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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Aug 12

no promises, BUT........... work in progress <3

A picture of a desk holding a makeshift computer setup. There's a handheld gaming device on the right (ROG Ally) held in place by a box from cans of mountain dew, a secondary monitor on the left, and a 2-in-1 laptop folded so that only the screen is accessible perched on a shelf behind them. There are plenty of cables spanning the desk, along with the (unopened, save for one) cans of mtn dew from the box. To the far right is a box fan on full blast

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Aug 3

Please see this post for more info about our current situation: bsky.app/profile/grey...

Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Jul 27

UPDATE: We moved from our ex's back to our family's house; things are better for us mentally, but physically we've got a LOT of stuff going on.

Here are some pics of our current living situation, please consider helping us get out of here :'3

gofund.me/100408ac

A picture of an extremely messy house, showing a dining room area and part of the livingroom. There is trash piled up along with boxes of various foods.

An image of the kitchen sink area of the house. There are dishes covering the counters and the floor, with more trash and food-related stuff piled up everywhere.

Another picture of the livingroom. Once again, there are boxes stacked up with a significant amount of trash and food items piled around.

A picture from the bathroom, showing the wall and the ceiling. The plaster on the wall has been ripped off to show the bare wood underneath, and the ceiling has been torn up as well. There's a hole in the ceiling that goes into the floor of another room on the next story up, and one of the steel support beams is missing.

Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Aug 3

Commissions are OPEN! 🎉
Semi-emergency commissions, we need funds to help turn our living situation into a safer, healthier environment

Check out our carrd for more info: greys-art.carrd.co

Reach out here or on Discord @greysdawn, or commission us on Ko-Fi!
ko-fi.com/greysdawn/co...

A digital commissions page featuring a full body drawing on the left side, split into a sketch, flat colors, and full shading. Pricing info:

BUST/PORTRAIT
Sketch: $10
Flats: $15
Shading: $20

HALF BODY
Sketch: $15
Flats: $20
Shading: $25

FULL BODY
Sketch: $20
Flats: $30
Shading: $40

EXTRAS/ADD-ONS
Single color or pattern background: free!
Props/held items: up to $10
Simple setting background: $10
Complex background: $20
Additional characters: +50% of style price

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An example of a portrait with mostly flat colors.

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Jul 27

UPDATE: We moved from our ex's back to our family's house; things are better for us mentally, but physically we've got a LOT of stuff going on.

Here are some pics of our current living situation, please consider helping us get out of here :'3

gofund.me/100408ac

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Jul 17

Hi folks, please help our friends pay their bills ❤️ they're in a really bad spot right now and can really use some signal boosts or donations if possible 🥺

CYRA / CY 🥮 @cyraspacesys.bsky.social · May 22

✨️ Blessed be.
Please share if you can. Our hands are tied, my fiancée needs help

I thought things would stabilize in Michigan. Things didn't, and now they need help battling with Small claims court

#fundraising #aidsky #transmutualaid #helpfolkslive2025

$Nikki06B
www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-hel...

Donate to Urgent Help for Nicole's Housing Crisis, organized by Lucah Mercer

My name is Lucah Mercer. I never imagined I’d have a reason to create a GoFundMe,… Lucah Mercer needs your support for Urgent Help for Nicole's Housing Crisis

www.gofundme.com

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Jul 11

it's our birthday today! 🎉
10 more days until we move back in with family, which is pretty bittersweet for us

if you'd like to chuck a few bucks our way, we have a gfm and other platforms for it!

ko-fi.com/greysdawn
patreon.com/greysdawn
gofund.me/eede9cd4

Support Grey Himmel ❤️

Support the Grey Skies on Ko-Fi!

ko-fi.com

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Jul 11

it's our birthday today! 🎉
10 more days until we move back in with family, which is pretty bittersweet for us

if you'd like to chuck a few bucks our way, we have a gfm and other platforms for it!

ko-fi.com/greysdawn
patreon.com/greysdawn
gofund.me/eede9cd4

Support Grey Himmel ❤️

Support the Grey Skies on Ko-Fi!

ko-fi.com

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Jul 6

Addendum: we'll be leaving the GFM up and will still be accepting donations from anyone wanting to chuck a few bucks our way- we don't want to permanently live with family and we'd still like to move out when we get the chance. Every little bit helps us to do that ❤️

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Jul 6

But yeah, just wanted to talk about it here. It's been so exhausting being in this relationship and I'm so, so glad we're getting out of it. The fact that she has shown how little she cares and how little she wants to change speaks volumes about her. I'm glad to be rid of that soon.

- Dusk

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Jul 6

She isn't kicking us out, to be clear. We decided to open the conversation about getting us back to Michigan during that blow up. It's our decision and we're glad to be doing it, even if we might get worse for a bit because of it. Ultimately I think this will be better for us and our well-being.

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Jul 6

In a lot of ways it was cathartic, but in a lot of ways it was like trying to tear down a brick wall that just keeps rebuilding itself. Hey acknowledgements of wrongdoing are hollow. She doesn't care enough to make an effort to change, despite expecting change from us. It's rage-inducing.

