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cartilogenophobe · 4 months
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Help a Disabled Trans Family
Hello. My name is Seth. I have recently become disabled and unable to work. This year has been super hard on myself and my family. In February, my ESA (for those of you who have followed me for a while, this would be Spooky) had to be put down after complications from a sudden infection. I was diagnosed with PTSD, Major Depressive Disorder, Anxiety, and DID. I've been working with a pair of therapists and my psychiatrist to get my mental health back in order since then. Unfortunately, life has just thrown me more curve balls. My brother and his wife had a child, then started majorly fighting - dragging the whole family into it. My concerns for my nephew further plummeted my mental health, especially as my sister-in-law has some severe mental illnesses and she likes to flee the house that her and my brother live in and take their child with her. I've been trying to finalize my divorce from my spouse, though my money and resources have been focused on keeping myself and my roommates alive with a roof over our head. A couple of months ago, we had to put down another of our cats, and in the same weekend, I got a notification that one of my aunt's dogs that I was close to had to be put down. And now that the holidays are around the corner, my mother suddenly came down with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS); her IVIG treatments didn't work, so now she is currently doing plasma exchange (plasmapheresis), which has been difficult as her blood pressure keeps dropping. Because of that, she can't have pain medicines, so she's frequently in pain.
During all of this, I've been trying to work with my job for accommodations to lessen my near constant panic attacks and PTSD flashbacks as they've gotten disabling. I've started a claim at work for Short-term Disability, as well as attempting to get on SSDI - but the 3rd party that my job goes through to handle STD claims hasn't been the greatest and they've caused so many delays; up to and including not having a working fax number that my doctors can send in my medical records for them to review.
On top of all of this, the heating/air unit for my roommates has been broken since August with no ETA for being fixed, our microwave broke - also with no ETA of being fixed/replaced, our laundry room keeps flooding due to the pipes in our house being awful and the landlords dragging their feet on getting stuff unclogged, my bathroom sink/counter has been broken for months, and the toilet seat in my bathroom broke.
At this point, my anxiety is through the roof to the point where I'm bordering on being institutionalize due to how bad my mental state has gotten.
Please - anything will help to make sure that we can continue forward.
Thank you.
-Seth
Ch1m3: $Seth-Vroon
V3nm0: @Seth-Vroon
$$4pp: $whytekatt1
Please help by donating or reblogging (GFM link)
Update 2/1/3023 --
I was hospitalised on January 2nd for 10 days. My short-term disability was denied, and New York Life hasn't told me why. According to the team handling my SSDI case, they're waiting to hear back from the government as to if that's been denied or not. I'm about to lose my medical insurance because I can't go back to work and my claim was denied.
My mother is still basically paralyzed from the waist down. She's willing to pay me to help clean her house, but it'll only be about $50 a week. On top of that, I discovered that one of my headlights is out last night.
I did sign up for a new job, so we'll see how that works out, but right now, it's not great.
Any little bit helps. Thank you.
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minkkumaz · 7 months
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MYTHICAL CREATURES (TEMPORARY HIATUS)
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there's an unnatural occurrence in the air, linking to what could only be described as a false reality. maybe it was the presence of october that brought out these creatures, bold enough to reveal themselves for a chance at love. or possibly, you're the monster.
PAIRING boynextdoor x fem!reader WC tbd TAGLIST send an ask to be added ! OMI NOTE happy early early halloween! i wanted to drop the masterlist for this in case anyone wanted to be on the taglist, but i won't be publishing until october rolls around! this whole idea started with mermaid leehan LOL then i wanted to do something inspired by i do - (g)i-dle and i thought about woonhak.. then all the ideas spiraled, but i genuinely am really excited for this. i might do other halloween posts but for now this is all i have planned hehe. p.s. titles and synopsis are subject to change ><
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my heart, not yours cupid sungho + human reader the way his heart threatened yours should've been intimidating, yet it only lured you into a trap that was unescapable. rumors spread that with his assistance, love would be as easy as picking a flower. and though his shots constantly missed you, a little force wasn't completely out of the picture.
look at me human riwoo + medusa reader secluding yourself from the world was easier when staying away from him wasn't such a daunting task. you were drawn to him, but he was too lovely for his life to be cut short because of you. had life always been so unfair that it insisted to keep you away from the pretty expression on his face?
brain chemistry human jaehyun + zombie reader a zombies bite is lethal, you weren't safe. your limb barely felt like it was attached to your body, completely hopeless as your life didn't belong to you anymore; it was in possession of the world that was rapidly going to shit. despite this, he wasn't scared of the person you were becoming. he overflowed with the ill idea that he could help you before it was too late.
tips of your teeth vampire taesan + human reader maybe you shouldn't have gotten involved with the mysterious boy on campus, let alone fall deep into him. soon, his existence would be nothing but a mere scratch mark on the surface of the world. any risk would be worth spending a lifetime with him, even death.
light shower mermaid leehan + human reader regardless of anything else the world had to offer, you wanted to hope soulmates were real. the unreal idea that ones heart could be perfectly sculpted to match yours. whether you'd find it in man, or something not quite, he spoke to you in a calming symphony that was taunting.
otherworldly human woonhak + alien reader everything was unfamiliar to you, trapped on a planet where you weren't supposed to exist. was your life nothing but a myth to appeal to the curiosity of people different from you? even so, the strongest people still required protection from authority. he gave you a home in a foreign place, as well as a warm feeling in your chest that you couldn't quite distinguish.
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bluewonderer · 1 year
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Hi! For those of you who don't know, I'm Becca. The same one mentioned above. ⬆️
I know I normally only reblog on here, but I'm hoping you'll hear me out. Hasi (@hussyknee), my sweet friend, my fandom wife, my comfort and my cheerleader, needs some urgent care. Please help me help her.
If you'll please take a moment to read through the link (text also copied and pasted below) and consider donating, I would really appreciate it. If you cannot donate, please consider reblogging to help spread the word.
Thank you so much ❤️
. . .
Hasi, my beloved friend, needs a lifeline.
For a little over two years, I’ve only been able to watch from half a world away as my friend is crushed without reprieve. I’ve watched her living situation become hostile as her mental and physical health deteriorated. I’ve watched her withdraw for weeks at a time as she tried to put every last scrap of her energy toward basic survival.
I’m watching her now as she’s giving up hope. As she’s deciding that the only solution to her struggle is a permanent one. I’m watching her make preparations for it.
And now I’m asking for help, because I don’t want to lose my friend.
