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Photoset reblogged from THAT THING YOU DREW

HOLIDAY COMMISSIONS ARE NOW ON!

Through an unfortunate (or fortunate) project delay, my schedule for the next two months has become much more open. I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to do commissions this year, but now I can! Do you want one?

Here’s how it breaks down:

5x7 B/W Illustration - $40

8x10 B/W Illustration - $75

8x10 Color Print + Lineart - $100

11x14 Color Print + Lineart - $120

Click the one you want to go to my store, check out more examples and order!

I’m going to be taking these through the first week of December so that I can get them mailed out in time for the holidays.

Please help me get the word out and share this! Thanks everyone!

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Photoset reblogged from Geologise.

ikenbot:

Hurricane Sandy’s Caribbean Devastation

Hurricane Sandy’s toll in the Caribbean amounts to at least 69 dead, thousands homeless and few funds available to rebuild. Yet, the Caribbean carnage remains largely behind the scenes as media spotlight focuses on the US.

Sandy took the lives of 52 people in Haiti, 11 in Cuba, two in the Bahamas, two in the Dominican Republic, one in Jamaica and one in Puerto Rico. In light of the difficulty to rebuild in some of the impoverished areas of the Caribbean, especially Haiti, the United Nations will be appealing for emergency aid. “Haiti is trying to get its house in order, but each time disaster strikes, the progress is interrupted,” head of the UN’s office for the co-ordination of humanitarian affairs Johan Peleman told The Guardian. “This country is exposed to devastating consequences by each storm. With every burst of rain, entire mountains are washed away.”

Haiti was the worst hit

Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas took direct hits as Sandy approached them as a Category 1 and 2 storm.

However, the majority of deaths and the most extensive damage fell upon Haiti, already devastated by the 2010 earthquake. The storm passed to the west of the country, but dumped more than 20 inches (51cm) of rain in 24 hours, causing rivers to overflow.

The damage is especially significant there because the country already had about 400,000 homeless since the deadly earthquake. Now 200,000 more had been added to the list because of Sandy. During the storm nearly 17,800 people had to move to 131 temporary shelters.

Haitian Ministry of Agriculture official Jean Debalio Jean-Jacques announced that Hurricane Sandy destroyed 70 per cent of the crops in southern Haiti and caused widespread deaths of livestock. “We are facing a major crisis,” stated Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe. On top of all that, Haiti was also emerging from the aftermath of Tropical Strom Isaac, which hit the country in August, and a cholera epidemic that killed thousands and afflicted more than half a million people.

The Haitian government fears that the post-Sandy devastation may increase the number of cholera cases. Eighty-six new cases of cholera have already been reported in the last month and more are expected. The cholera outbreak began in October 2010 and many of the victims were from refugee camps established to host those who lost their houses in the quake.

More destruction

Sandy reached Jamaica last Wednesday as a Category 1 storm, killing one person, leaving dozens of families homeless and causing at least $16.5 million in damage, according to the country’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller. “Even before the hurricane we faced serious economic challenges. This has been made worse by the passage of Hurricane Sandy,” Simpson Miller said.

The storm then hit Cuba early Thursday as a Category 2 hurricane, killing 11 in Santiago and Guantanamo provinces, causing 5,000 buildings to at least partially collapse and 30,000 others to lose their roofs. In addition, Sandy damaged essential crops including banana, coffee, bean and sugar. Public buildings such as schools and hospitals were also damaged. Then as the storm turned to the Bahamas, it killed two people, toppled power poles and flooded streets.

In Puerto Rico the storm killed one person on Friday and forced 100 families to evacuate from their homes to seek shelter elsewhere.

In the Dominican Republic more than 18,100 people had to be evacuated as the storm destroyed bridges and isolated at least 130 communities. Flooding and heavy rains had damaged about 3,500 homes.

Difficulty repairing damage

Former secretary general of the Association of Caribbean States Norman Girvan strongly believes that other parties should pitch in to make the reconstruction possible.

“We should look at the Caribbean, because the hurricane has had an impact on Jamaica and Cuba and Haiti. One would like to see some form of Caricom [Caribbean Community] response to the severe infrastructural damage and human damage done in these countries, which unfortunately does not attract as much media attention as that in the US,” he told The Guardian. It will be very difficult for Haiti to rebuild on its own. “We’ll have famine in the coming days,” Kechner Toussaint, mayor of Abricots, a hard-hit community on Haiti’s Southwestern tip, told BET. “It’s an agricultural disaster.”

Also, John Chaloner at the charity Plan International told The Independent that in recent months there had been “demonstrations sparked by rising food prices”. Faced with food shortages and a wider cholera outbreak, Haiti is at risk of not only failing to restore itself, but falling deeper into destruction and even civil unrest unless help arrives.

Article via RT

tl;dr: “Dear mainstream media, Sandy fucked us up too.” — Your’s not truly, the Caribbeans

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Photo reblogged from keeping track of the internet

jeweledlight:

GATech has a statue of Dean Griffin, the first Dean of Students on campus and when it gets cold people put their hats and scarves on him.

This morning he was dressed a little differently (perfectly).

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Quote reblogged from Effective.

My mistrust [of men] is not, as one might expect, primarily a result of the violent acts done on my body, nor the vicious humiliations done to my dignity. It is, instead, born of the multitude of mundane betrayals that mark my every relationship with a man—the casual rape joke, the use of a female slur, the careless demonization of the feminine in everyday conversation, the accusations of overreaction, the eye rolling and exasperated sighs in response to polite requests to please not use misogynist epithets in my presence.

(via ceedling)

(Source: shakesville.com)

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Photo reblogged from k

stfuconservatives:

radically-jazzy submitted: Original Post:

Dear friends who are thinking about voting for Mitt Romney,

When you read about his or his surrogates’ comments about gays, replace “gays” with my name.

Examples:

Devynn shouldn’t be allowed to marry.
Devynn getting married is a threat to families.
Devynn cannot be a good parent.
Devynn doesn’t love, it’s only lust.
Devynn is ‘fixable’ with electroshock therapy and psychological torture.
Devynn is what is wrong with this country.
If Devynn can marry, we should just let people marry animals.
Being Devynn is a choice.

Im not saying I’m gay or anything, but what if I was? Would all of those statements be right. The ‘gay movement’ is about people who are in love and want to spend their lives together. It’s about legal recognition and protection of my commitment to another person.

There are a lot of issues out there, but this is one I will never let go.

I cannot vote for someone who sees some Americans as second-class citizens. I can’t vote for someone who doesn’t believe in equal rights for all people. I hope you realize that by voting for Mitt Romney you are saying ‘Don’t want you to be happy’ and ‘your love is less then my love’