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https://www.facebook.com/DunfermlineComicCon/

Heya! Dunfermline Comic Con is my first Scotland convention appearance in two years and it’s by no coincidence that the last time was Dunfermline Comic Con in 2017! It’s an incredible comic show with a wonderful atmosphere and a really great guest line-up!

If you’re planning on going, please buy tickets before the end of the month! The organisers are trying to make sure the event happens - it costs a lot to run a show like this with international comic guests and it’s worth supporting! (There aren’t many UK shows that get people like Ryan North and Mariko Tamako as guests!)

(Poster is by Katie O’Neill!)

obviousplant

What’s your next career?

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Theory: Nobody who writes a physics textbook gives any fucks

Evidence:

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Update: Legolas’ pupils are about 3.5 cm wide each. Now drawing kawaii Legolas on physics assignment.

And they told you science was no fun.

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Science!

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I’m going to do it. I’m going to hand it in.

glumshoe

Legolas’s pupil size isn’t the problem here, though. 5 leagues is 17.262 miles. The curvature of the Earth means that for a person of average height, the visual horizon is less than three miles away. Even if your vision is telescopic and the atmosphere is perfectly clear, you can’t see around the planet. If they were standing on a hill, it would have to be at LEAST 198 feet above sea level in order to see the horizon at 17.2 miles away, with nothing tall in between. Which, knowing Rohan, isn’t impossible.

But consider: Elven satellite eyeballs.

gemstone-gynoid

you mean like

ontologicalidiot-deactivated201

@sidereanuncia it’s back, the post that I can only imagine haunts your nightmares

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I shall never find peace.

Also, for what it’s worth, there’s absolutely no reason to believe that the curvature of Middle Earth is the same as that of Earth.

sindri42

There’s no evidence that Middle Earth curves.

solwardenclyffe

Yeah there is. The Silmarillion states that the world was curved after the fall of Numenor (I believe), preventing access to Valinor. But Elves (among others) can travel the straight path across it.

So middle earth is round, but not for Elves because magic.

sindri42

So wait, the reason he can see that far is because Elves just have the ability to ignore the curve of the earth? That’s awesome. It also means that no matter how good your optics got, you would always want elf eyes manning the spyglass because they can see arbitrarily far while everybody else is limited by this ‘horizon’ bullshit.

lady-byleth

Oh thank God, my poor elf prince has seen too much in this post

saccharinesatchel

Elves are flat-earthers

cheattoe

This post went from amusing to horrifying, to be brought back down to amusing, sprinkled in with some cannon explanation, and then you leave me here in fucking outrage

yourownpetard

This post really was a rollercoaster.

odinoco-deactivated20190531

for elves it was a straight line

battlecrazed-axe-mage

We officially have a date! HeartBeat Dice’s pride dice kickstarter kicks off June 22nd!! 😍🏳️‍🌈 I’m super excited, the dice look amazing and basically my whole friend circle needs them

(Note: they are hoping to have lesbian flag dice but are having trouble keeping the layers distinct, hopefully they get it sorted before go time!)

vaspider

So in all seriousness...

… if you don’t want the stuff you buy on Etsy to become more expensive, start making the kind of noise about Etsy’s fee changes that y’all made about Patreon’s fee changes.

Sooner or later, those costs become customer costs, one way or the other. :/

Make some noise, because this is ridiculous. Etsy isn’t giving us anything new: for the new features not only will we be getting hit with these raised transaction fees but we’ll also be required to pay a subscription fee. So what we’re getting for these increased fees?

Nothing. Just more fees. No more features, just more costs.

(And yes, I am looking into alternatives, but omfg, make some noise on social media, please. Patreon backed down from their ridiculous fee grab with enough user pressure.)

fabulousfidgets

Please everybody listen to this. I try to keep my prices as low as I can but with these fees I’m going to have to start increasing process or find somewhere else and lose alot of my customer base.

