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sanctus-ingenium · 9 months

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we need to talk about Inprnt.com

Following a really good post with more screenshots and evidence by @dynasoar5 i'm going to talk about my own experiences with @inprnt and why I am about to put my shop on indefinite hiatus from Monday the 14th of August.

First of all I'll say that since starting my print shop last year it has been a significant help to me financially - I was able to not worry about affording car insurance or motor tax (together commonly over a thousand euro) when I bought my first car, for example. I am immeasurably grateful to anyone who chose to buy one and I treasure all the pictures I've been sent of my prints hanging up on people's walls. Right now they are displayed in a real (if small) art exhibition in my home town.

(top right print is not from inprnt though)

They're great prints. Never had any complaints about them. But here's what's going on behind the scenes.

Earlier this year, around March or April, Inprnt sales started increasing in regularity. I'd made as much as $600 a week during previous sales when I made proper promo posts here, but with this increase in regularity, I felt that I couldn't make promo posts every single week. And then one day, I'm not sure when tbh, the sale just never ended. It just didn't stop having that "Ending soon! 15% off your order" banner at the top of the site. Right now it says "Final Hours: $5 Worldwide shipping and save up to 35% off your order!" and not even for a second do I believe in this final hours bullshit. It's been 'final hours' for weeks now. Months, even.

Why is this a problem? Well, how tf am I meant to make a promo post for a sale that is always "ending soon!!" and then never ends. One week it'll say "this weekend only!!" and then when the weekend is over, the sale banner just changes its wording and the sale doesn't end. I can't promo this, it makes me look like a liar and a skeevy salesman by association! It makes the site look like it's 1 week from crashing and burning, and the site owners are just scrabbling to suck as much money from artists as possible before they drown.

And they are sucking money from us. To peel back the curtain, Inprnt money can only be transferred to my paypal account 30 days after the sale is made, just in case the order is cancelled and refunded. This means I used to make one withdrawal every couple of months, when there was enough build-up of money to make it worthwhile. It also forbids withdrawing any sum under $50 btw. I would make a withdrawal request and then, after a 10 business day wait, it would reach my Paypal account.

Not anymore! The past few withdrawals have taken over a month to complete. They are straight up keeping my earnings from me for longer the agreed period. This was my last fulfilled withdrawal:

Note the date.

Almost two months.

And here is the latest withdrawal request that still has not been fulfilled.

It's coming up on 1 month and if the pattern continues, it could literally be November or December by the time I fully clear all sales.

So what's going to happen to my print shop? Because my art is currently being exhibited with a QR code linking to the shop, I can't close the shop this week. Instead I will close it on Monday the 14th of August, next week. That means that on the 14th of September, I can withdraw all of the remaining money without having any left over. My account balance will go to 0 and stay there. Although I'll de-list my prints I will leave my account there, because at the end of the day I don't want to leave Inprnt. It still offers the best artist margins and as I'm now unemployed after graduating, the additional support is such a load off my mind. So this is a chance to wait and see - if they improve their services, I'll happily re-open.

It's a big deal to me because selling prints is sort of my ideal life as an artist. I never had the attention span or self-discipline for commission work and I found that it left me creatively stagnant. I always want to try new things, new concepts and ideas, and being able to think "yeah, people will like this as a print" while I experiment is honestly very reassuring. And I know that in going on hiatus, it'll break a lot of "buy a print" links in my circulating posts. Oh well lmao. If you want to buy a print right now - go ahead, it might be your last opportunity. Another way to support me would be to check out my ko-fi for once-off donations or some nice sketchbooks/comics/book samples you can buy, or subscribing to my Patreon.

As of right now, Inprnt owes me $381 (the unfulfilled request submitted above for $186.60 and my current standing balance of $194.80 which takes 30 days from each transaction to clear).

#it's so god damn insulting u know. even redbubble threw its shitty payouts directly into my paypal asap #inprnt

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socksandbuttons · 5 months

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How would little Eclipse and Blood Moon react if they saw someone trying to flirt (properly) with their father?

They'd be disgusted and confused if anything. They're not very supportive of KC getting a love life.

