#but all the stickers and some of the prints are able to go 'free' bc I'm sending them as letters and only paying the cost of stamps

[sergle]

Hey am I correct in remembering that stickers ordered on Etsy still have free international shipping because they're just sent in an envelope?

Yis, that's right!

[skunkes]

sorry if you’ve answered this before but can i ask what ur process is for making stickers? i would love to make my own but i never understood how ppl make them independently outside of using sites like redbubble where they print/ship the stickers for you ^^; do you order batches through stickermule or a similar site? or is there a way to produce them at home?

Yes! There is a way to produce em at home but I feel i dont make enough stickers that wld sell really really well to justify the cost, + i do not have insider knowledge on that part as i do not make them myself, sorry ^_^

Up to now i have used 3 separate places for stickers, ill probably add limks when im on web.

Read more is bc i am going into depth on the sites ive used and my experience + how you navigate em, bc i know i always like a lot of info on ths sort of stuff, feel free to ask more questions if you'd like to know anything else ^_^

V/ograce:

✨ Vo/grace is the cheapest of all options I'll be listing, and the trade off is it'll take about a month or longer for them to produce the sticker + for it to arrive to you.

✨ They have lots of options other sites dont (sparkle star and heart holo patterns i love so munch!) but they dont have a matte option iirc. Still good and varied! Ive enjoyed the quality + recently they've improved the...color printing?

✨ You upload files on the item page (its best to label em by Amount You Want + Size to make it easier for them (like CowboySticker_50pc_2inches)) + they later email you with a digital proof of how the outlines are and you can ask them to change it then, otherwiae minimal contact (if the proof is good you just say "yes its good to go!")

✨ Only thing here is sometimes proofs can be confusing (i ordered a sticker meant to be holo on 2 areas. They ended up not being holo at all, and i could not tell from the proofs lol like there was no indicator that theyd end up not holo :( ), and then it's hard to get things fixed if youre on a deadline (like ppl who make stickers for cons) bc itd take another month for the fixed ones to get to you

I use vo/grace when i rlly want a sparkle star or heart holo design, or lots of designs that fit within the materials they have ^_^ they also only have like a 10 sticker minimum order quantity (MOQ) i believe?? So you have to order 50 stickers at minimum but you can make them be 5 different designs of 10 iirc

Stic/kerapp:

🌷 Stick/erapp has the best/my favorite sticker UI out of the sites Ive used, you upload your file and theres an editor where you can decide how big you want the border of your sticker, what color, you can adjust how big you want em to be, + other things, so you don't have to wait for a digital proof

🌷 I've had good experiences w them and the cost is good but I havent used em in a while, and last i heard they are getting a lot of attention rn due to increased popularity, which has led to them getting some orders wrong, which is ok, but I've also seen people say customer support for this has not been great recently, so I am...not completely advocating against em but I'm avoiding em for the moment until things mybe calm down? But thats bc im not a risk taker urnshfksjf

🌷 I rlly do hope things are resolved soon bc they also have some special sticker materials that other sites dont have that id love to experiment with, but its not like. A NEED ^_^

Cant remember the MOQ here but i think its also 50. I think the base MOQ for sticker sites is 50

Stick/erninja:

🌈 Sti/ckerninja is a small local business in portland iirc. I used them for my most recent sticker (be my cowboy) bc I wanted it to be matte and Vog/race doesnt have matte sticker yet! I like their UI and the way they have options and materials set up. You upload your file (all these sites specify which they accept btw ^_^) and it gives you a little mini thumbnail on what it'll look like. This is good bc I actually had some file issues and I was able to see the file i uploaded messed up the colors! So i was able to fix it before purchasing.

🌈 They give you an estimated shipping time + some time later you'll get an email with digital proof and dimensions, if there are issues you can contact them and if not you just approve on a little menu in your account ^_^ iirc they also give discounts for specific designs and are vocal about supporting things like blm which is epic to me ^_^ my experience with them was quite nice + I think prices are similar to stick/erapp.

✨ Again I'm not a big risk taker and my stuff always flops so I usually stick to vogr/ace for the cost bc I have the time/dont do cons or anything w a deadline ^_^ mybe you cld start there if you wanna start out without investing a lot of money!

🌈 I rlly rlly liked matte sticker feeling so until vo/grace adds that I'm doing that much on stick/erninja! But i use both of these interchangeably atm!

🌷 I wld check each of em out for materials to see which you like too bc they all have their own special ones i think. I think stick/erapp has a lot of options ppl enjoy, but no sparkle holo like vo/grace. Sticke/rninja has blacklight florescent sticker options! Etc

I havent tried other sites as theyre usually more expensive hdhskfjskd ^_^ but yeag!

