Help me and my partner move into our own apartment where we know we can grow. We're currently housed with a family that doesn't like me and my partner's relationship, despite being allowed in with open arms. This has caused us to be under a stifled and toxic roof, where arguments and yelling have been a normal point of stress. Getting our feet grounded has been near impossible with how restrictive the environment is. Skipping meals, whisper talking, skipping hygiene, and holding in the need to use the bathroom have become the norm as to avoid as much conflict as possible.

There are affordable housing options that are very feasible for us to hold, but we need a jumpstart, and your donation will go 100% to paying rent those first couple of months to make sure we can stay somewhere safer.

[Here's also some extra info from Kevin as to what happened with the room not being built!]

A contractor was invited over to get an estimate for how much the room would cost, but due to a multitude of factors ranging from communication issues to a language barrier, an estimate for the entire floor was what was given instead.

As a full bathroom was already in the process of being built downstairs, despite having the intention to offer to pay for my room with what was left over from what was raised, the opportunity never arose for the room to be worked on, as the bathroom being built at the time was already in process of being paid for.

So... Yeah! Especially if you watched the video, you have a pretty good idea as to what's going on here for Kev and I,,

For those who don't know us, Kevin (He/Him) and I (Null - He/They) are both 21, gay -- and are Taiko no Tatsujin based content creators and players! We mainly enjoy releasing what we create on different social media ranging from TikTok to YouTube, as well as various other forms of media on Twitter! We both struggle with ADHD in our own ways, so we tend to have erratic posting schedules, especially in this house, but when we move hopefully by early July, we're looking to get back into doing what we love in a space that's much better for us!

Moving + Living costs will be covered by my ongoing saving from commission work as well as eventual earnings from a new hourly wage job!

Thank you so so much for giving us your time and your eyes, and hopefully with your help, we can be out of here very very soon! This GoFundMe will be regularly updated as progress moves forward!

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[This is a direct video transcript!]

As I’ve said a bunch on and off streams lately, I really genuinely was hoping that I wouldn’t have to make one of these again, but especially after talking to a lot of you on stream a day ago, I really did get the courage to do it.

There’s a lot in my brain as to why I was afraid to make a second gofundme, but I will talk to you face to face – heart to heart – cheek to cheek – and I just really want you to hear what’s going on.

As you all know, I held another gofundme back in December to get out of the toxic household that I was stuck in in Philly, and it was a huge success – and I just want to thank you all very much for your time, support as well as love through that time because it was very very very difficult for me, and I genuinely would not have been able to get through that if it wasn’t for you guys. So thank you again!

And I wanted to remind you all – As stated and followed, the money from it went towards food for me while I was there (as well as over here) and a bunch of other stuff, like necessities, hygienic stuff, doctor’s appointments, medication – a scooter!-- Kevin and I still use that scooter quite a lot it’s literally been a godsend – money for health insurance, money to move out to begin with especially, but the thing that it ended up not going towards like planned was: a room for myself here in the house with Kevin and the others who live here – and I wanted to take a second to really explain to you all why that didn’t happen.

Definitely upon moving here we thought that things would be much happier and safer for me, and that we’d be overall cooperated with and treated kindly so as long as we stood out the way of everyone in the house – but on top of a whole bunch of communication issues right out the gate essentially, me blatantly being ignored a lot of the time, as well as struggling to find my footing here in a new state in the first couple of months when it comes to a job, rent and all that fun stuff – everything very much took a sharp turn downhill. As I’ve always been taught since I was younger by my grandma, essentially, that I think about a lot while I’m here: You can never control someone’s actions or reasons as to why they decide to react in certain ways that they do, especially other adults. I mean, kids have a brain too, but adults especially are scary.

We’ve been treated very negatively by the others who live here, as I’ve talked about before, as well as discriminated against since I’ve stepped foot into this house, and even before in smaller ways – and it’s taken a very steep toll on the both of our mental health as well as just the amount of stress that we have in our lives in general. I especially do not handle stress very well - it’s been very very difficult to kind of… exist. It’s to the point where it feels unsafe for either of us really to leave our room to do something simple as like eat, or use the bathroom because of how strong tensions have gotten between everyone, and we’ve just been trying not to have any sort of confrontations with anyone, so we have been staying in our room and avoiding everything, yeah. We just haven’t been able to grow here, and it’s just not been great.

