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[brainjuicy]

hey guys, my friend pat is behind on rent and could really use any $$ you can lend!!! if you can’t donate please share, every little thing helps :)

[cuntess-carmilla]

Emergency surgery for a broke, brown, disabled, South American woman (aka my mom).

[Image Description: Picture of a young mother with her newborn child in her arms, very 90s stylized.

/ End ID]

And there I thought I could stop e-begging for a while! 🥴

Last night my mom got a stabbing and persistent pain in her chest with vomitting and had to be taken to the ER. She was diagnosed with gallstones and a hernia, she came back home the next morning at 7 am.

While at my work shift today (some 5 hours ago) my dad announced to our family group chat that at midday she got the same pains and vomitting again, she was taken to the ER once more, and this time it was immediate emergency surgery instead of pain management.

We are already extremely indebted and broke, and now this. Any help if you can afford it is appreciated, please. We've been asking for loans to buy bread for over a year at this point.

Here’s my PayPal donation link if you can spare some

Or you can use my PayPal email: [email protected]

I’m afraid that due to being from Chile I can’t use platforms other than PayPal to receive money internationally.

[cuntess-carmilla]

Jic while the Chilean peso is pretty low (1 USD = 806 CLP as of today), things aren't exactly cheap here. 😅

Minimum wage is 300,000 CLP (which is miserable), a cheap mobile phone service bill is around 10,000 CLP, an average popsicle is like 300-500 CLP, I buy the most basic melatonin pills at above 5,000 CLP in most places, and people here talk about money in "lucas" (each 1,000 CLP) or "palos" (each 1,000,000 CLP). So while it is true that the Chilean peso is pretty low next to the US dollar, our prices and cost of living aren't proportionally lower in accordance to how devalued our coin is.

I'll be shocked if this surgery is anywhere below 2 million pesos.

[cuntess-carmilla]

We're still fucked jic. ✌🏻

[cuntess-carmilla]

Ok so, we got the medical bill. We got really lucky so after all the money I've gotten from this post to fund the surgery (thank you guys so SO much) I just need 300 USD more and I can pay it off. 🙏🏻

0/300

[twofingerswhiskey]

reblog if you hate the current interior design trend of painting everything white with hints of grey or black. ignore if you have no taste

[mirandimoo]

gay people will tell you about how in love their favorite ship are then show you two of the most argumentative, aggressive and mentally ill characters you’ve ever seen

[sarang-archer]

Help out some trans folk! (Reblog please!!)

Currently a friend of mine ( @wrenwilm-art ) is trying to save up to move out of an abusive household! More info and context here

Wren’s commission info

I’m also living paycheck-to-paycheck at my apartment, and would really like some help with rent and food! Worst case scenario, Wren may be moving up here with me and we’ll need help settling in.

My commission info

If you donate *$5+ you’ll get a Pokemon Legends Arceus gift code (exp May 31 2022)

If you donate *$10+ you’ll get a sketch drawn of any character of your choice!

* Please make sure to mention @wrenwilm-art in the donation message if you want that money saved up for my friend! It’ll be a giant deposit into his paypal once he’s old enough to get one (late January)

Ko-Fi: @/SarangArcher

V3nmo: @/SarangArcher

C4shapp: $SarangArcher

Google Pay: SarangArcher

P4ypal: sa.contact(@)yahoo.com

And tumblr tips as well!!

[thenerdyalchemist]

Dorians last song 🎶 also my first time drawing all of bells hells so that was fun

[ayetroyler]

[religious-queer-culture-is]

I am reblogging this again, and I want to add that anyone who sees this image to please not go into the notes if they value their mental health.

You are amazing and God has made you perfectly, and you don’t need to read the hatred some of these people are spewing.

[cupcakewebkinz]

You’re also extremely beautiful, all of those people in those pictures are stunning 💖💖💖

[daydream-daze]

Grocery help needed!!

