Rho's Art + Trifles

New Year/Winter - Giveaway

So, the new year is here, and I’d love to celebrate it with a little raffle. I’d also like to thank you all for following me because a while ago I reached 3,500 followers, and I’m still in awe! So, thank you so much for staying and for supporting me! ♥

PRIZES

1st Prize: A colored portrait of one -or two, the winner chooses- character.

2nd Prize: A “palette challenge” portrait of one character. The winner will choose the palette.

3rd Prize: A sketchy portrait of one character.

RULES

I won’t draw armors or complicated outfits for the giveaway.

Any fandom is welcome (both OCs or canon characters) as long as you send me references. Anyway, since this is a follower appreciation giveaway, my preferred fandoms are Far Cry 5/Far Cry New Dawn, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age.

The conditions about what I’ll draw or I won’t draw are the same as for my regular commissions (you can find them here).

You must be following me. I’ll check!

New followers are welcome, but it would be nice if you stay once the giveaway is over.

No giveaway blogs.

You can reblog this post as many times as you want, but don’t spam your followers!

Likes also count as one entry.

There will be three prizes and three winners.

Ends on February 4th, 11:59pm CEST.

Do not give us your old dirty things. Don’t give us your child’s old scratched up toys they don’t use anymore. If you would not give your child that toy on Christmas day, we won’t give it to the children in our shelter. The children in our shelter deserve new in the box toys, not your garbage.  

Sometimes they have amazon wishlists. Sometimes an animal shelter is extremely low on towels. Yes. Towels. Or blankets that aren't comforters or have strings, ect. In certain cases gently used items are more than welcome.

But donations should not be treated as a trash receptical. Unless its genuinely reuseable, don't donate it.

Most places will wind up throwing out your crap anyway if its not a certain level of clean. If its broken you might as well toss it out.

Facebook or twitter pages for non profits often pipe up at various times of need letting people know in specific what they need at the time. When I worked at an animal shelter we had a hoarding case and very much needed extra toys and blankets, ect. Gently used and washable in either a dishwasher (toys) or washer and dryer were the only requirements. They didn't have to be beautiful but they had to be durable and washable.

But we also needed dog food and because we fed a specific brand we put out a request for money or that..and a lot of people donated random ass dog food instead. Usually open bags. Which we STILL USED FOR SOMETHING*. But it wasn't going to the hoarder animals and it annoyed people to find that out.

*In the case of still useable pet food we had a pet pantry for poverty stricken families to come get something. It was based on what we had at the time and their animals. Sometimes we had tons and sometimes we had near nothing.

But you don't know what kind of previously used items these places want or need unless you ask or find up to date info on their social media pages or website. You can generally call and ask.

I like big boys, 

itty bitty boys

Mississippi boys, 

inner city boys

I like the pretty boys with the bow tie

Get your nails did, 

let it blow dry

I like a big beard, 

I like a clean face

I don’t discriminate, 

come and get a taste

From the playboys 

to the gay boys

Go and slay, boys, 

you my fave boys

Just some Medieval paintings of cats licking their butts…

Panthers aren’t actually an animal, but rather a category of big cats. We tend to call them panthers when they have black fur, but they are the the same as their their regular coloured counterparts.

These cats are: Leopards, Jaguars and Cougars, which are commonly referred to as MOUNTAIN LIONS!

So in essence a pink panther could be a mountain lion with a special color variation as opposed to being melanistic (all black), it would be pink.

In conclusion, the Pink Panther is, or could be a lion or leopard, jaguar or Lion but given that Pink Panther lacks any sort of spotting I am going to say it is most likely a Lion.

Except we have no word that means "melanistic but pink instead of white."

become sexier than THIS?

All that does is let other people…who may hate you and want you dead…decide your future for you.

No one gives a shit if you didn’t vote as a protest. It accomplished nothing except to further the interests of the people who hate me and folks like me. Not voting isn’t powerful; it’s rejecting a civic duty that people fought and died for and saying ‘well I don’t care.’

Lol, no, that’s not how it works! Instead, the people who do vote–the ones with easy access and/or a monetary incentive to vote– get to decide who’s going into office even though they’re not an accurate representation of the people overall.

 If you and five of your friends don’t vote, all six of you are worth less than Jeff Bezos getting paid a trillion dollars a second while voting.

Voting isn't marriage. You are not looking to find "the one."

Voting is public transportation. Voting is a public bus and the candidates are the routes. You want to pick the one who gets you the closest to where you want the country to go.

Even if the situation is so bad you're just picking the candidate who won't take you as far in the wrong direction as the other.

But if you can't get to where you're going directly on public transport you take the next closest stop. Or the stop that will lead you to a route there. You are voting to make forward progress to a destination and it's not a one stop trip.

Also, the married women are not paid (and therefore can’t qualify for assistance if they should ever divorce, etc). And worth “of course” less than a man.

“ In the Army’s case, the agreement for compensation is that the officer allowance be paid jointly to the husband—the check is written in his name. Officially, the wife is a “worker without expectation of remuneration,” and her husband receives 40 percent more of an allowance as a married man than he would as a single man. “

Reminder to not donate to this particular anti-human rights non-profit and to research any non-profit you are considering giving money to. Even if its while you are standing there being told what good things they do.

