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Posted 5 months agoI'm on my comeback tour! I've caught up with majority of the work that was pushed back after last month's homeless adventure. meanwhile
I've been applying for jobs all month June and have had 3 declines, one in person interview that's currently pending and 7 no-calls. The end of the month is approaching fast and even if I snagged a job, I would barely cover the cost of my expenses with the funds I have left to work with. I accomplished getting a room to rent, please help me try to keep it.
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I've been applying for jobs all month June and have had 3 declines, one in person interview that's currently pending and 7 no-calls. The end of the month is approaching fast and even if I snagged a job, I would barely cover the cost of my expenses with the funds I have left to work with. I accomplished getting a room to rent, please help me try to keep it.
Form (https://mezzo4te.fillout.com/4tecomm)
Homeless No More!
Posted 5 months agoJust last week I secured a place for me to move into. I Obtained the key Monday and began moving my belongings out of storage just in time before needing to renew another month. I will have everything moved out and mostly reassembled at the new place by the end of the week.
Now that I've acquired a roof over my head, the next item on my to-do list is finding a job for the summer that maybe leads into the fall. This will help me earn money while I catch up my two owed projects plus current waitlist. I don't have any classes for the summer, so I have one less thing diverting my attention and less stress.
I do not believe to be in a position still to offer my Patreon sketches for the month of June but if everything continues to go well, I can continue in July. Earlier, I discussed with members that as I leave the PATREON running, all Silver and higher patrons can later redeem their total month(s) subscription towards a commission. Shoutouts and thanks to some generous people that have pushed beyond the envelope during these troubling months and help keep this ship floating.
lunathal
Pathia
Azurisz
PoMa
Now that I've acquired a roof over my head, the next item on my to-do list is finding a job for the summer that maybe leads into the fall. This will help me earn money while I catch up my two owed projects plus current waitlist. I don't have any classes for the summer, so I have one less thing diverting my attention and less stress.
I do not believe to be in a position still to offer my Patreon sketches for the month of June but if everything continues to go well, I can continue in July. Earlier, I discussed with members that as I leave the PATREON running, all Silver and higher patrons can later redeem their total month(s) subscription towards a commission. Shoutouts and thanks to some generous people that have pushed beyond the envelope during these troubling months and help keep this ship floating.
lunathal
Pathia
AzuriszPoMa
Homeless ProgressUpdate
Posted 6 months agoAs stated in the previous journal, I'm currently homeless but with my support group of friends, I'm not on the streets living in my car. A buddy has offered a place for me to stay while I get my affairs in order and try to tie up loose ends. I'm actively looking for rooms to rent or an apartment that can take me. In the meantime, I still have estimated 2 weeks left of my college class and entering finals. This is also why I haven't been so active, and I want to finish strong despite my setback and again not waist my parents' investment.
Now let's talk finances. I have a sum of money set aside that would help towards my potential move into any of the units I've been researching and in communication with (nothing set in stone). I have bills in my name that need to be closed out and I have the lowest expectations of what is owed to me will ever see my pockets let alone whatever portion of the Utilities that the other roommate is responsible for, thus leaving me to pay 100% with my own funds. I need to pay these expenses in order for me to end their service, and I don't have enough to save for my hopeful move and close the power and wi-fi before getting charged another month for something I'm not using.
I'm looking into a physical job to obtain a stable income but it's tricky finding work I can do or is open within my means.
The bills I need to close from the previous apartment. these include any outstanding balances from March - May. keep in mind I'm one person also paying the weight of two others.
Power Bill: $304 = ($163 March, $141 April+May)
Wi-Fi Bill: $402 = ($202 March, $200 April)
I'm already paying my other personal debts off in addition to this. These are not a high priority but do impact my total expenses.
Med debt #1: $306 = ($102 monthly payment) almost paid off
Med debt #2: $4,249.64 = ($144 monthly payment)
I need to accumulate $800 which is effectively what rent for me would be. I know I won't land a job in time earn a fraction of this and the easiest thing for me to do is have commissions, but I won't be able to get them worked on in a timely manner with my owed queue (The queue is small, but It's still owed work) plus the monthly sketches and the recent raffles I hosted before all of this blew up on me. If I am to do this, I need the commissions to be something quick and easy while still providing a level of quality.
