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since i’ve been asked a few times (and thank you for the interest), here’s my commission info! simple props/minimal background elements are okay, mildly suggestive content/pin ups are okay, ocs or fan art are okay! direct private messages here are just fine.

if you can, now would be a good time to donate to the Louisville bail fund. hundreds of protesters are currently marching with a long day ahead.

Not to be an anarchist on main but the answer is always:

Connect with your local communities to share resources and make sure everyone is safe.

learn new skills whenever you can, especially survival, communication, and first aid skills. Look for CERT trainings as a good source of free classes and hands-on education.

join and support unions whenever possible.

look to the activists of the past for guidance: if the ACA is overturned start staging die-ins (and if you’re a medical professional then now is the time to work with your colleagues to figure out how you’re going to provide care to people who are going to lose their medical coverage)

work local; the supreme court isn’t something that you can control, but maybe you can have an impact on your city’s zoning policies or on whether or not unused land becomes a community food garden.

do jail support, film cops, and listen to cop communications so that you can report on their movements to the people they threaten.

feed the hungry.

hack the planet.

If not you then who? If you see a need, fill it.

Take care of yourself and take care of each other.

You wanna do something that’s legal, easy, and unambiguously good? Download whatever driving/traffic app is popular in your area and warn people when you see cops.

Warning people about speed traps and hidden cops prevents deportations, prevents theft-by-cops under the name of civil forfeiture, prevents poor people from losing their job or facing eviction or jailtime as a result of suspended licenses and lost wages.

i’m not here to tell you what to buy or not buy (that ultimately is down to you) but if you’ve seen the post going round tumblr from somebody claiming to be a developer on Hogwarts Mystery telling you to buy the game to support the devs, don’t listen to it. here’s why.

1. everybody who worked on that game has already been paid in advance. making videogames isn’t like selling earrings on etsy – everybody involved was paid – as they worked – to write, code, model, voice-act, draw, and overall develop this game. nobody will be going hungry if you do not buy this game.

2. the post very correctly states that not buying the game won’t directly harm Rowling, which is true… however, the decision to boycot Hogwarts Legacy should not be one aimed specifically at the contents of Rowling’s bank account. the message one is trying to send buy not buying this game is “hey, stop working with transphobes. it’s unprofitable for you and i don’t trust you as long as you work with her and her brand.” it doesn’t matter that she wasn’t involved, it is public knowledge now that Rowling is a terf and standing with her brand is going to evoke that. to reiterate, Rowling’s money is not the point of a boycott. the point is to tell anybody who works with her & her brand “hey, fuck you, and fuck your company”. we are holding the company accountable for working with her.

3. many people have, again, correctly stated that the individual programmers involved with this game probably had no say on whether they worked on the project, and that all of the negotations for this game probably existed long before it was public knowledge that Rowling was a terf. this is true – the game was first leaked at a seemingly very far-along build in 2018 (late enough in development that it appeared to have something resembling gameplay and elements that seem unchanged to this day) which, if we account for the time working on and developing the game before that, suggests the game has been in development for at least a year earlier than that, probably longer. this, however, is irrelevant because by boycotting the game one is NOT boycotting individual graphics designers, artists and programmers – they’re already paid, remember? – one is boycotting a company (who has already received money to develop the game from Warner Bros, that’s how videogame development works) who can either continue to work with Mrs. Rowling and her brand, or cease to.

4. whilst the particular (possible) dev in mention thinks we should all buy the game, interviews from other devs leaking aspects of Hogwarts Legacy from earlier this year suggest that many of the people working on the game would not like to be and are very dismayed by having to work on the game whilst Mrs Rowling’s opinions on minorities loom over them. rather than leaving them without pay, deciding to boycot the game would be showing these individuals solidarity whilst they are directly affected by Mrs Rowling’s horrible legacy.

You should not buy this game because a company spent a ridiculous sum of money to get the right, make the game, etc and money is where the power lies. Boycotting means that they’re gonna go “oh shit we spent money and have nothing to show for it….we can’t do THAT again!” Making it HARDER to get her money and popularity.

here’s a suicide hotline for if any of you are in need of immediate support (x)

here’s a thread of black cancer fundraisers/research fundraising (x)

If anyone HASN’T seen the hubbub on art twitter; Jake Parker, the guy who started & branded Inktober is releasing a new book—a repackaged copy of Alphonso Dunn’s Pen & Ink Drawing. Alphonso is a Black artist who literally quit his full time job to write his book; it took 3.5 years and countless hours of figuring out just the right way to teach the subject. Watching his side-by-side comparison made it so much worse as Alphonso explains his thought process; this is one of those cases where words cannot explain how similar the two books are, you just need to experience the video yourself.

This is terrible behavior, especially from the person who was all about copyright and branding, to have turned around and violated someone ELSE’S ideas so egregiously. 

if you want to save the USPS i am BEGGING you call your representatives directly to DEMAND they co-sponsor and vote for:

1. the Delivering for America Act (call HOUSE reps). This attempts to reverse the bullshit Trump is doing.

2. USPS Fairness Act (call SENATORS). This is a MAJOR repeal of the bullshit the Bush admin and the Republicans did in 2006 that fucked over the USPS in the first place.

3. HEROES Act (call SENATORS). This is the coronavirus omnibus that includes IMMEDIATE USPS relief. Make it clear you want the USPS portion to be included.