[tohellandbackanthology]

A quick(ish) update re: packing

Hello everyone! This update is coming a little bit late, but we just wanted to let you know that due to some new, more stringent COVID restrictions put in place in BC, we were unfortunately not able to begin our packing process as planned this past weekend.  

When the restrictions were first announced, we were told without much detail that all non-essential travel between different regions in the province would be strictly prohibited, which we generally understood to mean that due to some of us living in different metro-Vancouver cities from others, we should not travel over to mod @pray4jensen ‘s house to start with the packaging, as she’s holding the books and much of the merch right now, and a few of us live a considerable distance away from her.

Luckily, some more clarity was provided by our provincial government in the following days--we have since learned they have grouped different Health Authority regions within the province together to define three specific travel zones that should not be crossed for non-essential reasons. The good news is that since all of us currently living in BC fall under either the Fraser Health or Vancouver Coastal Health authorities, we are still technically considered as residing within a single zone, and are thus not breaking any restrictions if we cross city borders to do our packing. We will still need to do the bulk of our packing outside (under cover of course), and follow our COVID safety plan very carefully, but at least we finally have the green light to get the last leg of the project underway!

Also, because this wouldn’t be To Hell + Back without some other unfortunate bumps in the road, we've encountered some issues with our merch printing. While most of our art prints arrived looking absolutely fabulous, one in particular came to us extremely washed out and on the wrong kind of paper stock. Added to that, the stickers, also by the same printer, arrived damaged and dirty. Since we aim to give all our backers the best quality, we asked for a refund and have since placed a replacement order of both that print and the stickers with another printer who had already provided us with flawless merch. (The extra-good news: we saved about $400 doing that too!) We're expecting those to arrive this week.

Our bookmarks too, were printed on the wrong type of paper. It seems the printer had some technical issues with the machine, and instead of consulting with us, went ahead and printed on a thinner, lower quality of paper than we'd asked for. We have followed up with them on this, and ordered a reprint free of cost. We're also waiting for that to arrive this week.

In good news, the postcard, the keyrings, two prints, and the book of course, are all here with us! All 800+ addresses have been sorted and collated and are ready to be printed into shipping labels as well! 

We ask that you please check your inbox and continue to monitor it for any follow-up emails regarding discrepancies in address details. Some addresses we have seem not to exist on Google maps, or there seem to be other typos and mistakes that may affect delivery. If we do not hear back from you, we will assume that the address we have on file is good to go and ship there. 

Should your package not arrive at your destination after we made an effort to contact you to fix a possible error in the address that you gave us, we may not be able to provide you with a replacement copy of the anthology. (We really, really don’t want that to happen after you’ve been so patient...so please keep an eye out for any messages from us, and respond in a timely fashion.)

Aside from this, as we already mentioned, we will be getting the reprinted merch this week, and should FINALLY be able to pack and ship out this coming weekend, barring any further Covid-19 restrictions! We recognize that this hasn’t been the speediest process—the ongoing third wave of this pandemic has made things considerably more tricky than we ever anticipated—but we promise we’re doing our best to get these lovely books out to you as soon as possible!

As always if you've got any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us!

 - Your 8 nerds <3

[earthlyemily]

I’m struggling so much financially and honestly just wanted to vent somewhere. I’ve always lived in poverty and I think in my whole life I’ve had maybe 2 years where I didn’t have to stress about money and not be able to buy groceries or pay rent or be put into collections for not being able to make payments etc and that was when I was in college. For at least the past 5 years I’ve been struggling but I never talk about it. I don’t even know where to start haha I don’t even know what it’s like to not stress financially and be in debt. I’ll just start with the first things that come to mind with what I’m owing maybe. So it’s Dec. 23 and rent was due yesterday because we moved into this small suite attached to someone’s house on Nov. 22. It’s $1200 which is so expensive, but also the average price for BC if not even cheaper for a one-bedroom with a yard, utilities included. and no first and last, no pet deposits, etc because this is just short them for 4 months until the end of March because i reached out and asked and they said yes.

