#no wonder it's always on sale

[slugswarriorsdesigns]

Heyo you've mentioned that you learnt cat genetics from a book you read a couple times when you've been previously asked how you learnt them - do you remember the name of it? I know bits and pieces of cat genetics but having a book would be really handy. Don't worry if not, just thought I'd ask :]

It has two names in English:

The Encyclopedia of Cats

The Ultimate Guide to Cats

Written by Candida Frith-Macdonald!

#cats #it Dutch the book is literally just called (in Dutch) #great title translators really informs readers about whats in there #no wonder it's always on sale #snail noises

[centeris2]

New article about SSE

haven't seen anyone talk about it yet, but seems SSE has made yet another licensing deal...?

Whether anything comes from this of course is "ehh, who knows", because there have been several articles about SSE making licensing and branding deals with nothing to show for it. But apparently SSE is now at 26+ million players.

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Rights & Brands saddles up to rep Star Stable worldwide

The Scandinavian licensing agency with The Smurfs and Popeye in its portfolio is on the hunt for consumer products and publishing partners for the popular horse-centric brand for tween girls.

By Cole Watson

February 16, 2024

Hoping to shift from trot to gallop in the consumer products market, Star Stable Entertainment has signed Stockholm-based licensing agency Rights & Brands to represent the global merch and publishing rights of its flagship same-name tween franchise. 

The Star Stable brand currently features a 2D-animated series (Star Stable: Mistfall), mobile games, books, music and a role-playing game called Star Stable Online (pictured) that has attracted more than 26 million registered users since launching in 2011—more than half a million of which actively play it each month. This rich digital experience is built around riding, racing and caring for different breeds of horses on the enchanted island of Jorvik. 

Rights & Brands already represents the licensing interests of Scandinavian kids brands such as The Smurfs, Popeye and Rune Andréasson’s iconic ’60s teddy bear Bamse. And last month, the agency also inked a deal with Finnish children’s book publisher Etana Editions to manage more than 80 picture books, including The Magic Flower (Marika Maijala) and Oh Vivian! (Sari Airola).

#sso #ssoblr #makes sense they'd have to outsource their publishing since they don't have their own publishing anymore #wonder if this means they're looking into publishing again? or at least going to finish up what they started #since they already have a bunch of things translated but didn't actually get them up for sale #will this go in tags or will this be hidden forever that is always the question

[notsolonelyygirl]

pov… you come home to find me waiting for you…

⛓my links⛓

#I wonder what those toys are for 🤭 #playtime video will be posted Friday #have you subscribed yet? #it’s still on sale #😉😉😉 #always a tease #me

[yami-in-leather]

New art for the Bitter Rabbit Café coming in August!!

All of the Bitter Rabbit shop items are so cute I could screeeeeam

#kuroshitsuji #ciel phantomhive #sebastian michaelis #black butler #grell sutcliff #undertaker #y’all the hats with the bunny ears are seeeending me that’s sooo cuuuute #do we even need to talk about grell I mean my god she’s drop dead gorgeous?!?!!!!!!!! #and undertakers braid is making me love him when I don’t want to lol #their bitter rabbit personas should all be for sale I mean grells is adorable!!!! #and is that who I think it is in the background 👀 #as always ciel’s got THE most amazingly stylish outfit on jesus he’s such a style icon #Sebastian getting some gold accents on his suit is wonderful 10/10 he should always have that #also they’re matching bc of course they are lol #Sebastian’s like the parent at Disney that makes you wear matching homemade family tshirts #he thinks it’s cool but really it’s just drowning ciel in embarrassment lol #ok I’m done now! I absolutely love every part of this 🤗 #tbh if that’s all the merch we’re getting it could be better tho #mainly talking about the mug here and I can’t see the bag well enough to make a decision on that one #of course I’m always here for any edition of bitter rabbit we can get tho #thinking about flying back to Japan just to sit in this cafe and never move again and also spend all my money lol

