Generous Snow

I could really use some money help right now. I really don’t want to ask for help but given my current situation It’s really needed. I moved in with my significant other about 2 months ago, we haven’t had much money and we at least had half a meal a day because of the job that she had. Though now since she had quit her job, especially since they were about to fire her for very dumb reasons that are truly false and i’m currently the only one making money at $9/hr and only working 4 days a week.

 It might seem like a lot but it’s kind of not. We are really behind on rent and the money that we have isn’t enough and the apartment office doesn’t take partial payments. I’ve been really stressed out and anxious because of not having enough money. We are also only down to 2 packs of ramen noodles and I’m also really worried about us not being able to eat.

Any help at all would be very much appreciated. Again, I really don’t like having to ask for help but there are times where you just have to give in and ask. My PayPal is : https://www.paypal.me/Lumint

This is getting kind of ridiculous.

Please reblog this post if you are willing to write with ‘un-shippable’ muses. 

I’m talking about those muses who are perhaps elderly, who are married/taken and not liable to affairs, muses who are asexual/aromantic, or even just muses whose muns don’t really want to ship. 

Hello Anon, 

I do believe that they aren’t done with the whole race yet, but pushed the announcement for Paris for many reasons:- All the Viera had the exact same face, including the ears. When it was asked to the Lead Concept Artist if the folded ears will be available, she answered yes, but we only saw some arts of those.- If you take a close look none of them have a tail, while it’s clearly showed on the concept arts. Unless they manage to fit it on this quite unpractical outfit.You clearly see this when the camera spin around the Viera running in the wood. She had no tail at all. Or a detachable one.- The emotes used for the video was the Au ra ones.- The art showing the male have the same flair as every single other base outfit you begin the game with. Those might have been early concept or close to what we’ll get.- I know they said that everybody would have Fran’s outfit, but I am really unsure of that. Giving an important / emblematic outfit of a character appearing in the game before was available in three different ways and no more: F.A.T.E (cf FFXIII events), Veteran reward (FFVII Advent Child and FFIX outfit) our Moogle Shop. Fran’s outfit is very specific so it does make sense to make it Viera exclusive, does it mean that it will be instantly available ? I am actually not sure despite what they said.

Lastly, something I’m not 100% sure but people will probably discuss about:- Every single Viera in the video seem to be of the same height, same sliders, same everything except the skin color. It is possible that they only took Fran’s already ready body + outfit and changed the head to make the video quickly. If you have a close look, you might notice that if they somehow look different, it’s only related to the camera angle and the pose of the character.

Oh, and don’t forget about this :

I hope I helped Anon, we cannot be sure of anything for now, what I wrote is only to advice people to not make hasty conclusion. While there is only 5 months left before the game’s release, it is possible that when they prepared everything they didn’t progress enough to show the final appearance of the Viera, including the males one.The reason why they chose to show such an incomplete project might be related to how many people were asking to see them or because they want to release something even more special for the Japan Fanfest.

i’ve seen a lot of people upset and fighting with one another over this and i wanted to share my own opinion and especially some evidence i think people are overlooking right now, specifically this 

its very hard to notice on a full watch through because really people are so excited about the reveal in general but…. these 4 viera women in the preview share the same face model. this means likely the viera are still so new in development these prototypes (as stated they are) were pushed out quickly to deliver fans with something to be excited about during fanfest and were easier to make than males as they didnt need to be started from the ground up due to fran already being modeled. they prioritized showing off customization capabilities of different ear types and some of the hair selections over armor and even more faces.

I woke up this morning to a text message saying that my Grandfather had passed away in the early hours of the morning. I would really like to be able to go down for the funeral and be there for my Dad and family as we say goodbye to the only Grandfather I have known. Though money is a bit tight at the moment, and there is a few things we would have to do to make sure that the car we were able to procure after my accident will make the 15 hr trip from Iowa to Mississippi or to get a rental. If anyone would like donate it would be extremely helpful. All donations no matter how small would be used to help me be able to purchase food/gas for me and the family.

There are a few ways you can donate: 

paypal:  paypal.me/SFerguson596

GoFundMe

Here are a few pointers to start you off.

Wear layers. The more layers the better. Pockets of air get trapped between each layer and act like insulation for you so your stay much warmer than with a single heavier layer.

If you’re sweating remove some layers. Sweat can kill you. The last thing you want is your body producing liquid that can then freeze on your skin.

