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Requests are for CLOSE friends only! So, as some of you may know, my mate 
and I have been going through some rough times. I've been rather quiet about it lately, but it hasn't left. It won't for a while, especially with the move still impending.
Money has been less tight, but I still haven't been able to pay off my credit card debt -- it is debt, there's no way sweet-talking my way out of it. Bills don't stop because we're having a tough month, either.
The reason WHY my card is so racked up?... Brace yourself for some honesty. I was living with my ex, married, thought I was happy. Well, married people share their debt, right? Kind of. So, (we'll call him M although he's not cool in the slightest) M didn't have anything in the way of technology Eben though he was a big fan. This means: no computer. He often used mine and I'm sure some of you remember that catastrophe. So, M, used mine and eventually wanted to get his own laptop as it's a pain to share with someone and my laptop was slowly becoming obsolete and probably close to infested with his browsing habits.
Buying a laptop when you're broke every week is hard, though. Why the hell were we broke while both working full-time jobs that busted our butts? Because, honestly? He's an alcoholic. (That's another segment, though.) So, instead of just having him save a paycheck or two like my dumb younger self should have done, I listened to him about getting a credit card with my college account at a popular bank. A college account just makes it easier to handle -- sort of like training wheels, I guess and I was grandfathered in even after college.
Huzzah, I git a credit card. My first credit card. It had a $1,000 limit and I was terrified of it. I didn't even want a credit card yet. Anyway, we go to Best Buy, where M found the laptop he wanted and it was $800+ with tax and all. I had just gotten my credit card and I was already almost maxed on it. Great. So, I'm dying as I sign to buy the computer. .. it's for my husband, it's OK, he said he would pay me back, too! It's OK!!!.... Well, remember what I said about being broke because he's a freaking alcoholic? It only got worse. He used my credit card to buy some stupid things and he never paid off his laptop. He still claims he did, though~
We could barely pay for ourselves, I ended up getting a second job for a while before I got REALLY depressed and "what's-the-point" about life. It's not like he helped at all. His help was him drinking himself into oblivion and giving me time to sit alone in my car (which I got screwed big-time on in the price department) and talk to anyone who was online and listen to music. I would be there, parked out behind the bar well after closing, because he was feeding his addiction and no one in there helped -- he was best friends with the lady bartender! He often walked out in his tabs, would ask friends for money to spot him, overdraw or account in a drunken stupor, or .... get me to ask my mom for money! Sigh.
How embarrassing is it to ask your mom for money? If you're married, how much worse are you going to feel? Yeah. I felt bad asking because she would lecture ME about our spending. It took a while, but I got tired of the blame falling on me. When I explained, she didn't want to help him anymore. My mom is a great woman, great values, and has the biggest heart of anyone you'll meet. I'm sorry to her that she had to see her daughter with someone so... Toxic.
***Ahem. So, TL;DR, My ex is a super-douche alcoholic! I'm still trying to pay for that divorce (I didn't mention that part)! (Fuckingyayiamsobitteraboutthis). My credit card is wracked up, overdrawn, and very in-debt because of him and his inability to pay! Which I have proof of. I'm struggling to pay that and haven't at all for months. I owe my mom money even though she won't hound me for it. I plan to pay her back for absolutely everything....***
I'm not done yet, though.
Now is the part where things get more heavy. Also the part where Atmas should stop reading...
As some of you (very few) might know, Atma is a war veteran. He's been through some shit and I can't imagine a bit of it. As you can imagine, he's got some health problems and side-effects of war (and his previous relationship -- also a fucking battlefield). The VA (WOO!) has been jerking him around for years and they've only just now gotten somewhere with his tests.
He's been ill for some time now and NOW they're telling him he has to wait to be seen after getting abnormal test results in his CT scan. No. Fuck off! Seriously?! 6 months is the wait. To top if all off, they just sent a letter telling him to go somewhere else to deal with this. Basically a referral, so that's airtight, right? Wrong. He's being sent somewhere else because they refuse to pay for him. What a fan damn joke. Here, go pay $3,000 for treatment at this CANCER FACILITY.
Excuse me? .... cancer? And you refuse to help him. Of course you do. Someone who has saved your ass more than you've wiped it and you REFUSE to help him. VA, burn in hell. This man had been through so much in his life and I refuse to let him suffer more without trying to help him. Sure it'll be easier after the move, but I want to start funding him NOW.
He hasn't put me up to it, he doesn't know in writing this from my phone, in bed, this morning. I don't know how he'll take it, but I'm doing this.
Atma has been my best friend for longer than I've known M. I will fight for him and protect him with my very last breath. He's not been feeling well as of late and that makes work difficult to find. Some days he can't even get out of bed. I must take care of him and I will. I love him more than I've loved anyone and I won't be giving up.
***TL;DR Atma is ill, he needs treatment: $3,000. He doesn't know I wrote this yet. Well, he probably does now. ***
***So, what the heck does this mean for you, readers? I'm opening some serious sketch and colored sketch commissions. They're going to be quick as I can get them out and ON SALE for $10 a sketch and $15 for a colored sketch. Commissions will range from SFW to NSFW with a limit of 2 characters, please. I'll only not draw scat or gore. (Unless there's something else I've forgotten).***
I'll be streaming again in case you'd like to watch your sketch in-progress, but I don't have set times for that yet.
I sincerely thank you for reading this. I really didn't want to beg, but I am now. Donations are accepted, but I'd like to draw to pay back anyone who helps.
and I have been going through some rough times. I've been rather quiet about it lately, but it hasn't left. It won't for a while, especially with the move still impending. Money has been less tight, but I still haven't been able to pay off my credit card debt -- it is debt, there's no way sweet-talking my way out of it. Bills don't stop because we're having a tough month, either.
