Hello friends! :] I'm Dusty or FREAK. Welcome to my emoji blog! Please read through this pinned post before using my emojis.
But before all the important stuff, here's some info about me!
I'm 22 years old and my birthday is in april. I'm bigender, bisexual, and polyamorous. I use It/?/He/♡/She pronouns.
I have a lot of mental and physical issues so I won't list all of them here, but the most important ones to note are ::
I have DID
I am autistic with medium support needs
I am a part time AAC user
REQUESTS ARE :: OPEN
NEW REQUESTS MAY TAKE A LONG TIME TO GET DONE !! QUEUE IS LONG AND THE INBOX HAS A LOT OF REQUESTS . I DO NOT MIND TAKING AS MANY ASKS AS PEOPLE WANT TO SEND , BUT PLEASE KNOW IT WILL TAKE A WHILE TO GET THROUGH THEM .
QUEUE IS :: Running!!
COMMISSIONS ARE :: Closed
I do not have a DNI, nor do I require credit on AAC apps. However, if you are using my emojis for anything else (including discord, pfps/avatars, simply plural, octocon, etc) I ask that you please credit me by putting "dustyaac_" before the emoji, linking to my tumblr, or otherwise crediting me.
Please do not trace my emojis and claim them as your own! I do not mind people taking inspiration from, getting ideas from, or even copying the poses of my emojis (please @ me to show me if you post them!! I'd love to see!), I only ask that you do not trace over them directly and claim them as your own work.
I am not able to write accurate and accessible image descriptions. I always welcome others adding them to my emojis.
There are some things I am either not confident in my ability to draw or are uncomfortable with drawing. These things are ::
Endogenic terms
TransID terms
Most fandom content (I will make a folder)
Complex Machinery
Detailed Armor
Ocs
Alters
Other than those, I will attempt to draw most things to the best of my ability! Including but not limited to ::
Phrases
Objects
Animals
Most of these I will draw for commissions !! Please check my kofi or my commission info post [HERE] for more info !!
Plants
Weather
Food and Drinks
Folders [MORE INFO + FULL LIST WITH LINKS TO EVERY FOLDER I'VE MADE]
Wordmojis
Emotions
Symptoms
OSDDID terms
Kink terms
Agere terms
Content from the following fandoms ::
○ DSMP
○ Minecraft + Mods
○ Pokemon
○ Animal Crossing
○ My Little Pony
○ SCP
○ Analog Horror
○ Homestuck
○ Slime Rancher
○ Madoka Magica
○ MHA // BNHA
○ Creepy Pasta
○ Sesame Street
○ Overwatch
○ Avatar the Last Airbender
○ Adventure Time
○ Steven Universe
○ Stardew Valley
○ Rick and Morty
○ Scream
○ Saw
If you aren't sure, send a request anyway! I promise I won't mind :] the worst I'll say is that I can't do it.
My tag system is pretty simple. For my personal tags I put "! +" infront of them. My main ones are as follows ::
#AACOM :: a community tag i made for AAC community posts, emojis, etc
#! + dusty talks :: text post
#! + dusty draws :: emoji post
#! + might remake :: old art or art i wasn't happy with that I might come back and remake
#! + (category) :: "nature", "animal", "food", etc. Describes the type of emoji
#! + resource :: a resource for AAC
#! + not dusty :: a reblog
#! + add to aac :: an emoji i personally want to add to my own aac. emoji creators please let me know if you do not want your emojis reblogged or used this way!
These are the main styles I'll be using. They're called Overworld, Nether, and End. Expect inconsistency! More styles may be added over time.
Any similarities to other art/artist's styles are purely coincidental. I will never trace, copy, or take inspiration from another artist without permission. If one of my emojis resembles another artist's work and you believe I may have unintentionally taken inspiration from them, please inform me so I can either provide credit or take down the emoji.
If you'd like to find me elsewhere, here are my other blogs!
@printed-paws :: Main, mainly scream themed at the moment. I post most of my art there!
@comingforyourkneecaps :: Spam !! I also post some art there that I'm too shy to post on my main
I interact from @ask2pfrance, it is inactive.
Thank you for reading! Have a wonderful day.
If you'd like to send me a tip, please visit my Kofi below !! ♡ I appreciate it so much and it motivates me to draw more :] you'd be helping me and my partner a lot with living expenses
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I think I got used to being in pain, I think I got numb to it. It's a defense mechanism, obviously, a freeze state. Constantly panicking, constantly hurt. Chronic issues, reoccurring symptoms, cycling the same pain in my body and mind. All keeping me from moving forward and doing ANYTHING, because it's all just debilitating. It makes me miserable, and I'm not good at being miserable.
I'm generally an optimist! I love people, I love the world, I love animals, I love being happy and telling jokes and expressing my love. I have so so much love. It's so unfair that even with how much love and joy and privilege I hold, how I am housed and fed and have a partner that means the world to me, that I am still frozen in agony. I am in pain. And I need to acknowledge it.