There are multiple websites, including the IRS that can tell you details such as whether or not its actually a non profit tax wise. Or if its managing its money well.

Here's a quick list from Huffpost:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-to-tell-if-a-charity-_b_9806518

Now many don't specifically tell you whether or not they are sexist, homophobic idiots stuck bygone eras of anti human thinking. But they do list if they are religious organizations and you can also google for controversies or views. Obviously smaller charities where such things may not have ever been disclosed are harder. But evaluate them based on the criteria websites like the above use.

And do not spend your donations where the CEO is making a disproportionate amount to their charitable work or is a terrible person.

We all feel the pressure to give when someone nice is behind it. But often they don't even know.

For those with social anxiety who need some fuel for how to say no without confrontation here are some options:

"I appreciate your request but I donated to another organization recently and I cannot afford anymore." Or "I am sorry I cannot afford this right now."

If you are comfortable being more confrontational you can offer:

"I cannot bring myself to donate to an organization with such an anti-human belief structure. Have a good day."

This speech-language pathologist taught her dog 29 words, and he can even form full sentences.

They do understand our words. This is not true of all domesticated animals (horses, for example, can only manage to distinguish a relatively small number of spoken commands…but boy do they know what you’re really saying).

They don’t understand “just your tone of voice” as a lot of people think.

As of 2016 the record vocabulary for a dog demonstrating understanding of words is over 1,000.

So if you give them a way to talk back, they’re going to use it.

The development of language skills is probably a side effect of domestication and of being kept in close contact with humans. A dog that was a better hunting partner would be kept and bred and over time they developed a better understanding of language.

In other words, dogs are pretty dang smart because we need them to understand us.

Check out the owner Christina’s Instagram: one of the first things I saw was a video where the dog started barking and, when prompted by the owner, said “outside, look look look look look look look, come outside.” Which is basically exactly how one would expect a dog to speak. 

The owner described bringing an unknown package into the house, and the dog ran away to push the buttons for “help no no help help” which is also about what I expect goes on in a scared pup’s mind.

In another video, the dog tried to push a button, and the button wasn’t working. The dog paused and then pushed the buttons for “No. Help.” 

In yet another (which the owner seemed impressed by), Stella said “come eat come play.” The owner asked the dog which she wanted to do, to eat or to play? And the dog clarified “come eat.” After eating, then the dog tried to instigate play. So the dog may have been able to understand a short spoken question, and how “questions and answers” work, and also understands sequences, even if she can’t express them (”I want to eat, THEN I want to play”)

Stella can even recount short-term memories, like when her family returned from the beach for dinner and she said “water good, no eat, play”

By the way, the owner uses the buttons as well, which probably really helps reinforce their meaning. She uses them to say things like “Stella all done eat” or “Stella and Christina go outside, bye!”

I don't hide the fact I will write erotica or draw smutty art. But anything I feel could be used to hurt me at a level I can't protect does not get shared if I can help it. Atleast the things I think could hurt me. So rare is it that we can protect ourselves from ourselves.

Sometimes even people who are your friends may make comments that are not meant to hurt you but could.

Bottom line. Your life is your own. YOU DO NOT NEED TO EXPLAIN IT TO ANYONE FOR YOUR EXPERIENCES OR DIFFICULTIES TO BE VALID. NO ONE ELSE IS IN YOUR SHOES.

And on the internet? With the amount of diversity that exists, that is even more true. Because even online friend are not in front you. They may be as far away as they can be without being on another planet. As well as socially and culturally very different from you. There's no possible way, for anyone to truly be able to see what you deal with. Even in person but especially online.

And you should not have to validate your situation to anyone by explaining it when its likely they would, if they met you, see it completely differently. By that token, you do not know everything about what people share. Making assumptions or judgments makes you an ass. You don't know their life. No matter how close you may seem.

Like outsiders are like “Asexual people are prudes and will yell at you for having sex!” and actual asexual people are like “All ace people want a dragon.”

But I am about to move somewhere with Whataburger and I am so thrilled. Texans are right about it.

Posted my tiny group of Skeksis yesterday, but without their egg-mate of another mother.

This handsome lil punk with his faux-hawk is Tut, someday he will be King Tut.

His mother is the Vogue Model Creampuff and his father, according to suspicious gossip rags could either be Lil' Pip, or the wild rooster who was suspiciously seen visiting the yard.

Creampuff could not be reached for comment.

Because you could have POTS or a similar disorder or dystaunomia. POTS is basically your autonomic nervous system failing to communicate properly with your circulatory system and making you often light headed from standing too quickly. If not passing out. Other things impact it too, leading to people who otherwise look perfectly healthy having to sit down often, to the point it affects their daily routine because of things like..needing to sit down in the shower or else you might pass out. I figured I'd mention it because while occasionally a bit of light headedness or even vasovagal syncope (fainting) caused by standing up too fast when in a hot tub or other circumstance, is not that abnormal...if you are experiencing it often. Daily even..you should probably talk to a doctor.

Your body is supposed to be able to control its circulation well enough that you have enough blood in all your vital areas. Aka. brain and heart. When it doesn't your body will correct itself by making you horizontal by any means necessary.. aka fainting.