Another important topic of conversation that I was contemplating on was whether or not I freeze my Patreon for the month of June or let it run. Please let me know your thoughts regarding this, but I've decided to let it stay running and hopefully it's only for the short term. I'm still uploading whatever it is I'm able to work on, but for anyone who wishes to, it is understandable if you want to cancel your membership.
Now let's talk finances. I have a sum of money set aside that would help towards my potential move into any of the units I've been researching and in communication with (nothing set in stone). I have bills in my name that need to be closed out and I have the lowest expectations of what is owed to me will ever see my pockets let alone whatever portion of the Utilities that the other roommate is responsible for, thus leaving me to pay 100% with my own funds. I need to pay these expenses in order for me to end their service, and I don't have enough to save for my hopeful move and close the power and wi-fi before getting charged another month for something I'm not using.
I'm looking into a physical job to obtain a stable income but it's tricky finding work I can do or is open within my means.
The bills I need to close from the previous apartment. these include any outstanding balances from March - May. keep in mind I'm one person also paying the weight of two others.
Power Bill: $304 = ($163 March, $141 April+May)
Wi-Fi Bill: $402 = ($202 March, $200 April)
I'm already paying my other personal debts off in addition to this. These are not a high priority but do impact my total expenses.
Med debt #1: $306 = ($102 monthly payment) almost paid off
Med debt #2: $4,249.64 = ($144 monthly payment)
I need to accumulate $800 which is effectively what rent for me would be. I know I won't land a job in time earn a fraction of this and the easiest thing for me to do is have commissions, but I won't be able to get them worked on in a timely manner with my owed queue (The queue is small, but It's still owed work) plus the monthly sketches and the recent raffles I hosted before all of this blew up on me. If I am to do this, I need the commissions to be something quick and easy while still providing a level of quality.
Another important topic of conversation that I was contemplating on was whether or not I freeze my Patreon for the month of June or let it run. Please let me know your thoughts regarding this, but I've decided to let it stay running and hopefully it's only for the short term. I'm still uploading whatever it is I'm able to work on, but for anyone who wishes to, it is understandable if you want to cancel your membership.
I'm Homeless, Important Read
Posted 6 months agoSimple as that, I'm homeless, not the kind of news you want to hear. If you weren't kept up with my situation or in the know of what's been going on, I've had a roommate (Novi) who has consistently missed or was short on their portion of rent. Regardless of the reasonings (justified or not), this has occurred since the start of November last year. I've been hemorrhaging money to help cover for their portion, with ever-growing confidence of not getting it back each month as it was always something. In October Ken (the other rommate) was in a car accident (they were fine, but the car was totaled) and was tight on funds themselves while everything was happening regarding rent.
Fast forward to last April, the roommate in question, Novi, lost their Money-Order-Check (for the 2nd time) causing us to be late on rent again and if not for Ken’s dad pitching in, we’d have been evicted a month ago. There was a short-term agreement made prior to transfer from the 3-bedroom unit to a 2 bed with Novi as Ken was already moving at the end of the lease and it theoretically would have been cost effective but what happed in April killed it for me and I cancelled the transfer. This put us on month-to-month rent as my rash decision wasn’t a 60-day notice for the Leasing Office. May 1st rolls around and Nivo doesn’t have enough to cover their portion again. Rent was higher, and Ken and I only had enough to pay our portion. To be fair, I had to take Nivo to the ER causing them to miss 3 – 4 days of work, but the results are the same. So, we have until the 9th to pay rent plus late fees or get Evicted. Ken and I chose the secret third option, resign the keys back to the Leasing office, get our security deposit back, sign a payment plan to pay the owed rent and split.
Meanwhile, I was in talks with another individual regarding me moving in with them, but I have not been able to bring my thing into the new space due to some schedule conflicts at the beginning of April, and I haven’t heard word from them in the last 2 weeks, and I can’t sit around hoping for a response to never come. I've been ghosted and the timing is real bad leaving me high and dry.
