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And there I thought I could stop e-begging for a while! 🥴

Last night my mom got a stabbing and persistent pain in her chest with vomitting and had to be taken to the ER. She was diagnosed with gallstones and a hernia, she came back home the next morning at 7 am.

While at my work shift today (some 5 hours ago) my dad announced to our family group chat that at midday she got the same pains and vomitting again, she was taken to the ER once more, and this time it was immediate emergency surgery instead of pain management.

We are already extremely indebted and broke, and now this. Any help if you can afford it is appreciated, please. We've been asking for loans to buy bread for over a year at this point.

Here’s my PayPal donation link if you can spare some

Or you can use my PayPal email: [email protected]

Minimum wage is 300,000 CLP (which is miserable), a cheap mobile phone service bill is around 10,000 CLP, an average popsicle is like 300-500 CLP, I buy the most basic melatonin pills at above 5,000 CLP in most places, and people here talk about money in "lucas" (each 1,000 CLP) or "palos" (each 1,000,000 CLP). So while it is true that the Chilean peso is pretty low next to the US dollar, our prices and cost of living aren't proportionally lower in accordance to how devalued our coin is.

Currently a friend of mine ( @wrenwilm-art ) is trying to save up to move out of an abusive household! More info and context here

Wren’s commission info

I’m also living paycheck-to-paycheck at my apartment, and would really like some help with rent and food! Worst case scenario, Wren may be moving up here with me and we’ll need help settling in.

My commission info

If you donate *$5+ you’ll get a Pokemon Legends Arceus gift code (exp May 31 2022)

If you donate *$10+ you’ll get a sketch drawn of any character of your choice!

* Please make sure to mention @wrenwilm-art in the donation message if you want that money saved up for my friend! It’ll be a giant deposit into his paypal once he’s old enough to get one (late January)

Ko-Fi: @/SarangArcher

V3nmo: @/SarangArcher

C4shapp: $SarangArcher

Google Pay: SarangArcher

P4ypal: sa.contact(@)yahoo.com

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Saturday, April 30th: Hi everyone, I’m Gemma, a bi, mentally ill disaster, who is in urgent need of help as I'm still really struggling to get by.

I didn't expect to be asking for help again so soon from my previous post, but things have unexpectedly gotten so much worse for me because due to a 15hr power cut in my building yesterday, the food I had in my fridge/freezer has gone bad, and I need to get more groceries but I don't have enough money to do so. I'm also still symptomatic from Covid, so I'll need to get groceries delivered.

And I know this is a huge ask, and I'm completely heartbroken to be asking for help again, but I still desperately need some as I don't have anyone else to turn to, and I've only just managed to pay off my rent & bills. All I need now is to top-up my gas meter and get groceries to do me until the end of May.

If anyone could spare any amount to help me, even if it’s just £1/$1/€1, it would literally save my life, and sharing definitely helps just as much as donations. Nobody is obligated in any way to donate if they can’t or don’t want to, I know we’re all struggling right now.

£1.61/£150!!

There is a new Chrome extension that detects if a video you’re streaming has a strobe in it, will freeze the video and stick this warning up there until you approve it.

chrome webstore link:

Hi. In the past month and this one things have been rough around the edges for me and grandma and we need to get food. This month specifically has been hard. Can you please help us?

If you have anything to spare, even $1, please send, it adds up and we can eat.

We don't have any food for longer than Sunday. We really need help right now. We don't even have toilet paper besides the one we're using.

Please, send anything you can spare to [email protected] @paypal

I really hope you can help us, because i really don't have anyone else to count on.

*cackling*

AO3 was built by a bunch of us with our free donated labor for the purpose of being a space free from commercial spam.

It’s not a public service. It was built by us to house the type of fandom culture we liked.

AO3 forbids commercial links because they are making a very specific claim about the legality of fanworks, and that claim is about noncommercial fanworks.

They’re not saying that commercialized fanworks are against the law. They’re just not prepared to host them–nor defend them in court.

In case people missed it: The OTW will not honor DMCA takedown orders that are basically, “I own X work and that’s a fanfic of it, and that’s copyright infringement so make it go away.”

The OTW says, lolnope, we don’t think that’s copyright infringement. If you disagree, sue us.

The OTW says: Disney - we will not remove explicit Mandalorian fanfic. Rowling, Warner Bros - we will not remove trans Harry Potter fanfic. Gabaldon - we are not removing Outlander fanfic no matter how much you think it’s illegal or a personal violation. Yarbro, if someone puts “The Adventure of the Gentleman in Black” on AO3, you will need to actually take it to trial to (try to) get it removed; none of this C&D order followed by fans caving because they can’t afford a lawyer.

…So far, nobody has sued them. (This is, in my mind, the strongest proof we have that fanfic is not copyright infringement. In 13 years, not a single person or company has scrounged up a lawyer and filed a lawsuit against AO3/the OTW for hosting fanworks.)

But they’re not willing to put themselves on the line for commercial works. Those get considered differently in copyright law. They’re not always infringing - there’s a whole history of parody books & songs to prove that - but the OTW is not dealing with them.

The OTW does not care if fans are making money. The OTW cares if fans making money interfere with its legal defense of its archive.

Events like Strikethrough and Boldthrough happened in the early to mid-2000s. It felt like you’d wake up every day in 2007 and find another fandom group on LJ gone. (And not just fandom groups either, important community groups for education and trauma survival were also wiped out in those purges as well.)

And while not exactly the same, Yahoo Groups–and yes Yahoo Groups was a major online fandom hub at one point–were deleted as late as 2019 with very little warning, leaving a lot of older fandom groups scrambling to back up decades worth of content.

I might be projecting, but Fanfic.net seems to be wobbling too. It wouldn’t surprise me to find out they go under in the next few years despite performing similar purges of adult content in 2012 and allowing for obnoxious ads, which made the site unusable on mobile unless you wanted to see an ad what felt like every couple of paragraphs. (It might be better now, I haven’t checked in a while.)

It has only been in very recent memory that fandom has gained any sort of foothold that isn’t poised directly over a precarious faultline that could at any moment open up and swallow entire communities whole, and a huge part of that is the volunteers at Ao3 who decided to play chicken with the likes of Anne Rice and won.