I'm an amateur artist and writer with motivation issues and autism. I make mediocre memes once in a blue moon. Almost everything I touch becomes furries. I'm trying to make my own fanverses/rewrites/AU's!
My Strawpage📝: https://thebriarthicket.straw.page/
My art blog✒️: @briarsdesk
Warning! The content that I post may contain:
flashing lights, eyestrain, or loud sounds
elements of horror
suggestive topics
sensitive subject matter
artistic gore (and maybe nudity)
and possibly other things
My Interests! (Contains flashing lights and fast-moving images)
FNaF (though I'm only up to Security Breach, planning a rewrite)
Team Fortress 2 (planning to do a weird lore-filled universe with a disturbing amount of OC's)
Sonic the Hedgehog (not really caught up with recent installations… Planning a Sonic Boom and Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 focused Rewrite/AU)
Reality Reveries (my codeword for a fanverse including AU versions of Balan Wonderworld, the NiGHTS series, and Sonic Shuffle though sonic and the gang wont appear here)
Maximum Ride (planning a rewrite because it has SO MUCH POTENTIAL AND I LOVED IT AS A KID)
Doki Doki Literature Club (hehe metafictional horror with anime girls go brrrr. I want them to be happy,,,)
ENA (I just think they're very neat!)
Regretevator (a major inspiration)
Liminal spaces in general (I know, I know, trendy, trendy, but I do like them!)
My OC's! (My actual original characters, though they may also be inspired by other things)
Credits:
gif header background: beauty-funny-trippy
Stamp credits, all on Tumblr:
junabuggy
puddinzducky
nonrequestable
autismklok
mxbo
thisdastampdoesnotexist
alpha-artwork
dinnerpartys
oldinterneticons
anotherlittlemuppet
outntherain
creativelyreclined
legality-graphics
numbpill
transmascgarfield
Lumina, Nights, Balan, and Regretevator game trailer stamps by me, made with https://stamps.pixelwavestudio.net/
Regretevator game trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv-PY1o2FE8
For those of you who aren't familiar, I live in an exceptionally flammable part of the United States, and despite the fact that every goddamn year multiple parts of my state catch fire, destroy homes and kill people, the local assholes insist on getting drunk and setting fire to a bunch of illegal explosives anyway.
In 2023, God granted me a Miracle that prevented my house from burning down.
Last year, I had to resort to Psychological and Chemical Warfare to keep the patriotic arsonists at bay.
This year is apparently An Important Birthday for the clusterfuck we have the nerve to call a nation, so despite the fact there is so much smoke in the air that the sun has literally been blood red for the last week, the pyrotechnic fetishists are out in force.
Last year, I hit upon the concept that if my neighbors were going to act like problem animals, it would make sense to use the management techniques on them that you might use on say, a Bear that was doing serious property damage. Thusly, I created The Stench, a nontoxic but FOUL smelling concoction that I could discretely spray around the flammable gatherings and render the area extremely uncomfortable to occupy for the rest of the night, forcing them to give up or move on.
If this seems harsh:
There is no story from 2024 because a grass fire was started by fireworks less than 12 miles from me and the high winds put me in the evacuation zone in under an hour.
Over fifty people lost their homes.
Errant fireworks burning my house down is a very real possibility, and I pay the price in anxiety and insurance premiums.
The Stench is noxious but harmless, and also very effective at building a buffer zone around my home. But sneaking up to parties on foot in this heat is both exhausting and nerve-wracking. There have to be more effective ways to do this
-And there is!
It involves Weeds and Business Cards :)
All of this spring, I've been battling Bindweed and my City Code Enforcement Officers.
The city code people have been professional, but the truth is that one of my neighbors is calling them on use because one of my housemates is transgender. It's extremely grating to get these notices, having to explain repeatedly that I *AM* working on the weed situation, I just have a heart condition and No Money. It's also deeply paranoia-inducing to know that the city is regularly coming by and photographing my house.
The Solution to the Bindweed is 1 gallon of high-concentration vinegar, half a cup of Borax, a quarter cup of salt, and a couple tablespoons of dish soap. Get one of those weed sprayers from a hardware store and mix it up in there. Spray it on your thistles, bindweed, kudzu, garlic mustard or whatever your local herbaceous invasive is on a day with bright sunlight, and in a few hours the entire part of the plant above the soil is Deceased. It's non-toxic to insects, pets and wildlife (just wait a few months before trying to plant anything in the area for the traces to wash out).
The only real downside to this stuff is that it smells HEINOUS.
Sure, The Stench is nauseating, but WeedFucker 5000 is genuinely painful to inhale. Again, it wont hurt people- even my asthmatic housemates can use the stuff- but boy howdy it sure smells toxic. I've got the ingredients for about 40 gallons of WeedFucker 5000 prepared and ready to go.
