what's going on with sarah zedig this month (Patreon)

hello everybody!!! it's been a Minute.

i want to start by saying i'm sorry for the lack of updates. as per my prior update, i set everything aside to finish the current phase of my homestuck fanfic, godfeels 3 part 1. and in my head i felt like, ok, i don't want to report back to the patreon until i am full bore dedicated to getting back in the saddle re: videos & podcasts. i'm sick of coming here with my tail between my legs apologizing for my bizarre non sequitor hyperfixations. but this final "chapter", now split into six parts, has taken way longer than expected on account of it's probably going to wind up totaling over 140,000 words in its own right. oops! the reason for this absurd ballooning of scope is the result of my decision to make this story explicitly plural, and taking that very seriously- which wound up requiring the development of an entire metaphysics of what i'm calling "ideaspace", something i may actually do a video on in the near future because i think it's fun to talk about metaphysics, and i really am overdue on taking advantage of the wide umbrella that is the "stuff" in "let's talk about stuff."

the good news is, i'm genuinely finally in the home stretch. two, maybe three more days of work is all that remains (though it might take a smidge longer for reasons i'll get to shortly). after that, i'm gonna dive back into doing youtube/podcasts fulltime.

so here's what's been going on in my world. i spent the last two weeks of july in pittsburgh helping my girlfriend pack all her stuff to move out to seattle and live with me. incidentally, her stuff actually got delivered to our apartment this morning!! so that was stressful and obviously not conducive to getting much work done. but the plan was i'd get back, dig my heels in on godfeels, get it all done, maybe take a couple days to chill and enjoy the magnitude of whatever the fuck i just did for the last three months, and then finally actually for real jump back into the stuff that Actually Pays My Bills.

then, two days ago, the funniest thing happened [cue audience laughter]. i don't want to go into too many details because they're not particularly relevant, but the short version is, the person who has been housing us and a number of my closest friends decided, seemingly on a whim and without any advance warning whatsoever, to cut off all support and kick everyone out. who cares that the state of washington still has an effective eviction ban, who cares that the covid-19 pandemic is as bad now as it was eight months ago, who cares that the puget sound area has some of the most expensive housing in america, who cares that most everyone in this group are disabled transgender folks, etc etc etc

my gf and i are safe and fine in our apartment for the time being, but we're now tremendously uncertain whether we'll end up staying here or trying to find someplace cheaper (and thus, you know, wind up moving twice in the span of two months).

all of the aforementioned friends are staying in our apartment in the meantime while they look for other places. it's been, shall i say, a touch apocalyptically bleak in this household of late, but we're getting through it. we have each other, and folks have been TREMENDOUSLY generous with donations across the board.

needless to say, your continued support here is much appreciated. i feel fairly confident that i can pick back up on this channel and be able to make that work financially without having to go back to being a cashier, which is something i NEVER thought i'd be able to say.

i wish i had more besides "my entire conception of the near future has had to radically and abruptly change in the last two days, so i haven't exactly had the chance to do my job" but here we are. i'm gonna record another closet video like the one about the nevers and either talk about ideaspace or bo burnham's inside (or some other fucking thing maybe, who knows) sometime in the next week or two. it would be nice to have that out by the end of the month, but again, who knows!!! life is full of surprises and sometimes they are not good.

thanks again, everyone. i'm doing my best. we're all doing our best. we're gonna survive this and come back stronger than ever.

take care of yourselves