I really hoped I would never have to be the person to do this but I really need money. I apologize for the shitty post quality but we are trying to figure out where to live at this exact moment. 

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My dad is very verbally abusive and we can no longer live in this house. My dad is the main person in our family making money, my mom and my brother are both disabled and I am too young to get a job. We need to make enough money to get us on our feet so we can move out of town, into a small apartment, and find jobs. We have to figure out how to pay for food for the three of us and our dogs, as well as basic needs and medication for my family. If you could please consider purchasing from my shop? If you cant purchase please please consider reblogging this so maybe other people can, and if you dont see any designs you like commissions are also available.

Commissions: examples of my work can be found here: x and here x

Full bodies are $20 for a sketch, $40 for full color + background and shading, +5 for each additional character (up to 3) Busts are $10 for a sketch, $25 for full color + background and shading, +3 for each additional character. If you cant afford any of the following prices please email me and hopefully we can work something out. A quick doodle, ect.

My email is hankimberlyrose@gmail.com (please use this for commissions) and you can dm me @tirednico or @hantheham if you have questions. 

Tumblr, What The Fuck

Let me give some context to my heading.

I have been getting numerous complaints from my friends who are minors and also use Tumblr. Blogs that they follow who post NSFW have now had half of the posts hidden from view, solely because they are under 18.

They have no way to disable this feature because the Tumblr team have decided that it is not their decision whether or not they are comfortable seeing explicit content.

Let me tell you one thing- teenagers- they are not innocent, almighty, powerful, virgin gods. They are sexual, and they, I can assure you, don’t magically have this ‘off switch’ that keeps them from feeling any sexual desire at all until they are “of legal age”. Asexuals do not have an ‘off switch’ either. They don’t feel sexual desire because that’s not their shit- but that’s beside the point.

My point- Tumblr creators -is that it is not your decision to make. If users want to block NSFW from showing up on their dash or search results, you have given them the option to block all explicit content. It is their fault if they do not disable the content and then bitch about it.

While doing so- you have also robbed thousands of people from the right to freely browse through their dash by stripping them of the ability to disable safe search.

If they don’t want to see NSFW or sensitive content- FINE. They can disable it themselves.

But you have enabled safe mode for a ton of users and have forbidden them from changing that. And that isn’t okay. I know I’m going to get mixed responses for this post, but quite honestly-

I. Do. Not. Care.

Humans, they are sexual beings. If some of them are not, that’s okay- let them figure it out themselves. Don’t make that decision for them, because I can assure you, you are not protecting them- you are hurting them.

Instead of banning them from seeing all sexual content, how about you emphasize the importance of being safe and responsible. I don’t know if I’m the only one angry about this- but seriously, Tumblr, what the fuck?

Reblog if you’ve ever read fan-fiction that actually set the bar higher.

#yup#it’s so hard to read published fiction now#so much of it is just sooo baaad#but like#part of the gate keeper effect to publishing#is that they don’t get inundated with all these stories using similar tropes#tropes don’t get refined like they do in fanfiction#published fiction ends up feeling cliche and clunky and incredibly slow#where fanfiction works through every possible iteration of a trope or a technique in a matter of months#and then comes back and turns old beloved tropes on their heads#while published fiction is still floundering with the basics of something that fanfiction explored in depth years ago#it’s like when someone shows you a ‘cool new funny meme’ from fb#and you’re like#that was on tumblr in 2007#and it’s not even a particularly good example of the meme#it’s a mediocre example at best#from before the meme really got going and people got really imaginative#that’s how published fiction feels to me these days#in comparison to fanfiction#anyway#tag talking#fanfiction#reading (via)

“what are you reading?”

“its a…online book.”

“oh cool, what’s it about?”

“….uh….”

I love that everyone just knows

Or…alternately:

“what are you writing?”

“it’s a….story.”

“oh cool, what’s it about?”

“…uh…”

“can i read it?”

“Oooh what are you drawing? Can I see?”

I FEEL THIS on a personal level

So attacked right now.

Meanwhile, I’m over here like:

Mutual- “What is the story about?”

Me-

I will never not reblog this

jkeaton killing anti shaladin discourse once and for all

This is the Holy Keaton - reblog to eradicate antis and discourse.

Voltron au where Shiro smiles vacantly all the time like the sun and moon protagonist

pl ease

me, groaning dramatically: ughhhh there’s barely any content for [very uncommon pairing/very specific characterization pattern i prefer]

friend: you could…. make some yourself?

me: groans louder

Can’t risk it

I AIN’T TAKIN NO FUCKING CHANCES

Not taking that chance at all, I needs my creativity!

I hate myself immensely for this but IM PLAYING IT SAFE

update- IT WORKS

I hate this but oh well

Broke af?

But still interested in feeding yourself? What if I told you that there’s a woman with a blog who had to feed both herself and her young son…on 10 British pounds ($15/14 Euro) per week?

Let me tell you a thing.

This woman saved my life last year. Actually saved my life. I had a piggy bank full of change and that’s it. Many people in my fandom might remember that dark time as when I had to hock my writing skills in exchange for donations. I cried a lot then. 

This is real talk, people: I marked down exactly what I needed to buy, totaled it, counted out that exact change, and then went to three different stores to buy what I needed so I didn’t have to dump a load of change on just one person. I was already embarrassed, but to feel people staring? Utter shame suffused me. The reasons behind that are another post all together. 

AgirlcalledJack.com is run by a British woman who was on benefits for years. Things got desperate. She had to find a way to feed herself and her son using just the basics that could be found at the supermarket. But the recipes she came up with are amazing. 

You have to consider the differing costs of things between countries, but if you just have three ingredients in your cupboard, this woman will tell you what to do with it. Check what you already have. Chances are you have the basics of a filling meal already. 

Here’s her list of kitchen basics. 

Bake your own bread. It’s easier than you think. Here’s a list of many recipes, each using some variation of just plain flour, yeast, some oil, maybe water or lemon juice. And kneading bread is therapeutic. 

Make your own pasta–gluten free. 

She gets it. She really does. This is the article that started it all. It’s called “Hunger Hurts”.

She has vegan recipes.

A carrot, a can of kidney beans, and some cumin will get you a really filling soup…or throw in some flour for binding and you’ve got yourself a burger. 

Don’t have an oven or the stove isn’t available? She covers that in her Microwave Cooking section. 

She has a book, but many recipes can be found on her blog for free. She prices her recipes down to the cent, and every year she participates in a project called “Living Below the Line” where she has to live on 1 BP per day of food for five days. 

Things improved for me a little, but her website is my go to. I learned how to bake bread (using my crockpot, but that was my own twist), and I have a little cart full of things that saved me back then, just in case I need them again. She gives you the tools to feed yourself, for very little money, and that’s a fabulous feeling. 

Tip: Whenever you have a little extra money, buy a 10 dollar/pound/euro giftcard from your discount grocer. Stash it. That’s your super emergency money. Make sure they don’t charge by the month for lack of use, though.

I don’t care if it sounds like an advertisement–you won’t be buying anything from the site. What I DO care about is your mental, emotional, and physical health–and dammit, food’s right in the center of that. 

If you don’t need this now, pass it on to someone who does. Pass it on anyway, because do you REALLY know which of the people in your life is in need? Which follower might be staring at their own piggy bank? Trust me: someone out there needs to see this. 

Reblogging for all the impoverished students. Jack is the breadline queen. And if you don’t need this - donate to your nearest food bank, stat.

Reblogging for students, working folks, and everyone who’s ever had to choose between essentials at the store because you can only afford milk OR bread, not both.

Not Voltron related but this is wickedly important.

Reblog so more people can feed themselves and anyone that depends on them. Please.

This is so utterly important to not just the Supernatural fandom, currently under attack, but to ANYONE who’s ever gotten hate by anons.

This is so mind-numbingly simple to execute, and it will block a whole IP address, which means that anons cant make new profiles to send more hate.

IF YOU KNOW SOME OF YOUR FOLLOWERS ARE GETTING HATE, LET THEM KNOW THEY CAN STOP THE HATE BY DOING THIS THING.

@kallura fans

To all shaladins

Fandom is not an obligation.

It is not a job.  It is not school.  It is not a contract.   Participation in fandom is voluntary and it is not binding (commissions and paid work aside).

Yes, within fandom you should be bound by some sense of ethics or general decency: don’t steal art and fic, don’t willfully deceive people, don’t be a jerk or a garbage human, and so on and so forth.  But everything else?  The writing fic and the doing and the participation?  It is voluntary.

So if you are writing a fic and you’re seven chapters in and you have eight chapters to go and you’re just tired and you don’t want to do it any more?  You can stop.  If you’ve been running a blog and writing about every single episode of every new anime show that’s come out and you can’t for three weeks?  Don’t.  If you told your 5 billion followers you were gonna post a piece of fanart and you’re just sick of it and you don’t want to do it any more?  Give it up.

Sure, people will be disappointed and upset and some will complain.  But life is disappointing and upsetting sometimes, and it goes on, and no one can sue you for not finishing a fic that they were enjoying the hell out of for free.  No one can accuse you of not living up to the terms of your contract when you don’t post that fanart you mentioned three weeks ago.  Because fandom is voluntary.  It’s something that you participate in because it’s fun or fulfilling or important to you, and when it stops being those things, you should stop, too.

You are not bound by the asks in your inbox.  You are not bound by comments on a fic or a piece of art.  You are not bound, in fandom, by other people’s disappointments or their expectations. 

Fandom is voluntary.  Don’t let people pressure you into thinking that it is anything else.

a quick little rant regarding gen content

hey it’s your friendly neighborhood fanfic writer here to have a fun discussion about gen fan content, why there isn’t more, and why (in my personal experience) just saying ‘we should have more gen content!’ won’t really get you that much more gen content

what is gen fan content? so glad you asked. gen content is content that has 0 romantic relationships! yup that’s it. gen = general relationships

first off, if you go into any fandom’s gen tag on ao3, you’re probably also gonna find a lot of romance. that’s because you can choose more than one tag, and hey, even i’m guilty of it. but! that doesn’t mean gen content doesn’t exist

for a while now, i’ve been seeing posts about how people wish there was more gen content, or that fandoms should have platonic weeks, or that they just wish there was less romance in fan content. which are all valid things to want and talk about! but at the same time, we have to keep this in mind: 

if you want more gen content, the easiest way to get it is to interact with gen content that already exists

what do i mean by that? 

from my experience, with my own work and just from observation, gen works get less notice than works that aren’t marked as gen. meaning they get less kudos, less hits, and less general interaction

the reason for this is probably because fandom is usually very centered around shipping, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s really disheartening to see your hits/kudos/comments statistics on gen works in comparison to ship works. 

even if something is really enjoyable to write, if people clearly like something else more, you’re more likely to create that as opposed to what fewer people are reading. you can tell people that they should be creating fan content because they love it, and they definitely do, but it’s very invalidating to watch the hit counter stop at a low number

so if you want more gen works, search them out 

interact with people who create gen content! support them! comment on their work, reblog it, give it kudos, send it to your friends!

just saying you want more nonromantic content means nothing if you aren’t going to support those who make it 

if you’re going to ask for gen works, you have to actually interact and notice the people who are already creating that content

platonic content already exists out there!! support the gen works that are already posted

if gen works stop being so ignored by fandom in comparison to their romantic counterparts, i have no doubt that you’ll find yourself seeing more and more of it in the tags

a quick little rant regarding gen content

hey it’s your friendly neighborhood fanfic writer here to have a fun discussion about gen fan content, why there isn’t more, and why (in my personal experience) just saying ‘we should have more gen content!’ won’t really get you that much more gen content

what is gen fan content? so glad you asked. gen content is content that has 0 romantic relationships! yup that’s it. gen = general relationships

first off, if you go into any fandom’s gen tag on ao3, you’re probably also gonna find a lot of romance. that’s because you can choose more than one tag, and hey, even i’m guilty of it. but! that doesn’t mean gen content doesn’t exist

for a while now, i’ve been seeing posts about how people wish there was more gen content, or that fandoms should have platonic weeks, or that they just wish there was less romance in fan content. which are all valid things to want and talk about! but at the same time, we have to keep this in mind: 

if you want more gen content, the easiest way to get it is to interact with gen content that already exists

what do i mean by that? 

from my experience, with my own work and just from observation, gen works get less notice than works that aren’t marked as gen. meaning they get less kudos, less hits, and less general interaction

the reason for this is probably because fandom is usually very centered around shipping, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s really disheartening to see your hits/kudos/comments statistics on gen works in comparison to ship works. 

even if something is really enjoyable to write, if people clearly like something else more, you’re more likely to create that as opposed to what fewer people are reading. you can tell people that they should be creating fan content because they love it, and they definitely do, but it’s very invalidating to watch the hit counter stop at a low number

so if you want more gen works, search them out 

interact with people who create gen content! support them! comment on their work, reblog it, give it kudos, send it to your friends!

just saying you want more nonromantic content means nothing if you aren’t going to support those who make it 

if you’re going to ask for gen works, you have to actually interact and notice the people who are already creating that content

platonic content already exists out there!! support the gen works that are already posted

if gen works stop being so ignored by fandom in comparison to their romantic counterparts, i have no doubt that you’ll find yourself seeing more and more of it in the tags

A Heartfelt Thanks

           Dear DreamWorks, Studio Mir, Josh Keaton, Jeremy Shada, Steven Yeun, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Tyler Labine, Kimberly Brooks, Rhys Darby, Neil Kaplan, Cree Summer, Keith Ferguson, Jake Eberle, Mick Wingert, and Arnold Vosloo,

           You have all created an incredible show for everyone in the fandom to enjoy. We really appreciate it, and even through all the fandom discourse- you still manage to provide us incredible Voltron content. 

           You continue to give us updates on the characters, and even though we may not voice it very often, we do acknowledge and value your sacrifices. 

           Thank you to all of the voice actors who perform incredibly, and continue to interact with the fandom, even though we do not always give you the best reactions. Most of us do recognize your sacrifices, and we thank you immensely for everything you do for the show and for its viewers. 

           Thank you, animators, for animating all of our favorite characters in an outstanding fashion- the colors, the fight scenes, even the emotional scenes- You drew them all incredibly. I know as well as the next person that some of you may have ended up losing your jobs over the recent leaks, but do not forget that your efforts to the show are not unnoticed. We appreciate every last one of you.

           To the writers- you have written some of the most wholesome scenes and episodes I have ever received the pleasure of witnessing. As a writer, your content hits very deep, and I can not voice my appreciation loudly enough.

           I thank you, on the fandom’s behalf.

I’m calling you out right now lance

I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS VIDEO FOR FOREVER