Introducing: Yours truly!
June Challenge on Ko-Fi is all about speaking about your authentic self, and this was a challenge that, of course, called to me~!
(You can find this post on Ko-fi too!)
If I had to describe myself in two words, it is Freedom and Passion.
I create because I feel driven to, inspired to, passionate about the ideas that are the basis behind any and all creations. I am a writer first, putting ideas into words has been the first creative manner that I’ve been drawn to, and still find myself strongly called for. I enjoy making videos, and drawing, however, I am first a writer.
I value Freedom, both my own and the one of others, as well as Support, in this long-standing way of working to earn your finances, of how everything seem to imply we need to meet certain conditions to be seen as worthy of something, I wanted to step up and go one step further than giving people the occasion to support me, financially or non financially. That I can be free to live, create and share, that all I share is free to access, to have no paid services nor sell anything, and that among all the people who will find me, appreciate what I do, who I am, enjoy what I share, there will be those that can and will choose to support me.
What I share, past all my written content, and other content type I can share, is my journey through this life. Anyone who encounters me, and choose to support me, know they have helped me through this journey, and it is my greatest hope that this inspire others. Inspire them to feel the simple freedom behind all of this, inspire them to see what unconditional support can look like, how I gift everyone my content and anyone can gift non-financial and/or financial support as a show of appreciation. And to inspire others to seek their own path, find what they want to choose, authentically, the same way I do.
I have no schedule, because I create best when I do not force myself, and follow the flow of my passion, my inspiration. I have different type of written content, touching fictional, non fictional (edit: which I now call philosophical), fanfiction, and spiritual. In addition to written content, I often share videos on my spiritual channel (edit: I still believe I’ll have spiritual videos, but I’m still working on the type of content I’ll share in spiritual terms, so we’ll see how these videos come out!), where the speech is spiritual in nature, yet the content is all about increasing your well-being (edit: again, still working on what I’ll do&share, main themes are indeed self-discovery and well-being, but for the curious/interested, I’m likely to share sooner or later some of my worldview~). I have non fictional content because I wished to share my own thoughts, my observation, about the world around me, and give a non-spiritual way of speaking of topics. As for fictional and fanfiction, this is all about letting go of reality for a bit, and enjoying this fictional worlds, be it my own or those that inspire us to create fan content, to show stories and characters that, in their own ways, inspire us.
In term of my journey, I started off thinking I wanted to be a paleontologist! I was fascinated by dinosaurs, and as I grew up, the love stayed but I felt less drawn to it as a job, and considered being a scientist, yet I still didn’t feel it fitted me. In my second year of college, I spoke with my mother, and she encouraged me to focus on my love for writing. I loved it so much, that I had never considered it can my “work”. And for a few years, I did see it as work, seeking to work on my first novel length story, as well as figure out the ways I wanted to share. I very quickly realized I didn’t want to sell anything, and touched exclusive content, yet I never felt satisfied. I would also waver between pushing myself too much, and trying to understand why these or that didn’t work out for me, all the while managing to write and share little things. Eventually, through my growth as a person, through learning to understand myself using psychological and spiritual views, I realized how much I valued my freedom, how much I valued unconditional support, and I learned to see what I wanted to share, how I wanted to share, why I was sharing. I simplified a few things, properly placed everything I share as equal to each other, and learned to properly balance myself. More than that, I realized that life is this journey, and I am simply here to share my own.
I don’t necessarily share everything, be it the thoughts I have, or be it all the ideas I might have, however I seek to always be authentic in what I do share. I wish to be, and make my spaces be, a sense of safety, to create and maintain these places where someone can come to find healing, understanding, fun, be it through non fictional, spiritual, or through fictional, fanfiction. I have seen how it affects others, and myself, when we are constantly exposed to real-life issues, conflicts, suffering. I realized we need these spaces that let us put away these, and I wanted to be one of these people.
Do I want to live thanks to this? Of course! Like all of us, I wish to have my financial security come from the support I will be given. When this will be something I can do more easily, I want to support other creators too, to support charities and causes. However my life evolve, I’ll continue to share, and seek to make no sacrifice to my own freedom, to only ever do what I’m willing to do. Where will I be, in a month, a year, ten years? That’s the beauty of life: we don’t know!
I am simply here to live, one day at a time, share what I wish to share, and anyone who wish to walk beside me, for a single donation, or for longer, is welcomed to walk beside me, enjoy what I share, and be free to support me as they can and want to, be it words of appreciation, encouragement, reblog and retweet (edit: I tried Twitter for writing things, but I didn’t feel like it suited me, I do have a personal Twitter, but that’s just me enjoying fandom arts mostly, so my only social medias as indie writer are my blogs!), linking to me and speaking about me, and financial support.
I share for those that will like it, I share for those that will appreciate it, I share for those that will respect me and what I share, I share because I like sharing. Sometimes I take longer to have new content, sometimes I am quick. My self-care is as important as my creativity, and we can all benefit from putting self care as important!
My self care, my hobbies and interests, look like this: reading, watching things, playing games, going for a walk, going to the park, listening to music, dancing, finding my healthy diet, making baths a self care moment, animals and nature, focusing on all that brings me joy, that I appreciate, having causes to defend yet being self-aware of the ways I can do this, and the way I cannot, enjoying life to its fullest, focused on the present.
I currently also take care of my mother, whose health issues caused her to have issues taking care of herself, needing support at home, but also emotional and mental support. It is our wish to both have autonomy, independence, however, we go at our own pace, and I’m very grateful we do get along well, and respect each other well. This is, however, important to know as this adds to my days: I rotate between her care, my own self care, and being creative!
Thank you for your time reading this, have a lovely day~!
If you want to find all my content, all the links will be added on my site’s about (https://chriscassar.carrd.co/#about) or you can find them already on my Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/chriscassar). I needed to take a break before I was able to add the links to my site, hopefully soon I’ll be motivated to add them!
If you want to find all my content, my site is currently being finalized into a new version, but I kept a link to the old directory. You can find my site at https://chriscassar.carrd.co/ , and the link to the old directory is immediately visible!
