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so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

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hey y'all a single Black mother had her house shot up with her two young children in it and is now seeking emergency housing fir the thtree of them please reblog this and donate if you can

https://www.gofundme.com/f/my-house-was-shot-up-amp-we-need-emergency-housing?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

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Hey guys! Allison here <3 Just so you know, I am in some financial trouble right now and need some extra cash. I make stuffed animals out of socks (these are just some examples). If you could please buy one, I’d really appreciate it!!! Thank you :D

(P. S. If you want a different animal, just message me and I will find a way to make it! I strong sewer! :P)

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May the 10 of Pentacles bless your account with more money than you can spend. 💵✨

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R E B L O G   T H E   P I G E O N .

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If you're ever bored, here's a list of Studio Ghibli films you can watch for free.

Castle In The Sky (1986) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) Only Yesterday (1991) Porco Rosso (1992) Pom Poko (1994) Whisper of the Heart (1995) Princess Mononoke (1997) My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999) Spirited Away (2001) The Cat Returns (2002) Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) Tales from Earthsea (2006) Ponyo On A Cliff From The Sea (2008) The Secret World of Arrietty/The Borrower Arrietty (2010) From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)

If any of the links stop working, please let me know so I can fix it.

For Castle In The Sky, wait for the free user button to be clickable and it will send you to the video.

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Giving money away

Hey everyone, I’m giving a thousand away again, I’ll pick a random reblog, i really don’t want this money, it doesn’t make me happy and I’m hoping it’ll make someone else happy

Share the love and I’ll share my money

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i’m a paypig

mistress told me to send money to people because i don’t deserve it

ill pick a few people who reblog this post to send 1000€, i’ll post proof later today

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i’m a paypig

mistress told me to send money to people because i don’t deserve it

ill pick a few people who reblog this post to send 1000€, i’ll post proof later today

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CEOs and large corporations are the real welfare queens 👑.

Working off of the labor of others, only there because of being born into capital and pre-existing familial or business relations? Yep

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The Book of Names lists each person murdered at Auschwitz

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Pricing your Art

So @dreriart made a post about commission pricing and I thought since it is doin’ the rounds I’d copy-paste this thing I wrote on DA over to Tumblr because for some reason I … never … did that … before?? So one recurring thing I see a lot in the art community in many different formats is ‘how much should I charge for my commissions?’ What normally follows is a lot of bad advice. Terrible advice. So I’m here to give you some good advice and tell you all about how to value your skillset and price accordingly. This guide has been written with the intended audience of folk who are just starting out with commissions, but I hope it will encourage other artists to give themselves a fair wage and, of course, a lot of this can be transposed over to other creative professions as well. So let’s answer the question of ‘how much should I be charging people for work?’ The answer to this is deceptively simple. Here are the questions you need to ask yourself to form an appropriate response:

Where do you live?

How old are you?

For obvious reasons I cannot assist you with these. But once you have these you go to Google and you type in the following: ‘minimum wage per hour in <location name>’ Which is more than likely going to bring up an official government page for your area. Here is the one for the UK since that is where I live.Now what? Well. How old are you? Because some locations have different rates for those in different age brackets. But essentially all you need to do is get the following info: How much is the minimum wage per hour for my age in my area? Now that you have this, how long does a piece take you? You do not need to be exact. A rough guesstimation will do. This will form your base price of: Minimum Wage x Estimated Hours Therefore if I take five hours to paint a portrait and my min wage is £7.83 then my base price for a painted portrait is £39.15.

That is the absolute minimum you should be charging for your work.

And please take into considerations the following:

Working outside your comfort zone will up times taken on a piece.

If you’re working with traditional materials, how much for paper/canvas/paint/pens/etc?

Minimum wage is quite often garbage anyway.

Whenever I say this though, I often get a variety of responses in the negatory for this method. I have answers for each of them. So, let’s run a sort-of-FAQ on this method shall we?

I’m not good enough to price that high.

Yes you are. Who says? Your government, for starters. Also me. Here’s the thing. No matter the quality of your art, you deserve a fair living wage for your work. There are lots of people out there with no understanding of the time, effort and tears that go into honing artistic skills. Digital art, making comics, mastering musical composition, sculpting, or whatever it is all takes time to learn and we are constantly growing and improving. And if someone wants to hand you money for what you are producing guess what? You ARE good enough. That is the proof right there. Another human being wants to give you cold hard cash for something that only you can make. If it puts a different perspective on things for you, think of job roles that would be traditionally minimum wage. Probably the one most people will go to is ‘burger flipping at McDonalds’ as an example of a low skill occupation that is stereotypically easy and for those who failed in life etc. etc. (spoiler alert: it isn’t, but that’s a journal entry for another day). Why should this theoretical failure of humanity earn more than you doing a job that ‘anyone can do’? Because art is absolutely more difficult than cleaning out a McFlurry machine (that’s a legit fact by the way: I’ve cleaned one of those and art is way harder). Also, art is a luxury product my friend. No one needs to be buying commissions of their MMO character. They want it? They can play by our rules. And they will.

