Animation I made as a tribute to Louis Wain, both to his art and him as a person, I hope my animations convey how comforting I find his art.
Each cat is drawn on paper❤️
“I am happy because everyone loves me”
LGBT family is homeless and needs help! (Pride Edition)
My family is homeless and struggling to find work so we can get out of this situation. I have a lead but it's taking a long time for them to get through the preliminary hiring process so I have no idea how long that could end up taking. In the mean time, we have no income and my wife and I have been dealing with recurring illness and pain every day while struggling to make ends meet. I'm burning out really bad and our support system is almost completely gone at this point.
Right now, we need help covering food, temporary shelter, and important bills/toiletries/etc. We're trying not to lose access to our car and the person who was helping us pay for our phone bill is no longer able to starting this month. Things are worse than they've ever been for us and we've been mostly alone through it. This is urgent. Any amount of help is appreciated.
I need help badly this week. We are about to lose access to our car at the end of the month and we've been struggling to keep feed she sheltered while my wife recovers from painful health stuff.
How bad are 2020s cars? Let me count the ways. (Some of these points only apply to drivers in the US)
An increasing number of vehicle components are being equipped with chips that "pair" them with a specific vehicle. You can't replace these parts unless you pay a dealer to re-sync them.
If you figure out a workaround to pair the parts yourself and share it with others, you can be charged under DMCA for "breaking a digital lock", and be dealt heavy fines or sent to prison.
All these added electronics are even more fun at a time when trade conflicts and the AI race to the bottom are driving up the cost of components.
In a 2023 privacy review by the Mozilla Foundation, every single manufacturer doing business in the US received a failing grade. Car companies collect and sell data about your driving behavior, as well as anything coming through the mic feed or Bluetooth phone connections.
- Nissan's privacy policy says that they collect such things as sexual activity data, health diagnosis data and genetic data, and they expect you to make any prospective passenger in your car read the privacy policy and accept it as well.
- Kia's privacy policy says they can collect information about your "sex life".
- Drivers of GM vehicles recently found their insurance rates going up as the company sold data about their driving habits to insurance companies.
If you connect your phone to the car via Bluetooth, they can download your text messages and contacts, too.
Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, known by detractors as the "kill-switch law", requires all US vehicles from 2026 onward to include driver monitoring systems that will disable a vehicle if they deem a driver to be impaired or inattentive. It sounds nice on paper, but doesn't provide specific guidance on how these systems are to be implemented, or what you're supposed to do to re-enable your vehicle once it's shut itself down.
The general assumption is that the system will include a camera focused on the driver at all times, combined with monitoring driving behavior for sudden swerves, stops, or acceleration. Of course, there are many outside factors besides inebriation that may cause a driver to suddenly swerve or stop. It remains to be seen how these systems will account for this.
Safety's great, but the increasing number of airbags and exterior sensors on newer cars drive up purchase costs and insurance premiums. Even a relatively minor accident could end up "totaling" your car as these components cost so much to replace if damaged or deployed.
Increasing vehicle weights speed up the deterioration of both tires and roads.
BMW received flack last year for building heated seats into their vehicles, but charging a monthly subscription fee to use them. Tesla does something similar, allowing you to purchase better vehicle performance through their app.
Touch screens. Ugh, touch screens. Not only are they unsafe to operate at speed, but a lot of them are integrated into vehicle operations and cannot be simply swapped out to suit owner preference like older stereo head units. Infotainment systems have become the number one source of customer complaints in newer vehicles. Nothing like a car with a load-bearing radio.
Stellantis (Dodge, Jeep, etc) owners have been receiving full-screen marketing ads on their infotainment screens lately.
Just because customers are complaining about infotainment systems, that doesn't mean the traditional parts are doing any better. Vehicle reliability has been down across the board over the past few years, even for companies like Toyota that built their reputations on dependable products.
In short, the cars on dealer lots right now are expensive, disposable privacy nukes that give you about as much agency as Windows 11. That's on top of them being huge, ugly, and depressingly grey.
I would not recommend buying any vehicle built in this decade. My 2003 daily driver, which has over 300k miles and is more rust than steel at this point, will probably be around longer than a lot of the stuff currently being produced. I can replace anything on it for less than the cost of a couple new car payments.
That paired parts stuff feels like it would be illegal under EU environmental/right to repair legislation. Crazy the kind of waste capitalism incentivises.
It’s difficult to keep asking for help, but it’s even harder to stay silent.
We’ve been trying to rebuild our lives step by step after losing so much 🏠💔
Nothing is easy anymore, and even the simplest things feel heavy when you’re carrying this much uncertainty.
I’m trying to continue my education while also being there for my family, but some days it feels like everything is slipping out of my hands.
This campaign is not just support — it’s our way forward.
Without it, we feel stuck, unable to move toward something better.
If you’re reading this, please don’t overlook our story.
Even the smallest support can help us take one more step toward stability 🙏🤍
https://gofund.me/5cdd060e
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Hello please donate to Mo'men Gherbawi if you can.
Campaign Information:
Mo'men Gherbawi is a palestinian man from Gaza.
He dreamed of a bright future after high school, but instead of celebrating his success, he found himself running from bombs and destruction, just trying to survive.
His Life Changed in an Instant!
Their home was destroyed in the bombing, leaving them with nowhere to return to.
His older brother lost his job after the occupation wiped out the area where he worked.
His school and his sister’s university turned into shelters for displaced families, leaving no classrooms for students.
