you have to Bee nice to me

EDIT: I just got home from work and you guys fucking rock, all together you've given me more than enough that I can get through the month, and a bit more so I can stash that in case of emergency.

I am going to celebrate by putting £40 on the electric meter. This fucking rules, cohost people are the best, thank you so much.

Original post preserved below.

Alright let me explain. I spent the last 6 months in homeless temporary accommodation, and I was told that I'd be there for 12-18 months because of how long the social housing waiting list is.

Mid way through last month, at a point where I had zero savings, they surprised me by telling me I was getting an apartment! I knew moving would be very costly but here's the rub: I couldn't refuse this one or delay it because then I'd be thrown off the list (and also thrown out of emergency housing for "acting like I didn't need it")

It took a while to go from the offer to having the keys to moving in, and in that time I've paid rent on two places. Talking £116 a week on the old place, plus I had to pay a big advance on the new place. Harsh. I had to rent a moving van (£85), get a bed, basic things like a microwave, toaster, curtains for the bedroom window etc.

Now to compound things, it's april, the start of the financial year in the UK. That means rent went up. £502 for four weeks in the new place now. Council tax (a tax on having a home) is about £100 too, so we're up to ~£600.

I can't afford a washing machine, and a trip to the launderette is going to cost £8 a go on public transport and the machines.

Minimum wage "just went up", which in practice means it counts for the pay packet after the first one of april. I get paid four weekly, and it's been garnished by the DWP (social security office) to cover the final payment of loan I took out in 2015. So that means I have £774 to make last the next four weeks, and then I'll get paid better in mid May.

I have applied for welfare to pay my rent (universal credit), but that takes five weeks to begin payment.

This means that I have, after housing, about £170 to pay for electricity, hot water, drinking water, internet, food, and laundry. Food costs around £25 a week, electricity £10 a week, so that's £140 gone just on the two...

I'm not going to be able to make it this month. So I need your help again, and I hope for the last time. Next month will be a lot better, my income will be a lot better.

Anything will be gratefully received.

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I just had the worst two weeks of my life (suffice to say i'm lucky to be alive) and no longer have a stable place to live, crashing on a friend's couch. we have a plan to rebuild my life but it requires Funds

you may remember me from Welon or random minecraft mods nobody likes or being half of the reason blanketcon 23 performed decently

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i've been building a universe for almost 10 years now. i wanna talk about it!

some time in the near future a faceless billionaire starts a business called afterspace. this mega corporation boasts of a technique that transfers brain data onto hard drives in order to convert people into what they call "angels" (they're ghosts) after death, with the use of drone-like, light-emitting nanobots. centuries later, mr. billionaire has racked up enough cash to fly all the rich off planet, colonizing the moon. once the rich are gone, the earth begins to heal and magic returns to the world. witches and warlocks run amock.
meanwhile, trouble begins when afterspace ghosts start glitching out. a group of vigilante youngsters investigate these instances and determine something about the human mind may be incompatible with the technology used to preserve them. they begin to develop a method of unbinding and releasing souls en masse.
they are contacted by a mysterious hacker by the username of hexhax who claims to have perfected a method for separating souls from their ghostly shells, and is interested in teaming up. we learn more about this hacker as the plot unfolds, and it becomes clear that she is a shady individual with ulterior motives.

the game my partner and i are developing right now is from hexy's perspective, navigating her puzzling environments and interacting with afterspace ghosts. i'm super excited to share more as we make progress on our project!