https://twitter.com/barksona/status/1653514138700726274?s=61&t=TdDOZebDugujtT1itfS9mw
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me and my wife desperately need help, I hate to ask this of anyone but if you could help us or at least please share this / make a journal linking back here / anything we would greatly greatly appreciate it

cash.app/$barksona

paypal.me/barksona

amazon.com/baby-reg/PWHFN8M6J1XJ

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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ THIS + HELP US

hello everyone, I really really didn't want to resort to begging for help but I am so completely beyond my limit in like every way.

TLDR I'm 31 weeks pregnant with a high stress, high risk pregnancy as a trans man and me + my wife (also trans) have no money and a lot of very stressful things on our plates. we really really really need money help but we also have a baby registry that we would appreciate donations on

since January:

me and my wife have had our car totaled at someone else's fault, got a pittance from insurance and managed to find a used car that immediately had a check engine problem. I also had to put it under my name and take out a new insurance policy which has been expensive and on top of that I got listed as at fault for the accident for insurance purposes and can't fight it without dedicating my life to it;

we got scary news about our baby's anatomy scan because they found a) ventriculomegaly b) a potential minor heart defect c) concern about brain structures d concern about fetal weight/growth. I had to get amniocentesis, a fetal echocardiogram, fetal MRI, and consult with a pediatric neurosurgeon for potential surgery. it has been so absolutely stressful for this alone but on top of that I developed gestational diabetes. I have been going to the doctor weekly and now need to go twice a week on top of therapy which puts stress on my car and gas tank and is exhausting;

we got covid literally the day of my amniocentesis and while I didn't get too sick my wife felt quite rough and is concerned she's having long covid symptoms that aren't being addressed. we also found out that the place she works at killed their covid pay program less than a month prior to her getting sick;

we are trying to move from our current living situation and will unfortunately have to pay twice as much for rent on top of extra bills and baby expenses!!! I have been struggling HARD to find any place remotely reasonable for what we need and we have been backed up against a wall until the very last minute. our family is fairly broke and wants to help us as much as they can but it can only go so far.

my wife had to take more than a week off of work due to either long covid or severe anxiety from everything that has been going on causing it to be dangerous for her to work, she's back at it now and medicated but it screwed us up for this month;

we put our tax return in a month ago and still haven't gotten it back, the IRS website says its still processing inexplicably but we were going to use our return to pay for our apartment security deposit and towards our rent this month due to being short from my wife taking off; and to really add insult to injury our power went out this morning and we had to toss like all of our refrigerated foods. we do not have money to replace them and most of it is stuff we just bought.

we are also very very worried about how my wife is going to take time off of work once the baby is born. FMLA in the USA is a joke and she doesn't qualify anyway. our best bet is simply to cover a months rent and hope for the best, but this is much easier said than done. I have been far too exhausted and stressed to work.

I have no idea how to quantify how much we need to be remotely safe or stable right now but it would probably literally be like $3000 or more and that's without car considerations. I'm here to beg for ANYTHING though because I feel like everything is falling apart around me and like we are going to end up homeless or having our baby ripped away from us.

moving out of state with family really isn't an option because of how my health insurance is set up and how delicate me and my baby's health are right now, not to mention being trans in the US is getting scarier by the day.

if you can spare ANYTHING please consider donating to

cash.app/$barksona

paypal.me/barksona 

https://www.amazon.com/baby-reg/PWHFN8M6J1XJ

if you have amazon prime (or not) and can buy us anything off of our registry we would also severely appreciate it

thank you so so much for reading

🌟 https://discord.gg/GXuC2ucm 🌟

come hang out on mic tonight (or not, I don't mind) and enjoy a beautiful classic resplendent ogre film w me!!
I wanna hop in early and do some doodles too!!

⭐️☁️ SKETCH COMMISSIONS ☁️⭐️

🌈 HEADSHOT $5
🌈 CHIBI $9
🌈 FULL BODY $15
🌈 FERAL $9
🌈 SCENE $30


⭐️☁️ LINELESS COMMISSIONS ☁️⭐️

🌈 CUSTOM DESIGN $20 ($5 off for artistic liberty)
🌈 CHIBI $20
🌈 REFERENCE $30 (includes chibi, 3 small details or one big extra detail, palette + name)

🌻 additional characters, complex designs, outfits, or poses may be more 🌻
🌻 furries, feral, and human/oids all okay 🌻
🌻 payment via Paypal USD
🌻 estimated finish time is between 1 - 2 weeks
🌻 buyer gets high res transparent image Google Drive link
🌻 for lineless commissions please choose between smooth or pixel style!

please DM me if interested!
my art tab is full of examples but here's some specific ones on my Twitter post!
[ TWITTER LINK ]

OKAY so sometimes I do little doodles or give stuff I'm not using away and that's all fine and dandy but I think I want a solid set of rules in place to link to. A link to this will be available on all the little freebie designs permissions pages!
I don't want to be all "ooh I have a scary set of rules" but I do need to lay down some boundaries.

