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Sorry for the lack of updates. I have been virtually homeless for the last several months, living in a room under uneasy circumstances. It took the hammer a little longer to fall than I thought, but I am now about to go from virtually homeless to actually homeless. I am being thrown out, in the midst of my failing disability fight. The car is dead; it wouldn't make a good alternate home, anyway, since one window is missing.
I need to raise something like $5000, somehow. Quickly.
If you'd like to donate, I've included a button in this post. There is also one in the wallpaper section. I've been trying to keep donations low-key, because despite my situation, I would prefer to raise revenue from sales and ads than begging. But now I don't have any choice but to ask, and until I find a home again, I can't do much in return. (Of course, Faerie Melee #1 is still available for sale on the homepage)
This is part of the slide (that I was already in) when I was worrying about the fate of my archived work online, a while back. I was going to lose my home, and from many quarters, instead of help I got beat up. So I lost my home. Now, things are about to get much worse.
Thank you for whatever you can do to help.
UPDATE
I will update this post as I can. One wallpaper donation today, thank you! Between that and my current ProjectWonderful ad revenue, that's $25.
Our first job is going to be to move what we have with us back into storage (and hope it doesn't get robbed, again).
UPDATE 6/11
Our total raised so far, between me and Kai, is about $340. Thank you all for your generosity!
I'm also open to ideas, if anybody's got any. The loan of an old van, maybe? That way we could move our stuff back, and have someplace to sleep until we figure out something better. Even though there are reasons to be optimistic, it is still going to be difficult to raise what we need, and there's not much time. We probably have until the weekend, at most.
Papers from the insurance company just arrived in the mail. It would have been another minor miracle if they had simply issued a check, after our storage unit was robbed. But we are going to have to find a way back out there, take pictures, and supply more detailed information.
UPDATE 6/15
Monday update--still not much access at all to the internet over the weekend.
Luckily we've gotten a little bit of an extension on getting out. We have to be out soon, instead of the day before yesterday, if you know what I mean. Thankfully, we've had some progress.
THANK YOU! Thank you all!
Supplemented by some ad revenue, we've now raised $733.40. If somehow we can get the insurance on the storage unit in sooner rather than later, we can add to that total significantly. If the insurance is added to what we've raised so far, we could be over the halfway mark on what seemed to be a daunting, impossible goal.
There's still a long way to go, though. I'll have to get together with Kai and see where we stand, and what we can do. I need to keep encouraging donations.
Because of the uncertainty of the deadline, I already packed all of my art stuff. I may carefully break it out again, and see what I can do. Over the weekend, I did some writing, so I may post a story in the next few days.
UPDATE 6/18
Thursday update
Donations are still doing well, and some from surprising places. We have raised well over $850. We're trying to figure out how we can move into a different place for less than our goal, but we're short on ideas. I'm not handy with tools, and probably couldn't work out any kind of home caretaker type of deal. I'm thinking it's going to have to be an apartment, but I will have to find a job pretty fast. If I continue to pursue disability, I'm going to have to start all over.
Our internet access situation hasn't improved, and is in fact getting worse.
I've been trying to distract myself with some writing, and I find that one of the problems I have with my attempts at Elf Life prose is that I don't seem to use dialogue as effectively as in the comics. I was playing around with writing a prose version of Baughb's first visit to Glynhial, and wrote a decent bit of stuff about horses and towers and...it just doesn't seem inspiring at all, in the end. So I tried thinking about what Baughb and his uncle would be talking about on the way there:
“Is there any future in onions?” It was a serious question. Baughb looked over at his uncle Greigh, who didn't seem to be in a hurry to answer.
“Compared to what?”
“Well,” Baughb snorfled on his sleeve, “compared to rutabagas and turnips, I guess. I don’t know. What do city folk eat?”
“Anything that doesn’t come out of the ground.”
“Tomatoes?”
“Only if there’s bacon involved.”
Baughb mulled it over, swinging his horse round the bend in the path. He could be the Tomato King of Glynhial City.
“But as a general rule,” Greigh continued, “the farther away from dirt, the better.”
The little wheels in Baughb’s mind collided. “Oranges, maybe. Coconuts!”
“Raindrops,” Greigh said.
Baughb held out his hand and looked up. “Wait, what?”
“Raindrops,” Greigh repeated. “Go higher. Free yourself from the dirt.”
“You can’t...eat...raindrops!”
“City folk don’t know that, see?”
Baughb looked up at the sky again, a little forlornly. It didn’t look like rainy country, and he would have to buy a lot of barrels anyway.
“You sell them the idea, Baughb. That’s how you make money in the big city. Nobody wants what just anybody can have.”
Baughb chewed on it. “What do you sell, Greigh?”
Greigh involuntarily sneered. “Something not just anybody can have.” He didn’t like to talk business with family. It wasn’t that kind of family.
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