Hiya you can call me Chrono (I also go by Rainbowcat pretty much everywhere else). my main hyperfixations are Splatoon and The Vulture. I'm demiboy and I go by any pronouns. (I also like the color green! :D)
Fellow artists, please protect yourself from scams. This is a common starter for scams targetting artists. I was gonna lean into it a bit to get more material to demonstrate to you but it's already deleted, I cant message them.
I wanted to signal boost this situation. SpectroliteAAA, in the past known as WalkingMelonsAAA, is in serious need of help.
I have been extremely close with them since meeting them in 2017 (or 2018? A while!). Ten years I've known Spectrolite, and she is truly one of the most wonderful, kind, and talented people I have ever met. When money was tight on my end, or when life problems would come by way, she dropped everything and helped me through the worst of times. I, and everyone else who knows her, are genuinely, absolutely blessed to have had her in our lives.
This last year has been devastating for her. I have watched her go from financially secure, and thriving, to counting pennies to see if she could even afford food. We have had phone calls about her terror of being evicted, and it broke my heart to see someone I loved so much, hurting so badly.
I have the video here she posted on her youtube channel, and I also linked the GoFundMe. Below the keep reading line is information directly from the GoFundMe as well, describing the situation in full.
I know money is tight for everyone in this current hellscape, so if you can share, or post this around? I know she'd be grateful...!
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Thank you all for being here.
Hello everyone, thank you so much for coming to our GoFundMe. Our names are Alyssa, and Sabrina. We are a queer couple, who need immediate financial aid so that we do not become evicted, and thus threaten our lives into homelessness. We are artists that run our own merchandise businesses, and with the launch of the tariffs and the economic impacts within the United States of America, our businesses completely collapsed in May 2025. We have fought ceaselessly all of last year to try and adapt and bounce back, but all of our efforts have completely failed... We began to fall behind on rent last November, and was keeping up just enough to get us this far. However, as of last month in February, all of our resources depleted, and we are sinking very fast.
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What happened.
We are one of many people who are grossly effected with the current conditions of the United States. We are being targeted negatively by our country for being queer, losing Human Rights, and the rise of false information to dehumanize us for being transgender, yet, that isn't even what put us in this situation at all! We have been surviving So Much that we can't even stress about our freedoms being threatened. Our lives were completely destroyed over night do to Trump's decisions impacting the economy and thus our businesses, particularly with the start of the Tariffs. It has been downhill since.
These are our pools of income as with its history to illustrate the fall of our livelihoods.
The drop across all platforms is daunting.
After 10 years of making art our profession as independents, we understand how to be flexible and adaptable with ever changing business strategies, economic climates, trends, outreach, marketability etc. Having one pool of income falling through, is something we've experienced and have always managed to adapt too. Usually that is at the fault of the platform, or covid taking in-person conventions away. However, with every source of income both online and in-person, being not just down, but totally slashed to the degree that is being shown, it is clearly evident that these are impacts of the overarching economy that have no hint of leaving any time soon. It's especially evident, because we travel all over the country visiting many States to sell at conventions, and it is every single State, that is 60%-90% down on profits.
With inflation, and a corporate/capitalist rise in Art/Pop Culture Conventions, table costs to these events are becoming so expensive that we have lost the majority of our tour schedule. Last year we barley survived because we had 10 conventions, while this year for 2026, we were only able to keep 3... We cannot afford to renew tables that now cost $500-$1500+, when we made $1200 gross income at that convention. We cannot afford to fly to conventions because of the cost of flights are so high. Product both domestic because of inflation, and international outsourcing because of the trade war, have become so expensive that we cannot afford restock. Nor can we afford a sustainable quantity of inventory for new product to secure future income. Raising prices for our product to compensate for inflation, only brings lesser sales as well...