Get candles. As many as you can. If the worst case happens and you lose power a candle in a small space can keep you warm and alive for far longer than you would expect.

If you’re really concerned about losing power and don’t have anywhere to go for shelter, build your own. If you’ve got snow make a quinzee. It’s like a ghetto version of an igloo. You can find some instructions here. If you’ve got a way to pile snow quickly that’s even better. Believe me, a quinzee with a candle will keep you warmer than being in your house. Especially if you build a wind break wall. DO NOT forget to make sure there is adequate ventilation.

If you don’t have power sleep naked. At the most you can wear a pair of socks and a toque (knitted cap), anything more can cause you to sweat. Keep the clothes you are planning to change into in the sleeping bag/blankets with you so they’re already warm from your body heat when you go to put them on.

Do as little as humanly possible. Avoid being outdoors if you can and if you can’t protect yourself from the wind. Cover every inch of skin you can manage to cover.

If you have hypothermia warm yourself slowly!! Do not jump into a tub of hot water or you’ll likely burn yourself. You can’t tell how hot something is at that point. Same if you have frost bite.

If someone you love has hypothermia DO NOT share your body heat with them unless you can easily get warm again. I know it’s sexy in fanfics but in real life it can lead to you both becoming hypothermic and dying. You can use your body heat to warm some blankets and exchange them for the cooling ones they’re using until they can produce enough heat on their own to make their own pocket of warm air but be very careful that you don’t let your own temperature drop too much. Shivering is bad but not shivering anymore when it’s still cold is much worse.

If your hands are cold the best place to warm them against your body is under your armpits or, even better, your groin.

Snow makes an excellent insulator. If your car breaks down somewhere and you don’t know when you’ll be able to get help then cover your car in as much snow as you can manage (make sure you also make it obvious someone in the area needs help.) Even burying yourself in the snow is better than staying exposed to the air.

If your water shuts off don’t just melt snow to drink, boil it first. Snow, in general, is pretty safe but there is still a chance it can make you sick and you can’t risk that in a survival situation.

DO NOT START A FIRE IN YOUR HOME. Unless you have a fireplace with proper ventilation just don’t do it.

Some time ago we took a long, hard look at how we stacked up to the recommendations outlined in the Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium. This is the initiative that sets standards for accessibility for people who may need assistance using the internet. It outlines steps to take and tools to use to create as seamless of an experience online as possible, whether you have auditory, visual, or neurological disabilities, are using a limited device, are on a slow connection with limited bandwidth, or…well, a whole bunch of other reasons.

The result of that long, hard look? Not great. We needed to make sure Tumblr was accessible to anyone who wants to use it.

Over the past few weeks we’ve been making changes to do just that. Our inaccessible menus are more accessible, we fixed our poorly described elements, and increased overall readability. You can read more about all that in our most recent @javascript post about the mobile web.

Part of making Tumblr more accessible involved upping the color contrast in our UI, most notably on the dashboard and everywhere else that familiar blue touches. The light grays and muted blues had a contrast ratio of 2.02:1. What does that mean? Bad. It was bad, and we needed to do better by people with visual impairments.

Enter your new dashboard:

It looks…cleaner, doesn’t it? Like someone dusted off the poorly accessible bits. The blue is darker, the grays are lighter, all the buttons and icons are brighter with our new brand colors, and it has a contrast ratio of 7.87:1 What does that mean? Good! Very good.

The switch to your brand new, higher contrast, less dusty dashboard has been slowly rolling out this week. If you haven’t seen it yet, you’ll get it sometime in the next few days.

A note: We know that this color change on the dashboard negatively impacts the beautiful bluespace art so many of you have created over the past few years. Seeing these older posts lose the utilization of the dashboard—something that made them so special and unique to just Tumblr—is certainly not a great feeling. There’s no way around that. We hope, however, that this change only means newer, more bluespace art will be created, and that this time around it will be easier for everyone to experience.

this?

this is Earthly Star

this is what it does.  you should stand in it and keep mobs in it.  

why?

DO YOU SEE THE 540/720 CURE POTENCY THERE

THAT IS NOT INSIGNIFICANT HEALING OK (I have had it crit for close to 25k before)

PLEASE

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF BEANS

PLEASE STAND IN THE CIRCLE PLEASE.  PLEASE GO BACK IN THE CIRCLE AFTER THE AOE IS DONE.  PLEASE TRY TO PULL MOBS TO THE CIRCLE

PLEASE

EARTHLY STAR IS LOVE

First off, these are Emergency Commissions and will be open permanently or until further notice. The title on my blog page will change if they’re closed. Journals on Deviantart and pinned post on Twitter will also be changed right away if they’re closed, so if they say open, assume that they are still.

