A few resources to help, learn, and promote:

TO HELP AND DONATE:

Black Lives Matter carrd with info, petitions, donation sites they recommend, and readings they suggest

President Obama’s List of orgs to help, things to read, and ways to get engaged

Black-led LGBTQ+ Organizations posted by Alexis Michelle

TO LEARN AND UNLEARN:

5 Ways to Take Action for all non-black people by The Conscious Kid

10-Steps to Non-Optical Allyship by Mireille Cassandra Harper 

How to Be Actively Anti-Racist by Good Good Good Co

Victoria Alexander’s recommendations on Anti-Racist Literature

TO SUPPORT AND PROMOTE:

Abelle Hayford’s #drawingwhileblack Directory of Black Creatives to hire

Author Oge Mora’s List of Children’s Books by Black Authors - also check out Oge Mora’s beautiful books!

A Twitter Thread from Melissa See on Black YA novels

16 / 07 / 19

COMMISSIONS = OPEN

Chibi and bust sketches mainly.

Once you get your sketch, we can negotiate an increase in detail or colour. Depending on expectations, prices may go up slightly, but as stated, this is entirely negotiable!

Also available to discuss full body sketches and comics (again, please contact me for more details).

Please see my blog for further examples of work!

I’m pretty laid back on drawing controversial subject matters, violence, sexual themes, etc.

But I will not draw:

Violent or sexual content involving minors or CSA (shota & lolicon included)

Violent or sexual content against animals (furry characters, I am open to drawing, though only in an innocent manner)

For details please contact me here on Tumblr, where I can give you my email and new PayPal details!

* * * As always, due to previous incidents, I’ll need confirmation of payment (essentially a deposit) before I begin your sketch. In the event your commission can’t be completed, you’ll receive a full refund.

As a reminder; I’m posting this now with high hopes of raising enough money to support my disabled accommodations on my trip to Japan this September!

So if you feel especially generous, please consider buying me a Ko-Fi or supporting me on Patreon! Links below.

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Guys, I’m not kidding.

Suicide-baiting, cyberharassmemt, cyberstalking, death/rape threats, and hate speech are illegal in all 50 states as well as Australia and the UK.

Some places include school suspension or expels. Some even include jail time for multiple years.

And yes, they can find someone by username or IP alone.

Also, yes. There are methods of catching someone’s IP. Even under a VPN.

So.

Next time you get hit with anon hate?

Casually remind them you can very easily take this to the next level. And they can earn jail time while you lay back in your chair, having saved yourself and everyone else from a violent criminal.

Your online actions have real life consequences.

Make sure they learn that.

(Just in case there’s a “the police wouldn’t do that” - Yes. They absolutely would.

Or a “I can handle it.” No. That person will continue to harass others as well. And one of them may not be as strong as you. So do it for them and everyone else.

Or a “It’s not that severe.” Yes. It is. People have died because of this. It really is that severe.)

Hello! I’ve decided to take commissions as I job hunt. For now, I’m sticking to digital drawings.

This is not first come, first serve. The art you receive is for personal use only. It is not for commercial use.

Please send me a DM or a an email with the following form:

Style: (chibi, bust, etc)

Character references: (a couple of images, a webpage with references and details, etc)

Helpful tidbits about the character: (personality, any details you want to make sure I include, and the like)

PayPal email address: (for me to send you an invoice)

Are you the owner of this account? (yes/no)

Does the owner of this account understand the nature of this digital art purchase? (yes/no)

As a heads up, I’ll be sharing the commissions to my pages with watermarks. You will receive an un-watermarked version.

Please see my DeviantArt journal entry for more information and the status of the commissions.

If you buy pre-made herbal tea blends (usually have names like Bedtime, Calm, etc) check the ingredients. I just saw a Nighttime blend that had St. Johns Wort in it, which can be dangerous when mixed with some medications. Talk to you doctor what herbs you should avoid. (Especially when you want to ingest st. Johns wort or mugwort) 

with illustrations getting polished up and preorders drawing near, we’ve created a Ko-fi page to jump-start our zine production through donations!

our current goal is $300 to help us cover a portion of printing, manufacturing, and shipping costs so we can keep everything affordable for all you wonderful supporters! not only does every dollar help, it also lets us know you’re interested in our mission of bringing you these amazing, original cryptid illustrations. plus, tier donors will have free Classified prints sent to them as thanks!

here are the 3 separate ways you can help us: 1. buy us a coffee - decide how much to donate by the dollar! 2. join a donation tier - under “Commissions Open”, choose from 3 donation tiers (Myth, Lore, and Legend) that come with perks exclusive to tier donors, ranging from Classified prints to name mention in our zine’s featured supporters page. 3. hit the share button - spread word about our project and ko-fi to help us gather fellow cryptid supporters!

we appreciate every bit of backing we get. please visit our Ko-fi for more information. thank you!

