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Ask Sparkles and Dashie

@asksparklesanddashie / asksparklesanddashie.tumblr.com

Hello, I'm Twilight Sparkle and welcome to the Ponyville Library! This is where we, by which I mean Rainbow and I, spend most of our time reading, hanging out, and generally spending time with each other. When we're not spending time with our other...
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Help my friend get off the streets.

On the 27th of April, my close friend @glenn-griffon​ was evicted from her home and has been living out of her car ever since. Due to the current pandemic, she’s been unable to find a shelter that will take in any new people, so a group of her friends, myself included have been trying to support her as much as we possibly can, but as it stands, issues are piling up faster than we can provide financially.

She lives in Texas and has made the journey down from Hooks to Houston to try and find a low income rental place she can afford on her SSDI payments. We’re hoping to raise about $1500-2000 for everything we need. 

Pictured above is her car, which has recently broken down and is in desperate need of maintenance. Currently we’re estimating a total of $700+ for the work needed to be done, but we can currently pay for roughly $450 of it. On top of that, I’d like to set her up with a few months of rent in advance, plus deposit (which we’ve had to use to go towards fixing the car initially), and a bit extra to help her get settled in.

A GoFundMe is in the works of being made but I can’t start one myself due to not living in the same country as her, there’s some weirdness with the beneficiary system there but if you want to help out now, you can donate to her here directly through PayPal. I will update this post once the GFM has been set up.

I know it’s a bad time for everyone now, but anything you can spare will go a very long way. Thank you so much for reading.

Reblogging for GFM link.

Yes, sadly I’ve been booted out onto the streets and I’m having to scrape by to survive. I’m not in such a bad spot that I’m eating out of trash, I still food stamps to eat with but there’s things that you cannot buy with foodstamps such as toilet paper and gasoline and other things.

If There’s any followers of mine still active here I could use whatever help you can give.

I wrote an update thanking everyone who was kind enough to donate and share, Please keep circulating this post.

First off, I want to express my heartfelt thanks to all who have donated so far. I'll be going through and saying thanks to everyone individually, but it means a lot to all of us that so many have been able to dig deep and spare some money to help get Kay into a place of her own. First thing's first is the car, we managed to raise enough to get it drivable, replacing the power steering and other general desperate maintenance things done to keep it on the road for the time being. We've hit some frustrations when it comes to looking for low-rent apartments in the area, as apparently the places that list those apartments are allowed to just have them in the listings as available, despite there being a two-year waiting period on them... which isn't helpful. Right now the plan is to check out a few more places while trying to get in contact with the local housing authority and plead with them hopefully be able to jump ahead and find a place. We're so grateful for all the help you've given so far, but the journey seems far from over. If you can help spread the word about this campaign, either by sharing through social media or private chat groups, it would help immensely along with any money that can be spared. Thank you again.
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Help my friend get off the streets.

On the 27th of April, my close friend @glenn-griffon​ was evicted from her home and has been living out of her car ever since. Due to the current pandemic, she’s been unable to find a shelter that will take in any new people, so a group of her friends, myself included have been trying to support her as much as we possibly can, but as it stands, issues are piling up faster than we can provide financially.

She lives in Texas and has made the journey down from Hooks to Houston to try and find a low income rental place she can afford on her SSDI payments. We’re hoping to raise about $1500-2000 for everything we need. 

Pictured above is her car, which has recently broken down and is in desperate need of maintenance. Currently we’re estimating a total of $700+ for the work needed to be done, but we can currently pay for roughly $450 of it. On top of that, I’d like to set her up with a few months of rent in advance, plus deposit (which we’ve had to use to go towards fixing the car initially), and a bit extra to help her get settled in.

A GoFundMe is in the works of being made but I can’t start one myself due to not living in the same country as her, there’s some weirdness with the beneficiary system there but if you want to help out now, you can donate to her here directly through PayPal. I will update this post once the GFM has been set up.

I know it’s a bad time for everyone now, but anything you can spare will go a very long way. Thank you so much for reading.

Reblogging for GFM link.

Yes, sadly I’ve been booted out onto the streets and I’m having to scrape by to survive. I’m not in such a bad spot that I’m eating out of trash, I still food stamps to eat with but there’s things that you cannot buy with foodstamps such as toilet paper and gasoline and other things.

