Donations received: $186.60 USD

All of you have truly made me eat my words. Enough has been donated to keep Lunaescence running for the next year. O_o I'm speechless and touched by your generosity. You guys ROCK!

Thank you to everyone who donated from the bottom of my heart! You have no idea how relieved this makes me feel! Much love to all of you!

*deep breath* Okay. What follows now is kind of a restructuring, to make sure this site can keep running even while I'm out looking for work and for The Move later this year. Mods will be given new powers to make this happen, including being able to bring in new mods and more.

Again, thank you so much everyone! You're the best!

First of all, I'm very flattered by your response. I had no idea that my site was this much loved. ^_^

Secondly: I'm not selling my site. Pure and simple. It's named after my dog and my professional portfolio is hosted here as well.

So: I'll compromise. I'll try keeping the archive going for 3 more months as a trial. But I need help.

This site costs roughly $175 per year to keep going, excluding my coding. I pay roughly $40 - $45 (USD) every 3 months and it was the bill on the 19th that shell shocked me. Doesn't sound like much until you have to live on public assistance and have to worry about far much more important bills. (Cause seriously? Being homeless? Not high on my to-do list.) The Paypal banner has sat at the bottom of most of this site's layouts for a few years now. Aside from one donation attempt that got lost among the spam, it hasn't seen any use. Tomorrow, I'll edit this post with a big, shiny button here with an e-mail address all its own so e-mails don't get lost. If there's enough interest, I'll check into a PO box for postal donations.

Please don't say you'll donate if you don't actually intend to.

Next: Mods... please get with each other. For this 3 month trial, I'm just the owner. One of you will need to step up, please decide who that will be.

I'm sorry if I sound a little hostile, but the hateful, awful e-mails some of you have been sending me actually hasn't helped my outlook any better. You know who you are.

I'm sorry to do this, but due to continuing circumstances... I'm going to be closing Lunaescence at the end of July.

I just don't have the time or money to keep this up anymore. As you've noticed, I've been away more than I've been here. I'm looking at an interstate move very soon if I expect to do anything with my career. I've been unemployed for over 8 months now with no job prospects whatsoever.

Please back up your stories and pass the message onward to anyone who might not check the news frequently. I'll be deleting the archive entirely the first week of August. This will be permanent.

I'm sorry, everyone... I'm truly sorry. Thank you so much for your support over the years and for being so awesome.

I wish you all the best.