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Calm After the Move
3 years ago
Hyello everyone! Extremely tired Sigma here~ Sooooo? I'm in Sweden again! And now for a long ass time! I wanted to share my experience in moving here, what will happen in the next few (hopefully) days, and larger plans for the future.
First of all, my experience with Flixbus (skip ahead for the organization and future work stuff). For those who have read some previous status updates will know that Flixbus already wasn't too sincere with me, but I was hopeful that now that I had all my stuff and could easily go to Sweden with all of it I could- no... it was a terrible experience to say the least. I took two busses, one from Milan to Hamburg, and the other from Hamburg to Copenhagen. Shoutout to dad, sibling and friend that brought me to Milan in the first place, thank you so much for your patience~ Now... everything was almost good from the start, I had the free wifi, I was comfortable, I made friends with the girl in the seat next to me, but then... there was Switzerland... not being in the EU, my phone said that for internet, messages, and calls. But why the matter with the internet? Well, from the moment we went to Switzerland, the wifi in the bus just... stopped working! For the whole journey until Hamburg! FUN! Then, at each stop we were always slow, we were stopped by the police at the border with Germany AND a guy was taken by them... ok... the seats after all that time were uncomfortable, the bathroom was cramped and disgusting... awful overall. From Hamburg to Copenhagen things started well again. Internet was working and worked for the whole journey. But then again, the bathroom was cramped and horrible, I was LOCKED inside the BUS without the AC on and without phone or internet while going on the ferry... why? Cause they bloody told us all the orders in either German or Danish... helpful! FUN! I didn't die, but they were angry at me, not at their own incompetence of spending literally 5sec more to tell us that it was an order... or either spending another 10sec to make sure that everyone was off the bus. I mean, it's not like I was hiding, and I'm not that small. They have no excuses. At all for this. Then the border with Denmark they made us get out of the bus, remove our luggage, place ourselves in a line, side by side like in a shootout, under the beaming hot sun, with our luggage in front of us to check for documents and drugs; made us return the luggage in the bus, return ourselves at our seats, and wait... for 15min... without AC... in a hot bus... because they were checking a couple. After all that it should end... but NOOOooo. In Copenhagen, my phone decided not to cooperate anymore and shot off my internet, at least I could call my cousin and that was the way I found the right train... oh, did I mention that there are no elevators in Copenhagen Central Station? I was alone, tired, afraid, without internet, in the middle of the hot station with 3, THREE, large suitcases... having to go down TWO FLIGHTS of stairs... FUUUN! At least then it was all smooth saili- NOPE! My train got cancelled and had to wait another one that every 10min had to stop for permissions and cause it was tailing a slower train... So... hahaha... it REALLY sucked. I was really dehydrated, super sweaty (not in the sexy way), very very tired... cause I didn't mentioned... but I haven't slept (as in going to rem mode, the true resting one) in over 40, I'm not joking, fricking, hours. Once I arrived I had my flatmate and cousin help me, I stayed still for around an hour, after which I went straight to getting a shower, and then coming back here, a bit hungry, but charged up enough to update you all~
Honestly though, there was one specific thing that kept me going: the amazing fauna on the bus~ I got a chance of witnessing a tomboy goddess who went shoeless with socks for most of the journey, met her in both my busses and even had her place her feet on my seat so... happy, but not too much since I couldn't enjoy anything in the past day...
Ahem ahem, now, onto the organization for the next few days. Until my uncle returns to Sweden with my new passport, I can't really go forth with much, but I'll say this: until I get my hands on a new desk, I can't use my computer. For the next days I'll be using my small pc, I'll get to know the city, order a few things online and getting a couple of books. After my uncle gets here, I'll be making sure everything I do, me living here and working here online with a vision for the next expansions and projects, will be legal and work following Swedish law. Will be a little boring and probably a bit long as a process, but I'll get there.
Now, onto long term projects. After the PayPal announcement, I think I will, in the future, make a poll to ask all of you for potential changes in the way I take commissions. Until now I used PayPal no problem, but the dang web crawlers could be a problem. The question would be to either take continuous risks for what I want to be a nice career OR find a solution. The solution I found was Gumroad. I already have it, it handles VAT on its own (which would greatly help me handle stuff without taking wrong turns or pay extra), the more I use it the less its own tax would be, I feel like it would work pretty well~ There would be, of course, a small compromise with any potential commissioner: having a not so straightforward payment (Gumroad payments are more like Amazon's if you don't have an account connected with PayPal) and having to pay VAT, which is something that at one point I would have to ask either way. Additionally, I was planning to also have Gumroad as the main site for donations as Ko-Fi is very nsfw unfriendly. There are still plans for various upcoming membership platforms openings, but for that you'll have to wait a little more (I'm just a smol little sad boy just arrived in an entirely different country, give me a little time 😉)
In conclusion, and to sum up, I'm alive and mostly well, my break will be longer still, hopefully by September I'll be up and running even more than before, there's some thinking to do with future commissions... ah yeah, fuck Flixbus, the journey was really terrible.
