Okay, emergency post. Sob story time, I guess.
I’ve been on Tumblr for several years, and I’ve been through some ups and downs. Sometimes we ended up needing help, sometimes we got through okay. But I’m not sure we’re going to make it through okay this time.
My husband has a new job that pays better than his old one, and that’s great, of course. But when they hired him, they promised at least 40 hours. Right now he’s at 32. That may not seem like a lot, but that’s almost $300 less a month than we were hoping.
I live with my disabled enby roommate, IK Scott, who can’t work. They have a bad leg that requires them to use a wheelchair to leave our apartment. They have severe PTSD from their abusive family, and brain damage from the physical abuse and resulting head trauma (which also gives them debillitating migraines).
As for me, I’m disabled, but I don’t qualify for disability. I was fired last year from my job for being autistic, and while I’ve been fighting that unlawful termination all year, it’s not looking very good. Besides being autistic, I’m severely anemic, to the point that I can’t be on my feet for more than 10-15 minutes at a time without fainting or possibly throwing up. I have Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and depression. I have nerve damage in my dominant hand, deteriorating knees due to damage sustained when I was a kid, and curvature of the spine that gives me back pain (although it’s manageable if I have a cushion or can lean against things). I work doing Etsy, writing short stories sometimes for magazines, and filling out surveys and doing micro-tasks for online companies, but in total that nets maybe $40 a month, and that’s a really good month.
We have animals, too. You guys may have seen my occasional pictures. They’re all rescues (Jake actually broke into our apartment off the street when he was a tiny kitten).
I’m not asking for handouts. I’m hoping for people to do one of 2 things: either become one of my Patrons on Patreon (you get access to art, poetry, sneak peaks of my fanfics, advanced screenings of my fic chapters, and serialized original novels) or go to my Etsy shop where I sell bookmarks. You’ve probably seen my posts with all the different kinds of bookmarks I have, and I’ve got new stuff in the works as well. And I ship anywhere in the world. 1 item costs $1.00 (USD) anywhere. I’m also having a 30% Off Sale right now because we’re desperate for money and some money is better than no money.
But we really need the help. Right now we can’t afford food, for ourselves or our cats. We can’t pay our electricity bill, which means among other things, they’ll shut off our heat soon. We have $20 in the bank and that’s what we have to live on until December 24 when my husband gets paid. Our bills are almost $600.
Anything you guys can do to help - even shipping us a crate of instant chicken ramen or something, although I think Etsy is cheaper - would be appreciated.
For anyone interested in my Patreon, I write YA urban and historical fantasy original fiction, various fantasy and sci-fi short stories, and fanfics for Marvel (mostly for Loki, and one fic for Bucky Barnes/the Winter Soldier) and for the Hellboy series revolving around Nuada Silverlance, the Elven prince.
For anyone interested in my Etsy store, we’ve got bookmarks for the following fandoms: Throne of Glass, HP Lovecraft, She-Ra, Disney Princesses (and other leading Disney ladies), Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, Divergent, Shadowhunters, non-Disney Princesses (Thumbelina, Fiona from Shrek, Kayley from Quest for Camelot, people like that), The Hunger Games, Twilight, ACOTAR, Pokemon, Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, Sailor Moon, Grishaverse, Vampire Academy, and Daughter of Smoke & Bone. And coming soon: Truthwitch, An Ember in the Ashes, Snow Like Ashes, and Alice in Wonderland.
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