I'll be real honest here...
It's early, I'm just up, and I may have misread the title as 'Patrick tries to kill CK' and though it was a a Spongebob reference or something ^^;
Anyway, you could try SubscribeStar Adult and/or something like Kofi just to keep the money flowing while you set up for steam. Even if you just post updates on the rebuild, the idea would be to provide an avenue for income.
I wish you all the best either way, CK is a truly amazing project :)