NOW, if you dare, you can see my kitchen. ☠️

#MutualAid #Trans #TransLatina #GoFundMe #EmergencyFund #Pittsburgh #UnsafeHousing #ToxicHousing #Grateful #ThankYou #Licensure #Progress #MerelyASetback

(🖼️⬇️)

P.S. I'm noticing it's been improved upon. I think my housemates probably noticed I've been quiet. 😿

P.P.S. Please note that I have not personally used the kitchen in any way in weeks.

(📎⬇️)

So it's a good day. GoFundMe failing to process donations over the weekend (or more correctly, my failure to have seen that coming) was merely a setback!

www.gofundme.com/f/ellis-emer...

Thank you for being here. We're getting this done.

Gratefully,
Ellis 💙💜

(🧵0️⃣⬇️)

💠**Licensure:** I just got a message from the Pennsylvania licensing board that more of my application materials have been officially processed.
💠**Community:** The support continues to arrive. I need to give a heartfelt thank you to a new anonymous donor who just gave $40!

(🧵1️⃣⬇️)

And the mission is moving forward. Despite the setback, we hit three major milestones today:

💠** Housing:** I successfully moved my Pittsburgh housing appointment to Zoom, so I can now take that critical meeting on the road.

(🧵2️⃣⬇️)

Then my boyfriend called—and he reminded me that I'm unstoppable.

So now I'm up, I'm writing, and I'm pushing forward. We're not done. I'm not done, and I won't let myself be overcome by a silly mishap of planning.

(🧵3️⃣⬇️)

I'm writing this while surrounded by three gnat traps—like a salt circle to avoid getting haunted by their tiny, incessant ghosts.

But you find ways to cope. I watched all of the Ant-Man movies. I listened to a podcast about that cosmological model I made up. It helped.

(🧵4️⃣⬇️)

#Humor #GayHumor #Literature #LiteraryHumor #CharlesDickens #JonathanSwift #Satire #SurrealHumor #Shitposting #Writing #WritingCommunity #LGBTQ #GoutBaby

Dude had his first attack of gout at the age of 53, and you know what he called me? Before I was even born? "Exquisite torture." An "ecstasy of pain." Rude! 😾

He had nine of us in total. All of them passed, including me.

Badum, psh! ☠️

(📎🔽)

#Humor #GayHumor #Literature #LiteraryHumor #CharlesDickens #JonathanSwift #Satire #SurrealHumor #Shitposting #Writing #WritingCommunity #LGBTQ

Maybe it's just me. I bet it's not. It's never been just me. 😹

#SocialAnxiety #Gratitude #Community #Humor #Anxiety #Relatable #MentalHealth #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ItsNeverJustMe

Thank you for building this bridge. We're not at the finish line yet, but the path is visible. I am in awe of your support.

www.gofundme.com/f/ellis-emer...

#MutualAid #Trans #TransLatina #EmergencyFund #GoFundMe #Pittsburgh #ThankYou #CommunitySupport #Trauma #MentalHealth #Grief #CrunchTime

I could see an alternate universe in which they joined me. But we're in this one, and I'll have to make do with what I can have in this one. 😿

I am grieving this morning, but I am full of hope.

(🧵⬇️)

They'd die long before I did, on account of the current of their health, and so I'd inherit their stuff, which I would now have learned how never to let go.

(🧵⬇️)

I could see a world in which this whole GoFundMe campaign fails, I give up, and I never do anything more than this. Maybe one day, I'd apply to SSI like the others here.

(🧵⬇️)

Tried? Of course.

But as I've also said in therapy, "You can take a horse to water, but you can never force it to drink." And we rely on what we're most familiar with in order to feel safety.

(🧵⬇️)

And I lived with them because I had trauma too, and I had no other options available to me at the time.

We let those who need us most pass through our fingers so often, and as you help me, I can't help but feel guilty that I'm not able to help them.

(🧵⬇️)