RULES:
1) Do not expect first-come-first-serve. You don't need to write a ton about what you want them for or anything but I like to give designs away to new people, people with fewer characters, etc. Please feel free to write a bio or do a tiny doodle if you want! I just don't expect it and USUALLY will be "whoever got here first" about it.
2) Do not resell a free design without art or writing put into them.
3) Do not immediately (less than 3 days) sell or trade the character.
4) Do not name / describe a character (or any character) with harmful or offensive terms such as slurs or things like "cr*ckhead" or an awful mental illness stereotype. The amount of people I have blocked for this is bothersome.
5) Do not delete the character; if you're setting them to authorization only let me know please. If you're done with them and have done no art please relist them as a freebie OR send them back to me!
6) Please don’t get mad at me for not replying to everyone!!! I appreciate all the things people have to say I just get nervous repeating myself over and over and cluttering up comments with nothing important!

If I see anyone giving me trouble in these ways I won't hesitate to block or blacklist you. I really don't want it to come to that! Please don't be a jerk is all I really ask!

I’ve wanted to officially share these guys for a while but they got approved not too long ago!!
Charmies are a species by Dracononite, please check out the [toyhouse world] and [event bulletin]!

and without further ado here’s my guys:

LAVENDER: a floral scented plush pup

HERBERT: a literal down-to-earth tapir with a fun bug friend

DUNE: a real dude, a real guy, he likes the beach and he likes being there at night

TOAST: breakfasty grandpa dog

DOMINIK: a greyhound that leans into the edge

(unnamed): an opossum that loves snacks and fun things, specifically amusement parks

(unnamed): a penguin that loves frozen treats and the cold

✨ DESIGN PREFERENCES ✨

this isn’t hard and fast or at all required!
I mostly wanted to have a concise list of things I enjoy / don’t enjoy for ideas when trading or getting customs!
at the bottom I will also include a list of some of my current favorite designers + artists!



🟦 - favorite!
🟩 - great!
🟨 - not my usual thing; tentative!
🟥 - please avoid!



🟦🟦🟦
- saber toothed cats (I’m collecting em!!) / other machairodonts
- dinosaurs
- prehistoric animals
- lions
- aliens
- plants and mushrooms
- warm brown palettes
- grey palettes with unnatural accents
- greens, blues, yellows, off-whites


🟩🟩🟩
- dogs (especially specific breeds)
- wolves
- big + small + domestic cats
- horses
- dragons
- monsters
- androids
- robots
- snails
- simple-shaped, object or objecthead designs
- fat characters (not fat fetish)
- trans characters (not trans fetish)
- spots (rosettes, merle, polka dots, all of em)
- stripes (tiger/zebra/natural preferred)
- natural palettes / designs / markings
- unnatural palettes
- natural palettes with unnatural accents
- gold / silver accents
- space themed
- certain closed species (primera, gatordogs, grem2, daiten, etc)


🟨🟨🟨
- humans / human-like people (orcs, elves, etc)
- human-like monsters (centaurs, sphinx, harpies, etc)
- reptiles / amphibians
- fish / cetaceans
- arthropods
- birds
- rabbits
- strictly feral characters
- emo dogs
- thin characters
- big horns
- long hair
- pastel palettes
- near-black palettes
- really complex designs
- painterly style markings / references
- gradients
- most closed species
- most open species
- some fan characters (yoshis, chao, TLK lions, etc)


🟥🟥🟥
- trans fetish
- fat fetish
- culturally appropriative characters (“tribal” characters are big here, hence the mention)
- neon / very saturated palettes (accents ok!)
- sergals
- most fan characters (Steven Universe gems, MLP ponies, etc)
- scpkid, vintagecoyote, barley / hoot designs or bases

✨ DESIGNER PREFERENCES ✨

I personally don’t like how commodified the character trading scene has become with an emphasis on designers SO it doesn’t matter that much to me! also there are tons of lesser known artists out there making designs and I want to support these people too!
BUT... here’s some designers I enjoy!

- thekingtheory
- vhsdruid
- coywolfy
- finxh
- kingstooth / kingsteeth
- gatorbite / gatorstooth
- dracononite
- lyresandharps
- hydrabones
- chim
- crittervalley
- autumn
- chewzers
- plushpon
- neopit
- kindkeanu
- contrabeast
- bierd / bierdz
- surli