Hasini (35) lives in Sri Lanka. She has struggled with mental illness for 15 years, and with chronic physical illness for 10 years. Even though she’s been passionate about learning from a young age and is a talented writer and debator, she fell ill during her second year of her dream program in anthropology and was forced to drop out. She later became beridden with ulcerative colitis immediately after her marriage, and was diagnosed only 7 years later (at age 31). Because of the lack of adequate care, treatment resources, and family support, she was only able to get diagnoses for Complex PTSD and bipolar at age 29 and ADHD at 32.
Her dogs had been her comfort during her years of isolation and illness, but when her marriage disintegrated in 2020, she had to leave them behing and return to her surviving parent and intellectually disabled brother. Her mother is now a pensioner, and won’t be able to support them much longer.
I cannot emphasize enough how toxic this situation is for her. She has developed arthritis and worsening colitis flares due to the stress of her divorce and the retraumatizing environment of her family. This was made exponentially worse when the 2022 Sri Lankan Economic Crisis plunged her country into chaos. With the cost of living skyrocketing, the prices of her medications have more than doubled. She has had to stop therapy and choose which of her doctors to visit. Government hospitals are free, but her mobility has been further restricted by a back injury and transport costs are prohibitive. Most of her friends don’t live in the same country.
Although she has experienced suicidality before, she has found lifelines in rescuing animals, learning and blogging about social justice, and cultivating friends across different continents. Before the pandemic, she’d been well enough to take on a part time job for the first time. She also began to pursue a community college degree that she’s again had to put on hold.
All Hasi wants is to be well enough to work. With work, she would have the means to live away from her family, continue her studies, and help rescue animals however she can.
Her panic attacks and PTSD episodes have been escalating by the day, and it’s imperative that she’s admitted to a hospital for psychiatric care. Her doctor arranged for her to be admitted to a free government hospital, but due to the Sri Lankan national crisis-spawned overcrowding and poor conditions, she became more profoundly stressed.
We hope to raise enough money to admit her to a private hospital. We also want to get her consistent access to therapy, so that her emergency treatment could lead to more long-term, life-affirming solutions.
Her initial emergency care and immediate treatment may come to approx USD 300. We also want to raise enough money for her medication (USD 300), therapy (USD 100), and doctor’s fees (USD 200) for the next five months, as well as money for medical investigation for her back injury (USD 100).
She doesn’t want to lose her dreams, and I don’t want to lose her. We met six years ago and I would be a different person without her. Less confident, less loving, and less curious.
Without her, the world would be a bleaker place.
Please help her.
Thank you for reading and for donating.
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unknownarmageddon · 6 months
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half of the fuckin tags got deleted so I have retyped the whole thing. enjoy
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"donations? nah i ain't big on kid charities. now if ya got anythin that goes towards cats? well, i might be a lil' more generous."
"sorry sir, i'm afraid we don't have any linked charities for cats."
"horrible business move if ya ask me. cats are wayyyy more worth savin' than some disease riddled kids."
"...uh. please don't insult cancer patient, sir."
"n'less them cancer patients are kitcats, the who cares, amiright?"
"..."
"so what's my total?"
"t- oh- that'll be 14.86."
"y'got tabs here?"
"tabs-?"
"i'm broke as fuck sweetheart, can't afford no 15 buck drinks. cantcha jus' put it on a tab for me?"
"i'm afraid we don't engage in that practice. you have to either pay in cash, card, or just return the items."
"hm. y'know what, i gotta better plan." killer sets a large combat knife on the counter as if it were another item and flashes cross a charming smile full of ill intent. his canine glint in the low light of the freezers.
cross freezes and takes an aborted step back.
"w-woah hey man-"
"i got ten bucks, pal," killer says conversationally. "tell me again what my total is?"
"listen man, i-"
"what's my total?"
cross swallows harshly and deftly taps his fingers across the register machine. the total price listed drops to a flat 0.00$
Killer hums good naturedly and slaps a ten dollar bill on the counter.
"'preciate it, babe," he says as if he hadn't just threated cross. he shoots cross a wink and takes the knife in slender, gloved hands, flipping it back and forth along his exposed fingers in a practiced, smooth motion and for a moment, cross didn't do anything. then killer spun the blade to grip it by the scuffed pommel and tapped the flat of it on the counter.
"y'gonna bag these or d'ya expect me to carry 'em myself?" killer asked with a crooked smile.
cross unfroze at the prompt, scrambling to gather the items and back them, his soul thrumming in his chest like warning bells going off. his hands fumbled with the bags and he grit his teeth as he peeled the plastic bags open and put the pack of monster energy drinks inside. a snickers bar thwapped onto the counter, making cross flinch back harshly as if struck.
"go on 'n add this for me," killer said and cross's trembling fingers plucked the chocolate bar to stuff it in the bag with the drinks. he picked up the bag and it it out and, internally, he begged for the other to take it and leave.
killer spun the knife [cross had a faint feeling that he was showing off] before he bent to the side a little, reaching down to slip the knife into the holster tied to his femur and he reached over to grab the bag.
their fingers brushed and cross made to yank his hand back, startled at the feeling, but there was a flash of something in killer's pitch black eyes and, quick as a striking cobra, he caught cross's hand and held it in what felt like should've been a loose hold but it was unrelenting and firm, keeping cross's hand in killer's despite how hard he yanked.
he half expected to see that knife again but rather than silver flashing, it was a hint of pink sparking on killer's face and he shifted his grip to hold cross's hand in what cross mentally dubbed the princess hold, with cross's index, middle, ring, and pinky finger curled over the side of killer's hand.
cross's mind shortcircuted so hard that a forest fire immediately lit aflame in his mind and everything fell into chaos and confusion that he couldn't articulate with anything but sputtering and flailing his other hand as killer pulled cross's hand towards himself and pressed a gentlemanly kiss to cross's knuckles.
"thanks for the business, sweetheart," killer drawled and cross's soul squeezed in confused fluster as killer let his hand go and took the bag. he saluted cross with two fingers, "see ya pretty boy," and spun on his heel, his sneakers squealing on the tile and he damn near skipped away, whistling some stupid tune that sounded familiar.
cross blinked as the door chimed open and closed with a clank and holy shit he just got robbed and flirted with simultaneously what the FUCK
and he pulls his hand [which was still in the air where killer left it] to his chest and clutches it tightly, his fingers feeling tingly, and like whiplash, purple erupted across his face. he gripped his hand so hard that the bones creaked in protest, his breath unsteady.
