#the price it would in a bigger one

[why-the-heck-not]

your jobless friend is out there walking 4km to a grocery store just bc that one has the best atmosphere

[cruwmo]

why did i think I'd like working in retail. ughhh i hate it here already

[britneyshakespeare]

barnes and noble has been raising the prices of everything and further pushing for their premium membership option (which they raised the price of by 60 percent this year!) and then when they have big sales events, they're less than what they used to be.

last year at this time you could get one of their leather-bound book annex tomes for $12.50 (without a member discount) because of the 50 percent off all hardcover sales. but they raised the price of those tomes from 25 bucks to 30, and they decreased the sale from 50 percent off all hardcovers to 1/3rd off. so that same book that was $12.50 at last year's end-of-year sale is now 20 bucks. and that's supposed to be savings enough to induce me to walk into one of their stores this week?

i'm sorry but b&n has just gotten so greedy, even though their business has only been doing better and better in previous years. they do not have to be raising prices like they have been, and they can damn well afford to have the same savings events they used to. if you went to one of those hardcover sales a year or two ago, even if you lived in a less populated area like i do, you had never seen a b&n so busy in your life. things were flying off the shelves. they WERE making bank.

and as a company they've only been growing and growing (as much as the publishing industry has been, in recent years). but there are so many other ways to buy books. CHEAPER ways to buy books. MORE SUSTAINABLE ways to buy books. and since books and booksellers are doing really well right now, i don't see why barnes and noble is getting so greedy when they don't have to be. i dont like new shiny books that much. people buy books for the content, ultimately. sometimes we as consumers might make the choice that a new shiny book is worth paying a bit more for, but not that much. barnes and noble has just been demanding more and more of their customers' money for less and less benefit.

[cozybearz]

THIS ONE…

[onrainynights]

also im into crochet now!!

I made pigs!!

[nezumasa]

I do complain about (general) artists’ commission practices a lot but like…you are running a business…

It should be decently professional even if I’m commissioning art of that twink being rawdogged by an old man.

[nymphrasis]

Since I see the votes are leaning towards Galarian Ponyta, I've ended up just linearting the base I've sketched out :3.

Admittedly I did made progress of it last night, since I did assume the votes are more leaning towards this 'mon qwq. Today all I needed to do are the tail. I dont think the hair and tail would be too relevant, since I always change the hair + ears + tail ( And will somewhat do the same with the horn, dependent on the fusion in question ) on my bases anyways. I like to still give them a unique feeling qwq. It is why those traits I have drawn are on separate layers. The body is really the most important to have on the base for me ;w;! https://toyhou.se/~bulletins/2153918.suggestion-me-fusions-for-g-ponyta I have made a bulletin for open suggestions of what fusion you'd like to see on G. Ponyta nwn! Just know that I may not accept every one ;w;. It really depends if I feel like it is possible of me to do pwp If you dont have TH, idm being suggested either on the comments here or through my inbox >w<

Ps.

Also have a bald Ponyta jumpscare :p

[screwpinecaprice]

REGARDING MY COMMISSIONS

Just wanna post regarding my commissions since I've been asked about it a few times. I replied I'll announce it when it's reopened and people might've felt hanging as that announcement post still wasn’t made for a while now; because I haven't reopened yet. ^^;

There’s a commission queue that gotten clogged up due to having to shift most of my attention on something that suddenly came up IRL. (Maybe I’ll mention what it was specifically in the future.) It was kinda financial thing too, and I underestimated the work to be done; so I thought it’s the better decision not to do refunds with intention to still finish the orders regardless.

Well turned out it was not the better decision. Everything’s only just’ve gotten significantly better last month so I'm getting a much better hold of the commission queue too. Though I have to refund two pieces because my laptop can’t handle the file size anymore. I cannot stress how thankful I am to the patience of these clients! Pretty sure I'd getting an ass-whooping if I was less lucky. 😬 

Maybe I’ll do mini commissions when I’m like 75% clear on the commission queue, things that will only take 3-5 days to complete, to help pay online debt faster. 🤔

So, yeah, I’ll announce when any commissions are up again! Thanks for reading!! If you’re one of the clients on the mentioned queue who hadn’t had their order completed and would like to ask for a refund as well, DM me and we’ll see what we can do!