If There’s any followers of mine still active here I could use whatever help you can give.

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Help my friend get off the streets.

On the 27th of April, my close friend @glenn-griffon​ was evicted from her home and has been living out of her car ever since. Due to the current pandemic, she’s been unable to find a shelter that will take in any new people, so a group of her friends, myself included have been trying to support her as much as we possibly can, but as it stands, issues are piling up faster than we can provide financially.

She lives in Texas and has made the journey down from Hooks to Houston to try and find a low income rental place she can afford on her SSDI payments. We’re hoping to raise about $1500-2000 for everything we need. 

Pictured above is her car, which has recently broken down and is in desperate need of maintenance. Currently we’re estimating a total of $700+ for the work needed to be done, but we can currently pay for roughly $450 of it. On top of that, I’d like to set her up with a few months of rent in advance, plus deposit (which we’ve had to use to go towards fixing the car initially), and a bit extra to help her get settled in.

A GoFundMe is in the works of being made but I can’t start one myself due to not living in the same country as her, there’s some weirdness with the beneficiary system there but if you want to help out now, you can donate to her here directly through PayPal. I will update this post once the GFM has been set up.

I know it’s a bad time for everyone now, but anything you can spare will go a very long way. Thank you so much for reading.

Reblogging for GFM link.

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Help my friend get off the streets.

On the 27th of April, my close friend @glenn-griffon​ was evicted from her home and has been living out of her car ever since. Due to the current pandemic, she’s been unable to find a shelter that will take in any new people, so a group of her friends, myself included have been trying to support her as much as we possibly can, but as it stands, issues are piling up faster than we can provide financially.

She lives in Texas and has made the journey down from Hooks to Houston to try and find a low income rental place she can afford on her SSDI payments. We’re hoping to raise about $1500-2000 for everything we need. 

Pictured above is her car, which has recently broken down and is in desperate need of maintenance. Currently we’re estimating a total of $700+ for the work needed to be done, but we can currently pay for roughly $450 of it. On top of that, I’d like to set her up with a few months of rent in advance, plus deposit (which we’ve had to use to go towards fixing the car initially), and a bit extra to help her get settled in.

A GoFundMe is in the works of being made but I can’t start one myself due to not living in the same country as her, there’s some weirdness with the beneficiary system there but if you want to help out now, you can donate to her here directly through PayPal. I will update this post once the GFM has been set up.

I know it’s a bad time for everyone now, but anything you can spare will go a very long way. Thank you so much for reading.

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wayneradiotv

this dog walked on stage during a biden rally and joe had his campaign team bury and seal the dog underground with bricks. this is SO fucked up, are some of you really voting for this ‘nice guy’?

someone please tell me this is a joke. please tell me a dog wasn’t actually buried alive

it is true biden is a ruthless sicening monster who would stop at nothing to further his campaign

First of all Biden and the people who carried this out should be drawn and quartered

Second, how does this even further his campaign? What could he have possible gained from this?

Or is his mind even more deteriorated than we thought and he’s really gone insane

he thought he could keep it secret but this footage leaked of his staff burying the dog outside of the building the rally was in. you absolutely can’t trust biden and shouldn’t vote for this dog burier

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goth-bunny

Thanks for posting the source video.

The GIFset looked off, and the sand looks like it was dug out instead of gathered to bury and hide the dog.

Please stop spreading misinformation like this

Look at the 5th gif

Wait the first few people legitimately thought this was real?

Good god I’ve been away from this hellsite and this place hasn’t changed at all lol. I legit thought people knew and were joking about it.

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Guys I promise I’m still working on that update to the ask blog I was talking about when I got my Cintiq. I know it’s been two months now, but  know that I’ve spent more time doing art in these two months than I have in probably the last few years. I’m just insanely slow.

Instead of my original plan to go with something simple, I decided to go WAY THE FUCK ALL OUT, having each panel being fully painted… despite only having what? Two fully painted pics under my belt? Anyway long story short I bit off way more than I could chew, and at this point I completely hate how it looks… but it’s probably more from staring at it for so long than anything else… probably.

It’s coming though, and it’s almost done. I’m onto the last panel.

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So... the question.

Of course some shit like this happens right as I’m about to revive this old blog (for serious, I have a post half done and everything).

