Vet costs have struck again 😅 so I'm currently running a SALE until June 18th! This time on digital custom artwork only. This includes pet portraits, wildlife art, human portraits and OC art of all sorts (except NSFW stuff)! Head to my website js-tierportraits to find the shop.
Please note that I still haven't figured out the current shipping situation to the US, so for now I'd prefer to stick to the digital stuff. Unless you're patient enough for me to sort it out, of course. Let me know in this case!
The proceeds of this will ensure I'll be able to take Sammy to his follow-up appointment and to get something to eat for myself for the rest of the month, so anything would help. Reblogs are also massively appreciated!!
More info on what happened under the cut.
So Sammy hasn't been feeling well over the weekend with tummy aches and frequent vomiting, so I took him to the emergency vet after calling them for their opinion on it. We were fearing he might have a blockage again, which so far turned out to be not the case; at least he's feeling noticeable better now. Still not too keen on going for walks, but at least he walks for short distances on his own again.
This improvement was why I decided to take him to a scheduled appointment at the eye specialist, because his left eye HAD been worsening and I wanted them to look at it asap. I honestly didn't expect it to turn out that much worse 😅 I also just ordered pet food for about 75€ on Saturday, which has not yet been processed by my bank. At least the dogs are fed for the month.
Sammy's condition worsened from a mere keratocunjunctivitis sicca (dry eyes), for which he already has to get 2 types of eye drops for the rest of his life, to a bullous keratopathy (painful swelling of and blisters on the surface of the cornea) on top. Between these two vet visits plus taxi costs to take us to the emergency clinic on Sunday, which unfortunately is located outside of the city, I had to pay over 700€. Additionally, in two weeks Sammy has a follow-up appointment with the eye specialist, which I expect will be around another 200-300€. This will completely drain my money for the entire month, so anything will help!
If possible I'd also love to pay the wonderful person who usually drives me to appointments, I currently owe him about 100€ for April and May together (he was busy with his job on Sunday so unfortunately wasn't able to drive us). In the worst case I'll have to do that later, though, he will understand.
Also, here are the two receipts from Sunday and today as well as a pic of Sammy from earlier today in his cone of shame 😅 it's not visible in the pic, but he now wears a contact lens for protection in his left eye.
Josefine is a wonderful artist and a lovely person who clearly loves to do these portraits and knows how much these pets mean to their people. I commissioned this memorial portrait for my partner of our lovely departed cat Cricket since he was her favorite person. He teared up when he saw it and a beautiful print of it still hangs in his office.
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not only is it just like… boring to make every single close relationship romantic it’s also just sort of. weird and almost Sad that every act of affection has to have some romantic or sexual alterior motive? like yall don’t hug your friends? don’t tell them you love them? don’t stick your feet in their lap when you sit on a couch together or rest your head on their shoulder or put your arm around their neck while you walk next to each other? you don’t do random acts of kindness for them because you care about them? you don’t hold their hand? don’t say good night or good morning or text me when you get home safe?
I’m so tired of every single act of love and affection and care between two characters being taken as romantic like please I am Begging you let friends exist. this mindset seeps into the real actual world n has a negative affect in the real actual world n has yall shipping real life people because you don’t understand how friends work and think that two people liking each other and having fun together must mean they’re In Love
n I’ve talked about this before but romanticizing and sexualizing all expressions of love and affection also results in fictional sibling relationships being stripped of their intimacy. no one can portray siblings cuddling or kissing each other on the cheek or sleeping in the same bed because it will Automatically be perceived as romantic or sexual. this also has a negative affect on the real actual world, as proven by the dozens and dozens of people on my last post about this saying that seeing this being done to fictional siblings made them uncomfortable expressing affection and sharing intamacy w their siblings in Real Life which is honestly one of the most heart breaking things I’ve ever heard
this isn’t about me not liking a certain ship or not seeing the chemistry between two characters its about how its Genuinely concerning that yall cannot view affection and love and care and devotion in any way besides romantic or sexual. I could go on and on and on about how its narratively boring or ineffective or annoying in a purely technical and analytical sense from a writing point of view, but mostly I just want yall to know that its weird and unhealthy to think this way and that fanbases at large having the inability to interpret any show of connection and care between two characters as anything but romantic/sexual is legitimately concerning and harmful
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Wait, so...Why DID 4E underperform? Or is that outside your expertise here? (No shame if so, you're a game designer, not a market analyst. You can tell by the having a soul).
(With reference to this post here.)
There were a couple of major factors in play there.
First, a big chunk of Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition's popularity had come about due to robust third-party support, published under the auspices of Open Game License (OGL). Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition, however, was not licensed under the OGL, being subject to a much more restrictive license imaginatively titled the Game System License, or GSL. Hasbro reportedly refused to negotiate with existing third-party publishers to get them on board with the GSL, or to offer transition support of any kind; instead, they simply demanded an immediate halt to the publication of all 3E material, and attempted to bludgeon publishers into compliance by threatening to yank their trademark authorisations (i.e., the agreements which allowed them to put the "D&D compatible" logo on the covers of their books).
Predictably, this approach was not well received. The largest of 3E's third-party supporters, Paizo Publishing (now Paizo Inc.), elected to produce their own game which was statblock-compatible with 3E in order to provide a venue for other publishers to continue producing OGL material; many of their peers decided to gamble on Paizo's plan rather than play ball with Hasbro, and this is how we got Pathfinder. Hasbro's behaviour thus caused D&D's third-party support to crater nearly to zero with the publication of 4E and created D&D's largest competitor.
Second, 4E was badly behind the curve on digital availability. Shortly before 4E was scheduled to drop, the digital masters (i.e., the files provided to printers in order to manufacture the books) were leaked on file sharing networks. Hasbro responded by panicking and ordering an immediate and indefinite halt to e-book publication of D&D material (in spite of the fact that the leak had demonstrably originated from their print production arm rather than their e-publishing arm), even going so far as to refuse to honour pre-orders for 4E's now cancelled e-book version.
Combined with a series of mismanagement-induced delays which caused 4E's virtual tabletop tools to miss the game's publication date entirely, and a decision to paywall what few first-party resources did manage to hit their target behind a monthly subscription, this resulted in 4E being available exclusively in print for the first two full years of its lifespan, at a time when D&D's competitors – including the aforementioned Pathfinder – were literally giving their core rules away in digital form for free.
As you say, I'm no market analyst, but I have a strong suspicion that "alienating practically all third-party publishers for a game line which was critically dependent on robust third-party support", "being the first edition of the game ever to face significant direct competition", and "making a game which dropped in the middle of the worst economic recession in thirty years available exclusively as an expensive printed set" resulted in the 4E stepping up to the plate with three strikes already against it. Add to that the almost comical ineptitude of Hasbro's advertising for 4E, and the usual drama of any major edition turnover, and... well.
"But what about the rules" sure, there were some issues with 4E's mechanics, but you need to understand that "4E underperformed because people hated the rules" isn't just a convenient narrative for edition-warring grognards; it's also a fiction which Hasbro itself has tacitly embraced, because the alternative is acknowledging that their publishing department repeatedly shit the bed on 4E's rollout.
this kind of thing sounds like something that would kill d&d as a franchise entirely with how badly hasbro fumbled it, so i'm surprised to see 5e not only still kicking, but also still the primary force to the point that people will say "homebrew 5e" for anything. what's up with that?
"Commercially underperformed" doesn't mean "failed". Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition was still the single best-selling tabletop RPG on the market every year of its lifespan. The idea that nobody bought it at all is another of those edition-warrior myths.
I lowkey hate when programs talk to me in a friendly way. "don't worry, nearly there!" Shut up. It should say "loading 64.3% completed. Do not turn off device" and absolutely nothing else. You arent my friend you are computer. Act like it
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im just so happy i live in a time period where actual meaningful biological transition is possible. even if we lose rights or the ability to exist in public, nothing can turn back the clock on that, and just by having any sort of access to that our lives are made immensely better. millions of our sisters throughout history would never have dreamed of a day where they could have what HRT does for us.
please don't lose the plot of this. if you're a trans person on HRT you're a living miracle, the dream of hundreds of millions of your ancestors. your lives are all deeply meaningful no matter what anyone says.
Cursed be the one who announced to my father:
“It’s a boy!"...
...How could he twist the course of the stars so much?
How could he have erred so in his astrology?
A lying tongue, a fool’s mouth it had given him
For he foolishly transformed justice to poison
He altered the law and transposed the lines
Oh, but had the artisan who made me created me instead – a worthy woman...
...I would say "how lucky am I"
Father in heaven
who did miracles for our ancestors with fire and water...
...Who would then transform me from a man to woman?
Were I only to have merited this being so graced by goodness...
What shall I say?
why cry or be bitter?
If my father in heaven has decreed upon me
and has maimed me with an immutable deformity
then I do not wish to remove it.
the sorrow of the impossible is a human pain that nothing will cure
and for which no comfort can be found.
So, I will bear and suffer until I die and wither in the ground.
Since I have learned from our tradition
that we bless both, the good and the bitter
I will bless in a voice hushed and weak:
blessed are you [HaShem] who has not made me a woman.
ppl use crab bucket metaphor to describe the lateral social violence of oppressed people, but tbh I think it's more like how sometimes when chickens are kept in such abysmal horrific close quarters conditions with no ability to make decisions or control any aspect of their lives, they just start violently attacking each other, to the point where some factory farms where this is a problem simply cut or trim parts of their beaks off so they can't do as much damage. because this is more cost effective than providing them with more space, species specific enrichment, appropriate lighting, etc, and the system we live under prioritizes cost effectiveness over the well-being of alive creatures.
it would be a mistake to think that this represents the natural behavior of chickens.
it would be a mistake to think that the social displacement harms we do to each other as marginalized people under a great deal of stress, under capitalism, represents the natural behavior of people.
human beings, however, possess the ability to learn to identify when we are engaging in this type of lateral social violence, and the ability to prioritize developing alternate coping mechanisms that cause less harm to the other people in our communities, and leave us with more energy to address the actual causes of our suffering.
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Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"