#KC: HOW BOUT I DO ANYWAY #lunar actually wouldnt mind but like if someones flirting with kc DIRECTLY IN THE DAYCARE hes judging immensely #bm im so sorry but they do NOT understand a damn thing whats happening but hes hating it #bloodmoon finding out kc has a tinder?? hes smashing the phone 'NO. WE WILL FORGET THIS!!!' kc 'did u break my phone??' 'WE HAVE NO MEMORY'#sun and moon show #sams bloodmoon #sams eclipse #laes lunar #bean eclipse au #i do wonder how many asks i can get thru tonight honesly maybe like two more??? who knows #myart

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dammarchy211 · 2 months

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THE COMMITTEE FOR RAPACIOUS INTERLOPERS AND MANIACAL ESPERS !

drawing dump I definitely can’t fit all of them in but here’s most of em lol. Neo Cortez the founder and Head of C.R.I.M.E. Got a complete redo which I actually Like now so’ll probably expand on him more

#for all of you Ant fans out there I have a bunch of ant related memes I have drawn/am going to draw them with so . there will be Ant #for all of you Cheri fans out there sorry u don’t see her as much it’s just so much easier to be able to the pile three ocs worth of #drawings into one post than just one oc</3 #there is stuff of her I need to finish or post dw tho 🫶#my art #psychonauts #psychonauts fanart #psychonauts art #psychonauts oc #character design #psychonauts original character #psychonauts ocs #Dexter Fahrenheit #Dr. Batty Sawbones #Wanda Whelk #Neo Cortez #the SpongeBob meme is when Dexter follows them back into CRIME HQ and they’re like …. well we can’t just let this ten year old leave #he knows where our base is—#he actually snuck back onto the Tiltrotor CRIME uses for missions sometimes rather than sneaking directly into the base fun fact for u #CRIME HQ has cloaking psychic-tech . the Tiltrotor not *as* much #tw alchohol mention #hi sorry thes tags are getting long #the one with Dex in the red shirt is a good few months before he left to join CRIME #he’s still kinda got a black eye and he is not being supervised at home-

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hyunpic · 1 month

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#hyunjin #changbin #skz #stray kids #i just know bin was dancing directly to hyunjin and he was like i really just want to love u like i do 🥹

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st-hedge · 9 months

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Guess what, there’s a new chapter for botw calamity au. strictly speaking I can’t draw anything directly from the chapter besides a tipsy link

#loz #link #botw #calamity au #read the content warning note #this is the face of a man who fucked ganondorf and lived to tell the tale #I’m not linking directly to the chapter but I think u guys know how to click on a menu

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kayvsworld · 9 months

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iron man makes me feel so insane like there's a guy in there. what the fuck there's a squishy little mortal human dude in there and his first instinct without fail is to fly headfirst into danger to try to help what the fuck what the Fuck

#YES IM REWATCHING IRON MAN YES IM LOSING MY MIND. HE'S SO GOOD OH MY GOD #HE KNOWS. IN HIS HEART. THAT IT'S RIGHT #also related. thinking abt tony when the portal opened in a1. everybody else still en route. and him immediately being like #cool i guess i'll fly DIRECTLY AT IT BY MYSELF. SOUNDS GOOD #HE BUILT THE SUIT WITH HIS HANDS AND HE'S GOING TO SAVE EVERYONE. HONEY I LOVE U #tony stark love of my life he is so brave and there is something Wrong. With Him #kayvswords

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alexpdcl · 4 months

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I'm projecting my sawtism onto them whoopsie

#house md #saw #hilson #crossover #gregory house #james wilson #house x wilson #i know the lot of you have watched saw 2004 but have u watched 3D... if you have then this is directly catered to u #live laugh love fandom crossovers #house md fanart

