DamnAverage

The DamnAverage blog! Mostly just stock updates nowadays. Updates and more are mirrored on the site under 'news'. Shops are linked in the side bar.

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May Houseclean 2019

15% off orders totaling $50+ 30% off orders $100+ 50% off orders $250+ Still have a decent amount up! Come have a look and let’s make some space in here. https://www.etsy.com/shop/DamnAverage

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Discount Chocolate Day has been live for a bit, but the selection of fantastic marbles is still largely available. Come have a look!

Remember to keep an eye on the News portion of my website and my twitter for more timely updates.

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Places to Follow

There was a pretty massive exodus but in case you missed tumblr’s decision to nix all adult content and then tag your non-adult pictures as such and explode your email inbox with “something you posted is marked adult” with no way to actually see what this thing is even under the ‘review flagged posts’ tab… You can follow me on twitter, where most updates will take place. News on my site contains important information regularly also, although not necessarily posting about all smaller stock drops there. I am on Pillowfort and depending on how that plays out may end up posting there more frequently. If you favorite my shop on Etsy you will get notifications in the upper right corner when I upload stock - there have been a number of stock uploads since The Exodus so if you haven’t popped in in a while, now’s the time to.

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This again, plus nearly 2/5s of my current stock is on sale.

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Places to Follow

There was a pretty massive exodus but in case you missed tumblr’s decision to nix all adult content and then tag your non-adult pictures as such and explode your email inbox with “something you posted is marked adult” with no way to actually see what this thing is even under the ‘review flagged posts’ tab... You can follow me on twitter, where most updates will take place. News on my site contains important information regularly also, although not necessarily posting about all smaller stock drops there. I am on Pillowfort and depending on how that plays out may end up posting there more frequently. If you favorite my shop on Etsy you will get notifications in the upper right corner when I upload stock - there have been a number of stock uploads since The Exodus so if you haven’t popped in in a while, now’s the time to.

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A Handful of Snowflakes is now available to add on to stock orders on Etsy or made-to-order Snow Covered orders off the site  The handful is approximately my size, so it may be more or less for you.

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I made a mistake! in that I forgot to actually make the Etsy listing for more than one. So they are available again. Sorry about that.

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I’m still amazed by how many people don’t know what’s going on with Tumblr and don’t know what’s about to happen to a lot of their favorite artists here.

If you like someone’s art; you must follow them somewhere else lest you lose touch forever.

Most artists like me are having their follower count SHREDDED.

To be perfectly transparent: I have 11k followers on this account and most other accounts I have 1k or less.

That’s how many people are choosing NOT to follow artists like myself on other platforms (even SFW platforms) or even on my alt Tumblr that only has 300 of you there.

It’s extremely distressing and depressing for so many of us to have to start from scratch because of a law most all politicians in the U.S. fell for.

Please support adult content creators in this super fucking troubling time.

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All of this, really. Be advised I am clearing my archives the next couple days, and if I stay here it will be only to post about critters and link directly to their pages. Follow me on twitter, keep your eyes on the News section of my site. I have a furaffinity under DamnAverage but I don’t update it, and I am waiting on a pillowfort key.

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A Handful of Snowflakes is now available to add on to stock orders on Etsy or made-to-order Snow Covered orders off the site  The handful is approximately my size, so it may be more or less for you.

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I dunno.

You can find me on Twitter, and there’s the blog (”News”) on my site which will now obviously not be mirroring tumblr posts (unrelated but “BBQ” is the FAQ). Maybe more to follow at some point, but you won’t see that here :V

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Ohh my...

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I love your writing style. You have a great voice. I realize writing isn't The Thing You Do. But your tumblr posts and tweets and product descriptions make me smile.

This is super sweet, thank you so much. I spend a lot of time writing and rewriting everything and I know it is not great (and the first drafts have more “I”s than a ballroom full of beholders) but it’s awesome to hear you like it <3

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Hey! Just wanted to drop by and wish you the best. I'm always so glad to see your posts, for better or worse, because I'm always glad to see you're still toughing it out, fighting the good fight so to speak. Depression is a bitch, keep giving it the middle finger! Sending warm thoughts your way! Hope the new year brings better times. The community loves you and will always love you <3

Thank you, that means a lot to me (tumblr ate my return heart, let me get on a non mobile browser and fix that hold on)Here it is <3

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I don't understand what "no outstanding orders used for stock" means, could you explain?

If you cut the sentence up it doesn't make sense. "Firmnesses with no outstanding orders used for stock" is: having finished 0030 orders, so since I had buckets of it around, using that silicone for stock toys. Similarly I don't get a ton of orders in 10a, so if I were to finish those first I would use the rest of it to make stock.

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Highly detailed letter to 2017 and much less detailed letter to you

Dear 2017,

Fuck you.

P.S. fuck you, 2017. Seriously fuck you.

Dear 2018,

Do better.

Thanks.

Dear You,

I guess I’m going to ramble. 2017 was a bad year for a multitude of obvious and non-obvious reasons. I’ve spent the bulk of 2016-2017 teetering in and out of the lowest of depression, feeling suicidal (although my mother just informed me I am going to live until I am Very Old, so now I have to stick around). 2018 is not my year to be fancy: 2018 is the year to do the things I have set out to do, and otherwise focus my attention on my health.

I cannot tell one way or another if I will make new things or new sizes. I have a myriad of sculptures needing to be finished and will be completing them in my own loose, inconsistent time frame. Krampus will come very late. Untimely. Rude.

There will be limited availability of made to order toys on my site only depending on whatever season it is (ie chocolates are next), and this is where you will continue to find critters. Pre-made/in-stock/ooak/whatever toys will be uploaded intermittently on my Etsy throughout the year. Thus far my intentions will be a much smaller Marbled March, with leftover colors and firmnesses with no outstanding orders used for stock - which is the same as 2017. I understand that many want custom toys and this is something of a bummer, but I need to work within my capacity until improvements are made healthwise.

The end of this year has been very cold; it is -4F at the moment (-20C for the rest of you) and my space is actually freezing. The nearest refrigerator to it is warmer, and that is no exaggeration. I have been unable to cast in this and am behind again. My intentions are to finish all December orders by mid-January, however, so we’ll see about working in a bonfire. Inside one. Yes.

I think that about covers things. My inbox is open, of course, but I may continue to hide the next couple days. Stay safe out there, stay warm if applicable, stay healthy (please), and I genuinely hope 2018 is better for all of you.

With love, -Sheep

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The Squishpocalypse has arrived!

All of my mystery critters are now available exclusively at https://damnaverage.com/

To bring in The Squishpocalypse I have a small handful of glitter critters (glcritters?) and confetti critters (confritters!) for sale, as well as all of the random critter listings, including the grab bags. If there’s a great turnaround I’ll try to get some more Glcritters and Confritters made and listed later on.

As you may well be aware, my grab bags got taken down from Etsy a while back. I swapped over most of my critters to a last-chance-made-to-order-choose-your-colors for their last run on Etsy. I have now removed all of those. If you’re waiting on a critter order on Etsy you will still receive it, no worries there, I am just providing a location where buyers can get them in all of their surprise mystery random goodness.

The loss of grab bags and mystery critters was actually monetarily devastating and has had an impact on the inflow of new material and resulted in additional delays on orders. Not that I wanted to say that at any point but yeah, there it is. You will also notice an overuse of terms like surprise, and random, and mystery, and that is entirely my bitterness. :) Send me a little sweetener. Not sugar, because insulin problems, but...

So anyway, that much aside, go here, get the critters you always wanted, get the grab bags you’ve been waiting on, let us do the celebration with the Squishpocalypse!