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ATTN FELLOW CANADIANS:

An actual MP has created a petition to stop financial discrimination against adult creators by payment processors. You have to confirm your email but thats because its something that can actually be shown to parliament.

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#nsfw #censorship #canpoli

@acvalens.net

me: spends half the day on-and-off searching for binders and compression tops because i have a somewhat ridiculous chest especially for a transmasc person
all my apps: HAVE YOU HEARD OF PEPPER? FOR THOSE WITH SMALL TITS? MAXING OUT AT A B CUP!!

but as an artist, i feel like i am left behind, and forgotten

i recently joined a private discord server with a lot of activity, a lot of which is reposting art without source and/or going awooga at pretty art of women, and i wonder if the artists know that they are loved.....................i understand the desire for privacy more than ever these days..

a friend told me that her friend (who i do not know) loves it when i draw my gf. they get so excited about it in private. im honoured but also -- i had no freaking clue!!!!! these thoughts wouldve been lost to the ether

and it's also why places feel so quiet these days!! people dont fucking comment on art anymore! they scream about it to their friends in a priv discord server and the artist doesnt even know that theyre being appreciated

i realized why social media feels so curated is partially to amateurs posting exclusively in places where their work Will see traction - reddit, discord servers, and tumblr communities etc

“Don’t look down. Just look at me.”

uquiz result: capt. miryam dawderdale. description: for the most part, you live your life responsbily -- but when adventure calls, you're brave enough to answer. steadfast and loyal to your crew, nothing gives you more satisfaction than a job well done, and you do your job well. despite your straight-laced and slightly awkward attitude, you have a big imagination, and the possibility of adventure is both nerve-racking and thrilling. you're modest, but someone as reliable as you is hard to find. you feel a sense of duty to keep the people around you safe, but maybe---just maybe---you could risk it all for a moment of excitement.

my cloudward ho uquiz result -- extremely accurate, like one of those reads from those vibe uquizzes from 2020 that had me awake at 4am feeling like i was seen

An announcement photo that reads: "Anime NYC. Se you at the Javits Center on Thursday through Sunday at Anime NYC 2025. Alex Siple. Table M6"

see you this weekend at anime nyc! i'll be at table M6 with prints and zines! 💙 new york i've missed you!

i vacillate between phases where i value painting a lot versus those i only seem to get lineart done....whenever a painting phase hits i miss the results from it, but i never really like the feeling of painting

i keep getting reddit recommends from r/instagrammarketing so i hid them alll~~~ i dont like to hear how much harder it is to start doing social media in 2025 vs 2020, feels like this applies to everything

4 panel comic P1: a right hand draws a wavy stroke on a sketchbook page. A caption box up top reads "draw" P2: the word "CREATE" dominates a panel with a black background, forming in the negative space. Various small shapes surround it. P3: a lone simplified humanoid figure is on the bottom right of a another panel with a black background. A thought bubble forms above their head, the words "if not for others, then at least for yourself" within. P4: The Earth dominates the bottom of the panel, with a sliver of space above it. Clouds swirl and boil across the Earth, which is the only element on the entire page coloured a pink-red. A caption box above reads "now, more than ever"

create

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bonus comics:
patreon.com/nhoj

wild feeling when i see people from hs posting like old people....and i guess we are now? but i use social media the same as i did at age 13 probably. and my old classmates are christian moms who moved to north carolina. i played mariokart at your house when we were 11

A hand with black nail polish on the thumb holds a mini zine over a plant. The cover has a tiny gremlin human holding onto a large strawberry as it splashes into pink milk

The hand holds the open zine over plants. PAGE ONE panel 1: cut up the strawberries into small pieces. Panel 2: (You can sneak a few bites, I won’t judge) Panel 3: Then put the goods into the blender in this order: 1. Strawberries 2. Vanilla 3. Milk. And then add as much honey as you want for sweetness. PAGE 2 Panel 1: then blend it together until it’s somewhat smooth, no lumps. This may take a few minutes. Panel 2: pour into a cute glass. Panel3: then enjoy!

ITS HERE! My mini zine for my strawberry milk zine! Best part: they won’t spoil in your fridge because it’s made of paper!

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i feel just slightly on edge and havent been sleeping properly but otherwise my physical health is whelmingly okay so everything will be okay

vacillating btwn sleepy and anxious this whole past week........never drinking alcohol again tbh..... (single of whiskey gave me anxiety again last weekend! wheeehee)

Be gentle with your loved ones.

itty bitty #ofthunderandlightning

Happy Caturday… 🐱
#caturday #bluesky

Getting back into the swing of things. I'm inexplicably happy with how this panel turned out.

Day 7: Adoration

secretary bird clown #soulsov

NANCY by Olivia Jaimes, where Nancy says Cartoonist is the best type of artist

it's pallid woman pwednesday. play the free demo of soul of sovereignty and meet this pallid woman. btw, she's "pallid" because she becomes your "pal" and nothing bad happens gigidigi.itch.io/soulsov #soulsov

Finally took some photos of the riso prints I made!! I love how they turned out :^))

Three panels featuring an adult rat with a toddler age mouse on his lap. They are looking at a photo album together. Dialogue: Baby mouse: Papa you used to have red hair!? Rat: Well, my hair doesn't grow in that color naturally. I used a special paint called hair dye to color it red. Baby mouse: why? Rat: I didn't want people to make fun of me for having blue hair.

Two panels of a young mouse sitting on an adult rat's lap. Dialogue: Baby mouse: So why's your hair gray now? Rat: I dyed it gray so I could look cute like you. Baby mouse: Dads can't be cute! Rat: Really? Aw.

Hair to dye for