Hannihilator

KOSA/the kids online safety act has been reintroduced into legislature after it passed Senate last year and then got snubbed. It is not unlike the bill that just passed in the UK a few weeks ago. If you don't want what happened in the UK to happen here, now would be a good time to vocally oppose it.

Here is a petition that can be signed by Americans. Attached to the petition is an easy tool that allows you to call and leave messages for your representatives. I have already done so. You can also email your representatives by searching for their name, most have message submission boards as well. This thing died once, it can die again.

You can check here to see if either or both of your senators are cosponsors. If they are, it's all the more important that you contact them to share your concerns about this legislation.

The bill was referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, where it has been since May when it was introduced. You can check to see if your senator is on that committee here. If they are, you should especially reach out to them to share your concerns.

Your art is sooo cute! May I ask what software and brush you use? I love how soft and cozy your pieces look.

Hello anon!! Thank you for the kind words!! ;w;

I use Clip Studio Paint and the brush "JB Dry Zaghi" from the Joyful Bristle pack of DAUB brushes! (it's a paid brush set tho)

yea lol

For a long fucking time

with why my adderall was having such uneven effects and varying efficacy

and the weird pattern of what made it work and not work and if it was building up in my system or not

and fucking nobody told me I shouldn’t drink a glass of Kool-Aid to take the pills with

or eat fucking Pop-Tarts or Life cereal

this is the most useful information I have ever received from tubr and it seems to be confirmed by several other places upon searching

You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow, we're always doing it wrong?

You have to be thin, but not too thin, and you can never say you wanna be thin. You have to say you wanna be healthy, but also, you have to BE THIN.

You have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass.

You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean.

You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas.

You're supposed to love being a mother, but don't talk about your kids all the damn time.

You have to be a career woman, but also, always be looking out for other people.

You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is INSANE, but if you point that out, you're accused of complaining!

You're supposed to stay pretty for men, but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you're supposed to be a part of the sisterhood, but ALWAYS STAND OUT and ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL. But never forget that the system is rigged, so find a way to acknowledge that but ALSO, always be grateful!

You have to never get old. Never be rude. Never show off. Never be selfish. Never fall down. Never fail. Never show fear. Never get OUT OF LINE. It's too hard! It's too contradictory, and nobody gives you a medal or says 'thank you!' And it turns out, in fact, that not only are you doing everything wrong, but also, everything is your fault.

I'm just so tired of watching myself, and every single other woman tie herself into knots, so that people will like us.

And if all of that, is also true for a doll just representing a woman, then I don't even know." -Gloria the barbie movie

More and more recently, I’ve begun to get some people coming to me asking for some clarification on LGBTQ stuff. When I was younger, I had to discover many basic identities and labels by myself, through research of various sources, or pieced together from disconnected blog posts. 

In the year 2019 you’d think we’d have a kid-friendly website that describes all of this in simple terms but… I’ve yet to find one that isn’t primed for guardians/parents of LGBTQ parnets and prioratizes them instead of the LGBTQ kids themselves…. 

So I tried to make a quick graphic to organize everything!

Keep in mind - this is based on MY experience and the terminology I have grown up using. Everyone’s experiences may differ - and I tried to simplify in some places to make it easier to read. (For example… I didn’t really go into detail on non-binary identities… but I may make a seperate graphic for that someday because that’s its own box of pears.) 

I’ve been thinking more and more about how Ashton said they used to be squishy. I know genasi, in general, have a few different ways in which they come to be. Either from being born that way due to lineages/their parents also being genasi or from exposure to elemental energy/elemental planes.

In terms of Ashton, the second makes more sense. They were fleshy in their youth, and around the same time they went to the Greymoore State Home, they started changing.

We don’t know Ashton’s age, which is unfortunate, but I think they’re decently young.

We know that Ashton was probably 8 or 9 years old when they went into the home. (4 sided dive)

One of the last big planar-related things that happened (that we know of anyway) was the Nein fighting the Somnovem/Cognouza in the Astral Sea. That was like 7 years ago. If Ashton’s changing is related to that planar event, that would only make them like 15 or 16 years old, which feels too young.

If their changing is related to VM and Vecna, that would mean Ashton is like 40 years old, which feels way too old.

For timeline reference: VM (809-812 PD); MN (835-836 PD); BH (843 PD)

I think Ashton is more likely in their early to mid-20s. Meaning their change started 10+ years ago.

I’m more inclined to think that something happened to them and their family in Bassuras or somewhere else in the Hellcatch Valley, and this resulted in them becoming an orphan and changing into an earth genasi. I just want to know what. They had to have been exposed to some kind of elemental energy or even the Elemental Plane of Earth? Maybe during a solstice? Maybe under a Ruidus flare?

The Elemental Plane of Earth is often described as a “grave for the greedy” because it’s full of precious gems etc. but is so incredibly dangerous to travel to. What if Ashton’s parents/family were trying to travel there to maybe gain some riches for a better life back on the material plane? What if their plan went horribly wrong and Ashton was the sole, now plane touched, survivor?

There are a bunch of sinkholes and endless tunnels underground in the Hellcatch Valley. Could Torog be down there? Maybe there’s a rift or thin spot like in Call of the Netherdeep or like where the various Ashari are settled. Perhaps that’s how Ashton was exposed, near a rift during a solstice, because a sinkhole opened up and swallowed them and their family? Maybe that’s how they became an orphan…

新年快乐！

We started a new campaign! And here they are in time for the new year!

paddlin’