Hey tumblr looks like we need help
We are a household of 3 disabled queer adults and 3 cats and we are in a bit of a financial pickle atm
A couple months ago, we all caught COVID and had to stay home from work for a couple weeks and that severely impacted our finances. Now we also have had to pay off some debts and one of us had to have emergency dental surgery and was out of work for over a week to recover. We have burned through all of our savings and have very little money left and our food stamps expired a month ago. We’ve reapplied for food stamps and are waiting to get approved, but in the meantime we need to buy groceries and we have very little money to do that. Plus we need to be able to save up for paying rent and utilities.
for this month’s groceries and gas, we’ll need:
$500
And we would also appreciate it if y’all could help us raise money for this month’s rent and utilities, which would be about:
$1,700
If y’all could throw some money our way to help us get through this rough patch, it would be greatly appreciated! Even a little goes a long way towards helping us, and if a lot of people are able to give a little that will help a lot!
If you want to give, you can give at all of the places listed below:
Venmo: @SarahPillbug
Cashapp: $ScoutForester
Zelle: ebcrmarrs@gmail.com or saforester1992@gmail.com
$27/$500
Thanks so much, y'all! this helps a lot!
$32/$500
Thanks again y'all! every little bit helps!
$60/$500
this is amazing, y'all! thank u so so much!
$80/$500
we're almost to ⅕ of our goal! this is fantastic, y'all! i really appreciate it so much!
$90/$500
wow, this is awesome! thanks, y'all! 🥰
$150/$500
oh my god, this is so wonderful thanks so much, y'all 🥺 this puts us above the ⅕ mark and even above the ¼ mark! y'all're the best!
$173.50/$500
y'all're so amazing! thank you so much! 💖 this puts us above ⅓ of our goal!
every mother's day there's always "remember moms are everything" posts and every father's day there's always "it's okay if you're traumatized, you don't have to celebrate it" posts and that's fine of course, I just never see the opposite. so reminder you don't have to celebrate your mother. you have your reasons. be proud of yourself and don't let the holiday get you down.
don't forget during the WGA strike that animation is not covered under the WGA deals and as a result animation has gotten the shortest possible end of the stick in under-staffing, under-paying, and generally turning the field into gig employment.
please sign the petition here for Disney to recognize animation production workers as a union and reblog this post!
How it feels to see people actually defending the unlawful arrest of Not My King protesters and act like they shouldn’t have disrupted such a important event like the coronation:
in the latest cyber-news: the internet archive has lost their case against 4 major publishing houses (verge article). they’re going to appeal, but this is still a bad outcome. the fate of the internet is currently hanging in the balance because 4 multibillionare publishing groups missed out on like $15 of combined revenue during the pandemic because of the archive’s online library service. it’s so fucking stupid.
for those who don’t know what the internet archive is, it’s a virtual library full of media. books, magazines, recordings, visuals, flash games, websites - a lot of these things either don’t exist anymore or cannot be found & bought. heard of the wayback machine? that’s part of the internet archive. it is the most important website to exist, and i don’t say that lightly. if the internet archive goes down, the cultural loss will be immeasurable.
so how can you help?
- boycott the publishing companies involved in this. they’re absolute ghouls, frankly, and don’t deserve a penny. the companies involved are harpercollins (imprints), wiley (imprints), penguin random house llc (imprints), and hachette book group (imprints). make sure the websites are set to your location as it may differ worldwide.
- learn to torrent. download a torrent client (i recommend transmission), a vpn (i recommend protonvpn - sign up and choose the area that’s closest to your continent/country), and hit up /r/piracy on reddit for websites. with torrenting, you can get (almost) any media you want for free in high quality, with add-ons such as subtitles, and with no risks of loss. i would also recommend getting into the habit of watching stuff online for free. the less you can pay to a giant corporation, the better.
- get into the habit of downloading and archiving materials. find a TB external hard drive, ideally the higher the better. it’ll probably cost around $60 for 1TB and continue to go up, but they’re so so useful. if you can’t afford a drive, look for any GB harddrives or memory sticks you have lying around and just fill them up. videos, pdfs, magazines, songs, movies, games - anything you can rip and download and fit on there, do it, because nothing is permanent.
- donate to the internet archive. this is the most important option on the list. the IA relies entirely on funding, and it’s going to need more to fight this case. whatever you can donate, do it. i promise it’s helpful.
and finally…
cannot stress enough that donating to the internet archive to help them appeal this without going broke is the most important thing you can do right now. my day job revolves around fulfilling digital article and book scan requests at an academic library and a huge part of that is borrowing from other libraries that do controlled digital lending (incl. the internet archive!). copyright law is already hugely restrictive on what we can and can't lend, and we absolutely don't have the option to pirate anything for our patrons due to being a large academic institution. it's difficult to overstate just how bad this ruling could end up being for libraries that have digital lending programs, esp ones that rely on CDR for old/archival/hard-to-find texts.
i think scotland should rebuild hadrian’s wall while everyone’s distracted by the coronation
honestly the human brain is so small that you *will* forget how much beauty there is out there to experience unless you leave your house every three days. ik its fucked up but i promise its true
my brain, trying to deceive me: there's literally nothing outside!!!!! it's the same neighborhood it's always been !!!!!
me, tying my shoes: shut up shut up!!!! by god we're gonna try to find magic in mundane today !!!!
For more information and to support the WGA please:
- Follow their official social media on all platforms and only trust statements from the union itself, and articles they promote (be wary of other articles).
- Read up on the issues being fought for (there are articles supported by the union in their linktree)
- Be vocal in your support and inform others in your communities.
- Stop using ChatGPT and other AI tools, even for fun.
I’m curious about all my gaming followers: first Pokémon game, first Zelda game, and first Mario game in the tags?
they hate me because i'm silly and so intense at the same time






