Copy-pasted from  Mei-Xing



"It's hard for many of us. Many of us struggle throughout the day and hope to make it to the next month. Many of us either staying with their families or with their own little families they started... but currently, I know of two artists who struggle to even make it to the next month.

 realrhemora and his wife had to sell their PCs so they could keep living in their place. While Mexico is great to explore as a tourist, it offers little in terms of jobs to survive comfortably and their struggle is immense. Both have to fight tooth and nails to get through the month. So if you happened to get commissions late from Rhemora... he's just devastatingly poor. If you can help him, no matter how little you can offer you can send him some money through his paypal. deviantartcommissions[at]hotmail.com

Another soul that didn't get to enjoy this Christmas season is  aero-spine Currently living in a hotel with his family. I'm not entirely certain where in the US region he's living with his family, but if you can help them with any kind of donation, please contact him over Notes here.

Thank you and I hope you had a wonderful Christmas"

https://www.gofundme.com/f/v58a4c-please-help-our-young-family?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8314140/

Copy / Pasted from  RubyLuvCow

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http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17098540/

My good friend  daydreamkinamoto is in dire straights check out his journal please

Dreamy has a large medical bill of bout $244 dollars that he needs to pay in 30 days or he will be in financial trouble, with compounding issues he is not able to pay for it on his own so please considering donating to this great person ive known for so long or at least boost the signal so other people will know and maybe can help as well.

Please send him a note for any donations.

Thank you.

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Quoted from a journal entry of some dude I follow.

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So a couple of my friends from my game group, tesability tesability and yamimarrek yamimarrek: just lost their house to an electrical fire. They are currently living on the street and I wish to help them by spreading the word. Please, if you can, send them a little money at tesability[at]hotmail.com . If not, you can still help by spreading the word in your own journal.

I feel absolutely terrible for my friends right now... .~.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-sopa-2014/q0Vkk0Zr

So yeah. Those "in charge" are trying to outlaw fan art, fanfic, fan everything, basically. If you've ever fav'd a piece of fan art over on dA or here, you've got something to lose here.

We've only got a couple of days to get ten thousand sigs. Boost the signal. Sign it and then post it on your own journals. Post it to your face books, twitter, wherever.

http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/hojo-s-hospital-medical-bills-/128201

Hojo is the friend of a webcomic author I like, and as you can read here, he's had some serious medical problems as of late. His recovery is going well enough, but he's looking at a big hospital bill.

It's currently up to about twenty-five-hundred dollars, but that still leaves Hojo and his family another seventy-five-hundred to worry about. So if anyone seeing this has even a little bit of money to spare, it would be greatly appreciated, as well as posting this on your own FA journal if you could.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpFcOxR1T6A

I have GOT to buy this album off iTunes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jfU7pw76ZE

This song has been stuck in my head for the last couple of days, so I thought I'd spread the curse a bit.

Also Princess Peach's voice actress has a pretty good singing voice.

Just thought I'd let everyone know.

Why? Because I'm just desperate enough for money to try! Papa needs a 2DS!

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5187055/

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5101472

Basically, by advertising this on my journal page, I'm automatically entered into a raffle for a hundred bucks.

Meh. Why not?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7v8F5yMcow

So, anyone ever seen this film? I haven't, but from this review, it looks.....

Let's call it different...

It happened at roughly 1am on April 11th, 2013. She was 88 years old. She managed to hold on for a few days longer than the doctors thought. Not surprising. She was kind of an ornery ol' girl; very stubborn. But in the end, Mr. Calavera finally won that wrestling match.

My father hasn't come home yet. Mom says I should be prepared for the worst. It's gonna feel weird, providing my own father a shoulder to cry on. Hopefully that won't last too long.

For me, this is just another sign that I'm becoming an adult, which sucks because I still don't have my life wholly figured out yet. I'm 23 years old. I really should have my shit together by now, and yet I don't.

If a life is a gift from God, then God's a lousy gift-giver because he's given me something that I have no idea what to do with, so I just stuck it down in the basement where it gathers dust to this day.

If it seems like my FA journals are very depressing lately, it's because they are. Seems like a lot of FA users use their journals to vent these days. Well, it's my turn now.

My grandma recently got infected with pneumonia for the upteenth time, and the doctors doubt if she's gonna make it through the night this time. It's a bittersweet kinda thing. On the one hand, it's sad for obvious reasons. But on the other, she's just been so depressed after my grandpa died way back in 2004. She sold the house that she's lived in her whole life because it holds too many painful memories (a decision she later regretted), and she's been losing more and more of her sight and hearing over the last few years. She's practically blind, practically deaf, and she's always tired yet unable to sleep due to pain (pain of what, I don't really know. Never asked). So in a way, I'm actually kind of glad that her suffering will be over soon.