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suntails · 11 months

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lead us not

#this comp is directly based on 'lead us not into temptation' by mucha. go look it up the piece looks so GOOD #just #head in hands. this is prob my last piece before the next lore drop so do w that what u will #just give iiiiin silver just follow malleus and trust in the dream worlds hes making!!! duh!!!1!1!!!1 DUH. (lying) (lying) (lying)#he knows BEST let him lead u towards a happy end for the next 1000 years of happy dream worlds. sobibng.#yea so the composition fucked so hard i literally HAD to draw something. im genuinely begging just go look it up. u gotta see my vision #twst #twisted wonderland #twst spoilers #book 7 spoilers #malleus draconia #twst silver #silver vanrouge #peep the other chars distorted af in the bg u cant see them well but i swear they were distinct originally #suntails #tumblr gets it first again. congrats u guys r my favs dont tell twitter

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kimaisalloren · 9 months

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Redraw of my favorite chapter art. Except I wanted a creepy vibe and to make it look like inkwash. Original here owo: 👇

#so at some point #because of how I adjusted the lighting #and it expands outwards from where I made the light source being directly behind my man right #so like you know #with the wide photo and his limiters it like kinda looked like shrek #in the shadow #I really am obsessed with Saiki rn #plz talk to me about Saiki #saiki kusuo #saiki kusuo no ψ nan #the disastrous life of saiki k.#tdlosk #saiki k fanart #redraw #the disaster of psi kusuo saiki #kusuo saiki #psychic kusuo #tf is that tag #anyways I just love him so much and Idk ab u #but he’s hilariously more creepy and violent in the manga than anime #like not insanely but like #he canonically killed a whole nation of people and then wiped the nation from existence #like anime Saiki is like :/ I don’t want his death on my conscious #and manga Saiki is like #pulling out the Glock

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poorly-drawn-scumvillain · 13 days

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Homestuck style LBH and SQQ in honor of 500 followers!!

#svsss #homestuck #okay im gonna be real with you #i know absolutely nothing about homestuck #like ive heard of it but ive never directly interacted with anything related to it #so my main reference for this was whatever i could find when i looked it up :')#i tried doing the “hero mode” art style so i hope i did good lol #and for the person who requested steven universe art style i got u ;)

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yourlittlettoy · 9 months

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Hi friends! Once again here using my Tumblr like a traditional blog where u share thoughts and updates and stuff haha.

Sorry for being gone for a bit, life was BUSY with plans and now I’m finally back home from a little trip visiting a lovely friend of mine (photos for visual-aid of said trip 😉😇). God I love summer and sunshine!! ☀️☺️🌊🚤🍉

So due to being less active, I did build up quite a bit of notification and message debt. Wanted to take a quick moment and say that unfortunately there is no shot I’ll be able to catch up on all of it in terms of responding to everything, even though I usually really like to stay on top of that; especially with tags and reblogs and comments on my posts! However, I did read and see everything that I’ve missed.

So to all of u that interacted while I was gone: the satisfaction from flustering some of you was absolutely enjoyed 😉~ and on the flip side the backfire from your teasy comments has also been suffered hahaha 🙈. Either way you already know I love seeing interactions from you guys and I’m just so THANKFUL TO HAVE HAD SO MANY TO CATCH UP ON 🥰 sorry again I can’t always be reciprocal, but please know that I adore all of you and am enjoying the heck out of being in your presences with or without direct line of conversation!

Anyway, if it wasn’t clear enough by now, I think the world of u community pals and I hope you all have a day as lovely and awesome as you! (Very lovely and awesome, to clarify haha)

Stay precious 😘💕

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anuphim · 4 days

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i love my moots...i love the cotl fandom....u are all so cool and have such amazing ideas....i get blasted by happy brain chemicals everytime i open tumblr dot com

#i am a little sappy tonight but LISTEN #listen. listen to me. i know i dont directly interact with many of u #i have the curse of anxiety #but genuinely u all inspire me so much and getting notifs and seeing all the cool art and writing MAKES MY DAY!!#i hav had the struggles here and there with adapting of having an online presence and being perceived but i am so glad to be here #blasting u all with my love and appreciation gun

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brother-emperors · 6 months

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When you talk about Philippino history and then Roman history, as a Venezuelan it's been making me think about our history and like, I've always thought there's a lot of similarity there but now it's like...its so similar. Your house is haunted too! I always think about how we won wars against the colonizers but their ghosts are still there, and they still sit at the dinner table with us every night. Your work is so cool, I feel like I can extend that train of thought further through time. I've never been interested in Rome but now I kinda am!