They spent everything they had just to escape and make it to Egypt after six months of horror.
How Did They Survive?
They fled multiple times under bombs and gunfire, carrying what little they had in plastic bags, running through rubble and smoke, never knowing if they'd survive.
Their last stop was Rafah, which is now under siege, where they faced hunger, illness, and fear until they finally made it out.
His father suffers from severe back problems, making him unable to work, and his medical treatment is extremely expensive.
Despite Everything, Mo'men Still Has a Dream!
He wants to go to university and build a future, to help his family get back on their feet. But today, they have no home, no income, and no way to start over.
Why They Need Your Help:
"I’m managing this fundraiser on behalf of my family.
Since GoFundMe doesn’t support the country we currently reside in, the donations are being received through a trusted family friend in the UK, Hassan Aloul. " - Campaign Organiser
The organsier is helping the family by withdrawing the funds into their bank account and coordinating them directly to distribute the funds for urgent needs such as rent, medical treatment, and education expenses.
All donations will be used to:
Rent a home in Egypt
Cover basic living expenses like food, clothing, and medicine
Pay for Mo'mens father’s urgent medical treatment
Support his university education so he can build a better future
They are committed to using every donation responsibly and transparently.
You Can Be the Reason Their Life Changes!
Every pound (£) can be a new beginning for us – helping with rent, father’s treatment, and mo'mens education.
"Don’t leave us alone—donate or share my story.
Even the smallest contribution can make a huge difference.
Thank you to everyone who helps. You are my hope for a better tomorrow!" - Mo'men Gherbawi
Lost Everything, but I Haven’t Lost Hope!
I am Mo’men Gherbawi,… Momen gherbawi needs your support for Mo’men Lost Everything in Gaza—H
hi! this thing is asking for grocery money again this week, and it's gonna be in a tougher spot because it's got bills to pay this week. it needs £150 by the end of the 29th to get groceries and to go towards utility bills and council tax
the miscellany is a plural, autistic, unmedicated adhd transfem, that does a ton of community building among transfems. we do our best, and this thing is at the centre of a lot of support and care for others. helping it out helps others too.
im so sick of unnecessary dinner scenes in movies 😡 every fucking movie they just want to titillate you with some food because they think you’re a dumb animal who just wants to see mashed potatoes bouncing. if its an IMPORTANT dinner scene where they explain lore then whatever i understand. but they shove useless meals into every movie these days and its disgusting
This but instead of sex scenes it's scenes where they are in a dimly lit club. Why is there a club scene in every movie ever? Why are they always in the club? they don't even dance or anything, they just go to a club and yap, maybe find a guy and then they leave. Pointless.
Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people
Since you seem to be struggling with exercising the same way I do. I’ve started checking out workout apps that focus on 7min workouts because that’s about what I can force myself to do. Maybe something like that would work okay for you too?
I've found that in life, if you've got a problem that only has one obvious solution and you're not doing it, your problem isn't the problem that has a solution, your problem is figuring out why you're not doing it.
I think my biggest issue with exercise is that it's not voluntary. It's like a goddamn saw trap. You either hurt yourself or your body hurts you. It doesn't feel voluntary if someone walked up to you and put a gun to your head like "hey stab yourself in the leg or I will stab you in the leg! :)" and then stabbing yourself in the leg takes like 20-40 minutes out of your day every goddamn day forever until you die.
You have to pour time down the drain to do bullshit you don't want to do every day forever. And I don't know how to brainwash myself into believing that forcing myself to do it is voluntary.
This Pride, Please Consider Helping an Unemployed Trans Woman
My fundraiser from last month fell significantly short and I really need help. I am so sorry that I’m still in a position where I have to ask for help. But I am. I’m an unemployed transgender woman living in wildly conservative Orange County, CA. I had to leave my job because of consistent transphobic and sexual harassment. It’s a hard and stressful time, and I’m so broke that I don’t know how I’m going to keep paying for groceries, let alone medication, therapy for cptsd and depression, paying off the phone I had to buy after my old one stopped charging. I am hoping to raise $500 but literally any little bit you can give helps. Thank you all so much.
what's your animation process? how on earth did you make something so beautiful...... i can never get my animations past the sketchy stage before i lose confidence or give up, what steps do you follow to get your animation from start to finish? :O
its kind of the opposite for me, my roughs look so ass😭 but i learned that its okay because each new pass is an opportunity to improve things and fix mistakes
its always best not to overthink things and just plow through the work, at least for me bc i know if i stop to plan, nothing will ever get finished
also if youre worried with about your cleanup being too stiff, the solution ive found for myself is to have a bigger gap between it and tiedown, so youre not just tracing over the same lines. its more tricky tho because you have to figure out a lot of things like perspective and volume while also drawing clean, but this way your linework will be more intentional
to make it easier to maintain consistency and good spacing, animate body parts (or even parts of body parts) separately, like go through the entire movement of the bottom side of the elbow, then return to frame one and do the top side, etc (you can kind of see it in the video)
also, if something is bothering you, like if a drawing seems kinda off, or you feel like the animation is jittery in some spot, my advice is to get in there and fix it! even if it seems like its gonna be too much unnecessary work. at least for me, i know if something is bothering me, it will bother me every time i watch the animation, so its better to fix it than to have an artwork i cant look at.
i hope this is helpful! im new to tumblr community and im liking the ask questions function :D ill post more of my old animations from instagram sometime, but if you wanna see them i go by _voidestup there too
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