I've always been in pain. I've always hurt. I was always just too scared to do anything about it by myself! I can't face things alone, not right now, and that's okay. I need a lot of support, at least for now, and that's okay. I sometimes need an aac app to talk and a rollator to walk and that's okay. I have a lot of problems and I need a lot of accommodations and that's okay.
I can be who I am! And I can use my supports. And I can get help, even if I need help getting help. And I am so so happy I am still here because today I finally got approved to start testosterone. I've wanted to since I came out! Even before I came out, honestly. I feel like I can see my little 13 year old self feeling horrible and I just want to give him a big hug and tell him it isn't going to be forever. Tell him that big things are coming! We are going to be okay.
I have Sunny, my partner, to thank for sooo so much of this. For treating me like a person that deserves to be listened to. For supporting me and loving me and making me feel worthy of being loved. Sunny helped me each step of the way getting testosterone and I am so excited to give it back the care and love and support he gives me each and every day. I love you Sunny. Thank you for everything. I do hope to feel better someday, and though for a long time I have only been able to want to feel better for those I've loved, to not be a burden and to not constantly need support, Sunny has helped me start to want to feel better for myself too.
Not everything I do should be motivated by my need to please others. It isn't my fault I'm disabled, I am not choosing to be sick. I am not choosing to stay sick either. I need help. I needed help and support. I wasn't getting enough because I didn't know how to ask for it. And now, I am getting support because Sunny took the time to listen and get it for me and help me figure out what to do.
I am so happy. I am so so happy. I am scared too. This is a scary scary pride month. But I am so happy anyways. I want to live and be a trans critter in this beautiful world. I want to make the world better by living in it. I want to create. I want to spread love. I want to make friends. I want to be loud. I want to be myself. I'm so happy I'm crying about it. I haven't cried much lately, it feels good even if it's just a few tears. I hope I get better at crying. I hope I get better every day, in any little way I can.
Testosterone has given me a path forward! It'll be hard, adjusting to it. Having a second puberty will be rough! But I am so excited. I just want to feel like myself, and I already do just from getting approved to start! This is the best day ever. I love you.
Communicating with other people has not been matching how I want to communicate with AAC. While using AAC with others, I realize that I use AAC as if I am still speaking from my mouth. I do my best to type as quick as possible, I do my best to maintain the pace of conversation that happens between people who use mouth words, I try to express things that work better through mouth words (tone/inflections of voice) because I haven't adjust to my kind of AAC expression, and I still find myself saying things that I truly don't want to say
My masking has lessened with using AAC, but it's still there. And overall, I have not yet adapted a new way of communication that truly incorporates how I authentically communicate with AAC. I don't even know what my authentic communication style/verbal expression is with AAC yet. It is like I am having to learn how to speak and communicate again
This is one reason why I still need speech therapy, because becoming an AAC user, especially wanting to use AAC full time, is a long process and is a huge crossover to a completely new way of communicating with its own syntax, guidelines, pace, and verbal expression overall. I cannot complete this transition solely on my own
IM JUST SAYING LIKE ??? You could make the default aids the colors of the personalities, then have fancy cool custom ones in a store or let players customize them in the palette house!! And miis with aids could tell you to get better accessible infrastructure lmfao...
[ID: digital art sized to be AAC buttons. the first 8 are of moon phases, from new moon to a waning crescent. the last are arranged in a circle of all 8 phases. each are made with red, chalky line art, and colored light tan/off-white, with dark blue as the shadows. the shadowed parts have a dashed outline, while the rest are full lines. /end ID]
Hi!! I wanted to share some cool stuff I've been able to do with obsidian for system info keeping!! :]
Using this post as a template for my alters, with some "alter"-ations of course ^^ I've been pretty pleased with how things look so far for the profiles that are most complete!
Here's some examples of other fields in the template too!! I really like how detailed it is, it's nice to have a place to store all this info.
Worth noting : Obsidian is offline and keeps all the info on your device (though their are ways to sync your info across devices). This has pros and cons! For me personally I loved using octocon to share info with my partner, but having it all private takes a lot of stress out of keeping trauma and trigger details into profiles (which I'd like to! It helps us to keep the info we know written down!).
Here's a front log and chat feature we got from this post!! Sorry for the crude language erm. That's just how those two talk.
The front log is really nice to us and easy to edit times and such!! Plus it links to the alter's profile. We haven't used the chat too much yet but it looks nice :] you get to choose what color your name shows up as!
Another thing we like about obsidian is that we have a place to keep all of our flags and stamps and blinkies and dividers and ough!! Everything!! And storing images in obsidian makes it really easy to then use them in alter profiles :]
Last but not least we also use obsidian to track other mental health things. We have a lot of trouble remembering things like when we've last eaten or showered because. Disability. But. Using that same table from the front tracker we now have an easy way to track these things!!
I'm really happy about obsidian being so customizable :] I'll miss octocon for sure (having been using it since the app was up and running), but having a solid offline place to store this info until I have an online place for sharing info is relieving.
