#unless it's like really... like... transparent

[rjavenuru]

I don't know how I feel about the white shirt... 😅

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

Writing Update

Hello everyone, a necessary update. This is being posted on Patreon as well so that I make sure everybody interested in supporting my writing sees it.

My Patreon is now public and free. This will give you access to all of my posts including all Tales from the Scorched Lands, the short stories that give glimpses into the backgrounds of the various characters in Mortal Leviathans (affectionately nicknamed "the dragonfucker series").

When I overcome this damn burnout I will resume posting on Patreon so that everything is organized, in one place, and you all get helpful email updates when I post. I think it's just a little more organized than tumblr.

I am continuing to work on my original novels and do still hope to publish them. However, for now, I am putting a hold on the idea of making any actual income from them.

My poetry collection Manifesto of a Blossoming Supervillain is being changed to be free-to-download, including as a free PDF on my website (Amazon makes me charge $0.99 for an ebook but it all goes to them). If you would like a physical copy, there are links to various retail options. The price covers production and shipping costs, I make no profit.

Long story short, this boils down to being fucked up the ass by taxes, and hitting major burnout. I don't want to get into it, and I don't want advice. But I'm cutting out anything in my life that doesn't earn me a W-2 (for non-Americans, don't worry about it, just know it's a type of job filing for the government).

Things will be very tight for me, but my attempts to get ahead and be more financially stable by taking on other work has not only not solved my financial problems (it's only created new ones), it's also exhausted me to the point where I cannot write. My hope is that by going down to just one job, the one that earns me a W-2, will solve both the problem of my burnout and of this frustrating financial merry-go-round.

I deeply appreciate each and every one of you who bought a copy of my poetry collection, who signed up for my Patreon, who has sent me kind messages of support and encouragement, and so on, over the last two years since I tried self-publishing.

My thinking is that, well, I got lots of readers just by having fun and posting my fanfic. I didn't have any kind of plan. I was just having fun. Why am I doing anything different with my original work?

What's most important to me is not that I make money off my writing, but that my writing is read and enjoyed and that I have fun sharing it. Maybe making a living off this is just not in the cards for me. It sucks, but it's okay. What matters most is that you all get to meet my original characters that I love so much, and go on their journeys with them, and hopefully, maybe, love them just like I do.

Again: I will keep sharing my writing. I just won't be accepting any finances from it that could be construed as income (my Ko-fi will remain open if you feel like throwing a few bucks my way here and there) for the time being.

Stay safe, everyone. The kindness and patience you have shown means everything to me.

[butch-coffee-cup]

Guys I love you all very much but im being so for real please stop asking me to draw MLM and hetty ships, I know I did a few in the past but right now the odds of me actually drawing those are close to zero im sorry. I'm totally all for drawing guys by themselves but I'm a lesbian and I don't care about drawing romance involving men like 95% of the time

[benjineedssleep]

certified benji rant about not understanding shit bc im aroace LOL please send help (/gen i need Advice ™️, see tags after)

i think marriage as a concept is fine, right? you love someone enough you want to have this grand gesture that's like "i love you and want to love you forever". it's kinda sweet, even. it is not, however, lost to me how allo the whole thing is. allo, heteronormative, and religious in many such cases. there's just this whole idea that the end goal of being with someone, particularly romantically, is to marry them and 'settle down' one way or another. it's just so tied to the nuclear family for me i cannot separate it. especially when you can just marry your friend if you want to even if for legal reasons. which is another thing that bothers me! if marriage is supposed to be this connecting, maybe spiritual and/or religious thing, the fact it's also intertwined with legality rubs me the wrong way. because now you have a government document telling you you love someone enough. like no, actually, i don't think i should have to be married to prove my love or do certain legal things. why is the government involved in my relationships by default once i get married too? that's weird i don't like that.

i dunno... i have a lot of trauma related to marriage on top of the fact i'm aroace, so my understanding of relationships is much different than someone who's allo. i feel like marriage in the society i live in overcomplicates something that shouldn't be so complicated??? i just can't really see the difference between things like promise rings/jewelry or outright just being like "hey i love you a lot i hope we're together for a long time". i do understand it can be a cultural thing and i think it can very well be a beautiful thing but again, i am not lost to the fact marriage is seen as an 'end goal' when to me the end goal is just... being happy? and i can be happy with anyone in any type of relationship, doesn't have to be romantic which marriage focuses way too much on imo

[theswedishpajas]

I don’t think I ever posted this but he’s here now about a week late 🦇✨✨✨

[kagoutiss]

so i played earthbound,

[trigunbookclub]

I don't think it's okay to use nightow's artwork to make yourself some money selling stickers of it.

While funny edits and memes of official content are commonly made and sold by creators and I understand it is a topic of debate for many reasons, as I say in the post and on the page, it isn't about the money and I think I'd have to sell hundreds to even make much profit! I did a lot of calculations and the price is close to the supplies/costs/the size of the small print run/etc., and while I'm not the best at math, the cents leftover per sticker aren't adding up to much and--again, like I said in the post--will be spent getting leftovers in case of errors if it's enough. If someone chooses to leave a tip for running bookclub, I'm grateful, but a vast majority of people don't and that's fine and what I expect. The point is having fun and celebrating bookclub! The amount of people who wanted a sticker/badge of completion was enough that I really wanted to do something for you guys.

TL;DR: As I said in the original post, this was designed for fun, not money. Transparency is personally very important to me and I try to be as honest as I can whenever possible. Of course, I'm a stranger on the internet, you should take that with a grain of salt, but I do try to be clear about my intentions.

[potential-fate]

hey you guys remember when hair over 10k was considered crazy highpoly and was avoided? me either.