hi, I'm Mar, please don't delete me so quickly, I'm not a scam bot I promise (๑•﹏•) just an artist without many followers so I'm contacting people in the fandom to see if anyone wants to help.
so, I'm a refugee about to get deported and lose everything because a shady guy scammed me. the story is on my pinned post. I'm doing all I can to raise enough to stay safe and we're at 34% as I write this which is incredible but there's a long way to go.
if you'd like to join in or reblog the post, I'd be forever grateful!! I do art commissions too!! thank you for reading and sorry to be a bother!!
have a wonderful day 🩷🩷🩷
ps. if you've already reblogged or donated thank you very much, I owe you my life 🥹
we're at 25% guys! I'm hopeful I might not get deported after all 😭
I'm so grateful and overwhelmed by your kindness I'm just ajsjskskd (rant after the read more)
I have so many feelings right now. the things you've said are so supportive and kind, they've made me cry.
I love Spain. I feel safe here. there's water, internet, electricity, food. there isn't blood on the street when I step outside. there's medicine at the hospitals. gunshots don't wake me up. my life doesn't flash before my eyes when a man opens his mouth and addresses me in the street. I don't have to fear each morning that the insane government would invent new creative ways to make our lives miserable, because such extremes wouldn't fly in europe, at least not overnight.
so yeah, I love this place with all my heart, and I'm so incredibly thankful venezuelans were recognized as refugees a few years ago.
as any mostly white society, though, there are some racist people here and there, especially in positions of a little power (like at government offices or ironically at institutions supposed to serve foreigners), and over the course of my time here I've had to adapt to being looked at with scorn and suspicion by some people. to be talked to like I'm here for funsies, just to annoy Spanish people. it doesn't happen often at all, but it's been enough times to make me very wary and doubtful about trying to ask for help.
so having someone actually listen to what I'm saying is... incredible!!! extremely healing!! I'm like wow... I can get kindness and respect too? really? for me?????
we're at 25% guys! I'm hopeful I might not get deported after all 😭
I'm so grateful and overwhelmed by your kindness I'm just ajsjskskd (rant after the read more)
I have so many feelings right now. the things you've said are so supportive and kind, they've made me cry.
I love Spain. I feel safe here. there's water, internet, electricity, food. there isn't blood on the street when I step outside. there's medicine at the hospitals. gunshots don't wake me up. my life doesn't flash before my eyes when a man opens his mouth and addresses me in the street. I don't have to fear each morning that the insane government would invent new creative ways to make our lives miserable, because such extremes wouldn't fly in europe, at least not overnight.
so yeah, I love this place with all my heart, and I'm so incredibly thankful venezuelans were recognized as refugees a few years ago.
as any mostly white society, though, there are some racist people here and there, especially in positions of a little power (like at government offices or ironically at institutions supposed to serve foreigners), and over the course of my time here I've had to adapt to being looked at with scorn and suspicion by some people. to be talked to like I'm here for funsies, just to annoy Spanish people. it doesn't happen often at all, but it's been enough times to make me very wary and doubtful about trying to ask for help.
so having someone actually listen to what I'm saying is... incredible!!! extremely healing!! I'm like wow... I can get kindness and respect too? really? for me?????
I'm a venezuelan refugee in Spain since 2019. My focus was entirely on escaping and staying in a safe country. When I got here, I got the help of an accountant/manager to work legally. I'm an artist who makes fantasy creatures in polymer clay.
He committed fraud in my name without telling me and refused to take responsibility. I was penalized to pay €8600 for his mistake.
I'll add the whole explanation after the read more because you need context to understand what he did.
And now if I can't pay this thing, my residence will be taken away.
I've tried so hard to raise this money. More work, more marketing, preorders, asking for a loan, but nothing has worked.
I have until next month to pay it so I can renew my residence.
All I wanted was to do things properly. I thought seeking a professional to handle the legal aspects of my single person business was the right thing to do. I thought I could finally breathe after being treated like a criminal for years in Venezuela, when all I want is to make my silly little figurines and be queer in peace.
I need to take care of my babies (cats) and my parents who are still stuck in Venezuela. I only make enough to live + take care of them, and it's become clear that I can't raise this money by work alone.
So please, any help is appreciated. Reblogs too. I also do drawing commissions. I'm so incredibly embarrassed to make this post, but I'm desperate. I don't want to be deported. I don't want to be an illegal alien. I don't want to live in constant fear again.
thank you for reading!
this is my commission info
and my Ko-Fi:
Become a supporter of Mar today! ❤️ Ko-fi lets you support the creators you love with no fees on donations.
