<div>Hi, I'm ratpunk! My mission is to impart joy unto the world and encourage people to express themselves authentically. <strong>I would like to continue pursuing this goal full-time</strong>, <strong>but I don't have enough money to survive right now.</strong> I'm being pulled in multiple directions and it is overwhelming me; I am SO CLOSE to making this path into a sustainable one. I need your help to give me a chance at making it work ...
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<div>Donating to this campaign will allow me to focus all of my attention to the following (in no particular order):
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<li><a href="https://ratpunk.link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Community-building through my platforms</a>, through events, streaming, and other content
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<li>My <a href="https://furality.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Furality</a> performance in a couple of months
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<li>My dance platform/game,<strong> <em>lucid.dance</em></strong><em> (ideally both for VRChat and online, 100% free)</em>
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<li><em>My browser extension for helping people with ADHD manage their tabs and bookmarks (a no-AI app I am making free to use, because I'm building it for myself too)</em>
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<div>You can find more information about these projects below the Context.
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<div><strong>Context:</strong>
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<div>I am recently removed from the tech industry as a developer and people manager, helping projects and teams discover their strengths, and create a healthier and happier experience in the workplace. The shift to an AI-first world destroyed a lot of my coworker's lives through mass layoffs, and though I was spared initially, my time came shortly after.
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<div>The grief and stress of this caused me a ton of health issues, which led to me searching and discovering a healthier and happier life for myself through dancing over the past couple of years. And although my savings has completely vaporized, I KNOW that this is the right direction for me right now, with the momentum fierce within me.
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<div>I want to keep going, but I need help to get to a point of stability. It is very challenging for me to <em>ask</em> for help, but ... if you enjoy any aspect of what I do, any little bit is an act of generosity I can't return to you directly, but I will deliver through the work that I seek to be doing full time through my dancing, my art, and my projects.
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<div>Thank you so much for your time and no matter what happens, I hope I can continue doing this for everyone. It has been the most fulfilling pursuit of mine so far. I don't want to stop now.
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<div><strong>Additional project info:</strong>
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<div>* Community-building through my platforms, through events, streaming, and other content
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<li>ideally, running bi-weekly dance sessions and enabling people to run their own dance events, too;
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<li>running *more* dance classes with the Soaring Fitness group;
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<li>special events through my stream;
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<li>dance and vocal covers, collaborations
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<div>* My Furality performance in a couple of months:
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<li>a full-scale concert production with original music
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<li>a 1 hour choreographed story-telling performance
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<li>coinciding with an album release (hopefully)
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<div>* My dance platform/game, lucid.dance (both for VRChat and online, 100% free)
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<li>inspired by Just Dance and Dance Central, targeting VRChat but plans for a Desktop release if everything goes well
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<li>aimed at providing an arcade-like experience for existing dances in an unofficial way
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<li>includes dance learning support, connecting dancers and choreographers with web platform and in-game VRChat world
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<li>already-built massive dance database with links to over 25000 individual choreographies and tutorials
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<div>* My browser extension for ADHD-accessible browsing:
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<li>kind of random but something I started building for myself to help me manage a billion tabs while working on these projects
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<li>acts as a browsing buddy that eliminates the need for bookmarking or any amount of tab management
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<li>helps you (and me) categorize what we're looking at WITHOUT relying on AI to do so
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<li>free to use / donationware
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