#For Fans By Fans

[davekat-sucks]

Oh my goodness! That anon talking about hazbin hotel merch made me realize that Hussie could have made bank if he just made a different Homestuck merch and make almost all the merch line ups limited edition pins. With my own personal experience I can say I’ve seen pins sell well, at times they can sell slow but people are willing to pay premium for them if they’re told “I only have 300 of these and I’m never making them again. When they are gone they are gone.”

Homestuck fans are still obsessed enough with Homestuck to want to buy plushies and pins. This is a self own but if you put some Jade merch in front of me that’s GOOD I’m going to snatch it up like a fish eatting a worm on a fishing line.

This honestly shows me Hussie is really incapable of looking at others successes and taking advice. Homestuck is a BRAND focused on CHARACTERS and it is niche but a content creator can take advantage of that.

They used to have enamel pins and other unique items once upon a time on their old WhatPumpkin Store. However, they stopped producing it because the price for these pins as a set were overpriced and didn't sell enough. $15 fucking dollars for a pin set, even for the simpler smaller ones. Some were able to be reduced to $8 under ForFansByFans, but by then, Homestuck was near the end of its run and nobody cared enough to buy the merch. The Beta Kids one in the first pics were 8 dollars each and $30 if you buy all four. But even then, compared to ones like Helluva Boss or The Amazing Digital Circus, they are at least more reasonable with some having gimmicks (like the Lenticular or locket flip) or special shape designs that need better time to mold and painting. And Glitch Productions is even nice that some aren't that limited time only. But I have no idea if the sales would have been better if it was a limited time offer.

Even for recent times, Hussie or James Roach could use something like this Makeship Campaign plush to sell either Homestuck or Hiveswap related characters, but they aren't doing that either. Not even for YouTooz and their quality for making stuff is cheap as shit. What doesn't help that in one of the ForFansByFans livestreams that used to be streamed on Twitch, they or WhatPumpkin, admitted they lost some of the data files for the merch. So things like outlines about how a plushie should look like or made, the 3D model shape and mold for the Homestuck figures, the images for the shirts/bags/calendars/etc, etc. Most of them had been fan-made, so it will be hard to try and contact the original artists for it. And ones for official like the Homestuck figures, they probably have moved on to greener pastures than to stick around with WhatPumpkin and/or lost file data too. Finally, there's also MOTIVATION that is needed to buy the merch. Homestuck at its state was in Gigapause or near end of its run by the time these merch stuff dropped even after the Kickstarter was funded. Maybe some got tired of waiting for the series to update. Maybe some are unhappy with how the story turned out by the end and didn't think they could support Homestuck because of that. Besides just being able to support small indie creators, does the series make people happy or special that it would give people the energy and effort to go out and buy the merch? Even if you love or hate something too, there should at least have some drive to get people to think about a series. For Homestuck, it's nothing but emptiness.

[notsanguineatall]

You know that person on AO3 you really like? They are insecure.

Maybe they are worried about the thing they posted, about whether it's as good as they wanted it to be or whether anyone would like it. Maybe they wonder if someone out there really got it, or if anyone loves the same stuff about the thing/character/fandom that they do.

Maybe they posted their work to spread some joy to others or hopefully receive some themselves. Maybe they did it because they were having a shitty day or week or life and were hoping that creating and sharing that thing would improve their own day or someone else's.

Maybe creating is hard for them. Maybe creating comes to them as easily as breathing. Either way, they stepped out of that box of insecurity to share their thing with you.

So do them a favor and let them know you saw it and enjoyed it. Hit the kudos button or, better yet, leave a comment. It doesn't have to be a lot of words. It definitely doesn't have to critique their work or complain that you don't like the way they did it.

But if someone shared a thing they made with you and it brought a little positivity to your life, tell them.

[quietsnooze]

Today's repostober is this work I did on designing a dragon plushie for WeLoveFine/For Fans By Fans' officially licensed DnD products. This one was very popular but not feasible with cost, so it was never produced, sadly, but I had fun with the design breakdowns nonetheless.

THIS IS NOT A TUTORIAL! YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO CREATE THIS PLUSHIE! ALL WORK BELONGS TO WOTC.

[tessathegamefreak]

Headcanon Time...

All Wreck-It Ralph AUs/realities can exist on the same Earth with the right conditions!

Okay, so hear me out...

Now, the vast majority of us Wreck-It Ralph fans were not happy with the results of the sequel we got, AND FOR GOOD REASON!

There was so much wrong with the sequel, from inconsistencies with the original story to the sudden throwback in characters. I was so appalled by what we got that I found ways to consider it non-canon; one of these ways went as far as being a headcanon that this sequel was just a really bad fanfiction Candlehead wrote!

