Just migrated to a new country and the battle for the asylum has officially started, fun facts:

1. We weren't supposed to be let in, it was a mistake from the border guard

2. They told us we will have no luck with the asylum but the application was successful regardless

3. We can be in the country for 6 months more or less, then the interviews start

Draft about toxic dork dogs selfcest thing

https://vv0ltz.neocities.org/posts/.....S-Machine-Lore

how to apply comic sans on every site you want

Step 1: Download Stylus
Step 2:

* {
font-family: "Comic Sans MS", "Comic Sans", cursive !important;
}


ure welcom

My goal is to make a simple to use template to host art on site and such

Demonstration: https://bsky.app/profile/vv0ltz.neo...../3ltulw4c5ss2l

Reviewing a film about trans man as a trans man

https://vv0ltz.neocities.org/posts/.....ic-Film-Review

New blog post

https://vv0ltz.neocities.org/posts/.....jects-And-Site

You'll get a hashtag cool pic I promise

https://ko-fi.com/vv0ltz/commissions

CW for queerphobia, also this is a vent post

Read on my site: https://vv0ltz.neocities.org/posts/.....-Nothing-To-Me

Do you know how to organize initiatives that offer art for donating to mutual aid?

Specifically, artists collaborating and offering their services to anyone who donated.

I saw this post on bsky and it honestly motivated me to participate in something similar but for EECCA countries.

I know there was one initiative that was specifically EECCA countries oriented, but I don't remember how it's called and if it's still active. That's why I'm considering either organizing one or helping someone else with it.

Questions I have:

- Which terms are comfortable for artists? I'm thinking that when someone donates and requests art, artists should communicate who exactly will pick the request. Since these are not commissions but requests, artists themselves choose whatever is comfortable for them to draw, a simple sketch or something more polished. Those who request don't pick an artist and type of art themselves. I think this is reasonably fair since artists are doing their services basically for free.

- What to do, when none of artists are available to offer art? Artists have their lives, they may feel burnt out, have no time, deal with financial/mental/physical problems themselves, many-many cases that I understand very well myself, as I tried to pull this out alone to support a trans shelter. This is the main reason to start or join an initiative. But what to do when no one is available? I honestly cannot really come up with any solutions than temporarily freezing the initiative or making posts seeking out one-off or recurrent artists.

- How to avoid burn out for recurrent volunteers? I think there should be both one-off and recurrent artists, as again, they're doing this for free. The question is, how do I support artists who are willing to volunteer recurrently?

- Specifically for anyone from EECCA countries: what is the safest way for artists to communicate? I'm thinking of Telegram, as it's mostly used by folks I know and many organizations have channels there. I also think that it'll be reasonable to not list artists publicly for at least some anonymity and safety here.

- Which platforms are the best to work with? I see many organizations work on Instagram and Facebook, or Twitter (this one will be a hard no for me, though). I myself am familiar only with Bluesky, Fediverse and Furaffinity, so I feel like I need additional help with managing social media. I will consider managing Furaffinity account as a viable option, as furry community is very serious about mutual aid and generally if not them, me and my found family would die, not even kidding. This doesn't mean that all artists have to be furry oriented, though.

- Who else should volunteer aside from artists? I think most obvious for me are people who write alt text, help to manage social media, chat moderation, graphic designers. I also didn't mention it, but it's obvious to me that there should be a site, I'm thinking Carrd will work here, so that I can update it very easily. I can do some of these jobs on very first days, but being one man behind it all is my bad habit that will guarantee burnout, so probably I should seek these volunteers first, if I plan to organize myself.

If there is something else I need to know, please let me know. If I get to organize myself, I want to be prepared as much as possible even for a very small initiative that will contain like 3-4 artists that also do these alternative jobs I mentioned above.

YOU ALL MY PARTNER MADE ME A SOUNDTRACK. FOR STUPID GAY ROBOT. PLEASE LISTEN OR I'LL CASTRATE YOU (joke... unless)

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61011058/

it's my birthday gimme 1 dallar (if you want to)

https://ko-fi.com/vv0ltz

10 likes and I'm doing full (oh my fucking god)

Me when I didn't draw anything while FA was read only 💀

FINALLY I CHANGED IT TO VV0LTZ I'M NOT WALK33_ FOR YEARS 😭

Welp, that just happened. I'm not nonbinary anymore, just a guy 👍

Throughout my transition I realized that nonbinary label ment less and less meaning to me, and I had hard time accepting that because I was identifying as nby most of my life.

