https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10837961/

 TheDragonGirl is having some pretty major RL, thanks to taxes and dental trouble. I'm too poor to help, so giving a boost!

So, as you know from my last journal, my computer quit on me recently.
I am typing to you from the replacement you and my friends purchased - a slightly more powerful second hand desktop rig. It gets delivered on the 27th. I do not have words to express my gratitude, especially to the person who donated £350 - whose name I can't figure out.

"Tera Lockheart", if you are reading this, you literally made me cry with gratitude. Thank you.

You are beautiful people. Even if you didn't contribute, you're still beautiful.

So, the previous fundraising site I used was crap, only let me go for a month.

Have swapped to Gofund.me with no time limit.


https://gofund.me/3729c7a0

My laptop is dying. Problems are slowly cascading and it's my only means of getting online. I'm disabled, and my benefits only just cover my living costs. This, the price that my current one cost, would get me one that would last me for another 10-ish years.
Please help!

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/baz.....ds-a-new-lappy

Signal boosting a friend who's open for commissions! Check 'em out they're really good at writing

www.furaffinity.net/user/chaossavior

Tis my birthday today.

38.

Sarcastic yay. Gettin' old.

It's 90% sure I have Covid-19. But the UK isn't testing, so I can't be sure.

Edit: No, this is not an April Fools. I actually do have it.

I've been far too long in posting this, but better late than never. One of my oldest friends in the community has lost his home in a fire;  TalonSaurn - http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9080734/ here's the journal about it.

if you know any way to help, please, get in touch with him.

There's a dude called Kolus who's kind of in a boom-or-bust situation. He's a flight instructor who has their dream job lined up for them in Alaska.

The only problem is they got no tax rebate this year, and need about $1700 or so to actually make this possible.


https://www.gofundme.com/need-movei.....h-job-training


Help if you can!

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8866771/

 miranwolf needs our help! Their financial situation has gone down the pooper... I'm not exactly able to help financially but I want to help how I can.

So, signal boost. Please go help guys! It always makes me sad to hear someone's in trouble.

At some point on August 1st/2nd,  multimagyar passed away due to a sudden heart attack.

I didn't know him for long, but we grew to be quite close friends quickly. It was short. I mourn you, and I mourn the stories we never got to tell.

I feel old.

So it turns out my 'fuck you' to computer manufacturers is valid. I need to raise £400 to make up the price of a laptop based on a monetary gift someone's sent me.

I don't know what to do. I want to cry. Or offer my photoshop services as a slave for a year.

It turns out the dude on the other end hadn't worded things very clearly. It turns out they have, in fact, not stopped making the case I need. It's simply out of stock... presumably because everyone brought nice, big 17" gaming laptops in the January sales.

If I wait till February, I should be able to get a laptop in-budget!

So, a friend of mine says they can send me £1300 for a new laptop. All is good, I get a quote for the laptop. It takes my friend maybe 6-7 days to get the money to me. Within that 6-7 days, all the prices change. I'm now £300 short, and the only laptops within budget are inadequate.

Advice, please? I don't know what to do.

So, thanks to a large range of factors (including my own bad budgeting) I may not have enough money for food to last the end of the week. I don't know what to do, so I'm kind of asking for help =/

Paypal is dakkhath[at]hotmail.com if you can

Edit: I am out of immediate danger now.

So, my laptop died totally, and I've got very little money to replace it.

A very good friend of mine has set up a gofundme to try and get it replaced. Donate, if you want, or don't. All is good =)

https://www.gofundme.com/best-mate-.....ew-laptop-help

I don't really know who watches me, but I wanna give a signal boost to a really great artist.

 squirrelamazing

Seriously, check this guy out he doesn't get enough attention!

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7891398/

 passionateinferno is doing a free art raffle. Go get a spin!

So yeah, my trackball's died and I need £45 for a new one =(

A friend of one of our own has a kitty in need of help. It seems they were face with a tough choice - go into debt or get poor Melissa put to sleep.

