#it’s not actually a postage stamp

[kiellustrations]

Stamp numero uno!! Quackity

Inspired by Mexican Stamp (below), I’m already working on the other stamps in the collection, hope you like it!

[andy-clutterbuck]

7x12 | Say Yes

[18cents]

people's republic of china: industry and agriculture (1977)

[vamprisms]

love a friendly supermutant. where's my friendly supermutant behemoth companion todd

[sinni-ok-sessi]

I'm normally pretty fastidious but there comes a certain point in a task where you're so ready for it to be Done that you'll lie down in the dirt to do it

relatedly, I am going to be picking twigs and stuff out of my hair for the rest of the week after painting the raised planter

[chipped-chimera]

A 'good' dash pirate-clown: OFMD got a new season announced, show that is arguably more relevant to tumblr fandom, not my show, haven't watched it but lets go gays! Love that for us.

The actual, bad dash pirate-clown: More-One-Piece-Netflix-Advertising-Masquerading-As-Content-On-My-Dash :|

anyways -

And for those with uBlock who just want the filter -

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[mycosylivingroom]

[its0knot2be0k]

I love my trippy tatoo. PEACE&LOVE ✌️🍄

*sad poetry *

I prefer bruises.

I prefer internal strokes.

I prefer chronic pain.

Pouring boiling water.

I prefer to forge the skin with skewers, or rip it off in a frenzy with short nails.

I prefer to slap myself.

I shafts from helplessness with my head against the wall.

I BANG MY HEAD AGAINST THE WALL!!!!!!!!!!.

.

I hit the wall...

.

Forehead.

.

I have bruises on my hands from blows.

My head is all in hematomas.

My blood rustles in my ears and my eyes swell.

I don't have the balls to cut myself.

I like it when there is no trace and you can not see after me.

It used to work.

My anger at me knows no bounds.

My anger knows no mercy.

[pluralsword]

Image description 1 of 4: Legacy Prime Arcee, S86 Arcee, and BBM Arcee facing off against Cyberverse Warrior Dead End, WFC Nova Storm and Acid Storm, Cyclonus, Nightbird, and Vertebreak in front of a night-time  scifi polityscape backdrop. Everyone either has blasters in hand or on their shoulders pointed down, tense and waiting for someone to fire, and melee weapons projected from the forearms (Legacy Arcee, who also has 3d print arm blasters based on the ones she had in Prime) or held in hand (Cyclonus and Nightbird with swords, Vertebreak with her bone tail sword thing). Siege Megatron is walking away with an arm outstretched towards the warriors and looking at a flustered arms raised Starscream as if to say 'deal with this.' End image description.

Image description 2 of 4: The three Arcees charge guns raised. Dead End has fallen onto a downed Acid Storm, both with blast effect explosions in their torsos, Vertebreak and Nightbird back stepping to avoid the two's fall. Nova Storm staggers, null ray shoulder rifles not quite raised. Cyclonus has his sword over his shoulder and blaster pointed at BBM Arcee, who is looking up, having noticed... as has S86 Arcee, who is already moving one of her pistol hands back towards one of her back stacks holding a 3d print sword hilt inside. Starscream meanwhile has null rays readied and has drawn two swords. Megatron has already left. End image description.

Don't have Authentics Arcee but thought this action sequence was suitably badass for the three other 1st party transforming Arcees who released this year. A big win, imo. A little bit of tall Arcee in the fourth panel ahead, we didn't notice her spine unfolding, ha! 

You do want to know how the battle goes, yeah? Keep reading.

Image description 3 of 4: The charge of the Autobot trio continues- S86 Arcee stands over Nova Storm, her drawn energy blade in front of Cyclonus's gun barrel to block the shot towards where BBM Arcee used to be standing- who is now in the middle, joining pistol fire with her sword wielding ally into Cyclonus's shoulders with blast effects to denote the shots, and she is also firing at an advancing NIghtbird. In the foreground, Legacy Prime Arcee clambers over Dead End and Acid Storm, her blaster having just fired point blank into the torso of a now about to fall Vertebreak who is landing a blow on her shoulder- while Legacy Arcee deliver another point blank shot with a blast effect into Starscream's waist, who in turn is firing a close range shot into her back... End image description.

