AVERNUS

EDIT: Thank you so much to everyone who donated! I was able to pay off half and I'll be talking to the management company about the rest.

If you still want to donate, because god relocating countries and furnishing apartments and starting a PhD is so expensive, I would really appreciate it.

Thank you so much!!

Original Post:

I know some people put their identities and stuff in posts like these so I'm sorry if it comes off cringe but

ca$happ: $RCCRD

v€nmo: RCCRD

fuck, so, I'm moving from the Caribbean to the US to start my PhD and I'm so fortunate to be on assistantship but I don't and won't get a full paycheck until the the third week week of September, the first fortnight of work. But because I'm a new international student I need to be there almost an entire month before that, to set up and attend orientation etc. Things in America are so fucking expensive, especially when my local currency has a conversion rate of 7 to 1 USD. And there's so many hidden costs I feel like crying every day. My family is trying to help me but they really can't.

Right now, while I already paid the security deposit for an apartment, they suddenly want over $1000 USD upfront, like by August 15th.. I've called and I've emailed saying I'm a new student, this must be an error or something but they've said nothing. and this is on top the $800 USD I'll need to ship my things. I'm so frustrated because I was so excited but things keep getting worse like yeah I do want to be the first person in my family to get a PhD and but my family is working their ass off to help me and I won't get any income at all from the school until September.

that partial pay check won't help with anything and already comes too late so I would really appreciate it if anyone at all could help even a little it would be so appreciated.

so sorry for another donation post across your dash. I would appreciate it if you could just reblog this because even that would help.

ca$happ: $RCCRD

idk i’m thinking about my coworker i guess who takes the smallest thing as a personal slight and again i also am inclined to do this and it’s understandable. but i think there’s value in making a conscious effort to step back. everyone is TREMENDOUSLY busy. the fact that they didn’t reply to your email doesn’t say that much. people have limited time and energy. everyone is wrapped up in their own work & their own life. it probably isn’t a personal slight.

i also see people on here getting upset when they don’t get enough asks or dms. like... this is tumblr? one time a friend of mine on here dm’d me that they were confused because another friend of theirs got upset with them for not being willing to send them messages several times a week and being slow to respond because “that’s not how you maintain a healthy friendship.” assuming good faith on the friend’s friend part like i just wish someone would sit them down and explain to them that that is simply not how it works? 

to live in each other. This means we are built

to ruin. Each night I dream back another piece

of you—an eye, a ligament—and each day

wake on the water with another hole.”