"holy shit," he whispered, feeling thoroughly dumbfounded. numbly, he picked up the cash the robber left behind with the intent to put it away so he could get the hell out of here, but as soon as his fingers brushed it, he gave an incredulous noise as he picked up the bill and discovered immediately that it was fucking monopoly money.
"that fuckin-!!" his bit his tongue hard enough to draw blood and quickly flipped the paper bill over the instant he spotted splotchy marks left from marker ink that bled through the paper. on the backside, he found the source; a fucking phone number and the worst god damned hand writing he's seen in his 5 years of working this job.
'call me <3'
cross gaped down at the writing in utter disbelief, his magic thundering in his skull in time with his soulbeat. a laugh bubbled up his throat as his legs went weak and he leaned heavily against the counter, sinking slowly to his knees and pressing his forehead to the hard edge of the counter and pressing a hand to his face as he chuckled a little hysterically.
he took a double take, glancing again at the paper just to see if he was losing his mind, but no, the writing was still there. cross's chuckling turned into a full-on belly laugh tinged with a note of hysteria and he hunched over fully, cackling into the filthy floor until tears streamed down his face from it all
"what the FUCK, what the fuck," he giggled, shaking so hard he could hear his bones rattling. no one's going to believe him.
hi I’m insane
I am INSANE dude what the fuck /pos/pos
what if I fucking exploded
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Recovery Girl (My Hero Academia)
to use her healing powers she has to kiss her patients. shes a tiny old lady though so its like a grandma forehead kiss
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Kirisaki Shidou (MILGRAM)
He is a 29 year old man that wears black floral flannel t-shirts unironically and has the type of sadness in his eyes you only see in European BL comics. Also he's the equivalent of a fucked up pretty boy. I've dropped an actual explanation of who he is below (including a TLDR below) but if you don't wanna read any of that please know he has such autistic swagger. Also he has two songs and they go so hard. (Also linked below!!) He also canonically got kicked in the shin one time. He's also canonically trying to make friends with a child that hates his guts for being a doctor. Hes such a boyfail. I love him. [continued under the cut]
[continued] Oh dear, here we go! Shidou Kirisaki is a pathetic man. He had a wife and 2 or 3 kids (its been a while okay -._-.) that he loved dearly. While he was working at the hospital, he got news of his wife and kids getting into a car crash. (I believe, may have been another type of accident? I'm fairly confident it was a car crash, however.) He rushed there as soon as possible, only to find that his kids had died. His wife was the only one who survived, but she was in a braindead state and had some irreparable organ damage from her injuries.
Grief-stricken and desperate, Shidou devised a plan. Shidou tricked and manipulated dozens of families into giving up their braindead (or horribly injured) family member's organs (sometimes without their knowledge!) in order to use for organ transplants in an effort to revive his wife. Despite his best efforts, none of it worked. His schemes were eventually caught, but before he could face any legal consequences, he was kidnapped.
Shidou Kirisaki was brought to this prison called "MILGRAM". It was quickly explained why all the prisoners were there; they were all murders, and the guard had the job of deciding if they could be forgiven or not for their crime. The prison guard knew nothing about them, but would figure it out through interrogations and a special machine that exports the prisoners' thoughts and memories as music videos. Instead of being horrified like any normal person would, Shidou saw this as a great opportunity. When it came time for his interrogation, he begged to be voted guilty. He believed that MILGRAM would "give him the ending he's most suited for". The prison guard basically told him to fuck off, and after watching the music video, he was voted forgiven anyways. (Votes are casted by the fandom btw!! It was the fandom that voted him guilty, the prison guard is the in-series personification of us.)
The prisoners that were voted guilty ended up getting attacked after the votes were released, and 2 ended up horribly injured. Shidou's medical skills proved to be very important, as he managed to treat these 2 and even save one of them from certain death. Although Shidou begged to be voted guilty, the only reason he was able to save these prisoners is because he was voted innocent. Its cruel irony that made Shidou realize that maybe he really was important, that he did actually want to be innocent in order to help those in need. He's still conflicted at this point in the series, but it truly is refreshing to see him with a newfound self-worth.
Also, his songs go really fucking hard. I've linked them both below. They're on Youtube, along with the rest of the MILGRAM series. https://youtu.be/YR4sGpMqQJQ https://youtu.be/BKjpPePYn4Y
TLDR: Shidou used to be a surgeon. After his kids died in a car crash and his wife was horribly injured, Shidou was incredibly desperate to get them back. Knowing only his wife was able to be saved, he started deceiving families into donating their ill family member's organs and trying to use them in an attempt to save his wife. Eventually, he was found out and got brought to a prison where his fate was to be decided by us, the viewers (although this was represented by a guard in-series). He begged to be voted guilty, not being able to forgive himself for the lives he'd destroyed. However, the viewers voted him innocent. It was only because of his innocent verdict that he was able to treat some prisoners who got attacked after the release of their verdicts, and he ended up realizing that his life was important to the survival of the prisoners. His story makes me so happy. The series is still ongoing, but seeing his faith get somewhat restored was so pleasing. I love him so much. Hes such a loser.
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selamat-linting · 4 months
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WELCOME (new pinned)
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✨ Erase, early 20s, he/him and she/her. transmisogyny exempt, southeast asian, and very much broke. marxist-leninist with cringe interests, the block button is free to use btw. and im critical against religion and spirituality as a whole. im also critical against psychiatry and pro abolishing the family and marriage, and copyright laws. im open to people asking questions about basic dialectical materialism and indonesian politics / history ✨
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Warnings :
-I try always, but im bad at tagging. esp for suggestive/sexual content. so, minors dni, sorry. feel free to drop an ask if i mistagged a post or forgot to put appropriate content warnings.
