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In last year's Artfight, I only drew 7 things. This year, I've drawn 22... and the month has a few weeks left. Holy shit!!!!

I'm currently resting and aim at mostly doing revenges until my next days off, but come join me!

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I already knew that a lot of online stores have a certain price to qualify for free shipping. Today is a day off, so I'm requesting an online order at my job (making them do my job for me lol), and since I have free delivery that wouldn't be an issue. Except THEY have a minimum price or else you'll get a fee. I don't pay for shipping. But I would have to pay $7 for having an order under $35. So here I am, ordering some more food for the coming week just so I don't have to pay this. Jesus!!!

Look, at least it's all food and things I need. I have a con in 4 weeks so I can't spend any fun money until mid-August.

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I donated to Wikipedia just now because I don't think I can make a significant donation to any usual sites right now. I have a con next month on my birthday, so I'm setting paycheck money aside for that.

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So I made an account on Do Art Daily and did exactly that. But now it feels like a bad time because Art Fight has me burned out, and my work schedule was FINALLY changed so that I don't go in at 5am anymore. But I'm too physically exhausted to draw right now. I notice the quality of my AF attacks slowly degraded, and adjusting to a normal work schedule (8am now) has been weird. I naturally woke up at 4am this morning, it's 8:31pm and I'm already tired as if I'm going to wake up at 3:40am. I feel insecure about my art and I want to keep drawing for my streak, but ugh :(

A funny side effect is I forgot that DAD mostly has a userbase on 4chan's /ic/. So I decided to check their threads and I see that I've been put in various tierlists since I've appeared in submissions every day for the last few months. So far I haven't been name dropped, but general consensus seems to be I'm an average artist. I honestly don't really like the WIPs I post there lately, I could use some experimentation..... but I don't really care to draw anything else besides OCs / ponies or women lol. I'll see what happens I guess. I need to stop feeling so exhausted before July ends so I can do some revenges including human characters for AF. August is my birthday and the con, so... I'll see what happens then...

I probably mentioned this months ago but I got auto-banned from Reddit, my main account was randomly suspended so I deleted it. Then I made 2 new accounts, and they were automatically suspended. I generally use a VPN so I wonder if that's why, but one auto-banned account was on my normal IP. Reddit is fucking insane and stupid, I had to remake my account because I was sexually harassed in DMs a few times on my first account... But it was one of the few mainstream sites I used, and I've been really enjoying subs like r/Presidents and other niche things like Marapets has a sub. I'm also kind of desperate for a "normie" sanity haven when it comes to politics, I don't like Breadtubers but Contrapoint's ~hot take~ she got cancelled for (again) was so reasonable and it makes me wonder if I should be on that kind of space since I'm tired of tankies and conservatives. Sigh. I feel like people are judging me for not being "radical" or not conservative as I used to be, I'm tired of keeping up a LARP to look "cool".

Now I'm wondering if I make an account on the mobile app, would I get auto banned again? Fuck if I know. It's hard to just browse without an account.

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I stopped posting website updates on here because I'm on hiatus and fell out of investing in DW, but I did a write-up about Moshi Monsters and the movie here back in December. There's been a Kickstarter for the reboot going on for over a month, and... I don't think they're going to make it. It has a month and three days left and it hasn't even reached the base goal of funding... Kinda sad, honestly. I want to maybe throw some money at it to see if a reboot for adults is any better, but I'm debating on it. Like I outlined in my article, Mind Candy has a history of not being good with money.

What's funny though is I decided to write a review on the movie when it turned 11 last winter because I like it and wanted more people to know about it. Even zoomers who knew about Moshi Monsters were unaware of the movie. Lo and behold, Mind Candy has posted the full thing on Youtube to hype up their Kickstarter!

Watch on YouTube

(open in another window, I made the embed small so this won't break on mobile)

...Unfortunately, I don't think that's going to help fund it... This movie is very average and inaccessible to people who didn't play the game. But I thought it was cute and nicely animated... Good luck Moshi Monsters! I might throw $7 at it next paycheck and give more if it reaches the base goal before August. If the reboot really does happen I might make an account lol.

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This isn't going to be a Trump Derangement Syndrome blog. I just have little energy to write when I'm dedicating my time to drawing every day, and I got an interesting Substack article in my email from a weird dude with occasional decent takes this morning.

I'm Starting to Feel Pity for MAGA

I’ve written about this before, but I sincerely miss the Republicans of olde. They had their virtues (skepticism of centralized authority) and their blind spots (a gullible exemption on the topic of cops and the military). But at least you could map their thinking beyond cultish mantras.

When MAGA sauntered on the scene, it was apparent there was no there beyond: Whatever Trump says (plus hating foreigners & vaccines). Even on subjects where we found nominal agreement, I couldn’t get them to apply their criticism consistently. When they complained about Hunter Biden’s nepotistic Burisma gig, I was right there with them! Even the smell of corruption is noxious! But ask them to apply that same standard to Trump’s entire family enterprise and LOOOOOL

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I used to think shame would be our savior, but now I think it’s what will bury us. They’re too ashamed of being conned to admit they were conned — trapped in a cycle where acknowledging the truth feels worse than continuing the lie. So they double down, seeking compensation for personal failings by outsourcing their rage, letting someone else wield their anger while he picks their pockets during the fireworks show.

I used to have enmity for the MAGA movement, but now I just have pity. They’ve chosen to humiliate themselves so thoroughly, so completely, that anger feels almost cruel. Like kicking someone who’s already prostrate in their own filth.

I just wish this movement humiliated themselves on their own time and in their own corner, without dragging us down with them.

Granted, I don't pity them. They're willful idiots who are getting what they deserve.

( rambling )

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I Don't Grieve His Hatred, Trump Supporter, I Grieve Yours.

And though all of these things are undoubtedly emboldened by him and encouraged by him and celebrated by him—that is not the source of my despair. It is the reality that all of this vicious, toxic, filth that we are infected with today is something you are largely fine with. The unapologetic hatred is not alarming or discomforting enough to you to move you to action or to speak against it.

Oh sure, you might inwardly twinge with discomfort at one or two of the most egregious offenses, but by and large, you're good with it all.

With your silence as much as with your volume, you show me you are more with him than you are against him, that you are more like him than different from him, and that you and I are increasingly morally incompatible.

So yes, his ascendence has been a raking light illuminating everything hidden, and I am seeing you and so many of those who share this country with me with heartbreaking clarity.

That is why I grieve, friend.

That is why I don't see America or my church or my neighborhood or my family the same anymore, and I'm not sure I ever will again.

The greatest tragedy to me isn't him. It isn't the reality that the person in the highest seat of power in our nation lacks a single benevolent impulse, that he is impervious to compassion, incapable of nobility, and mortally allergic to simple kindness.

The greatest tragedy is how many Americans he now represents—and that he represents you.

That’s where the sadness is and why I mourn the loss of the people like you, whom I once thought I knew.

Long after he is gone, that grief will remain.

I feel like the other worst part is I've grown to hate people more since 2016 and again in this year. Bush and the recession already ruined my life, then there was the racist Tea Party / birther theory lunatics during Obama, which was the tipping point to all of this. This old Livejournal post probably looks like hyperbole, but I remember all of those claims being said in real life. I wasn't even a fan of Obama, but nobody cares about the facts. People in cults never do.

If there's one thing I've learned in the last 15 years, is to NEVER write off lunatics off as "a vocal minority". That's literally how they won.

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