They chose the former, and last I heard the cat survived. I really want to help them out myself, but, well, I'm not exactly in a good financial situation right now. This is all I can do - get the word out.

https://www.gofundme.com/chqck48c

Isn't she an adorable little thing? Please, help out or spread the word if you can!

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7164789/

He needs to raise himself $1000, ASAP. I don't know how close he is, or if it's too late, but I figure every little helps. He's had some real tough times recently, so I figure it's about time the poor chap got a break!

Relaying this from  oli_snowpaw and  peterandcompany via  wolfrider

Please be advise it's all a Ruse by sneaky Russian to get your personal information!

Details below!
Change.Org petition: https://www.change.org/p/remove-wal.....ut-persmission

So, I have been notified by several people about pages of Peter & Company and other pieces of my artwork being supposedly "available for sale" through Wallpart.com, and in the past 24 hours have seen many other artists make journals/submissions talking about finding their own work on there as well. Naturally, the inclination of any artist finding their work available for sale without their consent is to head to the "Report Violation" link attached to every listing and file a complaint to have it removed.

PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DO NOT DO THIS ON WALLPART.COM'S WEBSITE.

I've dug into their site code and reviewed some audits that were performed by other folks in various places online who were aware of this site's existence, and there's some very devious bait-and-switch going on. Essentially:

- They are not actually selling any of the images that appear on their site. Their "search function" is nothing but scraper software, which essentially just loads up hits from Google Images and displays them within a pre-built "shop" template based on the image's resolution. This is why every single piece on there has a title that is lifted directly from whatever gallery site (FA/DA/Weasyl) or general website was hosting it. Example: They have my title card from my Kickstarter page for the P&C pilot, with the title lifted straight off the description.
- The dependence on Google Images is also why doing a search for your own name will turn up different results each time, or possibly no results at all. Their "search" function never actually searches their own listings, because they have none. Confusingly enough, performing the same search multiple times often returns different results at different times throughout the day. I was able to find dozens of P&C pages supposedly for sale by searching my name yesterday, but today none of them show up in search results -- even though the direct links to the page forms (which I saved) still exist.
- Their "Report Violation" link is actually a 100% phishing form. If you fill it out, no matter what you put there, you will be sending them a LOT more than you anticipated. This is actually the main purpose for the site's existence -- they completely anticipate artists being upset about their work supposedly being sold, so they developed a system to exploit those who complain.
- Various pieces of malware and other malicious code have been found embedded throughout their pages at different times. This site is just bad news all around.
- The site itself is hosted in Russia, and has already swapped web hosts 4 times in the past few months. The current host is listed as ENOM, and other bloggers/artists have already sent complaints and reports to their contact page, with little luck. It looks like it's already been branded and caught in the past and is trying to keep itself alive.
- Also, for a site claiming to have "billions of images" available for print, to only have a little over 3,000 "happy customers" should be a pretty big red flag on its own.

So please -- DO NOT EVEN VISIT THIS SITE. Do not give it page views, and most absolutely DO NOT FILL OUT ANY VIOLATION FORMS, EVEN IF THE ARTWORK ON THE PAGE IS YOUR OWN. Instead, there is a Change.org petition asking for the domain to be stripped and brought down.

Please share the word around as much as possible so other artists don't potentially fall into their trap by thinking that their "Report Violation" page is actually what it claims to be. These people are pure scam artists, plain and simple. Avoid them at all costs.

THat's right,  fluffy-brat is holding a raffle.

Please feel free to enter, though there may not be much time left to do so =) Watch 'em, they're a good artist.

 vdisco is once again hosting the Gundrop Rally challenge! It's an 'art' contest with a difference - you're not judged on the quality of the picture, but the quality of the design and vehicle concept!

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6125269/

Check it out!

Here's my entry: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14668962