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if you'd rather buy a plushie - here's the shop he and his wife run!

his wife also been in an accident and has been down and out due to illness and injury

ppal + gfm + site shop

I've been running this blog for over ten years now. Over that time, I've made 1999 monsters for Pathfinder RPG, all available for free on tumblr. Monster 2000 posts very soon. I'm not planning on quitting anytime soon; I've got some new ideas that'll really make 'em scream.

I am also a trans woman. Who was forced to quit her last job over being bullied by students in the classroom and the administration's insufficient response. I have gotten all of one job interview in the whole time I've been looking for work, and I didn't get that job. Although I have launched a Patreon, and I'm very proud of how active it is... it's only a fraction of my rent. And my savings are dwindling as costs are rising.

If you like the monsters I've written. If you've reblogged my posts. If you've stumbled on this site through a Google search because apparently I'm considered an expert on obscure monsters now. Please, I could use the help. My paypal is here and my Patreon is here.

Still unemployed, broke and worried.

My Paypal.me

Monday, May 11th: Hello, everyone. I’m Gem, a bi, mentally ill, and disabled woman in desperate need of help, as I'm drowning in debt and I need help!!

I'm sorry that I have to e-beg again. However, as most of you know from my previous posts, I have been struggling to make ends meet while on welfare. And due to my outstanding bills and ever-increasing debt, it has been difficult for me to make ends meet. With the rising cost of living, I have been relying on my credit cards to pay bills and simply get by on a day-to-day basis.

This has cost me a great deal, and repaying them is more than I can afford. I keep making little posts to pay the minimum balance, but by the next month, I need help again. I've also had a few health scares these past few months, and I've had to make trips to and from the hospital. I was recently diagnosed with a Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver condition, which could turn into Liver disease if I'm not careful.

With this and debt hanging over my head, it's becoming more than I can handle on my own. I owe £1,100 to one credit card and £1000 to another. I am in no way asking for help with the full amounts, but if I can manage to pay at least half of them, then I can breathe a little easier, and I won't need as much/or any in the future. *evidence of my CC's can be provided*

I don’t receive my welfare until the 29th, and I have one of these CC bills due on the 27th, and I desperately need help to pay it!!

Again, I know this is a lot to ask, but if anyone could spare any amount to help me, even if it’s just £1/$1/€1, it would mean a lot, and sharing helps just as much. 

Thank you ❤️

£90/£1,150!!

Jono Ridler is swimming the length of the NZ North Island (about 1400km), no wetsuit or anything, to raise awareness. A few hours swimming, then a few hours to sleep/eat, and repeat. We are currently at almost 1200km! He's been going since January.

The petition is going strong too and we would all appreciate if you would consider adding your name :)

you can also find regular updates on the website:

We're completely broke after having to pay off 7 months of internet bills to get our internet turned back on because our ISP started sending our internet bills to a digital mail address tied to my wife's old SSN due to a mistake in their payment system. We don't have any food left after budgeting our meal planning, and we could really use some help with groceries and medicine for the rest of the month.

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My dear friend has been having some financial and medical troubles lately. If you’re able to donate and/or spread this around, it would be greatly appreciated 💕

My dear friend has been having some financial and medical troubles lately. If you’re able to donate and/or spread this around, it would be greatly appreciated 💕

[The Codex is returning to its roots for a bit with a string of yokai. There are so many miscellaneous small predaceous mammal shapeshifters in Japan. Tanuki are raccoon dogs. Kitsune are foxes. Mujina are badgers. Kawauso are otters. And itachi are weasels. And they feel somewhat underloved compared to the others. You're more likely to see references to itachi in the context of blaming some other yokai sighting or attack as an itachi in disguise. So I wanted to play into that in the flavor text a bit, but not give them peerless shapeshifting as I wanted them to be pretty low CR.

Like what I do? Want to support the Codex? Come join the Creature Codex Patreon here!]