Extra information needed to understand what happened exactly:
In Spain, you need to pay a monthly fee of €300 in order to run a business. This goes to the Social Security.
The fee is mandatory, but the government realized it was unfair to charge it from the beginning to a freelancer that's only starting. So they established a reduction of €240 for new entrepreneurs, for 1 year. After that, they'd slowly raise it.
They also gave benefits to people living in certain areas, especially small towns. The fee reduction extended for 6 extra months with this, but only applied as long as you continued to live there for 4 years.
I lived in a small town for 1 year. Then I moved to the closest small city.
But this accountant guy asked for this 6 month extension in my name without my consent.
So then the government demanded I pay the whole €240 for each month ever since I started working. I went through all the legal processes to ask them to review this decision but it was impossible. They ignored everything. It didn't matter that I only received the benefit for the 1 year that I would've been given anyway for being a new freelancer. It didn't matter that I would never be able to afford to pay this in the 15 days they gave me.
If that wasn't enough, I got sick with covid twice, and missed 4 months of work in total, months I got 0 income because they also won't ensure me until I pay the thing. So those fees were also added to the debt + late fees that continue to grow.
Summary: Basically he promised the government I'd live in a small town for 4 years, and when I moved before then (because I had no idea he had done this) they demanded I pay back ALL the benefits they had granted me in the past year.
I'm a venezuelan refugee in Spain since 2019. My focus was entirely on escaping and staying in a safe country. When I got here, I got the help of an accountant/manager to work legally. I'm an artist who makes fantasy creatures in polymer clay.
He committed fraud in my name without telling me and refused to take responsibility. I was penalized to pay €8600 for his mistake.
I'll add the whole explanation after the read more because you need context to understand what he did.
And now if I can't pay this thing, my residence will be taken away.
I've tried so hard to raise this money. More work, more marketing, preorders, asking for a loan, but nothing has worked.
I have until next month to pay it so I can renew my residence.
All I wanted was to do things properly. I thought seeking a professional to handle the legal aspects of my single person business was the right thing to do. I thought I could finally breathe after being treated like a criminal for years in Venezuela, when all I want is to make my silly little figurines and be queer in peace.
I need to take care of my babies (cats) and my parents who are still stuck in Venezuela. I only make enough to live + take care of them, and it's become clear that I can't raise this money by work alone.
So please, any help is appreciated. Reblogs too. I also do drawing commissions. I'm so incredibly embarrassed to make this post, but I'm desperate. I don't want to be deported. I don't want to be an illegal alien. I don't want to live in constant fear again.
thank you for reading!
this is my commission info
and my Ko-Fi:
Become a supporter of Mar today! ❤️ Ko-fi lets you support the creators you love with no fees on donations.
Extra information needed to understand what happened exactly:
In Spain, you need to pay a monthly fee of €300 in order to run a business. This goes to the Social Security.
The fee is mandatory, but the government realized it was unfair to charge it from the beginning to a freelancer that's only starting. So they established a reduction of €240 for new entrepreneurs, for 1 year. After that, they'd slowly raise it.
They also gave benefits to people living in certain areas, especially small towns. The fee reduction extended for 6 extra months with this, but only applied as long as you continued to live there for 4 years.
I lived in a small town for 1 year. Then I moved to the closest small city.
But this accountant guy asked for this 6 month extension in my name without my consent.
So then the government demanded I pay the whole €240 for each month ever since I started working. I went through all the legal processes to ask them to review this decision but it was impossible. They ignored everything. It didn't matter that I only received the benefit for the 1 year that I would've been given anyway for being a new freelancer. It didn't matter that I would never be able to afford to pay this in the 15 days they gave me.
If that wasn't enough, I got sick with covid twice, and missed 4 months of work in total, months I got 0 income because they also won't ensure me until I pay the thing. So those fees were also added to the debt + late fees that continue to grow.
Summary: Basically he promised the government I'd live in a small town for 4 years, and when I moved before then (because I had no idea he had done this) they demanded I pay back ALL the benefits they had granted me in the past year.
Admire the cover art for my fic that I commissioned to the dear, amazing, very talented ZZ ( ；∀；)⭐💖✨!!
She deserves all the love of the universe!! Here's the link to her twt account!!
In addition to the precious friendship, it's wonderful to collaborate together on this story! Which would still have remained relegated to a corner of my mind if it hadn't been for her enthusiasm and encouragement ( ꈍᴗꈍ)⭐💖✨!!
Here's the fic for the curious!!
ps. chapter 1 is coming...it's being corrected and revised😉!!
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