artsyhonker @artsyhonker@sonomu.club

I'm a choral composer; I like to release my music under free culture licences, usually CC by-SA.

I'm working on a PhD in contemporary sacred choral composition.

I'm neurodivergent, and I have multiple healthcrap issues. I'm a migrant. I'm Christian.

You can find my work at http://www.artsyhonker.net/ and fund it at http://www.artsyhonker.net/support

I also run Cecilia's List, a project to highlight Christian sacred music composed by people who are not men. That's very much on the back burner for the time being because of PhD stuff, though.

http://www.ceciliaslist.org

New rule:

You don't get to say "oh, you could sell that on Etsy/set up a Patreon/write an e-book and sell it/etc" unless you promise to buy stuff from the person you are saying it to, at a price that pays them a living wage for their time *after* material and admin costs.

I'd say "I don't make the rules" but I totally just made a rule, there, so.

Anyway I think it's going to rain very soon so I had better get that washing in.

#ActuallyADHD

I said that I have been struggling to do my work of late, but more accurately, I am struggling with all aspects of basic everyday life.

I am tired and I want help.

#ActuallyADHD

This is nonsense and to see that it is so, you only have to look at the people who have, under Western patriarchy, had that kind of support in place as a general rule:
White cis middle-class men.

The way patriarchy functions is that the (male) "absentminded" professor is supported and encouraged, while the woman sitting paralysed with indecision while the rain starts to fall on her husband's washing is vilified as a domestic slattern.

#ActuallyADHD

...and the reason the "scatterbrained genius" trope is so harmful is that it posits that the kind of executive dysfunction that I experience is a *cost* of the kind of creativity that I have; that any attempt to help me be more "functional" relative to neurotypicals will somehow dampen my ~magical creative powers~, oh noes! So I can't have that support, can't have that help, even though I very obviously need it just to get through everyday life.

Really struggling to do my work, recently. It's partly due to mild ongoing healthcrap but mostly, I think, #ActuallyADHD stuff.

I wish it were easier to get support for this while self-employed. It could make such a big difference to me.

Yep it does. Good good.

Testing whether the #CreativePlanning hashtag will include toots where the content is behind a CW. As unlisted toots don't, this may be the best we can do to prevent flooding.

OK, one of the things I miss most about the birbsite is things like #ChoralHour and #MusoChat -- where there is a different host and theme each week, and at a set time people have a discussion on that hashtag.

Would something like this be useful to people, particularly those of us on sonomu.club? It will tend to flood small instances so I definitely want to know that it's helpful. I am thinking of maybe doing #CreativePlanning on a Monday, for example.

@luka what do you think?

In the context of people who have their main expenses covered and want to earn some pocket money, I am doing really well at crowdfunding.

In the context of people who are able to make a living from it, I am not.

So, this week's thing I have been thinking of instead of doing my PhD work:

In ten years, maybe less, I need secure housing, preferably with outside space where I can grow some food.

This is going to cost a Pile O'Dosh which we do not currently have -- partly because of the PhD, but really, I need to earn more somehow.

I wish I knew how to get there from here.

This is why "you don't have to monetize your hobby!" annoys me so.

I also run Cecilia's List, a project to highlight Christian sacred music composed by people who are not men. That's very much on the back burner for the time being because of PhD stuff, though.

http://www.ceciliaslist.org