-anyway potentially triggering / squick posts are usually grouped in #mental illness posting, #suggestive, #nsft, #thirstposting #kink stuff #sa cw #suicide cw #abuse cw #religious trauma #religion #racism #transmisogyny #transphobia
-blank blogs get blocked
interests, personal lore, important posts to read and other stuff under readmore
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Post Highlights
list of posts i recommend to read and use
list of us terrorism, political intervention, and war crimes against humanity
some reading material on usa's collaboration with nazis during the holocaust
short reading list about us imperialism
free palestine masterposts
family abolition reading list
japanese ww2 atrocities
donation links for palestine
For indonesians
i doubt there's many of you on tumblr but *shrugs*
a short thread on west papua's history
resources on free west papua (might need to use a vpn or anyonymox to access)
news, analysis, history, and general resource of learning indonesian politics/issues in both indonesian and english
Other resources
stuff around the web that could make your life easier
diy hrt wiki
free media and piracy resources
reddit's /r/piracy megathread (backup version on rentry)
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Interests
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(written as of november 2023)
Main fandoms : parahumans, homestuck, the locked tomb, slenderverse, disco elysium, pro wrestling, pmmm, yuyuyu
White boy of the month (has won this award since september 2023) : cm punk
characters i relate way too much for it to be normal : aradia megido, rose lalonde, taylor hebert, cunoesse, denji, ulixes the echo maker, ishmael (moby dick), johnny truant, jennifer check.
other hobbies : building houses in the sims 4, learn web programming, urban exploration (though im not doing this as often as i'd like these days), listening to music and going to local shows
other things i like : mice, prion disease, marine biology, piracy
currently doing : reading house of leaves, running a cm punk sideblog @punkitypunker, transforming the willow creek sims 4 world, going insane in general
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visualnovelzombie · 11 months
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Furry Visual Novel Book Club: Echo Week 12 SPOILERS
Hi everyone, here is the SPOILER discussion post for “Echo - Leo’s Saturday”
Links: Previous - Next - Original - Spoiler Free Version A - Version B
Feel free to respond in reblogs/replies/or asks :D
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We begin this week with a decision. For the spoiler version I’ll be covering both versions as there’s only slight variants, and for the spoiler free version I will be splitting the two options into different posts. I recommend waiting until the end of the route before reading the other choice (or even just checking out the other version of the post!)
Ill be donating the changes as O1 and O2 for Option 1 and Option 2 IN this combined spoiler post:
Respect Leo’s Privacy:
Chase decides to talk to Leo about the text instead of going through his phone. 
Check His Phone:
Leo has a few texts from Chase at college that are pinned… Chase goes to more recent messages reading one where Leo is arguing with Flynn about the whole ‘thing’ being planned but doesn’t think to much of two bickering. The next conversation is from Carl, the Ram asking when they’re going to hang out. Leo said Chase was to busy… but that the wolf never asked him. Chase also sees that Leo planned the high school trip. Jenna is asking if Leo is avoiding her… The text with Tj has Leo outright lying to the lynx, that Chase was sad and didn’t want to hang out.
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‘We’ll figure it out” starting to become a calling card to the route... a dark foreshadowing. Chase sees a spider
INSANE Chase/Sam Shipping
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While it’s been ~fairly~ established that Chase sees spiders as manifestations of his guilt (in all it’s many forms!) I also like to think they’re Sam dropping in and saying ‘Hiiiiiiiiiiiii~~~~” from time to time too... Apart To Long and all of that...
Re-convergence:
Chase falls asleep and a nightmare sequence plays. He wakes up outside and reminiscences on the same feeling from when he was in boy scouts when he was younger. He then ‘realizes’ he’s ‘actually’ outside and starts to worry about HOW. Branches stab into him and Chase remembers the story about the man who failed to jump the train. Chase eventually discovers that he’s in the train-yard and is able to calm down a bit, being somewhere he at least knows. Something starts to shift around in the train car and Chase begins to back away. A large ‘thing’ lunges at Chase from the darkness and the otter runs away from the presence.
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A monster crushes Chase, choking him until he wakes up gasping for air.
My personal interpretation of THIS monster (Which also makes a ‘dragging’ noise despite moving so fast!), is that this is Chase seeing some sort of manifested form of Brian’s aura/darkness. We know The Entity has a LOT tied up into the bear and its proclivities to choking line up. It’s lumbering and quick form are also ‘bear-like’ IMO. It resting in a train-car was reminiscent of Devon being tied up in a van too but I might be crazy... but if I’m not it’s certainly bear-like in that essence too, if I first thought of Dev..
Leo comforts him and asks what he dreamed about. Chase admits he can’t remembers. Leo goes to make Chase some tea and before falling asleep, Chase finds leaves and dirt in the bed near his feet...
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Now this is definitely interesting. I have hypothesized that Chase ‘sees’ alternate timelines when he sleeps, or at least versions of them. (At least where ones mix with his guilt and fears). But manifesting something physical from it? We also learn that Leo is heavy sleepier, and the way Chase describes the town is reminiscent of how he describes the Red-World in Route 65 when he’s sleep walking towards the van... Maybe he did run out there and encounter some malignant force... Which needs the otter for later, who eventually returns to bed? Maybe he passes/pulls something from his dream?
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we see Cam more or less purposely and fully see other timelines. He’s MUCH more psychic though, and even Sam isn’t on that level. Maybe it’s a more advance form of that ability, being at the heart of the town while the Hysteria is starting and more supernatural things can occur other than full on hallucinations?
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The next morning Chase reads over text from Leo, the wolf saying he’ll be back home in a bit from work.
O2: Chase wants to confront Leo...
Chases heads off to complete his project but notices that the town is eerily silent, electricity in the air. Chase then immediately forgets about his project and starts chatting with Kudzu, who was outside working on his lawn. The raccoon offers to show Chase an old pump to film and the two set off.
O2: During the exchange on the way to the pump, Chase calls into question Leo’s real motives for the trip.
Come Over begins to play as the two walk down the road together…
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Kudzu reveals he works in Echo at the town hall and doesn’t travel to Payton regularly. This doesn’t seem consistent with what we see later from Kudzu, but is probably just a small writing mistake/continuity error.
Chase is extremely rude AND nosey and asks Kudzu about what happened in Payton. Kudzu asked why Chase even cares.
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Kudzu reveals that a person he lived with was killed in a incident of gun violence... A half awkward moment later and the two arrive at the pump. Chase films while Kudzu fills the piss quota for the route by pissing into some nearby bushes. The camera’s battery is low and Kudzu runs to fetch a spare while Chase continues to film. Chase hears light gagging and follows the sound through the brush, stumbling into a trailer nestled into the trees and a clearing. 
Chase thinks he sees a dead body hanging from a tree, his first instinct to film it. After gathering his senses he stops and notices that it’s Clint, the ring-tail being hung from the tree, feet slightly off the ground. Clint tries to warn Chase away.
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A large and naked bear appears from the clearing, Clint going quite at his arrival. He immediately notices Chase. The bear has a high-pitched voice, his intentions clearly BDSM related. Chase begins to back up as the bear slowly approaches. Upon reaching the end of the clearing Chase looks back at Clint has a brief flashback to when he was young, catching the ring-tail huffing something from rag. Chase makes it back to the pump where Kudzu waits, the otter hurrying the two away from the clearing.