With tumblr going full retard and purging everything that made this festering shit hole worth coming to in the first place, I’m not sure what I’m going to do. Sure this blog isn’t work unsafe (though it has skirted the line here and there), but the fact that the idiots running this place are going to be driving away a lot of my follower base, I don’t think it’s very much worth sticking around. It’s a shame because having a tumblr was at least convenient and easy to interact with you guys.

So I don’t think I’m going to delete unless absolutely necessary, but I don’t know if I’ll be sticking around. If tumblr’s driving off all the horny fuckers so they can keep the puritan shit stains around that have been driving the experience down for everyone else (sure, porn and the people who draw it is the enemy here and not the literal psycho’s who doxx and harrass and send death threats to artists for drawing a stephen universe character an eighth of a tone lighter than what they believe is canon, or for liking a ship, or whatever), then that’s a place I definitely don’t want to be near. 

Where can you find me on the off chance that I draw and post something? Well if not here, then you can find me over at these following places:

DeviantArt - This’ll have mostly SFW art, though mostly it’s just my comic and vector retraces at the moment.

FurAffinity - This’ll have a mix of SFW and not safe work that I may do. It’s currently pretty barebones because FA is a pain in the ass to use, and it’s currently broken for me anyway.

Inkbunny - Like FA it’ll have my SFW and not safe works, but it’ll be less of a focus on ponies and more general furry stuff. I much prefer to use this website because it’s much more feature complete, easier to use than FA, has an actually good tagging system that people actually use (again, looking at you FA). Downside is that it has a lot of cub art (for those of you who are turned off by that sort of thing), thankfully the website has a decent filtering system, so you can block those if need be. I think of the two websites, I’ll focus more on using Inkbunny, but I’ll still post art and stuff to FA... if I can.

Derpibooru - For my pony stuff. There’s a bit of tag mixing with some others’ work, and a lot of my old vector traces being used in other works, but a lot of it should be there.

Twitter - I also have this. I don’t think I’ll be using it for posting art though. Twitter’s userbase is just as shitty and toxic as the fucks here can be, and any art that gets posted there is mangled by the compression. Still, a lot of artists will be moving there and I’ll probably need to keep up with them in SOME form, so it’s there if you guys are interested. (And yes, the cut off name is both because I couldn’t fit the full word “scribbles” in there and because it’s a HILARIOUS statement to the 280 character limi

To everyone who’s been following me, I hope you can follow me as I make the jump to these websites, and if not, thank you so much for being a part of this journey with me, I never imagined I could carve this little niche out for two cute dumb lesbian horses. Sparkles and Dashie is not dead, it will return in the future, though where it is is a question I have yet to figure out.

Thank you, and I love you all.

Somepony

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It’s beautiful. Still a few technical foibles to sort out, like not being able to get 4k on the tablet, and a continuous disconnection issue, but otherwise it looks great, it feels great and I can’t wait to start using this baby.

The thing on the right is an Elgato Steam Deck. I don’t have plans on streaming or anything (yet), but it’s a VERY handy little thing to have for my keyboard shortcuts (since there are no express keys on the tablet and since I’m a lefty, trying to operate my shortcuts with my right hand is a pain).

I also got this great new guitar amp from my mum. This has been the most spoiled I’ve ever been for my birthday, and I’m still in a little shock.

((Mod post))

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(Part 1 of 5)

((This is a special for the 2nd anniversary of Ain’t Never Had Friends Like Us. Enjoy ^^

In case you’re wondering why Rainbow’s Twilight doesn’t have her colored highlights. It’s because they’re in their own universe and not in the genie dimension. But I do assure you that this is Genie Rainbow’s Twilight in this))

((Just reblogging the first and last of this series of posts so as not to flood your dashes with not-sparkles-and-dashie, but I implore you to check it out! This has been a long time coming for @aintneverhadfriendslikeus , and the payoff is just great!))

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(Part 5 of 5)

((Yes, for now on. Genie Rainbow and her Twilight will be marefriends. ^^ Hope you enjoyed this and the slight build-up I’ve been getting to this. Didn’t want to have them get together too soon to get the point of Rainbow trying to find the confidence to finally do it, but I didn’t want to drag it out too long either. Now we can truly get to any TwiDash-y stuff that some might be interested of sending asks for to add to the fun. ^^))

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Some TwiDash because holy hell it’s been disgustingly too long since I’ve drawn these two cuties. Just sweet lord dont look at those wings lol.