After 1 month I already remember why we went into the trailer almost 2 years ago and it’s literally because we can’t afford any other lifestyle. I think that’s the difference between us and some people that live in trailers, vans, etc. like we lived in a mouse & mouse shit infested trailer for 6 months breathing in their feces and urine and having it all over all our belongings. i literally had to take my whole life to the dump and we officially have no food storage because they ruined it all. there were at least 50-60 mice because a few birth cycles happened in the ceiling. I could write a whole post about my experience of living with field mice, but now isn’t the time so for rent, i only had $600 yesterday so that’s what I gave them. thank goodness they were okay with me asking for a few more days to make the other half. but I don’t even know when that’s going to be :(

my etsy shop veganveins has been doing so bad lately for more than one reason, most of my orders are just postcards and stickers, and while I’m grateful for them, that $1-3 profit isn’t going to keep my business going. and it’s so hard for me to work lately. the wifi doesn’t work sometimes for hours and I always get distracted by shawn and the dogs working from home in a small space. I need to get better at my time management. I got up at 8:30 today which is actually early for me so I’m proud of myself. I’m chronically ill and I really need to go get a blood test and see what’s happening because I haven’t gotten one since being diagnosed with graves disease again 1.5 years ago. anyways. i switched to a print on demand method this year for veganveins for some shirts and sweaters because i couldn’t afford to keep ordering shirts in bulk, and it’s honestly been so, so expensive and i barely make any profit. I’m currently owing my t-shirt printer $999 on one invoice (it was originally $2196 so I’ve at least paid half of it) but that was 2 weeks ago and I still need to pay it. Mario, my t-shirt printer has been with me since I started veganveins and I’m so grateful he gives me extensions on paying the invoices. every other t-shirt printer I’ve ever asked has said no. in addition to the $999 there’s going to be another $2200 invoice I’ll be receiving this week for my last order. I think because of the holidays he’s going to give me some time to pay off that too, but the problem is when I have outstanding invoices he doesn’t print new orders for me. He’s closed now until Jan. 4 so I just need to somehow make that much before then.

btw I don’t have a credit card ($8500 all used on veganveins and it got put into collections last march) and I had a fully used $5000 line of credit but I got a debt consolidation loan for $16,000 1 month ago and my payment for that is $167 a month. it fully paid off and closed my credit card and line of credit + $3000 overdraft which is nice. but now I don’t have any extra money except for what comes in. my credit is only 640 which is really bad in canada so I won’t get approved for a new credit card or loan until I build that up, which is going to be a few months of regular payments. so for regular payments, the $167 for the loan is due on Dec. 27. Yesterday the trailer loan which is literally unliveable from what the mice did until we renovate it came out for $260, that’s how much I pay once a month for it on the 22nd. I didn’t have $260 in my account so it got rejected and I got charged a $48 NSF fee. omg if anyone is reading this long i’m shook. i’m genuinely just writing this for myself to process my feelings and in case anyone was curious about my financial situation here you go haha. maybe some of you can relate, maybe some can’t. anyways. so now I somehow have to get $260 in my account for that for when they try to take it out again in the next few days.

another payment that was supposed to come out yesterday but hasn’t, but I’m sure will come out today is our truck loan. they deferred it for 8 months because of covid which was so nice, but we started paying it again 2 months ago. for both those months I called and made my payment a later date and that helped, but there’s barely any service here so when I called 4 times yesterday to try and change the date the payment comes out, I was on hold for 20-30 mins then my phone would disconnect and hang up. so that’s $586 and it will come out today, I have $0.46 in my account right now so it will get rejected and I’ll get charged another $48 NSF fee. this is why being poor always costs more and the banks are always harsher on those who don’t have money. today I’ll try calling again to see if I can ask for it to come out on a different day like january 10 instead, so I can first have time to pay rent and the trailer and also our $190 truck insurance which got rejected from my account 3 days ago, which was another $48 NSF fee. oh and something else i’m so stressed about is CIBC is going to put me into collections on December 28 if I don’t pay $1000, $700 of which is purely their fees. I have a $300 overdraft which they said i have to cover by then and the $700 is literally their $48 fees added up over the past 3 months. I got a text from them today saying my account is over and it’s because an amnesty international $11 monthly donation came out and obvi there’s no money in there, so that’s another $48 they charged. they’ve already given me a month to pay it and don’t want to wait any longer :(

I owe everyone in my family money, my sister $1650, my mom $700 and my brother also lent me $700. none of my siblings have money either and my mom definitely doesn’t so I hate that i had to borrow that much, and it’s literally been months. thankfully they’re so patient but i can’t wait to not owe them that

omg and i can’t even think about the amount of money shawn’s grandma has lent us. she’s genuinely the only reason we haven’t been completely homeless. but it’s a lot. like i don’t even want to say the number on here. she let us use it from her line of credit over the years and we’ve been slowly paying her back, but she lets us go months at a time without making a payment which i honestly hate doing, but have no choice. i’ve felt a lot of shame and guilt about this, but I also know that she genuinely would rather help us than see us suffer.

