Still trying to survive 2020 in 2021. Want a t-shirt?

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Thursday January 21, 2021 · 8:45 AM PST

2021/01/21 · 08:45

**I know we can ask for donations, but I’m not clear on if we can talk about actually selling stuff. I couldn't see anything in the TOS, but if I’m breaking the rules, please let me know. I don’t want to get banned over this— I love my 5 digit UID**

Hey everyone. Biden's in the house and my back just feels like it got a deep-tissue massage. Things still suck, but I've been figuring things out. My attempt at a Patreon kinda petered out pretty fast, partly due to depression and partly because I apparently can't look at blue-green on a computer monitor for more than a couple of hours at a time before the room starts to spin. I couldn’t find a way to refund the poor woman who was my patron. Wherever you are, thank you. :)

With that said, I did find a way to maybe bring in some income. To work around my migraines, I've been using a vector illustration program that I can color in later, rather than painting everything. I've come up with a few designs. If you're interested, they're on my Threadless store:

kezaro.threadless.com

10% of all proceeds will go to one of the charities below:

It Gets Better Project
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network
Trans Lifeline
National Center for Transgender Equality
The Trevor Project

Anyway-- here are the available designs.

The first design is at the top of the page. It’s a somewhat stealthy (check the dates) political commemoration of the longest year in human history. There’s a white version if you want a black/dark t-shirt.

Second, I’ve had this design spinning in my head for a while. It’s something that I wanted for myself, though I don’t know if I have the courage to wear it yet— apparently, there are a lot of white supremacists in my area. There’s an alternate version with the order of the bottom colors inverted for darker colored shirts:

Lastly, the other design on my store page is something I made years ago. It’s basically an in-joke about what the opposite of a nosferatu is. Only available in black, because goth:

Anyway, I hope you’re all doing well. Hopefully, I’ll figure out a way to advertise for free somewhere other than here. Any help you can provide is welcome.

Thanks again,

Kez

Painting for My Life: Slouching Towards Homelessness

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Tuesday March 19, 2019 · 9:09 AM PDT

2019/03/19 · 09:09

I couldn't think of a better title than "The Adorable Hulk".

Hello. Thank you for clicking on this diary. I was actually going to ask for help a while back, but I found a way to get by. I no longer have that luxury. Can you help?

The short version is that I have Meniere’s disease and migraines. It’s gotten severe enough that I can’t hold a job. I actually had to quit the one I had a while back and I’m living on credit cards. I’m trying to figure out how to survive and take care of my mother (she’s had a couple of strokes) while I apply for disability. Unfortunately, the place that had my medical records closed down and I’m trying to track down the hospital where I had my endolymphatic shunt surgery to see if I can do anything with that.

In any case, I need a way to keep a roof over my head and just asking for money never really sat well with me. After some reflection, I picked up a digital paintbrush for the first time in over a decade. The result is what you see at the top of the page. We didn’t have Patreon back when I was in college, but it’s something I can do when I’m well enough to paint. I plan to complete about two pieces a month and patrons will get to vote on what I do next. I’ll be happy to provide art advice as well.

If you’d like to donate, my Patreon page is here:

www.patreon.com/...

If you’d like to follow me on Twitter, my account is here:

twitter.com/...

And here’s where I’ll be posting my images:

www.deviantart.com/...

Again, thank you for your time.

Lastly, for those that are curious, these are my day to day symptoms, which vary in severity throughout the day:

Severe tinnitus and hearing loss/distortion
Dizziness, balance problems, nausea, and sleep-vomiting
Extreme motion sensitivity
Disorientation/difficulty concentrating
Sensitivity to sound and light
Scintillating scotoma (occasionally)
Diarrhea
Irritability
An occasional line of sharp pain from the back-left side of my head to my left eye
Crippling depression

When I have flare-ups, I get everything above (minus the pain, thankfully) X 100, plus:

Vertigo so severe that I can’t stand or walk
Hours of vomiting and retching so severe that my esophagus tears and I cough up blood

We #Occupied Phoenix (Photo Heavy)

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Monday October 17, 2011 · 5:15 AM PDT

2011/10/17 · 05:15

Part of me didn't want to go to the Occupy Phoenix event on October 15th. It was going to be hot, sure, but when is it not hot in Phoenix? My legs were going to get tired too, but I knew they'd never feel worse than they did at my first job working the graveyard shift at K-Mart. So, in spite of walking a mile and missing the Light Rail and feeling a little dizzy because of Meniere's disease, My mother and I (I'm not the gentleman in the blue shirt, by the way) occupied Phoenix, albeit for a little while.

We arrived "fashionably late" to the Phoenix City Hall, and my mother remarked later that there wasn't as many as she thought there would be. I reassured her that since Arizona is pretty well in Red State territory we wouldn't have as many people in attendance. Still, I think we got a pretty respectable showing:

More after the flip:

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