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[xerxeswitch]

Spirit Companion Reminder

People have been approaching me about this. I said it once, and I'll say it again -- I highly recommend you do NOT pursue spirit companionship as "spirit keeping" or turn towards Creepy Hollows. (As in binding spirits/entities to objects/strangers -- mostly without consent -- and using them to fulfill fantasies/sell them off.

Creepy Hollows is a scam with the founders who are intolerant to opinions and feedback, and they are known to hex people who disagrees with them openly. They'll either give you an empty vessel, a servitor to assume a role temporarily, or...on the rare side...a spirit bound against their will. Sometimes they also just create servitors to function a role of what the customer wants. Spirits and entities are also not yours to use for your own entertainment to get attention, or to take shape in feeding your personal desires. Because of this, I have to rehome yet another entity just days ago due to this. ... That's all.

[simder-talia-blog]

Just a general reminder that these kinds of posts are spam. These "shops" are buying products from aliexpress/alibaba and charging 20x the price or more. They are scams. This item is 1 dollar. This scam shop wants to sell it to you for 25. See below. Please reblog.

See my #scams on tumblr tag for more.

[grandapplewit]

AU where Shen Yuan, soon after Binghe falls into the Abyss, loses all his memories of Shen Qingqiu. He assumes that he transmigrated into some no name NPC, and enjoys his life as a rogue cultivator completely oblivious to the Heavenly Demon and multiple Peak Lord’s tearing the world apart trying to find him.

[awesomecooperlove]

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[kirby-the-gorb]

[reality-detective]

Black Friday Deals 🤔

[minthara]

"Greetings traveler. Behold these marvelous wares I have to offer." - Diablo IV, June 6 2023

[shiftythrifting]

Went to a charity shop in London and well... Left this one behind.

[aidoneira]

Finally some good f**king cinema

[mrpenguinpants]

I am attracted to men but at what cost

[xerxeswitch]

New Spirit/Entity + Spirit Work Mistakes

Before I start, this is not to take a jab at anyone directly, despite reblogging a post of an incident that happened to multiple people...and wanting to spread the awareness to keep people spiritually safe. This is more for an educational awareness with my experiences to save people the trouble.

---- I am currently working and vetting a new spirit/entity once more. He has been rehomed to me a while ago, and he serves as the example of what I mean when I say spirit work isn't a game of feeding a fantasy/your ego. Here, I'll call the spirit/entity "N." I will not release his real name or the name of the human due to the safety reasons, other than he was a former servitor spirit to an inexperienced consumer. By consumer, I mean that the person "bought" him on Creepy Hollows, then tried to turn "N" into a tool to fulfill that person's deepest, fantasy. With the notion of being taken advantaged of, the servitor became sentient (a "tulpa") and "N" flew into a rage and started to ruin the person's life, relationships, and even threaten to ruin the person's career. (I'm slowly just starting to believe less and less in the concept of servitors as this happens, but that's a whole other story that I'll get into later....)

The very angry spirit is currently rehomed with me, but is away from his situation.

I actually psychically channeled the arrival of "N" a couple of weeks before this, along with seeing a dream of him angry and malicious towards his host without context. When the person reached out to me about the situation, matching the description and the names involved, you can imagine the hairs standing at the back of my head! ...Which is one of the main reasons why I was willing to rehome "N" with me to be honest, along with seeing his condition. This is as far as I'll go for the details of this story. ... But anyways, please, take this with a grain of salt. I'm hearing and experiencing so many stories of people recklessly buying and binding spirits/entities to themselves to start with spirit work. It usually ends with the relationship falling short inevitably with no closure, or being attacked and hated by an angry/scared spirit. Spirit work isn't really beginner friendly in my eyes, but I can understand why people are enticed to it. But it's the fact you are inviting a stranger into your energy and home. Please be aware of that. Please do lots of research of this if this still calls to you if you are starting out. I do not recommend buying spirits/entities and their supposed vessels off of Etsy/Ebay/Tumblr, etc. Most of these are SCAMS! Especially Creepy Hollows whom are known for scams, servitors that act as counterfeits to behave and portray what they supposedly are, and are known to house angry spirits. If you want to get into spirit work, or at least the way I would get into it, is to just meditate and channel. (Don't forget to discern.) Go for walks! Get to know your local spirits and land spirts around you! You'd be surprised. Make offerings with the intention to invite spirits to come to you in their own will in wanting to be around your energy.

I know I keep talking about spirit work this way, but this has been connected to my spirit work too, like with "N."