Alyssa has applied to 78 jobs, and Sabrina has applied to just as many, and yet we CANNOT find even an entry level position!... So many weeks and hours looking for such a solution, has thus far only proven to be a complete waste of time. Now with the debt so out of hand, getting a job well over minimum wage wouldn't even be enough to save us if one of us were hired a month ago! Doordashing where we live to find an immediate source of income, cannot keep us afloat either for the time it takes to make as little as $80 at peak times of the day. Alyssa tried opening commissions, but not only is it not sustainable, but her mental health has been so shot under all this stress, that Alyssa cannot accept anymore commissions. We jumped on doing our taxes Feb, and gave our tax information to our specialist March 5th, but we still have yet to receive our tax returns to apply for any kind of governmental assistance for financial aid or economic relief. Clearly, we cannot wait for either our tax specialist to finish our returns, nor the time of the application period on the State of Oregon to give us anything if we get approved.
Living like this with having no idea when/if it would end, we drained our savings, and maxed all our credit cards, hoping we'd bounce back to recovery! but things have only gotten worse, and after a year of fighting, we now have nothing left...
--------------------------------------------
What we need, and what to do.
Since May 2025, we believed perhaps this would be a rough patch that would turn around in a few months with some extra effort to adapt, so we did our best to try and fight for our 4 year rental lease. However, this has proven to become just our foreseeable future, and we cannot stay in our current rental. It is eating us alive. Every day has been a race against the clock anticipating next month's rent of $2700, and that is a ton of money when you aren't making nearly anything at all.
We moved into a TownHome March 2025 with the income we had prior to May 2025. We had the faith of a successful business that has proven stable and dependable for the last 10 years, even through the Covid Shutdown in 2020. Then just two months after moving into a place that was below our means, our rental suddenly became scarily WAY above our means. Everything we had worked so hard to achieve, was taken away instantly, immediately putting us in survival mode practically over night. We cannot stay in this rental. We must pay our debt, break the lease, and get out before our rental history is destroyed with an eviction. It is unsustainable, and with two months behind on rent, and a third around the corner, we can't make money to recover to pay that debt, ontop of breaking the lease, ourselves. This isn't even the money we technically need in addition, to find a new place to live after... We are in serious need of big help.
As is so common to the queer experience, Alyssa does not have any family to reach out too for help, aside from one charished member, her younger Sister with her inner family of 4 kids. Sabrina has some family, but they too are horribly effected by the economic state of our country and is barley surviving with little to give. Our chosen family with our friends and partners are in a similar position. We humbly approach anyone here willing to throw anything to help save us from homelessness, or spread the word on any platform or via word of mouth, to restart our lives in a small apartment that we can live in under these circumstances. We truly have nowhere else to turn, this GoFundMe is our last resort...
We are currently behind on rent by $5,268. In exactly a week from today starting April, it will become $7,968. Oh my...! That means, to get out, we need like... $10,000... to pay the debt, and break the lease. We are offering our deposit to the landlord, but that doesn't change the ridiculous amount of money we need to get ourselves out of this situation.
I wanted to signal boost this situation. SpectroliteAAA, in the past known as WalkingMelonsAAA, is in serious need of help.
I have been extremely close with them since meeting them in 2017 (or 2018? A while!). Ten years I've known Spectrolite, and she is truly one of the most wonderful, kind, and talented people I have ever met. When money was tight on my end, or when life problems would come by way, she dropped everything and helped me through the worst of times. I, and everyone else who knows her, are genuinely, absolutely blessed to have had her in our lives.
This last year has been devastating for her. I have watched her go from financially secure, and thriving, to counting pennies to see if she could even afford food. We have had phone calls about her terror of being evicted, and it broke my heart to see someone I loved so much, hurting so badly.
I have the video here she posted on her youtube channel, and I also linked the GoFundMe. Below the keep reading line is information directly from the GoFundMe as well, describing the situation in full.
I know money is tight for everyone in this current hellscape, so if you can share, or post this around? I know she'd be grateful...!
-----
Thank you all for being here.
