Hello friends and/or fans of me and the work I do as an artist-writer of comic books and other things, and as a songwriter and performer in the Knight Dreams and other musical projects (as well as an artist in other mediums at times – I am an actor, a book designer, etc). This is your opportunity to, if you would like, to please become a consistent patron of my arts. Whether you would be able to do so for a lifetime, for years, or for only a couple of months, at any level of monetary value you are able to afford, I would very much appreciate it all the same. Ditto if you would simply be able to spread the word if you enjoy my work -- both online and in person. Here I will explain where I’m coming from, a lot of where I’m coming from, since since I am asking for money simply to live and to make artwork. Plus a small discount – noted at the end. (As always, though, the majority of my comic books and essays are in my Ko-fi shop for pay-what-you-can as PDFs, and much more is linked for free-to-read in various online publications from my Cargocollective site, linked from my main Ko-fi page.) I feel I should be clear about my financial standing as an artist, as so very few artists from my privileged position do. I come from generational wealth as a white/mixed trans woman with an art school degree – a degree I didn’t have to pay for relatively much of, as it was paid for largely by my father and by scholarships. I work as a freelance writer-artist, and live off freelance work, small arts grants, Medicaid, food stamps, donations and patronage such as this, and as a last resort (when he is available), financial help from my father, which feels deeply complicated for me due to his continued claim that my childhood intimate abuse from my mother (more on the aftereffects of this in a moment) did not happen and is merely me being hysterical. That said, this is still a huge privilege. That being said, there are still reasons why I ask for ongoing artistic patronage, from those who can afford it. +I am an intersex trans woman, and “non-passable” – not a thing I truly believe in, but day to day, the way cis people react to me is what it is – and most day jobs are customer-facing. Even when I was able to secure a (low-paying) day job, the unending misgendering did take a psychological toll, as did the coldness of management in several aspects of the job. +The answer for many trans women and other marginalized people who can’t get day jobs is to go into s*x work – either full-service or online. As for FS, if we didn’t live in a society that so deeply stigmatized and hated SWers, and an excuse for a country that continues to so horribly mismanage the ongoing pandemic (as well as the new plague – orthopox a.k.a. MPX), I might, but due to those factors, I can’t. I did do online SW on and off for several years, but I realized, I ultimately couldn’t commit to it, due to: +My complex-PTSD from childhood intimate trauma/incest. I consider my complex-PTSD to be a disability. Many SWers, online and FS, suffer from PTSD or complex-PTSD from similar traumas to mine, and they simply have to work anyway, because they don’t have the safety net I have. This is the horrible excuse for a country we live in. +I suffer from a chronic health condition called heat intolerance, which I began to consider a disability when a housemate called it that. This means that at temperatures that others feel comfortable at or even cool, I feel very overheated, and get exhausted and fatigued – partly, I’m sure, because I no longer sweat. I tried to pan-fry some burgers the other week, it got hot in the kitchen (we even have AC), and I got so dizzy I had to sit down – which means I can’t really cook, meaning I had to spend my food stamps on spendy prepared foods. I can’t really stand to wait for buses because I’ll feel exhausted and even nauseous at times in the extreme heat of global warming, so I need to spend money on Lyfts – not terribly expensive in off-peak hours here in North to Center City to South Street Philadelphia, but it does of course add up. If you’re saying, “You have racial and financial privilege, get some governmental help, and you’re asking for help on top of that?” Well, that’s how deeply landlords are, & America is. I live in a nice but not exactly shi-shi part of North Philly – I love my neighborhood, I’m just saying, I shouldn’t be paying Center City prices – in a rowhome with 3 housemates. I pay $750 including utils. I’ve been in Philly over 10 years and I’ve never once paid over $500 in rent, usually less. And me and my various housemates have been kicked out of houses four times now due to the slumlords selling the place out from under us. Okay, that’s all I think, before I turn fully into the Joker... The discount is simple -- you may receive a $5 discount at any time off any commission price. Simply email me with any commission requests to do so, at heyanniemok (at) gmail. Thanks very much.

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