Lily and Nico are two trans women who are very dear to me. They've been having to live all alone in a world that is getting more and more hostile and scary. You have the power to help. If Lily can move in with Nico, they both will have an easier time surviving. They are both struggling to make it on their own.

It's a long journey, so it will be an expensive one and Lily can't make it happen by herself. Every little bit helps. I know times are tough for all of us, but even if you can't donate, sharing helps a TON!

They're smart fuckin birds, I believe in them

Pretend we didn't have the science that explain how octopi controlled camouflage, how the electric eel delivers shocks, how owls fly silently, how intelligent corvids can be. It becomes the basis of many supernatural tales and folklore.

Look at the entire mindfuck that's the fungi kingdom and, oh, parasites.

Go even further with plants, too, since it's all life.

So two things:

One, animals are capable of doing magic that doesn't match the current human framework (i.e., blood/primal magic, like how animals can track their stole kin from poachers and animal rescuers, regardless of how far they must travel, war horses praying to their great deity to be swifter and fiercer with blood and bone staining their hooves as the sacrifice to their private altar, wolves using bone carvings to weave protection spells on their dens, trees/forests developed a whole ass magic system based on their symbiotic relationships with other animals, pets who love their human so very much that they will tie their inherent skills over, like a rabbit who gifts their owner a superb talent at finding the tastiest greens or a catowner gains better night vision over time, or even sacrifice lifespan to boost their critically/terminally sick human)

It's almost certainly benign and it is operable, we have a surgery booked in for a couple of weeks from now, but it's a miserable time and they've lost a lot of their mobility and can't do much for themselves any more

We also have reasonable health care so it's not like we're now hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, but the three adults took a week off work each, we spent a few hundred on a wheel chair, a couple hundred on a walker, a couple hundred on other mobility aids, a couple hundred on takeout because the hospital is a few hours from home, a couple hundred on fucking parking, and so on. And we have to do it all again in a couple of weeks.

Which adds up to a huge hole in our normally fairly stable budget

I want to be clear that we probably don't need help, we can probably call in enough favours, eat two minute noodles for a few days, maybe borrow money to make rent, we could survive. But it's just another wildly stressful thing that we don't need whilst trying to support our newly disabled child and help them through the worst few weeks of their life

So if you can help, if you want to help, we would really appreciate it