This is going to be a long post that explains my absence for a lengthy time and what is going to happen in the future.
If you are not interested in reading this, that is completely fine, I want to wish you a very merry holiday time and a happy new year.
For anybody else, who is interested in what is going on in my crazy life right now:
My wife has long since searched for a way to get into a good internship job. It was an absolute mammoth task, where we are currently live, because let's be honest, this Christian community here doesn't want us queer gals around and we feel this every day.
I have felt like an outcast for years, honestly since I was 8 years old and I was never able to make real lasting connections. Either I got used or manipulated and I simply felt like I never fit into this very religious community. My wife is experiencing even worse things, especially since she came out as trans.
Additionally we never found any really long lasting endurable jobs, some thing you want to do for more than just a few months or a year, because you simply want to survive and do something so you can have enough money.
I kind of gave up wanting to find something, since I hadn't gotten any acceptance here, but she was still fighting for a long time, but got nothing but vehement refusal, wherever she applied around here.
And. She. Got. The. JOB.
None of this made our respective depressions any better or like gave our "meaningless" lives any sparkle of hope and a goal to look forward to.
Both of us were close to giving up hope until she applied for a job a few hundred kilometers ago, away from the Christian community we currently live in. She wanted to work with museums or literature and thus applied for an internship as a book saleswoman for a very renowned book store.
Both of us were on cloud nine, we honestly still are and luckily we have been saving some money already! Currently we saved up 1250€, because we have quite a long move before us and also a kind of insecure situation, where we have to find a new home and I also need to get together a smooth change into a new job.
So what I am here to ask for is a bit of your help actually. We are going to open a gofundme page, which I will insert here at a later time and I also have a paypal ( [email protected] ) and Ko-Fi page - but not without offering you a little something in return.
On my own two pages, you will always be able to donate a little something, and in return, I will offer you an art piece to make up for your nice gesture and help for our new life!
You do not have to leave any money there, it is holiday time and a lot of people don't have enough to spare and I completely accept this.
We need to move around the middle of June next year and I have an offer to make for everybody, who wants to donate.
If you have read to this point, I want to thank you very much, both of us are scared but also very excited for this new change! I also might have a new job opportunity for a home office job, which will help me with less standing and bad posture work, plus regenerate some issues that my skin has with the cold-
Everyone, who donates, will be allowed to ask for an art piece, FREE OF FURTHER CHARGE, of course it will be something tailored to your donation, but I will be completely willing to draw your OCs, I will take into account wishes or references, etc.
As long as I have no problems with drawing your wishes (which I will tell you), I definitely will make up for your generosity!
Finally something is going to go right!!!
All in all, it is just an amazing opportunity and I am extremely excited to FINALLY move on. It is amazing that I have been here for so long and you guys are still with me, here - and now, FINALLY after years of depression and almost no movement, this happens!
I honestly can barely contain my joy, I am practically jittering with happiness and nerves.
Thank all of you for staying here with me and I hope your holidays will be just as joyous as mine!
Shiny nerd shit that most of us probably can’t afford, part 1
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