Animator/cartoonist/painter Milton Knight (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Cool World, Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat) is a dear friend of mine and is in desperate need for financial help. Please consider helping him out via his GoFundMe page…
Yup, one and the same. He’s one of my all-time favorites, up there with Ralph Bakshi, Herge and Bill Watterson – It’s absolutely damn infuriating that anyone has to go through this, not even mentioning the fact that the dude’s a pretty big deal. He’s not only what I’d call one of the most significant cartoonists of the early ‘90s for his contributions to Sonic the Hedgehog’s art direction as well as his comics, but also essentially one of the granddaddies of Youtube Poop and all the web culture that implies.
what the fuck, this is heart breaking–milton knight owns, pls support him if you can
The article is about four months old at this point and Milton’s GoFundMe is still close to $4,900 short of its goal:
This is kind of a soft request because I don’t want anyone to feel pressured. I’ll set up a ko-fi eventually.
My health hasn’t improved at all, this year. I know that’s been my excuse for not writing. Working 12+ hour days & not being able to do anything creative in my nearly non-existent free time.
*I got a scary kidney diagnosis (final stage renal failure)
*heart diagnosis was already hard enough ten years ago (congestive heart failure)
*ended up hospitalized twice in one month
*nobody knows why I’m throwing up so much (usually once a day. No pattern to help figure out why.)
*my mom… ugh. I started, this year, to try and get her to be more respectful of my time since I was paying most of the bills and working far above and beyond full time. She’s spent the past year keeping me from napping and waking me up screaming if I try to sleep in. Considering fatigue is a symptom of both my illnesses, this behavior is more than annoying. It’s torture and likely made me sicker. Once I stood up to her, she kicked me out. Now, I’m sick AND homeless. What a fun life. (Emotional abuse sucks.)
*mom’s cancer has gotten worse. That’s right. We threw all our resources into fighting it and it’s popping up in other places. …I guess I’m no longer helping deal with that. Can’t pretend I’m not scared, though.
*my stepdad had bypass surgery
*now my stepdad is having complications from bypass surgery
*my brain & memory are shot. Brain fog is real and every one I know would rather be mad than ask if I need help understanding them or reminders. (Sorry I say “huh” constantly.)
*I can’t do -anything- without nausea & a dizzy spell creeping up on me
*Food and I are just not meeting halfway. I’m constantly hungry and when I eat I know I’m going to get nauseated and throw it up, at some point
*I have lost 100 lbs from being sick. I’m weak & have no muscles. Standing up too long makes me wobbly.
I hate that I have to call myself out in order to arrange my thoughts, but I seriously don’t talk to most people 1on1 now because I know my confusion is annoying. I don’t need to be self-hating on top of all this other crap.
I’ve not been able to focus on art or writing after work for months and I’ve recently left my job to keep from getting fired.
So… I guess that brings me to the good things:
*A friend in another state is offering me free lodging so I can get some rest & try to heal. I just need enough money to move (which includes new tires for my car)
Please contribute if you can to my moving & phone fund. So, far, I think I’ve got an okay handle on medical bills. The hospital has put most of those on hold until I get benefits.
*My local friends have been sweethearts, letting me crash on floors and couches. Not the safest bet when one is fresh out of the hospital but definitely better than living in my car
*I no longer have jobs. I’m too tired and slow for them. …but I have time to start writing again. Any contributions you make toward keeping me online (phone bill) will get more fics published
Basically, there are about two options when it comes to Very Long Books, depending on the dimension of you bookshelf.
1) Push it as far back as possible into the shelf. The spine end is heavier than the leaves, so you want to make the center of gravity closer to the spine end. Make sure it’s well supported on either side with either other books or bookends.
2) Shelve it spine-down; all other rules apply regarding support.
However, the best way to shelve a long hardcover book?
Don’t.
Store it flat and fully supported, on a table or shelf.
Shelving a book that doesn’t fit on the shelf is asking for damage, either through natural warping or accidental bumping.
Thank you so much! This is actually super-helpful!
I can’t do coffee table or open storage with this many naughty cats around, and a lot of my shelves are the cheap kind that kid of bow in the middle over time, but I am pretty sure I can find a level place to lay it flat with only big flat books I barely use on or under it to prevent wear and tear.
Imagine that in every 1000 people, there is one complete fucking lunatic. And I don’t mean ‘are a little off’ I mean ‘imprint on characters so strongly they’d knife someone over them”
Complete fucking lunatics tend to feed on each other and form clusters that magnify their own lunacy and ability to do harm. So of course, a fandom with 1 lunatic is much less of a problem than a fandom with 1,000.
1. I was taught (in Washington State) that “garbage” is food waste, and “trash” is non-food. That’s why you have a garbage disposal, but a trash compacter.
2. In Massachusetts some people say “trash barrel” for any refuse container, even if it’s not remotely barrel-shaped.
3. You can read this image either as a dialect map, or a passing of judgement.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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