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[vVimnvinegar @WranDmNES]

@simon97138547 you stole my irl tweet (quote) :<

[chloe 🩷 cosmania FI06 @bulbaasaurs]

i made ina sticky notes!!!! you can play tic tac toe on her forehead...

[St1ka @St1ka]

"If you wanna make friends, just use the Solid Snake method"

"The Solid Snake method?"

"Oh! So you already heard of it"

[Brando @SomewanElse_]

People in the replies are saying superheroes or police procedurals and they're all wrong. American slop is "guy who wants a peaceful life but has to go on the most justified killing spree ever because they threatened his family"

[· SK JYNX · @SK_Jynx]

Okay so I've been seeing an uptick in artists just straight up not following through with professional obligations. For context, this artist has a backlog of TWO YEARS. I feel like this needs to be reiterated, but being a good artist does not make you a good business person.

Some of you desperately need to learn how to run a business or operate as self-employed before ever even thinking about opening commissions. Just because you are using a middleman service like VGen doesn't mean you aren't beholden to legal standards for how you operate.

Simply being disorganized can land you in a bunch of hot water. Artists need to remember that there's a culture of leniency being self-employed in that you set the rules for how you operate and clients tend to be pretty forgiving. This does not somehow absolve you of legal boundaries though. You have the privilege of being able to dictate the relationship with your client, don't abuse that.

The practical reality is that art commissions tend to be too small to pursue any kind of litigation and are typically resolved via platform solutions like chargeback disputes. It's almost never worth it to pursue legal action via things like civil small claims. But make no mistake, you'd absolutely open to legal scrutiny by screwing around like this.

Hypothetically if someone decided for whatever reason to pursue legal action due to a misrepresented timeline of your work turnaround time, if you can't disprove you didn't do it with fraudulent intent that case wouldn't be in your favor at all. Taking commissions with no realistic plan to deliver, is in fact getting heavy into what's essentially wire fraud territory. Intent doesn't matter if you aren't doing your due diligence to ensure you're doing things above board.

ARTISTS, CODIFY YOUR TURNAROUND TIME IN YOUR TOS. Do not vaguely say, "I'll update you when I can but I'll try for XYZ" or anything even remotely close. You may think this gives you lenience since you have no real guidelines to follow, but it could also be used as evidence that you had no realistic intent to deliver if you keep it loose.

A risky, yet sustainable (if done correctly) model is to take many commissions in advanced to secure income for yourself now. You keep a large buffer of time that you fill with upcoming commissions while the income given ahead of time keeps you afloat. Basically, you lump sum things to reduce to overhead of needing to take frequent commissions with short turnaround times if you need a more substantial cash flow.

[Adam Sharp @AdamCSharp]

I just watched a pirated movie.
On a scale of 1-10 I’d have to give it 3.14159265359

[Eleanor Red @TheRedGoner]

a scale

[Layne Morgan @laynemorgan]

INEFFICIENCY AND FRICTION IS A BIG PART OF THINKING.

[vVimnvinegar @WranDmNES]

The lion does not concern himself with the elephant in the room.

[AlphaCas @Alpha_Cas_art]

Thank you, Mumei, for always Mooming! 🪶🤎

#drawMEI #memeMEI

[ravarcheon @ravarcheon]

due to my horrible doomscrolling addiction, i have made a script to slowly fade in a horse over my entire browser over the course of a minute that you cannot remove unless you refresh the page making it so i cant use twitter for more than 2 minutes

[Alice Mills @millsalice144]

I’m going to teach the world what propreantepenultimate means, even if it’s the fifth to last thing I ever do.

[pharloom bay hermit @pharloom_bay]

MY ACCOUNT HAS FULLY BEEN REVIVED FROM THE DEAD DUE TO THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DLC

[Guy @nosilverv]

How to have intergenerational appeal:

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

Theres a very long list of US products that cannot be sold in the EU thanks to EU regulations. Since the favorite pastime of the Trump regime and every US oligarch is now to demonize EU regulations, I thought it would be very much worth going through some of those products.🧵

[Alva Majo @5ro4]

this is how every criticism of Silksong sounds like

[Rassstrov @RSSTRV]

The random comment said “The only reason you aren't popular is because people don't realize it's a goated drawing, they think it's a picture”

[Dokuro 💀🐔 @WickedDopeName]

Tapping the sign again, even though 90% of you are functionally, and emotionally illiterate.

[요테ʏᴏᴛᴇʜ @_Yoteh]

gentle madman #P5R