Paper Birds in Technicolor Trees

@editorincreeps did you go into the forest to do art?

Dude

This is natural art.

I think the reason I enjoy Ghibli so much is it romanticizes the little things. It makes me want to bake, study, clean the house, garden, and more while listening to happy music and occasionally picking wildflowers and lying in the grass. It helps me find joy in day-to-day life and that’s honestly sooo important for my mental health.

The way we should all try to remember to live

Oppose the fee hikes! Support autistic businesses!

Also the fact lies that it isn’t even just fees on the actual product you’re selling, it’s also on the shipping cost. So say I know exactly to the penny how much a package will cost to ship, so I charge the customer that much. Etsy now is taking a percentage of that fee away. So either I have to overcharge knowingly for shipping, passing that cost down to customers right off the bat, or I have to make up for the lost currency. Small businesses and artists who even just make some extra cash off of Etsy can not always easily afford the cost of buying and hosting their own separate E-commerce business. People who have built up followings on Etsy can’t force customers to move to other platforms. The entire situation is poo and people who want cool merchandise for the reasonable prices artists are currently able to offer need to make noise.

Added: the hashtag I’ve seen so far on Twitter is #etsyfees.

In any case, please update your bookmarks - find us at www.nerdykeppie.com! Whether or not we break up with Etsy, you can always find us there.

How do we make noise? Seriously I would love to but where do I complain? I also have serious concerns that these new “premium paid” options are basically Etsy saying “If you don’t go premium, we wont give you any exposure.” You know, basically like Facebook did with business pages.

Contact Etsy on social media and email them. 

I love this!

h8 when people tell me i had a bad childhood bc i didn’t enjoy many cartoons. i had a wonderful childhood. i forced the lizards outside to marry one another. i didn’t know it wasn’t legally binding.

time: *makes me bolder* children: *get older* me: *gets older too*

Spoiler alert: adulthood is 96% of you going “well, I hope this is how it works and I’ll keep doing it till someone yells at me”

and the other 4% is crying 

start exclusively staffing home depot with butch lesbians or die

hire femmes in the gardening section

Cis women: read this.

Great tip, thank you. I like to think that I’d have no problem standing up and telling someone to go fuck themselves in the event they did actually say something nasty, but preventing that situation is clearly 100 million times better than defending a harassed person after the fact.

hhhHHE IS SMALLER THAN THE LEAVES