#and the point of patreon would be like

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First, I absolutely love your illustration style you did for #spnfanart with the soft rounded facial / body features. I think it adds to the overall softness of destiel. Second, I hope I'm not overstepping by asking this question, but do you take patrons, e.g., anyone that would like to give a few bucks to support your art. Thanks!! :D

howdy! thank you so much for your kind words! i know my style has shifted a bit [actually going back to how i used to draw] so thank you!

and you're not overstepping! once i'm done with my portfolio [which hopefully will be soon] i may open up commissions. depending on how the world of social media goes, I have been debating a Patreon, not one with expensive tiers, just so i can concentrate my work and maybe do some videos and tutorials on stuff and what not.

but that's planning i gotta do and my first thing i gotta do is finish my portfolio so i can start applying for some work haha

thank you! <3 I have a couple printable coloring books up on my Etsy, but they're the round-nose style!

i'm also considering redrawing a destiel huevember challenge i did years ago for another coloring book so - i will announce here whenever that happens! I'm hoping by March, everything can get set up!

i'm always nervous doing this bc idk how many people would actually be interested in it lmao

[defiledtomb]

Got news today that there's a STRONG chance I get the apartment I've been hunting if I can just get the deposit together until November 1st. And it's not impossible to do so. Y'all I'm sobbing with joy. This would mean everything to me, I can't even articulate it. AAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaayayayayayayayayayaysjdjdhdjdjfkdkfjfj !!!!!!!!!!!!

[deoidesign]

Designing patron stickers is the highlight of the month

[coochiekrab]

i cant believe im going on 4 years of not making my christmas comic. i cant believe the script has been sitting on my computer half written for 4 years

[tangledinink]

clenches fist. finally sucked it up and ordered a new ipad...

[sidesteppostinghours]

HE WHAT.

[molagboop]

What would people actually like to see from my Patreon? I've hit a bit of a wall IRL and want to implement more incentives for folks to join, but I also don't want to offer something that no one's interested in.

I'm mostly doing my own thing, and have considered selling merch, but there's also that anxiety associated with interest/cost of production. I have decent skill in ceramic work, so if I had geographically convenient access to a kiln, I'd be able to do more with that. I miss working with clay and could never get into the polymer stuff.

This isn't like a life or death situation: I'm not exactly well off financially, but the straits aren't horrifically dire yet. I have a decent living situation: the folks here are great. Patreon and Ko-fi are mostly something I do on the side at the moment, but if y'all have any suggestions, I'll look into providing it.

[dykesapphics]

The only bad part about Mabel is that the fandom is like 20 people which means there's no fun analysis posts, and new fanart comes once in a blue moon, so it's difficult to try to join fandom activities when it feels so dead

[thisismeracing]

hi friend, you still have the potential to be sued here in the US, even if you’re not using images. That’s a big part of why authors likes Anna Todd, scrubbed After (with all references to Harry’s name) from the internet when she started charging for it and before any publication would take an interest. (Before anyone comes for me, I’m sure the original has been saved by some third part somewhere. This is the internet after all. But the point remains if she were to be sued, she is able to claim that she did her due diligence by removing any and all content with any reference to Harry Styles from the internet BEFORE she received any payment.) The US is currently starting to crack down on copyright and intellectual property infringement. In large part due to the fact that so many people have received huge payouts over the last ten years. Unfortunately they’re not choosing to go after the ones that have actually gotten rich from the issue. And while the drivers might not care. Their management most certainly will. If you’re choosing to charge for your fiction it might be best to at the very least change names so you might have some form of deniability.

this was an interesting ask, thanks for the heads up again!

I'm not trying to go against your word, but rather wondering about the topic myself because it seems to me it's a huge gray area, so feel free to reach me on my private messages or on anon again if you want. But speaking about Anna Todd, technically she could still be sued even after scrubbing Harry's name from the story because there was still proof on the internet that it was a story about him, if we're talking about defamation it doesn't need to involve the monetization aspect, it's still defamation without it. This would mean that ANY RPF fanfiction is illegal and could be sued (which is not necessarly the case because theres the whole fair use thing).

We're talking about huge payouts, but I'm getting less than fifty dollars a month with Patreon lol would their team really come for me (a poor grad student) on behalf of a billionaire for getting less than fifty dollars a month to help pay school and medical bills? this would need a huge pr work too to make them seem good after doing something so crazy like this.