The whole thing's got me thinking about my own life. I remember this one time we were all visiting her at the nursing home for Thanksgiving. Grandma told me that one of the girls who works there asked about me after I've been visiting her a couple of times. AT the time I was kind of embarrassed about it. Then, in a later visit, she suggested that, if I was looking for a job, I should look into working for the nursing home. I suspected that she wanted me around more often, though now I wonder if maybe she was trying to play matchmaker with me and the mystery girl who supposedly asked about me. Kinda makes me want to apply for a job there even if Grandma doesn't make it; just to see if there was any truth to that.

Grandma once told me that she thinks God has a special purpose in mind for me. Well, I've never held a real job in my life, I just barely graduated from a Community College, and I've never had a girlfriend, nor am I likely to get one anytime soon. No doubt God is looking down on me with a scowl growling "Damn it, Jake. You had one job."

I sent in an application to volunteer at an animal shelter; I doubt they'll turn me away (cuz hey, free labor), and it's a good way to get desperately needed work experience. However, it's gonna take them a few weeks to process my application (mostly just a thorough background check. Gotta make sure I'm not a wanted criminal, or anything), so I'll continue being useless to society in the mean time

I think the root cause of my depression is doubt; doubt in my abilities, doubt in my attractiveness, just doubting myself in general. Hopefully working at Animal Services, being able to honestly say that I contribute to society in some way, should give me the confidence I need to get over my issues.

Grandma said that God put me on this planet for a reason. Trouble is, God didn't really tell me what that reason was. Guess it's something I'm gonna have to find out on my own.

Sorry if this journal seems a little scatter-brained. I just had some thoughts that I needed to write down.

In my last journal, I basically dumped on myself for generally being a failure at life and then posted a youtube link to a metal song about suicide.

Yeah, I wasn't having a good day.

So, here's a metal song that I listen to whenever I get into such dark moods to try and rouse myself from my despair.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7woW7DmnR0E

I made a mistake. Like, a REALLY bad mistake. Something that would probably disgust and offend most of you. I apologize and sought forgiveness for what I did today, after I was made aware of what I did was wrong. They forgave me, and I'll probably continue to seek forgiveness, so I guess you could say I'm handling it the way I should. But that doesn't change the fact that I made the mistake in the first place.

That's one of the shittiest things about depression. When you make a new mistake, it tends to remind you of all your other mistakes, and it all just kind of snowballs from there.

I know of a couple of people on FA who like Seether. I prefer some good ol' fashioned Disturbed, myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmeOmCyG7PY

Saw it today.

Good movie.

I may have a man-crush on Chris Hemsworth now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RlNlWnrq5U

....Well, this is different.

So after trolling around FA and dA for years and watching  marauder6272's livestream, I finally got it stuck in my head to seriously give drawing a shot. So, I've signed up for a drawing class this quarter. Just had my first day of it today, in fact.

Our first exercise was one in "observational art," where we try and draw what we see. One technique that we were instructed to use was to copy and draw the picture presented to us upside-down. The thinking here was that we'd focus more on the lines and less on the picture itself. I guess the instructor didn't want us to worry about the picture coming out decent.

Well, I focused a little too much on the lines it seems. I looked at the crudely drawn picture i was given and tried to draw it out. Thing was, I was looking at the reference picture and hardly at the picture I was actually drawing. What was supposed to be an owl ended up looking like an owl that just had a stroke in the left side of its body.

So yeah. I don't think I'll be using THAT particular technique if I ever get the hang of this.

So yeah. If anyone has any art tips, feel free to post 'em here.

Not at all related to the new George Clooney movie coming out, Descendants was an idea I had for a space opera - style setting. The main hook that the various sentient species of the galaxy are divided into two categories; humanoids and non-humanoids. All the humanoid species are "Descendant races" that all have a common ancestor in, well, "The Ancestors," a mysterious extinct race that had an empire that spanned the entire galaxy a few million years ago, and seeded various worlds with their DNA for unknown reasons. The non-humanoids are Non-Descendant races, races that became sentient on their own, without any form of intervention from the Ancestors, and take shapes that are truly alien to us. Descendant and Non-Descendant races disagree on several things at best, and outright hate each other at worst, and that varying scale of conflict would be one of the themes of the setting.

