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psychmerchant · 4 days
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hey remember months ago when i very un-subtly alluded to making some disney-princess-themed stickers?
[Princess Stamps on Redbubble]
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psychmerchant · 13 days
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yet more of my mha/bnha works on redbubble have been taken down, once again despite being up for over a year :( i guess crunchyroll has been cracking down / narrowing the parameters of what they’ll allow, so i’ve decided to just take down the entire collection
this hawks card was my favourite of the whole bunch, though, so i’m putting it here so yous can all still see it :)
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psychmerchant · 14 days
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i had a lot of fun with the ‘clothbound classics’ stickers i made, and decided to branch out! these aren't precisely ‘classic’ novels (though i would argue the hunger games is a sufficiently biting social commentary that it will, with time, become one) but i like them, and i thought they’d look good in the same style
[Clothbound Classics on RedBubble]
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psychmerchant · 20 days
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i was saving these for the announcement of v10, but given the recent news... well.
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psychmerchant · 21 days
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i haven't seen the new netflix adaptation yet, but the fandom renaissance still got me
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psychmerchant · 1 month
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i recently fell in love with coralie bickford-smith’s penguin clothbound classics series, and upon seeing some of my favourite books haven’t been (or at least, have yet to be) redesigned in this really slick, symbolic style, i decided to take a crack at them myself!
[Clothbound Classics on RedBubble]
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psychmerchant · 1 month
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redbubble stop nerfing my mha works challenge 2k24 [FAILED]
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psychmerchant · 3 months
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hey! two years on i still think this piece is actually pretty cute!!
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psychmerchant · 3 months
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Hello, I'm in love with your work 🥰
Do you happen to know if redbubbles charges customs fees/ taxes to ship things to europe ?? 🥺🥺
Hopefully it's not too much 🥺🥰Love your drawings either way
hey there! i’m really flattered you like my designs 🥰 though i admit i’m not an expert in shipping/customs regulations
from what i can see on redbubble’s information pages, they’ll refund you if you get charged customs tax, and whether you get charged customs depends on what item you order, because they’re printed and shipped from different places
if you’re ordering stickers (which is the item i sell most on redbubble), they’re printed in the EU when they’re being shipped to the EU (as well as printed in the UK when being shipped to the UK), so i don’t think you would be charged customs, only shipping
hope this helps!!
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psychmerchant · 4 months
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thinking about the rise in ai ‘art’ in relation to my job is a strange feeling.
i ghostwrite for a publishing company. i write books that get published on amazon as e-books with pen names. i know several of the pen names used by this specific company, and all of them have dozens of books attributed to them, like you look at this for five minutes and it becomes obvious that none of these people are real because no one can churn out an ~80k book every week.
and it’s a little annoying because the demographic the company works towards is young adult men, so it’s a lot of big-breasted women who think Main Character Man is the best thing ever, some elements of the power fantasy are a little cringe and eye-rolling, but it’s also a really fun job. i get to think up plots that are a bit goofy and a bit over-the-top and i write those books and they get read and reviewed and i get paid to write them.
there is a lot wrong with this way of writing, of treating a book like something to be churned out on a tight schedule with little-to-no chance for revision and refinement. if i had full creative control, i would change a lot about the series i am currently writing, even though i created it and i do have a decent amount of creative control already! it’s far from perfect, but i’m also just starting out in this sector and the pay is pretty decent. i’m lucky to even be working in a job in my desired sector.
but the key thing for me is, i’m employed. i’m being paid to write this stuff because even though i’m on a tight schedule that means my first idea is generally what gets done, that i don’t have a chance to let things mull over and get really good, that i’m required to include X and Y and Z to appeal to this very specific demographic i’m writing for, i am in a job i like in the industry i want to work in. a creative industry no less, in a company that, on the outside, would seem like it would jump at the chance to fully automate the process and just shove in some prompts to a text generator and get a full-length book in a fraction of the time without having to pay writers and editors. but they haven’t. even the company i’m working at, which does treat books as very commercial, need-to-be-churned-out-quick-to-make-a-profit piece of content to be consumed, they’re not using ai. they understand human creativity, even on this compressed schedule, is incomparable, and irreplicable.
so i am very confident ai will die. the death might be slow, but it will be embarrassing. and hopefully, people will realise why using ai generators is bad. it’s not just stealing from real creatives (because how else do they train the algorithms without masses of pre-existing data) but because it lacks creativity. all an ai can do is predict, based off a prompt, where something is most likely to go, which word is most likely to come next. you get the lowest common denominator of any potential creative output. and even when my work is rushed, when i can’t let ideas sit for weeks, months, or even longer, i know it’s far, far better than that. and so is every writer’s. so is every artist’s.
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psychmerchant · 4 months
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redbubble stop nerfing my mha works challenge 2k23 [FAILED]
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psychmerchant · 5 months
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psychmerchant · 5 months
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several of my mha tarot cards have been taken down :(
they’d all been up for over a year, so i don’t know why they’re only just now being flagged, but it’s still a bummer. i thought i’d post them here though so yous can still see what they looked like!
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psychmerchant · 5 months
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this blog is 3 years old today!! 🎉
admittedly, it might not seem like there’s three years of content on here, but you know how life has a tendancy of getting in the way, and i like to think i have a decently-sized portfolio!
anyway, i had a look through said portfolio just because i was curious whether one major arcana card appeared in every set, and apparently not—however, the magician comes closest at ten out of twelve! (every set except w.i.t.c.h. and voltron)
most of the other major arcana only show up in about six sets, so it’s probably no surprise that the magician is my favourite card in the suit. i don’t really believe in tarot as a predictive medium, but the aesthetic rocks, and the archetype of someone who will rise to meet new opportunities and can weather any obstacle with a can-do attitude and a sharp mind really appeals to me
which version of the magician is your favourite?
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psychmerchant · 6 months
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i had to make a second tav because my first, celeste, stole the druids’ statue without googling anything (why would i google anything?? i don’t want to be spoiled! this game has so many options!!) and triggered a massacre of the tiefling refugees, kicking me into an evil playthrough and resulting in me having to kill karlach 😭😭
so to answer your question, no i don’t game much
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psychmerchant · 8 months
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they’re on a date
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psychmerchant · 9 months
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catch me playing copyright dodgems with disney for my new sticker set, featuring such tiktok-ified bullshit such as ‘εlsa’ and ‘cindereiia’
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