I feel it important to say, that Novi is a nice person and none of what’s happened is maliciously intended but God damn did I want to strangle that motherfucker each time shit like this came up because of their negligence. I should not be picking up the slack for someone who on record, earns more than I do. There’s a bit more nuance and details omitted to the things that happened, but I believe to have hit the important marks regarding what’s going on and why. Novi and Ken are not real names as it was easier for me to say rather than “roommate 1” and “roommate 2” or "the other roommate" yadda yadda.
So What Am I Doing Going Forward?
• For starters I rented out a storage unit to store my items away. Bed, dresser drawer, clothes, personal items etc. I’ve been selling and dumping furniture. Making sure the Unit is well cleaned before vacating.
• I still have a college class that I don’t want to terminate, wasting all the money my parents spent for this quarter when I’m just a few weeks away from finishing the course. I already had to drop a different class, unable to keep up while dealing with my own problems and the heavy workload of both classes while handling my position as a freelance artist.
• I’m asking a relative if I can temporarily bunk in their space. At the same time, I’ll be looking for available rental listings. Possibly other students are searching for an off-campus roommate. Cheap Hotel, Air BnB?
• Because I’m a student currently, I can freely enter buildings and facilities giving me access to power and Wi-Fi allowing me to continue some of my work on campus.
• Speaking of work, I have 3 commissions in my queue, and I have no desire to abandon them as they’re all so close to finishing, but realistically speaking, things will get extra slow the next upcoming days. This will also apply to my recent raffle winners on BlueSky and discord.
• I want to retry applying for work when my class is done (the job market kind of sucks but I need to try). It may be hindsight to say that I should have found a job months ago, but that won’t change the timeline of events of Novi bleeding my pockets dry owing me an estimated $2400 of rent and utilities. Plus, it’s very difficult for me to juggle school, work, and commissions and my artwork was paying my bills. Looking back on it, The rent situation was always a reason why majority of my art was for commissions never giving me a break to create art for fun.
• Before all of that, I’m Flying back home to Virginia for the weekend, 5/8/25-5/12/25 to attend my little sister’s college graduation. Albeit this was planned and paid for before I fell into this hole, but I still want to go celebrate her accomplishment. as of writing this post (5/6/2025), I’m rushing to be packed up and cleared to relinquish my keys and when I return, I might be living in my car during Georgia Summer.
What Can You Do?
• You are not obligated to help and don’t feel pressured to help when you cannot. I prefer that you take care of yourself before you take care of me. I love and appreciate everyone prior and during this madness, who have supported me, and continues to support me by any means as I trudged through this mess. whether that be through commissions or being a part of my Patreon. Even words are valuable to me. If you wish to help me financially, you can donate to my Ko-Fi or directly to my PayPal. Money can keep me afloat, but it will not undo all the damage on its own. You are not responsible for fixing what Novi failed to do and I must keep my end of the bargain by just landing on my feet and by whatever means, climb up.
• As for my Patreon, I am highly considering putting a freeze on subscription payments beginning June. I don’t feel right leaving the lights on when I cannot confidently create the content you subscribed to in the upcoming months. I do desire to get May’s Melee sketches worked on, but again, realistically that may have to wait too.
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Fast forward to last April, the roommate in question, Novi, lost their Money-Order-Check (for the 2nd time) causing us to be late on rent again and if not for Ken’s dad pitching in, we’d have been evicted a month ago. There was a short-term agreement made prior to transfer from the 3-bedroom unit to a 2 bed with Novi as Ken was already moving at the end of the lease and it theoretically would have been cost effective but what happed in April killed it for me and I cancelled the transfer. This put us on month-to-month rent as my rash decision wasn’t a 60-day notice for the Leasing Office. May 1st rolls around and Nivo doesn’t have enough to cover their portion again. Rent was higher, and Ken and I only had enough to pay our portion. To be fair, I had to take Nivo to the ER causing them to miss 3 – 4 days of work, but the results are the same. So, we have until the 9th to pay rent plus late fees or get Evicted. Ken and I chose the secret third option, resign the keys back to the Leasing office, get our security deposit back, sign a payment plan to pay the owed rent and split.
Meanwhile, I was in talks with another individual regarding me moving in with them, but I have not been able to bring my thing into the new space due to some schedule conflicts at the beginning of April, and I haven’t heard word from them in the last 2 weeks, and I can’t sit around hoping for a response to never come. I've been ghosted and the timing is real bad leaving me high and dry.
