To BE happy with my GP*
Rook_Killjoy/Faux_Fox_. Queer transmasc NB photographer and gig worker, invisibly disabled, neuro spicy, pagan, Alabamian. Really quite tired. I swear a lot. They/Them Header by me. PFP by @karidru.bsky.social https://ko-fi.com/rookkilljoy
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To BE happy with my GP*
I need to cover Sept bills/utilities since my janky lungs are still making work impossible. I'm stalled out at $10/$689. I know $689 is a lot, but bills are about to hit & rent took everything. Help out a disabled queer trans person survive? TYSM! 💕💸🏳️⚧️ #MutualAid paypal.me/rookkilljoy C/V: foxrook
please help if you can? i still need $980 as soon as possible. i also need a little over $1500 towards the next 20% i have to pay for radiation therapy (due sept 6th). i know everyone has it tough, but there is no prospect of returning to my normal life if i don't get the treatment i need.
Been doing a little bit of practice with the drawing tablet at a time. I am Very Bad at it, but I think I get the concept. Anyone have suggestions for good beginner youtubes? I mean beginner beginner, not "talented 12 year old".
If I had access to a wider range of polychromos I would be a menace. As it is I have greens, yellows, two blues and two reds. #weeburdoodlesart #dragon #art
My experience in almost 4 years of watercolor now is that you really have to keep reminding yourself to trust the process because none of it ever makes any sense to the brain until you finally realize that it's done.😂
This is one of my favorite failures. This is on 100% cotton paper which is apparently way more delicate because when I took the art tape off both around the Border and to get that crisp point, it basically shredded the paper. But I'm working on trying to duplicate it on different paper.
The whole kind of premise of watercolor is for it to be transparent so getting it this opaque was not easy LOL totally worth it though! There's at one point halfway through where it looks like I've just smeared tomato sauce on the paper and I had to just remind myself to trust the process. LOL
You might be happy to know I'm working on a set of all metallic! Black AND regular paper. 🥰
It's SO pleasing to work with. It took SEVERAL layers to get it that opaque since it is watercolor! I've been working on several metallic experiments like this the past few days. Some worked, some haven't. Practice is practice, though. And it's something I can do even when my lungs are acting up.
a Pokémon a day keeps artblock away #246 Larvitar
I did an art, it took me 3 days but finished! I'm so stinkin' proud of it. Inspired by Mars/space and tarot. Gold and red metallic watercolor on black watercolor paper. #ArtSky #art #watercolor #metallic #tarot #mars #space #painting
We also discussed today that them pushing morphine after I had said no multiple times could be considered assault. Will I ever be able to do anything about that? No, but it validates my nightmare experience. As does my GP continue to validate me.
We also discussed a plan for if I do need to go to the ER, to get the BFF to be my patient advocate or if I'm not like bleeding out and actively dying, then I will just drive the hour to UAB in Birmingham. Neither of us trust the local ER after the negligence & drug pushing against my will.
Oh, I forgot to update this. I have to go back in next Tuesday for labs and A1C (insurance won't pay for it until then). Everything else seems okay with the exception of my lungs/air trapping. GP also got all the pulmonologist's records so she could go over them. I continue to hapy with my GP.
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I need to cover Sept bills/utilities since my janky lungs are still making work impossible. I'm stalled out at $10/$689. I know $689 is a lot, but bills are about to hit & rent took everything. Help out a disabled queer trans person survive? TYSM! 💕💸🏳️⚧️ #MutualAid paypal.me/rookkilljoy C/V: foxrook
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Ooooh, Kīlauea's going again! 🌋 www.youtube.com/live/BqmpkUd...
Me too. It's kicking my ass right now though. I've taken as much over the counter painkillers as I can, I have iced my face I honestly don't know what to do and I am in agony.
The Governor of Louisiana is working with ICE to detain immigrants at Angola. Apparently, the fact that Angola was violating the human rights of youth prisoners in '23 is a bonus, because it means more immigrants will "self-deport." If Gov Landry kisses Trump's ass anymore, his lips'll go orange.