Chase relays the information to Kudzu, who realizes that the bear is probably the town’s local meth dealer, Brian. Chase assumes that Clint is trading sexual favors for drugs and feels bad for Clint…
The pair arrive at the school to film, Duke watching them from a distance for a while. Leo texts Chase to meet him at the diner and Kudzu and Chase part ways, just as Chase’s phone dies.
O1: Chase thinks about having a friend like kudzu once he moves back with leo.
O2.: Chase wonders if he should bring up the THING now… if he can even trust Leo again.
Chase makes it to the diner before Leo and does some introspection about the trip.
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Chase is starting to see through the fog a bit... to see what’s been happening and whose he’s been abandoning all over again. Doing the same things that led him to breakup with Leo so messily...
O2: Chase wonders if he got what he really wanted...
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INSERT MORE INSANE CHASE/SAM SHIPPING
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One of the few times Chase thinks about Sydney... he doesn’t seem TO sad about it though. Maybe a commentary, about this hopefully being of the town’s last (non Brian related) atrocities that spark a hysteria...
Before Chase can think two much on the circumstance, Leo barges into the diner.
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Here the two options split so I’ll cover one then the other in sequence:
O1:
Neutral plays as Leo appears on the scene. The two partake in PDA, questioning why no one is in the diner.
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I take all the analysis of this man I’ve ever done in my life back. If he licked me on MY otter nose he could actually do anything he wanted to me. 
Leo reveals that Duke accosted him on the way into town, claiming that Chase and Leo are to blame for the problems happening Janice stumbles into the room.
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Quiet begins to play. Chase confronts Leo, the wolf clearly nervous. Chase admits he looked at his phone, the wolf becoming defense, realizing what Chase saw. Leo appears to have a small breakdown, refusing to engage the conversation. When Leo realizes him being sad wont wash things over he becomes angry with Chase.
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Leo excuses his behavior due to Chase’s actions three years ago. Leo screams, Chase used to the ‘tantrums’.
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Right before they can do anything but yell at each other, Janice stumbles into the room.
Re convergence:
The coyote is haggard and disheveled, something clearly wrong with her.
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O1: Chase makes mention of the chef, Dale
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O2: Janice asks about the yelling as Neutral begins to play.
The pair try head out but Janice insists they stay.
O1. Chase acknowledges he’s been spending to much time with Leo to pay attention to the town.
O2: Chase is upset that he hadn’t noticed the town getting crazier and a crazier, afraid that Leo was going to let him move back in when it was getting worse
The two see Tj jogging in the town before Janice returns.
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Goodbye Julian you funky little white-boy you... whose name I had to look up for this...
Chase realizes something is very wrong with TJ and goes to help… just as Duke pull up to the diner. Janice intercepts the weasel, seemingly ignoring the gun as they bicker.
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A smallest tease to TSR, which may have been in planning stages around the time this was written. A real good nod to the prequel game, even if it wasn’t fully fleshed out yet. I’d also like to point out ~here~ that Duke mentions that the town did in fact kill someone in a response to Jack’s death, which (presumably) according to his grandfather Cliff, didn’t stop the hysteria. While it’s definitely something that doesn’t ‘fit’ due to things being still in development, and Sam being very much ran over by Chip and Janice, the person killed for Jack’s murder is now called into question. Maybe they’ll ‘back fill’ this in by giving Murdoch the axe in some self-sacrifice timeline, which would cover him not existing at the time of the Echo’s writing.
Duke drops Janice, shooting her several times. Leo covering Chase with his body trying to protect him. Duke orders Leo away from Chase as he tells the pair what he’s after. Brian walks in and zip-ties Leo’s hands together under Duke’s command. Just as Duke gives Chase a commander, he shoots at the ceiling. 
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While Brian and Duke are distracted by a fucking Onryo of Duke’s wife Chase is met with a decision…
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And this is where we end for the week… as things calm down from me pouring out my heart over small character interactions and more complicated setups due to the spoiler/non spoiler nature, we’ll be picking up the pace til the end of the route! This choice is ‘unimportant’ so I’ll be sure to cover both. 
Reminder that the next choice after that is a small game-over like in Carl’s Route, so be sure to save your game by going back one line once you get there (I’ll cover both options!)
We’ll be reading till the line “Leo: He told me you were down here. Come on.”
It’s a HEFTY chunk, about the size of the last part of Carl’s route. But it’ll help finish this route in two weeks instead of three, and also cuts better with the rise and fall of tension we’re gonna have going on…
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Until next week everyone ~
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hello, friends, can't stand being this way but I have fallen on hard times lately. Barely have any time to work and have been absolutely smothered by college work. It's getting kind of rough because my ~ mystery illness ~ has done a pretty good job of keeping me out of class. I know I have quite a few mutuals who are also struggling to find cash right now so I feel bad for bringing it up, but I do need some help. I would like to be able to continue to make goofy arts for you all! ...but I don't even have the money to pay for my next semester. Point is, I'm going to drop my Ko-Fi link here, and if you have the ability to do so, any donation will be extremely appreciated. I will also be opening commissions as soon as I can find the time, so stay tuned for that. https://ko-fi.com/kitsdrawingstuff Probably going to pin this post for a while. Thanks guys. :]
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since this month happened to be pretty tough in terms of money, ill leave those links here too~ hakuryuorion.carrd.co - commission info, permanently open http://patreon.com/orionhakuryu - extra stuff, sketches, video processes, wips http://boosty.to/orionhakuryu - page for tips and one-time donations, unfortunately the only way to drop coins at me times are hard and my pics are the only way for me to earn money so any support is greatly appreciated ⚙️ ✨
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Hey guys, I know I haven’t been around...
I honestly mainly dwell on twitter if I’m honest, so I’m popping in here to drop my PayPal link because we need help, again. My dad has had long covid and had an extra week off of work AND called in today (monday) due to being very ill, and before that he had a 2 week layoff from work due to the chip shortage affecting his workplace, and Unemployment is giving us the runaround with getting him his benefits. If they had granted him his benefits which he’s entitled to, I wouldn’t have to be doing this. I hate doing this but any help in sharing or donating to help us pay bills would be amazing. Right now we owe $261 in the power bill, $123 for our water delivery service, and $160 for our lawn guy which we haven’t paid in weeks and I can tell he’s getting irritated, all on top of needing food and basic supplies which we’ve been going without. I already paid the internet bill as I need it for my job thanks to my beloved friend Raven. paypal.me/princeofstarlight 
Again, any help in sharing or lending us a hand in paying this stuff would be amazing. I know everyone is having a hard time right now. 