Itachi CR 3 CE Monstrous Humanoid This creature looks something like a weasel about the size of a human child, but it walks upright and its paws are as dexterous as human hands. It has an expression of malicious glee.

The itachi are sapient shapeshifting weasels with a penchant for mayhem and arson. Itachi have a mastery over and obsession with fire, and they often amuse themselves by lighting structures, plants or animals on fire and watching them burn. Itachi tend to view collateral damage as hilarious as long as they’re not the ones suffering from it, and are not particularly careful about little things like not setting their own allies on fire. Itachi can wreathe themselves with fiery shields for some protection, but they can only do so for short periods of time, and most itachi are pockmarked with burn scars from carelessness. Itachi are passable shapechangers, able to assume the form of a mundane weasel or various humanoids, but deliberately spread misinformation about their shapeshifting abilities. If all the rumors are to be believed, itachi can turn into giant weasels, just plain giants, will o wisps and a dozen different types of yokai. This is psychological warfare on the itachi’s part—they love to sew confusion and violence, and are delighted when others are blamed for their actions.

Itachi tend to live in small villages in remote wilderness areas, but infiltrate humanoid societies in disguise in order to steal things they want (often alcohol) and set ablaze what they don’t. A single itachi is a menace, but multiple of them grow increasingly dangerous. When itachi collaborate, they can access more and more powerful fire spells, leading to bigger, deadlier and much more exciting blazes. When their settlements come under attack, itachi group up, standing on each other’s shoulders in towers from which they hurl fiery spells. They tend to keep mundane weasels of all sizes as pets and guard animals, partially in order to raise doubts about what is an animal and what is an itachi in disguise.

Most peoples see itachi as nothing but a threat, but many goblins view them as culture heroes. Goblin tribes tend to have a named itachi as a legendary figure, such as Burny Blight or Sizzlepaws, and assume that all itachi they encounter either know their hero or simply are them. A few itachi take advantage of this and become the de facto rulers of a goblin tribe, leading them on raids until they get their followers killed off or the itachi stops having fun. Trolls are terrified of itachi for their fiery abilities. Itachi are very impressed with fire elementals of all sorts in theory, although in practice they find efreeti and azers stodgy and unfun.

Itachi are primarily carnivorous, and typically cook their food until it is well charred. They have long lifespans—equivalent to that of dwarves—but many die before their time due to misadventure.

flooding in the indigenous communities of huasteca potosina, sent to me by my nahuatl teacher, tlatoanitsin. (posted with his permission) he's currently organising disaster relief for people who have been displaced by the floods, which have wiped out their homes, power, and roads. right now relief efforts are in need of basic essentials, mostly food, to be able to support the people who have lost everything until the waters recede. if you have a couple of dollars to spare, please consider helping out with the disaster relief efforts, a little goes a long way. i've given $30, and hope i can reach a few people here! you can see more footage of the floods direct from the riverbank here https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPol-fXkQfl/ or a newsreel about it here, showing the flood in a larger community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH9fitX8_Ns

tlatoanitsin's paypal here if you want to help out http://paypal.me/dMarcelinoCayetano

(can also read the post in the doc below if you don't use instagram) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UbbolL1M6ZtCWTEnidQBZaC1-LhyngbRGYSyG00J6oQ/edit?tab=t.0

This is open for public comment until the end of May 19th. Please comment and make your voice heard.

First to establish the rules: to get an official reply from the commission and possibly legislation, an initiative needs 1 million signatures within 1 year AND at least 7 different countries need to hit their threshold which is calculated based on population (idk how it's calculated but a little more than 1 in 1000 adult citizens of the country need to sign to hit its threshold). This is to ensure that not all the support for an initiative comes from one or very few countries.

Ok so here's the graph for signatures that the conversion therapy ban got over time according to the wayback machine:

The deadline is in 2 days as I write this and there's a MASSIVE last minute push! 415,223 signatures to go still but the last update to the website added about 360,000 all at once. I think it might still be possible after all.

This is open for public comment until the end of May 19th. Please comment and make your voice heard.