[pixlokita]

Chocolate and flowers for you from me and yuki ^^

Aw ;0; thank youuu💖 -reverse uno card u-

#pix answers #🫶💖✨ #it’s better to get chocolate tomorrow when it’s on sale tho >> #always wondered why people don’t celebrate AFTER valentines when everything is on sale and empty #>> idk #but ye #✨✨✨✨ thank youuuu

[padawansuggest]

I added up the hours I’ve played games on switch since I got it a month and a half ago… and remember they count by 5s so these hours are the minimum and likely to be much higher and also I started playing Stardew Valley a few days ago (I bought it a few days before the first tooth had to be pulled but didn’t start till a few days ago cause not enough brain power for new things lmao) and I have played over 10 hours so far but the device doesn’t count them till 10 days after the game is first opened, so like. It’s been a lot more than this. I have had this device about… a month and a half? And played over 275hrs between a bunch of different games. Almost all of which I buy on sale for less than 10$ lol I’m a bargain girl. But like. Is that a lot for a month and a half? I feel like whenever I’m not playing it’s cause I’m writing, crocheting, or too braindead or in pain to function. So it seems like a lot.

#I also have moonlighter that was on sale for 4.50$ I think but it was highly recced to me a while back #I wonder if I’ll end up obsessed with that one too lol #I logged over 50 hours on Wylde Flowers on iPad and that’s with it constantly crashing lol #I think I had around 30hrs of Cozy Grove on iPad too lol #I used to log like 100s of hours of those island farm games tho lmao I’m so glad I have switch now #if I never buy another 3$ gem pack that spirals into 40$ of in game currency it’ll be too late #god I’m glad those one time usable purchases are a scam #they used to get the fuck outta me when I was sick which is always

[mid-nightowl]

So, the Batman in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League may or may not have killed Robin

#suicide squad: kill the justice league spoilers #which got me wondering if there's every been a fic where Bruce in a fit of possession or brainwashing did kill one of his kids?? #and actually handled it well (aka it didn't go straight to bruce bashing)?? i need to read if so cause this topic is juicy #i think it's heavily implied to be tim drake robin so uh yeah #there was also mention of Oracle Nightwing and Jason #(not red hood; bruce just states jason) but I don't think they appear nor is it implied if they got murked either #and if this is post-arkhamverse.....major yikes #another L for arkhamverse Tim #bald and dead smh #poor guy #i probably won't get the game until it's on sale (i don't care for the storyline that much) BUT the fic ideas????? #like after the fact what would bruce do?? would he just keep going bc he doesn't know how to handle it other than being batman??? #would he actually quit?? #(and this is if he doesn't kill himself or let someone else kill him at the end of this) #also the reactions from the other bats? how would they react to who bruce killed? and then who exactly do you pick to be killed? #because who matters i think #my gut always wants to lean towards jason-and-bruce-angst but i think bruce accidentally killing dami or tim would be.... #well it would be catastrophic i think #killing jason (post-red hood or as robin) would also be awful but a RH!jason falls in line with abuse he's already getting in canon #bruce killing barbara or dick also has a lot of angsty fallout potential #hmmmmm i will be contemplating this i think for a good while #i have ideas

[lhrry]

