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Warrington Market. Zenit E. Truprint 200.
When visiting Warrington last year the new market, opened in 2020, proved to be an ideal place to get lunch. There was a wide variety of food traders and the rest of the building was home to many other stores such as a retro sweet shop, hairdressers and a rather nice smelling coffer roasters.
I relied on the built in Selenium cell meter to try and capture the atmosphere inside the market and was pleasantly surprised with the results.
#liverpool#liverpoollomo#lomo#lomography#analogue photography#zenit e#russian camera#manual slr#truprint 200iso#expired film#35mm film#colour film#warrington#warrington market#cheshire#independent businesses#time square#film is not dead#don't think just shoot
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The New Era of Retailing
As I write businesses in the UK are heading into the crucial autumn trading period, after experiencing a washout summer and lack lustre spring they will be banking on an improved autumn/winter, but the September heatwave has not helped in selling new season merchandise. We’re now moving into the all important “Golden Quarter”for the retail sector that usually accounts for most of the year’s…
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As far as I’m concerned, seeing booth after booth staffed by independent artists celebrating queer people is one of the greatest perks of Pride celebrations. Where else can I go to find a group of sellers like this? Where else would they be targeting their wares in such a way? What other opportunities can I have to directly support so many local artists, many of them queer themselves, at the same time? There may exist queer-focused artisan’s galleries, but they I can’t imagine that they get nearly as much widespread attention as Pride.
One of the things that Pride should be about is community, and part of having a strong community is supporting each other. Letting small businesses rent booths at Pride is a natural extension of that.
So let's talk about this for a minute.
First of all, how do you think Pride events fund themselves and stay free for attendees? O.o Vendor fees aren't all of it - a lot of money comes from sponsors - but like... we paid $1300 to vend at Seattle Pride this year. That's the money that pays the people who work to make Pride happen. That is not free. Pride as an event does not just magically happen. A lot of people work really hard to make Pride happen and to clean up after it.
We're a small trans-owned company and 100% of our employees are trans & queer. We jokingly refer to Pride as "Gay Christmas". The money we make during Pride means we stay open, Pride events get vendor fees, and our employees get paid for the rest of the year. This company does not exist without Pride events. The only reason we survived as a company during COVID is because my wife has a stable, good IT job.
This shit isn't free to do. It does not just magically happen. Performers need to get paid. Tech crew needs to get paid. Equipment needs to be rented for performers. Stages need to be rented. Electrical services need to be paid for so food can happen. Ice and water cost money. Trash pickup costs money.
A lot of people volunteer and donate, but festivals and big community events? They cost money, and the money we pay to be able to vend is part of how Pride events happen. Without that, small queer businesses like @nerdykeppie don't survive and the only people putting their money in to make this happen, AND MONEY NEEDS TO CHANGE HANDS FOR EVENTS TO HAPPEN, are Smirnoff and fucking Wells Fargo.
For fuck's sake. Y'all want small queer businesses, but you really don't want us to actually survive, do you?
#id in alt text#art#pride#pride festivals#queer art#queer pride#independent artists#independent businesses#small busineses
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IT'S SPRING!
My store is officially open again! All 62 new mushroom pins are up as well as 5 new prints. I'm still working on the bandanas, so those will be released next week. <3
#artists on tumblr#store#tiny business of 1#unless you count my cats#then 3#independent artist#support small business#help me pay rent this summer#that would be so cool
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Can't believe Bruce canonically picked up a random 12yo homeless child who had no intent to become a vigilante and suddenly thrust Robin onto him without asking if that's what he wanted because he missed Dick (whom he fired because being Robin was too dangerous) and people still act like any take that's not "all the Batkids became vigilantes on their own completely independent of Bruce (who tried so hard to stop them but sadly just couldn't do it)" is a complete idiotic bad-faith take and that you're crazy if you disagree with people saying that Bruce has never ever absolutely NEVER picked up a kid for the purpose of making them into a vigilante.
#my dc posting#jason todd#dc#batman#bruce wayne#any child would be delighted to be told they could become a superhero#children also aren't known for their ability to make rational and good decisions.#jason did not yearn for the cape and would not have become a vigilante without bruce's interference#you want a character who became a vigilante independently and couldn't (and shouldn't) be stopped by bruce? duke#duke thomas did that#his mentor/mentee relationship with bruce is an actually good example of what a healthy one should look like#teaching someone already in the business but new to it how to do it well and as safe as possible. that's the good shit#''batman needs robin'' mmhm. tell me more about how the relationship of mentorship between an adult and their child needs to be focused#and centered around the needs of the adult. this is such a power fantasy for children; grown men relying on them for their mental wellbeing#(duke&jason are the only ones whose origins i have personally read hence why they are focused on here)#bruce wayne critical#<- for filtering purposes#comics bruce you are a bitch and an asshole#bitter-hibiscus your post abt the nature of the batman&robin relationship even outside the bounds of 'child soldier' still being bad#will always be famous to me
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Q is over 80% funded with 8 days left! Grab yourself a cute bat friend before it's too late!