Image description 4 of 4: All the remaining Decepticons except Nightbird and Starscream are down on the ground. Starscream is limping away, clutching his waist wound, while S86 Arcee steps off Nova Storm, her sword's fiery blade turned off, and a free hand extended to Nightbird, who has dropped her sword, and holding her blue blast bleeding right forearm. Meanwhile, BBM Arcee catches a stumbling Legacy Prime Arcee who has fallen backwards, her motorcycle windshield and armor blasted off her back armlet bleeding with a pink blast effect, and her left arm Vertebreak struck hangs down with her energy blade gone. End image description.

Someday when we have the money we want to get more blast effects entirely to play around with both shots and blood and also engine thrusters- we could be doing this digitally (and intend to) but there’s something about doing it by hand and finding unintended ways to make it work that is fun. :3

[elliottkay]

Holy shit. Actual, real, USPS Dungeons & Dragons postage stamps.

I know D&D is well into mainstream cultural acceptance already and has been for years, but like... I remember the Satanic Panic. I grew up playing amid all that trash.

This simultaneously feels like No Big Deal while also dancing on the Satanic Panic's grave. It feels huge because it's so mundane.

[televinita]

*eyeballs etsy listing* I desperately need to know what makes a single cardstock bookmark cost $4.72 to ship within the U.S.

[pompouspuffball]

Went to a Japanese Cultural Festival on my city the other day! (or earlier. It's a multi-day event)

It was a lot of fun!!! I went with my friends the first day! We went around the festival the whole day! I got a lot of goodies! My favorite is my Yor phone strap, a postage stamp (from a mini-event), and a sticker set!

[andy-clutterbuck]

8x01 | Mercy

[netherworldpost]

With the various rumors and releases of Tumblr possibly changing how they do things... (gestures to the vague rumor mill)...

Zines.

I really think we as Folks Who Make Things and Folks Who Like Art Writing Poetry Music Comics Other Things need to explore zines. And I mean ZINES. Nothing glossy. Nothing fancy.

Very. Cheap. Zines.

I've been threatening mentioning I was going to create a guide on how I'm going to approach this -- and I'm going to -- but I am also realizing in the writing I Do Things Highfalutin because I am who I am + had a career in graphic design.

Let's talk about how you can make a zine very cheaply and very pretty.

STEP ONE: SUPPLIES

Very bright paper. I like "Astrobrights" because they are absurdly bright. Here is a link in a store I like. I buy a lot of paper and envelopes from them. You can generally find Astrobrights in big box office stores. It prints on laser printers and ink jet and photocopiers.

Very bright envelopes. What's that? Astrobrights has envelopes?! AM I SOLVING PROBLEMS let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Letter paper is 8.5" x 11" and is the most common size in the united states (overseas folk will have to use this advice with a grain o'sea salt and search yer own waters).

A9 envelopes are a letter sheet folded in half.

A2 envelopes are a letter sheet folded in half, then folded in half.

#10 envelopes are your common long envelopes, letter paper folded in thirds.

Pick the size you like.

If you want to get big and fancy, Tabloid is 17" x 11" -- so double a letter sheet. This gets tricky to work with but is neat in sizing.

STEP TWO: ZINE CONTENT

Do you know how to use InDesign or similar program? Use that.

No? Use Google Docs or Word or whatever other program and ramble.

Want something special? Write out some or part with a sharpee or pen.

Mix and match both.

If you are feeling fancy, design it like a booklet -- mock up a sheet of blank paper as if it were a brochure. If not, just design it straight up and down like a letter. There are no zine laws.

STEP THREE: ZINE PRINTING

Print at home on your home printer.

Don't have a printer at home? Print it at work (don't get fired)

Can't? Your local library may be able to help.

You need 1 copy on white paper.

FedEx Office has photocopiers. Your local library may too. Or your job.

Print 1 copy of your zine on white paper and then photocopy the rest onto colorful paper (or white paper, it be yer zine seadog).

Or print everything on the color paper if you have access to free printing, that's fine too.

The photocopy setup is purely "printing tends to cost more than photocopying."

If you want to slash prices, print 2 per sheet and have FedEx office cut them for you, this will cost $1 - $5 depending on how many sheets you are dealing with. This is for when you're doing a LOT of zines at once.

Or use their manual paper cutter yourself for free.

STEP FOUR: ZINE STAPLING

"Long reach stapler" is what I recommend. There are a few varieties. They tend to be $20 - $30.

Or just use 1 sheet!

STEP FOUR: ZINE POSTAGE

A single first class stamp for 1-2 pages. If you get up to 3+, go to the post office and ask them to weigh a comp you have assembled.

This is a guideline.

