There has been a lot of Faux/Pass activity out in the Industrial Sector, so it's time for Klo and Gabe to head to the Broadcast Bazaar and see if they can chase up any leads.
Got my copy in the mail of my pirate themed look-and-find spread I did for last month's Highlights magazine! This was a dream gig for me as someone who grew up loving highlights magazine! ♥️♥️
I'm describing it as a morally opposite Weapon Shop De Omasse where you play as a shopkeep that is giving adventurers items that do them more harm then good.
Yesterday I challenged myself to see how much I could build in a day and here it is! It'll be a small game even when it's done but it's fun to work on something small and quick that's captured my imagination!
YO! Doing something a little different here for me! Will Lewis and I collaborated on some adoptables which are now LIVE for sale on my website! All profits benefit the Landback Foundation!
GO GET YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER WHILE THEY'RE STILL AVAILABLE! 🧙♂️
https://marlowedobbe.com/store
hey. i (disabled trans femme person) need urgent help escaping abuse.
i come to you with some very bad news and a long story, i guess. it's a story of financial abuse and years and year of my life in vain.
snippets of this were things ive talked about before, but theyve been intensifying recently to a point that i can't ignore them anymore. they dont blend into the background anymore. figurateively, im being poisoned, and im feeling it.
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look below the cut for further details of what's happening. i wish i could've been more concise, but the ongoing situation is convoluted and its hard to wrap my whole head around it sometimes.
ive had my patreon for around 7 years, now. since the beginning, i wanted it to become sizable and to earn me a living eventually; it never did.
ive also released several games, which, again, didnt earn me a living.
ive done a lot of work on projects under nda, which didnt earn me a living either.
none of it came together.
as a result of this, i have spent that past while being strongly supported through donations from people like you on tumblr and discord (thank you ;;) and... from my parents.
the latter is the crux of this. their control over my finances lends them a very strong influence over what i am allowed to do and what im not allowed to do in my life.
as a result of this, they have essentially kept me from pursuing the jobs and the life ive wanted to pursue for the past 7 years. anything i was able to come up with wasn't good enough. game development is an "expensive hobby". "an outcrys" nomination was a "costly adventure that didn't retain value". my art is "sad and depressing, no one wants to see it". video games are "not real, you need a second foot to stand on".
so ive been toiling away, trying to please their whims of what im "supposed to be doing", using precious time i couldve used entering the industry i actually wanted to enter learning skills i didnt want for jobs i didnt want, applying and being denied. for a brief while, between 2020 and 2023, i was allowed to do my game development thing, finally, because of covid and such. that grace period is now over.
they have also been strongly controlling my bodily autonomy as it relates to choices im allowed to make without having to suffer emotional damage from them, which has been paranoia-inducing to say the least.
at this moment, i am at a crossroads.
either, i take on a job that pays whatever my parents think is enough for a living and is the "right kind of job" (with my lack of education outside of artistic fields: close to impossible);
or i find a well-paying high-profile job in the video game industry (with my qualifications and the state of the industry: close to impossible);
or i enter my country's disability pay system.
i have a disability diagnosis, so this would be within reach. it would also be a good deal more money than my parents are keeping me drowning with. to succeed with my application however, id need to:
close my patreon
stop developing games (not enough resources, mental or financial)
be at the whims of this country's political situation and how it relates to welfare, which is in sharp decline
im asking you all for help choosing none of the above.
i want to be free from their financial influence. i want to be able to instantly send them back their "alimony" and know that they can no longer direct my life according to any whim they may have. i want more time to be allowed to stand on my own two feet without being emotionally hurt and financially controlled - because it is nothing short of killing me.
i've started goal on ko-fi - 6000 $. i need a buffer like that in order to be able to have a bargaining chip in this arrangement, at least for half a year.
i need that money to be able to refuse the money my parents only use to have power over me and my life choices, to be able to consistently emotionally harm me and my prospects to become independent in the way i want to.
thank you for reading. even just talking about this makes me feel a little better. please help, and donate if you are able.
thank you all so much for the well wishes, kind words, and your help. thank you for spreading the word as well.
im still trying to find a good way forward. itll be hard to chart a path that doesnt cause me a severe amount of more anguish. but knowing that others are here and care about what i do and me brings me some relief
therell be a lot of work for me to do. what your help buys me is time, but it definitely depends on how well i jobsearch and apply my portfolio and skills and such if this has a good conclusion. i didnt expect you all to save me - thats still up to me, im aware of that, times are too bad to "save" anyone like that;
but the fact that you listened, and helped, and shared, and talked about your thoughts on what i do is immeasurably meaningful to me. thank you, thank you, thank you so damn much ;;
i cant believe you all got this to 30% of the goal in less than a day - thank you, thank you thank you thank you
this money will allow me to have 2 months of job search in the industry and for the kind of jobs i want and am made for, without worry and without having a sword of damocles above me dictating which jobs im allowed and which ones im not allowed to take on - that's huge, and i appreciate it so incredibly
if youre able, please keep sharing, and donating - it would help me maintain for longer while i search and take on freelance work, and while i settle into the difficulties of independence i was never prepared for by my parents and their treatment of me
i am eternally grateful to you all. thank you for liking the games i wrote and supporting me
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