Daily OpusEverything I write is freely rebloggable. Just keep the source and tell people about my books :D [Until I decide otherwise, my pronouns are Ze/Hir/Hirself. As in "Ze went to the shops to get hir medication hirself". Thank you for the respect.]
Okay, so my little sister was hand selected to go to a volleyball showcase in Hawaii.
Which is a really big deal, because we live on a Indian Reservation and this is the first time we had a student from our school be selected!!! Like, you guys don’t even know how proud my whole community is!
But, we have a dilemma!
We are broke af, just a bunch of hud rats.
But she is selling T-Shirts, all she needs to sell is 150 to be able to go.
It’s such a rare opportunity for one of our students
from our little reservation in Washington to be able to go to something like this .
Also check out my commissions if you don’t want a T-Shirt! All profits will go to my sister for her trip!!!
I am also going to be making friendship bracelets for anyone who donates over $20!!! (But I’ve never done anything like this before, so please be patient with me)
Guys she’s only sold 3 t-shirts.
Please!
If she can’t sell the 150 then she won’t get any funding!!
I am trying to help her with selling t-shirts but she is experiencing anxiety for the first time.
If you buy a t-shirt I’ll make you a friendship bracelet and a free commission!!!!
This is my cat, Shellbelle. She needs to see the vet about that cut above her right eye.
Alas, her cut is low priority in the very long list of things that my family needs. Including some equipment that Chaos might need but we can’t rent and try. And car maintenance.
I’m broke and I need money. We’re borrowing against the home loan just to get the essentials. So please pop on over to http://www.internutter.org and put something into my PayPal.
Thanks in advance.
UPDATE:
Shellebelle’s eye was gunked closed with a scab, yesterday, and that was the last straw for me. She needed help and I took her to the vet anyway.
Vet dropped the magic word that no pet owner wants to hear: “Cancer”
So it’s going to be in excess of $600AUD just to find out if it is or if it ain’t. And we definitely can’t afford chemo if it is.
So PLEASE pop by and drop a little something at my site [link above] Every little bit helps. Even though it’s going to take a while to get to us.
All the money I have is about $11.50 in loose change. Please help us.
my name is kylie (or) stephanie. i’m 20 years old and live in niagara falls ontario. this city is regarded as one full of homophobia and transmisogyny as ive been told by many LGBT individuals. this morning i received two very stressful anon messages.
shortly following my response to this message, this was sent
the pixelated text is my current address. these are being sent by somebody who knows where i live. i am not safe in niagara falls. i need money to move ASAP.
i have friends in British Columbia who are willing to house me once i raise enough to cover moving expenses.
Please - i am begging you to not just “signal boost”. please donate if you can even if its just 5 dollars. despite a huge boost in notes last night for my original post about my gofundme i did not receive a single donation in the last 24 hours.
please. donate. i need to escape niagara falls. people here say this to me constantly.
This fundraiser is for our friend Clara and her immediate need to leave
her current living situation with her abusive and trans-misogynistic
family in Venezuela, where she has no support and is under scrutiny and
emotional attack daily. She has a home and community here in North
Carolina, but no way of affording the cost of a passport, Visa, and
flights here not to mention immigration costs. This fundraiser is an
attempt to get things off the ground, every little bit counts! Thanks.
Help my best friend move to a supportive positive situation with fellow trans people. Thank you!
This fund raiser isn’t even at 10%. Please spread this.
“Donate if you believe in the power of education. Donate if you believe in human rights. Donate if you are a friend. Donate if you are a social worker. Donate if you are a student. Donate if you believe that the ASU School of Social Work should never have participated in the arrest of one of its own students by Project ROSE. Donate if you support the rights of transgender women of color. Donate to defy the power of the prison industrial complex and to defeat the collateral consequences of arrest. Donate if you support sex worker rights. Donate if you believe in Monica Jones.”
And this is what Project ROSE is:
“Twice a year, more than 100 police officers spend two days rounding up sex workers through street sweeps and online stings. Sex workers are handcuffed and taken to Bethany Bible Church. They are then assessed for eligibility to the “arrest-diversion” program. Anyone with previous arrests for prostitution or in possession of drugs at the time of arrest is ineligible. Eligible sex workers speak to a prosecutor who offers them the ultimatum of criminal charges and possible jail time or participation in a “rehabilitation” program run by Catholic Charities. They are denied the right to speak to a defense attorney.”
*was! It’s over with altho Phoenix remains a TERRIBLE place to be a sex worker, as does Tucson.
Also the rehab was essentially sweatshop labour making gift baskets, it wasn’t actually learning useful and financially lucrative life skills lmao.
Donate to Monica who’s had enough of her life ruined with this shit, she needs to get on with doing the great work she’s meant to do.