**URGENT: PLEASE READ/SIGNAL BOOST**

Saturday, April 30th: Hi everyone, I’m Gemma, a bi, mentally ill disaster, who is in urgent need of help as I'm still really struggling to get by.

I didn't expect to be asking for help again so soon from my previous post, but things have unexpectedly gotten so much worse for me because due to a 15hr power cut in my building yesterday, the food I had in my fridge/freezer has gone bad, and I need to get more groceries but I don't have enough money to do so. I'm also still symptomatic from Covid, so I'll need to get groceries delivered.

And I know this is a huge ask, and I'm completely heartbroken to be asking for help again, but I still desperately need some as I don't have anyone else to turn to, and I've only just managed to pay off my rent & bills. All I need now is to top-up my gas meter and get groceries to do me until the end of May.

If anyone could spare any amount to help me, even if it’s just £1/$1/€1, it would literally save my life, and sharing definitely helps just as much as donations. Nobody is obligated in any way to donate if they can’t or don’t want to, I know we’re all struggling right now.

£1.61/£150!!

Go to paypal.me/GemzyM and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

@thebibliosphere @shencomix @pmseymourva @venus-macabre @deadgodjess @prisonhannibal @shesnake @marsincharge @justsomeantifas @justlgbtthings @my-gender-is @helpboost @tariqah - ❤

[brain-buddies]

There is a new Chrome extension that detects if a video you’re streaming has a strobe in it, will freeze the video and stick this warning up there until you approve it.

WHERE THE HELL HAS THIS BEEN ALL MY LIFE????

[ensoua]

[image description: a screencap of the chrome web store, showing an extension called “seizsafe - epilepsy alert for youtube” and an example image of the extension, showing a blocked video with the text “warning: the following content may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy.” there is a toggle with an option reading: “don’t warn me again during this video. click here or hit spacebar to continue watching 👆”. end image description.]

chrome webstore link:

Seizafe - Epilepsy Alert for YouTube™

Prevent Photosensitive-Epileptic seizures while watching YouTube™ videos. We'll warn you before you see any flashy videos.

[chthonic-pain]

reblog to help photosensitive folk feel safe!!

[beatrixkiiddo]

Please help us get food

Hi. In the past month and this one things have been rough around the edges for me and grandma and we need to get food. This month specifically has been hard. Can you please help us?

If you have anything to spare, even $1, please send, it adds up and we can eat.

We don't have any food for longer than Sunday. We really need help right now. We don't even have toilet paper besides the one we're using.

Please, send anything you can spare to [email protected] @paypal

I really hope you can help us, because i really don't have anyone else to count on.

Thank you for always being there for us. And please, please, spread this post around. God bless.

[olderthannetfic]

*cackling*

If OTW weren’t around, this wouldn’t be “scaremongering”: It would be the inescapable status quo.

[lanninglurksnomore]

The people who believe this crap are the anti-vaxxers of fandom.

[olderthannetfic]

Oh god. They kind of are, aren’t they?

[athingofvikings]

I’d go bigger and just say that they’re the conservatives/reactionaries of fandom–or, to frame it differently, this is how conservative and authoritarian ideologies express themselves in the context of Fandom.

[kimberlyeab]

my opinion on AO3 is that it’s an important asset but i still find it scummy that they’ll ask for money but when their users try to ask for money they slam them with their non-monetization rules. Like Anne Rice is dead and this isn’t the 90s anymore, people are making money from fandom please catch up with the times.

[olderthannetfic]

I think you’ve misunderstood:

AO3 was built by a bunch of us with our free donated labor for the purpose of being a space free from commercial spam.

It’s not a public service. It was built by us to house the type of fandom culture we liked.

People who want to do fandom differently, including making money, are welcome to go build their own site with their own money or their own donated labor.

[elfwreck]

AO3 does not forbid commercial links because they think fans making money from fanworks is immoral but them making money (to run the damn site) is fine.

AO3 forbids commercial links because they are making a very specific claim about the legality of fanworks, and that claim is about noncommercial fanworks.

