#the struggles of small business..

[shopwitchvamp]

We're doing our best!! Thank you for understanding 🥲!

[ilta222]

commissions open! reblogs super appreciated <3

[hedgehog-moss]

I want to know all the scandalous gossips of your village. Is that weird?

It's understandable! I'm not into gossip except when it's animal-related but as a frequent library-goer (a place mainly frequented by elderly women) I end up overhearing a lot of stuff and some of it is somewhat fascinating.

One of my favourite pieces of local gossip is about the Cursed Inn—not the main street inn which is very loved as are its owners, but another inn just outside the village, whose owners keep changing and always seem to meet a tragic end. There have been drownings, kitchen-related accidents (? I don't know), incredibly dramatic divorces, the Fire of 1982, and so on, but the inn is very well-situated (on a hilltop so all the rooms have amazing views) so it always finds new owners.

The new buyers never believe locals about the curse, of course. The people who currently run the inn bought it just before covid started (which is obviously curse-related) (well, people aren't claiming the global pandemic was caused by this modest local curse in the French countryside but you have to admit the timing is suspect), and their son's bakery in another village has recently gone out of business, which is obviously due to the fact that his relatives run the cursed inn. Why else would a bakery go out of business.

Anyway—why is the inn cursed? Because it was built with Resistance money. During WWII, Allied forces would sometimes parachute coffers of money in specific locations for resistants in the mountain maquis, to buy weapons and supplies for sabotage operations, etc, and one day this random cow herder in the village suddenly had enough money to buy this nice plot of land and start building an inn. Everyone strongly suspected he'd stumbled upon some of that parachuted money while herding his cows, and most locals shunned him and his inn (though it still prospered thanks to tourists.) The guy ended up hanging himself for unrelated reasons (family drama) (but still), then the next owners went bankrupt after trying and failing to start an additional fruit tree business on the property. Locals didn't dislike the new owners, who weren't related to the original one, but the reaction was along the lines of "of course they went bankrupt, no one's going to prosper in that place" because of cosmic justice or something. It's been 70+ years and people are still vaguely ill-disposed towards the inn that was built with resistance money and whenever something bad happens to the latest owners the general sentiment is "they live in the cursed inn, what did they expect."

[arsenicflame]

Bootblacking is my favourite kink to give Izzy, because of course this guy would get his rocks off doing precise, repetitive, manual labour. OF COURSE he gets off on what is essentially just another chore on his list.

[art-with-adrien]

I digitized a crab I painted in acrylic on a rock wayyyy back in 2020! I just posted it to RedBubble and I'm so excited!

[darevalley]

Hello friends. Please help me out here. I take zelle, cashapp, and venmo!

Transcript of photos:

EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS NOW OPEN

Please help! Me, my fiance and our roomate are being Kicked out!

We have to Sell our Rv and Possibly Get housing aid.

We have 6 days to go but we are on a 4-12 month waitlist for aid.

we all work but need a boost to possibly put our pay checks together for a small apartment (which is our last hope) for the time being, me and my fiance are going to my dads, So we Can find our footing before the 3 of us can live together again.

If you cannot commission me, please please repost and spread so maybe someone will. This is extremely unexpected and we are actually contacting lawyers because of how insane this all is. This is my first time doing commissions but I need the money and I need your help. ❤️🫶

[awful-little-goose]

Help an inspiring business owner?

Hello, for a little under a year now, I’ve started my own business. I sell hand made art dolls, by reusing old plushies and teddy bears, and giving them a new face and a new style. Here are a few examples of my work :

The idea behind it is to give unloved toys a new life, a new style, and eventually a new owner. It’s also meant to represent the process of growing up: you change, you affirm yourself, you maybe lose people you used to be close to but in return you might make life lasting bonds

Thing is, I’m still a student, in a line of studies that doesn’t allow me to pick up a consistent job on the side. This means I don’t have the money to keep up my business, and can’t have access to state help either due to a complicated financial situation.

What I’m asking for is for support. If you reblog this post, take a look at my Etsy page (down below) and leave a heart, or visit my Instagram page (Instagram is my main account for my business, and with the recent update, a small art account like mine is getting basically no traction) and engage, it would mean the world to me and maybe even save my dream.

Share, reblog, comment- any kind of engagement would already mean so much to me.

Thank you in advance for helping out a struggling artist, please help me achieve my dream when no one around me believes in it

Links :

- https://www.etsy.com/shop/Necromending

- https://instagram.com/necromending?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==

[cowboyskeletons]

pair nettle with hemlock for a loved one who has been taken away too soon

pair nettle with oleander to warn someone that their betrayal has been discovered

[bombdotcomshop]

Newsletter peeps got it first yesterday, but hello tumblr friends, have you heard the news? 👀

[hungerpunch]

the amount of whatsapp and discord notifications i have makes me nauseous to look at. i wish someone would figure out a way to just burst the guilt bubble and get back into texting without having to face such a clear indicator that you're super depressed

[blackrosetrades]

I have been working nonstop to make these perfect. Now that I have made great candles and great pictures, my molds are breaking. I am down to three of them, and I have no idea what to do as my distributor no longer carries the. I'm stressed 😭

[littledeathleather]

Leather is better than plastic for several reasons but one of my favorites is how lighting brings out so many beautiful hues.

This is fuchsia with brass✨

[jadecitrusmint]

3/24/24

Sort of an unglamorous post but I wanted to post anyways lol. I am so lazy when it comes to cooking that I actually just spent 2 hours meal prepping a full week’s worth of meals because I’d rather be in agony for 2 hours on one day than every night for less time 🫶

Posts from a local business fair in my city and our lovely campus cat!

[thewastelandlosers]

Need to get me some F76 friends who don't take the game so seriously

Like pleeeeeease just explore the places with me, I don't wanna do the expeditions or events all the damn time! I don't have the perk cards set for them so Im going to fucking die a lot, I have them set for exploration, collecting and minimal fighting!!!!

[art-with-adrien]

Hi there! My name is Adrien and my pronouns are they/them. I'm a queer, disabled artist and I want to have a go at making simple, small commissions since I'm still new to this.

Feel free to message me or send asks with any questions and stuff. I'm willing to draw nsfw but not in a sexual context (e.g., I will draw a penis or breasts but not sexually).

Here's my Ko-Fi!

I have a RedBubble now too!

Facebook!

[handmadehazefromtheheart]

I still don't have a good variety of items in the shop and it'll probably stay limited for a while, but I'd like to start pushing it a bit more because

A) medical bills and

B) I'm gonna need to buy some extra luggage for my return to Germany in the summer.

I haven't found the audience for my snake plushies yet! Remember now, they are cute AND cushy. Neck pillow use is highly encouraged.

And I've still got six of them catnip mouse toys waiting to be roughed up by your real life fuzzy friend.