#lyinginbedmon

So here's a quick story: A few weeks ago my grandmother unexpectedly died, most probably of a stroke that precipitated a sudden fall at home.

This was a shock to everyone but the family rallied round and organised a service for her in the town where she'd been living. A lot of us were in attendance, even more via a livestream of the proceedings. It was a heartwarming event that I naturally would not have missed for the world.

However... that particular town is basically on the other end of the country from me. 3 hours on the train, not much better in a car. Train tickets to get there cost me just shy of £100 and involved changing mid-way. On the day of the funeral, there was a near-hour-long delay to the first train in the chain, so we had to buy whole new tickets on-the-day to reach the destination in time. That set me back another £100. Being the only ticket that was actually delayed, the first is the only one we're getting refunds on, of about £5.

This means I'm starting this month roughly £200 in the hole of my already thread-bare budget. Now I could recover that by burning my savings, except that my savings are for restocking my medication, which is presently a couple weeks from drying up completely.

So as it sits my options are no medication or pause basically everything I can until my next paycheque comes in, in just under 3 weeks' time (including groceries, to at least some extent). This would likely also likely mean stalling development on my much-anticipated side-project.

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TV WORLD - Toby Fox

Anonymous: are kirin or lying a valid option for a drawing request?

At the beginning of 2020, I started a Space Engineers series set in a reality just slightly to the left of our own. It was hopeful, optimistic, more than a little bit spiteful, and it was ultimately waylaid by the pandemic and the costs it exacted.

In 2023, I started writing the rest of the intended story for my patrons, in little ~1000 word chapters telling of how the fledgling nation of neurodivergent geeks and queer disabled artists grew into something magnificent even in the face of established powers desperate to stifle it. How their ideals and capabilities, combined, were enough to drag the entire world forwards into something brighter.

Things in our reality have only gotten more bleak since I started that series as one person trying to found a micronation in Antarctica, and I think perhaps people could use a little more optimism nowadays. So I'm making the chapters public for everyone today.

Yes, things are hard, and we're going to have to test our principles and our conviction to them to get through it all.

But we can. And we will.

And I want to see you all again when we do.

Chapter 1: Year Three

Chapter 2: Trouble Brewing

Chapter 3: Trial And Error

Chapter 4: New Horizon

Chapter 5: The Old Powers

Chapter 6: Best Intentions

Chapter 7: Powder Keg

Chapter 8: Bad Weather

Chapter 9: Opening Salvo

Chapter 10: Proclamation

Chapter 11: The Battle

Chapter 12: Cloudbreak