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Final Patreon Donation
🕑 Added 2022-03-13 17:43:02 +0000 UTCHey everyone!
This Patreon was created in February of 2021, so this March was the twelfth month of donations. For the first year of this Patreon's life, I took all of the money made by the Patreon, matched it with my own money, and then donated that sum to the National Center for Transgender Equality. Today, I made my last donation--$1200, for a total of about $3500 raised in the last year. This is going to be the last donation I made.
When I originally set up this Patreon, my wife and I were both working full time, and I didn't need the money--I was actually more interested in having a kind of "blogging platform" to share updates and such than I was in the donations. I also did very little with my Nexus Donation Points and often donated them to buy lifetime premiums (I've bought 12+) or gave 100% of them to my co-authors.
After two years of teaching in a crumbling school district during a global pandemic, and more than one mental breakdown, I've quit my job, and I'm probably not going to work full time for a bit. My wife asked me to use this transition as a time to adjust how I treat income from modding, and it seems like a reasonable ask to me. Going forward, I'll take what modest funds I get from modding, whether its Nexus DP or Patreon donations, and put them towards a car payment or something similarly useful to us. (Actually, I was thinking about taking some classes in the fall, so I might try to save the Patreon bucks for that.)
I want to thank everyone for their support over the last year. I never expected I could raise a few thousand dollars for an important cause by making spells for a 10 year old video game, but here we are. To celebrate, I wanted to share this letter I got recently after my last donation--it even comes w/ a nice little hand-written thank you at the bottom!
If you're one of the fine Patrons who is here to support a good cause, and you don't want to continue donating, then don't forget to cancel your membership before the end of the next month. I will try to post one last reminder before the end of the month.
Well, that's all for now, folks. Work on Mysticism is going well. I've put in a huge chunk of hours this week, and I think we're still on track for a release this Friday. Until then, cheers, and don't forget to bully TERFs on the internet whenever you see them!
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TransFormAndFunction
Thank you for the generous donations over the years, it's really really heartening to see someone care so much about an issue close to my heart. I dedicate my next argument with a TERF to you!
