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Shrouded Stars🌟 It was so fun painting Hidden Stars that I had to make a mirrored version with dark wings :)

Video of the painting process:

Decided to use these drawings of my oc Minerva as key poses and animate her!

My parents threw away all of these things (even the vacuum cleaners and the dryer) when they got too dirty to function, because no one even told them THAT they could be cleaned. Cost them thousands of dollars over the years.

All I'm saying is that cleaning is not intuitive, and not knowing how to clean is not a moral failing, but it is something you can learn.

I like this video because it does a great job of introducing the basic foundations of house cleaning (and because he doesn't use bleach, which is a common allergy in addition to being awful to inhale). He also talks a little about how to clean a vacuum. And why you shouldn't put grease from your pots and pans down the sink drain. I also love that he mentions that different houses and different people have different needs and different versions of what clean and cleaning looks like.

This is another video from the same guy about cleaning and depression. This advice, especially at the beginning, can feel really really difficult and oppressive to hear. However, I find that it's generally pretty solid. But I'm autistic and so is he, so that gets a massive Your Mileage May Vary stamp on it.

I have a favorite part of this video. It's from 10:52 to 12:36. I think we could all use to hear that. There's a HEFTY pause after that one. I promise the narration does come back.

This is a pair of videos about how to correctly load and use a dish washer.

The first one is a quick 1 minute 30 second overview on loading. I can't find the exact video I'm looking for, so consider this a substitute for that. If I can find the one I'm looking for, I'll swap it in.

Here's a blog post about scrubbing brushes and how to clean them.

And a video for all cleaning tools, including scrub brushes. This video does use bleach. I'll try to find some alternatives to that.

How to clean a top loader (without the removable agitator thing). This should be done every 1-3 months depending on you unit, or every time you wash really soiled clothes.

How to clean a top loader (with the removable agitator thing). This should be done every month, or every time you wash really soiled clothes.

This video is for pet owners.

These carpet brushes are a LIFE SAVER if you have dogs. This thing allows me to go from vacuuming about 4 square feet before my vacuum is full to vacuuming half the living room (I don't vacuum often enough. You should vacuum weekly, and I just can't.). I have to unclog the vacuum less often. It fluffs up some of the flat spots in the carpet. And I also use the brush to shampoo my rugs in the spring.

A spot cleaner (or a carpet cleaner with a spot cleaner attachment) is another life saver, ESPECIALLY if you can afford to splurge on a heated one. I see them at Goodwill or at yard sales occasionally, and they're worth picking up. The shark one in the video is great too.

He was arrested and detained with no trial. An investigation into the detention of Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank by Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) found that about 75% were subjected to physical violence following their arrest and that over 85% were not even given a reason for their arrest. His birthday was in March, and he turned 16 behind bars. Like many children detained in Israel, he has been held in a cold cell, physically abused, and denied adequate food and healthcare. His relatives report that Mohammed lost a quarter of his body weight and contracted scabies. As of writing, he is still incarcerated and unable to speak to his parents.

In July, Mohammed's cousin Sayfollah Musallet (also a US citizen living in Florida who visited their family in the West Bank) was beaten to death by Israeli settlers. Mohammed's family has been working for months with advocacy groups, pleading to get the US government to defend their own citizens from Israel.

Yousef Munayyer, head of the Palestine/Israel program at the Arab Center Washington DC said of this case, “The US government simply does not care about Palestinians with US citizenship who are killed or unjustly detained by Israel. Our government is not unaware of these cases. They are themselves complicit. In many cases where Palestinian Americans have been killed, the government does nothing. This is not unique to the Trump administration.”

Ahmed grew up in Gaza, Palestine and has endured the violence of Israeli occupation since before he was even born. Israeli attacks exposed his mother to toxic gasses while she was pregnant with Ahmed, and he was born with a disability that impacts the growth of his teeth. This health condition has become difficult to treat as Israel has destroyed healthcare infrastructure.

Over 94% of hospitals in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed with many no longer operational. Healthcare workers are routinely targeted and killed or detained in Israeli military prisons. In the last two years at least 1,722 healthcare workers have been killed in Israeli strikes, and at least 431 have been detained according to Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW).

Ahmed is #198 on the @gazavetters list. Please help him to raise money for his healthcare needs including: nutritious food, clean water, repairs for his family's tent, and travel out of Gaza to a healthcare facility that can provide him with dental implants.

I could use some help financially. I can’t currently take commissions, but if you’d like to support me, please consider donating to my ko-fi.

Apologies for the other reblog, but I’m in a bit of a bind right now.

I’m currently working through my commissions queue, but I know a recent lapse in my mental health has made it difficult to stay energized.

I learned to hate myself for being transgender before I knew I was transgender. I laughed at the jokes in stand up comedy routines, and prime time sitcoms, and animated comedy shows, and in the movies, and in books, and in games, laughing at trans women for existing, about “men in dresses”, about people who “got their dicks chopped off”, and I learned to think that was worthy of ridicule.

And then a day came when I felt a pang of envy at what my female classmates were wearing and I repressed it, and felt guilty, and a day where I felt incomplete because I had no breasts and I repressed it and I felt disgusting And a day when I realized the only images of romance that made me feel anything showed two women together and I repressed it and I felt like a monster And a day when I realized I felt sick when I looked at myself in the mirror after every shower before work and couldn’t bear to look at my own face, and I hated myself. And then there came a day when I hated myself so much, and I thought I could never understand why, and so I just wanted it all to end. And it was just a miracle that I swerved my car back into my lane in time.

And all of it started with a joke that I heard on TV, and then kept hearing from all the voices from the ether, over and over and over, worming an idea into my mind before I was old enough to realize I was absorbing it, the idea that a man in a dress is funny, and that changing your body parts makes you a freak, and that women who have penises instead of vaginas are liars and hurt men. And they’re still making these jokes. And somewhere out there right now, just like all those years ago, there is a little girl in a t-shirt and cargo shorts with buzzed off hair watching the TV, hearing that joke and absorbing it without knowing it, who will someday have to pry herself apart to tear it out of her head, just like I did.

websites now:

This injustice that you witnessed, Greta, is only a small part of what we suffer under the occupation every day.

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💔 My friends, these activists tried to reach us; they were on their way to bring us aid and food, and to try to save us from homelessness and hunger.

🙏 Please, we ask you to take their place by supporting us.

🤱 I gave birth two days ago, but I cannot breastfeed my baby because I have no milk due to starvation.

My baby ali with his grandma (my mom)

🍼 I need baby formula, diapers for my newborn, and medicine for myself because I lost a lot during the C-section and now suffer from a lack of vitamins and calcium.

Two years since we lost everything — our home and our work.

Two years of sleeping in the streets.

Two years of humiliation and suffering.

Two years that words cannot describe, because what we have seen and continue to see is beyond what any mind can imagine.

Now, the suffering has grown even greater since I gave birth to my baby.

My fear has grown too — fear of losing him because of hunger, lack of food, and the absence of hygiene.

Please, my friends, don’t leave us alone.

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