Support Q on Kickstarter now
#furry fandom#furry#small business#bat#cute#independent artist#original art#small artist#pastel goth#plushies
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~ New Website is Here! ~
I finally launched my new and updated shop and website with some new prints and stickers to celebrate! There are also some fun bundle discount for buying multiple prints, earrings, and keychains at the moment since my new site lets me do that ;)
Shop here!
#electricart#art#artists on tumblr#shopsmall#small business#cute art#print shop#sticker shop#independent artist#cozycore
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⭐️PEGASUS PINS⭐️
Link to the Kickstarter
So I have the pleasure of working with @sophieascruggs on her newest pin collection as a guest artist! 🎨
These designs will be unlocked at $5,000, and we’re currently at $3,990! Help us hit the stretch goal!
#independent artist#art#illustration#cartoon#drawing#character design#pegasus#fantasy#fantasy creature#small business#kickstarter#rainbow#pastel
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in honor of this amazing post by @robotmango. thank u for ur service, I think of you and your suffering every August since 2016
(i have no idea what you and/or your husband look like, please accept any needed apologies for inaccuracies in gender/race/height/tendency to sarcasm/etc. hope you don't mind that i immortalized your already immortal and correct opinions in what I suppose is technically RPF fan art)
#did i draw the first page of this in 2020 and the rest of it in 2022? maybe#did it then take me 2 more years to finally scan it and post it?#mind ur business what are you a cop?#did my scanner cut off the right side of every page no matter what I tried? yes#did I fix this half-assedly in procreate by literally re-drawing the box borders and faking it? absolutely#did i do literally the minimum of post-scan processing i could get away with before posting? you bet your sweet ass#in conclusion: fuck the sun#summer#fuck summer#i hate summer#all my homies hate summer#august#my art#sketchbook#please don't steal my shit thanks#indie comics#independent comics#comics#comic#comic art#my comics
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snow over cold wires / nerine sarniensis
#scanned a file folder of old drawings and symbols that I was making during overnight shifts at a job that I really hated#I’m fucking w/ them digitally rn while my mind sorts itself; more otw probably#life is busy but the Itch remains in the back of my mind. It’s been frustrating me lately though#my desire to create has outpaced my skills. I want to learn more; practice new things — so difficult parsing out where to place my attention#can someone smart teach me how to articulate my desire for growth. so I can make a plan or smthn#but tbh I’d need to be independently wealthy or a very smart 10 year old to have the time to commit to learning new skills#*multi-facted* new skills tbf#my art#glitch art#aesthetic#art#artwork#webcore#internetcore#glitchcore#abstract#artists on tumblr
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and the lolbit pile just keeps getting bigger
#five nights at freddy's#fnaf#freddy in space 3#lolbit#do people not on twitter even know abt clickteam lolbit???#ill post them in the replies i just adore them#im so obsessed with this dynamic i made up like#the whole fox family as this big dysfunctional mess#ft!foxy is lolbits independent strong willed business woman dad#and fis3!lolbit is the deadbeat uncle watching ct!lolbit for the weekend#gotta come up with better names for them….#etc etc anyway#arts
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(a wild jukebox has entered the monster bar)
#possumcollege#crittertongue#get all up in my business#art by op#music i like#dinosaur sheriff#fantasy#urban fantasy#queer comics#indie comics#cartoonists on tumblr#independent comics#sketch#jukebox#monsters#creatures#cryptids#beastfolk#anthro#ask
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im not the biggest alhaitham/kaveh shipper (because im a rare pair ho) but it seems to me that in alhaitham/kaveh getting-together fics tend to be... unequal.
the beautiful thing about alhaitham and kaveh is that they're both equally right and equally wrong and equally dicks about it. but the writers for alhaitham/kaveh much more frequently seem to give alhaitham the burden change (the burden of the character flaw) instead of kaveh.
in any good character arc, the main character has a fatal flaw or misconception, and by the end of that arc they have addressed that flaw in some definitive way. scrooge was a scrooge and learned that being that way was detrimental; merlin from finding nemo was overprotective to a fault and had to learn that he couldn't (and shouldn't) control everything and to let go; the wolf from little red riding hood learns that you should stop while you're ahead.
stories centering around romance tend to lean heavily on character arcs, which makes sense. and since romance generally requires two individuals to be vulnerable and open and emotional with each other, it makes double sense that alhaitham/kaveh authors zoom straight into alhaitham's lack of emotional vulnerability.