Support me on: DeviantArt | FurAffinity | InkBunny

(( Blows some dust from this place.

Well, have something I drew from a daily doodle thing I'm trying to do to actually not be a lazy piece of shit. Rusty as hell, especially with drawing ponies, but hopefully it'll get better with time. Hopefully. ))

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Important information for Content Creators on Tumblr

okay i know ive posted alot about this just now, but now that ive got it more or less figured out I’m gonna make a better post here and include the tags relevent to my interactions in it to ensure no one else in my fandoms/communities are blindsided like i was. 

I encourage you to make your own, or to just recopy this, tagging the fandoms and communities important to you!

CONTENT CREATORS: TUMBLR IS HIDING YOUR POSTS!

If you make a post with external links, your post will be hidden from searches. If you make a post and link to your redbubble, no one can search for your post. If you make art and link it to your deviantart or artstation, no one can search for you post. If you make any post and just throw on a “hey here is where you find me!” no one can search that post. If you want to recommend a fic or a youtube video, no one can search your post, if you… hell you get the idea. Tumblr has completely shut down content creators on this hellsite and its fucking infuriating.

Edit:  I have just confirmed that the post type “Link” also does not show up in the tags. Thats right, there is an ENTIRE TYPE OF TUMBLR POST that cannot be searched. G-FUCKING-G TUMBLR.

WHAT TO DO?

It shuts down posts with external links, so at first i assumed internal links would be fine. and they are. if you make a page on your tumblr blog called like /links or something you can certainly link to that. But in that way you run into an issue, tumblr mobile is a piece of shit and cant load tumblr pages, and itll just take you back to the mainblog any time you try.

The best solution ive found so far is put all your relevent links in your blog description like so:

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and then in every content post, call tumblr out for being a piece of shit and direct them to the links in your blog description.

Edit: In the top right hand side of photo posts you can click on it and include a single link as “source” that should work if you have one link neccessary. though if you need more you are still SOL.

CONTENT CREATOR SUPPORTERS

It is important now more than ever on this hellsite that you try to support your artist and content creators, reblog as much as possible, look to find them on websites off this piece of shit, and generally do your best to spread the word and support them, since tumblr itself is trying to silence them! 

Holy shit. Now I know why no one is commenting on my videos. I upload them to YouTube because tumblr won’t play them.

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epicaistar

Glad other people notice that too! Made two posts about that issue on April this year. It is infuriating how bad Tumblr’s search engine is! 

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zedrin-maybe

I just tested this out via editing / removing links in my posts, and it appears to be legitimate.

I believe I know a small workaround you can do, however:

First, go to edit your theme.

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Go down and add a page. Make a redirect link for the common link you’d want to use. In this case I’ll demonstrate with my Patreon.

In your posts, instead of using the direct link, use the redirect one inside your blog:

So this link would go to zedrin-maybe.tumblr.com/patreon, which then goes to patreon.com/zedrin.

I have just tested this and it appears the posts I’ve made edits to, which weren’t showing up in search results, now are.

One small side effect to this: it makes it very easy to link to my stuff if I have multiple links to use, which is very useful for organizational purposes, so to be honest I’d be prompted to do this even if the search results weren’t an issue. I just need to set up my redirect pages in advance.

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Also as a side note, I do want to keep updating this blog, but right now I’ve not been in the right space in the mind to do so. I’ve been dealing with depression over the past few years, which is why a lot of my content in total has dropped off. It’s not really an excuse, since other people deal with it better, but my kind of it is more apathy based, so often I’ll spend my free time just not doing anything, staring at Youtube videos, etc.

I am on a path to trying to fix it though. I’ve been referred to a psychologist, and am hoping to start on antidepressants and anxiety medication at some point in the future. I just need to make the appointment (and start other steps like losing weight, exercising, etc). I apologize for my absolute lack of content over the past year, year and a half. I haven’t given up on the blog, or on ponies as a whole, I was just... preoccupied in trying not to give up on myself, if that makes any sense lol.

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Anonymous asked:

are you the artist somepony scribbles?

I am! If you have any questions, could you please either submit them to my mod blog, or come off anon so I can answer privately. I don’t want to clog this blog with text posts (even if it’s the only stuff that gets posted here, aside from mistaken reblogs). Cheers.

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