They’re not saying that commercialized fanworks are against the law. They’re just not prepared to host them–nor defend them in court.

In case people missed it: The OTW will not honor DMCA takedown orders that are basically, “I own X work and that’s a fanfic of it, and that’s copyright infringement so make it go away.”

The OTW says, lolnope, we don’t think that’s copyright infringement. If you disagree, sue us.

The OTW says: Disney - we will not remove explicit Mandalorian fanfic. Rowling, Warner Bros - we will not remove trans Harry Potter fanfic. Gabaldon - we are not removing Outlander fanfic no matter how much you think it’s illegal or a personal violation. Yarbro, if someone puts “The Adventure of the Gentleman in Black” on AO3, you will need to actually take it to trial to (try to) get it removed; none of this C&D order followed by fans caving because they can’t afford a lawyer.

…So far, nobody has sued them. (This is, in my mind, the strongest proof we have that fanfic is not copyright infringement. In 13 years, not a single person or company has scrounged up a lawyer and filed a lawsuit against AO3/the OTW for hosting fanworks.)

But they’re not willing to put themselves on the line for commercial works. Those get considered differently in copyright law. They’re not always infringing - there’s a whole history of parody books & songs to prove that - but the OTW is not dealing with them.

The OTW does not care if fans are making money. The OTW cares if fans making money interfere with its legal defense of its archive.

If you are not a copyright lawyer, your opinion about the situation is not going to be considered.

[thebibliosphere]

Also, it wasn’t just Anne Rice coming after fandom in the 90s as though this is some relic holdover terror from ancient history.

Events like Strikethrough and Boldthrough happened in the early to mid-2000s. It felt like you’d wake up every day in 2007 and find another fandom group on LJ gone. (And not just fandom groups either, important community groups for education and trauma survival were also wiped out in those purges as well.)

And while not exactly the same, Yahoo Groups–and yes Yahoo Groups was a major online fandom hub at one point–were deleted as late as 2019 with very little warning, leaving a lot of older fandom groups scrambling to back up decades worth of content.

I might be projecting, but Fanfic.net seems to be wobbling too. It wouldn’t surprise me to find out they go under in the next few years despite performing similar purges of adult content in 2012 and allowing for obnoxious ads, which made the site unusable on mobile unless you wanted to see an ad what felt like every couple of paragraphs. (It might be better now, I haven’t checked in a while.)

It has only been in very recent memory that fandom has gained any sort of foothold that isn’t poised directly over a precarious faultline that could at any moment open up and swallow entire communities whole, and a huge part of that is the volunteers at Ao3 who decided to play chicken with the likes of Anne Rice and won.

Ao3 at its core was and is built by fandom. Some people don’t like it and that’s fine, but to even suggest that the volunteers are lounging around eating peeled grapes and lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills making bank through fraud while fanfic authors are left out in the cold is beyond the scope of laughable.

[naryrising]

Where’s my island getaway and my squad of poolboys with drinks with umbrellas in them? I’ve been a volunteer for 12 years and all I get is carpal tunnel issues and cynicism. I even had to pay for my own stress ball.

[r-h-e-t]

How Taliesin’s Characters Tell Someone to Fuck Off

[angels-and-aliens]

idk blindfolds are sexy

[ousia-poetica]

Don't worry if your life is in chaos, you are like the universe itself and its law of entropy. もの久保 on Pivix

[artsystargazer]

Big moon, little moon.

[technicolorhousecat]

[siancore]

Please support Dreamtime Aroha. They’re an Indigenous owned business that supports community all over Australia. They’re a wife and wife partnership who create these cute jarjum baby dolls. They actually sent me two this year as giveaways at the Queer Indigenous Panel I organised. They are awesome. Show them some love this International Day of the World’s Indigenous People✊🏾

[hotasiangirlsinyourarea-archive]

Dreamtime Aroha

Dreamtime Aroha

This is their website as well!