Please Help Alfred

✨Please Help Alfred ✨

Hi everyone, not an art update but a friend update. My friend Alfred Coleman, who you may know better as PaperboxHouse, (who you may know better as the “Eggman Announcement” guy) is in serious trouble. 

In the past month I’ve taken him to the ER three times. He’s been suffering from serious stomach pain and anxiety, and he hasn’t been able to keep down a full meal in almost a month. He’s suffering from malnutrition, and he hasn’t been able to take care of himself. Yesterday morning I picked him up from endoscopy surgery, and the hospital discharged him when he was obviously still unwell. He was too weak to walk, and couldn’t even get back in his apartment. I took him to a different hospital to hopefully receive better treatment.

While in the emergency room, I was able to set up a ko-fi page for him to help pay for any medical expenses. This new hospital has already been treating him much better so far, and he finally is being monitored overnight instead of being dismissed like he has been in the past. My only worry is that he would be unable to afford his new treatment, and that’s where you guys come in. 

Through some miracle, we’ve already been able to raise over $47,000. That is insane. But it only proves how much he is well-loved, and what he means to the artist’s community. Alfred is one of my dearest, oldest friends, and if you could help with this cause, whether it’s through donation, or just sharing this post, it would mean the world to me. I’ve been keeping updates on the situation on the ko-fi page, with more minute to minute updates on my twitter. Thank you all for your support. 

Link to the ko-fi page

Honestly as a blind person I’m so tired of seeing fictional blind characters who don’t use white canes or other guides. “They have special powers so they know what’s around them” or “they’re confident enough to not need a guide” are common tropes, and I’m tired.

Are people scared that using a white cane will make their blind character seem weak? They can’t use a cane because they’re so special that they already know what’s around them, and other blind people who use guides are inferior because they’re not special?

I’m tired. Give your blind characters white canes and other guides. Let them hold onto their friends, let them have guide dogs. Don’t make white cane users feel ostracized for not being “strong enough” to go without.

Another thing that pisses me off is when a sighted character comes up with the fantasy equivalent of braille and teaches it to the blind character. Braille was invented by Louis Braille, a blind man, in 1824. The blind character should be the one coming up with it.

Tldr I’m blind and tired of sighted people lol

🔪 Sighted People MUST Reblog This 🔪

You really don’t realize how disconnected from reality rich people are until you have to work for them bro, like I just had a woman start crying because I told her that the leather recliners she wants to order would take 2 weeks to ship and she goes “We just finished our custom home theater room and I have a get together this weekend and I have kitchen chairs in there. do you have any idea what thats like?” HELLO????

BELARUS NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT 

Across the country they’re blocking Internet connections, protesters came out for a PEACEFUL protest to defend their voice and their right. People are tired of this dictator. Polling stations across the country publicly announced the results of voting to residents of these areas, and almost everywhere Svetlana is the winner. But officially, government representatives declare that 80% of the population SUPPORTS LUKASHENKO. This is not true. Our television and all media resources spread terrible and untrue information, calling the protesters bandits and accusing them of causing injuries to law enforcement officials. In fact, the police and all the armed forces last night used rubber bullets in all the cities of Belarus (this has never been used in the country before), water cannons, stun grenades, and so on. The President himself today brazenly lied and said that the police and others used rubber bullets only once. But according to unofficial data, more than 50 people are in hospitals with wounds, burns and other injuries.

Let's take a crack at it!

1. Edelgard von Hresvelg (Fire Emblem Three Houses)

2. Korra (The Legend of Korra)

3. Lillie (Pokemon)

4. Luxanna Crownguard (League of Legends)

5. Marinette Dupain Cheng (Miraculous Ladybug)

6. Aporou (Re: Monster)

7. Saitama (One Punch Man)

8. Orphea (Heroes of the Storm)

9. Jester (Critical Role)

10. Jaina Proudmoore (World of Warcraft)

Tagging @beefish123 @poikooze @zennore @lackadaisycats @anubis-005 and anyone else who might be interested in this. Have fun!

sdkjfn thanks to both @luv-ya-hun and @i-need-more-sleepzzz for the tag!! (and anyone else if i missed it!)

rules: list your ten favourite characters from ten different fandoms!  

1. Elmer (Newsies)

2. Sylvia (Finding Neverland)

3. Nina (Six of Crows

4. Saracen Rue (Skulduggery Pleasant)

5. Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)

6. Meg (Phantom of the Opera)

7. Sergio (Spies are Forever)

8. Lex (Black Friday)

9. Jack Skellington (Nightmare Before Christmas)

10. David (Fire Star)

Tagging: @cutesiewoojin @gendistic42 @haggstromi @newsies-hit-da-streets @thequeen-ofnewyork @just-call-me-nemesis and anyone else who wants to!! :3

Keep the fight going strong, my fellow Libtards