Heya folks. Unfortunately I have a bit of bad news from my end. On Friday, April 19th my apartment building caught on fire. Thankfully no one was seriously harmed but I can't say the same for the things people owned. The fire started next door to us on the bottom floor and crept its way up. We were alerted to the blaze at 2am and had to flee. We couldn't catch our cat in time before the smoke became too heavy but we are very lucky we found her later, terrified but alive. All four families, including ours, were displaced after the fire. Two apartments suffered intense damage while mine and the one below mine were spared the worst of it. However, the smoke damage was bad enough that it's deemed unfit to live in. We were only allowed in long enough to grab essentials and take a few pictures, but since then we've had to live in an extended stay hotel. Until the investigation into the cause of the fire is complete everything we own has to stay put.

Ironically, we were gearing up to move this upcoming Friday into a new place. We were in the process of packing but never got to finish. We'd planned our budget down to the dollar to afford the move but now we're stretched thin because of all of the unexpected expenses. While our renters insurance is meant to reimburse us for out of pocket costs we don't know how long that will take and our new place will be expecting upfront payment on the day of move-in, which has now been eaten into.

I've backspaced and rewritten this paragraph at least ten times. I'm not good at asking for help, in truth. I'm proud, stubborn, and I think I can fix everything. I can't fix this. We've never been in this situation before and uncertainty is my greatest enemy.

I understand everyone is under financial strain and if you aren't able to donate I'm entirely in your corner. If you are, a link to my ko-fi will be provided at the bottom of the post. A signal boost would be appreciated to help get the word out. All proceeds will go toward lodging, food, cleaning supplies, clothing and other expenses as a result of the fire. I greatly appreciate everyone and I hope this never happens again. I would love to have some positive news soon but for now all we can do is wait. Until then, thank you for your time and stay safe out there.

-Adrian

Ko-Fi

i have one month left before i am kicked out of my house, and i need help to avoid homelessness

hey yall! its me again. if you havent seen these posts before (unlikely, theyve been circulating pretty well) im delilah, and im a queer autistic plural tgirl currently living in an abusive household in texas. on june 1st 2024, i will be kicked out, and i need to be able to get a place before that so that i can avoid homelessness. my previous goal was 2000, and we hit that! but after applying for. a lot of apartments. we have been rejected from a good few of the cheap options and im going to need a bit more money to make sure i can survive the moving out process. i know youve probably seen these posts a lot, but we're reaching the final stretch, and hopefully soon i wont have to worry about this anymore.

we're going to try to get around 3000, but maybe, hopefully, we can make around 3500 to absolutely make sure moving out is possible. thank you to everyone that has donated (ESPECIALLY PUNKITT AND THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE DONATED LARGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY, I GENUINELY LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH YOU ARE THE KINDEST PEOPLE ON THIS WORLD)

2106/3500

C*SH*PP - @delilahswagga

MY PAYPAL IS NO LONGER WORKING, DM IF YOU WANT TO HELP AND CANT USE CASHAPP

IF YOU SEE THIS POST AFTER JUNE 2024, DO NOT REBLOG IT. I DONT WANT PEOPLE SENDING ME UNDESERVED MONEY AFTER THIS IS ALL OVER

My family needs groceries and our medications.

We're a polycule of four disabled and neurodivergent trans folks who are constantly living paycheck-to-paycheck and struggling to make ends meet with our several side hustles stacked on top of each other in a trench coat.

We're very lucky to have been able to cover all of the major bills like rent and utilities for this month, but it left us with less than $100 to our names and that's not nearly enough to cover all of our medications or to feed four full grown adults for two weeks until we see another paycheck.

I went to the store last night for a few staples and some cheap dinner ingredients, but we'll be scraping the cabinets by Monday.

The holidays are fast approaching and everyone is going to be tight right now, but we could really use the help.

[email protected]/chaosqueer

v3nmo: @chaosqueer

c@shapp: @chaosqueer

If you have nothing to give, then please reblog this post. My following is pretty small, so getting this in front of as many people as possible helps us a ton as well.