so i’m gonna talk about a big reason I’m broke this month especially - saving a pig named buster. his rescue cost me $1850 out of pocket that I didn’t have. but otherwise he was going to be killed in 2 days, he was my baby and I loved him so I had to do it. I somehow made $1350 that went towards it but I’m still owing $500, which I just asked for an extension for today until the new year. i’m not really supposed to talk about it but everything I’ve ever posted here has stayed here, so that cost was literally just from me buying the pig off the farmer. myself along with everyone else ive talked to is disgusted that he charged that much, but he wasnt budging and if that’s what it was going to take, of course I’m going to do it. I wouldn’t think twice about doing it for my dogs and Buster was smarter and more affectionate than them. i love him and I’m so happy he was saved. a non-profit organization transported him to a sanctuary and it was my biggest wish come true and the happiest moment I’ve had all year. my eyes are literally tearing up haha i love him so much. i could write a whole post about his neglect but basically he hasn’t had fresh water in weeks, he was only being fed handfuls of mixed nuts, he was constantly dirty in a muddy enclosure with an electric fence that he was always getting shocked on. he never got true love or affection except for when I gave him it. i posted an instagram story about him and asked people to message me and that i needed help, 2 people donated $111 and $120 each, and 2 other people donated $15 and $12. Someone also e-transferred me $20. These 4 donations equaled almost $300 ($277) and I was so grateful for those people wanting to help me help buster. if anyone else wants to help me with the cost of his rescue i still do need help and would appreciate it so much. this feels really weird and vulnerable for me to do and i’m sorry if anyone is annoyed by this post, I just genuinely am struggling and figured if someone does have extra and wants to help, there isn’t harm in that. but i do feel guilty for asking because i know there are so many other people struggling out there that need even more help than i do :(

i haven’t talked about it publically but i guess I will now, this farmer that I bought buster off of is the owner of the organic vegetable farm i was living and working at this past spring and summer. we worked really hard all summer to be able to stay there and park for free in the winter, but this past fall he told us no one was allowed to stay at the farm anymore, including us, so we had to find a new place to bring our 14ft trailer in to live. so that was an unexpected bummer and if we had known we wouldn’t be allowed staying there anymore (despite doing the labour of $1200 a month for free harvesting organic kale, for an off-grid spot he told us was worth $350 a month to park) we wouldn’t have driven 8 hours with the trailer and we would have stayed in the snow in northern BC and sucked it up and lived on the land we got the opportunity to rent this fall. Donna, the woman who is renting the land to us has been the biggest blessing in my life this year. I love her so much. Basically, she’s letting us live on 170 acres for $600 a month. letting us do whatever we want on the land (building a cabin, setting up rainwater catchment systems, having a solar passive greenhouse and a huge garden) LIKE WHAT. we could even open a farm sanctuary if we had money, i wanted to so bad but obviously that dream didn’t even come close to being reality. opportunities like this literally don’t exist in canada, especially not in BC. i cant even process my gratitude, i cry everytime i think about it. when we go back in the spring it’s going to be the beginning of the rest of our life :) i want to rescue so many senior dogs. everything we’ve always wanted to do we’ll be able to do, assuming we have money haha. but i want to have an organic farm and grow veggies to donate to families in need, especially since we live on stolen indiginious land and I see how the goverment actively restricts their access to fresh healthy produce. but anyways by then it was too dangerous to drive 8 hours back hauling a trailer in the snow and it was just easier to stay in the okanagan until the spring. i know the farmer probably doesn’t realize this and he’s also probably struggling financially but not being able to stay at the farm for the winter months we worked for, and buying buster for that price is a big reason I’m in the financial stress I am now so I figured i’d talk about it.

anyways. i think this is long enough and i think anyone reading this gets the point, i’m drowning in debt, my small business is almost costing me more to run and i’m not making nearly enough profit to live, the past few months ive been living off grid (not by choice) and just focused literally on surviving and not freezing and getting water etc and not having service or internet has affected me negatively. there’s internet now in the suite I’m in, it works really good in the morning and not as well at night, like for example tumblr doesn’t work past 5 pm for me to post photos. but ive been in a bad sleep schedule since i got here that i need to change. im sick and i need to heal myself. tomorrow i’ll set my alarm for 7:30. hopefully i make some money today. i got a social media managing job and it will end up being $1000 a month once i do the 3+ hours a day of work which im already feeling like i barely have time for my own basic life tasks. but i can do this.

if anyone reading this wants to help me out a bit, my paypal email is emilymiddin@hotmail.com or http://www.paypal.com/paypalme/veganveins

and my e-transfer email is emilymiddin@icloud.com i have auto deposit so you won’t have to ask a question :)

this is my first time in 7 years i’ve made a post like this or asked for help. i won’t do it again but figured i have nothing to lose. if you read up to here i love you a lot and thank you so much for being here <3

[katedoesntexist]

Stay-at-home journal 1/9/21

Yesterday:

