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Profile pic and banner credits: sharkaeopteryx art by @superkiak! eggbug by eggbug! Mash-up by me!
[Alt-text for pfp: a cute sharkaeopteryx sat on the ground with legs out, wings down, jaw ajar, and hed empty, looking at eggbug and eggbug's enigmatic smile.]
[Alt-text for banner: a Spirit Halloween banner with eggbug and the sharkaeopteryx that Superkiak drew for me looking at it with inscrutable expressions]


I'm a Vietnamese cis woman born and currently living in the U.S. You may know me from Sandwich, from Twitter or Mastodon (same username), or on Twitch as Sharkaeopteryx. I do not have a Discord or Bluesky account.

Ask me about language learning/teaching, cooking/eating food, late diagnosis ADHD, and volunteer small business mentoring. Or don't, I'm not the boss of you.


I think people deserve to be young, make mistakes, and grow without being held to standards they don't know about yet and are still learning. So, if you are under 22, please don't try to strike up a friendship or get involved in discussions on my posts.


Please don't automatically assume I follow/know/co-sign someone just because I reposted something from them—sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Also, if you think being removed as a follower when we're not mutuals is a cardinal sin, please do not follow me.


🐘Mastodon
search for @sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net and hit follow if you want
Hang out with me on the Auldnoir forum! (you can DM there!)
discourse.auldnoir.org/
Follow me on Twitch
twitch.tv/sharkaeopteryx
Add my RSS feed (not working yet but I'll get to it!)
sharkaeopteryx.neocities.org/rss.xml

OniLink
@OniLink

This post will remain up until I have a job

Hey all,

I'm not happy that I need to do this, but the job hunt continues to kick my ass. While I have enough money to make it a couple more months (I AM NOW OUT OF MONEY), support to help me get by until I am able to get a job is likely going to be necessary.


If anyone has connections for

  • Entry/associate level software development (C++, Python, backend engineering, game programming, green tech, and/or data analysis; I have experience building programs to reverse engineer and extract data collected from heart monitors attached to wild birds; working DevOps with the OSU Open Source Lab where I took on larger projects with OpenPrinting and OpenStack; and working as a gameplay programming intern at Insomniac Games)
  • or Video Editing (see my Let's Play channel for my current work so far)

Please help hook me up!

In terms of my expenses month to month, I have

  • Rent [$850/month, would be lower but one of my roommates abruptly dipped a few months back]
  • Private Student Loans [$367/month]
  • Utilities [variable, ~$100/month]

So call that $1300/month?

I would much prefer to be paying my bills via actually having a job, but in the mean time any support would be immensely appreciated!

My Venmo is @\Violet-Kurtz (remove the backslash)
My PayPal is @\OniLink (remove the backslash, it unfortunately has my dead name cause Paypal)

Another way to support me is via my Patreon that I run for my hobby of making informative YouTube playthroughs of various video games.

Thank you so much to anyone who is able to help ;;


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