The reason WHY my card is so racked up?... Brace yourself for some honesty. I was living with my ex, married, thought I was happy. Well, married people share their debt, right? Kind of. So, (we'll call him M although he's not cool in the slightest) M didn't have anything in the way of technology Eben though he was a big fan. This means: no computer. He often used mine and I'm sure some of you remember that catastrophe. So, M, used mine and eventually wanted to get his own laptop as it's a pain to share with someone and my laptop was slowly becoming obsolete and probably close to infested with his browsing habits.
Buying a laptop when you're broke every week is hard, though. Why the hell were we broke while both working full-time jobs that busted our butts? Because, honestly? He's an alcoholic. (That's another segment, though.) So, instead of just having him save a paycheck or two like my dumb younger self should have done, I listened to him about getting a credit card with my college account at a popular bank. A college account just makes it easier to handle -- sort of like training wheels, I guess and I was grandfathered in even after college.
Huzzah, I git a credit card. My first credit card. It had a $1,000 limit and I was terrified of it. I didn't even want a credit card yet. Anyway, we go to Best Buy, where M found the laptop he wanted and it was $800+ with tax and all. I had just gotten my credit card and I was already almost maxed on it. Great. So, I'm dying as I sign to buy the computer. .. it's for my husband, it's OK, he said he would pay me back, too! It's OK!!!.... Well, remember what I said about being broke because he's a freaking alcoholic? It only got worse. He used my credit card to buy some stupid things and he never paid off his laptop. He still claims he did, though~
We could barely pay for ourselves, I ended up getting a second job for a while before I got REALLY depressed and "what's-the-point" about life. It's not like he helped at all. His help was him drinking himself into oblivion and giving me time to sit alone in my car (which I got screwed big-time on in the price department) and talk to anyone who was online and listen to music. I would be there, parked out behind the bar well after closing, because he was feeding his addiction and no one in there helped -- he was best friends with the lady bartender! He often walked out in his tabs, would ask friends for money to spot him, overdraw or account in a drunken stupor, or .... get me to ask my mom for money! Sigh.
How embarrassing is it to ask your mom for money? If you're married, how much worse are you going to feel? Yeah. I felt bad asking because she would lecture ME about our spending. It took a while, but I got tired of the blame falling on me. When I explained, she didn't want to help him anymore. My mom is a great woman, great values, and has the biggest heart of anyone you'll meet. I'm sorry to her that she had to see her daughter with someone so... Toxic.
***Ahem. So, TL;DR, My ex is a super-douche alcoholic! I'm still trying to pay for that divorce (I didn't mention that part)! (Fuckingyayiamsobitteraboutthis). My credit card is wracked up, overdrawn, and very in-debt because of him and his inability to pay! Which I have proof of. I'm struggling to pay that and haven't at all for months. I owe my mom money even though she won't hound me for it. I plan to pay her back for absolutely everything....***
I'm not done yet, though.
Now is the part where things get more heavy. Also the part where Atmas should stop reading...
As some of you (very few) might know, Atma is a war veteran. He's been through some shit and I can't imagine a bit of it. As you can imagine, he's got some health problems and side-effects of war (and his previous relationship -- also a fucking battlefield). The VA (WOO!) has been jerking him around for years and they've only just now gotten somewhere with his tests.
He's been ill for some time now and NOW they're telling him he has to wait to be seen after getting abnormal test results in his CT scan. No. Fuck off! Seriously?! 6 months is the wait. To top if all off, they just sent a letter telling him to go somewhere else to deal with this. Basically a referral, so that's airtight, right? Wrong. He's being sent somewhere else because they refuse to pay for him. What a fan damn joke. Here, go pay $3,000 for treatment at this CANCER FACILITY.
Excuse me? .... cancer? And you refuse to help him. Of course you do. Someone who has saved your ass more than you've wiped it and you REFUSE to help him. VA, burn in hell. This man had been through so much in his life and I refuse to let him suffer more without trying to help him. Sure it'll be easier after the move, but I want to start funding him NOW.
He hasn't put me up to it, he doesn't know in writing this from my phone, in bed, this morning. I don't know how he'll take it, but I'm doing this.
Atma has been my best friend for longer than I've known M. I will fight for him and protect him with my very last breath. He's not been feeling well as of late and that makes work difficult to find. Some days he can't even get out of bed. I must take care of him and I will. I love him more than I've loved anyone and I won't be giving up.
***TL;DR Atma is ill, he needs treatment: $3,000. He doesn't know I wrote this yet. Well, he probably does now. ***
***So, what the heck does this mean for you, readers? I'm opening some serious sketch and colored sketch commissions. They're going to be quick as I can get them out and ON SALE for $10 a sketch and $15 for a colored sketch. Commissions will range from SFW to NSFW with a limit of 2 characters, please. I'll only not draw scat or gore. (Unless there's something else I've forgotten).***
I'll be streaming again in case you'd like to watch your sketch in-progress, but I don't have set times for that yet.
I sincerely thank you for reading this. I really didn't want to beg, but I am now. Donations are accepted, but I'd like to draw to pay back anyone who helps.
His credit was never good -- should have taken that as a hint a long time ago, I guess. I'll be lucky if I can get him to pay any of it.
I wouldnt mind helping out but it depends, do you use paypay?
No prob. ^_^
I also need to mention that there's an extra fee for complicated characters/characters with a ton of accessories.
Possibly 3.
My suggestion is to urge your friend to raise hell with his state reps. My own father had possible bone cancer and tried to pull the same shit on him, so we contacted the rep for our state and that rep put his foot far and deep up the local VA office's asshole.
Suddenly they went from a 6mo wait to seeing my Dad within the month.
Oh and I'll call and also raise hell. Because I am so done with dealing with the VA's bullshit.
We can discuss further on skype.