Something's coming.

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Lots of heavy clouds yesterday, but only a dozen or so drops. Until the early hours of this morning, that it, when it rained long and hard. The forecast today is supposedly no more than 24% now, but the clouds are already here, and the air feels like something's coming.

Of course, something is coming, on a bunch of other fronts, and this society is utterly unprepared to face, never mind deal with, any of it. There have been deaths already. There will be many more. And I'm not just talking about Roe. They are coming for 2S people, for LGBTQIA+ people, coming especially hard for trans folks. They're also coming for disabled people. All of these again and still, but most folks are absolutely unprepared for what we'll see in these next few weeks.

And they're coming for the planet, again and still also. Climate collapse is all around us, but the country is going to try to bribe evil by doing evil. And we have to keep going, because it's not just us that we have to worry about. We don't buy into end-of-the-world religious nonsense; we owe a livable world to the generations still unborn. 

For us, that means keeping at the paying work while we do our best to shoot help in various forms to as many folks as possible. It means taking advantage of the recent rain for late planting, hoping that the weather for an October harvest. It means Wings continuing to create, and me continuing to flog it, to cover not just our expenses but others', too. And eventually, for all of us, it's going to mean deciding which side of that line you're on, and either stepping over it to stand up to these Nazis who are busily dehumanizing whole populations (including our own), or sitting down and becoming "good Americans."  The world can't wait five months for "just vote harder."

Yeah, I'm angry. The time to prevent this was six years ago, and we warned you then. But people assured us we were conspiracy theorists. Welp. We know your fucked-up colonial culture better than you ever will. It's how we survive. 

So we'll be working behind the scenes wherever we can, but we'll also be carrying on as usual with Wings's work, because there's no other option for survival. Today will be out of order, because he's hoping to have the first in The Summer Elementals yet toady, but a minor disaster while he was working in the studio yesterday has borked everything. I Was finally able to get the two new pairs of hoop earrings posted a couple of nights ago, which you can see here. Nothing on the wrap rings yesterday, because see above. And he's got other things in the pipeline, but we have to get immediate matters dealt with first. That's made harder by my current pain levels, which are all-encompassing and completely unmanageable now, for a whole host of reasons, meanwhile, the costs of saving the land mount, too. We need to make sales consistently, always. All the links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the other ladder, the Thermacell lanterns particularly, because the mosquitoes have arrived with the rains, and the Gorilla tape);
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

We're still hoping to put aside enough for a new well when the ground thaws enough to drill in the spring, too, Nah, we've given up on the well. No one's available to drill before the latter half of summer, and the tax burden means we would never be able to afford it anyway. But it's perhaps even more of a good time to make a purchase, because Uncle Sam is a vindictive colonizer, and my current stress levels about paying it all are off the charts. And there's lots of fabulous work, so please share all of the links. 

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