#car emergency

[skiptomy]

Some lovely friends of mine said I should set this up, even if I have a hard time accepting help like this. My car just had it's suspension shot out of nowhere, and the repairs costed 1,650$ I was able to get a bit of it through art commissions but I am still far behind and in order to get my car back I had to use my money that would normally go to rent, my car payment/insurance payment, and food.

I'm still catching up on commissions that I owe, or I would offer those as well, but this is about all I can do right now.

[oomles]

My car completely broke at the gas station on the way to a con I'm selling at. I was supposed to be at my table two hours ago.

Turns out my car's starter decided to break, and that's a $500 part (not including service and installation). I'll have nothing left after I pay rent on Tuesday other than funds for like.. food.

I hate to ask for help, and I'd open emergency commissions, but I don't want to extend my queue any further than it already is for the people who have been currently waiting so patiently. So.. if you have the means and like my dumb doodles, anything helps.

https://ko-fi.com/oomles

[entykk]

i am once again asking for your financial assistance

hi tumblr! your favorite e-begger here again.

here's the deal! my truck won't start, period, and so far i've narrowed it down to either the fuses or the starter, and it's looking more and more like it's the starter.

however, a starter for my truck is going to cost me $200 which is not really in my budget at the moment! i've recieved some financial help from some friends, but i'm currently the sole income for my home and i am supporting my disabled partner and our three cats.

anything you can spare is appreciated, and if you can't donate, please reblog. i'd love to have this squared away as quickly as possible.

p-pal

v-nmo

pic of our cat boggle for attention. ty

[missingcarrion]

So this is gonna cost roughly 200 to fix, turns out the HVAC actuator isnt working right, or at least a part of it. If it breaks, it'll cost northward of a thousand and I don't have that. This is not even factoring labor costs as they'll have to take apart my dashboard to find the issue.

I'll be without my car for a full day while it's getting fixed, and even before that I don't think I want to risk busting the AC as it's currently been a streak of 90s feeling like 100s.

My PayPal is nefertaricezn

Cash app is $nefertaricezn

venmo is nefertariceznart

[3liza]

here's the cost of living breakdown for Alabama, one of the least expensive states in the country to live it. annual income requirement to achieve "barely not struggling" (that's what "living wage" means, it means "how much money you have to earn to not be struggling financially") by the standards of MIT are the bottom row.

the website SmartAsset applied the 50/30/20 budget rule to this data from MIT to calculate how much it would take for someone to live comfortably (ie, above bare minimum "living wage") in each state and concluded it takes a minimum of 78k for a single adult in West Virginia, the cheapest state in the country.

standard disclaimer that I have personally never made anything near a living wage in my life, much less a comfortable wage, and am deeply in medical debt and so disabled I can't stand for more than a few hours a day. i just think it's important that other Americans are fully aware of just how poor they really are, and what "wealth" actually means in vast regions of the country. inflation and housing price increases have been so rapid, and the percentage of young adults managing their own households has dropped so significantly in the past twenty years (these things are related), that 90% of this website userbase is just completely unaware of what anything costs, and this isn't good for your financial literacy or ability to take care of yourselves.

if you disagree with these numbers please email MIT directly, I did not gather or compile this data. and cannot respond to your feedback about it.

[craykaycee]

GOAL IS MET!!!

Thank you all for the support <33 the rest of the original post is under the cut

Greetings, friends. This isn't for me, it's for my friend @tyladoesthings who I met at my local tech school in-person. We both really wish this wasn't necessary, but things have gotten- difficult.

In short, she has been saving and raising money to move out of her family's house, getting to a safe space in a different state after she had a near un-closeting scare back in April. Yesterday, however, she got into a car accident. She's okay physically, but all of those savings are going towards repairs. Her original plan was to get out of there in about 2 weeks, but now that plan is in jeopardy.

Here is a doc of a letter going into more detail about her situation [embedded link, not updated w/ recent info] and you can help support her [in any small way, anything is super helpful] down here:

It also gives more recent info on the state of things. If you can't help out, we'd be super grateful if this was spread around by reblogging. I'm worried for the safety of my friend, especially with her asking me to make this post here because it feels safer for her than on her own blog. She's too kind of a soul to have all of this thrown at her... Please help bring my friend to safety.

In addition, I am doing doodle requests for any contributions over $10

just send a screenshot of the proof to my inbox and I'll cross-check that w/ my friend Tyla [please keep requests SFW]

[hajima-7]

so that backless dress huh? ❄️

[thatdisasterauthor]

Finally had my dashcam come in handy after having it for five years, and it is going to save A LOT of people a lot of hassle. An afterschool program bus (a half-sized school bus) pulled out into an intersection without the right of way and was hit by a small car. Thankfully no one was seriously injured, but obviously everyone was very shaken. There were about ten kids on the bus, mostly middle-school aged, plus the driver. The car had a family with a young baby and grandma.