Worked

Watched the loz mm speedrun, which was amazing

Painted the background colors on a little canvas

Rearranged the furniture in my room in a big way and put up some wall stickers

Ate brie and crackers and watched some videos at like 1 am

Today:

Pick up some clothes i ordered from wish

Shower probably

Idk if theres some chores or project to do

Maybe piano

Try to put more stuff on my walls

Free space:

Upsetting stress dreams. I did my best to remember even tho i was so in and out of consciousness. I woke myself up wailing in agony and crying, so that was super. One part i was trying to drive a car but the seat was too far back and I couldn't reach the pedals well. Another part i was with my mom and i was getting frustrated w her abt something and she was being stubborn, i dont remember what. Then it shifted to me being upset w my partner bc he was criticizing that i had a printed paper i wrote on the back of. He was saying I should've printed all of, and i blew up at him and was like do you think i didnt think of that? Do you think maybe i was going to but this was just a draft? Do you think i should do everything perfectly the first time? Thats when i woke up.

I fell back asleep and dreamed i was at some event where that was horror themed but it was actually quite lame. We were given a little clear bag that if you look in it at different angles the stuff inside would disappear and reappear. I figured out it was just blocks of plastic that blocked certain light frequencies, so i pulled them out of the bad and somehow that gave the ability to have very minor xray vision for certain colors. Then others started doing it too and a woman got upset bc we were able to see through her shirt.

Anyway, i slept waaaay in. I guess this past week was more stressful on me than I thought. The first set of dreams were rly abt lack of control and not being trusted, but nothing in my life has been directly affecting me in those ways so idk.

[anothersuperstition]

i forgot to post this last night but this is what happened when i met frank and the band in seattle, i’m posting it mostly to have it saved somewhere other than my phone and also for the people that asked to know how it went ! (it’s just my Personal experience but if u have any general questions feel free to ask)

- frank knew me Right away and said it was good to see me again - handed him the print and tucker hit kayleigh and said “hey look it’s her it’s that girl with all the amazing art!” and just kept pointing at me and like. nodding soulfully - frank and i had a mini convo abt The Thing and then the rest of the band told me how much they love that piece - frank said “oh hey would you sign it for me? i’d love to have your signature!” and had me sign the back of the print and when i apologized for how shitty it was bc of my shaky hands he just shook his head and said i was fine and thanked me like three times for signing it and bring it - kayleigh asked what else i had and i said it was my tattoo portfolio, that actually got me an apprenticeship and frank got all Soft and said “oh no way that’s so rad, i’m so happy for you, congratulations!” then evan was like “where are you tattooing i wanna come visit” and i said “oh a little town called great falls in montana, it’s in the middle, and it’ll be a while before i’m able to tattoo” and he was like “oh that doesn’t matter if we ever go pass through montana on our way for any reason i’m going to come see you we’ll have to come see you, your work is so amazing you’re so talented” and everyone else was like “oh for sure” and “yeah we’ll come see you someday, you’re so good!” - i asked them all to sign it and kayleigh thought that was super sweet and i said that i wanted that because their music means so much to me and inspires so much of my work and she loved that and i told frank it was like. his fault, in the best way, and they all laughed, eps kayleigh, and i said that like everything good i have right now is because of him and his music - while the rest of the band were signing the portfolio frank and i talked for a minute and he said it was so nice to hear that he’s had such a positive affect on my life and i told him that his music was what got me back into art after struggling at college and he was so happy to hear that and said he was so happy for me and proud of the progress he’s been able to see me make and said “seriously, i love all your work so much. you’re very talented, i hope you never stop. it’s great seeing your work” - matt said he really loves my tropical fiatfv pieces and everything else a lot and is excited to see what i do next - evan said my bart simpson shirt was “so fuckin sick” and gave me a fist bump - tucker thanked me for the sticker and told me it was so great to see me again - kayleigh told me how much she loves my tattoo designs and i told her and all of them how much i appreciate their support and how kind they are and they just kept repeating how talented i am and i said “i can only say thank you so many times but like. thank you so so much, i appreciate it so much” and kayleigh said “oh man take it all in, you deserve it all” and i said bye and left - saw matt as they were leaving vip and i said “oh i had that one tropical piece as a patch on my jacket, and i was going to show you but i don’t have it with me today!” and he was like “UGH i love that one so much. dude your shit is SO good please never stop” - caught frank’s pick when it landed almost in my shirt - sang back and forth with frank and evan - made faces at tucker and he made some back - tucker was going to give away his drumstick and was looking around and someone reached for it but he found me and stretched and pointed it to me and made sure i had a hold of it before letting it go to make sure i was the one that got it - 15 minutes after the show i got a message from frank saying “thank you for the art! great seeing you!” - ran into evan and he said “it was so good to see you, i’m glad you had fun at the show! it was fuckin HOT but you looked like you were having fun” - ran into kayleigh and she said “it was SO so great meeting you, your work is incredible, you’re very talented” and i thanked her and said how much i love the addition of her as the violinist esp live and she said thank you and how much she enjoys doing that even if sometimes she zones out and then we talked about how funny it is that sometimes she looks stoned as fuck on stage even though she never smokes before going on, but she just has to focus on the keys a lot especially with weird lighting or strobe lights but her getting all close to her hand to see doesn’t help her look Not High and we laughed about it then said bye and she said it was nice to meet me again and we left

