Lutea Arts

So I’m going to be advertising and shilling from the sun and back because bills need to be payed and projects need to be backed. I have a lot planned but I also want to be able to eat, so here’s a link to my commissions.

More of my commission info is here as well: Commission info

This is a list I’ve been composing for months with a lot of help from that poll I made a few weeks ago as well.  (Thank you to everyone who lent me their insights and advice.) May be unneeded to say, but these are also alternatives to Etsy as well. Most if not all of these alternatives have a free subscription with limited item uploads and a cheap paid one (at the time. ) 

———— store envy: ( https://www.storenvy.com/open-new-store )

they have free section that lets you list 20 items for free. They also have a subscription that costs 5 bucks called the “artist plan.” Which I find funny because it’s the cheapest one and there is a stereotype of artists being broke…it’s not untrue for many but still. It’s promising , and it lets you sell handmade works. Will look into more. (Addendum June 29, 2026. Shipping.: Tested it out further, it lets you list your own shipping costs groups. Which , admittedly, I find confusing. I’m used to eBay’s system which simply lets you pick what tripping label you want and gives you the approximate price. You don’t have to manually put the shipping in and how they handle international is even easier. )

GoImagine:( https://goimagine.com/membership )an Etsy alternative. Lets you list 12 items for free on its free plan. Its thrive plan costs 5 bucks and lets you list 600 items. And this site is really hand made item oriented. Promising.

Vinted: (https://www.vinted.com/) is prettypromising. Offers shipping labels and processing, allows sales of homemade clothes though is generally geared towards clothes in general rather than general handmade works but uts open. Reminds me if ebay .No fees apparently, and has a "bump" system. More indi here: https://www.vinted.com/help/26-selling-basics?access_channel=hc_topics

I ask because I have been trying to build my crochet business for years (among other things) and I want to pic something that will help me further that. I know etsy is the easiest answer for many, but with all the things going on with etsy, I'd rather take my chances elsewhere. That's why I never moved off Ebay despite it being more geared to reselling used goods than home made stuff. (I think that may be part of my problem too!)

You can acknowledge a character's complexity, backstory, and motives, and still dislike them. Complex characters don't always translate to "likable". it just means there are layers to them. and sometimes those characters are either layered cakes, layered onions, or layers in a land fill that are continually recovered with dirt.

Like no matter how much of a sob story a character might have, or how their actions are perfectly explainable , or even if the story paints them in a specific light- you do not get a pass to hurt other because you yourself are hurt. An explanation isn't an excuse.

No , not every character needs to be nice or morally upstanding. not everyone needs to be a saint. Its a character at the end of the say. And any character archetype old or new can hold a wealth of complexity. I've come across plenty of complex characters and understood their situations and I can appreciate their inclusions in the story as well as them being antagonistic (hell , protagonists in some stories). I've dissected them, researched them, ect. Complexity encompasses a myriad of things for a character like : traits, backstory, tendencies, good, bad, and neutral actions. Regardless of all that, I can still dislike them. Sometimes an azzhole is an azzhole and not everybody likes em. consider it a flavor

(Side note: Its OK to dislike a person and distance yourself while still understanding their situation. Their mental health may be important but yours is too. You can't help someone who DOESN'T WANT IT. )

I made her a keychain too!  ; merchshop

Some more pixel art practice in pixsquare. I wanna build up to animation in it but for now I’ll focus on pixel artwork. I’m trying to think of it like lineless rendering.  

Yeah I went ahead and got an acggoods account. I wanted to try it out. i don't have room for merch and I find print on demand pretty advantageous at this time. I really wanted to have some merch for moonlit lemonade and mache and mata  (among others) just because. I am adding more to it as I go, doubly excited for the pins and key chains. I've been wanting to make a keychain for Oya for so long!

AND STICKER SHEETS! This thing makes sticker sheets, i already got two stickers up as we speak. Here's a lovecore one-

-And my fun-gals one!

-------- So I have three other shops shops. totaling 4. no i don't have a problem.

One for my physical work (crochet):

One for my Ko-fi (you can get crochet patterns , digital comics and books I've made, commissions, digital wallpapers, and more):

One for T-shirts (thinking of getting rid of this one, honestly):