The accident was 100% the bus driver's fault. But she kept insisting the guy who hit her had his turn signal on, which gave her the right of way to go in front of him. He didn't. (And, honestly, even if he DID have his signal on, you're driving a bus full of kids, the legal right of way doesn't really matter, you should be acting extra cautious and waiting to be 100% sure you have a clear path).

If I hadn't been right behind the bus with a clear view for my dashcam, this whole thing would be a mess of he-said/she-said. The parents of those kids would struggle to get adequate care for their kids, the driver and family in the car would struggle to get adequate care and get insurance to take care of it. It'd just be a mess. But I did have a dashcam and I was able to give the SD card right to the State Trooper, which will easily clear all of that up.

And, mind you, this was a cheap ass dashcam. It was about $20 on Amazon and the glue holding the front to the back was so low quality it melted in the heat of being in the car, so now the thing is held together by a ponytail holder looped around it a couple times. I'll be upgrading now, though. I want something I can access the footage with my phone in the future.

But yeah. Get yourself a dashcam, even if it's super cheap. You never know when it'll come in handy. Also, give your kids a hug.

[kensatou]

#albert einstein in his babygirl era WHAT? WHERE?

e = mc-utie

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Chrysler CCV Concept, 1997. The China Concept Vehicle took inspiration from the Citroen 2CV and had a similar raison d'etat, to mobilise rural communities in emerging markets. The name was later changed to Composite Concept Vehicle to reflect the car’s construction from polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, the plastic that drinks bottles are made from which is fully-recyclable. It was powered by an air-cooled flat two-cylinder engine, like the 2CV, sourced from lawnmower manufacturer Briggs & Stratton. The project was shelved after the ill-fated merger with Daimler-Benz in 1998. Now both Chrysler and Citroën are part of the Stellantis multinational automotive manufacturing company.

[sp0o0kylights]

Todays WIP that will go nowhere-- Eddie realizing Steve is a good person not through the Party, or anything that happens in S4, but by witnessing his weird ass interactions with Jonathan Byers.

The guy publicly decked him, "stole" (Eddie does not believe one can "steal" a person outside of kidnapping but that's how the rumor mill is phrasing it) Steve's girlfriend, and if Carol Perkins is to be believed, took creep-shot photos of him having sex and yet:

Eddie has now repeatedly witnessed the two of them not just making nice with each other, but outright beelining for each other.

Taking in harsh whispers, going places together, cars following each other, and half the time there's a bunch of kids with them instead of Nancy.

Jonathan is notorious for being a loner even by Eddie's standards and yet he reacts to Steve the same way one reacts to a trustworthy member of the family--with relief.

They're not even that nice with each other--Eddie's heard them trade insults.

(The whole school and likely half of Hawkins has heard them trade insults.)

Eddie's been involved in the wrong crowd long enough to recognize when two people have a sort of unshakable trust with each other, that "I hate you but I have your back" partner in crime vibe that his father always exploited, but with Steve and Jonathan it's real.

And that is what constantly makes Eddie look different at Steve.

Not the kids, though he gives Dustin all the shit he can over his giant case of "Harrington Worship", but because he keeps thinking Steve is going to be shitty, has always assumed Steve was being shitty, and now that Steve has actually caught Eddie's eye its impossible to miss that he isn't/

[harbingersecho]

they had to pause their morning workout to drive wash to the ER at 7 am bc he somehow got hit by a car while getting mail. there's traffic. maine fiddles with the radio and carolina is imagining herself parkouring over the other cars

[boilingheart]

Help Me Get Back On the Road!

Hi, I'm Mimi, and I recently got into a bad accident, totaling my gorgeous Honda Civic, and now I'm out of a car. I just recently moved to a new city and I need a new car now to get to work. Without a car, I won't be able to make rent, please help us out!

These funds will go to the tow fees, insurance fees, and finding a new vehicle ASAP so I can get back on the road and get to work!

This is a desperate cry for help, I can't express just how badly I need this help right now.

[bisexualmcqueen]

NEW FIRESUIT IN ACTION

[earlier draft]

we've come a long way since 2017 (technically my first attempt was 2013 woah). (also, thank you to CSP. love u clip studio). i may make a comparison post for his suit design over the years bc this is at least the 4th main iteration now?

also dont mind him in the first pic hes mildly concussed. can someone make him sit down maybe

[shima-draws]

Hi all!! My medical bills and other various expenses are kicking my ass so I'm opening emergency commissions!

It says so on the google form as well, but additional characters will cost 50% of the base character's price, so please keep that in mind 💕

I'm not doing slots for these, so don't fret if you don't have the funds right now. These will be open for a while, so take your time if you can't afford it right away :")

If you have any questions at all, you can DM me or contact me through my commissions email (which you can find on the carrd site that is linked on the form!)

Link to fill out the commission form is below. Thank you all so much for your support!

[alinahdee]

I have a MASSIVE car repair so if you enjoy my work and would like to help an Indigenous woman get to and from work to take care of her elderly father and uncle, consider buying me a Ko-Fi:

My Venmo is also alinahdee

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