Apr 8, 2023

Consider helping out a struggling asian woman for women's history month.

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(Remaking my original donation post now that my head is more clear)

The past week has been extremely hellish for me and my mom as two of our cats died suddenly from FIV in spite of being vaccinated. Pictured above are the bills for the hospital stay, not including the burial fee and the vitamins/antibiotics we bought. In dollars it's about $210-ish. We now have no savings left to buy food or pay this month's bills, and we still have surviving neighborhood strays to feed and care for.

If you've ever enjoyed my art, please consider donating to help me me out of this financial pit. My goal is $1000, but I'd happily settle for $500. I've received $30 so far, so please if you can't donate at least consider spreading this. Every dollar helps.

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[4/9/23] hi so things got worse before it got better and i ended up having to step away from my blog for a bit. i still really need the money and received about $40 out of the $1000 i need. please, every single dollar counts. my ko-fi contains some exclusive content and wips if you’re interested.

Jul 1, 2023

Anytime i see a bunch of pride flags i have to restrain myself from saying "where mexico" bc i doubt anyone will know I'm referencing this

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picture i got at pride last week; here mexico

Jun 29, 2023

alright so during into the spider-verse's introduction to peter b. parker, we see his wedding, and he stomps on the wine glass right? this is a jewish wedding tradition, which makes this version of peter parker jewish (further confirmed in interviews -- however, i believe this is enough by itself). it's a nice nod to the jewish roots of the character.

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we get to see a bunch of peter parkers throughout the spider-verse films, and none of them have any explicit religious associations like peter b. parker. except for one!

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here we have gwen stacy's peter parker and aunt may, from earth-65, saying grace over a meal. from my understanding, this is generally a christian practice -- in judaism, we prefer to say short prayers before eating, and save the long, in-depth ones for afterwards. so to me, this was a clear example of the character being coded as christian. i was a little disappointed that they didn't make peter parker jewish here too, but since across the spider-verse discusses variants and the differences between instances of the same person between different universes, i interpreted this as a continued commentary on peter parker's ethnicity -- although he was initially jewish-coded and one of his two creators, stan lee, is jewish, this is often erased, especially in more modern interpretations of the character.

and then i remembered that this peter parker also literally turns into the lizard.

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and y'know what? good call on that one guys.

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