Hello Fimfiction 💕 · 9:24am Nov 16th, 2020
Hey Everybody! Man, it’s been forever since I was last on here. I hope y’all are doing okay out there with 2020. I’ve been praying for all of you guys to be healthy.
So much has happened since we last talked, it’s absolutely astounding. Where to even begin? Well, it’s pretty much all good news so I’ll start out simple: I finally got my life together.
This will probably take a bit of explaining I think. So, I mean, by now most of you guys who read my blog know that my living situation is, to put it kindly, less than ideal. I mostly ate one meal a day, showered little, and lived basically like a hermit. Well, about a month ago, I had a revelation. The only limits I had were the ones I was putting on myself. It sounds like such a simple conclusion, I know. But when it came, it was life changing.
After that, everything changed. I stopped letting fear control me. I showered more, started doing skin care, and have even begun wearing makeup. I make dinner at least once a week for my whole family, and am always on the hunt for new recipes. I started cleaning the house, sweeping and mopping and cleaning my mom’s sink. And last weekend, I filled three garbage bags worth of trash and one full of stuffed animals and clothes to donate and cleaned my room for the first time in three years. I’m even considering learning to drive, which has always terrified me.
To my followers, I’m so incredibly sorry for taking off on you and not creating new content as I once did. Not for a moment has your unwavering support been lost on me. I am so incredibly thankful for each and every one of you, who have poured positive reviews of my works and words of encouragement into me. To those of you who have helped me on this journey to getting to this better place in my life, I am eternally grateful to you. I mean it when I say that I couldn’t have gotten here without your help. On some of the worst days of my life, your words were what sustained me.
Although I have grown tremendously this year personally, it has been an incredibly difficult year for my family. In early October my Dad was attacked in his trailer in the backyard and robbed by three men who held him down at gunpoint. They took a bunch of guns and knives and computers from him. Apart from a nasty bruise on his head from being pistol whipped, he’s okay, but the men were never caught. And my Mom’s school district went back to in person learning, while still having online learning happening at the same time, so she’s essentially doing two jobs at once. Mercifully, though, they’re going back to only online learning next week, as the numbers for COVID were rapidly growing. And with it, my mom’s finances have been shrinking. We’ve mostly been relying on food boxes lately.
So, with that in mind, I’ve started offering up my services on Fiverr. Writing personalized poetry and proofreading articles and blog posts for people. And I’ve also relaunched my Patreon page, for any of you interested. My goal is still to make it out on my own, but for now, my mom needs my help. So to all of you, I say this:
If anyone wants a commission, message me. If you need somebody to proofread an article or blog post or fic, message me. If you want me to write a personalized poem to a loved one, message me. My schizophrenia doesn’t let me hold down a regular 9-5 job but that doesn’t mean I can’t do some things to try and make extra money. It’s probably about as good as it’s gonna get during a pandemic, so, I really have nothing to lose.
Below are links to my Fiverr gigs and my Patreon. If you guys know anyone who would need these kinds of services, a few shares could go a long way.
For Proofreading: https://www.fiverr.com/s2/f4407b3063
For Personalized Poetry:
https://www.fiverr.com/s2/bd4780a535
Patreon Link:
https://www.patreon.com/fabulousdivararity?fan_landing=true
To all of you, who read my fics, who left reviews, who took the time to talk with me in messages, thank you. Thank you for your patience, your kindness, your generosity, and your dedication to the words of a girl who absolutely did not have her life together. But thanks in due part to you all, I feel like I finally do. And I’m sorry this has been like, the longest sabbatical ever. I’m still working on trying to be the best version of myself, and it’s taken up much of my time and creative energy. I’m so grateful to you all for being patient with me and sticking with me, even though I am honestly terrible about posting updates to you guys like I should. I’m trying to get better at a lot of things and that’s definitely one of those things. I don’t have any MLP fics in the works currently- as a matter of fact, I don’t have anything in the works at all for the moment- but that may change if commissions come in or inspiration strikes at last. Until then, I hope my gratitude to all of you for helping me grow so much as a person is enough to sustain you.
Thank you. All of you. For everything.
XOXO,
Cloe
I'm so happy to hear you got things together. And we understand why you've been gone. You have to take care of yourself before you can do things for us.
I'm so glad your doing better. and no worries about taking that long breather. everyone needs to do so once in a while