Remember, an itchio user buying NSFW content also lost their PayPal recently bsky.app/profile/acva...
It's a bunch of Norse dudes really good at their job and it's really interesting seeing them work out how to engineer dangerous and tricky rescues. They're pretty funny, too.
Due to a few things, I missed a week of work last month and need to find that money another way. $75 would replace what I'm missing and anything over that will go toward the roughly $800 energy bill we have thanks to the landlord removing hunks of our ceiling when it's over 100* F outside.
I have had a number of loved ones say the most wild, hateful, bigoted things to me, about my identities, and then appear to fully forget it ever happened. No, of course the person doing the punching doesn't want to cut off their punching bags.
😂 that is both hilarious and *eek*.
Oh my gods. 😂🫣
Unfortunately, no. I only have 1 person locally and between her work/family schedule PLUS the pulmonologist's office won't allow anyone back with the patient. I think I will politely insist on a manual reading. If they won't, I will mention it to the Dr. He's a decent guy.
It's like the one reality show I love unironically.
Ice Road Rescue. Tow truck drivers in Norway reality show. 😂
I just read a scene by a white author writing an immortal Salish man who remarks that he's really happy with modern snowshoes, because they're so much better than walking on bear paws and beaver tails. ... did this writer think Bearpaw and Beaver-tail style snowshoes are ANIMAL PARTS?
I didn't get to finish the whole show so I did not remember all of the sexual assault but holy shit and all the things that redditor pointed out. Like I missed all of that and I'm glad I did.
😂😂😂
Like, I've pointed these things out, but I'm a new patient, and they don't know me. But when I'm saying "this hurts a lot".... *sigh* Sorry, venting. I have to go back in 5 weeks and NOT looking forward to it.
What the hell.
I wish this peace would stay with me forever.
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
WARNING: SA discussed
Holy fuck you gotta see this. www.reddit.com/r/TheLastKin...
Is it the one that married Aethelflaed?
THEY'RE STILL GOING. I am VERY unhappy.
That's saying a lot.
I think they see a fat person and just automatically assume I *must* have high blood pressure.
My GP always gets a good BP on me except when I'm hurting a lot, and they can tell/will ask, "Are you in pain today?" They think the pulmonologist's is using a too small cuff + it's the automated kind + my arm is dangling down. It also hurts A LOT & it'll have to try 3 times. No wonder it's high!
WHO IS HAMMERING AT 9:30 PM?
Better Late Than Never: The 2025 Hugo Ceremony Apology It's been more than two weeks since the pretty disastrous 2025 Hugo ceremony (for all the gory details, see this post) and not only do we finally have the Hugo nomination statistics, we also finally have an apology or rather two. First of all,…
holy fuck no wonder I'm in so much damn pain I am so out of painkillers no time like the now also I'm very low on painkillers! they're expensive! please help? please share! www.ko-fi.com/das
It's been like 10 Tuesdays in one.
Urg, TMJ flare.
Yay for meds!
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A special thanks to Brooke Davis for sharing this photo with us! We love it when the OCAq experience spans generations. 💙 📷: "Jamie and his great grandmother, Meema. He was born exactly 91 years after her on her birthday. They had the most magical time in the tunnel together."
Remember libraries? Remember they're free? Young San Franciscans aren’t going to bars. They’re hanging at the library
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
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Even your indoor pets. Things happen. You can't guarantee an indoor pet isn't going to get out or an outdoor animal isn't going to get in. If your cat encounters an infected bat in the night, you might never know. Vaccinate. Protect them.
You could be someone's light in the darkness. The dangling lantern of the anglerfish, drawing creatures to your toothy maw, or a dancing orb of witch-gloom in the forest, drawing folk to their mossy doom.
Do... Do people no longer know that many high-ranking Nazis escaped Europe and fled to Argentina? Specifically, Argentina? Have we lost this information?
