Yesterday was a bit of a promo blast. I also added Engelbaum to the Top Web Comics List. It’s one of those rankings sites (yeah so retro, lol). But we went from
14133 to 385 overnight. Could you guys be extra bossness and click vote on the comic here? I think it lets you vote every 24 hours. But every vote pushes the comic up the rankings and gets us more visibility along with the big names. Showing you have an active community is really crucial with webcomics so you’d be helping out a lot just by clicking the button :)
Signal boosting for Engelbaum which is, frankly, superb, and any other web comics that you like that are in this list! Go give ‘em some love people these things are great for introducing new comics for people to read :D
“Don Bluth and Gary Goldman are coming together once again to bring the classic arcade game Dragon’s Lair to the big screen. We are seeking your help to create a pitch to make Dragon’s Lair, the Movie through a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign. Dragon’s Lair continues to be loved by millions around the world since 1983, and fans have been waiting patiently to see Dirk and Daphne at it again. Join us in this adventure as we prepare to bring Dragon’s Lair to a new generation.
We’ve worked on ‘20’ successful animation motion pictures, some of them “iconic”, The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go To Heaven and Anastasia to name a few.‘”
Indivisible has 30 days left and hasn’t even reached even a fourth of it’s goal in the eleven days it’s been up. For those of you who aren’t aware, Lab Zero has invested their time and personal money into this game with the bet that the Indiegogo campaign goes through. If this game doesn’t get funded, it would mean bankruptcy for the Lab Zero crew and they would all have to part ways. There’s a playable demo that was made available on the website for the game which you can try here. Even if you aren’t able to support the campaign, spread the news and let people know about the game. This is one hell of a project and the publisher has only agreed to match the donations under the conditions that the goal is even met. So, try the prototype, check out the artwork and the love the team put into it and try to spread the word and/or donate.
Today is the last day to SAVE THE BBC!! In case you didn’t know, the BBC, which brought you, the internet, such things as Sherlock, Cabin Pressure, Doctor Who, Monty Python, The Great British Bake Off, and millions of other wonderful things, is facing massive budget cuts and reorganisation. The body considering these changes wants to hear from the general public, which means YOU, what the BBC means to you and what you want it to be going forward. You can either fill out a survey (you don’t have to answer every question) or write an email to BBCCharterReviewConsultation@culture.gov.uk. The consultation period ends today (Thursday, October 8th) at midnight UK time, which is 7:00PM Eastern/4:00PM Pacific if you’re living in North America.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make your voice heard!! Even if you only write a line or two, tell them what you think! And spread the word!
Western Hemisphere reblog! If you’re at work, just dash off a quick email, it’s better than doing nothing …
it’s ridiculous that this is even happening, but it is, and you can do something about it!
please, help the BBC keep making the magic happen
(also apparently the survey takes 20 minutes and some people find it biased and annoying so maybe go with the email option if you can :Tb sorry)
I am accepting e-mail reservations for painted illustrations. Reservations come with thumbnail sketches free of charge. They will be available towards the end of the month.
Forgot to update this yesterday and unlock the last tier, painted commissions are now open!
Does anyone have some serious help/advice for what i can do/what to do to help get someone out of an abusive relationship? She keeps defending him even though his abusivness is eacalating and im seriously scared for her life right now.
signal boost! does anyone have any good information on this sort of thing?
Im quite broke (no surprise there, who isnt lol) since Tetris (one of my cats with chronical kidney disease) have had to go to some extra vet visits and is now on medicine for everyday for the rest of his life (for his high bloodpressure) it has cost me a bit extra yay.
Also Im moving by the end of the month for 2 reasons, first because I need to get the hell away from the bedbugs that been pestering my life for like, I dont know anymore, last 6 months or more? That means throwing away a lot of furnitures to be sure I dont bring any bugs with me to the new flat, so it will be pretty empty in the new flat, but I dont care, its mostly just a bed I want to be able to buy soon x) The rest I´ll save up to eventually.