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#also really hope louis’ team has something up their sleeves to get fan excitement up for the release week because boy is this weak and they #really should do better to ramp it up #post tiktoks with tiny snippets of the songs and having the fans guess what song it is for example #or something to boost fan engagement because ive been through many impending album releases in this fandom and this is not it #the excitement is quite mild #they did a big push for bigger than me and a lot of it seemed to me to be for promo rather than for the single #there was scarcely anything new for out of my system in the sense that the questions are still the same as they were for btm #they are circulating the same old and it’s not interesting for many people to watch and then they manage to sneak in babygate always and in #quite ridiculous senses like him listening the album first and stuff and while i still think there’s a reason for this (and i’ve spoken #about what i think may be happening with that and with the reasons for it before so i’ll not repeat myself) #but it just alienates more and more people and with the promo being repetitive there’s nothing much to outweight it for many people #and unfortunately since louis himself is saying he does not care for charts the fans are not very motivated to stream and do listening #parties as they used to be when getting to number 1 was encouraged and by the boys and desirable #plus imho they messed up the tour announcement and sale which shouldve come after the album comes out because people will know what they’re #buying tickets for #but anyway i wonder whether there’s something up still with sabotage of louis and radios not playing him and stuff #because despite the emphasis on him being free and in control there are so many old patterns recurring that it’s incongruent #im really excited for the album and the music and the direction louis is going to take artistically and creatively #but some things about his promo still seem very off #especially knowing what an astute businessman he is and just how deep an understanding he has #of his fanbase as well as the GP and marketing #also i really do think it’s purposeful they’re building on chicago and danielle associations and ramping up babygate and that E is out #for good

[kaoharu]

amnesia is on sale . . .

#✧ chatting ! #i wonder if i can ask my mom if we can get it . . . #i dont wanna ask tho bc i dont have a reason other than i want it and its on sale . . . #asking for things is hard i always feel guilty lol

[petrovna-zamo]

#first of all love that they’re doing this #second of all I wonder if this means she’s moving soon? #I know she and Andrew love a good flea market/yard sale #pretty sure Andrew’s done this before and I remember K sold stuff with Willam at her studio in the past #Andrew’s narration is always so soothing #I’m telling ya K is an upcycle queen!

[manslutz]

watcher entertainment what the fuck............

#both them and mappa fumbling hard today im so disappointed #like im totally for them having more creative and financial freedom over what they produce and release but theyre hyping a paywall ???????? #for the same content that was prev free and accessible and always has been ??????? #i havent seen a single person support this change i cant imagine the amount of viewers theyve lost #bc who in their right mind is paying $60 a year for a single youtube channel #also talking about ad revenue being their only income like their high views and patreon subscribers and merch sales are nothing............ #im wondering hard just how many patreon subscribers theyve lost when their content there was already exclusive #their audience has never watched them for high quality productions or whatever they said - like just look back to buzzfeed #its so odd that theyve spoken about the type of audience their content attracts but still dont understand what the appeal is #countless anti capitalism jokes made and they still missed #sooo disappointed this is not the relaxing night i was hoping for hhh #ellie.talks

[jemichi90]

Worked through the whole night to get those files redone and now that it's done I'm beyond exhausted. Gonna take a long nap, if I can.

Now I just have to wait for the new proof copies to arrive and hope they are alright and that they'll be approved for distribution again and that the overlord Amazon doesn't change the rules again anytime soon. It's ridiculous that they get to decide what's in distribution in bookstores around the world! But what do I know, I'm just trying to sell my books... ^^"

#randomness #unfortunately that also caused my discount campaign to end prematurely #my apologies for that #if you are planning to buy the book there should be a sitewide sale this weekend if I've understood correctly #so you can still get them with a discount #and I'll start a new discount campaign as soon as this situation gets resolved #but it's always a long wait to get approved for global distribution so that could take a while #but at least I've done my part #now I'll sleep #I've been hearing the sound of explosions the whole day though so I wonder if I'll be able to get much rest #I wonder what's up with that

[koshercosplay]

it's time for my yearly chanukah merchandise ratings! how are there always so many to choose from. as always, this year is a doozy and I am as bitter as ever lmao

this was quite literally labeled "hanukkah cone tree." gee I wonder which winter holiday is The One With The Trees. surely it's the jewish one with all the fire. let's make it blue and white just in case. 4/10 there is no excuse for this

why are the chairs so far apart. why is there nobody there. why are there so many grapes. what even are those green things. why is there soup. will the mysteries never cease. 7/10 purely because it's pretty

