Oh, I got a wonderful reply about my  https://awesound.com/AristoBum   I remember the desperate efforts to attempt achieving a secondary income with nothing but an Acer Chromebook (in contrast to full audio studios). While I clearly failed, it still taught me some useful lessons about storytelling & resulted in me outgrowing roleplay, as a hobby or income source, even more. Now, more than five years later, it brings back memories, and even reminds me of ideas that meanwhile had slipped my mind.  Sadly, a recent financial crisis made me bounce in a totally different way. I remember strangers in the supermarkets also facing the price raises on food and electricity with an equal disadvantage (low income, no matter, if unemployed or working underpaid jobs). If only it would be as simple as sharing my poem `Financial Apartheid Laws´ with gov officials, and SWOOSH they realize that ALL fulltime jobs must yield enough money to pay all the bills & make a living thru...

  When God takes care, or it seems so. Long ago: I was in Greece, diving, and had a surprise meeting with a shark. While I have no problem with lack of oxygen or panic having mind-fooled me, god said that I should relax and not use my harpoon. While such a "visionary experience" would be nothing but a dream in itself, God's words were in tune with reality, the shark did not try a test-bite, no other danger showed up. It was right not to let fear for my life make me go violent. Underwater, I would not have stood a chance against a shark eager to attack aka eat me. I wouldn't insist "that was God!" at all, but I did come up with some punchline of having the unfair advantage of KNOWING that God exists, so I by God's decision, was not only saved but freed from `having to believeﾴ (in absence of factual knowledge). It is also, why I consider animals as much being a soul than human beings could, if not more so. They ARE, or I am deluded to think so, part of th...