People sometimes contact me asking that I promo their fundraisers for transitions on my comic and I just... don't know what to do. My comic doesn't have a lot of readers, and those that it DOES have overwhelmingly don't monetarily support the comic. I don't know if that's because they have nothing to give or because they don't care to, but either way they don't. It really hurts to have people come to me hands open, asking for help when I'm just as helpless as they are.
Oftentimes the fundraisers in question have 5-10 times the number of notes as my comic has readers - already far more exposure than I could possibly grant them. Do they just vastly overestimate my reach? Do I come across as having a vast audience? Or are they so desperate for help they're just contacting anyone who regularly posts on trans-related subjects?
I always end up reblogging the fundraisers to my personal account. My comic's readers are not a resource to be mined by people who don't have a care for me unless they need something.
...but I still feel guilty, helpless, and lost every time this happens.
