A drought in every context now.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

Not a single cloud in the sky. Not much snow left, either. It's fifty-six degrees, which is about thirty degrees too warm for this time of year. That fraction of a degree of warming of the earth per year translates into something much larger [and more deadly] here and now.

It seems we have a drought in every context now: of water; of sales; of morality and common sense by those would pretend to "lead" us. Especially the "morality" part.

As far as sales, we've had a couple of them over the weekend, but we'll need to sell a lot more between now and year's end, obviously. My Patreon for the month is down ~$250 at the moment [that's how much it was short on the December 1st payout for subscriptions for the month of November, and so far, all of those still haven't been paid]. My guess is that those won't materialize later in the month; that will be the penalty [or one of them anyway] for taking a vocal stand about the genocide being perpetrated against Palestine and its people now. Of course, we haven't brought in anywhere nearly enough sales all year. It's grim. I still don't know what more I can do at this point; my pain levels are completely out of control right now, and I'm back to barely being able to walk most of the time. I have a doctor's appointment this week, but I don't expect that to alter anything in terms of my ability to function, since the feds are determined that chronic pain patients must suffer rather than be treated even minimally adequately, so that'll be one more big cash expense out the door. If by chance I DO get a change in scrips? It'll be that much more. The one I should be trying is not going to happen, because I don't have almost $7K a month to spend on it. This country does not have a health care system, only a death care system.

And aside from all of that, I also need to bring in at least $6K in sales between now and year's end to cover tax prepayments, and we haven't hit the $1K mark on that yet. Normally, I would've been paying them quarterly, but not this year; we haven't had enough sales to do that, and I'm behind on everything else, too, all while my illness worsens seemingly by the day. Until those prepayments are off my desk, I can't relax, can't do anything other than push to get them covered. I really need help. As always, all the links are listed below, and sales are the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (the liquid soaps I had on the list are now refusing to ship to us, so I've replaced them with two others, at the top of the list, for now, and they're the current priority [or Amazon cards, and I can order them myself]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site, and there will be much more in the days to come. The way this year has gone, things will still be grim for a good while and the holidays are already here, so please share all of the links. 

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