Please make some noise and help out small business owners on Etsy by protesting these fee hikes.

autisticrevolution-deactivated2

Oppose the fee hikes! Support autistic businesses!

madionspock

Also the fact lies that it isn’t even just fees on the actual product you’re selling, it’s also on the shipping cost. So say I know exactly to the penny how much a package will cost to ship, so I charge the customer that much. Etsy now is taking a percentage of that fee away. So either I have to overcharge knowingly for shipping, passing that cost down to customers right off the bat, or I have to make up for the lost currency. Small businesses and artists who even just make some extra cash off of Etsy can not always easily afford the cost of buying and hosting their own separate E-commerce business. People who have built up followings on Etsy can’t force customers to move to other platforms. The entire situation is poo and people who want cool merchandise for the reasonable prices artists are currently able to offer need to make noise.

vaspider

And Etsy calculates that for some of us, too. So they’ll calculate it. And then add 5% to it? Do they charge the customer (like when they do sales tax for us) or just us? Am I gonna have to add a handling fee to cover the shipping upcharge?

Though honestly, the processing fee hike is… it’s terrible.

For those of us who do this full time, we already live in the literal margins of what we make. Etsy deciding to just snatch 1.5% of what I make out of my hands without offering me anything in return is… that shit adds up. I already only make - at BEST - maybe 40% of every dollar that a customer pays me, once you account for all costs.

Let’s assume I have an amazing year and we do 30K in revenue. Etsy’s fee hike means they’ve taken an additional $450 out of my hands. Which, in this assumed scenario, they’re taking that out of the hands of someone whose profit, that is, the money that’s really mine (assuming I owe no income tax, heh), 12K?

That’s … it’s brutal.

Oh yeah, and:

This ain’t about shit but making Josh the CEO, talking down to us peon sellers in that awful video, richer.

Fuuuuuck that.

vaspider

Added: the hashtag I’ve seen so far on Twitter is #etsyfees.

vaspider

In any case, please update your bookmarks - find us at www.nerdykeppie.com! Whether or not we break up with Etsy, you can always find us there.

buildingbooks

How do we make noise? Seriously I would love to but where do I complain? I also have serious concerns that these new “premium paid” options are basically Etsy saying “If you don’t go premium, we wont give you any exposure.” You know, basically like Facebook did with business pages.

systlin

Contact Etsy on social media and email them.

dnd-apothecary

The 5% Shipping Fee is bogus: they provide a very meager discount if you buy your shipping labels through them, but they don’t provide you with actual supplies to print your labels, they literally DO NOT need to charge this 5% fee. Now they are going to charge it REGARDLESS if you purchase your labels through them or not. There goes my discount, and now I will get charged 5% whether or not I use their site to purchase labels vs using USPS or UPS or FedEx. What are they using it for? Who knows. Why are they charging it? Who knows. No information has been given other than vague “we’re investing in bringing more business to etsy”

How are you investing it? With whom are you investing it? And how will it help us, as businesses? How does this not translate to higher prices for customers, potentially causing smaller shops to close up bc they lose business? What is the PURPOSE?

Make some noise. Call them out. This stuff hurts both small businesses and large ones. It hurts customers. If I raise my prices to counteract these fees, I risk losing business. As a budding company, this isn’t something I can afford to do.

As for their subscription plans, they don’t tell you WHAT tools are coming to the expanded and premium toolset, but they sure do have a price nailed down. For only $10/mo (From July to Jan 2019, then it bumps to $20/mo) you get Advanced Tools. What are they? Who knows! Etsy hasn’t said a damn thing about it, except that it’s on sale for $10/mo. The premium subscription is even more vague: a complete toolset but cost to be determined in Jan 2019.

The only tools here are Etsy.

Call them out for it.

stilesisbiles

Googled ‘rainbow dice’ and was not disappointed. Also found some dice with bi colors while I was at it! :)

never-in-moderation

fun fact: most of these sets are made by @littlecluus who makes all there dice by hand, they even do ones with dragons in them!

http://littlecluus.com/glitter-rainbow-dice-set/

#dice #rainbow dice

relenawarcraft

Attention: Guys who cosplay/want to cosplay spandex-clad superheroes

OK dinguses, here’s something that’s gonna make your life and the lives of everyone who sees you at the con so much better.

This is called a Men’s Dance Belt.

It’s for male ballet dancers to wear under their tights. Its purpose?

