#i really appreciate the support

[altruisticalastor]

i’m absolutely obsessed w your fics ohmyohoohofkdnsjnjdbwjdnakxj ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

ahh thank you so much! 🥹🩷

#it’s good to be back on the air ♡ #i really appreciate the support

[stivya]

Could you add the Shakadolin cuddle pile+Renarin to inprint as well? And that one with Tien and Kal (https: // at.tumblr.com /stivya / 636752642861940736 /0tedndnpv0g9)? I love them all too much, I can't decide which to geeet

Thank you!!💖

I added both of them here

#inprnt #asks #i really appreciate the support

[sudrianforces]

Dude! I just discovered you and I'm wondering where the hell you've been all my life! Sonic was one of my first fandoms and your designs are some goddam awesome! Look at ur Thomas! He's so stylin'! Ur art is awesome!

Thomas: “Thanks for the kind words!”

But seriously, thank you so much for the very kind and generous words. They mean a lot to me! 💖💖

#ttte #ttte thomas #thank you very much #i really appreciate the support #sudrianforces

[shinxeysartgallery]

It finally happened!

Thank you all so much for the big 50; I honestly didn't expect to get this many followers. lol Thanks for supporting my content these past few years as well, and here's to a great end of the year (well, in a few months anyway).

#seriously can't thank y'all enough #I really appreciate the support #sonic the hedgehog #sonic fan character #sonic ocs #shinxey's ocs #shinxey's art #sabrina the wolf #cynthia the alicorn

[ephiesoul]

when i can one day im gonna buy everything from etsy >:)

Awe thank you! 💚💚 Whether you buy from my shop or reblog, like or simply enjoy my art I appreciate all the love and support I can get 💖 any support I receive really means the world to me :3

#thank you #i really appreciate the support #you’re too kind #you all really make my day #and motivate me to draw more #chibi #fanart #chibi art #art

[dying-weeds]

I believe you, too. I still can't bring myself to tell my mother because I don't think she'll believe me, especially not over my father. I'm so, so sorry you were trafficked. I hope each and every person involved with what was done to you dies a horrible, painful, and humiliating way. like dysentery.

Thank you for saying this anon and I'm so sorry that something like this has happened to you. I can't tell my mom either, when I have told her about other things before this that happened she didn't believe me then so how can I expect her to believe this.

I'll be completely honest with you it's hard for me to use the T word, I know that sounds so dumb of me to say but it's like when I think about it there's just an added layer of cruelty of what it really was and it hurts. It hurts me to know what really happened to me and when I give it it's name it makes it so horribly real. I can't believe the person I love the most was the one who set all of that up for nothing more than his own pleasure.

Thank you anon for your support and your kind words, it really helps me to hear them.

#anons #nice anons #tw trafficking #tw abuse mention #I really appreciate the support #it hurts to call it what it really was because then its so painfully real

[candiceswans]

・ﾟ:* 21 GIFs had been added to the Janella Salvador GIF hunt making it a total of #101. 

Rebloggable original post is here. 

#gif pack update #this is a milestone for me #thank you for the people who reblogged it #i really appreciate the support #searph #rph #gifhunthub #gifpacknetwork

[l3onart]

Op your last klapollo fanart is so soft and pretty isjshbshsbsbk

AHHH TYSM ‼️‼️‼️‼️ They are deeply in love....

#also hi!! i see you in my notes a lot!! #i really appreciate the support #Have the nicest of days :}!!

[sleepygaymerdisease]

[ID: Tweets from Emily 'Soup Lesbian' Gwen (@theemilygwen) on twitter with the following text:

Well, just left a job interview crying because the hiring manager told me they liked my application but were disappointed that I didn't bother dressing appropriately. I tried to explain that I haven't been able to afford new clothes in years but I just couldn't handle it.

That comment and my reaction was one of the most mortifying moments of my life. I thought I put together a decent outfit for the job with what I had, and hearing her say that just destroyed me.

Anyway I'm still looking for work and struggling a lot. Even $5 would help pay for a meal. ko-fi.com/emilygwen

End ID]

Please help Emily Gwen, the creator of the lesbian flag. If you show me that you donated any amount I will draw you something. You can also support them by buying something from their Threadless store!