I ... I mean, there's, like, MOVIES about this shit. Not recent ones, sure, but, still... Major works of popular fiction revolve around this historical trope! There is an X-Man movie with this! The first season of the original Mission Impossible! WHAT DO YOU MEAN AN UNEXPECTED PLACE. WHAT
Took this fantastic photo of a bee today ##beewatch
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Stress Break, the brother's bum edition
Shenanigans? Shenanigans!
Oh, they're absolutely lovely!! That yellow is just delightful. 💙
Today's roses
"Let's Call the 'GREAT' Gaza Post-War Plan Exactly What It Is: Ethnic Cleansing" The ridiculous and leaked 'Riviera' proposal offers Palestinians just $5,000 to leave & includes projects like the 'Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone,' writes Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu for Zeteo.
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. "Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
BP today: 108/78. SUCK ON THAT, nurse at pulmonologist office insisting my blood pressure is "very high."
It is. I guess BACK IN THE DAY, shock rock and all, but now? Nah.
Texas loaded busses with desperate migrants and dropped them off in Chicago like trash in the middle of winter. We welcomed them into our communities. Now Texas is sending its National Guard to terrorize them on our streets. In our neighborhoods. What the fuck.
I like Iron Maiden, but lolololol. I'm not sure I'd classify it as "screaming". Well, sometimes. But not often!
How are people doing #labubu teeth with paint markers? These are 3mm nib which seems to be normal, is that too thick? I'm just wondering if this is wrong materials or just practice.
I am not a fan myself. Tbh, we have so many GLP1 commercials here showing people using them and I have to turn away. And I'm on one! I just don't need to see it 15 times an hour!
My rent is covered! Thank you to everyone who helped by sharing & donating—I get to go home after my last day today, hang out w/ my dog, and catch up on some desperately needed rest without constant worrying. You’re all truly wonderful people.💜💜💜
💙💙💙 Love you, friendo!!
Calling all Black visual artists! Submissions are OPEN for our 2026 covers! Artists should submit portfolios or work samples which illustrate an understanding of composition, and feature fantastical elements and/or can be categorized as fantasy, science-fiction, horror, & their related subgenres./+
I did a drawing! It took a few days and I should have probably spread it over at least one more but I got carried away :D This little guy is off adventuring now, so what should I draw a cat doing/wearing next?
Read this one:
Oh jeez, I'm sorry. *anxiously scrolling to see if I did this* (I did a couple times. Apologies!!)
El is a beloved friend. Can we please get their rent covered so they can rest from an abusive job that has been taking a major toll on their health? Every cent, every share helps SO MUCH. Please help El if you can! They are SO CLOSE. #MutualAid #HelpPeopleLive2025
Tuesday.
The trees are getting all fluffy 🌸 #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport
Still at $662 of $925 for Sept. rent—late on the 6th, so this has become urgent. Could someone help me w/ $10 tonight, to nudge me closer to $675? Tomorrow will be my last day at the job that’s been breaking me down; your re-posts & donations make leaving far less precarious for me. Thank you. 💜
My birthday has come and passed, but I still haven't changed the price of Killer Debt on Amazon or Itch I'll put it back up to $3.99 when I wake up, so now is a good time to grab it, while it's still $1.99
YES SMOL PAUL IS A CAT YOU CHEEKY BASTARDS 🤣 Look how normal he is
Toss us some bucks For plane train or truck We're homeless in North Carolina Fucked But hope is not lost If we can cover the cost Of moving our stuff Before it all gets tossed We have a place to arrive That will keep us alive In a Cali apartment So help us out of this dive Spare a five? 🙏⚒️💕💸🏳⚧♿💜
Solidarity. lol
CAT BED!
Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu
“Frog,” cried Toad, “can you do tricks like this?” “No,” peeped Frog, who looked very, very small.
This orphaned reply to a long-lost post deserves to be read and remembered.
You're cat furniture now. 😂