Hello everyone, thank you so much for coming to our GoFundMe. Our names are Alyssa, and Sabrina. We are a queer couple, who need immediate financial aid so that we do not become evicted, and thus threaten our lives into homelessness. We are artists that run our own merchandise businesses, and with the launch of the tariffs and the economic impacts within the United States of America, our businesses completely collapsed in May 2025. We have fought ceaselessly all of last year to try and adapt and bounce back, but all of our efforts have completely failed... We began to fall behind on rent last November, and was keeping up just enough to get us this far. However, as of last month in February, all of our resources depleted, and we are sinking very fast.
--------------------------------------------
What happened.
We are one of many people who are grossly effected with the current conditions of the United States. We are being targeted negatively by our country for being queer, losing Human Rights, and the rise of false information to dehumanize us for being transgender, yet, that isn't even what put us in this situation at all! We have been surviving So Much that we can't even stress about our freedoms being threatened. Our lives were completely destroyed over night do to Trump's decisions impacting the economy and thus our businesses, particularly with the start of the Tariffs. It has been downhill since.
These are our pools of income as with its history to illustrate the fall of our livelihoods.
The drop across all platforms is daunting.
After 10 years of making art our profession as independents, we understand how to be flexible and adaptable with ever changing business strategies, economic climates, trends, outreach, marketability etc. Having one pool of income falling through, is something we've experienced and have always managed to adapt too. Usually that is at the fault of the platform, or covid taking in-person conventions away. However, with every source of income both online and in-person, being not just down, but totally slashed to the degree that is being shown, it is clearly evident that these are impacts of the overarching economy that have no hint of leaving any time soon. It's especially evident, because we travel all over the country visiting many States to sell at conventions, and it is every single State, that is 60%-90% down on profits.
With inflation, and a corporate/capitalist rise in Art/Pop Culture Conventions, table costs to these events are becoming so expensive that we have lost the majority of our tour schedule. Last year we barley survived because we had 10 conventions, while this year for 2026, we were only able to keep 3... We cannot afford to renew tables that now cost $500-$1500+, when we made $1200 gross income at that convention. We cannot afford to fly to conventions because of the cost of flights are so high. Product both domestic because of inflation, and international outsourcing because of the trade war, have become so expensive that we cannot afford restock. Nor can we afford a sustainable quantity of inventory for new product to secure future income. Raising prices for our product to compensate for inflation, only brings lesser sales as well...
Alyssa has applied to 78 jobs, and Sabrina has applied to just as many, and yet we CANNOT find even an entry level position!... So many weeks and hours looking for such a solution, has thus far only proven to be a complete waste of time. Now with the debt so out of hand, getting a job well over minimum wage wouldn't even be enough to save us if one of us were hired a month ago! Doordashing where we live to find an immediate source of income, cannot keep us afloat either for the time it takes to make as little as $80 at peak times of the day. Alyssa tried opening commissions, but not only is it not sustainable, but her mental health has been so shot under all this stress, that Alyssa cannot accept anymore commissions. We jumped on doing our taxes Feb, and gave our tax information to our specialist March 5th, but we still have yet to receive our tax returns to apply for any kind of governmental assistance for financial aid or economic relief. Clearly, we cannot wait for either our tax specialist to finish our returns, nor the time of the application period on the State of Oregon to give us anything if we get approved.
Living like this with having no idea when/if it would end, we drained our savings, and maxed all our credit cards, hoping we'd bounce back to recovery! but things have only gotten worse, and after a year of fighting, we now have nothing left...
--------------------------------------------
What we need, and what to do.
Since May 2025, we believed perhaps this would be a rough patch that would turn around in a few months with some extra effort to adapt, so we did our best to try and fight for our 4 year rental lease. However, this has proven to become just our foreseeable future, and we cannot stay in our current rental. It is eating us alive. Every day has been a race against the clock anticipating next month's rent of $2700, and that is a ton of money when you aren't making nearly anything at all.