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Bruh nah I saw a Charles fans saying the couldn’t believe he inspired Lewis to post about the earthquake when Lewis had already posted about it twice and put up donation links.
i’m convinced charles fans are social experiments who were dropped on their heads as children because miss girl what did i just read. like ik i’m ill rn n my brain is mush but this is just reeks of mental illness bc how have they come to the conclusion that charles inspired lewis
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For the record, if you wanted to open up a Kofi or patreon for the content you're already doing to help fund your films, I'd be willing to drop a couple of dollars a month for the resource you've been for me, personally (ie fashion lookbooks, reviews, maintaining a well-maintained visual and thematic archive, etc.)
i actually do have a kofi, i never really promote it because it feels odd for me to do so. i have also considered making a patreon in relation to the youtube channel im going to start when i move back home, if that channel does well i thought about making a patreon for personal day in the life type content and request-based reviews. but that is fully dependent on if my youtube channel does well or not.
ill link my kofi in case anyone does wanna toss me a dollar or two, but it is not necessary.
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Thought and meditation - Rob Burbea
A lot of the following material comes from one of my favourite masters Rob Burbea, so I would like to let the audience know, if they don't know already, that he's fighting pancreatic cancer. Yet despite that he's still has the fortitude to teach, for example his new retreat teachings have been uploaded about Imaginal practice, and there are links below. Rob like the rest of us is impermanent and the gifts he provides and are not guaranteed. If you are in the position to do so you can donate via this link to help with his expenses: See: https://rumble.com/v1grcgx-mindfulness-nirvana.html
Harassed by thinking
Instructions for dealing with thought and meditation can be confusing. Are we supposed to stop thinking? It's an important question. Thinking in a painful way, for some people, can lead to suicide. With misunderstandings and poor instruction, the practitioner of meditation has some hurdles to overcome. When the practitioner tries to stop thinking, they will find that the results are only temporary, and they've suffered a lot of strain in the attempt. At other times the practitioner gives up development and surfs on interesting thoughts and concepts. If thinking is allowed in meditation, what kind of thinking is good thinking?
Working with thought and meditation
For the meditator the first obstacle to get through is to think that enlightenment is about getting rid of thought. Any prior instructions, mistranslations in books that demonize thought, have to abandoned to develop further. Rob's argument for this is that the 2nd jhana is a concentration state where thoughts begin to drop away, yet there is so much more to Buddhism than two concentration states. Stopping thought permanently for Rob is like "amputating our humanity."
His goals for his students are that we should be able:
"To be free with thought."
"To discern and let go of unhelpful types of thinking."
"To develop the ability to think well, and be bold thinkers."
Experimentation
This problem can be approached with an experimental attitude of the practitioner. If the meditator notices, certain types of thinking are actually harmless and others are extremely draining. One method to do this is to develop types of thinking that lead to calmness, love, and wisdom, and abandoning thoughts that relate to greed, ill will, and harmfulness. Purposeful, fair thinking and actions lead to less worry and strain, than those other types of thinking and actions.
Rob's test to see if we are thinking properly is to see if we are embroiled in thinking and have trouble stopping, versus thinking that allows us to stop at any time. Another method of thinking is to develop calm first. Our thoughts are different in a calm mind than in an agitated mind. For Rob these skills are just as important as mindfulness skills. At lot of why we are afraid of death is really the emotional death. The physical pain will always be scary but the emotional pain is something we can work with, and emotional pain is connected with thinking. By developing habits to keep coming back to the breath, it becomes easier to interrupt our thoughts when they are embroiled. When those thoughts subside we can then choose to use skillful thinking instead.
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Buddhism is taught via concepts, because no one can abide in another person's reality and show us. How it works is like the ouroboros, or the snake eating its tail. When the practitioner sees their own mental movements and is able to find the label that it corresponds to and understand how it works, then the concept is finally internalized. This is true of all knowledge that requires us to learn by doing. The concepts are just pointers to the non-conceptual. Then the concept can be put to the side to let the real experience inform. This is how the practitioner who reads too much can prioritize their first hand experience so the benefits they read about can be enjoyed.
Papañca
Rob's talks have a plethora of pointers that can help us get back to the non-conceptual knowledge. One way is sweeping the body and noticing how obsessive thinking narrows attention, and sometimes tightens and contracts areas of the body. By sweeping and relaxing the tension in the body, the attention is freed up. The practitioner can then "relax, and allow the turmoil" of obsessive thoughts. Seeing how the damage can happen quickly lets the meditator know that certain types of thoughts are unhelpful. These unhelpful types of thoughts have certain patterns and characteristics that most people are aware of. They are called Papañca in Pali, which complicates thinking into emotionally charged guesses and exaggerations of the situation thought about. It torments the subject when they want to change something and cannot, or they want to control their uncertain future. It's a type of belief where people skip any need for evidence and jump to the catastrophic conclusions. An example Rob uses is of how people can take personal how a person looks at them. Internally the subject can think, "why did they look at me like that? Maybe it means this about me? That reminds me of my mother, and what she used to say about me." A single detail in the experience is taken out of context and then generalized. The subject can then take what the mother said about them and use the person who looked at him or her as a confirmation of how bad they are.
Complication
Rob list's the sequence of Papañca, but the steps must be thought of as non-linear, because each step can feed each other. Usually there is a thought of what we don't like, at the same time there is a feeling in the body that goes with the thought. Afterwards there is an aversion to those thoughts that leads to more thoughts of planning and worrying to try and get rid of something. This is non-linear in that planning and worrying thoughts have feelings in the background that tend to build as the thoughts get more complicated when the thoughts run up to obstacles with no solution. The thoughts get more complicated from early thoughts of negative preferences, and build towards plans and worries about what to do about the situation.
Cutting thought
Here Rob points out his favourite target to cut off or let go of those thoughts. Because of the emotional investment, the farther out one waits to cut the thought the more resistance there will be. At the level of feeling in the body (a felt like or dislike) it's easiest to let go of the early thoughts, that a situation is not likeable, than to let go in the planning and worrying stages. Of course we can ruminate about meditation and start to attack ourselves when we fail to catch the right moment to let go, so Rob assures the practitioner that they can let go at any time because it's non-linear. The feelings in the body are still there when there's planning and worrying. It may be harder to let go, but you can check into the body with the feeling and start to let go of the thoughts related to the feelings. Because thoughts condition with repetition, it's important to not make excuses for not letting go of unhelpful obsessive thoughts.
