📝 PLEASE! KEEP YOUR HEAD UP. (urgent update, life)

Well... CRAP.
Let’s just go, man....

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ONE
Okay, so... before I get to the juicy stuff, I need to update about the Casino Trip. Me and my folks had to reschedule it to next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (11th thru 13th) because of the housekeeping inspection and lease renewals THIS week. Forgive me for not reporting on this earlier. Now then.... For more serious matters....

TWO (it’s a long one, so brace yourselves)
Mmm... in regards to recent current events here in the United States of America, I cannot express how sickened I am by the outcome of the latest Presidential election. I know many of you out there share my grief and disappointment, and even worry for what may come. Given that I have Asperger’s and am prone to bouts of depression, it is VERY easy to succumb to this “defeatist” attitude. I try my best not to bring politics of any sort into these folds, but I feel like this needs to be shared. I want to be on the right side of history and not have to constantly live in fear, letting my worries about the future cripple me from doing what I love. And on behalf of my fellow American furs and all of my International friends... I’d like to apologize for that outcome, despite the fact that me and my democracy and freedom-loving friends did everything we could. And I believe when some of the influencers just came out and said this... “Now is NOT the time for hopelessness and despair”.

Yes, things are going to get worse before they get better. We heard this time and time again, but it still rings true today, in my mind. I know things are looking bleak, and probably will stay bleak for the next 4-odd years (hopefully not longer), but to me, giving up is NOT an option. First, we need to grieve. THEN, we need to come together and regroup and come out of this stronger than ever. Throughout history, democracy is often battered and bruised, but it still remains standing. And to my fellow American furs... I see and hear your anger and frustration. Don’t get me wrong: I woke up this morning and I was livid and hella depressed when the news broke of that outcome. However, we got to keep on moving on. It sucks to have to come to terms with having an incompetent and overall horrible leader in Washington DC, but we can’t let this get to us in the long term. Once again, I REALLY REALLY wished the outcome was different. The best we could do right now, I believe, is keep hope alive and prepare. That’s right. Prepare. I WISH I would’ve given better more lighthearted news, but this is where we are right now as America. And going back to our friends across the oceans, this bears repeating. I want to give my most sincere apologies on behalf of ALL of my American buddies. Even with this very hard pill to swallow, I remain confident that we are so much better than this. We’ve all survived this episode before, and I will stay confident that we can get through this again, together. The times are no doubt trying, crying over this is gonna get us nowhere. Stay in the fight. Stay in the know. We are all in this together. Man, I wish I could’ve given a better message to stave off these negative feelings, but... yeah. We’re here now, and we got to live with it and push past it. And I refuse to let this get to me. Don’t give up, please!

And I normally am not a divisive guy and I do try my damnest to bring all of us together as 1 small community... however, given how things turned out, I somewhat begrudgingly feel the need to convey this tiny message, and it’ll be directed to those who made the wrong choice, or who were too cowardly to do the right thing in this trying time in America’s history, and my message is this:

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“Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it. You may not feel the devastating impacts right now of what you voted for, but it’s only a matter of time. And from now until my last breath, I’ll be sitting in front of my computer wondering as the rest of us pick up the pieces, ‘How the hell did we get here?’”

So... there you have it, y’all. Hopefully, this is the LAST time I’m gonna cover Politics on my end of the furry communities. I largely tend to avoid this topic, due to how DIVISIVE and UGLY it has gotten over the past few years. With all of that off my back, let’s get back to more personal matters regarding my situation.

THREE
On the topic of WG Drives, I had to think long and hard about what to do next. Unfortunately, due to low to no activity, it is with a heavy heart, and a gut punch to make up for lost wages since my firing from my last job 2 months ago, I have decided to go ahead and cancel the Digeri Dingo Drive. Believe me, this was not an easy choice, and I’m hoping that whatever I launch in the near future will have more popular and more familiar faces. And that is where YOU come in. I’ve just launched a Strawpoll to help decide who the next Drive should be about. It is linked right here: 👉 https://strawpoll.com/NMnQNRkJ0g6 👈

BUT, if you rather see someone else other than the choices that are provided, you can tell me who in the comments below. Thank you.

By the way, any donations that I DID receive up to this point will be diverted into the progress of a new Drive. Sounds good?

FOUR
This ALSO bears repeating, in case it glossed over anyone’s heads here... I’m STILL contending with lost wages of around $1000 a month, or $400 a month, ever since I got terminated, and I’ve been job searching since, and whatever I DID apply to, I’m still seeing if I’ll get employed again. Until that happens, my best bet is all these Commissions and YCH’s, but those alone can only take me so far. Not to mention, I’m still tackling mounting debt, and at this moment, I owe my phone company ANOTHER past due of $116 just to unlock my phone. ALSO ALSO, I can currently forget about going back to school, unless someone out there is generous enough to help me raise $1817 (yes, that amount) to the debt collector my school sent it to. Yeah..., it’s crazy. I know these are tall tasks, but I’m at a point where I gotta take what I can get to make all of this up. Even a little bit.

FIVE
Back to money, I gotta get THIS outta the way, too, for all who are new to my small community: I have aspirations to raise enough to buy my own custom-made fursuit (or at least the materials necessary to make my own, given that I learn to sew). It doesn’t come cheap, yes, and the least costly makers I could find fall between $600 and $1800. So there’s that.

LASTLY
Oh, and I have a Bluesky now: https://bsky.app/profile/rupertfox.bsky.social

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END
That’s it for now. Oh man, this was really long, but it was SUPER SUPER important to share. Man... this is so heavy. But... I gotta do what I gotta do, and I hope all of you can find your own ways to pull through this. To me, even though it feels like an easy out, surrender is NOT an option. I truly believe that. So, please... I’m asking you all to keep your heads up. Please....

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