the two organs were resting one-in-front of the other, with my bladder ‘in front’, sort of molded around my uterus. On top of all that (literally) was my bowel, and the whole diorama was completely held in place via adhesions - scar tissue from the endometriosis. NSFW/L picture of this arrangement from before they pulled out to do the manual incision: http://i.imgur.com/QRzBVRk.jpg

My right ovary was ‘normal’ - as normal as it could have been, given circumstances.

They could not find my left ovary, period. They dug around so thoroughly they had to send someone to triple check that it hadn’t already been removed in a previous surgery. Once they were certain it was there somewhere they searched all over and finally found a lump. They missed it the first several times because it looked like a mass of scar tissue, attached to my abdominal wall higher on my left side. They finally determined this mass was my ovary, and when removed and cut open my surgeon described it like a raisin surrounded by a wad of scar tissue - it was completely encased in adhesions.

Anyway, I was hospitalized for a few days post-surgery then released, but Friday night I had to come back because my fever shot up to 102F. They are expecting this stay to be at least a few more days because my fever and pain are currently nearly uncontrolable.

Right now, we’ve spent every dime we have trying to get me through all of these unseen complications, and my partner having to make sometimes-multiple trips home daily to take care of our pets has obliterated my small savings.

I’m not here asking - **I’m begging**. If you can spare a few bucks, it would be amazingly kind and generous of you. I don’t know if I am going to be able to get a lot of work done imideately, but I will pledge that all donations over $10 get a sketch, $25 get greyscale shading and $45 get color, all work to be done digitally.

My PayPal is [email protected]. If you are donating enough to qualify for art, please note or email me the ref, or simply include the link or description of your charactet and ideas with your payment (my preferred method). Please, only one character per donation tier, however if friends want to combine their art I am happy to work with you all together and ever so thankful.

Even if you can’t help right now, a signal boost would be amazingly kind of you.

From the bottom of my heart: thank you.

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My mommy is really sick right now. I know it's asking a lot, but any spare change would be welcome. All donations over $10 will be repaid with art!

Practicing for our new job, but our snake charmer's basket is too big!

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Hanging out in the sauna, what up with you gurrl?

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That's right, I've got my own mouse skin rug. What? Haven't you ever seen a pimp snake before?

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Hangin' out in my tape!

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Today when mommy changed my bedding, something scary grabbed my head and wouldn't let go. I got really afraid and had to play dead until it went away.

I'm glad I'm safe now.

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