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blackdaisies

@blackdaisies / blackdaisies.tumblr.com

Mela (she/her) / Art blog etc. / #My Art / blackdaisies.carrd.co
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I am almost out of the trenches.. I did all my taxes.. I finished two big comms I was really nervous about because of my own insecurity.... I sent my cousin some of the money I made from my commissions for her biopsy.. and we repaired all the holes in my sisters room and got rid of the mold.. I only need to do legit three more big comms and work will be less crazy. The electricity bill dropped today and its like 90 usd.. please.. if you like my art would you consider getting a print.. ! I have most of my gallery there n would love to get this electricity stuff out of my hair.. I have not had a break since January.. have not had time to make personal art.. please.. would love a break

N also. My patreon n tipping jars if you want. I have nearly 200+ exclusive art on patreon. I feel the last three art I posted there was especially good. It's not posted anywhere else....!!!

N for anyone with disposable income. Everything will go to the electricity bill. Anything extra goes to insulin, rosuvastatin and anti seizure meds on g-d.

Hello! So far I managed to sell one print, so still some ways to go! I'll reblog for a bit! Thank you!!

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For the people in the notes requesting this to be an opt-in and not and opt-out... It doesn't matter much. This is straight from the person in charge of this heist:

Andrew Spittle, Automattic's head of AI replied: "We will notify existing partners on a regular basis about anyone who's opted out since the last time we provided a list. [...] I believe partners will honor this based on our conversations with them to this point."

So the setting only function is to kindly request openAI to not use your data, and it's entirely up to them to do it or not.

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blackdaisies

w the fuck, Tumblr.

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Painted a bunch of little skulls for the Planescape: Adventures in Multiverse book, including my beloved childhood friend Morte and this funky guy all covered in stickers :)

Please notice little Mahadi, the Cassalanters' crest and Barovia postcards I allowed myself to slap on him :)

Plus the rest of the mimirs.

AD: Emi Tanji

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Yeah hi. once again. is anyone in st paul missing a goddamn cat because apparently we moved on top of a black cat spawn point

This pair entered our yard together covered in burrs and completely, dangerously emaciated. Like, if you pinch their hips you can almost feel your fingers touch. We asked every neighbor around if they belonged to them or if they had seen them before and no one had seen them before.

They have bell collars and a slight smell of what i could only describe as "old lady perfume", so clearly they had an owner, but by their condition I would say they have not been indoors or fed in over a week.

we think a senior may have passed and their pets were dumped by family, or escaped after not being tended. We have checked pawboost etc. and our own Found post is going up.

I don't usually assign breeds to strays but I think they may be angora cats, their fur is unusually silky now that we have cleared the burrs from it, and their tails are massive plumes. as you can see, one also is polydactyl.

what is going on.

they (and the one that showed up last night) are getting taken for a chip scan as soon as any petsmart is able to see them (calling around tomorrow 11/21). everyone on pawboost facebook concurs that they were probably dumped based on their condition, and if they were, i genuinely wish a lifetime of stepping on broken glass on whomever did such a thing to these angels.

i sincerely wish that they were not dumped, but it's starting to seem like they were...like. they are *thin*, guys. I can feel all of their bones. but their coats are cared for? it's very confusing. would people dump cats with their collars still on?

well, just got back from the vet-- not only did she agree they were emaciated and probably out for a long time, but they had no chips.

We are lucky to have the space, but this puts us at 8 cats in the home- our 4 originals, one we fostered from a neighbor who could not keep him, and the three that showed up this week. The foster will be claimed by a friend once they can catproof their home, but we still need to have three of them vetted, chipped, fixed, etc.

i have had a few offers for donations, or suggestions that i ask for them. I don't like asking for monetary help online and was really hesitant to do this, especially with the holidays approaching and so many more urgent charities needing help, but if anyone has a few dollars to spare to help us with cursory vet bills we would be immensely grateful. <3 my roommate's paypal is ninamodaffari(at)gmail(dot)com

donations are greatly appreciated! we want to make sure we can take care of these guys properly before fostering them out <3 they all need to be fixed and have their shots too, so vet bills are going to pile up.

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I actually really like it here at Tumblr. Being here and looking at the lovely art and reading stories makes me happy and inspires me. I hope Tumblr continues to exist and be the haven for creative people that it is right now. I also hope that Tumblr can be successful.

I don't really want to maintain my website anymore, so I have been looking at Tumblr as an alternative. The news about it makes me reconsider it, but it's still an option.

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So to balance things out a bit from my last post.

Here is what I do love about Astarion and why I appreciate him so much. Firstly: I'm a sucker (ha, pun!) for good vampire stories, so he's got that, right up until his choices at the end of his storyline.

Astarion is also not an "edgelord". He's not a broody dude all in black, sulking in the shadows and commiserating about his dark past, and his dark nature and warning everyone he speaks to about how "i'm not good". Astarion is out, he's pan, he's colourful, flamboyant and embraces his personality to an extent. As much as he seems to grate on Wyll, it's clear from random dialogue that Wyll would be his first choice to "bite", which I take to mean a bit of attraction there, and as a Wyll fan, I appreciate that.

He LOVES life, and he loves being in the sun, and as the song says, he wants to live. No dark, broody, gothy vampire wannabe here. He's also portrayed as an older man, which I also appreciate. And I get that most of his abrasive nature comes from literal centuries of trauma, and that story is told so well. Neil Newbon absolutely deserves all the awards for his portrayal of Astarion.

As I said. Well written asshole.

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First of all, I love, love, love Astarion. There isn't a BG3 origin companion that I don't love, to be fair, but I do love our vampire elf, and I'm all over his story, and my Dark Urge is romancing him.

Here it goes:

I think the community gives him way too many passes. They can't simply recognize that he is a complete asshole in the beginning, particularly when your character doesn't know him at all. You're expected to give him a pass because he has a tragic backstory, that you don't really find out until later on.

But in the meantime, he's abrasive, he disapproves of every altruistic choice you make, EVEN if it's arguably the easiest path to take. He tries to bite you while you were knocked out and he goes on to try and manipulate you. The guy is textbook asshole. I love this character, but he's a well written asshole.

I am totally good with his story or if people romance him (such as me!), but it's so weird that people write literal essays to excuse his early behaviour, as if it isn't at all toxic. It's more interesting when players dive right into the toxic and play along with him, but this character's coddling by this community sometimes turns me off.

I''m also so jaded with most fandoms that it leaves me wonder ing that if Astarion looked a different way, less physically attractive to the community, would he get a pass? I bet he wouldn't.

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