Hi. im luno, im a nuerodivergent (autistic, adhd) and queer minor who is part of an also nuerodivergent 6 person family (5 children, one parent). i am homeless, i have been homeless for about a month now, and my family has almost no money. we have been using it to secure a place for our belongings (a small storage unit), our phone bills, and hotels to be at least a little comfortable. we became homeless under a terrible circumstance that i don't feel comfortable saying the exact details of, but someone really dicked us over. i really need people to spread this and pitch in via money, we have been trying to get resources and things to help but we live in LA, and so there are no resources to accommodate families of our size.

PLEASE please PLEASE reblog and spread, post it to other social sites if you need, we need help really bad to survive

i have made a post before it got this bad, but traction of it has been slow. i will provide weekly updates as much as possible

if someone wants to help emily gwen (creator of the lesbian flag) afford basic necessities here is their ko-fi. if you can’t donate, reblogging this would really help them out

edit: please do not tag this post with “reblog bait”

[Image description: a retweet by Emily Gwen. The first tweet, also from them, reads: "hey I have like $4 to my name and desperately need fuel and some groceries if anyone is able to help me out I would love u forever ko-fi.com/emilygwen". their retweet reads: "Hi, it's me again, being very very annoying and begging for help because my gf and I are really struggling, esp with her too sick to work rn." The tweet was made 29th August, 2022. End Image Description]

Hi friends. I wanted to share one of my friend's fundraisers and ask people to please please please consider donating -- any amount, no matter how small, helps.

I met Mahmoud over instagram (@ mahmoudabed_sm) and we've been talking every day for the past few months. He and his family are trapped in Gaza and trying to survive this genocide. The cost of food and supplies is exorbitant and every day Mahmoud is fighting to keep himself and his family alive. They have been displaced multiple times and, like everyone else in Gaza, have nowhere else to go. IOF murdered Mahmoud's uncle and wounded several of his nephews, and every day there are more horrors. Every day there are new horrors and atrocities and every day I worry about him so much, and every day I center myself and keep fighting to end this genocide because Mahmoud must survive.

Mahmoud is 24 years old and is such a lovely and kind person and every single day I worry about him so so so much.

I know there are so many fundraisers and so many people in need, and most of us are struggling to get by ourselves, but please, if you have a few dollars (or whatever currency you use) to spare, please consider donating to Mahmoud and his family.

I refuse to call government assistance programs “welfare” or “benefits”.

I’ve been on government assistance programs my whole life. I have never lived above the poverty line.

It’s a system that doesn’t care about my wellbeing, they care about doing the bare minimum to keep people alive enough to function and work, and if you’re disabled and cannot work, they give significantly less of a fuck.

And benefits?? What benefits?

Food stamps that run out within two weeks because I am budgeting with 8$ a day with literally dozens of dietary restrictions? Or do you mean the housing voucher that I have to never even have a gift card, penny to my name, Sams club membership, phone bill, literally anything that could be “income” in order to qualify? That same housing voucher system that if I mess up even once with I not only lose all government aid for at least 5 years, it’s also mandatory PRISON time for 1 year?? “Oh but they would never do that, right?” Nope! I have several friends who are now felons for minor lease violations and unhoused as a result! Oh maybe you mean the state health insurance that doesn’t cover most treatments, specialists, and testing I need and if I tried to make a gofundme to cover, I would lose aforementioned housing? Oh and we can’t forget all the money I get for being disabled, which is exactly 0$. I’m still fighting for SSI and have been for 6 years! That’s over 6 years with absolutely zero income. ZERO. And guess what, whenever I *do* get on SSI, I will lose my housing voucher. And I won’t be able to afford my current apartment because even in subsidized low income housing it’s too expensive for the maximum SSI “benefit” amount. And on SSI you can’t have savings over 2000$. Oh and they do make housing for people who are low income where you pay 30% of your income but I can’t even be on the waitlist since I don’t have any income. And on top of all this, I can never get married because I’ll lose all of the programs.

I could keep going. That’s not even half of the programs I’m a part of.

• None of them give me cash in hand. Even for vouchers I have to provide receipts for everything.

• Food stamps just straight up won’t even cover ineligible items. Which includes hot foods.

• I genuinely don’t believe that there’s a way to “game the system” and why would you? You would gain literally nothing.

• It’s designed to keep people poor. Once you make over a certain amount, you lose all or almost all benefits. There’s no way to slowly transition out of the programs, if you’re someone who’s able to. It’s all in or all out.