#emily gwen has been so influential to me and i would really appreciate any donations sent their way 💖 #BEFORE ANYONE SAYS ANYTHING: emily gwen uses they/them pronouns. their flag is intended to be trans+nonbinary inclusive AND ace inclusive. #please do not spread rumors about them to avoid donating :( support lesbians! especially one who has been so influential #anis gaymer moments

[bombuni]

Aaaa thank u guys sm!!! This is so exciting :)

#kisses to all of you #i really appreciate the support

[jasper-crow]

hey look this might be totally weird i’m so sorry if it is but i saw your tags about feeling not femme enough, and i felt that a lot, but also it reminded me of this quote that made me feel very seen. it’s from "Femme-Dyke" by Arlene Istar, featured in The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader (there’s a post about it somewhere on this app but i couldn’t find it sorry :’)

"A few years ago, I bought a pair of warm winter boots. I worked in an agency where all the women wore heavy femme drag, and even if I hadn't been out, my differentness was apparent. I wasn't sure if the agency would even let me wear boots to work. I walked into my office, and two male co-workers immediately began playfully whistling. "Ooh, new boots — how butch," they teased me. Later that evening, I met my lover and another friend, both butch identified. They too teased: "Ooh, new boots — how fernmy," they said. And I suppose that's what being a femme-dyke means. The boys think I'm butch, and the girls think I'm femme.”

being femme isn’t just feminine and isn’t just being like. a trad wife. it’s such a complicated expression of gender/masculinity/femininity and a rejection of the rules of traditionally femininity. anyways, basically, you’re slay. don’t let others convince you otherwise.

So it took a long time to figure out how to respond to this.

First off I'll say that this isn't weird at all. One of the biggest things I'm an advocate for is community building, the lowest level of which is simply offering support and kind words to our fellow queer brothers and sisters whenever we can. Thats the most amazing human instinct and you should never appologize for it. 💙

My feelings on this subject are...... confused I guess is the best way of putting it. I suppose its important to clarify.

I'm not a blue collar union worker by choice.

To make a long story short, I'm from a lower middle class family of 7 in central Ohio. College was always going to be a longshot for us. My parents gladly cosigned on college loans and helped out my two sisters in their pursuit of going to college. This wasn't extended to me and my brothers.

Thus I did the stupid thing a lot of kids in my position do.

I joined the military

This was easily one of, if not THE, worst decisions I've ever made in my life. If I'm being frank I believe my parents pushed me towards this due to a combination of rose colored glasses with the armed forces, outright misogynistic veiws of men and women's career paths, and the thought that perhaps the military would beat some semblance of "discipline" into my ADHD self. In attention to a misguided attempt to break up me and my now wife, who at the time wasn't sure if we were going to be able to make long distance work. (Spoiler we did)

Now being 6 years post getting out and having settled into a new state, having recently hit the 10 year mark with my lovely wife, starting my transition, and doing so many other wonderful things I never thought I'd be able to do, I've unfortunately found I don't have any marketable skills that aren't in blue collar industry.

I signed on for an office job and wasn't told till I'm already trapped in BMT that my ADHD disqualified me for that job. I was assigned to be a maintenance technician without much if any consultation from me.

I did most of my time in my contract. Frankly got physical abused more than you'd assume they do nowadays, and generally just tried to learn my job and stay out of the way. When they found out I wasn't going to re-enlist (Duh) they used my ADHD once again as an excuse to revoke my medical waiver and kick me out without giving me access to my GI bill, the whole reason I joined at all.

Blue collar industry is notoriously homo/transphobic and as such I'm still stealth at my place of work, even in a significantly more blue state than I was born in. This is just a fact of my life.

So I'm left in a very awkward position. I have a lot of reasons to love and hate my job and my career in general. Reasons I love it include:

-I can support my families finances

-I can stand up and support my fellow queer brothers and sisters when others mistreat them

-I provide good insurance and stability to my family

-I can help out around the house, fix simple things, rewire outlets ect. Very useful things to know

But at the same time everything related to my job and career is a very painful reminder that:

-I do genuinely enjoy the work, it gives me some level of fulfillment

-I'm only in this situation because of my own families treatment of me pretransition

-I'm only able to keep this position because I stay closeted at work

-I was never in a situation where I felt like I had other options available to me

-I'm here because of my own stupid decisions and my time loaning my soul to an imperialist war machine

-I generally feel trapped in this position and like there aren't really other options for me to pursue

So by connection when I do stuff relating to my job and career outside of work its..... bittersweet? I think thats the best way to describe it. Its my last real big teather to my "old life" as it were and functions to remind me of all the things I wasn't allowed to and still can't have to an extent.

-I likely cannot ever "come out" at this or any other worksite without MASSIVELY affecting my earning potential and my ability to move forward or even get jobs

I appreciate the passage exerpt and I really love how other queer people see me outside of work, and frankly I've been told at work by some that I'm only "stealth" because the old men I work with are dumb as all hell. Stuff like this makes me feel wonderful and much more secure in my identity 💙

But I guess its more of an internal issue of how I veiw myself and how and why my life has gone how it does, rather than one of how others veiw me.

