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murderous-coffeebean · 5 months

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Well, here's a tiny update in order to say "I keep getting ignored by both merch store support teams".

I got a reply from someone from the UK store support on September 27th, saying they'd look into this, then nothing. I got no reply then or to my mail from Oct 31st, just a "rate this employee" mail that wasn't even for the store support team member who wrote me back once. I wrote yet another mail on Nov 15 asking if they could just give me some sort of reply because this matter has been taken any joy Ghost has given me (and they really helped me through a rough time this year) and I got yet another reply saying they'd look into matters on Nov 16. Nothing since.

At this point I'm just. Really annoyed. I keep my mails nice because this is not the store support's fault, but getting ignored like this just makes me feel?? Worse??

They could tell me whatever, I guess, and it wouldn't feel this crappy and probably make it seem at least somewhat less fishy than just. Avoiding me altogether.

Not sure if anyone else has any idea what to do at this point, I'm just. Beyond frustrated.

(Seeing the Venus Copia shirt from the store in the merch mails and on Insta and seeing people being excited about it really just. Hurts. FFS.)

@thebandghostofficial

The Birth of Copia

Way back in January, I hurt my right hand and I couldn’t draw - or do much in general without pain - with it. Then a friend’s recommendation got me into Ghost and their music really helped me through a time when I felt quite down and restless as I thought I wouldn’t be able to pursue any of my hobbies for quite some time (which was mostly true). But then I bought tickets to a Re-Imperatour ritual and spent the next two months working on this shirt design with my left hand instead. Needless to say, it tested my patience a lot at times, but my left-handed drawing improved quite a bit and I had a lot of fun, which was something I greatly needed at that time. My right hand is better - although not fully healed yet - and I’m seeing Ghost next week (!!!) and I shall be wearing my self-made shirt. <3

@thebandghostofficial

#never had to deal with (potential) art theft before and starting with a big name band isn't something i ever thought i'd have to deal with #my posts #my art #art #fan art #ghost fanart #ghost #ghost the band #the band ghost #the birth of copia #the birth of popia #venus copia #25.11.2023 #2023 #digital art #tagging you again @thebandghostofficial i hope you don't mind #but if you could spread the word that would be really kind tbh #this is just. getting really frustrating and saddening like.#i really don't know how to reach out to anyone who might actually be able to help and the store support teams just keep avoiding my mails s

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murderous-coffeebean · 7 months

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Today in things that give me a sour/queasy feeling...

If it's genuinely a coincidence, so be it. And I know I hold no copyright for Boticelli's original that served as inspiration for my shirt design- but if someone saw my drawing and took inspiration from it for official merch? (The clothing choices, the flames from below, the halo-like background lighting for example really made me pause and wonder...) Then honestly, screw that. :((

It's been a week since they added the new collection on their UK and US store websites and I wrote the US store support a kind (bc ik store support's most likely not responsible for merch design) mail explaining why this had me wonder and asking for them to please get back to me regarding this, and all I got was a two-sentence mail: "Unfortunately, we do not handle customer support for the UK Merch Store. I apologize for the inconvenience."

I sent them a short reply asking for an answer nevertheless (my original mail liked to the site for preordering the shirt in the UK store bc the US store hadn't updated their website to their autumn collection yet at that time; they did that within the hour I sent my mail though) and CC'd the UK store as well, just in case, but so far, I haven't heard back again from them since last Friday. :(

Look, I love Ghost but this makes me feel really shitty. If it's a coincidence, just say so, if not, at least admit to it, ugh.

