Alastar Gabriel (but you can call me anything). I'm an ex-professional software developer, now I make weird art and music :p I will give you bug facts unprompted


Twitch, Ko-fi, Neocities, Mastodon


We can be friends but I have to warn you, I am a little awkward and kind of hard to get ahold of :p


ENG/日本語 OK


website
444631.xyz/
Tumblr (I probably won't use this one much)
www.tumblr.com/444631

apocryphalmess
@apocryphalmess

I was hoping it wouldn't come to this, but here we are. our credit card debt is starting to become unmanageable after a year of struggling through the job market, and we're going to have to try something else instead. I'm trying to get our finances in a better place before things become critical, and to give us breathing room in case any further medical bills show up

for those of you who are a fan of the little man, this is partially to help cover his bills, and there are bonus never-before-seen photos of him in the fundraiser listing, no donation required

(edit: the preview is working again)


apocryphalmess
@apocryphalmess

it's been about a week since I originally posted this, and we've made a bunch of progress. one of the credit cards is completely paid off and the other balance has been seriously dented. thank you so much to everyone who helped, by either donating or just by sharing the original post

that said, we're really hoping to get our debt cleared for a variety of reasons, and I'm trying to figure out what else I can do to get eyes on this. I already got it reblogged on Tumblr by a very popular personality, and some private communities I'm in have also contributed, but my other options are limited. I'm not going to post a gofundme for a queer+enby family on Twitter for obvious reasons, neither of us have any reach on Mastodon, we're not going to use Facebook full stop, and all of the Reddit subs for this kind of thing have account age and karma requirements that neither of us have

if anyone has any ideas for spreading this around, I would really appreciate them. comments or emails (see my profile) are fine

thank you for reading


apocryphalmess
@apocryphalmess

so it looks like the gofundme has stalled, and that's okay, I think. we didn't reach the goal but we made a lot of progress against the debt. we've run out of places to share the link, so I'm going to give this one last repost before I set this aside

thanks again to everyone who helped, either financially or by sharing the earlier posts

[edit] a huge donation pushed us over the finish line today, and I just want to make sure people are aware before they keep sharing this. thank you all again!


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