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Jul 6

But the fact that she expected us to "get better" while completely and blatantly refusing to do any of the things that we asked of her- while taking her anger out on us, while refusing to communicate, while disrespecting our needs... yeah, I couldn't keep my mouth shut anymore. I yelled. I swore.

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Jul 6

We don't believe in a timeline for healing. We don't believe in pacing ourselves for others' comfort or desires. We don't believe that we CAN, nor SHOULD, meet someone else's expectations for getting better. And we never expect those things from anyone else either.

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Jul 6

I'm very angry, frustrated, and upset at her double standards and hypocrisy in all this. Being told that we've been doing good at bettering ourselves over the last year, "but by then it was too late"- after she did the exact same thing, and only started getting better in the past year... ugh. Ugh!!

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Jul 6

I won't get into detail, but something happened last night and I couldn't hold back any longer. I went off on her, in a very much needed way. In the end she agreed with me and acknowledged that I was right, and the way that she's acted is shitty, but she didn't seem to care to change anything.

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Jul 6

UPDATE: we hit our breaking point with our ex, and we're going back to live with family for the time being.

We've been trying desperately to avoid this due to the health hazards of the house, but at this point I think it's ultimately a better place for us than living here is.

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Jul 4

haiii if someone wants to support a disabled creator during disability month and also during their birthday month (bday on the 11th!) that'd be super cool 👉👈

trying to save up to move out of a bad place, every little bit helps ❤️

gofund.me/eede9cd4
patreon.com/greysdawn
ko-fi.com/greysdawn

Donate to Support Grey's Journey to Independence and Healing, organized by Grey Himmel

Hi, we're Grey! We're a trans, queer, disabled, plural system that love… Grey Himmel needs your support for Support Grey's Journey to Independence and Healing

gofund.me

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Jul 3

As always, for the longer version of this, please read our blog post on it!

greysdawn.com/blog/2025-q2

Switching Gears - 2025 Q2 Review | The Grey Skies

A look at recent updates, releases, and news

greysdawn.com

Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Jul 3

Heya, we're back again with another quarterly update!

Here's a TL;DR:
- We released some new bot features!
- We're still having a bad time :(
- We'll be switching gears to focus on some other endeavors for a while </3

We're in a spot where we need to make some changes, and we'll see how it goes <3

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Jun 13

If you'd like to help outside of the GFM, consider joining our Patreon, donating to us on Ko-Fi, or commissioning us for some art!

www.patreon.com/greysdawn
ko-fi.com/greysdawn
ko-fi.com/greysdawn/co...

Grey Himmel's Commissions

Support the Grey Skies on Ko-Fi!

ko-fi.com

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · Jun 13

Hi! We're a trans, queer, disabled, plural system living with DID, ME/CFS, and chronic pain, and we're currently in dire need of funds to leave a deeply painful and triggering situation that we're in. More info is on our GFM, please consider helping us!
gofund.me/2482e8cf

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Help us move out!
We're Grey! Trans, queer, disabled, plural creator in need of a new place to live

What we're looking for:
- Deposit + rent
- Grocery funds
- Bed funds
- Moving assistance funds

Commissions open, donations appreciated!

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · May 24

i don't think we posted this over here yet (been meaning to put it on our art page with a timelapse) but this silly guy is me :3

you can probably just pretend i'm Kam at this point, but calling me Dusk is preferred. that's all for now i think

A digital drawing of a catperson with light skin, blue eyes, and large round glasses. Their hair is in bands of color from a dark blue to a desaturated red, and it curls out away from their head. They're wearing multiple space-themed accessories: a cloud earring, a sun earring, and a star clip in their hair. They're also wearing a reddish, oversized sweater. They're smiling at the viewer with one eye closed, the other with shadows beneath it showing that they're tired.

Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · May 24

kind-of sort-of had a host change i.... think? it's complicated
but: hi, i'm Dusk, i'm a weird mix of Kam and Construct. Kam is maybe not around anymore, Construct is definitely still here but I think I stole some fragments from them

hashtag just plural things lol. anyways, hi hello [waves]
- Dusk

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Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · May 12

this was kind of a silly side quest, but also i wanted to recreate daylio (the app) in obsidian to the best of my abilities lol
daylio is only on mobile afawk, and we really needed an app that we could journal + mood track in that was cross platform. obsidian + syncthing our dearly beloved <3

- kam

Grey does too much stuff @greysdawn.com · May 12

re: that last post
finished our mood tracking stuff uwu
(don't look too close at these charts they're depressing right now LOL)

A screenshot from Obsidian showing a large bar chart, with the bars made horizontally. On the left side is a number of moods ranging from tired to chill, with tired having the largest bar.

Another screenshot from Obsidian, this time featuring two charts. The first is labeled "Mood Min-Max" and shows horizontal bars with a minimum and maximum, with some spanning all the way from -2 to 0, others spanning from 0 to 1, and several more in between

The second is a line chart featuring dates at the bottom, with points plotted at the sum of the date's mood values

Another Obsidian screenshot. This one shows part of a journal entry. The date is 2025-05-12 and the time is 11:03AM. The entry shows several mood badges from before, along with some text for the journal entry.

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