It's a really good idea to check at least once how much your zine weighs just in general. Post offices have scales. And are pretty. And have stamps.

OKAY ENOUGH LUSTING FOR THE POST OFFICE FROM THE GHOTS POST OFFICE BLOG BACK TO WORK

STEP FIVE: ZINE MAILING

This is actually the most difficult part. Label printers exist with various costs -- if you're starting out? Go with printable labels.

Your office supply shop will have them and they'll have templates you can drop in the customer addresses.

Save yourself time by using this label as the thing that seals the envelope -- don't lick envelopes.

A key tenet to staying in business is constantly reviewing physical (and mental) labor and stressors and reducing them as much as possible.

Return address labels are intensely cheap in literally every online printer, google "return address labels." Make sure you have this because at least a few of your shipments will come back to you.

STEP SIX: ZINE PRICING

Okay here is where we get uncomfortable because we're talkin' coins.

Prices are based on above links. You can get whatever paper you want, so this is guidelines. All numbers rounded up.

Payment processing ($0.30) + $0.05 sheet + $0.15 envelope + $0.66 first class postage = $1.16 base cost

$1.16 + 2.9% of $1.16 payment processing = $1.20

Plus taxes. I'm not getting into tax figures YOU DO THAT (just say 30% for easy math, this is not saying "your taxes are 30% or that mine are" I am saying "I am going to factor 30% for this equation to complete this guide".)

I did not include the mailing label (it will be $0.01 - $0.05 depending on how fancy and how many you buy) because you have the option to just write things and also it fits into the rounding of the above.

If you use Patreon, include your fees. Probably replace the above processing fees with your patreon processing... fees? I don't use patreon I don't know how it works.

Retail option 01: $1.50 - 1.20 = $0.80 gross - 30% = $0.09 / net / zine.

Retail option 02: $2 - 1.20 = $0.80 gross - 30% = $0.56 / net / zine.

Retail option 03: $3 - 1.20 = $1.80 gross - 30% = $1.26 / net / zine.

Should it be $1.50? Should it be $3.00? MORE? LESS?! That is for you to decide. Base it on what your zine contains, how long it takes you to write/draw/etc. it and how you want your flow to be.

STEP SEVEN: ZINE FREQUENCY

When my shop launches, it'll have a zine once a month. We are going to offer a subscription option + a "I just want 1" option.

You can do a zine monthly, or every few months, or whatever.

Keep in mind that the purpose of doing this is to break the dependency on social media marketing.

KEEP IN MIND AS AN AUDIENCE MEMBER TO A CREATOR YOU LIKE THAT THEY ARE DOING THIS TO BREAK THEIR DEPENDENCY ON SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING.

If you have a lot of energy and an audience that comes to your shop a lot? Consider doing a zine monthly.

If you do not have a lot of energy and/or your audience is tapped for cash frequently? Considering doing 1 zine per season.

Consider 2 zines a year if that works better for you!

NO RULES ONLY JOY

Not sure? Experiment! Be upfront! "This is new. I'm figuring this out. Billionaires are tinkering with these things and we gotta figure something else out."

BONUS STEP: NETHERWORLDPOST.COM

so hi I'm atty and I'm your loud long rambler today

Netherworld Post Office used to be @evilsupplyco and now we are rebranding in prep of relaunching. Same person behind the rambles and comics, new name with a more focus (mail instead of mail + seemingly everything else in experiment)

if you enjoyed this ramble and/or like ghosts, monsters, witches, mermaids, and fun stories and projects focused on cozy Halloween, you may like us when we finish the rebranding and relaunching in autumn 2023.

email sign up (the zine will come when we are open)

WHETHER YOU JOIN MY LIST OR NOT

I really, really, really hope you consider doing a regular, or irregular, zine. Something outside of email, something outside of social media, something that connects I MADE A WEIRD THING and the people who say I LOVE THIS WEIRD THING YOU MADE.

The walls are closing in on free social media as a platform for people who make weird things to build audiences for free or very cheap.

And with that...

netherworldpost.com as one final hat pass

good luck folks

thanks for listenin' to the ol' ghost

[kittensnax]

I wanted to make a meme about pokemon gsc but realized all the screenshots are in actual gameboy resolution so enjoy my postage stamp

[ineffable-endearments]

Hello, everyone!

In light of Neil Gaiman's comment that Amazon is close to officially renewing Good Omens but hasn't done so yet, I think those of us who can should start sending physical postcards to Amazon Studios!