We moved into a TownHome March 2025 with the income we had prior to May 2025. We had the faith of a successful business that has proven stable and dependable for the last 10 years, even through the Covid Shutdown in 2020. Then just two months after moving into a place that was below our means, our rental suddenly became scarily WAY above our means. Everything we had worked so hard to achieve, was taken away instantly, immediately putting us in survival mode practically over night. We cannot stay in this rental. We must pay our debt, break the lease, and get out before our rental history is destroyed with an eviction. It is unsustainable, and with two months behind on rent, and a third around the corner, we can't make money to recover to pay that debt, ontop of breaking the lease, ourselves. This isn't even the money we technically need in addition, to find a new place to live after... We are in serious need of big help.
As is so common to the queer experience, Alyssa does not have any family to reach out too for help, aside from one charished member, her younger Sister with her inner family of 4 kids. Sabrina has some family, but they too are horribly effected by the economic state of our country and is barley surviving with little to give. Our chosen family with our friends and partners are in a similar position. We humbly approach anyone here willing to throw anything to help save us from homelessness, or spread the word on any platform or via word of mouth, to restart our lives in a small apartment that we can live in under these circumstances. We truly have nowhere else to turn, this GoFundMe is our last resort...
We are currently behind on rent by $5,268. In exactly a week from today starting April, it will become $7,968. Oh my...! That means, to get out, we need like... $10,000... to pay the debt, and break the lease. We are offering our deposit to the landlord, but that doesn't change the ridiculous amount of money we need to get ourselves out of this situation.
I wanted to signal boost this situation. SpectroliteAAA, in the past known as WalkingMelonsAAA, is in serious need of help.
I have been extremely close with them since meeting them in 2017 (or 2018? A while!). Ten years I've known Spectrolite, and she is truly one of the most wonderful, kind, and talented people I have ever met. When money was tight on my end, or when life problems would come by way, she dropped everything and helped me through the worst of times. I, and everyone else who knows her, are genuinely, absolutely blessed to have had her in our lives.
This last year has been devastating for her. I have watched her go from financially secure, and thriving, to counting pennies to see if she could even afford food. We have had phone calls about her terror of being evicted, and it broke my heart to see someone I loved so much, hurting so badly.
I have the video here she posted on her youtube channel, and I also linked the GoFundMe. Below the keep reading line is information directly from the GoFundMe as well, describing the situation in full.
I know money is tight for everyone in this current hellscape, so if you can share, or post this around? I know she'd be grateful...!
-----
Thank you all for being here.
Hello everyone, thank you so much for coming to our GoFundMe. Our names are Alyssa, and Sabrina. We are a queer couple, who need immediate financial aid so that we do not become evicted, and thus threaten our lives into homelessness. We are artists that run our own merchandise businesses, and with the launch of the tariffs and the economic impacts within the United States of America, our businesses completely collapsed in May 2025. We have fought ceaselessly all of last year to try and adapt and bounce back, but all of our efforts have completely failed... We began to fall behind on rent last November, and was keeping up just enough to get us this far. However, as of last month in February, all of our resources depleted, and we are sinking very fast.
--------------------------------------------
What happened.
We are one of many people who are grossly effected with the current conditions of the United States. We are being targeted negatively by our country for being queer, losing Human Rights, and the rise of false information to dehumanize us for being transgender, yet, that isn't even what put us in this situation at all! We have been surviving So Much that we can't even stress about our freedoms being threatened. Our lives were completely destroyed over night do to Trump's decisions impacting the economy and thus our businesses, particularly with the start of the Tariffs. It has been downhill since.
These are our pools of income as with its history to illustrate the fall of our livelihoods.
The drop across all platforms is daunting.
After 10 years of making art our profession as independents, we understand how to be flexible and adaptable with ever changing business strategies, economic climates, trends, outreach, marketability etc. Having one pool of income falling through, is something we've experienced and have always managed to adapt too. Usually that is at the fault of the platform, or covid taking in-person conventions away. However, with every source of income both online and in-person, being not just down, but totally slashed to the degree that is being shown, it is clearly evident that these are impacts of the overarching economy that have no hint of leaving any time soon. It's especially evident, because we travel all over the country visiting many States to sell at conventions, and it is every single State, that is 60%-90% down on profits.