Another indicator is that I always prioritized issues of being a trans man, rather than nonbinary. It was always important to me to point out that I'm a guy. Last year or two the only mention of me being nby is either in bio or posts questioning my own gender

So yep, just a guy

Tomorrow I should work on setting up OBS so I can stream art and somehow I need to figure out how to set up a fundraiser goal that I have no control over (yes, related to my previous journal)

So the question is: should I stream on picarto as usual or try out piczel (guest users can comment there compared to picarto), or, if I don't go insane, both?

UPDATE, JULY: SHELTER IS ON THE BRINK OF CLOSURE, €1,460 NEEDED FOR JULY

Note: I don't represent anyone from Centre T, I'm just a random person who wants to share and help

The least I want is vulnerable people to be left on the streets with nothing at all.

Centre T has a shelter in Armenia for trans people that left Russia due to transphobic laws and political persecution, and is currently financially struggling. Because Russian people are mostly poor and can't afford donating, I'm asking everyone else to help to cover as many months as possible.

Regular donations are a priority, but one-off are welcomed too.

DONATE: https://buymeacoffee.com/centret

RAISED: €875 of €1,460

TO SHARE: I have created similar posts on Mastodon and Bluesky

Mastodon: https://pawb.fun/@vv0ltz/114161760468727380
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/vv0ltz.neo...../3ltomytaq6k2s

Hello, kinda in need of money right now, so I have 5 slots open for Pay What You Want type of commissions

Read here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56045610/

Hey guys, I have nothing to work on at the moment, so reminding you about this folder:

https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....49/Open-offers

There you can find various stuff like PWYW commissions, YCHs, adopts, 3D comms and probably more on the future! Claim whatever you want :3

How are you able to discipline yourself to not spend too much of time on your project in one sit when you're driven by impulses (ADHD) that can fade away very quickly if I don't do it *now*, but these impulses don't align with my physical capabilities (I can't work more than 2 hours at all) and the only outcome you can have from this is rushed project or a "forever WIP / unfinished" if very unlucky?

For instance, I can do projects that take 3 days to get complete, but with more long term projects I just lose interest and I really can't get back to them anymore...

I can only think of friends obliging me to send them WIPs each working day within certain timeframe and that's a working strategy if I get stuck doing commissions, but that's a whole other task I forget doing. And the problem is: I want to keep certain projects as complete surprises, especially if they're barely cooked, and I don't want to oblige complete strangers to oblige me either, so any other strategies would be helpful.

(This is, of course, question aimed to people with ADHD and chronic conditions or physical disabilities in general)

(Post is mirrored from my site)

So, this year will probably be shit, globally, no explanations needed. That's why our main goal is to survive and get the best from what we have. However, still, there's something more concrete I want to achieve.

Since I practically have nothing to lose, I want to get weirder with my art. When I started this art journey, my works haven't been concrete (characters just standing there, with no plot or hook or whatsoever) because when I lived with parents I didn't have any idea of what do I really want or was afraid of what I want. Still am. For example, I'm still very insecure about my writing, and in the previous 2 years I was afraid of the concept of me drawing NSFW art and sharing it. My first attempt at it ended up with a mental breakdown, but look where we are now lol, definitely making some progress there. This 2 or more years ago feeling about making NSFW is what I feel about sharing my writing now. Especially since my English isn't native and well, I do suck even with my native language, I think school is also the source of why do I view my writing negatively.

So concerning art, this year I want to focus more on story part, I will be grateful even for something very small like story snippets as part of image description, just to start from somewhere. I'll be realistic and will say that there probably will not be any fully fledged big comic projects this year and I don't like grinding very much, so I'll be stretching past my comfort zone at a comfortable pace.
Concerning my mental health, this one is tricky, because the dicktators are the source of my problems right now and therapy won't cover it, so I'll continue to rely on self-help. Thanks to my acquaintances, friends, inner circle and headmates I haven't collapsed yet. I hope this year we will migrate to Schengen Area country, but if we do, we would really need some extra help because big changes are always stressful to me and everyone else basically...

I'm also very prone to getting into online discourses, even if I openly declare that they're stupid, and we have worse shit we need to deal with. Because even if you criticize them, you're still contributing to it. So more self-control will also be good, but this particular problem is very hard to deal with, and I probably will need external help with it.

TL;DR: I want to become sincere with my art, focus on story and not collapse.

I've been using furaffinity for quite some years and I just discovered what submission footer does lmao---

I REALLY love new FA update. I want an option to hide submissions entirely in a future and not just blurring them, but that's my preferences!

Previously, I had to use browser extensions as some work around (still need though for filtering submissions based on name and not tags), but now it's official! I try to tag as best I can, but if some submissions lack it I'll be glad for feedback

UPDATE: even though I'm very positive about the change, I recommend you to read criticism of it too

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11045890/