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if shes your girl then why am I in her uncles dms lowballing his ebay listings

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*For more art samples, see /tagged/m.png or @steemie *Send a message here or to stemaem@gmail.com if you have questions or are interested!

I recently had several people come and ask me about my commission rates, which made me realize I'd been drawing Bill Cipher for free this whole time. So here's the hot deets to save everyone the trouble!

I've also reopened my Patreon if you want to support me in making comics, animatics, and all the other stuff I do but don't feel like going in on some cool custom art!

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we are all saved by the mythology of yawning

when it all begins to feel a bit like a rat-race you need to take a step back for a bit and remind yourself that things will always be done in an infinite number of ways, but no one will ever do it quite like you. take your time, find the joy and celebrate the becoming, because what else is there

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it feels so good when art you made you actually really like gets notes its like yes. Im doing it! Im playing the game right yes!Yes!

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some stans

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when it all begins to feel a bit like a rat-race you need to take a step back for a bit and remind yourself that things will always be done in an infinite number of ways, but no one will ever do it quite like you. take your time, find the joy and celebrate the becoming, because what else is there

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Fanworks vs. Published Works

Okay, so, I was on Reddit and there was this discourse of fanfic v. published work, and how the lines are beginning to blur more and more, particularly among readers, and how dangerous this is for fandom spaces because fanfic is not designed for the same sort of engagement one has with a published work. They look similar and feel similar, but equating them can be devastating for fanfic writers, particularly if people start reviewing and critiquing fanworks the same way they do published works.

The comparison on that subreddit—which I had never encountered but might well have been around forever and new to no one but me because sometimes I do live in a cave—was that fanfic is like a potluck. And I love that because it's 100% accurate.

At a potluck, you make something for people to enjoy out of love. It’s really shitty to go to a potluck, then walk up to someone who made what you believe is a subpar casserole and start in like you’re a food critic. You’re missing the point of the potluck. And you’re kind of a dick.

In a restaurant, the rules are different, just like in the publishing industry. You select a restaurant, you pay for a meal, and if the meal isn’t to your liking, you can leave the restaurant a review on Google or Yelp or the platform of your choice (assuming you didn’t just throw a tantrum in the restaurant itself, but that’s another discussion). And sure, YMMV from other diners’ experiences, but even if everyone loves this restaurant and you don’t, it’s perfectly acceptable to leave a subpar review listing the reasons why it didn’t meet your standards. It’s fodder for future diners to consider at this point, less for the restaurant itself. The way book reviews are meant to be for readers, not the author. The author will see it, they might get annoyed, but unless they want their career to go up in smoke, they won’t respond. Just like restaurant owners who go nuclear on bad reviews, word spreads when someone can’t take criticism.

And no, it’s still not cool to critique someone’s potluck dish even if that person is a professional chef. They still elected to invest their time, talent, and creativity to bring that dish to the potluck and are getting nothing out of it but the satisfaction of their dish being enjoyed. The potluck should be a safe space for everyone—the chef knows to expect unsatisfied customers at work; when they’re at play, when they’re relaxed and enjoying something with a chosen community, it’s really shitty to start acting like a customer in the restaurant. You don’t have to love what they brought but keep it to yourself and go try something else.

As a published author, it bothers me a lot more when people invade my fanfic space to be critical than it does any of the 20+ works I have for sale on Amazon and other vendors, and this is why. Fanfic is more personal because it’s unpaid labor created out of love and a desire for community. It’s not a commodity, and treating it like that is how you murder joy and, for some creators, sometimes the drive to ever create again.

So don’t be a dick at the potluck, okay?

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I have to make everything ok really fast

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“no one’s ever mad at me unless they tell me so” is the best assumption i’ve ever made

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This has to be the most beautiful thing one can say about a person

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Amazon river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis) in an Amazonian floodplain forest, Rio Negro, Brazil

by Kevin Schafer

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trying to be ball

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Dude it is SO FUN and EXCITING to see a reoccurring reader. If you've commented a handful of times on an author's work, I guarantee that they recognize you. You can't imagine how many times I've excitedly informed my friends "the person with the funny cat image commented!" "- anon is back!!!!" and the friends've recognized who I was talking about because I talk about my commenters so often LOL. We love you all!!!

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I miss my meow meow

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no one ever wants to acknowledge bill's beloved pyramid form and how much gender euphoria it brings him

because he looks so, so stupid like that