[killbaned]

actually u know what i need to sleep because i gotta be up in six hours to play lawyer again but here’s some cliff notes:

someone cannot sue you over the internet for slander. the legal definition of slander regards VERBALLY speaking about someone in the press, or in some space recognized as being close to the press (a tv interview, etc)

if someone is trying to threatening to sue you for SLANDER because of something you said on THE INTERNET, it’s an empty threat and that person doesn’t know what they’re talking about 

if they DID know what they’re talking about, they would threaten to sue you for LIBEL, which is the WRITTEN version of SLANDER, but to the best of my knowledge also has to be written in THE PRESS, A NEWSPAPER, or some other respectable source. if you could sue someone for LIBEL just because they DISAGREED with something you’re doing, most of the people on tumblr, twitter, facebook and every other source of social media would be in court all the time 

ATTORNEYS ARE NOT CHEAP, ATTORNEYS WILL NOT WORK FOR SOMEONE THREATENING TO SUE YOU UNLESS: the attorney knows the person FILING THE CASE has the money to pay them OR the person they’re filing the case AGAINST has the money to pay them 

to the best of my knowledge, legal aid attorneys WILL NOT pick up a case regarding a damn internet argument 

EVEN IF THEY SOMEHOW DO: someone CANNOT print out something you said on the internet and bring it into court without YOU, YOURSELF, sitting in front of a judge to verify that YES, THIS IS YOUR BLOG AND YES, YOU WROTE THIS POST 

getting around the above point is as simple as changing your URL for your blog

also, filing a case against someone on the internet is hard regardless of how valid a case may be because if you DO NOT KNOW where the OP lives, the person doing the suing would have to find it out, and then file motions to get said person SUBPOENAED out of state. these prices vary from state to state but it is STILL VERY EXPENSIVE 

also, you can literally just file motions from out of state with the court stating you cannot make it to the hearing based on health reasons or travel restrictions if it even went that far regardless and get the case continually continued until the other party either gives up, or the court itself dismisses the case 

and finally, just because someone is THREATENING to sue you does NOT MEAN that they ACTUALLY CAN DO SO, and if someone is threatening to sue you over internet beef, they’re fucking bluffing 

helpful pointers: 

you CANNOT LEGALLY be served legal papers on a sunday

you CANNOT LEGALLY be served legal papers if you DO NOT identify yourself as the person the papers are for

most OUT OF STATE papers being served on you will MOST LIKELY be served by a plain clothed, off the clock POLICE OFFICER, so if someone weird and strange shows up at your door and you are able to see them WITHOUT them seeing you, just ignore the fucking door until they go away

SOME, NOT ALL plain clothed police cars coming around to serve papers WILL have SOMEWHERE on the vehicle a sticker or emblem making it obvious they are from the police department on their vehicle. personally, i recommend looking at the BACK WINDOW OR WINDOWS of the vehicle if possible, and slipping down a side street until the person leaves 

IF YOU FIND A STICKER ON YOUR DOOR SAYING SOMEONE TRIED TO SERVE YOU PAPERS AND YOU WERE NOT HOME AT THE TIME YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CALL THE NUMBER ON THE STICKER AND CONTACT THE PERSON TRYING TO SERVE YOU. odds are they WILL come back, but at least you will be aware of it. 

uhhhh thats all i got for rn like i said i gotta sleep. but yeah, please don’t freak out bc some weirdo on the internet said they’re gonna sue you. it’s not as easy as law and order makes it look. if you don’t believe me, AVVO is free and you can ask as many question for your specific state and town/county laws as you like. 

have a good night everybody i’m fucking outta here.   

[maximuswolf]

Radical Education via /r/Anarchism

Radical Education

Hi! I’m not sure if this has been done before, but I’ve stumbled upon a way that really helps me educate others at protests and in day to day life, so please use it if you like! It’s fast, cheap and quite surprisingly, legal!