TO MAKE SURE NOBODY SEES THEIR BULGE.

when I’m at a con, nothing kills a potential good superhero costume more than seeing the cosplayer’s friendly neighborhood spider-cock through the costume.

amtrax

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO THIS. I SEE TO MANY PEOPLE WHO DON’T AND I’M JUST LIKE “YO COME ON…”

nerdgasrnz

Looking at you, Deadpool cosplayers

tiefling-queer

things to do while you wait for your dnd groups to meet again:

create a family tree for a character you’ll never get the chance to play

make yet another tiefling

find race and class combos you haven’t had the chance to play yet

dig up an old character and revamp them

make playlists for your characters. get emotional when you listen to them

start writing backstory for your backup character

come up with elf names by mispronouncing common words

check your groupchat for updates you know won’t be there

speculate on how you’re all going to die next session

listen to dnd podcasts to both ease and worsen the void in your soul

buy another dice set

vulcankisseshuman

jeneelestrange

So I stumbled onto the Etsy shop of this academic who–in real life–is an expert on cuneiform–and on the side, makes little trinkets with Sumerian on them and OH MAN THIS SHOP HAS MADE MY ENTIRE WEEK For the price of about thirty bucks, you too can have a clay necklace that says “Like a farting butt, the mouth brings forth too many words” in the oldest written language on earth https://www.etsy.com/listing/537034173/choose-your-words-carefully-like-a?ref=shop_home_active_23

Or a necklace that declares “I have ferocious features that exude sexiness” https://www.etsy.com/listing/540406774/i-have-ferocious-features-that-exude?ref=shop_home_active_54 Or be the ultimate hipster and anti-capitalist before capitalism even existed with “Wanting more riches when already wealthy offends the gods” https://www.etsy.com/listing/543598245/wanting-more-riches-when-already-wealthy?ref=shop_home_active_6

Sumerian erotic poetry? Got it. Sumerian drinking songs? Yep. A little something for everyone on your Akitu gift list.

sisterofiris

Guys, if you’re interested in acquiring your own cuneiform tablets, I highly recommend that you check out this shop. It’s a great way of getting accurate replicas while both supporting an academic’s work, and, most importantly, avoiding the trade of real, often illegally acquired artefacts. You get your tablet that says “beer is good, travel is bad”, and the real tablets stay in museums where they belong - it’s a win-win situation.

(Little reminder that if you’re near Geneva, Switzerland on 27-28th April, you can make your very own cuneiform tablets, hieroglyphic papyri and much more at our ancient festival!)

jeremywhitley

Raven the Pirate Princess is Sinking

I despise doing posts where I ask for help, but here we are.

About two years ago I started a new creator owned project. It began as a spin-off of Princeless, but the reality is this - Raven The Pirate Princess is its own thing altogether. I knew this from the first issue and if you’ve been reading, so have you.

Sure, the first few issues of Raven: Pirate Princess had that heroic lady feminist banter for which Princeless has become known both among its fans and detractors. I mean, Raven had this scene:

and issue 1 had this scene:

But perhaps much more importantly, the first issue of Raven had this:

but that wasn’t where that ended. This is a book about a community of diverse queer women actively claiming their place in the world and taking what’s theirs. It’s about Raven, who is desperately in love with her childhood best friend Ximena

It’s about Ximena, a girl who was held captive for years by a pirate king who pretended to be her liberator. Who fell in love with the pirate’s daughter, only to be left behind by that father when she outlived her value.

About Sunshine, the thief that chose the wrong target and ended up falling in love with a woman already hopelessly in love with somebody else.

It’s about Katie, the bisexual second in command who’s motivated by honor…and occasionally beating the snot out of a dude or two

Oh and in case I forgot to mention, Katie is also incredibly muscular:

And Jayla, the asexual science genius who’s tired of being treated like a little sister

and Cid, the deaf engineer who quietly keeps the ship running

and of course, these two:

The socially awkward poet and the angry sword fighter who couldn’t stand her who have somehow become these two:

But here’s the thing: this comic is failing. It has a very dedicated and exuberant but at this point SMALL fanbase. Today I had a hard conversation with Action Lab about the reality of the numbers on this book versus what it costs to produce this book and, suffice it to say, Action Lab isn’t ready to cancel the book, but they aren’t ready to greenlight year 3 either. After Year 2 #13, Raven is set to go on the shelf until numbers can support continuing it.

