Month: September 2015

melodicmarzipan:

Hey everyone, I felt the need to make a new post for this since it’s a bit of a more urgent need. I’ve been able to get to go to a therapist for my depression, along with a doctor and a physical therapist for my sciatica. I’m completely terrified of the co-pay once it finally gets billed to me but the new depression medicine has been making me fell well enough to do art. I really need the help. Any money is going to help me continue to survive. I can’t move back home because it will be a huge step backward in my life. I need help very badly. 

I’m willing to lower some prices if you want multiple drawings, I’ll do my best to make it worth your while. You can either send me a PM on here or a message to my email: gothappy27@gmail.com. Please consider commissioning me or sharing this. Thank you for reading.

Get an ask on my character blog asking how many hate messages I get a week, followed almost instantly by a “fuck you” anon…

Yeahhh, that’s totally not suspicious at all.. Considering the blog has less than 15 followers…

slagarthefox:

tenaflyviper:

bookthrower:

tenaflyviper:

I remember when Animal Planet actually had shows about animals, and not a dozen or so programs in constant rotation about building unnecessary luxury items for rich people.

Kind of like how nowadays the History Channel shows nothing but pawn shops, the Sci-Fi channel airs wrestling, and Cartoon Network has Live action shows on it.

I don’t think they understand that we choose to watch these channels in the hopes that they’re going to be different from other channels.  We don’t watch Syfy to see shit we can see in back alleys on Earth.  We don’t watch the History Channel to see shit that’s still going on right outside our doors.  We don’t watch Animal Planet to see humans doing human things.  We don’t watch Cartoon Network to see things that aren’t cartoons.

CN is the only one of these channels that actually learned the hard way, and wised the fuck up.  Some of today’s teens may be somewhat misguided (as I’m sure has always been the way since long before the phrase “teenager” was even coined.  Young humans have not experienced as much of the world, and are still growing–both physically, and mentally), but they honestly have better taste in programming than a hell of a lot of “adults”.

I don’t watch TV to see the televised equivalent of a trip to Walmart.  I watch TV to explore places I otherwise couldn’t, whether they be fictional, beyond my social or educational status to experience for myself, or simply lost to time.

Sci-Fi got weird about the time they decided to starting airing Wrestling (and A LOT of it) for some reason.

What gets me, is they keep creating these new channels to air the programs that the channels that already exist are supposed to be showing.

“We want more [insert content type here]”
“Well, we can’t possibly fit any more content onto the main channel. Let’s make a new one for it!”
*creat new channel, 12 months later, it’s filled with crap, repeat cycle*

slagarthefox:

puzzlesdiscordedhome:

jaxblade07:

riothiei:

jaxblade07:

ilikesuperwholock:

stormy-kun493:

r-leostar:

joechacho:

expressiontime:

well thanks now Im cryin

this just made me kinda emotional i has a sad now

({why would you make this})

Is it even legal to fit this many feels in one post?

Now if you’ll excuse me, I gonna grossly sob in the corner of the room.

WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT IM LITERALLY SOBBING RIGHT NOW

I’m not gonna lie, the Foster’s one got me Baaaaad

Jax Why….just why 🙁

Dude they all make me feel bad but I legit dropped a mantear at the Foster’s Franky one

I just…. I can’t….. I-I-I-I don’t know!!! *i begin to sob loudly*

The KND hit’s hard because that’s a perfect analogy for how it feels when you finally graduate high-school and look back at your childhood from the outside. 

worky-reblogs:

stunnerpone:

ponkoporo:

alasou:

asksolarflair:

stunnerpone:

For everyone who thinks I’m getting $500+ dollars a month, let me just show you how a ton of those pledges are false and how a lot of people have been getting content on my Patreon for free.

There are other cases. Some people who know that Patreon charges you at the beginning of the month, mysteriously unsubscribe a few days before that happens, after they got all the content for free of course.

Before you ask, no I don’t delete patrons, because I can never be sure if it’s a legit error, like a bank denying Patreon to charge you (which has happened before with some people and has been fixed), or a guy trying to see all my content for free. And aside from deleting them, there’s not much I can do, at least not that I’m aware of.

I know that by making this post I’ll actually encourage some people to try and get “free access”. But I wanted to show you all how we artists struggle to get paid even when we “block content behind a paywall”.

I hope that Patreon and other sites improve their “scam detection” or however you call it, since this has been an issue for as long as I’ve been using it.

If you’re an artist struggling with this as well, give it a reblog and maybe we can bring attention to this issue and to make people understand how hard it is to actually get paid as an artist, even while blocking your content.

Welp, that’s stunner, tehlumineko, and alasou so far that I know of getting a bunch of these. I know at least Lumi got 19 fake 20 dollar ones in a month.

Keep an eye out for things like them only patroning you and having weird generic names stunnerpone. Greg338 or whatever. Those are undoubtedly fakes and all it does is give them access to your stuff and make you seem like you’re making more than you are.

Yup… Happened to me… It is a real struggle…

It is so dumb how they don’t charge you at the time you pledge. Like Twitch does ffs.

^^^^^

I don’t know either. And why do they let people whose credit cards have been declined keep getting access to content?

Same Problem.  

I don’t know if these are real people or bots, and I hate to be the bearer of bad news but on top of all this our art is getting reposed somewhere.  And I bet that they are connected.

All those are links to all the art that has been uploaded to Patreon from the Artists listed.  So this is how bad the problem actually is. And that is assuming stuff isn’t getting uploaded in other locations.

I found out about this about 2 weeks ago and I probably should have said something about this a bit earlier but I just didn’t know how to bring it up without drawing a ton of attention to the site (which I’m not gonna link for that reason)  and I didn’t want to dishearten other artists cause this shit is extremely depressing. -_-

But I do know personally that non of my nsfw exclusive art has been reposed to this site cause I luckily decided to email that stuff out to my patrons instead of posting it to patreon.  So if you do any exclusive stuff I recommend switching to that.  Email any exclusive artwork after payments are done so you can filter out the scammers and thieves.  

I’ve brought this up to Patreon Staff and they are looking into it but the realistic thing is that there are always going to be pirates and we will just have to do our best to grin and bare it.  Its sad but that’s how it is.  Lets try to support each other and keep going.