So I moved to Canada [life & activity update] (Patreon)

TLDR: I fled from Russia because Russian government convinces genocide against people of my nationality. Ended up with Canada. To live here I should have full time job, so I’m moving huge 20 kg paint buckets from one shelf to another  for 40 hours per week now. On top of that my tax rate increased from 5% to 30%. Because of fulltime job I will take less commission slots and prices will go up because of tax increase. My apologies.

Hello,

When my country is on fire, people keep dying and other horrible things, I spend a few months in my own with with Russian government which didn’t want to let me out. This explains lack of activity. But in the very end, I spend most of my savings and was able to fly from Russia to Canada.

I don’t have any friends or family in Canada - actually all my irl friends and family is in Ukraine. Only person with close relationship I have in real life is my husband and he accompanies me in Canada, MB. He doesn’t know English at all, so we both stressed: I’m busy applying for everything and he feels useless. But it will get better, I hope so at the very least. Even despite the stress and huge money loss( for the immigration process and airplane tickets which price insanely skyrocketed) it’s better than be dead in Russia or Ukraine, so…

Despite I’m educated and somehow experienced - most employers want to to have Canadian experience(or to have 5+ years of experience in Software Development lololol), so for now I’m working at a paint retail store to get such an experience. Even though I work for the lowest salary possible in Canada, it still gives me more that I earn from doing furry art. On top of that Canadian taxes for self-employed/freelance artists are 6 times higher than in Russia(~30% instead of 5% I was paying in Russia), so it feels just horrible. That’s why prices are going to change in my pricelist, I hope you can understand.

This flew also made me to leave my pets in Russia: Turkish airplanes weren’t letting me to take cats with me. This makes me so sad and desperate, only things I hope for is my husband’s family will take good care of them before I could go back and take them with us to Canada.

So yeah… I’m still planning to work on Waste of Time, Pussies and dragons and monthly pinups. Just I was busy applying for things and trying to survive

Hope your months were better than mine, thank you for your attention, donations and support 

-Elvche