[simder-talia-blog]

Just a general reminder that these kinds of posts are spam. I’ve been told so by Tumblr Support. These “shops” are buying products from aliexpress/alibaba sometimes charging 20x the price or more. They are scams. This item is less than 2 US dollars. This scam shop wants to sell it to you for 30! See below. Bonus for this one, contains cancer-causing lead & cadmium!

Hugs to all of the sh** blogs who shill this garbage and have blocked me for talking about it!

[fobnsfwdoodlesbackup]

Hi y'all, I just wanted to talk a little about the behind the scenes of what I've been up to, to give y'all a little transparency and to open myself up for any tips or input! 🙏 Thank you for your continued support and for taking the time to look at my art 🫶

First and foremost I wanted to give some transparency about my art capacity.

As og followers may remember, I started this blog when I was doing art full time. Eventually my living expenses grew and I had to go back to work. I find myself in a cycle of "I'll make more art soon, once I get a job!" And "I'll make more art soon, once I am done with this job!" I lost my most recent job suddenly, having had an extension waved over my head until the last day(October 7th). Now I'm excited to have more time for art, but I am also feeling a rush to get a new job ASAP as I've been living paycheck to paycheck. I dream of doing this work full time, I'm just scared it's not quite there yet and I worry that I come off as scammy or dishonest when I anticipate more stability around the corner.

Second, I've been struggling with the Patreon. It's taken me a while to come to terms with this, but from what I've seen Patreon is not intuitive at all from the creator end. It doesn't do a good job of organizing addresses, emails, showing who or who isn't subscribed to me, or organizing and displaying the work I put on there. I've been really shocked by this experience, since lots of big names use Patreon. It's been a great way to streamline support, but it's been unhelpful in every other regard. I would like to continue using it, but I will most likely post more wips or process videos there in the future.

Which brings me to my third point, zines. I love making zines so much, it feels personal and fulfilling and fun! However the Patreon issues make it harder to keep information in order about where to send zines, or even where to message folks about them. In addition to this, the post office has been a big barrier to me, oftentimes only being open at the same time as my dayjob. Making zines can take days, then sending them out is a whole other monster.

This work is so important to me. Drawing peoples fantasies, representing body types, creating work around sexuality and the human experience feels like what I'm meant to do. I've made comics since I was a kid. This is the dream to me. The friends I've been able to make through this work are so important to me, and the conversations have been invaluable. Not to mention fun! I wanna doodle, I wanna draw hot stuff, I wanna thirst over these dudes! I want to play!

But I also just want to be transparent about the barriers I'm working around to share that experience. I'm completely self taught, both in art AND in running shops, building websites, running 8 accounts, etc. I take a lot of time to learn the logistics of these things, and try to make them make sense for my relationship with y'all (I do not want to paywall my art!! I don't want to!!!). This year my desktop broke down (the main one I use for all paintings and digital art). I've paused my Etsy shops and my Patreon to try to catch up with things. Trying to learn to paint in a completely different program. Then lost my job with no savings.

At the end of the day I don't want anything to come between me sharing my art with you. I wish I could doodle a thing, take a picture, and post it here. No third party site, no shop, no subscription. Just sharing my art with you. I promise I'm trying to figure out how to stay as close to that as possible, and I want to thank y'all for sticking with me as I untangle all of that.

So, what can you expect in the near future?

I'm working on a couple of painting commissions right now, which you should be able to see in the next couple of days! I want to catch up on kinktober and get those posted as well. There's a comic commission in progress which I'm very eager to work on, and which I think y'all will be excited for! To ease the weight of the Patreon I think I may do less zines/polls there and more wips and process videos! If possible, I want to do more full colored work too.

Thank you again for enjoying my work, and if you have any input or tips my inbox is always open 🙏🫶💕

[indiesellersguild]

New article: Is Dropshipping Indie Selling? (No.)

There has been a recent influx of social media accounts made to advertise The Wonders Of Dropshipping on any post mentioning ecommerce. Many of these seem to be bots, but a real person must be behind them -- so our very own Alex R. of @handmadehazefromtheheart decided to write up an article responding to the idea that these ecommerce "guru" types overlap with our member base of online indie sellers.

Excerpt:

To a consumer, the process of buying from big name versus indie online storefronts is the same: see the pictures, read the description, click “purchase,” and wait for a package. That standard makes it pretty easy for another kind of online seller to present you with a product on an original-looking webpage, accept your money in exchange for the promise of shipment — and then turn around and give (some of) that money to an actual supplier that sends you your purchase. [...] Ultimately, the Indie Sellers Guild seeks to be an online extension of the labor movement. In capitalism, things are often divided into a working class and an owning class, and we’re here for the working class. [...] [D]ropshipping is a way to claw at the benefits of being part of the owning class: gaining profit for nothing more than inserting yourself into a transaction that doesn’t need you to operate fairly. We don’t condone that, and we don’t represent that.