My family member/friend/random internet guy said that’s too expensive and I should lower my prices.

Your family member/friend/random internet berk is a fucking idiot at best, or intentionally trying to get you to undersell at worst. Firstly, I’d be willing to bet that the person who said this to you is not an artist. If so, what makes them more qualified than another actual artist to tell YOU how to price yourself? Because you trust their opinion? Yeah, but what if their opinion is formed on a factually incorrect assumption of how much art costs/the time it takes to produce because that is a HUGE deal in our community right now. And what if they just want you to stay cheap because it threatens them? Or, as a consumer, want you to stay cheaper for their own selfish purchasing habits? What then? Tell them to fuck off.

But there is someone better than me charging less! Why should a client pick me over them?

Spoiler alert: there will always be someone better than you charging less. There are thousands of mega quality artists out there. I’m considered expensive for what I produce, especially as I live in a country with a currency that translates highly to other currencies. Yet people constantly ask me for commission work. So what gives? Here are some reasons why a prospective client might chose you over someone else:

You are nicer than they are.

You are faster than they are.

You’re working in a niche sector.

They know you personally.

They like your art style better.

You have lots of good feedback.

A friend recommended you.

They aren’t even open for commissions right now.

They had a bad experience with that artist in the past.

You’re easier to purchase from.

You have a larger following and purchasing from you exposes that audience to them by proxy.

There are lots of other reasons but price isn’t necessarily often the deciding factor for a lot of clients. Don’t spend your life being concerned with how other people are better than you or you’ll never be happy.   I’m nervous about pricing so highly! What if no one wants my art?If a client doesn’t want to pay you a fair living wage for their luxury item purchase then that’s a client you can probably do without to be honest with you.Someone complained about my prices being so high! What do I do? Refer them to this:

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SHARE IF YA CARE

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Jedi Mind Trick, 5e

(My party, consisting of a Rogue (me, Blood Elf), Ranger (Tiefling), Druid (Elf), and Alchemist (human), along with NPCs (dwarves and a halfling), make our way out of the Underdark to the surface, accidentally surfacing on barbarian terrain.)

DM: You see an elk run in front of your party, before it’s shot by a spear coming in a direction from in front of you. A man appears from the tall grass and, with one hand pulls his spear out of the fallen and dead elk. He looks up at your party, and then, goes like this. *covers face in hand*

Barbarian: We’ve been hunting this elk for several days now….

Ranger: dude okay we’re just passing through, we don’t want the elk, please don’t–

Me: WAIT. I got this. Okay, ready. *to the barbarian* We… are a hunger-based hallucination.

Entire party: *goes silent*

DM: …. roll Deception.

Me: already ahead of you–pleaseworkpleaseworkpleasework *rolls an 8* goddammit.

Barbarian: *stares at me, before putting his hand over his face again*

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Reblog if you are one of the less noticed Sexualities!

Demisexual, Bisexual, Asexual, Grey-Asexual, Pansexual, Fluid. 

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Marvel is out of control

Hey Guys! So Marvel is out of control. The fact that they gave this asshole a voice to turn Steve Rogers into a Nazi is horrifying. It’s also worth noting that he’s the asshole behind the whole “M-Word” thing from Uncanny Avengers. 

and now, they’re having Magneto team up with Hydra. No, shut up, I DON’T CARE if it’s just a media plug it is horrifying and I am disgusted. There is no reason to even tiptoe around it, this is wrong and it needs to stop. 

SO HERE’S SOME CONTACT INFO FOR MARVEL. Please write letters, e-mails, tweets, call if you’re able because fuck you, Marvel. Tell Marvel This Is Not Okay.

You Can Use This Form to submit feedback through the Marvel Site

And here through the Disney site

Call the “General Help” Phone Number at 212-576-4000.

Axel Alonso, Editor in Chief at Marvel: [email protected]

Spidey office: [email protected]

****X office: [email protected]

****Heroes office: [email protected]

Hulk, Ultimate & All Ages office: [email protected]

[email protected]

Media Relations V.P. through Dan Klores Communications: [email protected] 

Send letters to the Corporate Headquarters:  Marvel Entertainment, LLC 135 W. 50th Street New York, NY 10020

President Dan Buckley: [email protected]

Twitter: @JoeQuesada, @AxelAlonsoMarv, @StanLee, 

This is the number listed for Isaac Perlmutter, senior executive of Marvel, who immigrated from Israel : 1-212-576-4000

I’d recommend not contacting Nick Spencer directly, especially via tweet, because he’s a giant baby who whines a lot when people call his dumbass ideas dumbass and he’s just a giant headache you don’t need to deal with.