Allowing
There is often a lot of resistance with obsessive thought, and cutting it isn't always successful. Another way of being with the thoughts is to again go back into the body, and keep allowing those unpleasant sensations that are there. Fighting too much with the thoughts can make you go back into mental complication again. Just feel the push and pull in the body and allow it and relax it. With practice, the muscle builds and then it can be easier to cut thoughts. The art of meditation is to see how much effort is needed. Sometimes you need more effort and sometimes not. Rob assures us that effort never gets settled in one's practice, it only gets more subtle. For a lot of meditators this can be seen in their concentration practice. Often practitioners are at a certain level of absorption, then the mind wanders from the breath and with a sense of surrendering effort, the attention goes back to the object and gets absorbed at a deeper level, like the surrendering of effort was what was needed. Again this is all adjusting effort based on what is needed to develop calm.
Rewards
The consequence of being down on thinking in meditation is the papañca caused by guilt for being lost in thoughts. Simple instructions from Thanissaro Bhikkhu involve rewarding oneself with a delicious breath to incline the thinking habits to naturally return to the breath. Andrea Fella also likes to remind meditators that when you know that you are lost in thoughts, you are already back. Being lost in thoughts means you are not aware this is happening. When you are aware then take pleasure that you are back and continue practicing.
Thinking with calm
When there is calm in the meditation, the practitioner can explore the papañca to see how it works by letting it back in again with this calm mind. Seeing how it works helps to make it less alluring to fall into. One method is assessing the helpfulness of the thoughts. When caught in obsessive thinking one can compare the calm mind to the agitated ruminating mind. "Is this helpful, or not helpful? Let go of what's not helpful." One can also ask "will I be happy if I keep thinking these thoughts?"
Sometimes there can be an important choice in one's life, and the mind goes back and forth and can't decide. In some situations it really matters what is decided, but with a calm mind it's possible to bring in a consideration that either choice will make no difference, and if that's the case, it's easier to give up those obsessive thoughts. An example would be having difficulty choosing a menu item at a restaurant. In the end you'll be fed with either choice.
Labeling
When there is ruminating some practitioners like to label some of the complex thoughts, with labels like "planning", "remembering." This can create emotional distance that is helpful, but the danger with labeling is it can also make those thoughts have more concreteness and reality, which may add to the papañca. Rob says, "nothing is without effect."
With enough calmness the meditator can see some of the fuel for these types of thoughts and why labeling can work in some situations and in others it's better to explore underlying motivations. Because meditation teachers witness so many examples with their students that are similar, certain patterns start to appear.
"I" as the source of papañca
For Rob, papañca in students involves certain beliefs and assumptions about "what is needed for my happiness." A lot of these assumptions underneath, "what I need to be happy", can be challenged by bringing them into consciousness and assessing them with normal logic. An even deeper motivation still for papañca is self-labels. A lot of students have devastating stress that involves narratives such as "I believe it means this about 'me' if this or that happens." Rob turns it around in a droll way by saying, "if it is true, is it really so bad?" This isn't to diminish the shame that people feel when they have hurt others or committed crimes, or if they have been victimized again and again. Serious negative self-labels that involve real world rejection, post-traumatic stress, and stigma will be harder to shake off, and require a lot of letting go and time to heal.
After any healing or atonement, the suffering student can bring to their actions, for example, a criteria of helpfulness to understand that they can't change the past, but they can focus on what they do now in terms of skillful thoughts and actions. If a person is capable of good actions, then all they can do is to repeat them for the rest of their lives. Rob suggests what I think is a very skillful use of learning orientation to help dis-embed from the shaming, judging, painful "I." He says that the practitioner can instead, "be more interested in the process of thinking instead of the content of thinking." With the spacious awareness in the prior body scanning practice described above, a mode of witnessing thoughts can be imitated from the skills we are used to using with mindfulness of the senses.
Only impressions in awareness
For example, sound. Listening to ambient sounds and letting them arise and pass can be applied to thinking, and this has more reality than practitioners think. Thoughts are just like sounds in how they arise and pass. They are ephemeral and insubstantial. They are also unpredictable, because they are unwilled. They just appear in awareness without permission to later pass away, if we don't cling to them. It's not you. It's not yours, because you cannot will them to stop. Habits keep coming back. At best we can let them go and cultivate skillful thoughts to change the habits of what comes up in thinking. What is let go of weakens and what is cultivated strengthens. This helps to reduce the emotional significance of habitual thoughts. They are just old habits, and by letting them go the practitioner can take solace that these thoughts, that are let go of, can get weaker. They don't have to command any action on the meditator's part. The space of awareness, which is the 'knowing' faculty of the mind, that just witnesses what is there, is undisturbed and provides no authority to the thoughts. Just by witnessing them without blame or judgment and letting them drop helps to reduce the emotional significance those thoughts have, and reduce our identification with them. Rob says, "we choose to give power to thought." By choosing to obsess extremely about what we think we need to be happy, and by desiring to change the labels others have for us, we stay stuck in rumination. Again we can't change what people think of us, and what we think we need to be happy, beyond our necessities, is open to debate.
Anger
Rob says, "sometimes the emotion [we feel] just needs to be recognized and held, and sometimes there needs to be an action." Anger is often a difficult emotion, but we can hold anger in the body until it naturally dissolves. Sometimes we need to act on the anger, but as you can read in the link below, this anger has to be devoid of hatred. Anger is not hostility, or aggression. It's an engagement that includes care for others, and acceptance with how the world is. It is also a way to analyze the self that is in anger and to train responsibility to prevent endless papañca caused by passive submission, or to prevent aggressive outbursts that will cause regret and more reasons for papañca.
Time and the emptiness of time
A lot of our thinking involves time. Shame involves the past. In the present we sometimes want tiring things to end, or we feel we don't have enough time for something. The future may hold for us things we don't want. We may want to preserve things in time. A lot of suffering involves time. Rob likes the Mahayana tradition that uses Nagarjuna's work on inherent existence. Nothing is inherent, meaning, nothing is permanently solid. Rob uses the term reification, or to make real, but I feel solidity is a better term, so we do not get into mind-only attitudes about reality, which are not practical. Things are real but our mind filters reality, simplifies it, and gets caught up emotionally to control what is ultimately not completely solid. Some things are more solid than others, but our concerns for past, present and future, view them as separate solid periods of time that are disembodied from our lives, when in fact time is a conceptual construct, and heavily involves human memory. The way in is to see the papañca, or the stressful over-complication of thinking, as something that makes time more solid than it is. By meditating and letting go of stressful thinking, and the need to control what is uncontrollable, the time solidity starts to weaken. Essentially what we are experiencing has already happened micro-seconds ago, and we are reacting to our short-term and long-term memories. The past is gone and cannot be changed regardless of how many times we rehearse what we should have done.