I've also got a disposable hazmat suit, rubber boots and gloves, respirator, goggles and a shitty little golf cart from the free section of craigslist to haul my shit around in.
I also have Business Cards!
See, the very nice officers from the City Code department left some Very Nice business cards so that I may contact them about "the fucking bindweed is gone, get off my back".
So I scanned the business card into my computer, fired up Clip Studio, and made my own business cards. I've turned my City's Abstract Triangle Logo into an Eye of Providence and the slogan of "E Pluribus Unum" to "E Plurbis Anus", Changed my city's name to a dumb pun, and stated the card originates from "The Department Of Public Nuisances".
Crucially, where the name and contact information of the real city employee has been replaced with the name and business email of the neighbor who has been bragging on facebook about calling the city code department on my home because he hates my housemate :)
It looks, at a glance, very much like the business cards of city employees. If you look at it for like 5 seconds though, there's no way it could be mistaken for the real thing.
I've printed out 500 of these bad boys and will have them on hand as I, a put-upon employee, am forced to work overtime on a national holiday doing weed mitigation, because my boss can't manage deadlines for shit.
You're mad about it? I've been out here since 5 AM! But if we don't finish by the deadline we lose the contract and I could get fired. You know what the economy is.
Here, this is my Boss's Business card- how about you send him an email about how this has ruined your barbecue?
It's golden hour now, so I'm Suiting Up and preparing to embark on some civil service in the form of Noxious Weed Eradication, and by coincidence, Fire Mitigation.
I'll report back later Tonight🫡
(If you'd like to support your local disabled storyteller in their Acts Of Public Service, please consider donating to my Ko-Fi or supporting me on Patreon)
Well.
It's not quite an hour into July 5th.
I am very tired, may have destroyed my sense of smell, and am not sure if I'm proud of or VERY disappointed in my fellow citizens.
On one hand: FAR fewer fireworks parties this year!
- Only nine to last year's thirteen
- three of them had the good sense to be firing their recreational explosives out over the local reservoir
- That's far from foolproof
- and really bad for the fish
- also y'all are RIGHT NEXT to where the Bald Eagles are nesting
- but congratulations on at least attempting some risk mitigation!
On the other hand.
Absolutely NOBODY questioned why the hell I was out spraying weeds.
- In a Hazmat Suit (technically it's a coverall for painting rooms, which is much more breathable, but looks the part)
- In a Residential Area
- After Dark
- On a Federal Holiday
Like I'm glad I didn't get into a fight or something, but like.
I was Ready.
I had that conversation locked and loaded.
I MADE BUSINESS CARDS.
...But instead of Very Reasonably asking What The Fuck I Was Doing, the crowds at these parties saw me (5'0" flat, potato-shaped, sweating profusely) trundling up on the slowest and least-intimidating motor vehicle in the county*, hanging a bit out the side to spray thistles and bindweed on the streets and sidewalks**, and instead of raising a rival stink, I was instead greeted by some derisive muttering and a couple of "OH COME ON!"s, but the groups dispersed and retreated indoors or at least away from the general direction of my home.
*Like genuinely, I think Barbie's Dream Car has more horsepower than this golf cart. This thing doesn't have horsepower. It doesn't even have ponypower. It's running on duckpower. It waddles, something I didn't know a wheeled vehicle could do.
**Actually completely legal and a welcome community service in my city. Thank you Neighbor Barbara for telling me the exact part of city code that details what civilians are allowed to do about weeds on public roads, which is apparently "LOTS". Theoretically I could bill the city for my time tonight.
Do people not know how to Make A Scene anymore?
I was absolutely sure I was going to get filmed and shit thrown at me, or someone would call the cops. My beloved was terrified I was going to get shot. I at least had ONE woman shout "YOU'RE RUINING EVERYTHING!" at me, which isn't quite as good as being told I'm ruining Christmas, but she said it with a genuinely heartwarming anguish while gesturing to a homemade "HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!!" banner, with an attempt at rendering The Evil Orange that as so enthusiastically yet talentlessly executed I almost stopped to get a picture of it. He looked like he'd been put in a wafflemaker.
I promised my beloved that I would turn around and come home at midnight, and I did, having eliminated every fireworks party and Scottish thistle in a five-block radius despite the lackadaisical maximum speed of my Steel Steed.
The complete lack of protest is honestly shocking to me. My flabbers are completely gasted. I waddled home on the golf cart in a sort of stunned silence that this HAS worked so well. The whole world is almost eerily quiet, and reeking of vinegar.
...Which is maybe why I didn't notice the cop pulling up beside me at a red light until he rolled down his window and leaned out at me.
"WHAT'RE YOU DOIN'?" He asked, in a voice that could be used as a foghorn in emergencies.
I probably would have jumped were I not currently melting into a semblance of the Chernobyl Elephant's Foot in the heat, which was the first thing that saved me.