And second, I need my own place badly, living in my ex´s flat since we broke up just is not the greatest thing to do while you´re trying to move on with your life apperantly D: (he doesnt live here though ofc but its in his name which makes alot of things difficult for me as I try not to have contact with him anymore)
So yeh, I hope I can save up some money for this stuff and I would be very thankful if you could reblog this at least <3
It’s very safe here: we’re in Tennessee, in a perfect little house we are borrowing from a midwife who has gone out west to her son’s wedding. We are cooking, eating, catching up on our sleep. Amanda’s due in a week and her Nesting Instinct seems to be manifesting chiefly in trying to clean out her email inbox. She’s also cleaning, washing and folding baby clothes and clean towels. I’m writing a lot, enjoying the lack of cell-phone connection, and the lack of internet connection, and getting things written without distraction. (I wrapped the first draft of a script on Thursday, wrote a preface to SANDMAN:OVERTURE on Friday.) We’ve felt like a couple for a long time. We’re starting to feel like a family.
And the safety feels very fragile, and like something to be treasured.
There’s a photo I’m not going to post. You’ve probably seen it already: it shows Aylan Kurdi, a three year old Syrian refugee, dead on a beach in Greece. It made me cry, but I know I’m overly sensitive to bad things happening to small children right now. I’m reacting as if he’s family.
In May of last year I was in a refugee camp in Jordan. I was talking to a 26 year old woman who had miscarried her babies in Syria when the bombs started falling. She had made it out of Syria, but her husband had left her for another woman he hoped would give him babies. We spoke to women eight months’ pregnant who had just walked through the desert for days, past the dead and dismembered bodies of people fleeing the war, like themselves, who had been betrayed by the smugglers who had promised them a way to freedom.
I gained a new appreciation for the civilisation I usually take for granted. The idea that you could wake in the morning to a world in which nobody was trying to hurt you or kill you, in which there would be food for your children and a safe place for your baby to be born became something unusual.
Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon have, between them, taken in millions of Syrian refugees. People who fled, as you or I would flee, when remaining in the places they loved was no longer possible or safe.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has made a plea to Europe that you should read (and insist that whoever represents you also read) at http://www.unhcr.org/55e9459f6.html
The only ones who benefit from the lack of a common European response are the smugglers and traffickers who are making profit from people’s desperation to reach safety. More effective international cooperation is required to crack down on smugglers, including those operating inside the EU, but in ways that allow for the victims to be protected. But none of these efforts will be effective without opening up more opportunities for people to come legally to Europe and find safety upon arrival. Thousands of refugee parents are risking the lives of their children on unsafe smuggling boats primarily because they have no other choice.
The UN Refugees Agency wrote about words, and how they matter. In this case, the word migrants and refugees: they don’t mean the same thing, and have very different meanings in terms of what a government’s obligations are to them. http://www.unhcr.org/55df0e556.html
One of the most fundamental principles laid down in international law is that refugees should not be expelled or returned to situations where their life and freedom would be under threat… Politics has a way of intervening in such debates. Conflating refugees and migrants can have serious consequences for the lives and safety of refugees. Blurring the two terms takes attention away from the specific legal protections refugees require. It can undermine public support for refugees and the institution of asylum at a time when more refugees need such protection than ever before. We need to treat all human beings with respect and dignity. We need to ensure that the human rights of migrants are respected. At the same time, we also need to provide an appropriate legal response for refugees, because of their particular predicament.
It’s worth making sure that people are using the right words. A lot of the time they don’t realise there’s a difference between the two things, or that refugees have real rights – the rights you would want, if you were forced to leave home.
A lot of people have been asking me about ways that we as individuals can change things for the better for refugees: there’s an excellent article in the Independent about practical things you can do to help or make a difference.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is feeding and housing and housing and helping literally millions of refugees around the world, always with the eventual goal of getting them safely home one day. Their funding comes from governments and private individuals all over the world. But this crisis has stretched them thin. You can help.
With your support, UNHCR will provide assistance such as:
Deliver rescue kits containing a thermal blanket, towel, water, high nutrient energy bar, dry clothes and shoes, to every survivor;
Set up reception centres where refugees can be registered and receive vital medical care;
Provide temporary emergency shelter to especially vulnerable refugees;
Help children travelling alone by providing specialist support and care.
As I said on this blog when I came back from visiting the camps:
I came away from Jordan ashamed to be part of a race that treats its members so very badly, and simultaneously proud to be part of the same human race as it does its best to help the people who are hurt, who need refuge, safety and dignity. We are all part of a huge family, the family of humanity, and we look after our family.