So I find education the most valuable but difficult thing to share. Info pamphlets take ages to make and print, and are never enough, conversations with people who hate you or even are trying to understand but dehumanize you are draining, and handing out books on issues to people is just fiscally impossible. So to solve this I started making stickers with QR codes that not only lead to specific books that can educate people, but allow the user access to many more materials! You’ll need access to the internet, a printer, and sticker or label paper.

Make a list of books (alt versions of this: list of audiobooks, leftist Tik Tok compilations or other educational videos on YouTube)

Search for that book on Z-Library or the anarchist library. 9/10 it’s there, and the Z-Library is completely legal and free for downloading books! https://z-lib.org

If the book is available, copy the URL for that page. The rest of the library is still accessible by clicking main, but the link should lead to that specific book. (If doing videos just copy the link also)

Go to a free url to QR code generator. I use this one: https://www.the-qrcode-generator.com

Convert link to QR code and download as a PNG

Repeat until all books/video URLs have been converted to QR codes

Open any editing app. I like canva bc it has a decent free version and month long free trials of premium, but anything like photoshop and all works too!

Create a template frame for your QR code. Basically just a box to outline where your going to cut it out, and add some words explaining what it is. So around the border it’ll say something like: Free E Library! Scan then stick in public so others can learn!” Ex: https://imgur.com/gallery/TgvBNhq

Apply the frame to each QR code. Optional: I also add a dot in each corner in order to color code the subjects. Ex. Red is books on communism, yellow on socialism, black on advanced leftist topics, white on intro materials to race, class, etc. This makes it easier to give them out, so I know other protesters are getting materials that aren’t the basics they already know, and the ones I hand to bystanders aren’t super radical and gonna scare them off. You don’t wanna hand strangers the communist manifesto and organizers books on stuff they already know.

Once the frames are applied, download all the images again as finished products, then open a new project in canva, or google docs or any standard 8.5x11 in template. Set the margins as small as possible. Then arrange the final QR boxes so that there are no more than 7 in each row, down the entire page. Any smaller and you won’t be able to scan them!

Load your printer with sticker or label paper, and print the final page just as you would normally. Double check you are printing on the right side!

Cut out your stickers and share!

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[pantrypressinc]

We received a Hymer pun challenge from our friend Patrick!

Most of us in North America are raised to follow the same recipe for life: get an education followed by a good job, buy a home, get married, raise children, work until retirement at 65 taking regular vacations. We weren’t really any different than this except that being self-employed we didn’t think we’d ever really retire.

We’ve never been big at planning. Change happened organically every five years or so since we started working together in 1990. When we sold our home and printing equipment in Toronto in 2014 we couldn’t have foreseen the trajectory our life would take: living largely (punctuated by stints with friends and family and Airbnb rentals) full-time in an old VW campervan for three years and part-time for one year; buying and renovating a small co-op apartment in Toronto and then selling it a year later; inheriting Julie’s dad’s dog, MacDuff; choosing to move back into a van and then deciding to upgrade to something more comfortable; stumbling upon an apartment in Julie’s hometown and deciding to rent it on the spot. Ask us where we’ll be five years from now or one and you’ll hear crickets. When we rented the apartment in Amherstburg the owner told us they weren’t really lease people and asked if that was okay. We both replied, ‘absolutely.’ There’s comfort for us in knowing we can make a change at any time. And renting is perfect for us right now. We find ourselves wondering if we’ll ever own a (non-rolling) home again. Maybe we’ll try renting in different places every couple of years. Anything is possible!

After selling the apartment in Toronto on July 26thand making way too many commitments we began driving long, un-air-conditioned distances in record-breaking temperatures for a solid month.  We darted from destination to destination in extreme discomfort while dealing with a single ongoing and seemingly impossible to diagnose mechanical problem with the van. We were towed twice, grateful both times for CAA+ coverage. In four plus years in the van we were never so hot or so frustrated. This ultimately lead us to purchasing a new, more comfortable, bathroom-equipped and air-conditioned van with a six-year transferrable warranty – the 2018 Hymer Aktiv. We had actually been researching van upgrades for about a year, however, August in Ontario provided us with the motivation to act on our desire for a more comfortable vehicle particularly since it would be our full-time home, studio, kennel for the foreseeable future.

https://vimeo.com/296463685

Pick up day, CampOutRV

The 2018 Hymer Aktiv

The new and old vans

The kitchen. Lots of storage. We added a photo sticker to the backsplash using a photo we took in Duncan, BC in 2015.

Bench seat with folding table. Front seats swivel.

Pull down screen at rear keeps the bugs out and the breeze in; Murphy Bed in stowaway position.

Three piece bathroom with wet shower, cassette toilet and folding sink.

Cassette toilet is accessed outside of the van.

Dumping the cassette toilet is easy.