I feel it important to say, that Novi is a nice person and none of what’s happened is maliciously intended but God damn did I want to strangle that motherfucker each time shit like this came up because of their negligence. I should not be picking up the slack for someone who on record, earns more than I do. There’s a bit more nuance and details omitted to the things that happened, but I believe to have hit the important marks regarding what’s going on and why. Novi and Ken are not real names as it was easier for me to say rather than “roommate 1” and “roommate 2” or "the other roommate" yadda yadda.
So What Am I Doing Going Forward?
• For starters I rented out a storage unit to store my items away. Bed, dresser drawer, clothes, personal items etc. I’ve been selling and dumping furniture. Making sure the Unit is well cleaned before vacating.
• I still have a college class that I don’t want to terminate, wasting all the money my parents spent for this quarter when I’m just a few weeks away from finishing the course. I already had to drop a different class, unable to keep up while dealing with my own problems and the heavy workload of both classes while handling my position as a freelance artist.
• I’m asking a relative if I can temporarily bunk in their space. At the same time, I’ll be looking for available rental listings. Possibly other students are searching for an off-campus roommate. Cheap Hotel, Air BnB?
• Because I’m a student currently, I can freely enter buildings and facilities giving me access to power and Wi-Fi allowing me to continue some of my work on campus.
• Speaking of work, I have 3 commissions in my queue, and I have no desire to abandon them as they’re all so close to finishing, but realistically speaking, things will get extra slow the next upcoming days. This will also apply to my recent raffle winners on BlueSky and discord.
• I want to retry applying for work when my class is done (the job market kind of sucks but I need to try). It may be hindsight to say that I should have found a job months ago, but that won’t change the timeline of events of Novi bleeding my pockets dry owing me an estimated $2400 of rent and utilities. Plus, it’s very difficult for me to juggle school, work, and commissions and my artwork was paying my bills. Looking back on it, The rent situation was always a reason why majority of my art was for commissions never giving me a break to create art for fun.
• Before all of that, I’m Flying back home to Virginia for the weekend, 5/8/25-5/12/25 to attend my little sister’s college graduation. Albeit this was planned and paid for before I fell into this hole, but I still want to go celebrate her accomplishment. as of writing this post (5/6/2025), I’m rushing to be packed up and cleared to relinquish my keys and when I return, I might be living in my car during Georgia Summer.
What Can You Do?
• You are not obligated to help and don’t feel pressured to help when you cannot. I prefer that you take care of yourself before you take care of me. I love and appreciate everyone prior and during this madness, who have supported me, and continues to support me by any means as I trudged through this mess. whether that be through commissions or being a part of my Patreon. Even words are valuable to me. If you wish to help me financially, you can donate to my Ko-Fi or directly to my PayPal. Money can keep me afloat, but it will not undo all the damage on its own. You are not responsible for fixing what Novi failed to do and I must keep my end of the bargain by just landing on my feet and by whatever means, climb up.
• As for my Patreon, I am highly considering putting a freeze on subscription payments beginning June. I don’t feel right leaving the lights on when I cannot confidently create the content you subscribed to in the upcoming months. I do desire to get May’s Melee sketches worked on, but again, realistically that may have to wait too.
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Life Updates
Posted 7 months agoSurvey
Want to start this by thanking everyone and appreciate their time responding to my earlier survey. If you haven't yet and want to provide feedback, don't worry, the form will still be open until April 16.
https://mezzo4te.fillout.com/survey
I'm Moving
If you know you know, but the long and short of it for anyone out of the loop is that I have been on a year lease with a roommate whose consistent negligence has financially crippled me. The contract is ending soon, and I will be getting away. I want to especially thank everyone that provided support or picked up commissions from me during these past couple months. I'm currently in the process of packing my things to transfer to the new space. Things may slow down as I have to juggle this and school, but I will still be operational for work during this time and commit to completing my current queue.
Future commission
I'm stepping away from my 24/7 system to monthly slots and restructuring some aspects of my process. I have new target goals and things that I want to do but felt restrained due to the earlier financial situation mentioned. These changes will come likely by next month, May, but one step at a time.
