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Couriers coming upon a rare morning sight. Repainted an older piece for a class project early last month!

we need help again...

I hate hate hate hate to make this post but we could really use some help. Mostly because I am uninsured until my job opens enrollment for its health insurance in June and on the eve of us signing the apartment lease tomorrow, I have contracted strep throat from my coworkers. Hooray!

I'm gonna try and get an appointment at the community health center doctor's tomorrow because I straight up don't have the money or time to go to the CVS minuteclinic across the street. They said it was $139 for a strep appointment without insurance, I said hell no... If I wait another day I can try and get a sliding scale $40 appt at the doctors. Right now is just stressful because we need money and because they didn't give us our security deposit back I'm not going to have enough money for my bills the beginning of the month. Plus there are literally THREE prescriptions I have asides from however much a Z pack will likely cost and one of them is an ointment from a compound pharmacy that I don't have money to pay for~!!!! 😭😭😭

Asides from that I am afraid that we miscalculated how much we have for rent for May so I'm trying to see about covering those costs so we aren't paying 3 days late into the month of May for our May rent first month. I really don't want to have a bad first impression with these people. They've been very kind to us so far with renting this new place but I don't want to push the limits.

I've already asked my dad for help but he wasn't able to spare enough for us to be totally covered + he needs me to pay him back by August. During the month of April I also applied to multiple credit unions for personal loans and got rejected...

So my total expenses are:

- Medication/Doctor's visit (including pre-existing prescriptions that I haven't had the money to pick up) ($160)

- Phone bill ($75 for this first month, should be going down next month as verizon charges my account with different coding)

- costs for rent/move (like hopefully $200 idk. I think we can swing the last hundred)

In addition: Because of my history of struggling with commissions due to my psychiatric disability, I don't really want to do this but if you donate a sum above $100 you can ask me to digitally paint something for you. Please no complicated requests or anything since I've been struggling with art for years now from depression/anxiety etc. but I would feel indebted to you if I didn't do anything. If this is something you'd like please DM me/send me an ask off anon.

* As for why we have been so financially fucked this month. Our current apartment complex (yes the one with the leaks, roaches, harmful construction noises etc.) has kept our security deposit which has us out $300 that we could've used towards the new place. They have fucked us over one last time.

My paypal as always is at: paypal.me/roseod

And please share if you can. Every reblog/donation of even a small amount is appreciated. Thank you all so much for supporting me.

smolmilkling

COMMISSIONS OPEN!

Prices (Bust/Half-body/Full-body)

Lineart: $10/20/30 USD Flat Colors: $20/30/45 USD Full Color + Shading: $30/45/60 USD

Backgrounds are an additional $20 Additional characters are +50% per Particularly complicated designs may be subject to additional charge Payment accepted through Paypal

WILL DO:

Fanart and Original Characters (Especially Dnd characters!) Character design and ref sheets Gore/Violence Pin-up/Lingerie

Things not specifically mentioned can be discussed :)

WILL NOT DO:

Explicit NSFW Mechas (sorry)

Examples of Work

Full Illustration

Character Design/Ref sheets

Pin-up/Lingerie

Give me money and I will draw you things

smolmilkling

I had to pay a bunch of money for emergency vet bills and will probably have to pay some more soon so if you were thinking of getting artwork commissioned, then please consider me.

#boost!#xzvch does good stuff and could use the help rn!!!

What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

And I just got confirmation from a second ex-colleague that a deal with midjourney has been brewing since months ago. Not any extra details, just that's a real thing.

Shit, I don't see any way for this to happen that doesn't make it an apocalyptic event the size of the porn ban. Fuck.

Shit. This may be pure chance and coincidence, and it's not he is in a position to be able to talk about anything, but seeing prominent staff members announcing they are moving their original photography out of tumblr just two weeks ago seems a pretty significant cue of shit to be about to hit the fan.

official-toriel

This was made to be a fun joke blog ot whatever but for the love of God donate anything you can spread information talk about it in your families call your reps!!! 5 calls palestine is a website that gives you a call script please email your reps about a free Palestine North Gaza is starving and millions are trapped in Rafah. Please keep protesting keep boycotting in everything you do

official-toriel

You can donate to the unrwa!! Or the PCRF, Go to their website! There's also ways to send e-sims, look at my recent reblogs!

If you can't donate at all that's OK, no need to justify or tell anyone that you can't. You can go to the BDS website as well to boycott Israeli goods, which costs no money :)

If you can attend protests too, go!

Though to anyone who says "I can't do this or that," just do what you can! Everything counts! Do as much as you can!

Here's a master guide too! Educate yourself as much as possible too!

Just keep talking about Palestine. Keep reblogging and sharing about it as much as you can on all socials no matter the followers.

I will ALSO be hosting a Fate furries meet and greet on Saturday at 9pm in the Hilton Santa Clara room! Come hang out and chat about your favorite characters, and maybe get a temporary tattoo command seal!?

#furry #fate #further confusion 2024