So, imagine my surprise when, trolling around on TVtropes like I usually do whenever I'm bored, I came across this:

"Star Trek: The Next Generation displayed a retroactive, somewhat limited example of this trope in The Chase. Picard and his gang found that ancient humanoids had explored the entire Milky Way Galaxy roughly 4.5 billion years ago but found no lifeforms like themselves. There may have been plenty of Starfish Aliens and Energy Beings around, but understandably the only humanoids in the galaxy felt a bit lonely. Realizing that the lifespan of any species is finite, they seeded various worlds with DNA that was programmed to follow the humanoid course of evolution. Thanks to them, there are plenty of Human Aliens and Rubber Forehead Aliens in the Trek universe to make things more interesting.
◦ Star Trek episode Return to Tomorrow first raised the idea of a precursor humanoid race seeding humanoid life through the galaxy, but Sargon's people only disappeared half a million years ago, so they are a later humanoid race."

I forgot which trope I found this example under, but what I do know is that that describes my Descendants setting to a T. I'm a casual Trekkie at best, so I figured every alien on that show looking humanoid was just an evolutionary coincidence. Apparently, I was wrong.

So yeah. I might've been ripping off Star Trek and possibly other universes without even knowing it. Bummer. Not sure how this discovery affects the future of my setting (I hope to write books about it one day), so.......yeah.

Okay, now that I have paypal, I have a question I'd like to ask.

See, my mom got me my own paypal account last Christmas, as well as a Walmart VISA card, both of which had 50 bucks on them. Now, the paypal account is down to ten dollars, whereas my VISA remains untouched. And I'm wondering if there's any way to switch money back and forth between my paypal and my VISA? I've been fiddling around with my paypal account but, despite my VISA apparently being linked to it, I don't see any plainly visible means of doing it.

I'm asking you guys because, chances are, a lot of you use paypal on a routine basis to pay for commissions and/or receive payment for commissions. So, if anyone can help, I'd appreciate it.

Okay, so I was perusing through porn sites when an ad popped up about "a loophole in female psychology." Curious, I clicked it. I then clicked it away when the video claims that sexually liberated women like sexually liberated guys, and shy girls like shy guys.

To quote the Nostalgia Critic; AH-DOY!

I clicked it away not only because it's a waste of time, but also because I suspected foul play. It's possible that a hacker made that video and while I was watching it, a virus or worm or something creeped its way into my computer and may now be doing nasty things to it, unbeknownst to me.

At least, that's what I suspect. I haven't actually seen any indicators that my computer may have been hacked, but maybe that's to lull me into a false sense of security.

Are my fears real? Or am I just being paranoid?

So yeah, I have paypal now. Which means I can now buy stuff online! Wooooo!!!

Now, about a year ago, I posted that I would be willing to do writing commissions if people were willing to pay me. Unfortunately, the reaction was not quiet as large as I would have liked. In fact, there was no reaction, at all. Maybe the fact that they had to send the money in cash was the problem. But, i have a paypal account now, so if that was the issue, I assure you it was no longer the case.

Here are my rates:

1-500 words: $10
501-1,000 words: $15
1,001-1,500 words: $20

And here are my conditions:

NO YAOI:
I'm a heterosexual man, so I'll have to decline to this.

NO GANGBANGS:
And by that I mean no 10 guys fucking 1 girl or anything like that. Basically, I won't write it if it involves more then one naked guy for every naked girl. Course, if it's the reverse, 10 girls fucking 1 guy, then hell yeah I'll write it.

NO FUTA:
Sorry, but I'm in the camp that likes ladies with lady parts. I will do strap-ons, though.......long as they're going into a woman's butt anyway.

NO BEASTIALITY:
I like my sex to be between consensual sentients, if it's all the same to you.

NO SCAT OR WATER WORKS:
For obvious reasons.

NOTE ABOUT TENTACLES:
Yes, I can do tentacle porn. But a brief note; the tentacles will be attached to a hot chick instead of a big gross monster. Just letting you know.

And of course, I reserve the right to refuse an offer if I'm uncomfortable with the subject matter for any reason.

So yeah. If you want me to write something, drop me a PM.

Okay, so I met with the girl I like after class and let her know what I thought about her latest piece, as per usual. She wasn't giving me any outward signs of liking me, at least none that Reaper Man indicated. In fact, she seemed pretty nonchalant. It was only after we said our "see you next tuesday's" and I went for a potty break did I realize something.

I was looking at her boobs a little bit longer than I should have. We shook hands and she smiled at me when we parted, so way I figure it, either....

A: She didn't notice.
B: She noticed, but didn't make such a big deal out of it.
C: She noticed, and while she smiled at me out of courtesy, she now secretly thinks of me as a sexist pig.

I was going to maybe chat her up on IM, but now that I'm seriously afraid of C, I'm worried I'd come across more as a stalker than anything else, so now we might not even be able to be friends, let alone significant others. I blew it without even realizing it.

What am I supposed to do now?