Then, there were many people that said, "well, what if this took place in a different arcade?". Now, they might have something there. There was no mention of Turbo in the new movie, the Sugar Rush game console is different, and doppelgangers are a thing, so maybe Litwak is actually a fully different person or a relative that runs a family business. Plus, the Internet is a wide place, so big that there was no way the sequel could capture and depict every part of it, so everything is possible!

But this goes beyond that... I am here to explain how you can fit your AUs into one world on top of this! I will use a couple of examples to give clearer explanations.

So, I have an OC that is from "Kingdom Hearts Union X", a mobile game that was once online- and once so great. If you are familiar with Kingdom Hearts, you know that they are a big crossover between Final Fantasy and Disney franchises, and Union X was the only KH game that has the Wreck-It Ralph world as a playable location. I have integrated my OC into my WIR roleplays numerous times, despite having lived out the events of the movie through her game. But how can that be possible? Doesn't it get awkward that she thinks she has these memories, but the others have no memory of her? Well, I have 2 reach arounds to combat this...

"The Simpsons" explanation! The Simpsons is so well known as a show, but not just for its revolutionary comedy, but for its "predictions"! Now, the farfetched explanation for how they could have so many accurate predictions is that "Matt Groening is a time traveler!". For the plausible explanation though, it could be said that "there are numerous possibilities in the world, and if you throw one out on the media, it is possible that it will come true". So if you were to write a story where you interact with the characters, but the movie already exists, you could explain it lore wise that Disney had bought licensing to these games, made a movie, and the events from that movie became a reality.

[KHUx OC] Coalette's character arc is similar to Buzz Lightyear. She is so ingrained into her false memories that she will eventually have to grow apart from them by interacting with the real characters in front of her. You could write something similar to this where AU characters meet their original counterparts and vice-versa!

Now, that could account for the potential plot hole of the events of the movie happening across multiple coordinates in the world, but you may think that there is another plothole when it comes to connecting AUs: Turbo. How could I possibly explain the same character from the same game getting greedy in the same way and manner across numerous arcades?...

Well, what if I told you my explanation for that was a flaw in Turbo-Time's programming? Think about it, we don't hear much of anything about Turbo in the sequel, not even mentioned or seen as merch or a fan favorite game, or even as a remastered/revival game anywhere on the Internet! You see, Turbo was programmed to be the "#1 racer" ever, and this held true for the first five years in arcade history. When newer, fancier racing games began to come out, Turbo would then feel his programming being challenged, causing him to go berserk and break into other racing games. What if this issue was common amongst ALL Turbo-Time consoles? They would have all been programmed the same way, so the moment arcades took notice to Turbo causing other racing games to crash and become corrupted, a nation-wide recall was issued on the consoles, preventing the game to become known amongst future generations. The surviving Turbos would remain in their arcades, and Turbo-Time would be put away as lost media. His story would only be a tale that those from before 1987 would be able to tell.

And there you have it, my explanation for connecting Wreck-It Ralph AUs and Realities together! Hope you have fun with world lore writing!

[frog-lord]

I made this design for ForFansByFans a couple years ago. Apparently FFbF is shutting down soon.

So if you want to get this on a t-shirt, or check out all of the official made-by-fans merch for lots of different fandoms, now is your chance before it becomes unavailable.

[ligbi]

I hope someone makes a nice beefy youtube video on the history of we love fine/for fans by fans before memory gets too too hazy on how shitty the quality was and how god damn awful they treated their artists

[grandesteartherquakedreamer]

BREAKING NEWS OBEY ME FANDOM: The OBEY ME MEET AND GREET LIVESTREAM RETURNS!

THIS IS NOT A DRILL! Spreading the news, and rejoice! It's gonna on Twitch (of all places) on February 3rd! Not sponsored but as a fan, it must be shared.

[mewharley]

OH???

MY BABIES

WHY IS THE PACKAGE SO DIRTY

THEY JUST THREW IT OUTSIDE MY DOOR 💔

STILL I'M SO HAPPY

I COULDN'T TRACK IT AND THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO LOSE THE PACKAGE 💔💔💔

[whitestorerb]

Long t-shirt for star wars fans, very sarcastic design use the force. Best gift for Dart Vader fans 

[paintedcrows]

Did anyone tell Ford (bonus doodles: Family Movie Night, 70s Classics)

[davekat-sucks]

Remember what you had lost from For Fans By Fans / WeLoveFine since Homestuck merch is ending.

[wetdogblog]

How does tumblr feel about Primrose

(edit: some folks are asking if this is taxidermy. This is a real living dog, I promise)

[quietsnooze]

Did your dragon dice bag ever end up getting made?

Sorry for the delay, I didn't get notified I had a message! But, they did!

In two colours!

The company has gone under since then but I still have a few in my shop for those quick enough to grab their own.

[nerdy-arty]

Venezuelan Miku!!

[vollcorte]

portuguese miku.

[puppyeared]

filipina miku!! my mom helped me with her outfit ^_^