Request for feedback
Posted 7 months agoI'm seeking insight as a business to help understand what I'm doing well as a commission artist and where I'm falling short. The survey is open to anyone, and results are anonymous.
https://mezzo4te.fillout.com/survey
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⚠️ Emergency Commissions - UPDATED
Posted 8 months ago3/10/25
Roommate paid their missing portion of rent + late fee so I'm in less of a panic again. However, this does not absolve past fuck ups.
Thank you all that answer the call during my crash out. I'll be in contact with commissioners and Invoices will be promptly sent out.
I need work ASAP
no comics / pages
Info: https://4te.carrd.co
General comms: https://mezzo4te.fillout.com/commission
JBC: https://mezzo4te.fillout.com/JBM
Payment up front. Work will still follow current queue, no priority.
Goal: $500 - $900 by Sat (3/8/25)
This is the 6th consecutive time where something, goes wrong with one of my roommates' finances leaving us 3 late for rent or that they are short on their end because of some 3rd-party bullshit leaving me as the punching bag fronting cost. In November, they got a new job but the transition in job position shifted their expected pay period. Regardless, short $310 on rent, and I and the other roommate paid out of pocket to keep a roof over my head. They lost a whole check in December, and I had to cancel going home to family for the winter. For March this time, their bank is declining transactions (I witnessed it). This is irrelevant as the fact remains, we're late again. I also haven't seen a cent for utilities since October. I've only been paid back a portion once only for something to undo it.
The part that I'm struggling to understand is how am I, the one with medical debt & is the lowest earner in the house keeping my shit together. I know the answer, I just want to shout it. My money isn't mine anymore, I'm barely holding onto what I've worked for now. only good for bills, food, gas. I can't repair my car, can't plan for trips. I wanted to go to a con for the first time, FWA, can't. Was planning to attend a huge Pokémon Tournament in April with a group, can't. I Have to keep money close to the chest ready to lose it to random 7th reason we can't pay rent. I'm just burnt out. I'm at an overall deficient of -$2500 and I can't keep dealing with this. I don't know what a savings account is anymore, missing rent is $740, I only need to earn 320 and I'm expecting something to go wrong again next April, which is why my goal is between 500 and 900 just so I can have padding.
Roommate paid their missing portion of rent + late fee so I'm in less of a panic again. However, this does not absolve past fuck ups.
Thank you all that answer the call during my crash out. I'll be in contact with commissioners and Invoices will be promptly sent out.
I need work ASAP
no comics / pages
Info: https://4te.carrd.co
General comms: https://mezzo4te.fillout.com/commission
JBC: https://mezzo4te.fillout.com/JBM
Payment up front. Work will still follow current queue, no priority.
Goal: $500 - $900 by Sat (3/8/25)
This is the 6th consecutive time where something, goes wrong with one of my roommates' finances leaving us 3 late for rent or that they are short on their end because of some 3rd-party bullshit leaving me as the punching bag fronting cost. In November, they got a new job but the transition in job position shifted their expected pay period. Regardless, short $310 on rent, and I and the other roommate paid out of pocket to keep a roof over my head. They lost a whole check in December, and I had to cancel going home to family for the winter. For March this time, their bank is declining transactions (I witnessed it). This is irrelevant as the fact remains, we're late again. I also haven't seen a cent for utilities since October. I've only been paid back a portion once only for something to undo it.
The part that I'm struggling to understand is how am I, the one with medical debt & is the lowest earner in the house keeping my shit together. I know the answer, I just want to shout it. My money isn't mine anymore, I'm barely holding onto what I've worked for now. only good for bills, food, gas. I can't repair my car, can't plan for trips. I wanted to go to a con for the first time, FWA, can't. Was planning to attend a huge Pokémon Tournament in April with a group, can't. I Have to keep money close to the chest ready to lose it to random 7th reason we can't pay rent. I'm just burnt out. I'm at an overall deficient of -$2500 and I can't keep dealing with this. I don't know what a savings account is anymore, missing rent is $740, I only need to earn 320 and I'm expecting something to go wrong again next April, which is why my goal is between 500 and 900 just so I can have padding.
