Just no end.

Photo copyright Aji, 2021; all rights reserved.

Apparently there is just no end to the interruptions and disruptions and irritations and just general fuckery of this week.

I'm only now getting to today's posts because the day was spent yet again with having to go out there, meaning out among the colonial population that doesn't want to vax or mask or generally do the bare minimum humanity requires. One of those colonizers has a pissy OpEd in the local rag about what cowardly corporate sheeple we all are, while another has one about how her "conqueror" ancestors are the real Indigenous people here. I feel like shit because I can't hake the effects of this booster, I've had precious little sleep, too much stress, and no fucking idea how I'm going to keep things going to rest of the year, never mind protect my eyesight.

Meanwhile, Wings can barely get any studio time. That up there was yesterday, and he was back at it late today, working on creating more stamps. I, on the other hand, can't get any time for my own work, either, and this week's events have me at my choking point.

I'm tired. Of all of it. Of the constant physical pain and the fatigue and the balance issues and the side effects and and and. Of the avalanche of unmitigated bullshit we're expected to take every day on top of it. Of always having to worry, every minute of every day, about us, about others, about community members, about who's going to make it and who won't.

I need people to buy his work. We need it. We don't make some steady sales VERY SOON? We don't make it through the end of this year, never mind the rest of the winter or '22. And I have to carry the worry about all of this, every minute of every day.

So here we go again with the endless chasing of sales to make everything meet where it needs to. And I need to bring in those sales. Desperately. They're already way, way down for the year because the colonial governments' pandemic mismanagement has trashed the economy. Also? Time is short, a lot shorter than you realize. For folks who are planning on Christmas shopping with us, you will need to order early this year, because thanks to DeJoy's damage, we can't guarantee shipping times.

Also, if you're planning on commissioning gifts for the holidays, DO IT NOW. We're dealing with the same supply-chain issues as everyone else, and at some point soon, Wings is going to have to get silver and stones to produce holiday inventory, and I'm hearing that the price is already spiking on the metals. More to the point of what customers care about, we also can't guarantee shipping times this year, because see above. But I've posted a ton of Wings's new work lately, and there will be more in the days and weeks to come. If I could sell one of the big works, like one of the belts, maybe I could get us on the drill list for the well that is the only thing that's going to keep this land alive. But I've got way too much to do and too few hours and other resources to do it. 

Anyway, I have GOT to make some sales, so links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the ladders, because see above, and coffee coffee coffee, which we're finding it harder and harder to get locally);
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And if you've been contemplating a purchase? This would be a very, very good time to do it; I've got to cover all this staggering outlay somehow and get us through what's left of the year. And right now? I have no way to do it.  But there's lots of fabulous new work, so please share all of the links. 

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