#insert sarcasm here

I mean seriously, that stamp will be incredibly easy to copy if it’s not already been copied, it’s the polar opposite of exclusive or personal. Why anyone would pay $20 for that is beyond me but it proves that RS is a shrewd business person by any means necessary and will be richer than I ever will be. No wonder Hades is her idol.

No joke, there are pictures of Rachel using the stamp at SDCC and-

That stamp is literally just a standard one that you could order through any custom manufacturer. It's not a roller in any way, there's no unique cut they're working off of, it's just a round press stamp.

And it shows because this is the quality of the actual ink when it's on the paper-

Basically low grade printer ink on glossy paper. It's not gonna last at all, and it turned out exactly how I was expecting - there's too much solid color with too thin empty areas so the ink is bleeding into what's supposed to be 'white' (we deal with the same concepts in tattooing so I knew this was gonna happen as soon as I saw the stamp design).

Anyways so that's my long-winded way of saying that I took the stamp that was on Rachel's IG from her promotional posts, desaturated it, added a tone curve layer to adjust the sharpness/clarity, and threw it into VistaPrint. Just for science, and because I'm an asshole trying to prove a point.

Would literally only cost me $20-$30 for the stamp after shipping.

Now for obvious reasons I'm not saying anyone SHOULD do this, like... I'm showing you this for science but really, don't go making counterfeits because of this LOL This is really just to demonstrate how easy it would be for anyone to make a convincing replica, which is the unfortunate drawback to using stamps as your "signature" - and with a very low quality printer shop stamp to boot - because it makes it pretty easy to copy. Not to mention showing off the stamp design beforehand through social media means that people (like me, oop-) can rip it out of your image posts and reverse engineer it into something that can be uploaded and purchased. I get she wanted to make sure that people knew what they were getting, it would have been a HUGE piss off to go see her for a signature just to find out she was doing a stamp, but like... these are the risks that come with stamps.

Don't get me wrong, you can just as easily forge a signature, but it's a little harder to nail someone's personal signature vs. a stamp and you can usually find ways to make it more unique (like what Junji Ito did by giving out little doodles on each signature). It also doesn't help that that stamp is made so cheaply that a poorly done replica would probably be on the same level of quality as the authentic one. And of course she added insult to injury by deciding to sell ACTUAL HAND-SIGNED BOOKS WITH ONLY ONE BOOK THAT HAS ONE CRAPPY DOODLE INSIDE AT ONLY ONE SPECIFIC BOOKSTORE A WEEK AFTER SDCC WAS OVER THAT YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR EVEN IF IT MEANS YOU'RE GONNA HAVE AN EXTRA COPY OF A BOOK YOU ALREADY OWN-

sigh This isn't an uncommon thing to do, it's not unique to Rachel, but it gives me grifting gacha vibes and it feels like such a fuck you to the people who travelled all the way out to SDCC and paid for the ticket prices just to get a shitty printer ink stamp and then find out a week later after they've undoubtedly gone home that one bookstore in San Diego actually has hand-signed copies. I've seen Youtubers pull this kind of shit with vinyl printings and Youtooz figures and it's equally tacky.

Omg, I thought you’d been inactive and now I realize that I had not been following 💙

LMAO it's fine~! I've been hugely inactive as well so <3 🦴is there a piece of media that inspires your writing?

Absolutely yes, the mastery that is Avatar the last airbender. The character story, the overall narrative, how everyone's interpersonal story intertwined in this huge tapestry of both tragedy and glory- I could talk about that show for hours tbh

🍦 ⇢ name three good things about a character you hate

A character I hate would be Tritannus from Winx club season 5-

His dynamic with Icy was interesting

His monster form being inspired by pollution in the ocean was a good idea

Him being a villain allowed us to explore the underwater world of the Winx Club universe more which is something I greatly enjoy

🥐 ⇢ name one internet reference that will always make you laugh 

Hi Anon!

Sorry for the delay! Sending a big panda bear hug over the web to you and kudos to your good taste 🥂 Great minds think alike 💁‍♀️

Luckily (or maybe not I am still not sure), I wasn’t really in the fandom in 2014 - though I got into the asoiaf books between 2012 and 2013 - and am just recently becoming familiar with the tons of *insert word of choice here* being put out there for years 😂😂😂

Ok that is the first time I read that take and can I just:

Still why am I surprised?! It’s the asoiaf fandom after all and I expect anything at this point. Like every time I think the bar can’t get lower haha it does!

Tbh that theory went as well as those people who thought Rogar ex-Robar was such a great guy 😂😂😂  www.Imistakemyheadcanonsforcanonandthenitbackfires.com

Thank you F&B!

For real now, everyone has their preferences which is totally ok, and like write whatever you want, I don’t care, but I do agree it’s pretty annoying to see people need to sh_t on W just to show how right X and Y were for each other and how much X loves Y and could never love W. We all know you only love one person your whole life and no one else 😌 like who ever heard of loving more than one person? Yes, same no one. 

In any case I am glad I could give some Aegon/Daenaera content to the world and I won’t lie that I was super glad to see them win the poll 😬