I for one welcome our jewish alien cousins. not sure what this has to do with chanukah but I want to hear about jewish life on mars so 8/10 friends come in out of the cold and have a latke with me

the more I looked at this, the worse it got. there's a literal christmas tree and tinsel but oh it's got blue lights so it's fine. and as we all know, children regularly hold fully lit candle menorahs with mittens while going door to door during a snowstorm. I guess who are we to stifle a child's latent desire for arson. 5/10 somebody save that poor dying kitten

this poor magen dovid is being forcefully converted to christianity and we need to help it. quick somebody put this on a sufganiyot stack. 4/10 we all know the intended target audience isn't interfaith families okay

do I even have to say it. please just. just stop. get One (1) Jew to weigh on your hanukkah products, I beg you. -392928373/10 walmart owes me a personal apology for making me see this with my own two eyeballs

I spent a full five minutes staring at this shirt desperately trying to make it make sense. I shouldn't have bothered. it's worse than the hebrew could ever be. 2/10 amposzu zusach mezchamal to you too

congratulations, once again you wrote gibberish. this says nothing. it's not chanukah, it's not happy holidays, it's nothing. the letters on the dreidel are an ACRONYM people! there's an order! 3/10 it's antisemitic that this has over 4,000 sales (thank you @quartzfox for sending this to me. now you all have to see it too.)

now these are CUTE. and the dreidel letters are in the correct order too, which is unfortunately impressive. 10/10 no notes, it has cats, would wear

(previous years 1, 2, 3)

#you know the downside of making this post every year is that. #i then have to crawl through the worst of Holiday Internet #to bring you all the Prime Selection #so you're welcome lmao #i do it so you don't have to 🫡 #enjoy this year's ratings! #chanukah #hanukkah #ratings

[nivq87]

It’s 2am and I’m a lil bummed I can’t play dabo iv just yet, and apparently 2 wasn’t supported either which is a shame because the summer sale is a great deal, BUT I checked and for the next couple days the sale is active on the switch eshop so now I own dabo2 and also dabo3 like twice over except not quite because I think that includes the expansion content which I never bought because it did not interest me at the time since I only owned 3 incidentally as a result of the wow year pass promotion at the time, and like I was already planning on staying subbed so it was just bonus stuff yay. I did like 3 even though I was pretty awful at it, maybe I can sync my bnet account and look at my stupid wizard again? Or just make a new one who give a shit. I mean I could also just redownload dabo3 to my current computer but unless my mom decides fuck yeah niv dabo3 is gonna be Our New Current Thing, I have no reason to except playing it again and looking at my wizard. But Now. I own it again again with probably the expansion content so there is New stuff. So I spent 20 bucks on it. Maybe when I finally make it through the emails backlog.

#I’m supposed to be asleep except in the process of going through the emails #I got to a hades fic update from my brief stint in that fandom #and how the game on my switch was fun #and how when I was browsing the bnet summer sale stuff before logging in to wow #and I saw the diablo 2 was apparently on switch but not mac #and I wondered if I could buy it from the bnet launcher and have it on switch? #stopped thinking about it because I wanted to do niraa’s lfr #and then anyway back to I am supposed to be asleep and emails #and I thought to check the eshop and lo and behold #shits on sale #so I could decide between $13 on just dabo2 #OR add $6.50ish and rebuy enhanced dabo3 also #except I never did buy dabo3 since blizz was just fucking giving it away to wow players in late cata lmfao #blizz be like pls stay subbed to our disliked expansion with nothing to do well give you dabo3 and horse #and me niv ‘king cata apologist then and now’ q87 was just like #WOULD I???? #congrats blizz over a decade later and I bought your game finally hahaha #why am i rambling #I’m gonn see this post again in the morning and be like oh yeah this is what my brain sounds like always whoops #if anyone wondered what talking to me is actually like it’s this #dolphin brain #I’m taking a melatonin I’m too awake for having work in the morning

