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20s | they/them | creator of Smith This Date is TOAST(r) and other irrelevant characters | [meow] | pfp by artisticavie

[pawpadplants]

Okay, this is a lot, so, sorry about that. To summarize; shit’s fucked.

Story below, but tl;dr I need help again. I desperately need food I can eat in my home, and there are some bills/expenses that need to be paid. I have a ko-fi goal and commissions open if anyone would like to help. sharing around also appreciated

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Basically, my mom is a recovering(?) gambling addict. As of recently, to my knowledge, she has not relapsed, but we are working on general financial issues. We both have severe money related trauma, my mom’s resulting in things like her gambling addiction, frequent spending of money we don’t have, etc. I have been on her ass about rent pretty well lately, but sometimes she essentially leaves me to believe rent is paid based on loose statements from her, then I find out at the end of the month it wasn’t. That happened last month, so we paid double this month to catch up. Yikes. After months/years of fighting with her, and myself, we’ve come to an agreement that I will be taking over the household money to keep her from fucking shit up yet again in July. Our money for this month is already gone, as we are living off my mom’s monthly SSDI checks. The double rent took up the majority of that, along with car insurance, food for our cats (dietary needs hike up that price), and not even half filling the car with gas, which is already almost back to empty. We just had someone pay off our power bill ($138) shortly before my typing this out, and we’ve had offers to pay our phone bill, my mom’s been given resources for help with tags, but until those things are set in stone and done I want to keep them listed just in case. As far as groceries go; due to what is likely ARFID, or something along those lines, along with other issues, my dietary needs are inconsistent, making utilizing food banks a heavy hit or miss that often leans miss. I also have GERD, and often avoid heavily acidic foods, as they will cause severe stomach/esophagus pain (cries as my local food bank always has it’s main ingredients for a meal to build off as spaghetti with tomato sauce). On top of, if not due to, all that fun stuff, my safe foods shift and change daily. If I eat too much of something I can’t eat it for months to years after. I often don’t even know what is safe until I look at it. My mother does not have these issues, meaning she often has food around she can eat, but I’m always a struggle to feed and not having specific foods around often means I’m just not eating (which… also triggers my acid reflux from my GERD? wack). Currently, the safe foods I have in the house are… maybe the two apples we got from the food bank yesterday? I literally haven’t eaten anything so far today (6/10/25 typed this sentence around 4:50pm). (Will try to eat the apples after this) The point of me typing all this being: we need help right now. I have a goal set on Ko-fi for $400, hoping that will get us through with the things we need until at least the 19th where we will get our EBT food money, if not through the rest of the whole month until my mom gets her next check and I take over fully.

My commissions are open on Ko-fi as always. If anyone would help so I can at least eat, it’ll mean the world to me. Thanks for reading! (and also sorry if this feels like nonsense in any way, I’m hardcore struggling from the no food thing)

[micromontage]

We have so little time

[starjasmines]

let's waste as much of it as we can while we still can

[marsoid]

Outing my OCs for pride month… [webcomic] [patreon]

[rylandgraces]

[the most low energy you have ever seen me] we’re about to go crazy mode

[cttstaroryx]

Happy pride!!

And also happy (late) birthday to our pride king Lucifer!

[pangur-and-grim]

sitting in the chairs, so civilized

[pangur-and-grim]

everyone decided that Grim’s chair was best

[making-friendos]

LGBT (labrador, greyhound, beagle, terrier)

[fieldsofmistria]

Fields of Mistria launches into 1.0 on August 5, 2026! ✨ The full release includes: 💍 Marriage 🍼 Children 🌻 New Saturday Market NPCs ✨ And more! More reveals are on the way, so stay tuned! 🌱 See the 1.0 Roadmap here!

[kateammann]

Happy Pride Month to all of my fellow aces!! 🖤🩶🤍💜

[pangur-and-grim]

yeah whatever, you can sit there

[pangur-and-grim]

now, I don’t know if you can sit there. that laptop was open for a reason

[thirdity]

“You write the beginning and then you go back and rewrite the beginning, and you never got off page one. It’s kind of a syndrome, and I have a rash piece of advice which is — Go on, page two, page three, and never look back. Get something finished, no matter how lousy it is. […] Perfectionists cannot get going unless they kind of do violence to their own instincts, and just blast ahead.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations

[pawpadplants]

since my laptop and phone are old and trying to give out on me, i'm gonna try to save up for new ones! ^^

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if anyone would like to help me out, you can commission me on vgen or ko-fi! you can also just donate on ko-fi if desired!

Harper (@pawpadplants)

Check out Harper's commissions and portfolio! | they/them i'm a character design and illustration artist, along with being a Ren'Py based ga

[pawpadplants]

if anyone would like to help an aspec nonbinary person make more queer art and get through life this pride month, please consider commissioning me or donating!! i'm currently working on devices that are dying of old age and i would love to have more than just over 230gb of storage space on my computer. ^^

[snuffysbox]

squishing 'em together

[ishowdespair-deactivated2026012]

[black-quadrant]

sometimes all you need is one passionate person who goes berserk for your work to keep you creating

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[pangur-and-grim]

dogs that I've been tempted by this week

[pangur-and-grim]

also adoption links, if someone else is also tempted:

Ferka

Fredy

Snowball

Pedro