I’ve just been hit by the worst case of art theft in my life. My fan illustration, The Great Wave off Kanto, is being sold on phone cases through some of the shadiest websites I’ve ever seen, and there’s nothing I can do to contact them.
Most of these sites have contact pages, but their emails bounce, their phone numbers are fake, and the American addresses they list show empty farms and fields on google maps. The location listed on the contact page for shadeyou.com says their store address is on the corner of a California farm. Another one, lovedrstyle.com seems to be run out of an abandoned warehouse in Illinois. These sellers are likely somewhere in Asia and are trying to cover their tracks.
I’m not the only small artist these anonymous websites are stealing from either.
I feel powerless. This post is an attempt to warn people away from these sites and demonstrate what some of the knockoffs look like. These kind of anonymous sellers can’t be stopped, so it’s up to us to know what to look for when buying a product from a small artist. I know most people buying this particular design won’t realize that it comes from a small artist, but it doesn’t seem like there is much else I can do.
If the phone case has a black, white, or colored edge/border, it is a knockoff. I only offer phone cases through Redubble and Society6, and both sites print all-over cases. It may only be a matter of time before all-over case knockoffs start showing up, (there are currently two fakes ebay).
If the phone case has a signature in the top right corner underneath the kanji, it is a knockoff. I put my signature in that corner for Teefury prints only. These people likely purchased and scanned a print from Teefury while it was being sold there for a limited time.
If the image looks squished or pinched in any way, it is a knockoff.
Here are all the websites to avoid purchasing my art from, as of this post:
amazon.com
aliexpress.com
ebay.com
ioffer.com
iphonecase6.com
vandergow.com
shadeyou.com
lsnconecall.com
lovedrstyle.com
jackandgeorges.com
scryl.com
case2015.com
anything linked from wanelo.com
So far I’ve had success in removing the cases from several sites, (amazon, ioffer, a few knockoff pillow cases from aliexpress) but most of the others have ignored my emails and calls or made it impossible to get in touch, so I cannot send them a cease and desist.
Please keep in mind, if a product by a small artist isn’t coming from their personal store, (Storenvy, Etsy) or service that prints art on products while crediting the artist, (Redbubble, Society6) then you’re running the risk of purchasing a knockoff, and the artist who made it sees no support. If you see someplace selling The Great Wave off Kanto and it’s NOT from my Redubble, Storenvy, Society6, or INPRNT - it’s not me!!
All my sales go directly towards paying for rent and groceries every month, and it’s the same for many other artists. Please be careful where you buy art from!
Please signal boost and do not purchase from those sites!!! Be careful!!
Lots of them are visual artists, offering art and discounts on their art stores as bonuses for patrons.
Does it work for writers? What the hell do I have to offer?
If I let my readers have sneak peeks, will that be ‘publishing’ parts of my WIP and therefore making it untouchable?
I’m planning to get an agent, this year. Which means I’ll be sending sample chapters of Kung Fu Zombies off to random strangers in the hopes that they think it’s good enough to print on the mashed remains of dead trees.
Y’know, because print books reach wider audiences and whatnot.
But of course I am broke and I need an income in the meantime. It’s going to be months before KFZ is ready to go. Agents like finished books, I hear.
But then, considering my current audience is also broke, this might not be a good idea, after all.
Ugh. I wish I knew what to do.
Life sucks.
Are any of the 1% Speculative Fiction fans? Can I send them a few free things and hope for the best? Would that even work?
Bluh.
Must stop, now, before I enter into yet another depression spiral.
i’m kind of freaking out right now. my cat mordechai is sick and i don’t know what’s wrong with him. i can afford to take him to the vet, but i won’t have enough left over for rent because i’m still looking for a new job. i hate having to beg like this, but if you can spare anything i would appreciate it so much. my paypal is evlyn.crowder@gmail.com
Novlr is now in open beta just in time for NaNoWriMo
And they’re offering permanent memberships for “just” $100.
I don’t have enough to afford to scratch my butt.
Please, please, please, dear readers, put a little money in my paypal so I can afford a lifetime membership. [I have no idea how to link to a paypal “give me money” thing (help!) so my paypal email is nutty@internutter.org Thank you for not abusing this email address]
Thanks in advance for your kind donations.
It’s been 24 hours and I’m still just past two thirds of the way there. I doubt that there’s any of the places left in their offer. Stuff like this goes quick to those who can afford it.
To the kind person who did donate: Thank you so much. Please let me know if you want me to refund you.
I just checked the site and I have never been happier to state that these nice peeps still have spots!
YES!
There’s still a chance for me to get a lifetime membership to this wonderful web app.
Please send money via paypal to nutty@internutter.org
