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This is the lucky clover cat. reblog this in 30 seconds & he will bring u good luck and fortune.

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Please! Do all you can to make sure your voice is heard!

there are enough tumblr users who can vote in US battleground states to literally swing the election, do you realize that?? the election is going to come down to like 80’000 votes in those states — that could be your vote! so if you live in pennsylvania, georgia, arizona, nevada, north carolina, wisconsin, michigan, etccc your vote is going to make a huge, huge difference. please for the love of god vote (and if you live in a different state, you still need to vote too)

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This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 

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“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

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We here in Arkansas (the civilized parts anyway) do NOT agree with this crazy woman. She has not been good for our state, and there's no way in hell the rest of anywhere is looking at us for an example short of "don't do what they're doing."

#arkansansagainstsanders

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the notes are broken 😂

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if you're ok with an incessant amount of boops reblog this so I can get those other 2 badges <3

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Eh, what the hell. Can't hurt.

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Friendly reminder to all working artists or (especially) aspiring artists.

If a client says they can’t afford to pay you but you’ll get good exposure, one of two things is happening:

1. They are lying. They can afford to pay you, but they are choosing not to. They will pay the printer to print the books, they will pay the mail service to deliver them, and you’d better believe they’re going to pay themselves for sending you an email explaining that they can’t afford to pay you. They think you are a sucker, and if you take the job you’ll be telling them they are right.

2. They are not lying. They have zero budget, no audience and no real distribution system. They’ll still be paying the printer and mail service because people who work in those professions don’t work for free just because someone promises them a recommendation. But they aren’t paying themselves, they’re running on an incredibly small margin, and there’s a good chance they won’t exist as a corporate entity in a few years. Publishing your work with them will give you less exposure than putting it on tumblr or Instagram for free would. It will never lead to a paying job. 

If a client starts ranting about the “short-sightedness” of artists, or otherwise complains about artists in general in their opening offer to you, run. Run as fast as you would run if a blind date spent the whole of dinner ranting about how horrible your entire gender is. Yes, there are doubtlessly clients who’ve been screwed over by artists in the past, but the ones who complain about artists in general will not respect you, they will not treat you well. 

Working for free does not prove that you are passionate about something. It proves that you do not need to be paid for your work. How many doctors went into medicine because they are passionate about saving lives? Do you think any of them are asked to perform heart surgery for free?

No one will ever pay $50 for something if they can get something similar for $5. When you charge next to nothing for art that you’ve worked for hours on, art that required years of training to create, you are telling your client that it is worth next to nothing. They will remember that the next time they want to hire an artist.

People who are looking to exploit artists know that artists are hard on themselves. They know that most artists don’t think their work is good enough to charge top dollar. They know that artists have been told from the first day they started taking their art seriously as a career that they’ll never make any money off it, that it’s not a real job, that it has no value to society. They know how to push artists’ insecurities about their profession in order to convince them that that demanding fair compensation is unrealistic and uncooperative.

If you’re just desperate for a job in the arts, any job in the arts, give yourself a job. Start a webcomic, or give yourself illustration assignments that you post on social media regularly, create work for a gallery show even if you don’t have one yet, or make a book. Give yourself a job. If you’re going to work for free, you may as well be working for yourself, setting your own hours and following your own interests. Having original art with original characters and ideas in your portfolio, and making sure your art is visible online will get the attention of publishers who are actually looking to hire people for good jobs. Drawing a shitty comic for a defunct publisher based on someone else’s shitty ideas will not.

Protect yourself, because no one else will. Protect yourself, because no one else will. There are people lining up around the block to exploit you. Protect yourself because no one else will.

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like or reblog if you’re an ADHD blog or someone who has ADHD (bonus if you have RSD)

i need more blogs to follow and i’ve been wanting to follow more fellow humans with ADHD so it’d be cool if you could smash that like or reblog button

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IMPORTANT! The EU is About to Destroy The Internet #DeleteArt13

Sources: http://ow.ly/HsGP10168R5

Sign the Petition: https://saveyourinternet.eu/

EDRI Article: http://ow.ly/VEpH101689Z Techdirt article: http://ow.ly/gs9b101689X

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Tomorrow, the invasion begins....

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For this year's FCBD, I joined the rest of the Arkansas Avengers in assisting our local comics shop hand out all those amazing books. And maybe I sat down to read the best series out there. #cosplay #avengers #squirrelgirl #unbeatablesquirrelgirl

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Boundaries are ok

Rude comments are not a new thing, content creators get them all the time.  Whether it’s a backhanded compliment, something overly creepy, unsolicited critique, or someone just being a straight up troll.  I do my best to mitigate those comments within my power to do so, but in the end it’s out of my control.  The responsibility is on the commenter, not the content creator.  For me, that sometimes discourages me from putting out certain kinds of content.  I deleted a piece off of tumblr recently because of one such comment, and because I was subsequently chastised for saying I didn’t want those kinds of comments.  I won’t upload personal memorial artwork because of a particularly vicious troll who commented on a portrait I did of my grandmother shortly after she passed away.  I currently don’t host auctions online because of the venomous reaction people have when bidding gets high.

So what SHOULD a content creators do when faced with comments they don’t want?  Should we let people say things that make us feel bad to avoid upsetting others?  Should we block that person?  Should we say “hey please don’t speak to me that way”?  It can be hard because some of those behaviors from watchers are hurtful and angering.  It’s tough to avoid responding from a place of anger.  The best thing I’ve learned is to wait before responding, and bounce my wording off a friend or two to make sure I’m being fair. 

But we are allowed to put up boundaries.  And how we choose to put up our boundaries is entirely up to us.  I’m perfectly allowed to ignore you if you speak to me in a harmful way.  I’m also allowed to tell you what you said is rude or unwanted.  I’m allowed to block you if you have a clear history of saying harmful things to others. Content creators pages are NOT public forums.  When we put up our personal boundaries in our spaces, we are not infringing on your rights in any way.  We are managing our spaces in the way we see fit. I originally wrote this a few weeks ago when I witnessed an artist whose work I enjoy defend their choice to call out a transphobic comment on their work. They made that choice because that comment was harmful, and they are putting up a boundary.  It doesn’t matter of the person “meant well” when commenting, or included a compliment with their statement.  I’m posting it now because I am seeing a friend and admired artist get chastised for being “aggressive”, aka putting up a boundary for themselves on their page.  At least in my sphere, I see this happening a lot more frequently, and it’s not ok.

tldr; If you say something harmful to someone, you aren’t owed tolerance or a teaching moment.  People are allowed to say no.

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trying to prove a point to my brother

reblog this if you think art IS work, and that it takes time and effort and is a valid source of income.