Well. We still have to transfer a ton of info yet. But still.
so like, in general I think disability severity labels can apply in many situations because recognizing the severity of disability doesn't invalidate experiences. I've noticed some people try to refute this with "well disability is nuanced and 2 people with the same condition will probably have different symptoms!" which, like, sure but not all disability works like that.
the example I always think of is deafness. there are very straightforward and clear cut categories describing your level of hearing loss. these are objective fact based on your audiogram. if you have profound hearing loss then you have more severe hearing loss than someone with mild hearing loss. there is no gray area or nuance there. a profoundly deaf person is more disabled in hearing than someone with mild hearing loss.
it's not that complicated.
and are there gray areas? sure. but generally speaking this one is clear.
this doesn't mean that someone with mild hearing loss isn't disabled but it does mean that they should check their privilege sometimes.
anyways, not all disability works like your disability. severity labels being complicated for your condition doesn't mean they are complicated for others. some disabilities have clearly defined severity labels.
Believe it or not,despite the fact that you all share the same brain and body,it IS possible for certain alters to hold certain symptoms or intensities of those symptoms,because disability symptoms can have certain triggers. And just like how certain alters can get triggered to front by certain things,those symptoms can get triggered by their fronting. I speak from experience here.
idk what other disabled person needs to hear this but if you need someone to do something for you that would be very difficult for you to do but very easy for them to do, that is a small favor. you dont have to feel gratitude and guilt at scale based on how hard it would be for you to do it disabledly
Hey so I thought we as userbase should organize spontaneous blackout protest against shapes inc ads here. I thought Feb 26th would be a good date (so ppl has 72 hrs notice if they want to participate), we would log off for 24hrs to show tumblr we are not okay with that (and also for shapes to get less ad revenue for a day in a process lol). Tag would be 'anti shapes inc protest'
If you like the idea/want to participate, help spread the word by reblogging this ask. Thanks <3
I would happily comply with this, hopefully enough people participate for it to make an impact!
@burning-britain-official @mind-flayer-official @someone-official @scissors-official @imightbeafaerie-official-offical we should all boycott shapes inc! It would be so very nice because ai sucks ass!
@communism-rainbows @cookie-ninja8 @vfdbat @send-me-to-the-exr @probablydancingg @yourdeargatsby @thefullmonty4 @theirmultitudes @the-meest-me-ill-ever-be @freakyvampirequeer @knotanowl (this is all I can remember rn shit)
Looked it up - its a San Fran based company that makes ai chat bots that are designed to work in things like discord and twitter. And already seem to have some controversy around them in terms of data collection.
Tbh, I've not seen any ads for them. But as prev stated, I have a pretty big (ish) reach sooo. Here you go you gremlins that are ready for a fight
hi! can you make winnie the pooh chatacters, (pooh bear, piglet, eeyore, rabbit, roo, kanga, owl, and hufflelump, you can make Christopherrobin to but not required)?
Left to right, top to bottom: Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Roo, Kanga, Owl, Hufflelump
Im so sorry this took a while but it was a lot of characters aagh :( i do not have the energy to write detailed alt text right now so i hope it suffices
trying to couchsurf, but i have no friends, so i am currently in THE sketchiest place i have EVER seen. A random squat would probably be less sketchy tbh
related, i need money for the bus so i can fucking use the bathroom, because no one in this place believes in toilet paper.
i wish i was joking.
Instantly exchange money for free on Cash App
i also need money for food and to keep my storage facility, i AM going to start trying to turn my life around tomorrow, but i. i don't even know if i'm going to be housed tomorrow this place is so bad ANYWAYS
Reblogging my friend’s old donation post cause it’s been a couple of weeks since I heard from him and that’s extremely unusual. I don’t know what’s going on with him. I hope he just doesn’t have internet access but is otherwise fine. But I can’t tell and I’m really worried.
Just thinking about how I wasn't taken to the dentist or doctor as a kid because I'd have meltdowns and my parents didn't want to deal with it so they "let me decide". Of course I didn't want to go? I was a child.
How was I not diagnosed despite obviously being visibly autistic? Medical neglect. Medical neglect. It all comes down to medical neglect.
Whenever I complained about a symptom of a disability or sickness they'd immediately ask if I need to go to the doctor. I'd say no. I was terrified of the doctor. I was a child. They asked no follow up questions. Medical neglect.
No diagnosis. No health records. Thanks. Now I have to figure it all out and I feel incapable.
Same parents who now tell me I don't need to use the accommodations I'm finally getting and making for myself. If you helped me before you would know what I need? Now you aren't entitled to an explanation. And I don't have to listen to you.
I still don't want to go to the doctor. But I know I need to. Hate that it's taken me so long.
Mom said "I know why you're doing it, but can you just talk" about me using aac. No? You don't know, it seems like. Christ.
My dad actively expresses how much he hates my rollator every time he sees it or it gets brought up. Because it's too big or in the way. Can't keep it in the house even, because it won't fit in my room all the time and they won't let it be anywhere else. It sits in the garage. I hate it. Because there's spiders and dust. And sometimes my pain and/or weakness is bad enough I need it around the house. But can't use it. Not allowed to.
My dad also hates my aac. Won't respond to it unless around other family or makes fun of it. Don't know how to explain to them I need these things. It makes me too upset to talk about with them.
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