Murphy Bed set up for a comfy night’s sleep.

Just after purchasing our new home-on-wheels we stumbled upon a beautiful apartment, smack dab in the centre of the river front park in the town of Amherstburg. This is the town in which Julie was raised and where her dad still lives. We’ve been spending more and more time here these past few years supporting Bill as his Alzheimer’s Disease progresses, so the apartment seemed like a great solution, for now. It will allow us to continue to travel and live in our new van and while stationary provide comfortable support for Julie’s dad. It’s large enough to accommodate house-guests including Julie’s siblings when they visit Bill and we have a dedicated office/studio space which is something we haven’t had since selling the house and studio in 2014. Sometimes things just feel right. We have learned to trust those gut instincts. The apartment is on the second story of the old town newspaper building, the Amherstburg Echo. It’s kind of neat to be living in a building that was once a printing office given our own printing career. When Julie was 10 years old she skated her first solo in the ‘Our Town’ ice show. Her title was ‘Little Miss Echo.’ These kind of coincidences always bolster our decision making.

The Amherstburg Echo Building. Our apartment is the top floor.

March 6, 1974 edition of the Amherstburg Echo.

Julie as Little Miss Echo in the Our Town Ice Show.

We have yet to decide if we’ll sell the Volkswagen. We are currently contemplating potential businesses. Plus, it’s still mighty fun to drive. If you have a hankering to travel in a super sweet VW and want to buy one that has been lovingly maintained and restored give us a shout. It’s got a lot of life left in it.

Here’s why we bought the Hymer:

it has a three-piece bathroom with a cassette toilet, sink, shower and amazing two-way fan (we have yet to test the shower!)

a great kitchen which includes a sink with hot and cold running water, AC/DC bar fridge with a freezer compartment, two burner propane cooktop and lots of pantry storage (we love being able to wash our fruits and vegetables and our dishes in the van)

air-conditioning and heating in the cab and in the living area (having AC means we can carry on a conversation or answer the phone while driving)

250 watts of solar on the roof (constantly charging)

400 amp hours lithium battery (charges while we drive and by solar while stationary)

the solar and lithium battery will allow us to camp off-grid and enable us to charge all of our devices

fresh and gray water holding tanks

lots of electrical and USB outlets

a comfortable full-size murphy bed with an actual mattress (feels like a king size compared to the VW)

table seating for four

front swivel seats (a bit of a workout to get them to swivel but we can use it)

blinds and screens in all the windows and retractable screens in the side and rear doors (keeps the bugs out and the breeze coming in from all directions)

built in sunshade in front window plus magnetic window covers for the front three windows

LED lighting throughout

An electronic awning with LED porch light which we would never leave on all night! Best thing about it is that the lighting is on the inside of the awning so illuminates where it is needed

Bonus features: an LED television, microwave and Sony GPS/DVD player/radio, cable hookup, spare tire, cup holders galore

This van is a VERY comfortable space in which we are able to work, cook, live and move around in all kinds of weather. This is not something we can really say about our beloved Volkswagen.

The thing we were looking forward to most of all was a maintenance-free vehicle. But, let’s be real… is there really such a thing? Regardless of age! Since picking it up the battery has been replaced and the tire pressure adjusted. As of this morning we now have heat in the cab! On the 30thHymer is going to have a look at a moisture issue in the cassette holding area and a malfunctioning back up camera. It is fortunately all covered by the extended warranties but we seriously hope that’s it for maintenance for the next little while. Funny thing is that the dealership where we bought it kept it for two weeks to allow for enough time to thoroughly test the vehicle and, ‘make sure it was perfect.’ Makes us wonder what testing was actually done or their definition of perfect.

In the meantime we moved all of our belongings out of storage (yay!!) and into the apartment. One thing we’ve learned in the past few years is how to get comfortable in a place fast. We could be somewhere for a few days, a week or a couple of months and we can feel ‘at home’ from the get-go. We are surprised just how ‘at home’ we feel in this apartment. We’re enjoying everything about it including our office, the kitchen, which is perfect for entertaining family and friends (old and new), the ensuite laundry (oh how we’ve missed that), the living room complete with a sofa and just having space in which to spread out. We continue to support Bill and attend to his health, take him to appointments, manage his care, finances and insurance issues, etc. And, of course, the warranty issues on our brand new van. Life. We sure are looking forward to hitting the open road and experiencing some new peaks, valleys and switchbacks before too long.

A Tour of the Apartment:

Hymer ready for the open road We received a Hymer pun challenge from our friend Patrick! Most of us in North America are raised to follow the same recipe for life: get an education followed by a good job, buy a home, get married, raise children, work until retirement at 65 taking regular vacations.