Peaches and Dreams

and now in the latest Zelda, we get it confirmed that Link does indeed have selective mutism due to trauma and anxiety

For about a week I have had tooth pain. It was manageable for a time, but this morning I woke up in screaming pain because the nerve is exposed (and has been for a long time) and it throbbed so bad that it literally made me break down crying this morning. So my husband tried through all sorts of means to get me any kind of dental appointment, but seeing as the state shut my insurance off sometime ago it was hard.

Eventually he found a place that would take me without insurance the only problem is that they wanted us to have 80 dollars up front before they would even see us. Me and my husband are both unable to work steady jobs and all we have is art commission work which is never always a guarantee.

So he posted a donation post with a link to his Ko-Fi account. So many of you all pitched it where you could and we exceeded our 80 dollar goal by a LONG stretch which means I can also afford any medications that the dentist happens to throw my way.

Once I am feeling all better and not having to deal with my teeth problems, I want to do something for you all. I will post a plan of action when I have time, but it will probably have something to do with art and magick so be on the look out.

IF you would like to continue to help us out until we get ourselves out of this hole you can donate to our Ko-fi at ko-fi/caktusjuice.

this is a picture from a charity fundraiser for a children’s hospital that furries had raised $3,000 dollars for.. and in 2013 numerous furry conventions raised $189,820 for charities like Therapy Pets, NARF (a native american rights fund), and many wildlife preserve funds and shelters.

A bunch of people in animal costumes raised all that money to help care for big cats raised in captivity, many of whom had been abandoned, abused and illegally bred. Thanks to the furries those animals can continue to live peacefully with medical care, food and companionship for the rest of their natural lives.

I just felt it was an interesting piece of recent news to share on the subject :)

Furries are a-ok in my book.  Always have been.  Sure there are some psychos and creeps but if I judged every fandom by the psychos I’ve met in them I’d hate EVERYTHING.  Generally speaking all the furries I’ve ever encountered at cons or in the real world in general have been moderate, fun and HUGELY kind.

also

REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S SECOND FILM NOT ONLY CONSISTED OF A CAST WITH FOUR CENTRAL FEMALE CHARACTERS BUT INCLUDED AN ENTIRE TOWN OF DIVERSE CITIZENS OF VARYING RACE, GENDER, AND AGE. LIKE A NORMAL TOWN HAS.

REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S THIRD FILM FEATURED SAME SEX COUPLES IN THEIR TEASER TRAILER

REMINDER THAT THIS IS ALL STOP-MOTION SO EVERY CHARACTER WAS DESIGNED, MODELED, SCULPTED, RIGGED, AND EVEN HAD TINY CLOTHES SEWED FOR THEM.

also reminder that they make chump change compared to disney who whines and cries that in all their years of experience they can’t handle the prospect of animating a girl with a face different than the rest and that it’s “too hard” because only females can express such a wide range of emotions that it makes them difficult to animate

The likelihood of Apollo coming down and “holding hands” with all of his devotees is pretty low. (It may happen for some, but it’s certainly not a common or universal experience.) Believing that the gods are like our human best friends can set us up for unrealistic expectations and disappointment.

The gods are also just that: gods. They deserve our respect and awe. In all the ways that they seem or feel human, they are just as inhuman and beyond our comprehension.

However, assuming that the gods don’t care about if we live or die is just as extreme and limiting as claiming they’re like our personal buddies. When we worship the gods and build kharis with them, they show up in our lives. We can pray to them when we are scared or sick or in need of guidance. And, more often than not, they answer us. Perhaps in subtler ways than we might expect, and perhaps in ways that we don’t notice.

Emoji spell for February to be filled with self love and healing. ✨🌑