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a.k.a. Somewhat-Emergency Commissions

April and May were absolute ass for my family. Between needing to replace three major appliances back to back (fridge, dishwasher, and now clothes washer), spending a small fortune on plane tickets for a wake on the other side of the country, and now having to get a (probably bad) lump removed from one of our dogs, things have gotten tight in a very short period of time.

I want to clarify that I/we will ultimately be okay, but since this is the only kind of work I'm capable of doing right now to help with the household income, here I am.

This is a little bit different than what I've done in the past but I'm opening for 4 SLOTS of Pacha "Just Right" Emoji/Icons like these ↴

30$USD/ea

+ $5 for heavy tattoos/cyberware, wings, etc.

you'll get solid color + transparent background versions

discord-friendly sizes as well as the original, obscenely large file

payment options: paypal invoice / ko-fi

Important Notes ↴

payment up front

i will be trying to do these as quickly as possible, ideally before i leave for the weekend of the 19th, but if i take multiple batches that trip may overlap with my available work time

complex tattoos/etc will be simplified within reason (and still recognizable at smaller/emoji resolutions)

visual references for your character are required

clothing will be simple, solid color tops: tee, tank, turtleneck, basic jacket style, etc -> just let me know what your character usually wears

you will get a draft version for approval before i start coloring

If you're interested, please reach out to me via messages/DMs on here -> we can then move discussion to email or another platform from there if you prefer, I just don't want to list my discord handle openly these days 👍 If you already have my discord handle and we've talked before, feel free to contact me directly through there.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

"I’m a cancer survivor abt to lose housing. My last ask ever for communal support is for 3k, if folks wouldn’t mind chipping in to help w the transition out of my apt, moving costs of my life upending, & losing my home b4 surgery. Thanks everyone! I (we) tried.

P/V: nubulagalaxie"

I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the Mass Lobby at Parliament on June 25th, 11am-4pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.

The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It becomes statutory guidance in the UK by the end of June.

Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.

A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Ask your MP to:

Demand full parliamentary scrutiny, debate, and use their free vote on the EHRC Code of Practice.

Support any motions rejecting the EHRC guidance. As of June 4th, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has submitted a prayer motion - Early Day Motion 240.

Write to Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities about our concerns

Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.

I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.

It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut: