Heya guys. Sorry for posting this for the billionth time. But maybe if you guys would like to give my posts about patreon a boost it would mean the world to me. I know I post this a lot and I don't take any help I receive for granted. I've only been able to make two new drawings since February. Bc every day I have been working almost 9 hours. I'm sick nearly every other week, my lymph nodes are swollen n I've been feeling incredibly depressed. I am from the global south, in the philippines, government help is near nonexistent. I am the sole caretaker of three disabled people. My mom can not do any housework, she is a full time wheelchair user, she needs care 24/7, insulin, adult diapers and kidneys that are under threat of failing if we don't watch her health, my dad has a chronic heart condition and my sister is autistic with a very low frustration threshold. Both my parents are diabetic, and I am the only person in my family who can work. I currently have three jobs, one in publishing, but I have a morality clause which means the publishing house can take back every single penny I make if I or the author fail to meet certain expectations. Anyway.. I have been working nonstop, my scoliosis is untreated and extremely painful, n for the past few four days I have been rationing a single can of spam and a few potatoes. Would mean the world to me if you guys could pick up a print, or subscribe to my patreon, or reblog any of my old art or send me a tip on ko-fi or anywhere else. Sorry and thank you again. I remake these a lot, but I sincerely don't take any of the help I receive for granted. Thank you again.

My inprnt

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https://www.patreon.com/littlestpersimmon

My tipping jars

I was not wanting to repost this again. But some life updates. It happened again. Part of my room rotted away, and I didn't notice. Cleaned out and ate about 7 of my textbooks and four of my beloved manga.

Would appreciate if any of you guys could check out any of my socials, or buy a print or send a tip. Nothing will go to book replacements, everything will go to an exterminator and plywood to patch up the new hole. Sorry this is a bit brief. I don't really know what to say. I'm very sorry for this and thank you again.

our house w/c is technically just a cottage and made only w wood has a termite infestation, a portion of my room now has a hole, during summer. But most of the second level of our house, the floors are rotted and have like these spots that are sinking. Maybe any of my mutuals here will have a follower w disposable income. Anything helps genuinely. My #1 fear is homelessness so am a bit neurotic rn, barely able to work with my anxiety, as I have been homeless for almost 10 years, nearly half of my life, and my constant source of anxiety and depression. ! My iPad is my main source of income, as all my drawings are made partially on procreate, and my iPad storage was totally full, and I needed to buy a new device to safely put my files in, so spent some cash there. Anyone who would like to help, anything does. Thank you so much, guys.

Hello guys, apologies again for reblogging this. Our family cat passed away suddenly 2 days ago at the er vet, and I had to pay 200 usd out of pocket. Overall. Just an upsetting way to start the month, as termites have eaten some of my shirts, books, pillow cases and bedsheets. Currently battling a tooth abscess and in some pain, and the electricity bill is about to to drop, and trying to stay sane through all this. Have missed work for over three days now. Would appreciate if anyone could help me out of this muck, by picking up a print, subscribing to my patreon, or sending a tip. It's my birthday next week, any help will absolutely turn things around. Thank you so much.

Hey guys. Inprnt offering free shipping everywhere..maybe you guys can pick up a couple of prints from my store. My situation has improved only a little, but still in a vulnerable position . Would mean the world to me if you guys check out my store!

Hey guys. Rbing once more. It's my birthday tomorrow..nearing finishing all of my work and recovering from a heavy flu, all while battling the 53*c weather. Would absolutely appreciate if we can keep this in circulation for just a bit longer because our house continues to fall apart. Thank you!

Book Review 68 - Babel by R. F. Kuang

Overview

I came to Babel with extremely little knowledge about the actual contents of the book but a deep sense of all the vibes swirling around its reception – that it was robbed of a Hugo nomination (if the author didn’t outright refuse it), that it’s probably the single buzziest and most Important sf/f release of 2022, that it was stridently political, and plenty more besides. I also went in having mostly enjoyed The Poppy War series and being absolutely enamoured by the elevator pitch of an alternate history Industrial Revolution where translation is literally magic. And, well-

It is wrong to say I hated this book, but only because keeping track of my complaints and starting organize this review in my head was entertaining enough to keep me invested in the reading experience.

The story is set in an alternate 1830s, where the rise of the British Empire relies upon the dominance of its translators, as it is the mixture of translation and silverworking, the inscription of match-pairs in different languages on bars of worked silver and the leveraging of the ambiguity and loss of meaning between them that fuels the world’s magic. The protagonist is pluckted from his childhood home in Canton after his family dies in a cholera outbreak and whisked away to the estate of Professor Lowell, an Oxford translator he quickly realized is his unacknowledged father. He’s made to choose an English name (Robin Swift) and raised and tutored as a future translator in service to the Empire.

The meat of the story is focused on Robin’s education in Oxford, his relationship with the rest of his cohort, and his growing radicalization and entanglement with the revolutionary Hermes Society. Things come to a head when in his fourth year the cohort is sent back to Canton to, well, help provoke the first Opium War, though none of them aware of that. The final act follows the fallout of that, by which I mean it lives up to the full title of “Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution”.

To be clear, this was technically a very accomplished book. The writing never dragged and the prose was, if not exactly lyrical, always clear and often evocative. Despite the breadth of space and time the story covers, I never had any complaints about the pacing – and honestly, the ending was, dramatically speaking, one of the more natural and well-executed ones I’ve read recently. It’s very well-constructed.

All that being said – allow me to apologize for how the rest of this is mostly just going to be a litany of complaints. But the book clearly believes itself to be an important and meaningful work of political art, which means I don’t feel particularly bad about holding it to high standards.

Columbia is unhousing students of color after suspending them:

Glasses people love to make you try their glasses on to see how fucked up their eyes are. It's a sign of respect in their culture.

shoutout to friends btw. best thing earth has to offer

On Eid, Israel had bombed several areas including a school, a mosque, a marketplace, and a refugee camp, bringing the total of Palestinians killed in the last 24 hours to 63, with many more still missing because their bodies were torn apart beyond recognition by Israeli bombs.

Keep talking about Gaza, keep agitating, and keep advocating because this is Zionism and this is Israel.

Commission by @big-eater-queen of my OCs Arsene and Fusaku! They seem like Very Good Friends.

Heya guys. Sorry for posting this for the billionth time. But maybe if you guys would like to give my posts about patreon a boost it would mean the world to me. I know I post this a lot and I don't take any help I receive for granted. I've only been able to make two new drawings since February. Bc every day I have been working almost 9 hours. I'm sick nearly every other week, my lymph nodes are swollen n I've been feeling incredibly depressed. I am from the global south, in the philippines, government help is near nonexistent. I am the sole caretaker of three disabled people. My mom can not do any housework, she is a full time wheelchair user, she needs care 24/7, insulin, adult diapers and kidneys that are under threat of failing if we don't watch her health, my dad has a chronic heart condition and my sister is autistic with a very low frustration threshold. Both my parents are diabetic, and I am the only person in my family who can work. I currently have three jobs, one in publishing, but I have a morality clause which means the publishing house can take back every single penny I make if I or the author fail to meet certain expectations. Anyway.. I have been working nonstop, my scoliosis is untreated and extremely painful, n for the past few four days I have been rationing a single can of spam and a few potatoes. Would mean the world to me if you guys could pick up a print, or subscribe to my patreon, or reblog any of my old art or send me a tip on ko-fi or anywhere else. Sorry and thank you again. I remake these a lot, but I sincerely don't take any of the help I receive for granted. Thank you again.

My inprnt

My patreon

https://www.patreon.com/littlestpersimmon

My tipping jars

I was not wanting to repost this again. But some life updates. It happened again. Part of my room rotted away, and I didn't notice. Cleaned out and ate about 7 of my textbooks and four of my beloved manga.

Would appreciate if any of you guys could check out any of my socials, or buy a print or send a tip. Nothing will go to book replacements, everything will go to an exterminator and plywood to patch up the new hole. Sorry this is a bit brief. I don't really know what to say. I'm very sorry for this and thank you again.

our house w/c is technically just a cottage and made only w wood has a termite infestation, a portion of my room now has a hole, during summer. But most of the second level of our house, the floors are rotted and have like these spots that are sinking. Maybe any of my mutuals here will have a follower w disposable income. Anything helps genuinely. My #1 fear is homelessness so am a bit neurotic rn, barely able to work with my anxiety, as I have been homeless for almost 10 years, nearly half of my life, and my constant source of anxiety and depression. ! My iPad is my main source of income, as all my drawings are made partially on procreate, and my iPad storage was totally full, and I needed to buy a new device to safely put my files in, so spent some cash there. Anyone who would like to help, anything does. Thank you so much, guys.

the booping is cute and all but lets not forget the violent transmisogyny and antiblackness of this site. ok

“thanks for ruining the joke, i bet you’re fun at parties” sorry for not wanting people to brush over staff’s shitty actions. especially on trans day of visibility

like okay, indulging this reply for a second. the things i’m pointing out are things that are happening now, right this moment, that are affecting real people. if i point out that something shitty is going on and your response is “wow, thanks for ruining the mood” you don’t actually want things to improve, you just want to be blissfully ignorant.

Heya guys. Sorry for posting this for the billionth time. But maybe if you guys would like to give my posts about patreon a boost it would mean the world to me. I know I post this a lot and I don't take any help I receive for granted. I've only been able to make two new drawings since February. Bc every day I have been working almost 9 hours. I'm sick nearly every other week, my lymph nodes are swollen n I've been feeling incredibly depressed. I am from the global south, in the philippines, government help is near nonexistent. I am the sole caretaker of three disabled people. My mom can not do any housework, she is a full time wheelchair user, she needs care 24/7, insulin, adult diapers and kidneys that are under threat of failing if we don't watch her health, my dad has a chronic heart condition and my sister is autistic with a very low frustration threshold. Both my parents are diabetic, and I am the only person in my family who can work. I currently have three jobs, one in publishing, but I have a morality clause which means the publishing house can take back every single penny I make if I or the author fail to meet certain expectations. Anyway.. I have been working nonstop, my scoliosis is untreated and extremely painful, n for the past few four days I have been rationing a single can of spam and a few potatoes. Would mean the world to me if you guys could pick up a print, or subscribe to my patreon, or reblog any of my old art or send me a tip on ko-fi or anywhere else. Sorry and thank you again. I remake these a lot, but I sincerely don't take any of the help I receive for granted. Thank you again.

My inprnt

My patreon

https://www.patreon.com/littlestpersimmon

My tipping jars

I was not wanting to repost this again. But some life updates. It happened again. Part of my room rotted away, and I didn't notice. Cleaned out and ate about 7 of my textbooks and four of my beloved manga.

Would appreciate if any of you guys could check out any of my socials, or buy a print or send a tip. Nothing will go to book replacements, everything will go to an exterminator and plywood to patch up the new hole. Sorry this is a bit brief. I don't really know what to say. I'm very sorry for this and thank you again.

Heya guys. Sorry for posting this for the billionth time. But maybe if you guys would like to give my posts about patreon a boost it would mean the world to me. I know I post this a lot and I don't take any help I receive for granted. I've only been able to make two new drawings since February. Bc every day I have been working almost 9 hours. I'm sick nearly every other week, my lymph nodes are swollen n I've been feeling incredibly depressed. I am from the global south, in the philippines, government help is near nonexistent. I am the sole caretaker of three disabled people. My mom can not do any housework, she is a full time wheelchair user, she needs care 24/7, insulin, adult diapers and kidneys that are under threat of failing if we don't watch her health, my dad has a chronic heart condition and my sister is autistic with a very low frustration threshold. Both my parents are diabetic, and I am the only person in my family who can work. I currently have three jobs, one in publishing, but I have a morality clause which means the publishing house can take back every single penny I make if I or the author fail to meet certain expectations. Anyway.. I have been working nonstop, my scoliosis is untreated and extremely painful, n for the past few four days I have been rationing a single can of spam and a few potatoes. Would mean the world to me if you guys could pick up a print, or subscribe to my patreon, or reblog any of my old art or send me a tip on ko-fi or anywhere else. Sorry and thank you again. I remake these a lot, but I sincerely don't take any of the help I receive for granted. Thank you again.

My inprnt

My patreon

https://www.patreon.com/littlestpersimmon

My tipping jars

I was not wanting to repost this again. But some life updates. It happened again. Part of my room rotted away, and I didn't notice. Cleaned out and ate about 7 of my textbooks and four of my beloved manga.

Would appreciate if any of you guys could check out any of my socials, or buy a print or send a tip. Nothing will go to book replacements, everything will go to an exterminator and plywood to patch up the new hole. Sorry this is a bit brief. I don't really know what to say. I'm very sorry for this and thank you again.

—James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket

this has to be one of the most relatable manga pages i’ve ever seen

This video was taken a week before the war, during my first visit to Gaza in over eight years. I went there to celebrate my medical school graduation, having always found it difficult to enter Gaza due to fears of not being able to leave and jeopardizing my university studies.

Tragically, I lost 72 family members in the conflict. Many of the people in the video have been killed.

[ID: a graphic with a picture of a destroyed building at the top and pictures of Ezzideen and his family members at the bottom. before the main text is an Instagram handle: @/ezzideenshehab. the text body reads: "Urgent Plea for Survival

I'm Ezzideen Shehab. I traveled to celebrate my med school graduation just a week before war turned my joy into a nightmare, costing me 72 family members. Now in the north, we're facing starvation with no food left. To escape Gaza for Egypt, each person needs $5000 through Hala Company. Every $1 we collect can save a life.

To make a donation, please scan the QR code provided or go to gofund.me/8c4d61ac." below is a QR code. end ID]

this graphic was made by boshra, ezzideen's friend who is also helping with his gofundme. please save it and share it widely! we have been talking a lot over instagram trying to figure out how to get his campaign seen, as at this point, most of the projects dedicated to sharing gazans' fundraisers like the watermelon project or operation olive branch are significantly backed up and unable to help. even if you can't donate, saving the graphic and sending it to your family and friends or posting it on other social media would be a huge help, since it's our only way of getting it out there right now.

ezzideen's account got shadowbanned by tumblr so he is unable to send any messages for right now. if he makes a new account or gets his account un-shadowbanned i will update here.

The link on her TikTok page which leads you to her business, but here it is for folks who want to check it out: Modest Behaviour

I stumbled upon her content such a long time ago, and they're both so precious and funny as heck. Please support them if you aren't already following her accounts.