#sorry this was so long #i really appreciate the support #just wanted to clarify #my feelings are mixed and probably always will be on this #personal #guess this is the most personal ive ever really gotten on tumblr #funniest thing is ive been on tumblr basically the whole time #femme #femme4butch #blue collar #idk like 7 trigger warnings? #i never learned how to tag that stuff #if someone knows just put it in the replies and I'll tag #feel free to reblog maybe itll help someone else #not sure how but that's probably the Autism lol #community building #always be kind whenever you can #love all yall

[creepincrawl]

SEA DEVIL

#I really went off with this piece lol i'd really appreciate support on it cuz i'm so proud of it!! :] #y2k aesthetic #y2kcore #y2k art #neoy2k #neo y2k #digital drawing #digital illustration #illustration #blue aesthetic #frutiger metro #frutiger aero #creepincrawl #original character #character illustration #digital art #digital artist #artists on tumblr #clip studio paint #cute art

[rjhpandapaws]

I am sorry A Thing has happened at your job. I am sending along a photo of a goat I saw this weekend. This goat had a lot of questions about why we were at its farm.

Thank you for the goat!! I grew up around pigmys so this is the biggest goat ive seen outside of a zoo.

Thank you so much for the well wishes! Hopefully your goat brings me luck and it can be smoothed over soon.

#panda has all of the answers! #i really appreciate the support #and the goat i have been offered in these trying times. #it made me grin and chuckle a bit

[tangledinink]

5K DTIYS! I cannot believe there's so many of you now!!! I am positively flattered and tickled, so I wanna give out some prizes to thank y'all! Winners will be randomly selected-- Artists and writers alike are welcome to participate and get added to the raffle pool! Further details/rules below the cut.

Not an artist? That's OK! Write something that you think could be in this magazine-- an article, an interview, a quiz, etc-- and that will count as a submission!

Deadline is Halloween, 'cause it's fun. 10/31/23. There's no deadline for participating-- that's just the deadline to be added to the raffle pool to get a Fun Prize.

I'll draw two winners ('cause Gemini, get it?) I'll draw a small comic (2-5 pages) for 'first' place, and I'll do a sketch for 'second' place! I do reserve the right to decline any requests that I'm not comfortable drawing.

Submissions don't stack. Drawing AND writing something won't get you in the raffle twice, though you're welcome to do both if you feel so inspired!

Please tag me and use #gemini5kdtiys ! Otherwise the submission may not be counted. If you tag me and it doesn't seem like I've seen it (I don't like and/or reblog it,) feel free to nudge me!

You gotta be following me to be added to the raffle pool!~

THANK YOU GUYS FOR THE SUPPORT AND FOR 5K FOLLOWERS ; w ; this is a rule.

#THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT YALL I REALLY APPRECIATE IT ; w ; #in a funky twist of fate im posting this exactly two months after my 3k DTIYS lol #gemini au #gemini5kdtiys #dtiys #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the tmnt #tmnt 2018 #rottmnt disaster twins #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt donatello #rottmnt leo #rise leo #rise donnie #rise donatello #rise disaster twins #rottmnt hidden city #fidgetwing

[abyssalzones]

is that a sense of impending doom, or just the summer pollen? probably just the pollen.

anyway, i don't plan on posting full chapters like this too often but take this as a reminder to go check out Ad Astra Per Aspera on its neocities page, where it updates every Friday! In case you’re into comics about things that already exist.

#gravity falls #stanford pines #lab creations #webcomic #comics #this is so many images sorry. but i really wanted to post the whole thing since it's a shorter chapter anyway #thank you to everyone who has supported me with nice feedback so far! i really appreciate knowing other people keep up with it #and i have many plans.

[bixels]

While I do think anon was rude, I do think it's pretty shitty to set up all this stuff you were going to add the au and then just drop it. It's disappointing. Definitely unfollowing.

Bye.

#ask me #anon #once AGAIN. #I am not dropping anything #the au is not getting cancelled. more than likely i'm gonna take a break from it until i find motivation again #But I've been drawing the AU for half a fucking year #In that time I've only drawn 5 things that aren't mlp related #I'm getting tired and my last few posts didn't do as well as I'd hoped #And I'm not about to burn myself out on mlp au art even if I really do love making it #I'm still gonna make comics. I have a bunch of ideas. #Tulli and I still wanna do the limited run merch shop #Discord is still coming. Sunset is still coming. Sombra is still coming. I have so many ideas #But I need to do something else for my own sake. Did you know I was supposed to get the background 6 designs done by now #But I didn't because I'm TIRED #I've been keeping myself on a schedule to keep content pumping despite travel and school and family and I'm tired #what i'm getting isn't matching what i'm giving and that's nobody's fault. i'm not frustrated at anyone. a slump was bound to happen #drawing the au was fun until it become my Thing. Because when your Thing––your identity––starts to faulter #it can really make you freak out #And that's not healthy for the project or for myself. I need to find the fun again and I'm sure I will #I'm really appreciative of everyone's support in my inbox and replies it really does mean a lot especially given that about 2/3 of my #followers followed for mlp. But if you're gonna react to me saying “i'm gonna cool down on mlp art and draw my own stuff” with “i'm #disappointed in you." then Leave! I think it's good you're unfollowing #you are not obligated to stick by my side! But don't act like I'm doing you a disservice by turning my attention elsewhere #I didn't promise anyone anything and I definitely didn't say I'm breaking any promises.