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To make things not confusing for people I’m going to deactivate my redbubble and teepublic accounts. Also T shirt artists really need to band together and start making a T shirt blacklist of sites that do predatory shit like this.

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I found a website where not only was my Porg shirt stolen, but so were T shirts made by fucking THOUSANDS of other artists. My hams are fucking steamed right now and even though they removed my art, I really feel like yelling about their website because this is EXACTLY what is wrong with the t shirt industry right now. Most of my sales get stolen by people stealing my shirts and putting them on their own website. This isn’t fair because me? I’m dirt fucking poor and T shirts are currently my biggest side hustle. I dont even make that much either, but I’d bet my ass, and everyone elses that I’d make a decent amount every month if people weren’t stealing all of my art.

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started working on this again on monday

this is after 8 more hours of progress and I’m pretty sure I’ve already put a good 16 hours on it, so that makes about 24 hours of work so far

still gotta make some small cape adjustments, work on the boots, the gun, and perfect the shading and texturing

plus there’s still a lot of shit to be done with the woodgrain and then figure out WHAT AM I GOING TO DO FOR SOME SWEET BACKGROUND/FOREGROUND ACTION?

oh well I’m sure I’ll figure something out after 8-16 more hours of texturing and shading

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mfw my ex-mentor says she’s great at communication

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oh man I just got this idea what if I made a “shopping” page on my tumblr?

and just like populated it with my products and links to their teespring pages?

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Longbottom leaf, the finest weed in the South Farthing. If you’re a halfling or a wizard at heart, and appreciate a good toke of longbottom leaf, this T-shirt is for you. Buy one for you, a friend, or a family member who has sophisticated taste in pipeweed. Teespring

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Please like my Ohioraptor facebook page! More likes will increase the chances of other people seeing it and liking it too!

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alright maybe this polyphasic thing will happen if I just keep reminding myself that I WILL DIE IN GRAD SCHOOL IN 87 DAYS IF I DONT GET THE SHIT TOGETHER

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Had good experiences with variants on everyman sort of schedules, and with have 10 hour shifts at work MWF that might be what works best still kind of working on it though. I’ll post a thing once I brainstorm a sleep schedule that works for all days of the week though and HOPEFULLY ITS CONSISTENT?

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So uh, a little background.

Desperate times come with some pretty desperate measures. Basically, we got hired on as a temp at the same place that we’ve been at for four years, which to a lot of peeps would be great. Don’t get us wrong, we’re glad to have the money. But... research isn’t my thing, it’s Geno’s thing. I just want to do art, and to be honest, we’re both pretty sick of the rat race we’re stuck in. Plugging away 40 hours of our life every week on a job that I hate, and research that Geno isn’t passionate about is pretty soul-sucking. That, and I’m literally stuck in an environment with a mentor who I’ve realized was, unintentionally or not, kind of abusive to me. That, and there’s someone else in the same workplace who was also abusive. Though we don’t directly work with these peeps anymore, we still have to see them every day, and in the case of my mentor, staying in this career means she will follow us for the rest of our life. That is fucking terrifying. I have PTSD reactions around both of these people, and it isn’t healthy for me to stick around. Especially since my mentor constantly talks to me and calls me her “pawn” and continues to try to manipulate me. Like uh, NO THANK YOU I DIDNT FUCKING ORDER ANY OF THIS. I have 87 days to find a way out, because after that point it becomes significantly more difficult to leave because of political work stuff. So, desperate times, desperate measures. With all that on our mind, our best chance for an escape button is going back to polyphasic sleeping, and putting in as much time as possible on my T-shirt stores and hoping that I can start making a living (or better??) off of T-shirts and our other side hustles. We need to get the fuck out of our current career, and escape the people who have treated us like shit.

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Updated my tumblr theme, and added links to my stores. I’ll be tagging all of my T-shirt plugs with #mymerch fyi

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so uh

moteefe not only has really great profit margins

but they also have more products, and better products than teespring

only problem is I can’t figure out how to get it to display all prices as USD

and also I’d need to make a storefront that has its own hosting

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I think the answer to my question is either go full time TeeSpring or use Moteefe

or maybe both I don’t know

both websites seem a lot less takedown happy and thats all that matters to me

so I’ll probably start with dusting off my teespring site

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on another note at least TeePublic seems to respect fan artists and not throw us under a bus

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So, I need some advice Redbubble took down a design that I had marked as PRIVATE for copyright infringement. Which... like, nobody could even buy it so why even do this? At this point, I kind of don’t want to use Redbubble anymore. All of my fan art related designs (which is everything that will be sold by my Ohioraptor handle) is going to get taken down by them and I’ll eventually be banned. So, short of paying money for a Shopify account (which I cant justify until I’m making more than $30 a month consistently), or surviving off of TeePublic’s really small profit margins, does anyone know of any fan art friendly POD websites that I could put my work on?

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