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At least my new pin arrived.

Keep your broke friends in mind at least once a month.

It's very hard to keep up, interact with, or even spend time with friends when you're broke, and it can really add to poverty induced depression when one's friends are constantly enjoying new things/games etc and you are left out because you can't afford them.

It's even more depressing when you're left out for months.

It's often why poor folks don't make friends outside their income bracket. We can't afford y'all's friendship.

goth month? more like goth moth

Do we know anybody who owns a PC-3000?

We need to recover the translator from a failed ST3 board, and transplant that to a donor.

Time for a new variation on a classic.

my close friend @yarlovv is in dire straits. he is a transmasc student abroad in Prague and he is struggling with money to pay for his college dorm room. his family hit a bad time with finances so he asked me to make a post for him.

he needs that money *BEFORE JUNE 9*, otherwise he'll become homeless, and in a foreign country at that.

he needs ~750 USD.

https://ko-fi.com/ratsapologists
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/yarlovv

57/750

#mutualaid #MutualAidRequest

pls help

My "Wizard and Dark Academia" reference pack is available at https://www.djamilaknopf.com/store. It includes 100 carefully selected, high-resolution photos of books, unique trinkets, dark hallways, crooked cottages, Gothic architecture, and more.

"At last!" He held up a simple gold ring. "I have searched for this for years!"

"What is it?"

"A shapeshifting ring. I'll put it on... Imagine myself as... Ah! Wonderful!"

"I see no difference?"

"I have no joint pain!"

"Wow! Can it do other changes?"

"Anything you can imagine. Want to try?"

#TootFic #MicroFiction #VSS #SmallStories

I want 12 of these.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/pc-cases/silverstone-reveals-the-flp02-late-80s-style-tower-pc-case-proudly-beige-but-thoroughly-modern-inside

Them: "UBlock Origin: this extension was turned off. Chromium recommends that you remove it."

Me: OK, I guess I trust google to give me good advice:

$ sudo apt remove chromium

Prompt: "You were the sidekick to a super hero. You worked hard, doing all the labor while he got the credit but it's fine. Anyways, while saving people in a fire, you get trapped. You scream out for help, but all he does is stare at you. "Sorry, kid." He shrugs and leaves you there to die." (From Writing-Prompt-S on Tumblr)

My Response:

I was 14.

In hindsight, I shouldn't have been out there in the first place. I was too young for this, but when I was adopted by the world's richest man and told I could have anything I ever wanted including vengeance on the man who killed my parents, all I had to do was agree to wear a brightly colored costume, be subjected to experiments that would give me powers, and become world-famous as the sidekick to the masked avenger, Foxglove - I mean what child wouldn't have taken the option?

I was 14 fucking years old.

My response to compound zed was good: super strength, super speed, and limited control over my own shadow that I could use to form tentacles and manipulate objects and fight at a distance. It got to the point where I actually had a nemesis of my own – Radiance, the sidekick of The Grim, Foxglove's most hated rival. There were talks about being in magazines, maybe doing some interviews of my own once I finished a media training course.

Then that goddamn fire happened.

Foxglove doesn't have powers of his own. It only occurred to me later that that's because he was worried about what compound zed would do to him. It's not reliable, you see. For every sidekick you see patrolling the streets with him one day, there's four or five bodies that no one ever finds. So he lets his sidekicks do the dangerous stuff, and eventually it gets too dangerous.

"Sorry, Kid."

That was the last thing he ever said to me. The building was on fire, but I thought I could handle it. Shadow control gets unreliable, however, when the light is flickering. I couldn't get a good grasp on it, and the building started to collapse. I begged for help. I screamed for him to save me. He had a fireproof suit on. He had a gas mask. He could have done it, but instead I got a "Sorry, Kid," and he left me behind.

And then The Grim showed up.

Turns out The Grim was the first. Yeah. That was him, back in the day. Foxglove spreads all those rumors about him and frames him for crimes so that no one takes him seriously. Radiance? A project Foxglove thought had died on the testing table. Turns out her power only manifested after her heart stopped. There's two others, Cleaver and Whipvine. Yeah, they're both one of Foxglove's abandoned sidekicks. And of course, me. I don't use the name he gave me anymore – that was a whole lifetime ago. It's Umbra now.

That's why I was there when he left you behind.

It gets better. We don't let you fight until you're 18, if you still want to. Radiance and I are the same age, but The Grim just couldn't stop her from fighting. We're dating now. Enemies to lovers, yeah. But I didn't fight until I was 18, and with all four of us, we will sit on you if you try to go out there before you're old enough. Still, we'll take care of you until then. If you want to fight once you're an adult? We'll support you. If you don't? We'll still support you. And if you want to leave now – we'll make sure you get a good home, loving family. Long as you don't suit up before you're 18, we'll leave you alone. You get choices. Things he never gave you.

Unlike him, we know what family means.

You interested, Kid Wonder #5?

That's what I thought.

Welcome to the Rejects.

...fox girls are getting me out of art block

my mental health had been in a terrible place the past 6 months, for reasons both personal and existential. which also resulted in me losing interest in my hobbies. It's been hard to even pick up a tablet, to draw a single line.

But hey, it always gets better, and it has been for me. Hope sprouts through after every worst day.

Soo here're some wips I did recently! I'll try to finish them very soon

May poll winner: Charlotte Aulin! She's ready to tackle the creature of chaos that is Dracula's castle.

I had no reason to draw the #KDE mascot - Konqi with programmer socks, but I did so anyway!~

Gigi Murakami demonstrates how horror manga can channel Black girl nightmares

Murakami's work blends horror manga, grindhouse, and pulp to create chilling horror stories that center Black women protagonists.

https://www.animefeminist.com/gigi-murakami-horror-manga/

#manga #horror #feminism