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Alfred (PaperBoxHouse) just set up a ko-fi after being admitted to the hospital due to severe, ongoing health issues.
You may know him for his artwork, streams, or even playing "Moon Piss" Eggman in the Snapcube real time fandubs.
He's in a bit of a financial bind so please consider donating! Any amount you can afford is a huge help.
alien: we’re supposed to be mindless tools but I’m weird
steven: that’s called an emotion and it’s normal
alien: oh my fucking god
It’s on sale until October 9th, 2019, important to note.
remember when you were a kid and whenever your parents came into the room while you were doing something for pleasure like looking at something on the computer or watching tv and you’d immediately close the thing like you’d just been caught watching porn when you were actually doing nothing wrong this post was made by strict parents with no boundaries gang
Awesomecon was fun~! Thank you everybody who dropped by to say hi! Next stop, MegaCon Orlando!
And while the above moments are loosely (or completely) based off of real interactions, please do not think you upset me or anything if you vaguely think that may have been you. Trust me I laughed in retrospect at all the encounters, which is why I thought I’d share them for the smile :)
Hi, my name is Artemis, and I’m a 19 year old Male-to-Female transgender individual who has suffered from things like depression in the past. I need help with being able to properly transition, however, as the cost of not just my estrogen (more than $100 a vial) but with doctor’s costs as well (currently, my labwork is costing $600 a visit and I know that I’ve had at least four visits that aren’t being covered by insurance). My immediate family is just barely making ends meet, and the insurance that they have that I am still covered under isn’t covering my transition what so ever. If possible, I’d like to be able to transition as properly as possible to ensure my ability to live a full and proper life by minimizing the sources of worry and dysphoria related to my transition. The suicide rate for transgender individuals is astronomically high, and I’d like to not be part of that statistic if I can so help it. I’ll be honest and say that right now, the situation isn’t truly urgent– they’re just medical bills, and I can always try to ignore them and only pay the minimum. But as time goes on, these costs will only pile on top of my already great debt as a college student. As it piles on, so will the worry and stress, and so will my mental status decline. As such, I want to try and stay on top of this before anything starts to go wrong. I’m already trying to work as much as I can while still passing my classes, but with the amount of bills I have to pay it is truly difficult.
If you can’t help directly, please help me share this link. It truly would mean a lot to me.
Thank you.
I’m rewatching Steven Universe and I forgot how amazing “Cat Fingers” is. It’s got all the quintessential “Steven gets in way over his head” elements and super corny jokes of the early Steven Universe episodes, but it’s also got the first distinct queer/trans parallel. Sort of.
The cat fingers and presentation of shapeshifting, feel like an incomplete, half-baked trans metaphor, but then we get the moment between Steven and his dad at the car wash at the end.
Greg is clearly weirded out by Gem magic - shapeshifting in particular - and wants nothing to do with it, but when he sees Steven and hears his cries for help, he does what Steven asks him to do even though he’s afraid of hurting Steven even more. He knows Steven is hurting, and getting involved makes Greg uncomfortable on many levels, but he does it anyway. He believes in Steven.
In short, Greg is best ally. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Dear White People,
THIS is how you ally. THIS is how you use your privilege to help us. THIS is how you earn our respect. The White college students in Cape Town, South Africa knew the police would not shoot or harm them so they created a human shield to protect the Black protestors. I’m crying. I’m crying.
BOOST THE SHIT OUT OF THIS!!!!
Yo I’m fuckin crying
When you have privilege and others don’t, you use that privilege to help others. You don’t just stand there and watch the less fortunate suffer.
Privilege ain’t shit if you can’t do anything good with it.
Make it 3 months. They need to know that no matter what they do differently month in month out with their money there is just never going to be enough. Also at the beginning of the 3rd month create a $1,000 emergency.
