#i doubt they'll sell those comics here

[nyaskitten]

I assume the side effect was just corruption on their part but idk.

Not a jokey comic, I was thinking Abt Jordana saying the gong has side effects .. tho I don't remember the line exactly. I feel it could be written better but oh well 🤧

[helly-watermelonsmellinfellon]

Legit the $995 raised on the gofundme(800+ being from MY friends mind you) and the $300 raised through my Ko-Fi, was enough to pay rent and electric, and then some groceries for just one month. We're back to square one with nothing for the next month's rent and electric, nothing saved for the move, and no food so we have to hit up more food banks.

I don't know how to sell 100 year old antiques. Or limited edition comic books from the 60s. None of the music shops in the area want the violin which is in perfect condition. Nor the drum set despite it also being in perfect condition. Or the guitar or the keyboard.

We're not conventionally attractive people. I'm not blind to the fact that people who are pretty get pity more easily for their efforts to raise money for causes. People like us are called lazy. Pretty people get pity and no one doubts the circumstances of their misfortune, but people like us get told we didn't do enough or try enough or put ourselves out there enough.

I am bitter over this. It's not just the landlady and her shitty family who got us into this mess. It's my step-brother and his wife and their careless spending and wasting of resources the whole time they lived here where they made excuse after excuse not to pitch in financially and the only reason they weren't kicked out is because of their 1 year old and them having nowhere to go. They're the reason the electric was $400+ last month. It's half that now with just them gone. But it's still too much. It's also my step-dad choosing to rely on people who had proven to be useless to him several times over. His friends are horrible and never help him or return the many favors he's done for them.

My friends contributed 9/10 of the money we managed to raise in total. None of them made outlandish promises to help, they just did so either by donating or sharing the links. His friends can't even share the fucking link. They're just strangely silent despite still going to the dirt races. And when he watches the live streams of those races, he can see his friends in the stands, watching. And yet still has some weird hope that they'll respond to his calls?

He's not getting compensation from his old job for being injured on the job. He's not getting anything for being out of work due to injury. And doctors are jerking him around over his much needed surgery.

So we don't have enough money for the rent and the electric and saving up for a move, and no matter where we search we can't find an apartment to rent that is within the budget, and we can't even get the van fixed on top of all of this so we have no way of actually moving, and my mom who does not cry ever, has actually been brought to tears because nobody wants to buy her violin or the drumset or her collectible comics or any of the fancy china her grandmother owned.

Landlady is threatening to have the electric shut off on Sept 4th, a day early, and even though it is cheaper this month we can't swing it, so I won't be on in a few days. Step-dad's friends have broken a second promise to help and gone suspiciously silent on socials and won't pick up their phones when he calls.

The gofundme stopped getting anything. My Ko-fi pulled more in the last 2 weeks and it's not enough. We're looking at van living and my sister is going to stay at a friend's house so she doesn't have to experience homelessness.

Thanks for help but nothing can save us apparently. Unless some super rich person helps us we're just fucked.