CREEPY CUTIES is LIVE!

My 6th hard enamel pin project just launched today! It's for lovers of "creepy" pets like snakes, rats, spiders, isopods, and the like.

If you back the project in the first 48 hours you can get discounted rates, free stickers, AND (for backers at 3+ pins) a free glow-in-the-dark mini pin!

Plus there's a fun twist for the stretch goals: YOU the backer get to choose what unlocks when via polls!

And if you love body horror, be sure to check out my Pintopia 2024 collab partner's campaign too. If you back both our projects for a physical reward, you'll get TWO extra pins FREE! Click their banner below:

We're both over 60% funded in the first 2 hours. This is Oleander's first pin project ever and my first in 3 years, so I'm really hoping these both make it. 🙏 Neither of us can afford fancy videos or ad campaigns, so it would mean the world if you could spread the word!

More good news!! So far we've unlocked:

And as of time of writing this, it's only $51 away from unlocking the Blue-Tongued Skink pin too!! Will you help us push that over the edge?

Also, I've just announced my plan for what to do once all 11 pets are unlocked: colorways! AKA alternate versions, these might include morphs like the blue rat, mojave GHI ball python, bumblebee millipede, Panda King isopod, albino superconda hognose, aberrant stripe Cali kingsnake, and more!

Pledge to CREEPY CUTIES today to see these and more become real pins!

[ID: A digital drawing of Cassiopeia, a cute brown tabby cat. She is sitting and looking upwards with her big eyes. End description.]

A kofi doodle for @defilerwyrm!

You can request a doodle on my kofi!

MY BABY GIRL 💜💜💜💜💜

Project 2025

If this sounds bad to you, please remember to vote Democrat up and down your ballot from President to the most local elected official

and Mobilize and volunteer this year, any amount of work helps

louis and daniel: have a devastating meditation on the night they first met leading to a series of revelations that produce a plethora of questions about a lack of agency in their past lives

armand:

There’s this guy in town who owns this little house, and a while back he rescued a street dog that was going to get put down. Turned out she was pregnant.

Problem is, he has mental health & drug issues and couldn’t afford to get them all spayed & neutered, so now there are 6 grown bitches with 15 puppies total, and they’ve dug under his fence in multiple places but he can’t afford to fix it so they go roaming all around town. (When I say can’t afford it, I mean his house is currently running on a generator because he can’t afford his electric bill.) He’s also a day laborer so he cannot take multiple full days off work to take them to the vet an hour away. He’s in a really rough spot.

He’s not a bad person. He’s just overwhelmed.

And this little conservative town with 6 churches for 300 people, have they tried to help their neighbor? Have they adopted the puppies he’s been trying to give away? Have they offered resources?

NOPE! All they wanna do is talk shit about him and complain about the dogs but never lift a finger of their own. And they come to his house to yell at him and cuss him out about the dogs, which does not exactly engender in him a cooperative attitude, as you might imagine.

So after a while of this going on, my mom gets fed up with all the NIMBY bullshit and starts talking to the guy, because she’s done animal rescue for 20-odd years and has Connections. He’s resistant at first, but when he realizes she’s not being an asshole to him on account of his addiction or the dogs, he decides to let her help.

She gets to work organizing and networking. Finds a non-profit that will cover vaccinations, spay/neuter, and flea treatments for all the dogs. Talks the next-door neighbor into paying for materials to fix the fence, since this guy can do the work of it himself. Gets him in touch with another non-profit that will adopt out the adult dogs.

Less than 2 weeks after she decided to do something, all puppies have been to the vet, 10 puppies and 4 adult dogs have been adopted out, and the second non-profit is coming by next week to pick up the remaining 7 dogs to ship them out for adoption.

I’ve learned a lot of things from my mom—some good, some bad—but I think the most important positive message she lives as an example of is this: sometimes, when something needs done and no one else is willing, you gotta stand up and say “I’ll do it.”

Li'l update: first, work complete, the dogs are all taken care of and now it's on to the fence!

Second, I read reblog tags on my posts as a pastime, and I've noticed the Terry Pratchett fans likening my mom to a Discord witch. I haven't read the books myself, so I went looking to find out why the analogy, and found this quote from one of his witch characters:

Yeah. That's it exactly.

Third, I wrote this without Mom's knowledge, but i decided to tell her I about this the other night. The Discworld thing. The quote I found. The lovely tags of praise and the hopeful tags of emulation.

She got a bit choked up. She says thank you. It really means a lot. 💜

Also ETA: Mom stopped going to church over a decade ago, but she is Christian herself. It's just she's a lot more concerned with following the actual biblical teachings of Jesus—give back to the community, help those in need, practice radical empathy, you know, love thy neighbor as thyself—than she is with Old Testament rabbinical law or performing piety in public. Ironically, following her religion better than most of those around here who never miss a Sunday.

Happy pride

It finds him in his dreams, hungry and wicked and as hypnotic as a riptide.

Island of Dr Moreau TTRPG Kickstarter

we've officially hit our funding goal for our Island of Dr Moreau RP! It's got 4 days left- check it out -

If you like tabletop RPGs, themes of transformation, disability, medicine, collective power, state authority, love, loss, and death, and a collaborative storytelling that lets you and a group of friends take over a cast of characters check it out! Great for table play or online community RP!

— C. Fred Alford, What Evil Means to Us

To be loved is to be changed

I've been on tumblr so long that I just got breaking news from a source that wasn't the Destiel meme, and it felt surreal.

For those who need the meme:

Strahd Zarovich, Chosen of the Dark Powers