i'm building a body where our design has failed

We are in Ohio and well! We've had a forests_of_fire on and off and are gonna explore North Market a little later today. We fell in love with Tim Horton's coffee and our hotel has great waffles and I apparently calm down a lot on planes once the initial take-off is done, so. Everything is good!

Now on to more important things: analise010 is a wonderful, awesome person who I have been lucky enough over the last -- near-year? Something like that. She is great, and she is also having problems with jobs. Her goal is to become an actuary -- which requires a test, which requires a truly ridiculous amount of money to charge people.

She is looking to raise money, and offering Tarot/Oracle readings. Her readings are great, so if you have a little extra to spare, please take a look and see if you can help.

If you follow my partner rootsofthestories, which I think most of you do, you might have seen them making this request a couple of days ago as well. On Tuesday, we're going to Ohio for a week; we don't have a whole lot of money for food, transport, or generally getting anywhere. We also have to worry about food when we come home, because we're getting a little bit low on it and we won't be paid for a few more days.

In addition, we've been lower than usual the past couple of months. I think most of you know I work with my mother, but with all the upheaval going on there and everything that's happened this summer, she and I haven't been doing anything, which means she (reasonably, since I haven't been working) hasn't been paying me. I did do a job over the summer, but because of the manner of payment, it'll probably be a couple more months before I see anything from it. Hurricane prep also kind of wiped us out more than we expected this month.

So yeah. If there's anything you can pitch in, we'd deeply appreciate it, and I would be happy to do something in return. We've already gotten some from Bast's posts, because people are wonderful, but I hate not trying to do anything, and any little bit more would be very helpful.

I can offer Tarot or Oracle draws. I can edit things, either line-by-line copy or general content/first reader stuff. I can do icons or simple graphics -- give me a poke if you'd like to see examples. Beyond that is stuff I'm a little rusty on, but more than happy to do: I can write short things or try to do poetry. I can make playlists or fanmixes, I can podfic or record something, I can write you a filk. I can maybe try and do a 30-second vid, though the timeline on that one may be longer as I need to get used to that software. That's all I can think of but honestly, if there's anything else you'd like me to do, feel free to pitch it and maybe we can work something out.

If you can spare anything, you'd have our love and eternal adoration, and I am more than happy to work out something I can do for you in return. I'll have a computer and hotel internet while we're gone, so if I don't get it done by Tuesday morning, I will work on things while we're up there as well.

Even if all you've done is read through this, thank you so much.

(Paypal link goes to Bast's, just to keep everything in the same place.)

Thing the first: Spent the weekend at my mother's before the asshole moved back in, and it went pretty well for the most part, but my computer cord died on Saturday so I've not really been around. Trying to catch up, but let me know if I missed anything I should see.

Thing the second: signal-boosting my partner, who is offering various writing, creative, and divinatory services in the hopes of making a little extra we can use on our trip next month to scout potential places to live to. We could really use a little help, if anyone's interested -- signal-boosts are excellent too, so go take a look.

Thing the third: For the same reason, if anyone still wants a Tarot or Oracle reading, I am also still open!

I could use some extra money right now for various reasons I don't entirely have the brain to go into, so have a Tarot and Oracle post! For those of you who are new or have been linked here: I have 15 years of experience with the Tarot, and I read professionally both in person and over the internet.

Comment and receive a free one-card Tarot draw. I can choose the deck or you can; I can do general readings or a focus/question. You can choose any deck, but I'm going to be away from home for a few days, so if you want your reading before next weekend, stick to the ones that are *'d. I am happy to PM you if you'd like to receive your reading privately instead of publicly; let me know, because the default will be public.
If you signal-boost somewhere public and link me to it, you can either get a second Tarot card or an additional one-card Oracle draw for free. Let me know when you drop me the link which you'd prefer and also whether you have a different focus/question for the second card, and if Tarot, whether you'd like a different deck for each card (whether of your choice or mine).

( Decks. )

Then, if you'd like a longer reading, see below the cut for spreads on offer!

( Spreads. )

I missed Midsummer, but I hope anyone who celebrated had a good one.

My brain has been doing weird things the last couple of days. I could definitely be worse, but it's still annoying, and also not making it easy to get stuff done. I'm hoping to fix that today, so we'll see what happens. I really want to watch things, but I keep telling myself to do things first, so that may or may not ever actually happen. Also on the list of things I can't do while getting stuff done: sleeping, reading, Flight Rising, and listening to the same two songs over and over.

I will learn how to focus someday. I swear I will. Maybe.

There is a lot of conversation flying around the room on... well, a pretty regular basis, but this morning, and it's not quite this, but it's close enough to tick my brain on a subject I come back to regularly. And I don't quite have the words to use for why I find myself asking these questions, at least right now, but I do have questions, and if anybody wants to answer them, I'd be very interested to hear what you have to say. So:

1. Are there characters that you identify closely with (or have in the past)?
2. If so, who are they, and why do you identify with them/what about them do you identify with?
3. Do you ever have trouble finding characters you identify with?
4. Are there characters other people have identified you with, and if so, are they in line with the ones you choose for yourself/do you agree with them/do you consider them characters you identify with after having people point it out?

Anon comments are screened, so if you don't want to talk publicly but don't mind discussing it, feel free to leave an anon comment or PM me; just let me know if you don't want it unscreened.

1. Full moon readings from wyld_dandelyon.

2. kaberett is hosting a love meme. My thread is here.

I am out of it, and I need to work and make lists, but I could be worse. I have been a lot worse, this week. I'm getting back to equilibrium, more or less.

I am stealing this shamelessly from a tumblr prompt list: There are 50 75 A Softer World prompts under the cut (because I added 25 more of my favorites). Leave me a number + a character/ship/fandom/original verse/whatever and I'll write a thing.

I... think most of the worst content notes are avoided, but it IS ASW, so there might be some black humor or dark themes that snuck in here and there that I'm just too tired to notice. I may ignore any really ridiculous alt-text (the parentheses in each prompt, if you don't know ASW). Or not. It depends on what the prompt's for and what mood I'm in.

( Prompts! )

Guess who's a scattered mess today! Hint, it's me. It's generally me.

( Babbling about yesterday's mess. )

So yes. I have many things to do today, but I'm gonna try and do all the Tarot stuff between doing those things. And then tomorrow I leave for Tennessee! We should be back Monday night, but not til at least 10 or 11 at night, and then there's stuff to take care of Tuesday, so it's entirely possible I won't entirely exist until Tuesday night at earliest.

Well wishes and luck is greatly appreciated, because I'm still nervous as fuck about the salesman aspect of it, even if I have the Tarot stuff pretty down.

It is a super-bad pain day and I have no idea what I did to my back. So much fun. :| I am taking a shower and seeing if that helps, and then I have some time to start Tarot pulls. Then I go to my mother's overnight to work on some last bits of stuff to sell at PUF and come home tomorrow for the last week's stretch of getting shit together before the festival.

It's gonna be a something week.

I am technically a couple of days behind on the music meme, but since I'm gonna disappear for a week as is, screw it, I'm gonna continue doing this the slow way, because I enjoy it more than doing massive dumps. *shrug*

8. A song about drugs or alcohol

First thing to come to mind is Health to the Company -- the version I know best is not anywhere on the internet but the Brobdignagian Bards are also acceptable.

( The rest of the meme. )