@thebandghostofficial

The Birth of Copia

Way back in January, I hurt my right hand and I couldn’t draw - or do much in general without pain - with it. Then a friend’s recommendation got me into Ghost and their music really helped me through a time when I felt quite down and restless as I thought I wouldn’t be able to pursue any of my hobbies for quite some time (which was mostly true). But then I bought tickets to a Re-Imperatour ritual and spent the next two months working on this shirt design with my left hand instead. Needless to say, it tested my patience a lot at times, but my left-handed drawing improved quite a bit and I had a lot of fun, which was something I greatly needed at that time. My right hand is better - although not fully healed yet - and I’m seeing Ghost next week (!!!) and I shall be wearing my self-made shirt. <3

@thebandghostofficial

#this has been eating at me for the last week now.#I'm on vacation atm and Stressed bc of this so that sucks #(hope you don't mind me tagging you tumblr ghoul but I was hoping to reach out to at least some people. :( I fear someone saw the reblog f #*from you and was like 'yeah let's use that shirt idea and just. Change it a bit'#Ugh #My posts #My art #Digital art #The Birth of Copia #The Birth of Popia #(Also the fact that they called it Venus IV when that's... Not the obvious title to chose imo. To me it just starts seeming evasive idk ://#Ghost #The band ghost #Art #Fan art #Ghost fanart #Ghost the band #Copia #Nameless ghouls #I also saw there's already a plethora of these design stealing shirt websites already offering the design from ghosts store #And while I'm glad it's not my original being stolen it still feels awful in case mine was their inspiration idk #(That these websites suck big time either way doesn't need to be said tbh)#Anyway my design meant and means a lot to me #And I was like 'nah this can't be' at first #But I've had other people (friends. The sib. Among others) tell me it had them pause too when they saw the new shirt. Plus some of the #*similarities in design choices that aren't part of boticelli's original... idk man. It just sucks big time #I really hope they get back to me soon :(

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murderous-coffeebean · 9 months

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An avid talker and a rapt listener

Young Sam is mostly babbling but Havelock cares a lot about what he has to tell him - or "read" to him - nevertheless :')

Havelock babysitting Young Sam in 19 for @evilphrog! 😊💜

I know it's been the better part of a year since you sent this request, but one wrist surgery later I can finally draw properly again, ayyy :D

Discworld © Terry Pratchett / art © Murderous-Coffeebean (tumblr & dA)

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murderous-coffeebean · 9 months

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No guarantee on how long it’ll take me since I still have a handful of requests left, but!!! I’m back to working on these!! :D

Gonna take some Discworld prompts for this color palette challenge, feel free to send me a request if you have one! 😊😄 (As for what characters and ships especially, please check out my tags in the post liked above ^^)

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#i know it's been the better part of a year but!!!#it's been 1 1/2 months since my hand surgery and i also finally feel like drawing again #no more pain here #only the scar still tugging quite some at times but not so much while drawing #so #ayyy #currently working on a really sweet request and it's making me smile sm aaaah :')#//not art #my posts #request #13.8.2023 #2023 #discworld #art #fan art #discworld fanart

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murderous-coffeebean · 9 months

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Every time I see someone address @neil-gaiman with "Lord Gaiman" or something similar, I can't help but immediately envision the exchange kind of like that :D

Neil Gaiman © himself / art © Murderous-Coffeebean (tumblr & dA)

#it sounds very. idk regency era or something and i just think it's neat #neil gaiman #wait and see #i've been meaning to send an ask myself for so many years now but i can never find the proper words so uh #just on the off chance you see this mr gaiman #i stumbled across good omens some nine years ago through some fanart i saw found out most of my friends already knew and loved the novel an #*sent the one friend who also hadn't known it yet a copy for herself #it's just. this one book we all know and love i guess #so. thank you and terry so much for this novel ^^#and the radio adaptions and series and everything #it's been one of my favourite books ever since i first read it #art #digital art #my art #my posts #12.8.2023 #2023 #you can see my hand getting steadier across the drawing there haha. ^^ first digital drawing since my hand surgery 1 1/2 months ago aaah :D #glad to be back #oh i also remember that one quote from my copy of GO where neil said he realized v quickly he wasn't a hat person. but for the sake of art #*i'm afraid i had to add one anyway :P #anyway this was fun ^^

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murderous-coffeebean · 10 months

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One Rawking Ghoul :D

This one’s for Tumblr Ghoul (@thebandghostofficial) - thank you for rawking so much! 💜

