It’s gonna be a tough time for a lot of us, so I thought it might be a nice idea to have a thread for links to help support DiSers who have non-conventional full-time jobs or side hustles/passion projects.
For example (and hopefully she won’t mind me posting this here), @anon45164313 launched her Patreon the other day:
So if you have a Patreon, an Etsy store, a Bandcamp, anything really where other DiSers who are interested could chuck a few bob your way, post them here!
I’ll break the seal on this because there’s a lot of really talented folk on here who I think should be getting some love and who, assuming I can continue to make some cash, I intend to do exactly as suggested and buy some things from. I’m a greedy shit and I have three Bandcamps for no good reason. I’m not in most need, so I would hope that other people post stuff here that people can give to rather than me. Anyway-
Gots my ambient/drone/droney techno nonsense stuff going on:
Still haven’t got the hot sauce thing running. Some day down the line I’ll say, “of course I was delayed from launching by Covid-19” and people will nod sagely and hopefully forget the years I spent dicking about before that.
Scouty I believe my patreon thing comes with a free walking tour that let’s face it, I’m hundreds of miles too far away to redeem, happy for someone else to have it if they bung you a donation, if that’s ok?
Hope it’s OK, but going to use this space for sharing my non-DiSer brother’s music. He’s been making his own stuff for 20 years without many people ever hearing it (he’s better at making it than promoting it). He’s going to have some music on Spotify soon under the name Mattilyn Mattroe. He’s got a few videos on YouTube, like this: Haze, Sweat and Fears (music video) - YouTube.
Personally, I had a children’s novel published a couple of years ago, but have been crap at writing since (depression + fatigue + full-time job don’t help). Generally need a kick up the arse.
Will investigate the things shared above in the thread/that get shared in future .