Deeper than thinking
As we gain facility with meditation and thinking, Rob cautions us into thinking that we've gotten enlightenment with consistent mindfulness in daily life, or what people call bare attention. Our entire ability to be conscious, and even the witness that observes experience is built up on unconscious thinking that can include "interpretations, beliefs, assumptions, views, and conceptions. They can shape, colour, and build our experience of awareness." In a way, the unconscious thinking affects what details we focus on and habitual perceptions will make our focus different from others who have different perceiving habits.
Deeper than all of that is what Rob translates as measurement. All of our experiences includes measurement, and comparison, even when there is no overt thinking. It's the ability to compare that allows us to have perceptions or the ability to recognize what is in the environment. Rob says, "when we recognize something we can only do this with a comparison of something different." Insightfully, those measurements are either appealing or unappealing.
For example, we can measure ourselves to others by noticing differences and have feelings of dissatisfaction arise if we come up short. Even more buried, we can have a sense of subject and object as a distance measurement in our meditation or daily life. Yet what we are experiencing is a reconstruction of reality. These measurements we make feed the clinging to people and objects, based on their appeal, and in turn the clinging can feed more detailed measurements of appeal, leading to papañca about how to control the environment and engage with what is appealing or to repel was is not appealing. The term Clinging here is connected with the effort of targeting an object to control for the purpose of satisfying cravings. There is a push to get rid of what is unpleasant and a pull to bring in what is pleasant, which can be felt in the body.
Three characteristics
Rob now explains how the three characteristics can help us see through the inherent existence, or solidity of objects, and become disenchanted. By seeing experiences and their impermanence, stress, and non-willed aspects, the practitioner finds "another quality that shines through experience that is not so dependent on whether [they] like it or not." With less emotional investment, or an equanimity, the stress starts to bleed out of experience. By having good concentration, and an alive presence, the practitioner can relax the push and pull caused by the measurement of experience. The brain is trained to see that the suffering connected with excessive control is not worth it and it lets go. When suffering decreases, the practitioner knows they are on the right track. As the senses fade, the awareness also fades, and the entire reconstruction of reality by the brain is revealed.
Rob Burbea
Working with thought in meditation: http://www.dharmaseed.org/talks/audio_player/210/10835.html
Thoughts and Images in Meditation: http://www.dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/17963/
Approaching the Dharma: Part One - Unbinding the World: http://www.dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/17960/
Approaching the Dharma: Part Two - Liberating ways of looking: http://www.dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/17961/
Only impressions in awareness: http://www.dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9820/
Time and the emptiness of time: http://www.dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11929/
Maya and Nirvana (Beyond the Measure of Mind): http://www.dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/10832/
Seeing that Frees: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780992848910/
Rob's recent retreat talks:
The Mirrored Gates: http://www.dharmaseed.org/retreats/3918/
Tending the Holy Fire: http://www.dharmaseed.org/retreats/3920/
Andrea Fella
Working with thoughts and thinking: https://www.audiodharma.org/talks/audio_player/2407.html
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
You can't clone awakening: https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/y2009/090904%20You%20Can't%20Clone%20Awakening.mp3
Your Landing Strip: https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/shorttalks/y2015/150402(short)_Your_Landing_Strip.mp3
Going in light: https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/shorttalks/y2016/160408(short)_Going_in_Light.mp3
Depend on Yourself: https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/shorttalks/y2018/180627(short)_Depend_on_Yourself.mp3
Other resources:
Compassionate Wrath - Robert Augustus Masters: https://www.atpweb.org/pdf/masters.pdf
Dependent Co-arising - Various Authors: http://psychreviews.org/dependent-co-arising-various-authors/
Contemplative practice: http://psychreviews.org/category/contemplativepractice/
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Regarding the Maui fires
Currently I’m dropping the current shop WIPS in order to get a few donation projects out. Ill be making 2 floor cushions and a few hanging tapestries; 50% of the sales will be going to the Maui Food Cupboard. I’ll keep y’all updated as the items roll out. Link to my Depop will be provided once they go up for sale.
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Financial assistance for baby Maria’s heart bypass surgery
Dear hearty peoples,
I am Mahamud Kamal from Bangladesh. My younger daughter (2 years old) is too ill with two holes in her heart. She needs bypass / open heart surgery but I am not economically capable for the surgery.  So I took a step by camping  through goget.fund to collect  some donations to the hearty people of the society. So I have posted a link with details including her medicale report. Plz help me by donating a drop of money.  Financial assistance for baby Maria’s heart bypass surgery / Open heart surgery. More details go through the link : https://goget.fund/428upRb    
You can also send your donation directly to my PayPal account : [email protected] . Email ID : [email protected] WhatsApp  & Mobile : +8801913841689. If anybody would like to send a donation through my bank account directly, please email me. I will send bank account details. 
With Best Regards 
Mahamud Kamal
God bless you.
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How to spread some Christmas joy in Manchester
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Many people are likely to be feeling the pinch this Christmas as the cost-of-living crisis sets in. As Sofia Fedeczko wrote in the Manchester World, let’s “make sure that children don’t miss out this Christmas” ...” there are plenty of places taking toy donations especially for the festive season.”
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The storage company has partnered with The Children’s Adventure Farm Trust – a Cheshire-based charity that provides free programmes for terminally ill, disabled and disadvantaged children in the North West – for their annual toy appeal.
They are asking for donations of toys, games and activities for children aged 2–17. Items can be dropped off at the reception of Access Self Storage on Leestone Road, Sharston Industrial Estate, Manchester, M22 4RW.
Donations will close on 12 December. Helen Crowther, fundraiser at the Children’s Adventure Farm Trust, said: “This year we are aiming to provide magical Christmas experiences for 3,000 children whose lives are impacted by illness, disability, or social disadvantage.”
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The Wood Street Mission is a charity that supports children from low-income families and their Christmas appeal is back for 2022.
They are asking for new, unwrapped toys for children up to the age of 14. There is lots of information on gift ideas for each age group on their website. All toys, games and books can be taken to Wood Street Mission, 26 Wood Street, M3 3EF. It is open Monday–Friday, 8:30am–4:30pm.
Alternatively, they have also provided links to Amazon wish lists, where you can buy items that will be sent directly to the charity. The last day for donations is 9 December.
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