Hi, Fam. I’ve been putting off writing this and now I’m in a crunch so I hope you’ll excuse the lack of eloquence you’re about to read.
Here’s the short version: I have been dealing with a gnarly personal situation for weeks now and it has gotten in the way of every single other thing in my life. Sadly, the places where the bills come from do not care about gnarly personal situations and still insist on being paid. This would be bad during a time of year when the work is flowing, but winter is notoriously slow for freelancers and work opportunities have been practically non-existent and I hate to ask again, but I could really use your help.
My most urgent problem is that I need to come up with about $1,000 by 2/3 to keep my storage unit from being sold at auction. I’m so fried that I’m tempted to just let it all go so I don’t have to think about any of it anymore, but there are some irreplaceable memories in there that I would rather not part with if at all possible (pictures of deceased and long lost loved ones being at the top of that list).
There are three other issues at play here. In order of importance they are:
1. I hate asking for help—especially money help–with a firey passion and would really really really REALLY rather earn it.
2. I am in desperate need of distraction from said gnarly personal situation and its continuing fallout.
3. I would really really like to get ahead of some bills and give myself some room to breathe.
So! What I am hoping is that, if you are willing and able, you might consider sponsoring a blog post? For simplicity’s sake: It can be of any length on any topic. It can be written, drawn, photo essay, or even video. I’ll publish it on my own site and on Medium and will credit you (whatever name you want me to use) with the sponsorship and link your name to the site of your choice.
Every penny I earn from this will go toward paying that storage unit—the first $1,000 (if I can reach that) will go toward getting it current. Anything over that will pay for future rent. My pipe dream is to be able to pay for rent through June, but honestly, if I can just get it current, that would be rad.
I know that times are extremely tough right now and there are people who are much more deserving than I am out there so please, no pressure. I’ve just exhausted all of my other options* and desperate times, you know?
At any rate, I appreciate you all reading this and please do not feel pressured to send any funds if you can’t afford to do so. This is my mess. I just thought I’d go for the hail mary, you know?
Here are the places where I can take donations and blog-post-sponsorship payments:
Also: I am very aware that I am still in the red on a couple of projects/loans from my last fundraiser so if you are someone I still owe something to, please please do not send any more funds. I already feel like I’m taking advantage of your kindness by posting this. I refuse to take any more from you.
*I hate to admit it, but I’ve even been doing LLM training when I can score a project and yes, it feels just as gross and evil as you think it does but beggars and choosers and all of that.