[taylor-titmouse]

hey i want to talk about how you should be promoting your work as an erotic author/illustrator

i'm writing this up because the marketing aspect of my work as an erotic author/illustrator is a science to me, and also because i'm the guy who gets unreasonably annoyed when i see other creators not properly advertising their work. you presumably want to make money off your work. this post will be written under the assumption you want to make money off your work but are doing a bad job at it. it will be very confrontational. if you read this and feel attacked you're right and i am attacking you.

this is geared toward selling erotic comics/writing/books/art as products. i will probably write more than one post about this subject so if i didn't touch on something you want to know more about, comment/send me an ask and i'll keep it in mind for the next one.

i will start with my first and least specific but most important point:

DON'T GET FUCKING CUTE

hi are you paying attention. i'm gripping you by the sides of your face. do not get fucking cute with what you are trying to sell. you are not a big enough property to get cute, nobody LIKES it when big properties get cute, and you are selling porn. you have to own this. you have to be up front about this. don't be tongue in cheek, don't be all teehee i wonder what this could be~, don't be secretive. you are selling a product. you have to fucking act like it. you are an adult selling pornography to other adults. i am GRIPPING your HEAD you NEED to understand this.

and to be clear when i say 'cute' i mean coy. i don't mean cutesy, as in the aesthetic. you can be as hello kitty pastel ten emojis a post uwu as you like when you're building your audience and generating hype. but when you start trying to sell, don't be vague, don't be sarcastic, don't mislabel your work as a joke and assume everyone is on it. because they're not.

you must always assume 75% of the people seeing the thing you are advertising have no fucking idea who you are. and that includes a huge chunk of the people who already follow you. they do not know who you are or what you've been working on for two months or why they should care about it. they just got here. somebody just reposted it. they are seeing it for the first time. most people are only looking at social media for a tiny chunk of their day. they are not keeping up with you. you cannot get cute about what you are trying to sell because nobody knows what it is until you tell them.

okay are you still with me. we are going to talk about clarity now.

YOU GOTTA TELL ME WHAT IT IS

good lord the amount of times i have gone to buy somebody's comic or book and had no idea what's actually in it or what it's about. who are the characters? why should i care about them? what do they do in it? what is the premise of this thing you want me to spend $5 on? why would you not tell me? i'm shaking you again. please i have to know what i'm buying i only have so much money to spend on porn.

porn, arguably more than any other genre, relies on knowing exactly what is in it. you do not want to surprise your readers with a kink they were unaware of! and on the flip side, you do not want to miss out on your target audience! if your book contains a hot spider babe laying eggs in an elf, you have to say so. not just so people who don't want to read about eggs know it isn't for them, but so the people who are egg crazy can see that and go "oh fuck YES i love EGGS here is my $5 and an extra $2 tip for catering to me specifically". a contents/features list is as much an advertisement as it is a warning!

as for re: who the characters are and why should i care, i'm sorry but you need to learn how to write sales copy. you have to write blurbs. you have to get good at the shit that goes on the back of a book. we all hate it but we have to do it. i want to know who the characters are and what the context is. i, personally, am not interested in contemporary stories as much as fantasy and historical. please tell me what genre this porn exists in so i know if it aesthetically appeals to me. pull some books off your shelves and see how they do it. hell man go look at mine.

while you're there, note that every single book of mine has a sample of what's in it. this feels like such a no-brainer to me but again! the amount of times i have gone to buy somebody's work and they don't show me what their work looks like! you gotta give me the first page or two! just enough that i know if i like the way your writing sounds, or the way you draw your comics! i don't know you! i am not going to trust that you're good at what you do just based on a cover. the cover is to get me to this step, it is not the only step. you have to show me that you're worth spending my money on!

to put it less cynically, you want to catch my interest. you want me to go 'oh i want to see more of this', you want me to go 'ahh i want to know where this goes!' you need to get me invested and craving more. earn my $5!!!

YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT EASY TO GIVE YOU MONEY

hey go look at your bio right now. go look at your pinned post. do you have a link to your patreon there? do you have a link to your itchio/gumroad/whatever? do i have to click more than once to get to the places you want me to go to give you money? why? why are you making me click twice? have we learned nothing from every website making you click an extra time when they make some stupid UI update and how much it pisses us off? i have already given up, i have forgotten you, i am not giving you my $5 today. put your links in the easiest places to get to them.

god literally as i was writing this post i went to go find somebody's itchio to see how they described their work and it was not anywhere on their profile. grabbing you and shaking you PUT THE LINK WHERE I CAN FIND IT. don't make it hard! make it easy! i am a dickhead sitting on the toilet scrolling, saw your post, and was interested enough to read further. but you made me go to your bio to find your linktree and oops i have already gone back to my timeline to look at the boobies in the next post. stop wasting precious bio space on DNIs and put your fuckin links there!!!

this is more for the twitter people, but: just put the link in the damn post. just say the word commission. just say it's for patreon. "wuh wuh the algorithm" it is not the damn algorithm it's that everybody hates advertising and nobody wants to retweet ads. putting slashes in the words doesn't do anything and you look like a fool. i have posted so much art that says it's 'a commission for ___" and it did exactly as good as any other art despite having the word commission in it. and by doing the slashes you just made it impossible for anybody to search your account for your commission information (which should be at the VERY LEAST in a post under your pinned tweet if you're not actively posting about them being open).

okay that went on a tangent i'm going to back to the point of putting the link in the tweet. put it in the first post. not in the first reply. don't tell them to go to your bio. put it in the post people are actually going to share. it's fine to put more information in the thread but people are only ever going to share the first post. so put the link there. you have to make it easy. putting links in tweets can hurt you algorithmically, even in the replies. so you're better off having it in the post that actually gets seen and shared. i don't want to open the tweet and scroll to get to your sales page where i ASSUME you will have put all the information anyway. put it in the tweet that just got retweeted by itself onto my dash!

also you have to share it a ton of times. i repost my shit every few hours when i'm trying to push a new product. as i said before people are not 24/7 looking at their timelines. they missed it the first time. they missed it the second time. they didn't get paid yet that week but they were after the eighth time and you reminded them again so they finally bought it. that i will still get sales every time i repost a book ad weeks after release says there are always people who missed it, or who only just showed up.

abandon your pride and shill. shills pay their bills. anyone who gets annoyed about it isn't giving you money in the first place. don't worry about looking like a sell out. don't apologize for plugging your own work. post about it often, post about it in different ways. post about it. post about it. you are not going to make money if people don't know you have something to sell them. if you want to make a career out of it, you need to act like it.

I DON'T HAVE A FOURTH POINT

kisses your forehead. i'm sorry for yelling at you. i've been making and publishing and selling adult art for the past two-three years and have got myself to the point where it pays my rent, and i got there by paying attention to what does and does not work.

please do your best to make money. i want you to make money.

as i said above i plan to write more posts on this subject, such as cover design, how to actually write sales copy, and best practices with running a patreon, but if there's things you would want to hear more about leave a comment or send an ask! i will probably be less aggressive on future topics. these are just things that have grinded my gears for a grip.

#tt talks writing #tt talks drawing

[haojun]

Some days i really love my job... some of my clients are so fun lmao

#my huge group im working on is a hoot and a half i swear to god i love them #these clients that just came in were SO funny i loved talking with them #the husband stood up and shook my hand after we finished and was like 'i was in sales for 25 years you are great at this' #like :'-) ty sir #and he and his wife both said i reminded them of their niece which is always so sweet #like i reminded u of someone u love!! thats so lovely!!!! #n e ways im so grateful to work where i do and even if theres some drama its much nicer here than anywhere else ive worked #🤧💗 ok i will stop gushing abt my wonderful clients now i hope they all have a good day