• All of these barriers are made significantly worse while unhoused/homeless. I’ve been homeless for over half of my life and there’s so many fucked up rules. If I missed one night staying in the shelter, I lost my housing voucher because I no longer was “verified as homeless” even if I was sleeping outside still.

Friends, Romans, Tumblrites, lend me your reblogs.

I'm Xel and I live in a society! I think there's a solid chance you do also! So you may relate to the profoundly crappy thing that happened to me and that I once again need a community assist.

I lost a temporary job that was supposed to turn into a permanent job in June because no one there felt safe enough to retire. Only two of us in the apartment were under 50. One of the crew was over 70. Three were chronically ill/disabled. No one felt safe enough to leave in order for me to stay, so I was trained for basically 6 months for nothing.

I have survived on savings from that job until this point, but I'm at the point where I cannot pay rent. I'm looking into getting help from sources more local to me but the internet has always felt like people who cared about me more than the people I share DNA with, really.

Many of the social services that I was signed up for expired the day that I was supposed to be told that I would be a permanent hire, and since that didn't go down, now I have to start it all again from the beginning, and there are gaps in my security net.

I tell you all of that just to say that I am actually trying to do things, I'm not here to just beg and coast along on some sort of lavish lifestyle where I, uh. Keep living in this dodgy apartment with my cat.

I don't want to bore you with an itemized list, but like 2,000 US dollars would get me through September and October without being worried about it like every 3 minutes. My rent is 700 and change, if you would like to know that. So I'm looking for like September and October rent and money to renew my driver's license, pay a few utility bills, buy a bag of cat food, and refill my medications.

If you have the notion to toss help at an internet pal or the extended reblogged acquaintance of an Internet pal, as is more likely the case, probably, that would be super rad of you.

I'm an artist! You could get things with images on them from me! I sell buttons, prints, and commissioned illustrations if that's your thing. My commissions are going a bit slow as of late - I only recovered from being not really able to walk like 2 months ago, and so I'm doing a lot of catch up like everywhere else in my whole life and trying not to spend too much time at a desk since it aggravates the spine thing that was the problem in the first place.

To be honest, it would be a greater help to me to just receive some Aid rather than full-on commissions, but I completely understand feeling fishy about people getting something for nothing and also feeling bad for being a charity case on the internet, so I'm not opposed! If you want to chat about that, I have a commissions post on the side or top of my blog depending on where you're looking at this!

Ko-fi contains my buttons and is a good place to toss digital dead American presidents if that suits you. I will get hit by some PayPal fees in this process but, I'm willing to call that a call for help on the internet tax.

I promise I'm a real person and not a bot who has made up a cat and is pretending to have interests. My blog has been here since 2010! I've met people on this website in person and everything. I've had embarrassing obsessions no bot would bother coming up with. Speaking of:

Similarly to times before, I would like to be able to do something in order to feel like I have earned some kind of support, and as of my birthday last week I have resolved to try very hard in the next year to conquer my fear and absolute mortification about many of the things I make, so I will once again go digging into my archives for things I can post for you to enjoy as thanks and tribute! I also have a poll running right now to see what kind of buttons people want!

Thanks for taking a look! Be nice out there, take care of your spines!

Please read and reblog!!!

TLDR;

Need $200 by Christmas to avoid any overdrafts!!!

Please please please reblog!

Story under the cut!

$0/$200

Our friend is visiting from out of country, and recently we had to argue very heavily with the bus company about the situation.

She traveled partially by plane then was supposed to take the bus from the airport to another station and then to us.

The initial bus was cancelled for some reason.

The next bus didn't stop by the station she was at.

We called and asked if there was any way to get her ON that bus and they said if we could get her a cab to the next station, the driver would wait.

So, we paid for the cab and she got there and the driver had already left.

They're going to pay us back for the cab and we're planning on getting a refund since she literally arrived more than a day later than she was supposed to, but as it's the holidays we likely won't see it before Christmas (we might before New Year's if we're lucky).

We had this money saved for upcoming bills, but spent it to try and get our friend to our apartment quicker-- which obviously didn't work out.

We're super stressed 😥

🚚 MOVING ALERT WEE WOO 🚛

⚠ POST MADE IN THE STEAD OF @theabbystabby ⚠

(because she felt bad asking for help and I love her like a cool aunt.)

Abby and Missy -- friends I have known for practically 15 years now-- are finally being able to move in together!