I had a bit of an art block after my last digital drawing and I am still stuck drawing left-handed for a little while longer, but Fanart Friday gave me a good reason to draw something fun and to say thanks, as well ^^

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murderous-coffeebean · 11 months

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Ace ineffable husbands

Good Omens © Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett / art © Murderous-Coffeebean

#self reblog #:D #good omens #happy pride month y'all!#<3333

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murderous-coffeebean · 11 months

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Seems like I’m back to left-handed drawing :(

#it was better for a few weeks but declined again recently #and last night i ever so slightly put pressure on the hand by accident #and now my thumb once again hurts a whole damn lot ugH #my posts #//not art #personal #it's been FOUR months ugh #i may sound impatient but i just wanna be able to use my right hand properly and without!! pain!!! again #ugh #2023 #26.5.2023 #drawing i can with time and my left hand but #don't get me started on playing video games or playing the guitar haha #.-.

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murderous-coffeebean · 11 months

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The Creation of Vimes

By this year’s Glorious 25th of May, I have read Night Watch at last and boy, do I get the feels people have about it, aaaah ;;

I have a fun little missing scene headcanon of how Vetinari and Vimes first met post-battle, which you can read here or on AO3! ^^

Discworld © Terry Pratchett / art © Murderous-Coffeebean (tumblr & dA)

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murderous-coffeebean · 11 months

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And the finished shirt!!! 💜

The Birth of Copia

Way back in January, I hurt my right hand and I couldn’t draw - or do much in general without pain - with it. Then a friend’s recommendation got me into Ghost and their music really helped me through a time when I felt quite down and restless as I thought I wouldn’t be able to pursue any of my hobbies for quite some time (which was mostly true). But then I bought tickets to a Re-Imperatour ritual and spent the next two months working on this shirt design with my left hand instead. Needless to say, it tested my patience a lot at times, but my left-handed drawing improved quite a bit and I had a lot of fun, which was something I greatly needed at that time. My right hand is better - although not fully healed yet - and I’m seeing Ghost next week (!!!) and I shall be wearing my self-made shirt. <3

@thebandghostofficial

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murderous-coffeebean · 11 months

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The Birth of Copia

Way back in January, I hurt my right hand and I couldn’t draw - or do much in general without pain - with it. Then a friend’s recommendation got me into Ghost and their music really helped me through a time when I felt quite down and restless as I thought I wouldn’t be able to pursue any of my hobbies for quite some time (which was mostly true). But then I bought tickets to a Re-Imperatour ritual and spent the next two months working on this shirt design with my left hand instead. Needless to say, it tested my patience a lot at times, but my left-handed drawing improved quite a bit and I had a lot of fun, which was something I greatly needed at that time. My right hand is better - although not fully healed yet - and I’m seeing Ghost next week (!!!) and I shall be wearing my self-made shirt. <3

@thebandghostofficial

#PhantomimeUnholyVestments #FroqueYourself #i put a lot of work and love into this one i hope y'all like it aaaah #this is v obviously a birth of venus reference #and also a pun #in a visual way. like. italian renaissance (rebirth) era art parody? i thought it was p damn funny i hope so do y'all :P #this is probably the longest i've ever worked on any drawing (?) and for obvious reasons but it was worth it #my art #my posts #art #ghost fanart #fan art #ghost #ghost b.c.#the band ghost #ghost the band #The Birth of Copia #alt. title:#The Birth of Popia #2023 #20.5.2023 #digital art #let's hope my hand fully stops hurting sometime soon it's been over four months already :(#i'll put a pic of the finished print shirt in a reblog!#anyway!! thank you simon for getting me into ghost!! and the guys from the server for letting me yell about this when it still was a wip aah #anyway that's it i need to go listen to phantomime again now i have such earworms esp of we don't need another hero rn aaah

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murderous-coffeebean · 1 year

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Tiny life update (also re: the Discworld requests from last fall):

I hurt my right hand some two months ago, resulting in pain when moving my thumb, which... uh. Severely restricts my use of it at the time being. I’ve picked up drawing left-handed since and am doing pretty decent for it being my non-dominant hand, but... yeah. While I’m working on something at the moment, I haven’t been able to pick up the requests I was working on before all this happened, so. While I might post some older art in the upcoming weeks/month/s, I might also not post much until I can get this fixed (hopefully soon; please cross your fingers for me, as I have a second doctor’s appointment for this issue next week).