While being over here so far, I’ve tried at least four different jobs which didn’t work out for their own reasons. I’ve explained this quite a lot in my life update post that’s pinned on my twitter, and things have generally just been rocky – especially with all of the negative energy coming from those in the house who I kind of realized at some point were never really going to give me the chance to be opened up to whether I liked it or not – but all this leads into what I’m making this gofundme for!

Yeah, let’s kick out the negative a little bit and talk about the positive!

I’ve recently gotten another opportunity for a much more convenient and high paying retail job that I’m going to do my utmost to keep - especially because I had the interview a day ago, and actually made it to the second part of interviews because it’s a job for a supervisor, and I genuinely did not know that. (when I applied)

So, that’ll be fun! Your boy will be a supervisor – supervisor cat boy!

But – essentially – it’s a retail job, like the industry I’m already in – very very very very similar to the one that I tried to get in Boston. The reason why Boston didn’t work out is because travelling (everyday) made me super fucking sick as well as the money from travelling, it was very expensive, $24 per round trip (on the train) – it was really bad.

I’m going to be doing continued commission work, retrying content creation – which I will make a separate video about at some point when we finally settle into our own spot as well as the both of us earning paychecks. I would like to get Kevin and I out of here and in our own space – for good – to finally be able to grow as people and take care of ourselves, it’s the most important part.

It’s definitely going to be very difficult, as we both haven’t lived on our own before – but we’ll have each others’ backs no matter what!

We have an extremely dire housing opportunity (studio apartment) that’ll be opening on the 1st of July that’ll be affordable enough for us to both handle after we finally settle in after the first month of my job, especially, whenever that’ll start.

It’s extremely close to where we live already in the city, which is really surprising for the price point. It’s in a very convenient place for me to be able to get to and from work quickly as well as literally anything else outside of hourly jobs – it’s just in a good spot!

Literally my job would be right down the street, which is great. It’s in an extremely safe and fun (college) area to be in, we’ve been to the street on dates multiple times before. It has a lot of space to be able to hold two people and what we need to continue growing and doing our best, and we would love to be able to move there as soon as possible, if we can, with your help if you’d like!

I said this on stream too as to why I was afraid of making another gofundme especially. I’ll admit, I’m not and never have been the best with money. My lack of impulse control very much causes me to spend on silly stuff like ordering out when I could just cook at home, or a random gift for Kevin, or a fucking slug – but I’ve been doing a lot better, especially since separating my bank accounts and writing a big fat “DO NOT TOUCH!” on the label for one of them – and I just wanted to be as transparent and honest with you all as possible – because I really don’t want me making another gofundme to rouse any suspicion or anything like that, and I just don’t want any of you to distrust me.

‘Cause there are genuinely a lot of these that pop up that are used fraudulently, which is why I was so afraid to make another but, whatever help you can give would help the both of us out a lot, and I will literally give any sort of receipt, any sort of thing that you need in order to see that this is for sure going to the right thing to ease your worries, 100% – I’m speeding this up a little bit because they’re getting back.

Especially, I wanted to do this by video instead of writing because, the big blurb of text, as much as it’s nice it doesn’t have my (audible) voice in it. I really wanted you to hear my voice, that’s extremely special and important to me. I want you to hear how I’m doing especially, because I know a lot of you are thinking about me even though I’m radio silent, which still makes me happy.

I wanted you to hear (audibly) what I have to say and convey especially, because it’s a lot more important than a blurb of text.

If you can’t donate, sharing would be very very much appreciated! I apologize if this was kind of vague. I’m still speeding this up because they’re coming in right now, so I wanted to thank you for listening to me, and I’m going to get this out as soon as possible.

I have one strong goal in mind – no matter where we go or what happens, I’m going to work my ass off to get us out of here, and your help would genuinely make that goal a lot easier to reach.

Thank you guys, I’ll see you later!

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