With inflation, and a corporate/capitalist rise in Art/Pop Culture Conventions, table costs to these events are becoming so expensive that we have lost the majority of our tour schedule. Last year we barley survived because we had 10 conventions, while this year for 2026, we were only able to keep 3... We cannot afford to renew tables that now cost $500-$1500+, when we made $1200 gross income at that convention. We cannot afford to fly to conventions because of the cost of flights are so high. Product both domestic because of inflation, and international outsourcing because of the trade war, have become so expensive that we cannot afford restock. Nor can we afford a sustainable quantity of inventory for new product to secure future income. Raising prices for our product to compensate for inflation, only brings lesser sales as well...
Alyssa has applied to 78 jobs, and Sabrina has applied to just as many, and yet we CANNOT find even an entry level position!... So many weeks and hours looking for such a solution, has thus far only proven to be a complete waste of time. Now with the debt so out of hand, getting a job well over minimum wage wouldn't even be enough to save us if one of us were hired a month ago! Doordashing where we live to find an immediate source of income, cannot keep us afloat either for the time it takes to make as little as $80 at peak times of the day. Alyssa tried opening commissions, but not only is it not sustainable, but her mental health has been so shot under all this stress, that Alyssa cannot accept anymore commissions. We jumped on doing our taxes Feb, and gave our tax information to our specialist March 5th, but we still have yet to receive our tax returns to apply for any kind of governmental assistance for financial aid or economic relief. Clearly, we cannot wait for either our tax specialist to finish our returns, nor the time of the application period on the State of Oregon to give us anything if we get approved.
Living like this with having no idea when/if it would end, we drained our savings, and maxed all our credit cards, hoping we'd bounce back to recovery! but things have only gotten worse, and after a year of fighting, we now have nothing left...
--------------------------------------------
What we need, and what to do.
Since May 2025, we believed perhaps this would be a rough patch that would turn around in a few months with some extra effort to adapt, so we did our best to try and fight for our 4 year rental lease. However, this has proven to become just our foreseeable future, and we cannot stay in our current rental. It is eating us alive. Every day has been a race against the clock anticipating next month's rent of $2700, and that is a ton of money when you aren't making nearly anything at all.
We moved into a TownHome March 2025 with the income we had prior to May 2025. We had the faith of a successful business that has proven stable and dependable for the last 10 years, even through the Covid Shutdown in 2020. Then just two months after moving into a place that was below our means, our rental suddenly became scarily WAY above our means. Everything we had worked so hard to achieve, was taken away instantly, immediately putting us in survival mode practically over night. We cannot stay in this rental. We must pay our debt, break the lease, and get out before our rental history is destroyed with an eviction. It is unsustainable, and with two months behind on rent, and a third around the corner, we can't make money to recover to pay that debt, ontop of breaking the lease, ourselves. This isn't even the money we technically need in addition, to find a new place to live after... We are in serious need of big help.
As is so common to the queer experience, Alyssa does not have any family to reach out too for help, aside from one charished member, her younger Sister with her inner family of 4 kids. Sabrina has some family, but they too are horribly effected by the economic state of our country and is barley surviving with little to give. Our chosen family with our friends and partners are in a similar position. We humbly approach anyone here willing to throw anything to help save us from homelessness, or spread the word on any platform or via word of mouth, to restart our lives in a small apartment that we can live in under these circumstances. We truly have nowhere else to turn, this GoFundMe is our last resort...
We are currently behind on rent by $5,268. In exactly a week from today starting April, it will become $7,968. Oh my...! That means, to get out, we need like... $10,000... to pay the debt, and break the lease. We are offering our deposit to the landlord, but that doesn't change the ridiculous amount of money we need to get ourselves out of this situation.
Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.
Not super sure what it means by this but I have been trying to beat inner agent 3 in octo expansion for a year. Why does the boss have to be so hard?? 😭
Ten years ago, on March 7th 2016, the original Lucidia version of Sage was posted on CQ’s tumblr! o(｀ω´ )o
Today marks the TEN YEAR Sageversary of her existence!
ᝰ 2025 post ☮︎ personal note / art without text below
It’s been a remarking TEN YEARS since CQ first introduced Sage online. Isn’t that crazy? I suddenly feel so old now. Now I won’t wax too much affection about Sage because basically everyone already knows I love—and have loved her for a while. This entire holiday is something I came up with to appreciate Sage has a character.
But similar to my 2025 addition of my Sageversary, I’d like to divulge a little into my thoughts. Get a little inside scoop into the sagelover42069’s head if you will. I’ve told this story a few times, but hey. I think it would fit for the occasion!
When I first encountered Sage, I had just turned twelve years old, which is about six years ago now (2020). I am eighteen at the time of writing this. Nothing has changed, really… I’m sure people thought that my love for her would’ve died out by now, but… no! I was dealing with a lot back during quarantine. Homelessness, escaping an abusive situation, Asian hate, getting groomed multiple times—man it was just an AWFUL time in my life. Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy!
But my shining light throughout those times (and even still today) was of course…
Sage!
I realize that she was the catalyst for a lot of things in my life, kinda like in The Vulture! Isn’t that funny?
And oh, I loved her so much. I still do. Drawing Sage everyday, reading about her, talking about her… it really helped me cope with my everyday in a healthier way. She replaced all of my harmful coping mechanisms. I thought of her like my protector in a way. Even though that’s completely contradictory to her character I won’t lie LMAOOO…
There were times I couldn’t handle it all. But I knew at the end of the day—I could always sit down, draw Sage, and it would always make me feel better.
Soon after that, I found CQ’s other comics and works! They became a comfort to me, just like Sage did. Reading her stories felt like a big hug to little me! And honestly, they still do. Even Mortifer, somehow!?
Through my love for Sage, I have encountered new things, met so many kind people, and made so many good memories. When I became an editor for The Vulture, I remember being so happy that I cried if I’m honest with you all LOLL… but I was just so overwhelmed with like, that joyful (haha liek the cult) airy feeling. Helping through the process of editing and beta rendering was so surreal to me, because I had held Sage so dear to my heart for such a long time. And now I’m helping with the book she’s from!? With my favorite author?! Genuinely insane how my sageloving was so terminal I somehow lesbian-ed my way into being a beta how the hell does that happen. LMAO i’m very very grateful!!!
I have so much love for this character. I have so much love and appreciation for Sage, The Vulture book, and her author. Which is why showing my continuous support is very important to me, as a person.
The one I should really thank is Miss Brandi Bennett herself! I hold a very deep respect for CQ who, despite everything, is still making stories that people enjoy all these years later. Those stories, the characters within them—it saved me, without a doubt. So I genuinely, like genuinely wish her the most success in the world #EVERYONE READ THE VULTURE NEOWWWWWW. It would be so amazing for those stories and new ones to comfort more people, just like how they were to me!
Through my art, editing, cosplay, and writing—it’s all gratefulness. (and a love for doing it, of course!)
Because of all of this, I can continue being Harold, the guy who likes Sage a lot. And I love being me. Thank you for letting me be Harold!
And somehow, it all goes back to little me finding Sage on tumblr, when I had no idea how to use the website back then! (i don’t even think i had an account LOL)
Hopefully I what I wrote makes sense. If you read this far, I appreciate it!! ily!!! sorry for talking so much!!!
Thank you for existing Sage, and thank you for creating her CQ I #love her very much.
Happy Sage day! 💖
— with everlasting love, Harold Datahan ♡
“i’m not gonna wax affection about sage” proceeds to write multiple paragraphs bro Harold why u lying
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