P.S. Damn guys, I've seen the amount of support you are giving me and it's incredible! I still hardly believe in what I can see. Thank you thank you, thank you so much for everything, sorry for having you wait a little more~
First of all, my experience with Flixbus (skip ahead for the organization and future work stuff). For those who have read some previous status updates will know that Flixbus already wasn't too sincere with me, but I was hopeful that now that I had all my stuff and could easily go to Sweden with all of it I could- no... it was a terrible experience to say the least. I took two busses, one from Milan to Hamburg, and the other from Hamburg to Copenhagen. Shoutout to dad, sibling and friend that brought me to Milan in the first place, thank you so much for your patience~ Now... everything was almost good from the start, I had the free wifi, I was comfortable, I made friends with the girl in the seat next to me, but then... there was Switzerland... not being in the EU, my phone said that for internet, messages, and calls. But why the matter with the internet? Well, from the moment we went to Switzerland, the wifi in the bus just... stopped working! For the whole journey until Hamburg! FUN! Then, at each stop we were always slow, we were stopped by the police at the border with Germany AND a guy was taken by them... ok... the seats after all that time were uncomfortable, the bathroom was cramped and disgusting... awful overall. From Hamburg to Copenhagen things started well again. Internet was working and worked for the whole journey. But then again, the bathroom was cramped and horrible, I was LOCKED inside the BUS without the AC on and without phone or internet while going on the ferry... why? Cause they bloody told us all the orders in either German or Danish... helpful! FUN! I didn't die, but they were angry at me, not at their own incompetence of spending literally 5sec more to tell us that it was an order... or either spending another 10sec to make sure that everyone was off the bus. I mean, it's not like I was hiding, and I'm not that small. They have no excuses. At all for this. Then the border with Denmark they made us get out of the bus, remove our luggage, place ourselves in a line, side by side like in a shootout, under the beaming hot sun, with our luggage in front of us to check for documents and drugs; made us return the luggage in the bus, return ourselves at our seats, and wait... for 15min... without AC... in a hot bus... because they were checking a couple. After all that it should end... but NOOOooo. In Copenhagen, my phone decided not to cooperate anymore and shot off my internet, at least I could call my cousin and that was the way I found the right train... oh, did I mention that there are no elevators in Copenhagen Central Station? I was alone, tired, afraid, without internet, in the middle of the hot station with 3, THREE, large suitcases... having to go down TWO FLIGHTS of stairs... FUUUN! At least then it was all smooth saili- NOPE! My train got cancelled and had to wait another one that every 10min had to stop for permissions and cause it was tailing a slower train... So... hahaha... it REALLY sucked. I was really dehydrated, super sweaty (not in the sexy way), very very tired... cause I didn't mentioned... but I haven't slept (as in going to rem mode, the true resting one) in over 40, I'm not joking, fricking, hours. Once I arrived I had my flatmate and cousin help me, I stayed still for around an hour, after which I went straight to getting a shower, and then coming back here, a bit hungry, but charged up enough to update you all~
Honestly though, there was one specific thing that kept me going: the amazing fauna on the bus~ I got a chance of witnessing a tomboy goddess who went shoeless with socks for most of the journey, met her in both my busses and even had her place her feet on my seat so... happy, but not too much since I couldn't enjoy anything in the past day...
Ahem ahem, now, onto the organization for the next few days. Until my uncle returns to Sweden with my new passport, I can't really go forth with much, but I'll say this: until I get my hands on a new desk, I can't use my computer. For the next days I'll be using my small pc, I'll get to know the city, order a few things online and getting a couple of books. After my uncle gets here, I'll be making sure everything I do, me living here and working here online with a vision for the next expansions and projects, will be legal and work following Swedish law. Will be a little boring and probably a bit long as a process, but I'll get there.
Now, onto long term projects. After the PayPal announcement, I think I will, in the future, make a poll to ask all of you for potential changes in the way I take commissions. Until now I used PayPal no problem, but the dang web crawlers could be a problem. The question would be to either take continuous risks for what I want to be a nice career OR find a solution. The solution I found was Gumroad. I already have it, it handles VAT on its own (which would greatly help me handle stuff without taking wrong turns or pay extra), the more I use it the less its own tax would be, I feel like it would work pretty well~ There would be, of course, a small compromise with any potential commissioner: having a not so straightforward payment (Gumroad payments are more like Amazon's if you don't have an account connected with PayPal) and having to pay VAT, which is something that at one point I would have to ask either way. Additionally, I was planning to also have Gumroad as the main site for donations as Ko-Fi is very nsfw unfriendly. There are still plans for various upcoming membership platforms openings, but for that you'll have to wait a little more (I'm just a smol little sad boy just arrived in an entirely different country, give me a little time 😉)
In conclusion, and to sum up, I'm alive and mostly well, my break will be longer still, hopefully by September I'll be up and running even more than before, there's some thinking to do with future commissions... ah yeah, fuck Flixbus, the journey was really terrible.
P.S. Damn guys, I've seen the amount of support you are giving me and it's incredible! I still hardly believe in what I can see. Thank you thank you, thank you so much for everything, sorry for having you wait a little more~
kekko
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