This is where I need your help

If you care about this book full of queer pirate ladies and you want it to continue, we need to find a way to spread the word about it. We don’t need to sell single issues (it would be nice) but ultimately we need the trades sales that back up the continuation of this big YA Pirate/Revenge/Adventure/Romance thing.

Digital copies can be bought instantly right on Comixology: https://www.comixology.com/Princeless-Raven-The-Pirate-Princess/comics-series/46971

You can buy the physical volumes on amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B01BF7U91Q

In fact, if you’ve already purchased volumes 1-4, volume 5 is available for preorder there right now!

Maybe you’ve bought all the issues already. Thank you! If you still want to support Raven, you can review the books on Amazon or other retailers, you can share, reblog or retweet this post. You can tell a friend about the book!

If you have a comics review site or, say, a blog where you talk about LGBT media, contact me for review links or interviews. Please, help us save our ship.

princealigorna

I’ve gotten on Jeremy’s shit for one particular MLP arc that I fucking loathe, but he’s a good man and Princeless and Raven I feel are good books. Show him some support, please!

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incoherentmuses

I love D&D. Like, a lot. Really it was only a matter of time before I made something related to it, and here we are, just in time for Valentines Day. And of course I had to make a bunch of LGBT flavoured versions as well because A) well duh, and B) the pride flag colour schemes are awesome.

As always, if you want to get any of the above as a gift for yourself your loved ones this year, they’re available in their own collection over at my Redbubble store.

If you want a pride flag colour or any other colour scheme that I haven’t done, hit me up and I’ll make it~!

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punkrorschach

wintercapsicle

Ohh it got better!

wealthyhugepenis-deactivated201

i really like stickers but at the same time i don’t because once you stick them somewhere that’s it, it’s finished, and i’m just not emotionally stable enough for that responsibility

diabadass

I have been waiting for this post my whole life.

proteusolm

There’s something really terrifying about the concept of being pursued by something that can only walk slowly after. Just slooowly following. You can chill for a while if you get far enough away but it’s still coming.

kaijutegu

That’s called “persistence hunting” and it’s how humans hunted all sorts of megafauna to extinction, as well as what let our species become so disperse and so numerous. Our existence is a horror story told from the monster’s perspective.

finnverbose

So you’re telling me zombie is absolutely a valid career path

reign-sl

Watch the movie on Netflix called “ It Follows” lol

kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201

Basically our hunting super power is that we are really smart, good at tools and can walk/run forever.

My roommate Kait runs 20 miles 4 times a week. Horses can only travel about 32 miles a day.

If my roommate ran 20 miles twice in one day (possible if she does one in the morning and one in the afternoon) she would out travel a horse.

She is not FASTER than a horse, but if a horse was walking away from her for 8 solid hours, Kait could catch up to it. She could probably also walk after it for an additional 5-10 miles after the run and then stab it when it got too tired to go on.

But kait’s athletic.

I, on the other hand, am a fatty fat who weighs 210 and never exercises ever.

I once, completely spontaneously because i had no money for the train, walked 17 miles in the winter from one end of Chicago to the other. I had also not eaten and was wearing a backpack. It took me 3 hours, but I accomplished it with ease. If i wasn’t a chub goddess, and had eaten and it was summer and I wasn’t wearing a backpack with a laptop in it, imagine how far and fast I could have gone.

Now. Horses can only sustain a run for about 15 miles ( at 8-10mph it takes them a little over an hour).

If my fat ass was walking towards a horse for 3 hours and it was literally running away from me. It would become exhausted after 15 miles and unless it can recover completely in 2 hours for another lengthy sprint, I can reasonably catch up to it and stab it. (not that i would ever stab a horse. horses are terrifying and should be regarded with suspicion, respect and fear)

The longest run ever was 350 miles over 80 hours without sleep.

We are endurance monsters.