Meowdy,

I'm Mewds.

It is unlikely you know who I am, but that's okay. It's a big world out there and there are so many in need.

I'm a dedicated full-time independent artist which is the "professional" way of saying that I exclusively survive on my ability to create. I wouldn't be surprised if this sounds familiar.

I'll Keep it Short, I Promise ...

I've been under a lot of financial pressure in recent years. After decades of survival, dodging homelessness and enduring traumatic living arrangements, I managed to find some sense of stability even if it was a little fragile—It was at least a start in trying to get myself off the ground.

I have a fair bit of survival debt in the form of credit and loans I've been trying to manage in conjunction with trying to work around my health issues which are undiagnosed because I had no coverage for a long time.

These past few years have been a challenging effort to carve out a little life for myself even if it meant I couldn't have that much. However, as per usual, the government likes to step in and ask the poor people to pay their share: That's right Taxes.

I can't believe it's TAXES again ...

I bet you there's thousands of these posts on GoFundMe right now, it's tragic. So I'll keep it brief: I normally withhold money from my earnings so I can pay my taxes. This usually works out fine, but in 2025, my earnings trended downward due to health concerns and attempts at trying to take care of myself for a change. However, this came at a cost, as it always does, so there a few times where I had to dip into my withholding to make loan payments on time.

Yeah, remember when I said I had survival debts? Those got to get paid every month along with various bills that just keep getting more expensive.

The taxes came in for 2025 and I owe $3200 of which I can only afford a portion of because I wasn't able to replenish my withholding from the times I had to dip into it as an emergency.

So, I'm taking this opportunity to ask for two kinds of help at the same time: Funding to pay the taxes and a little extra to help alleviate some pressure from my survival debts. Not a lot, just a little. I can't realistically ask the world to pay off all of my debts, that's not fair to anyone.

Why don't you just take on more work?

A fair question, but unfortunately, I am overloaded and can't in good conscious promise work that might have a wait time of over a year. Decades of redlining and 110% does a lot of damage to a person who already has so little.

I hope some of yall have a little spare to help me out this time as I try to recover from what feels like a regular beating from all sides.