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My blog has been ad-free since 2014, which means I don't get any passive income from my articles. Hosting and related costs only increase with time, and are now in the realm of several hundred dollars a year depending on visits and other factors. If you've ever found my blog fun or instructive, I accept small donations to offset those costs with a great deal of gratitude!

Here are a few affiliate links which earn both myself and my readers small discounts or other goodies (I used to have more but as of 2026 this is the one that still stands):

Climate Catastrophe

Websites have a carbon footprint, and this blog is no exception. As of February 2024, I paid for twenty trees to be planted in the boreal forest of Québec to help mitigate the ecological harm caused by this blog. I plan to do a similar act every year, going forward.

Planting trees to offset the carbon footprint of my blog
I used the Website Carbon Calculator to figure out my blog’s carbon footprint. The results are pretty bad.
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Pay It Forward

On top of supporting other artists and organizers, I also want to make sure that my work gives back to not only my own communities, but to the first communities who were here on the land I live on. Every December, I will calculate how much support I've received from my patrons throughout the year (including the one-time Ko-Fi donations) and donate 10% of that amount to mutual aid funds or grassroots organizations on the ground in Tiotiáh:ke/Montréal and across Québec who do essential community work.

Past recipients of donations made as a result of the support I receive online:

Below are some recent patron-only posts. See all of them by clicking here.