Somnius @somnius@merveilles.town

#introductions

Hey there! I'm Somnius, a white tiger living in SF. I code websites, play indie & rhythm games, love all kinds of music, and turned vegan in the middle of this year.

Things I advocate for: furries, non-monogamy, sex positivity, gender identity, LGBT+ rights, democratic socialism.

All of you here inspire me so much with the amazing things you create. I have so much to learn!

Wow!!!! I didn't realize this happened, but we are now fully funded :D

To the patrons, thank you so, so much!

…On that topic, I also forgot to add another $85 that was donated to our instance in June, oh dear.

This puts our "money left over" at $213.67. Thanks for your patience, everyone! I should have one place to view our expense history.

UPDATED

Total Donations for Month
$58.45 via Patreon
$25.00 via Ko-Fi

Total: $83.45

Infrastructure Costs
Amazon S3: $21.93
DigitalOcean: $24.68

Total: $46.61

Donations to Date
$573.06

Infrastructure Costs to Date
$444.39

Money left over
$128.67

Oh, whoops, I forgot I also got 2 donations from Ko-Fi! I'll put the updated totals in a follow-up post.

Total Donations for Month
$58.45 via Patreon

Infrastructure Costs
Amazon S3: $21.93
DigitalOcean: $24.68

Total: $46.61

Donations to Date
$548.06

Infrastructure Costs to Date
$444.39

Money left over
$103.67

For those who are curious, our Patreon is here: https://patreon.com/merveillestown

Hey everyone! It's been a little while, I need to give an update on how last month went for finances for Merveilles.

Before I make the official report, though, thanks so much to everyone who became a patron on Patreon! I saw a huge influx of users and we're getting really close to our goal :D

Interesting talk on French fashion right after the revolution—which, interestingly, features two groups of masculine and feminine people who are respectively named the Incroyables and… the Merveilleuses!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwM3Q0m9uRE
#theCouture

I made an update to my sigil! This makes things look far more connected and put together.

Once I iterate on this enough, I might want to make a tattoo of this for myself. We'll see!

#theWorkshop

To everyone that just added themselves as patrons yesterday: thank you so much! This is going to help us keep the server running as things scale.

You're all wonderful and I really appreciate it. :3

Our instance officially has over 200 registered users! Not bad for only being around for a few months :D

I got this lovely costume while at Anthrocon this year!! It's a premade partial fursuit (head, paws, and tail) made by Melissa Mendelson. Check out her work here, she does fantastic stuff: https://www.melissamendelsonart.com/

I've been wanting one of these for a long while, I'm ecstatic to have it! The details are so amazing :D

The photos were taken by my lovely friend Sean Tanuki, as well.

Aaaaaa I'm so excited 8D

Thanks very much to everyone who donated on the Patreon! It's much appreciated. I'm still sorting out other options for payments, but it's still much appreciated :3

It does look like the S3 usage is ticking up, though, so I'm going to be keeping an eye on that moving forward.

The uptick in DigitalOcean costs was from transferring the server over to a new account—my own mistake! I didn't remove the previous droplet for the rest of the month.

Total Donations for Month
$30.61 via Patreon

Infrastructure Costs
Amazon S3: $14.79
DigitalOcean: $34.59

Total: $49.38

Donations to Date
$489.61

Infrastructure Costs to Date
$397.78

Money left over
$91.83