[lesenbyan]

when you go looking at houses bc ????? and then have to stop bc you fall in love with one but you do not even remotely have $600K

[snepfeathers]

to do:

background and shading on pwyw pieces

finish formatting Nyx's ref

flat colors when this sketch comm's lines are approved

take out the trash

rearrange the fishtank because the pleco keeps piling up gravel and uprooting plants

put together a new commission price sheet probably. not so much for price changes, mostly just layout + reminding people that I'm still open

maybe running a sale/ych for sketch style sequences? I kind of really need to build savings back up and I'm in the mood for sketches + sequences tbh

[mollyjames]

Even in food service, there is the demand for exponential growth. Each store has a profit target you're expected to hit every quarter. Each quarter the target gets bigger and bigger. The only way to make sure you hit or exceed that target is to increase sales or cut costs. Sales can only go so far though, so at a certain point there is the understandable temptation (not justifiable, but understandable) for your manager to start cutting hours. Once they do, your location has entered a Death Spiral.

The thing about the Death Spiral is it is nearly impossible to escape. It starts innocuous enough, with a few hours getting shaved off every week. And true enough at first you probably didn't need those hours. They were the slack, the extra hands that helped distribute the work and made it easier on everyone. You might not even notice they're gone. Maybe the morning rush is a little harder to handle, maybe there isn't as much time to chat as there used to be. But on the whole nothing has changed. You're still hitting your sales quota and, hey, everyone seems to be working a little harder. That's good, right?

Then the next quarter rolls around. You exceeded your quota. Upper management is very excited. But now your new quota is even higher than it would have been if you had simply performed to expectations. You raise prices a bit, push more expensive drinks, and sure, cut a few more hours. Bit by bit the slack gets tighter. The fat gets trimmed. All because continual growth, continual improvement, is not just demanded, but expected.

The endgame of the Death Spiral is the expectation that every worker will operate at 100% efficacy 100% of of the time, and that nothing will go wrong ever. It never reaches this point, as any food service worker will tell you, shit goes wrong. Service gets worse, you lose a few customers, and you miss your quota. This is the point of no return, because the only way to solve the problem is to add more hours. But there's no way upper management will approve spending more money. On a failing store? Don't be ridiculous. Maybe get those numbers up and we'll consider adding hours back. But the only way to get those numbers up is with no hours. It's a Catch-22. You're trapped. Slowly, inevitably, the store fails, and then closes.

The Death Spiral is a doomed strategy, but it is the one corporations push in response to investor pressure. It tricks workers into more work for the promise of relief later, if they do well and succeed, not realizing they'll only be asked to do even more next time. So how do you fight it? Know your worth. Don't let anyone give you more work without some kind of kickback. Don't fool yourself into thinking that being indispensable will lead to a reward later.

But the best defense? Join a union.

[gibbearish]

ok im steadily gathering that the speed at which i crochet is less "a little fast" and more "genuinely weirdly fast"

[shirogane-oushirou]

not ready to post him properly yet, bc i want to give him some pants first JHABSJHDBJHB but. i finished the ren plushie earlier today, and i've just been petting him and smoothing him down all evening. i just picked him up to keep doing it, and i unconsciously starting kissing his little forehead. i'm definitely not feeling soft for him. anyway.......... [sick to my stomach bc i love him and he's so cute]

ghost sighting of the boy:

[dethdyke]

$90 for 8 pieces of normal ass piercing jewelry. Sigh.

[thedevotionaltour]

sometimes it feels like v2+3+4 are harder to collect than one would think. considering how recent they are. actually v2 isnt that hard but v3 and 4 man... always considerably less in those sections than in v1+2. probably due to recency. but still. also theyre priced so much higher than i think any recent comic should be why the fuck are you charging me $6 for this comic that was $3 when it was coming out i should kill you in real time. this shit should be $2.

[zosonils]

i should take commissions again i have a lot of stuff to spend money on this year