BUT!

THEY NEED HELP PAYING FOR THE LAST BIT OF AMENITIES ( van. food. gas. etc. )

It's a trip from Minnesota to Missouri on Febuary 28th - 29th

GOAL IS 800 USD

This would be to cover the Moving Van costs (she is being driven by her sibling and wants to help pay for it)

It's rounded up by 20 to hopefully cover some small buffers like gas or additional things/fees that might come up! If we break past it then she can help pay for any other extra things post move in, too!

She has been hot-potatoed in abusive households for a whole 30 years. It would help loads if you pitched in or shared!

🇵 🇦 🇾 🇵 🇦 🇱 BELOW 💲⬇⬇⬇ Please help her out! This is major life improvement for her!!

hi im razz, genderweird autism-having dragon.

i got a really bad concussion in june and ive been on medical leave from work. i applied for temporary disability benefits through my state and they've been taking far too long to review the case, and ive been without any regular income for the last 3 months.

if anyone is able to spare anything, even just 5 dollars, you'll be helping to feed me and my kitten peaches (pictured below), pay for my doctors and medications that i need, and honestly be saving my life in a small way. im not expecting anyone to swoop in and pay off all the debt i owe, im just hoping for a little help to make it through each day, since im completely out of groceries and the food bank has made it prohibitively difficult to schedule a time to go in with its covid rules

any amount helps. single dollars and fivers add up to enough for meals if enough people pitch in. please if you're able, and not in a financial crisis yourself, help me. anything and everything is appreciated.

I’m someone with selective mutism, and I’ve always struggled to communicate my needs. It didn’t strike me with lightning until TODAY that I could create my own communication cards! Of course, anyone else can use them at their own free will, fully accessible and free of charge. And don’t worry, I’m going to be making more!

it feels like I just made this post, but poverty never stops being a hellish experience that continues to weigh on our shoulders, ahaha.

my family needs grocery money. like, really badly.

everyone in my household is malnourished and it's starting to massive toll on both our physical and emotional health. we're exhausted and foggy-headed constantly because we've been surviving off of pb&j sandwiches, rice, and potatoes. food prices have been skyrocketing in our town and according to several different budget planners i've run our household finances through, i should supposedly be spending more than we pay monthly in rent on our shithole apartment on our monthly groceries in order to comfortably feed four adults. i'm EXTREMELY lucky if i ever manage even half of that.

our qpr/housemate has been in the hospital for the last couple of days and is finally being discharged today. after having nothing but a clear liquid diet and then a few plates of soggy hospital cafeteria food, i would really love to feed them an actual meal tonight, but there's basically nothing in the cabinets/fridge and we have a total of $20 to our names that absolutely must be saved to put in our gas tank, so we can all get around for work.

i'm....exhausted. i'm too tired and hungry to feel much else right now.

please help us if you can.

p@ypal. me/chaosqueer

v3nmo: @chaosqueer

c@shapp: @chaosqueer

Help A Widowed Mother Get Her Car Back

Hello my friends, my readers, and everyone seeing this on Tumblr. I am here requesting for your assistance on behalf of my friend and co-teacher Renee.

Renee is a widowed mother of a five-year-old autistic son and is a dedicated and hardworking preschool teacher. Over this past weekend her car was repossessed. She had just moved out from a toxic living situation and was behind on her car payments due to the costs of moving. The repossession agency has told her to pay a total of $1800 to avoid auction of her car.

Renee and I have set up a GoFundMe for donations, the link is here. If you would like to donate directly via Renee's Venmo, Cash App, or Zelle, please send me a direct message. Advice and prayers for Renee are also welcomed. Even just one reblog can help! We are asking for a little kindness to get this widowed mother's car back. Thank you in advance for any help and donations!

hi everyone, i'm asking for donations because my water was just shut off and i'm looking at having no water for like a week because i can't pay the fees. my family can barely afford to eat or to get medicine so if you could help us, please donate to my cash app.

i will also gladly draw you something in exchange for money, or even if you blaze this post. i will also write your essay for you or help you with english/science related things. i really need some help right now. i'm also very appreciative of anyone who reblogs this post. please help a trans guy and his family out.

"Gentle Reminder: If you are in trouble, feeling weak and your people are just standing there and don't lend a hand, they're not your people."