The second was the voice of my Grandfather, coming to my aid through decades of generational memory, to tell me his words of wisdom, usually spoken right before doing something wildly inadvisable:
The Age Of Miracles Is Not Yet Over.
"Weed Mitigation!" I called back.
"CHRIST ON A BIKE, THEY GOT YOU GUYS WORKING THE HOLIDAY TOO?" He said, in the same fontissimo as before. Apparently Officer Foghorn just talks like this.
"Yep." I nodded.
"SHIT." He blared in solidarity. "WHEN DO YOU GET OFF?"
"Just finished."
"MOTHERFUCKER. THEY GOT ME OUT HERE UNTIL GODDAMN 5 AM." Officer Foghorn whined in THX.
"Shit." I commiserated.
The light turned green.
"ALRIGHT YOU GET HOME SAFE! GOD BLESS!" He waved, and drove off at something significantly above the speed limit, and I trundled on home.
I must have still looked shocked when I came in, because My Beloved immediately got up to hug me and ask if I was alright.
"The Age Of Miracles Is Not Yet Over." I nodded slowly as the animals all battered me about the legs for attention. "...For real though, absolutely nothing happened."
"What?" he squints, wobbling slightly as Charlie tries to shove him aside for better access to me. "That's... Is it weird to say I'm almost disappointed?"
"I mean, I confirmed that I inherited my Grandfather's supernatural ability to get out of trouble for no good reason, but we knew that from the code enforcement people." I shrugged. Selene finally noticed the smell of vinegar and retched in disapproval.
"How about a shower and some Ice cream?" My Beloved suggests.
So now it is July the 5th.
- My house is not ablaze
- There are four medium-sized carnivores sleeping on me
- I am freshly bathed
- and I have a pint of Americone Dream all to myself
Here's to you, your health and your happiness, and a reminder to go make good trouble. Goodnight all.
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(If you enjoy reading about my adventures (and the occasional curious non-adventure) I'd appreciate it if you could tip me on Ko-Fi. Apparently my Patreon link is fucked but it's basically 1 in the morning and I can't be arsed.)
Please does anyone have anything to spare. I got my period and I'm in terrible pain, I need to be somewhere to clean up. I can't walk around outside with blood on me. I need to stay nights in a hotel away from prying eyes. I need to buy period products. I'm serious, I can't be sleeping outside or walking around like this, it would get me in trouble (I'm a homeless black trans man....in FLORIDA) So I want to just have my privacy and stay low. Plus I want to be out of the heatwave too.
Heatwave + Periods = I'll pass out and I don't want that.
Its raining here now and that's still not better. I want to have more nights in the hotel so I can take care of myself while in my cycle and I can just take a bath and rest. Again I don't want to be bleeding all out in the streets. Mostly when it's storming and then there is a heatwave, I'll literally die 😭 that and I need things to help me get period products and get food because I've lost a lot of blood all day I passed out two times.
Hello everyone how's it going, it's been some days and I want to update my whereabouts and situation.
I did get terribly sick, but I bought a new blanket so I'm warm. I don't know if the storm passed but we have a terrible heatwave here in Florida. It's blazing hot and it's been hard to keep cool. My dog had a seizure and it was terrifying, I don't know if it's from the heat or something else but she's okay now, I had to make sure she is cool.
I was able to buy some food and ate what I could eat. Bought a new shirt and pants, wasn't much but I have clean clothes.
Just right now we just need to get into a hotel since the sun is blazing. I can't be in scorching heat due to my COPD and my dog is sensitive to heat (my last dog died from the heat) so I want us somewhere cooling and I can take a nice shower.
I'm still trying to get enough of $1,000 for the rest of my things! Paypal
look I'm not healthy mentally right now, I spiraled and tried to take my life due to stress. I'm tired and I just want to rest, be with my mom and take care of my dog. I want to sleep in a hotel room and just be at peace, that's it. I'm only here because my dog had a seizure and I didn't want to lose her, so I'm here. I'm trying my best to stay strong for her and my friends.
Everyone please help me get a hotel room this weekend. I'm just tired, the heatwave is so much, it's hard to breathe and TMI I got my period and is cramping in the most painful way possible it's agonizing. I don't have anything to wipe off the blood, I'm literally losing my mind please help me get some rooms in a hotel.
White people. Mass media. Internet users. Shut the fuck up about "skinwalkers." That's not. Well okay one you're entirely wrong about the concept and two stop co opting indigenous culture into your own "quirky" bullshit fuck you. This also goes for the other thing white people stole from native culture and took it to mean "scary monster 😨" that I'm not saying on account of yknow. Part of the point and the actual thing behind it is that you're not supposed to say the name. And I for one respect my culture I wish other people did too. Treat native cultures with the respect they deserve. Fucker.
I don't wanna regurgitate everything I wrote about him here, so I'll just link the art fight here, it has stuff there if you want to know about him (And maybe even draw him? 🥺👉👈)