The TL;DR of this post is that you can easily send a postcard from MyPostcard.com for about $3 (USD, I'm sure other currencies can vary). The Web site will print and mail it for you, so you don't have to do any printing or mailing yourself. The postage is included in the $3.

If you don't already have an image or card you want to use, you can just use one of mine above. Some of them are small because of small source images, but the site seems to resize them appropriately for the card. There are bigger versions in a Google Drive folder that you shouldn't have to be logged in to see.

You can send the postcards asking for a third season of Good Omens addressed to Jennifer Salke and Vernon Sanders, co-heads of Amazon Studios, at:

AMAZON STUDIOS 1620 26TH STREET, SUITE 4000N SANTA MONICA, CA 90404 USA

@fuckyeahgoodomens was the first to post this contact information for Amazon, so thank you, Ixi.

If it's something you don't mind, I would very deeply appreciate reblogs on this, since it works better if lots of people see it! No pressure if you don't want to, though.

And if you have Questions, click through below for my reasoning on all this.

Why should we send postcards to Amazon Studios?

We've made lots of noise online about renewal, and we've done a lot of streaming Good Omens. But I haven't seen much discussion of sending physical mail or, specifically, postcards.

Mail takes up space in the real world. It's slightly harder to ignore than email. It's way more attention-grabbing than posts on X or Tumblr or any other social media site. Because postage is required, physical mail can also appear more "committed."

Postcards specifically are great because of their convenience for the recipient. No one has to open them to read them. All it takes is a quick glance to see what we're asking for, and realistically, a quick glance is the best we can ask for in a corporate office. That's why I'm emphasizing postcards over regular letters (although really, anything helps).

Is sending postcards really going to motivate Amazon to make more Good Omens?

Postcard and letter-writing campaigns have helped get shows renewed in the past. Star Trek: The Original Series is a good example of a series that got another season after a letter-writing campaign. This article has more examples.

We don't actually know what's going on in Good Omens's case. Maybe postcards would make a difference; maybe they wouldn't. We can only make our most determined effort at making sure we're heard, and sending mail is part of that.

The cost of sending a postcard is too much for me.

I understand that sending a postcard will not be an option for many of us. This post isn't intended to try to push you into spending money you don't have. If you still want to find a way to participate, you can also send an email to cs-reply@amazon.com with your comments about wanting Good Omens 3. It's not physical mail, but it is still a personal message from a customer.

In fact, people who are sending postcards might want to follow up with an email, too.

Do we have to use your postcard designs?

No! Not necessarily! You can use anything.

As long as the message you write includes how much you want Good Omens 3, your postcard's image doesn't necessarily have to relate. You could send a souvenir postcard that says "Greetings from Los Angeles, CA / Tadfield, England / etc" from your local post office and just write your message on the back.

Technically, even a plain index card should be thick enough to mail as a postcard, at least by USPS standards. Just write your desire for Good Omens 3 on it, put a stamp and Amazon's address on it, and make sure it's at least 90mm x 127mm (3.5in x 5in).

Isn't Amazon Studios going to notice a bunch of postcards being mailed from the same Web site?

I'm sure they will. But the messages will each be unique, and again, they'll know each card represents a person who had to order the card and postage themselves.

Speaking of unique messages, what should I write?

One sentence is enough. Definitely indicate that you want Season 3 of Good Omens. If you want to add more, you could also write a sentence or two about how much you love the series so far.

Above all, be polite and straightforward! Remember that sarcasm and jokes often do not come across well in print, so it may be best to stick with simple statements that can be taken at face value.

What address should the cards go to?

The co-heads of Amazon Studios appear to be Vernon Sanders and Jennifer Salke; you can address them by name, although I'm guessing it will be someone else who does the reading/glancing.

Amazon Studios's address is:

AMAZON STUDIOS 1620 26TH STREET, SUITE 4000N SANTA MONICA, CA 90404 USA

Where did you get these images?

The images for the nightingale postcard and the Crowley postcard are screencaps from directedbypiper.

The Please Do Not Lick the Walls and Fell the Marvelous posters were downloads from the Amazon X-Ray feature.

The Nice and Accurate Prophecies postcard was adapted from cover art I did for A Nice and Interpretive Fanzine. Most of it is my own, although the mottled background is an extremely blurred version of a free stock texture from Pixabay, users chrisfiedler and/or humusak.

The bookshop postcard is a promotional image from Amazon used in a Den of Geek article.