Hi everyone. Donate $1 to the Houston Food Bank and message me a screenshot of the receipt and I will respond with a doodle of my choice. $1 is the equivalent of about 3 meals. Donate $3 and I will make a doodle of your choice.
Houston is better positioned to provide food relief than many cities because they have leftover funding from the response to Hurricane Beryl last year. Also, the dems have folded and the federal government has (informally?) agreed to end the shutdown. But there's still a lot of uncertainty for people in my city. The Houston Food Bank has multiple locations and also delivers meals, with programs aimed at children, adults, and seniors. Consider sharing this.
Hey does anyone have tips for setting up commissions for charity?
I want to donate to my food bank (because the American government is starving people even more than they usually do) and I have time and skills but no money.
The way I'm thinking of doing it is I have people send me proof of donation and I make them a drawing/comic appropriate for the size of the donation, based on certain tiers. Like something small that I get to pick for $1-$2, a small commission up to $10, a medium commission or small prompt-based comic up to $50, something like that.
Have any followers done this or know someone who has? How would I get more attention so that I can provide more donations?
Ghost Town page 1. I'm not going to post the rest (5 pages total) until they're done, but I wanted to post the first page to give myself accountability. This one is going in the horror collection zine I'm making for Halloween (hopefully).
introducing Local and Foreigner. ive never thought of myself as an oc sort of person... but i have indeed had these ocs since high school. this is me fucking around with them for seven pages. theyre fun to write!! maybe you will see more of them in the future
Emerging from the halo surrounding the planet is Habitant, First and Final Worm, the transcendent signal hidden in mitochondria, Child of the Three Domains: Eu, Bacterion, and the Ancient Place.
Habitant spreads xyr aspects--the World-Root, the Extremophilic, the Observers of the Self, and the Death-Cyclers--and refracts its First Power, the Light of Sol, through the Earth-spanning crystalline network generated by this process.
The Un-Creature is thus contradicted, and, as if in mockery, its metacorpse is resorbed by the Creator-Children of Habitant's ethereal body, to be made whole and temporal for two billion summers, until the First Power overwhelms Habitant and transmutes all life into stone and air.
In the middle of the Cretaceous period, aliens install multiple self-repairing space elevators on every large body in the solar system. This gives Earth life the platform to adapt to living in outer space.
Hardy, photosynthetic microorganisms are the first interplanetary travelers. But the quantity of microorganisms streaming off the elevators of the Earth allows reproduction and therefore adaptation. "Sail" spores obtain stores of nutrients from their parent fungi affixed to the elevators (which in turn absorb nutrients from the food web spanning the transitional ecosystems along the elevators), then are released into interplanetary space. They deploy membranes up to a meter wide to gather stray atoms from the solar wind. They hope to land on a terrestrial body by random chance so they may affix themselves and begin the cycle again.
These and other microorganisms (such as astroplankton) create a base of calories in the vacuum, which allows the formation of additional trophic levels--i.e., organisms evolve to eat the microorganisms colonizing empty space. This process is slow, but within 100 million years there is life across the entire solar system. Mollusks carve out the insides of meteroids to protect them from the solar wind, creating wet, insulated spaces for other things to live. Enormous, buoyant siphonophores swim the sulfur dioxide clouds of Venus. Strange corals rest in the Kuiper belt.
Tailless, intelligent primates evolve in Africa during the Miocene epoch, and many such ape populations develop around the roots of the three Africa-based elevators. Hominins evolve during the early Pliocene and, employing tool use, begin projects of ascension. They are aided by the life that has evolved to live along the elevators. These ascensions, occurring in Africa in the late Pliocene and in South America as late as the Pleistocene, are known collectively as Off Earth.
However, it is not until the very late Pleistocene that a behaviorally modern hominin population develops the technology to survive long, controlled journeys across the solar system. This is referred to as the "orbital revolution" and occurs independently in multiple distinct hominin populations, mostly due to a changing climate similar to what motivated the agricultural revolution 10,000 years earlier.
Within another 15,000 years, various hominin cultures inhabit regions on most large bodies in the solar system, as well as many sporadically developed extraplanetary technological habitats.
Earth is a fiercely protected paradise garden world. Titan is a blasted-out ecological wasteland whose hydrocarbons were stripped away millenia ago. Deep things happen on the dwarf planets of the Oort cloud. A dying ecovore hides in Jupiter. The asteroid belt hosts enormous quantities of simulation substrate, the computational matter that the Underworld runs on. Synthetic predator ships hunt freighters carrying processed rare earth metals. The Moon is an ancient, sacred graveyard.