View it in full here.

For some insightful thoughts on print-on-demand selling -- something that we don't all agree falls under "dropshipping" but does overlap -- you'll find a link inside to another article by Valerie of Artisans Cooperative.

[demonic-shadowlucifer]

LPSCon: How *NOT* to host an event

(Trigger Warning: Brief references to suicide/self-harm and gaslighting) Welp, I read about it, and knew it was something that needed to be talked about.

If you're an active member of the LPS Community, you might be familar with LPSCon. Maybe you've attended it before. Or at the very least heard the name. But for those who don't, put simply, LPSCon is a convention around Littlest Pet Shop (LPS) toys, and the community that surrounds it (Think LPSTube!). LPSCon has had issues, as all conventions do. However, this year was *especially* a disaster. Now, I have never attended LPSCon, and after the events and stories I've heard about this year's, I most likely will not ever attend. This is based on the experiences I have heard from multiple individuals, and sources will be linked at the end. What Went Wrong

For starters, the event took place during an incredibly hot day in Vegas. Vegas. In summer.

Of course, that went about as well as you'd expect. There was little to no shade, no water (And when there *was* water, people had to pay for it, which wouldn't be an issue IF NOT FOR THE FACT PEOPLE WERE DEHYDRATED AND EXHAUSTED FROM HEAT), and poor air conditioning, meaning that even indoors it was still very warm. People were fainting, some had to leave early due to the heat, and one attendee stated that a friend "basically got heat stroke" as a result.

As for food, there were only two food trucks. *Two*. And little variety. No outside food or drink was allowed, and the trucks eventually had to close due to overwhelming orders. I can only imagine how exhausted the staff at those food trucks were. Next, the venue. I'm just gonna cut to the chase on this one: The venue was an awful *awful* choice. It got overcrowded way too quickly, tables ran out of room. And the upper floors were reserved for VIP only, which didn't do anyone favors. It was also incredibly inaccessible, with the mics and hosts being extremely loud, which was overstimulating to some, and no way for wheelchair users to get around. On top of that, security was no help. At some point, they just gave up and let *anybody* in and barely did bag checks (Something that is INCREDIBLY fucking dangerous). On top of that, staff was rude and snarky to others, with one attendee being refused a slice of confetti cake very rudely during the cake-cutting event! As well as allegations of a diabetic attendee not being allowed food (or allowed to bring their own food?) On top of that, the event itself was a total disaster. During the event, there were goodie bags (Known as "swag bags") given out. Those bags were supposed to contain LPS toys, candy and other items. What most fans got were some G4 LPS that had missing heads, unwrapped candy that was most likely expired, a ton of random garbage, LPS that were *incredibly* dirty or broken, and some attendees got no LPS in their goodie bags at all!

Additionally, many people's items (Including LPS) were stolen or lost. And any attempts at getting them back were unsuccessful, with LPSCon not cooperating whatsoever. The prices on items were also *horrible*, with some LPS being unreasonably overpriced, and other items being unreasonably cheap, including raffle tickets.

And don't even get me started on the stupid foam party.

LPSCon's "Apology"

After the event, LPSCon "apologized" on their Instagram page. And I put "apologized" in quotes due to them failing to acknowledge the actual issues at hand.

They made a second post later on, that was arguably worse than the other. Instead of apologizing, not only did they double down, they also straight up made guilt-trippy comments.

Now, harassment is bad. I've made that clear many times before. But once you resort to gaslighting tactics, including a threat of SH or suicide, you lose all credibility.

In summary

LPSCon 2024 was a pathetic excuse of an event. Poor staff, awful prices, terrible prizes and management, and oh yeah did I mention that the organizers behind LPSCon may or may not be money-grabbing con artists?

We've seen many awful cons before. From Dashcon to whatever the fuck that Willy Wonka event was, this might be worse. This is a poorly planned event, and one that was all but doomed from the start. The organizers of LPSCon should be ashamed of themselves. And until there's changes made, I suggest you guys don't waste your money on this "convention".

Sources/accounts from others: LPSCon Experience Megathread on Reddit.

LPSCon 2024 was a Mess By ZombieXCorn.

What Really Happened at LPSCon by Sugar Diamond

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Instagram posts by hudson_lps

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