this bothers me.
in society, individuals are expected to experience and present emotions in a specific way. if someone dies, you cry. if someone smiles at you, you smile back. if you're at a party, you're supposed to be having fun. if you don't do these things, you're seen as impolite at best and a inhuman freak at worst. when these behaviors are frequent it's often viewed as emotional immaturity, or a lack of ability to feel at all. the inability or lack of willingness to conform to societies emotional expectations of you is seen as a flaw and a reason for exclusion.
alhaitham is canonically disliked and avoided for being the way he is. he prefers it this way, but that doesn't mean the people perpetuating this avoidance are in the right. they are the societal pressure to conform that alhaitham blows off. alhaitham could be the way he is for a lot of reasons: avoidant attachment style, trauma, following someone else's example (eg. his grandmother), or just his base personality. it doesn't MATTER. he is the way he is. kaveh having to accept that should be part of the story.
putting the burden of the fatal flaw on alhaitham, making the way alhaitham treats kaveh and the people around him the problem, feels invalidating. it implies heavily that alhaitham's way of interfacing with the world, alhaitham's very SELF, is incorrect. my suggestion is to flip a larger portion of that burden onto kaveh. kaveh 👏 character 👏 arcs 👏
some examples/recommendations:
- make kaveh project his insecurities onto other people but especially onto alhaitham; he's overly reliant on other people for his own self worth, and he perceives alhaitham's lack of positive feedback as a direct reflection of how alhaitham feels about him. but learns along the way that alhaitham doesn't hate him, kaveh's actual struggle is with hating himself and being unable to his own self as worthy of love. maybe throw in how you are responsible for your own recovery, other people can help but you can't rely on them to carry you through self actualization.
- or, kaveh tries to make alhaitham behave more like a "normal" person, to be more pleasant and emotive and forthcoming, and then realizes he's in the wrong for trying to make alhaitham into something he's not, possibly for all the wrong reasons (not because he likes alhaitham better like that, but bc society says that's healthier and a better/more conforming way to be)
- or you could go ahead make alhaitham's issues the main problem but they're too complicated to overcome in a short period of time, so kaveh has to accept alhaitham is doing his best in his own way and not push for unrealistic and unhealthy changes. he could alter his own behavior to give alhaitham space and time and a safe place to land.
that got sappy so it's past time for me to dip out. go forth and ship things; but maybe consider letting alhaitham be a rude stone-faced bastard if he wants to be.
#genshin#alhaitham#kaveh#alhaitham x kaveh#kaveh x alhaitham#kavetham#haikaveh#fanfiction#fandom discussion#meta post#i finally used a readmore are you proud of me#as an avoidant attachment girlie alhaitham is my oshi#pls just allow him to not emote#let the man vibe#i feel certain there must be a real word for the concept of... socially enforced emotional conformity#unrealistic societal expectations and for your inner world which is none of their business#but i sure couldn't find it#if anyone has any words for this pls let me know it's kind of killing me#anyway#i get so mad when the avoidant attachment coded character is forced into (independently by themselves) the arc of:#i realize now that my way of interfacing with people is wrong and bad. yay! i will change that immediately for the big emotional finale#like! with what therapy!!#and why is THEIR world view the incorrect one!!#i have seen fics where it was all a big misunderstanding and actually alhaitham loves kaveh deeply#and kaveh just has to get over his insecurities and understand alhaitham's love language or whatever#and sure. good effort.#but i feel like a lot of those fics aren't very accurate to alhaitham's character#they're retrofitting alhaitham's core personality to better suit the traditional romance narrative#i also think part of the problem is that alhaitham is a pov that's divorced from regular emotionally well adjusted people#and it's difficult to understand or write povs that are drastically different from your own
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After a full year of being closed, my store is officially open again for a short time! The store will close at 11:59 p.m. CST on October 9th! New prints, play mats, and patches. Experimenting with recycling clothing with one of my pals, too! And, retiring a bunch of stuff so I can make new stuff! Hope y'all like it. <3
#artists on tumblr#art#store#independent business#prints#play mats#enamel pins#shop update#mushroom#I finally had time to make a big post#weehooo
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A late Philippine Independence Art 🥹🇵🇭
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#philippines#philippine independence day#independence day#independence#heneral luna#general luna#Andres Bonifacio#happy Philippine independence day#late art#i'm late bc i was busy 😭
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Q IS OFFICIALLY FUNDED 🙀💕
this campaign ends on the 24th of July so there is still time to grab your own Q-tie here!
#furry fandom#furry#small business#independent artist#original art#bat#cute#small artist#pastel goth#plushies
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