!!Trigger warnings ahead for child abuse mentions, alcoholism, and domestic violence.!! 

!!Trigger warnings ahead for child abuse mentions, alcoholism, and domestic violence.!!

So I’ve never really gone in-depth about my situation in public because I’ve always felt very uncomfortable talking about this to strangers. I’ll try to sum it up to the best of my ability but I think a bit of backstory is necessary in this situation.

Now onto the gritty stuff.

My parents have been abusing me since I was 12 years old– and when I say parents I mean my mother and my aunt, who raised me. No father in the picture, and no family members helped/are around to help. My Aunt fell into heavy drinking around the time I was 12, and it spiraled down into a mess of physical abuse, verbal threats and gaslighting. My mom was always working at the time- she worked until I was about 16 until she lost her job, but while she was at work and I was home from school, my aunt would do things to me that she’d work to lie about as soon as my mom got home. 

She would threaten me with violence, hit me, chase me out of the house. She’s thrown me into things; screamed at me– no matter what she did, she’d either lie and say it didn’t happen to my mom, who never wanted to deal with it and thus just said “yeah okay, leave me alone”, leaving me to question my own memory and whether or not it really was abuse for a number of years… or she’d flat-out say “That’s in the past, stop bringing it up; it won’t happen again.”/”I’m an adult, I do what I want in my house.”

Mom herself has a relentless anger problem. Whenever she wakes up from a nap or being asleep she’s volatile abusive, albeit more emotionally and verbally than physically.

They’d tell me that calling child services or going into foster care would be way worse than what I was dealing with at home, and as a child it scared me so much I never told anyone until I was 18, but it carried on until current day, though the physical abuse has lessened now that I’m big enough to fight back, the threat of it hangs over my head as well as the threat of losing my home. Whatever they can hold over my head, they will. Coupled with the fact that I’m in constant pain from an old car accident in which we were rear-ended by a drunk driver going at high speeds at a red light, I can’t take this anymore.

Nowadays they refuse to talk about how they’ve been to me- that me trying to bring it up is just “asking for trouble” and “digging up the past.” My parent’s version of “moving on” is just carrying forward without ever talking about it– acting like it never happened. My mom used to be on my side about my aunt’s problems for a long time; calling her a drunk, telling her she needs help. Nowadays she acts like it never happened at all, and my aunt’s not an alcoholic because she “doesn’t drink every day anymore”.. which is a lie, btw. My mom is so focused on pretending things are “normal” she’d rather believe her own delusional sense of normality than focus on the reality. When I pry at her about it, all I get is “What am I suppose to do, hang myself??”

My parents are the definition of problematic. Not only did they abuse me for several years and feel as if they can go on with a clear conscience, they prefer to only deal with all problems only after they get serious– for example, they left our last cat, Sasha, to suffer with a golf ball-sized tumor on her hip and never took her to the vet no matter how much I begged. Instead, when she started becoming incontinent, they just locked her in my mother’s bedroom to pee everywhere. The smell would waft into my bedroom in the summer time and make me ill, but they’d never clean it. My mom would go, “see, she’s purring, she’s just fine” up until Sasha finally died of complications associated with the tumor last year. They didn’t tell me she died until after the fact, as I was staying with a friend here at the time, but from what I understand she didn’t go peacefully.

I’m out of options financially and don’t know what else to do. I can’t live in this house any longer– my parents are so delusional about how things are “fine” despite themselves and their disgusting habits [24/7 smoking even when I had pneumonia last year, leaving food to rot, living in their own filth] My art is all I can do to reel in money. I have someone willing to help me, but I can’t get to them as I am..

I need 750$ CAN to pay for the flight ticket to live with someone who is willing to have me, my cat’s safe passage in the cabin, an airline approved carrier for him, the baggage fee as my cat would count as my 1 carry-on and thus my actual luggage would have to be checked, ensuring I can pick the seats in my flights that allow a pet in the cabin [no exit or bulkhead rows], and transit fees both here and at my destination. 

I am willing to draw whatever I can, but I cannot draw animals [though parts are fine] or mechs, and I’ve never drawn anything NSFW in my life. If you can’t commission me then please REBLOG this. Please spread this as far as you can.