Venezuela 🤝the Philippines: being haunted houses (colonized by Spain)

also that is so SO real, the ghosts really are with us!! THEY ARE AT!!! OUR DINNER TABLES!!!!! ngl, once you start noticing it, it's impossible to NOT notice how they've crawled into the spaces and just. stayed.

ancient Rome is so weird for it too, because if you asked me about it, I wouldn't immediately put ancient Rome down for haunting the Philippines, except for the fact that like Catholicism, it's fucking everywhere. it's gotten in the cracks and spaces between the walls. On the stage of theater, Nadres' Hanggang dito na lamang at maraming salamat: the main character is named after Julius Caesar

Closet Queeries, J. Niel C. Garcia

and so many people are named after figures from ancient Rome (I know enough Mark Anthonys I've run out of differentiating nicknames for everyone) that it rivals Catholic saints for naming conventions. neo classical architecture had it's moment in the sun in Manila, our ilustrados brought some of it back when they returned from Spain to call for reform, and then independence, and I am struggling to hold back a plague-infection comparison about that. like, something else crept in with Spain, and like Spain's ghosts, it Did Not Leave.

but on the other hand! there's a long, centuries long, tradition of using the events of the Fall of the Republic to discourse, discuss, to vent or call for action, current events. it provides a interlocutor when something hurts too much to say directly, it provides a stage to explore a tragedy that echoes in our own histories, it gives a script to voice an ideal that a government might otherwise put down. how many centuries have we used Brutus (and Cassius) to rail against Tyranny, and how many centuries with equal enthusiasm have people used Julius Caesar as a martyr to justify the rights of Kings and Empires? these things are equally as important (in a different way) from the ancient events that actually transpired. (this specific topic, of Brutus & the Assassination of Caesar and it's literary revivals in history, are the focus of The Brutus Revival, Manfredi Piccolomini)

and the cores of these things conflict with each other, but in that friction, it's like there's an invitation to sit down and think for a minute. to look back at history and feel it's immediacy in the present.

ANYWAY I got carried away, but I am glad!! that my stuff could make Rome interesting!!! I hope that you find new doors of thoughts to explore!!!!!!!

#holding this ask in my heart forever thank u for sending this anon #ask tag #idk sometimes i draw goofy shit because its fun. and gay stuff because I Like Men ofc im going to explore things thru that lens #but also. i feel a little like im trying to look at this lurking ghost of imperialism without. addressing it directly #my love for spectacle and drama directly against knowing that the historical horror is not. that far removed. heugh.#so this meant a lot to me!! i feel seen in a good way. thank u again!

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asteriaarts · 20 days

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jays story would be a 10000 times worse if she killed her dad she loves her family too much its the biggest conflict of interest her love her genuinely love of her family and the love for her crew.even when he terrifies her even when she sees him for shit father he was she still loves him. i dont think she forgives him or sees him as right or even wants him in her life in the hypothetical they could meet in the middle

Gillion on the other hand

The elders while gil doesnt view them as anyway parental still fill the position it would be so cool of him it would be a Lot. i think he's becoming kinder and letting himself embrace this nuace view of the world that is very good for him his story is all abt unlearning and recognizing the toxic systems in place.But also. He can do it. Theres nothing more reclaiming than killing the people who raised u. It would null his oath he can start to define himself in his long journey of identity kill your parents gil

#trully the rambliest #also it feels weird when jay is called a solider #like thats gil #thats his entire deal #but regardless shes not meant to be some harbinger of death she was propagandized but she isnt loyal to the navy #She family is so tied to the navy in her mind that they can not be extract #a attack the navy is an attack on her family its critizing them directly #she isnt some loyal solider #shes a daughter #her loyal comes from her loyalty to her dad as her DAD to all her uncles and aunts and grandmother as her RELATIVES #jrwi riptide #jay ferin #gillion tidestrider #i dont know why u would but dont tag this as ship #rambles #the rambliest rambles

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duskerot · 2 months

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