#it is a Struggle #(mostly tbh it is just really painful :/ )#i'm glad i can still work and do a lot of things but fine movements and generally things that require for my thumb to move normally and some #*level of pressure is just Painful up to impossible .-.#so. yeah #here we are #i am hopeful the doctor's appointment next week might give me some insight into what way to go about fixing this #*fingers crossed*#aaaah #the tiny plus side art wise at least is that i'm doing okayish with my left hand so that's been a relief #after 2-3 weeks of not being able to draw i decided just to give it a go and it was the right thing to do #at least one hobby i can still pursue atm #no guitar playing no video games... it's been tiring #so. yeah.#hoping for the best #my posts #//not art #personal #2023 #18.3.2023

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murderous-coffeebean · 1 year

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Surface Light

I did some anatomy drawing practice with the help of YouTube tutorials a while ago and made a sketch I liked so much I ended up digitalizing it. ^^ So here’s a merman (and some fish), looking at the light from above shining through his hands.

#mermen #mermaids #merfolk #art #digital art #my art #my posts #12.2.2023 #2023 #i did this some four weeks ago #and hurt my wrist/thumb joint only a few days after #i've finally started drawing with my non-dominant hand yesterday and that was a good thing to do bc i have so much pent up creative energy #and i haven't been able to draw with my right hand for three weeks now welp #anyway!!#i hope you like my good merman guy i have some headcanons for this character actually so maybe we'll see him again eventually ^^/#water #fish #Surface Light #(also yes his tail is twisted a bit oddly but that's alright)

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murderous-coffeebean · 1 year

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A Night in the Desert

I just really love this Jingo missing scene fic by @asongaboutpirates <3

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murderous-coffeebean · 1 year

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Aschenbrödel | Popelka

It’s that time of the year again and I finally took the time to draw my favourite magical outfit from the movie ❤️❤️❤️❤️

#Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel #Tři oříšky pro Popelku #cinderella #Aschenbrödel #Popelka #art #digital art #my art #my posts #26.12.2022 #2022 #my hand hurts but i think it was worth it aaah #quick shading and all that tho #but whatever #i'm so glad i finally drew this aaah #fan art #aschenbrödel fanart #popelka fanart

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murderous-coffeebean · 1 year

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Aaaaah, thank you so, so much!!! <3333

Happy pride, y’all! 🏳️‍🌈💜

#your tags make ME ridiculously happy!#tysm!!!!#<3333 #badassbiburgerbob #convo tag #my comments #art #fan art #Hogan's Heroes #hogan's heroes fanart #andrew carter #peter newkirk #pride flags #ace!carter #bi!newkirk #my posts #my art #traditional art #2019

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murderous-coffeebean · 1 year

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Semi-closing requests for now, but I’m still working on the ones I already got, I’m just taking some time to work on them <3

Gonna take some Discworld prompts for this color palette challenge, feel free to send me a request if you have one! 😊😄 (As for what characters and ships especially, please check out my tags in the post liked above ^^)

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#i'm two weeks into my new job and it's better than my old one but i'm still kinda tired from the stress that is a new beginning so #taking my time #i've got sketches/drafts/wips for most of the remaining prompts already though #i'll just need a bit longer for them as i'm back to work now #anyway i guess if you have sth particular you just really wanna request anyway... feel free to ask i guess #no promises made but knowing myself i might as well try #<3 #my posts #12.11.2022 #2022 #requests #requests closed #my art #discworld #discworld fanart #art #fan art #//not art

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