…… hm.

when i say “do not repost” i mean, do not: 

save my art to your computer

reupload it to your own social media site, especially without credit

exploit my my art so you can become more popular/get more attention/etc

reblogging/retweeting is not the same as reposting. those actually allow the artist to keep ownership of their own art as it gets spread around. they are different things.

it’s not that i don’t want my art to be on the internet. that’s why i post it. but i don’t want OTHER people taking credit for MY art and the hard work i put into it. i have a store where i sell my art. having people repost my art to their own sites literally takes money away from me. because people don’t know that I’M the artist who drew it, then they don’t know about my store, and instead consume my art mainly through websites that repost my art for their own amusement or profit.

do you know how many japanese artists have deleted their pixiv/twitter accounts because people kept reposting their art without permission, OR credit, and have even profited from stealing their work? so much art is floating out there without an owner because the japanese artists were harassed so much due to their art constantly being reposted without any credit to them, that they had to disappear from the internet just so they could keep ownership of the rest of their art. 

do you know how many people found my art through pinterest? i’ve gotten so many messages from people saying they found my art there, and it took them anywhere from days to WEEKS to find me and my blog, because most, if not all of it was posted 1. without credit, or 2, without a link back to the original, because the pinterest user reuploaded it from their own computer. 

do you know how many people try to apply for jobs with their art, but can’t seem to claim ownership of their own portfolio because it’s been so spread out and reposted everywhere on the internet, that companies can’t be sure that the person they’re interviewing is the actual artist themself?

i don’t think you understand just how detrimental reposting is to artists. and i don’t think you understand how important it is for people to respect artists’ wishes. my art is not yours to use for your own amusement. there is a reason why most websites have a dmca report option, to take down unauthorized use of their art. even the law recognizes it as a personal right.

i do want my art to be shown to the world, but under my own terms. i want my wishes in regards to my art to be respected. you are not doing me any favors by reposting my art onto other sites without permission or credit. just the opposite, in fact–your hurting me personally, financially, and possibly hurting my chances of earning a job with my art. 

so in conclusion, here are the dangers of reposting:

the artists loses ownership of their art

no one knows who made it anymore, and don’t care

the artists stop making art because all that happens is their art gets reposted without a source, and so they prefer to disappear off the internet entirely. the world has now just lost an amazing artist.

people make a profit off their art, literally stealing money and potential customers from them, because no one knows where the art originated from

they lose job opportunities because the reposting and art theft is so ubiquitous, that even if they are the original artist, no one can be sure of that.

etc.

reposting is detrimental. it’s not the same thing as reblogging/retweeting, it’s something that literally harms artists in the long run. 

at the end of the day, the biggest way to prevent this from happening is by respecting the artist’s wishes with some basic human decency. that’s literally it.

PORTRAIT 30$

FULLBODY 40$

(can include a simple background)

- +Extra person +½ of the original price (except for full body -> full price)

- I accept payment through PAYPAL in advance in order to protect myself

- Please provide reference images

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WILL DRAW:

- people (family, friends…)

- fanart

- OCs

- celebrities

WON’T DRAW:

- animals/furries

- NSFW

- extreme gore

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And Gaston is NOT a woman-driven fantasy. Gaston is a male wish fulfillment fantasy. Gaston is not what women want, he is what men want to be. He is hyper-masculinity to an extreme degree, dripping with sexism and testosterone. The fact that men think that Gaston is what women want says an awful lot about those men. 

While I don’t want to generalize, female fans tend to prefer a very different kind of male hero. We like the Rogers, the Milos, the Hercules. Genuinely kind, often awkward men who are sometimes vulnerable and respectful to women. 

But maybe these will help somebody now.

Most of your fandom experience is shaped by who you follow. Find a good group of people and stick with them.

Support your favs and a lot of them will become your friends, or at least be friendly back to you.

Just unfollow people who bring unwanted content or negativity onto your dash.

Block people who cause you stress. It’s not worth your time to focus on parts of fandom that don’t make you happy.

Blacklisting words/tags is a tool you are allowed to use as much as you need to.

Don’t feel like you have to pretend to like things that make you uncomfortable in order to fit in. Set healthy boundaries for yourself.

Never tag your hate. Never send hate anons to someone.

Content creators love getting comments, seeing people gush in the tags on reblogs, and getting fans in their inbox. It’s the best way to motivate them to keep making awesome stuff.

If there’s certain content you want to see but it doesn’t exist yet, then make it. Draw the thing, write that fic. If you can’t, then comission an artist or writer, or send someone a prompt if they’re open to it. If you can’t do that either, then write meta or headcanons about it. Put it into the world.