Talking about defamation, let's say I change names, but this Tumblr would still be up and everything else would easily show that it's about pilot X, this could still be considered illegal because you can tell who it is about. The reason why nobody comes for rpf is because 1) the money people are talking about is just a few bucks most of the time, and 2) it's exactly this real people's FICTION, there's not much to talk about defamation of a worldwide artist when the content you're sharing is for a nich of less than one hundred people, it's not reasonable. I haven't found a past decision about something similar in the US court, if there is, please send it in, but other than that it's a huge speculation thing in my head, which only a judge could clarify.

Patreon and monetizing fanfiction is quite common in fandoms like Chris Evans', for example, and I haven't seen anything legal come from it yet. again because it's unreasonable for those artists to go after their own fans for taking less than a hundred dollars in content that clearly sets a fictional character that just happens to look and have the same name as them because more often than not it's set in an alternative universe.

[vacantgodling]

what if i made a patreon next year…

[codgod-archive]

OH I GUESS I MEANT RIPTIDE LMAO. I've seen some of your apothy stuff!!! - same anon

it’d be kinda crazy if i didn’t listen to riptide at all and just signed up for the patreon and solely listened to the campaigns there

[satansfreshhottiddymilk]

Heyy you've probably been asked this before but do you have a patreon? I don't have twitter am not interested in signing up while it's exploding but I would love to see the dicks you draw

HONESTLYYY as much as i feel guilty of the thought of ppl paying to look at my shit, with how twitter (that stupid fuck changed it to just X now for reasons only jackasses would get ig) is going down the shitter and since twitters the only place to really post this stuff anymore i miiiight consider making a patreon?? for safe keeping at least maybe ill just charge like 1$ or something For Now lmfao maybe more but i rlly gotta convince myself 🤔 but yeah its kinda on the table at this point!

[eliotquillon]

if house md were running in 2024 there would be an episode with a patient who identifies as an ‘online content creator’ (cagily) where house agrees to take the case primarily because when he offhandedly refers to her as an onlyfans model both cameron and cuddy get really offended and say it’s a sexist assumption so he doubles down and becomes committed to finding the patient’s onlyfans and proving it. at some point it would be revealed that chase actually is an onlyfans model and started doing it as a stopgap after his dad died and he suddenly got disinherited but he makes so much money off it that now medicine is basically just a hobby. cameron and foreman both disagree with the concept online sex work but it turns out they disagree for different reasons (cameron thinks it’s exploitative and not-feminist, foreman finds it distasteful and thinks people should get ‘real jobs’) and spend most of their scenes together arguing about this while chase gets continually more shifty. they break into the patient’s house and there’s a full ringlight and camera setup which seems to confirm house’s suspicions. while trying to find the patient’s onlyfans house accidentally finds chase’s onlyfans instead and considers publicly embarrassing him about it like he did with wilson’s sex tape but soon realises that most of the staff at the hospital are already subscribed to chase’s onlyfans so makes fun of him for that instead. it then transpires that the reason why the patient is so cagey about being a content creator is that she’s an ASMR artist and all the soap she’s been shaving on camera has irritated her lungs. cuddy is about to make house give her 20 extra hours of clinic duty as recompense but at last minute it’s revealed that the website the patient uses for some of her bonus commissions is, drumroll…onlyfans, because she’s been banned from patreon. how does house know this? wilson is subscribed to her because the soap videos sometimes soothe him to sleep. something by cigarettes after sex plays. roll end credits.

[honestlyvan]

The main feature apps like this offer are QOL improvements like different layouts, fonts, reading statistics and timers, and the aforementioned download features that are already a part of Ao3.

And if you want to use an app for those features -- honestly, I don't see why not? But be aware that Ao3 supports user-created skins that can look like literally anything you want (and although you do have to know enough CSS to make a theme yourself, lots of fans out there make AO3 skins just for fun -- you just gotta talk to one of them to ask how to make the changes you'd prefer and most likely they're happy to help out) and there are userscripts that act as site extensions that provide all those features and more (with, again, people actively developing them that you can ask help from to write your own if you don't like any of the ones available)

If you don't want the hassle of finding this stuff out or talking to people to ask for these features, you do you I guess. But don't ever pay money for one of these apps, no matter what it does. If it's showing you adds, if it's asking you to buy it, DO NOT, they're asking you to pay for features other fans have already provided for free through other methods.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

WHO IS USING THIS

AN APP??? THEY HAVE A FUNCTIONING WEBSITE

THE LAST FUNCTIONING WEBSITE

[punkyhunk]

i never thought I'd feel this way but literally what's it all for.... can barely pick up a pencil without thinking about how futile it all feels -- am i ever gonna make a book or a comic or an exhibition without feeling like it's just another contribution to the slop that we chew up every day....

[sasharacket]

Was trying to figure out what TMA special had Jonny (and Alex?) talking about House of Leaves and I'm just.....really missing that community atm.