Not the update blog I wanted to be making: Some folks need urgent help · 9:19pm June 16th
So. I've been MIA purely because I've had some life stuff in the way. I was going to be making my usual update blog with story progress and all that... but I combed through my notification backlog. Some other folks could use the spotlight because they're in need of help. I'm going to be giving them some blog space instead. Please give these nice people a bit of your time to read over their stories and share if you're not able to donate. None of the situations involved are all that pretty, to put it lightly.
A while ago, y'all were able to come together as a community and really help my partner. It meant the world to me and also to her. I want to say that things got better for her, and for a while they did. Long story short: she was able to get some help for disability in the form of medications. However, I've also mentioned here and there how she's trans -- I introduced y'all to her as my boyfriend. That's no longer the case in two respects: one is obvious, the other is that while we aren't dating any longer, we're still great friends. And she's not going to have a home by the end of the month. Her new partner and all of her friends (this includes me) are trying to do everything possible to get her out of her increasingly abusive home. The full situation is detailed in this lengthy GoFundMe and it's both awful and complicated.
To give the best possible TLDR: she's being kicked out because she's trans and disabled. No shortage of appeals to the state by either her or her psych have yielded any of the disability help she is in urgent need of. Multiple stints in psych hospitals over the years for suicide and worsening mental health have seen her diagnosed but offered no structured treatment (or any treatment) and little in the attempts to stabilize her even when she's nothing but willing to go through with treatment. Despite being too disabled to currently work, she's spent years trying to get any job so that she can move out. No luck. It's worth noting that she doesn't apply to jobs as her actual gender or and does so under her assigned gender and deadname, so her being trans isn't a factor in the rejections. Her family withholds food that has effectively any nutritional value from her and is willing to prevent her trying to get any by force. Multiple appeals to law enforcement have not gotten her any help and she's only been told that if she further tries to utilize emergency services as intended, getting kicked out will be fast-tracked. This also includes repeated threats against both her and her belongings.
Every attempt to find family or friends that can offer temporary housing has had no luck. The same goes for friends and family out of state -- which includes me; I can't take her in because she is deathly allergic to cats and unless she gets medical help for a prolonged period of time beforehand, she can't be around anyone with even traces of cat far on them. Any time she has been discovered to have made an attempt on her life, self-harmed, or is sick/injured for an unrelated reason, she is denied medical care and urged by her family to kill herself.
Her family has interfered with her ability to regularly take her medication, meaning that they're effectively forcing her off of them for periods. The side effects of her medications being taken irregularly are so severe that her psych has made the difficult decision to take her off of her meds even though both being off of them and taking them irregularly come with potentially life-threatening effects. She also isn't able to access any form of shelter because she lives in the middle of nowhere, so she would quite literally be entirely unsheltered. And that's the TLDR. You can read the full story here.
My friend Muggonny needs no introduction. He's currently in financial need and trying to pay off debts. He details his situation, budgets, and related links in the following blog right here. You may also be able to ask him for commissions due to the fact that he has done those, if he's open.
The last person in need is Red Hoodie. You might be wondering who this is and why I've never mentioned them before. That's because Red Hoodie and I have never actually spoken and I found their fundraiser by chance. Despite this, I cannot underscore enough that Red Hoodie's blog and fundraiser details a very dire situation for them and their cat. Hoodie here is physically disabled, having their medications in jeopardy, and threatened by abusive guardians who are not above threatening to abuse the institution of conservatorship over our new friend here. If you can help them out, I will point you in the direction of their blog.
There is literally no reason to throw money at me, but each individual here could end up without a roof over their head or a variety of other basic needs met.
I'm tagging a popular of story of mine solely so more people can see this. It's not something I do often, but this isn't lighthearted stuff.
I gave some. Best wishes to all of them.