I've been up in arms the last few years about how disappointed I am in Doctor Who in general (yet I keep watching, because I was so impressed by the first few seasons). But man... this last season so far?
I'm impressed again.
crosses fingers
Keep it up, Doctor Who!
Hate feeling like emotional shit for no damn reason ._.
Fuck you, brain. Go to hell.
I'll definitely have to re-check out DeviantArt prints and such. I've heard mixed reviews about all that.
A coworker did suggest I list my prints (if they do this) on the new Amazon Handmade website, and keep my special orders on Etsy. Might look into that, too. Amazon Handmade looks like it has a lot of potential for exposure, too.
Probably should have preambled my original post with : I'm looking to sell my own artwork somewhere, other than just on Etsy.
I've noticed a lot of artists sell their stuff so cheap, too. How the hell does anyone make a living off of this? No wonder there's the stereotype of a starving artist. Crazy people.
Anyhoo... Thanks again! And thanks for reminding me about the DeviantArt prints! =D
Alright you fellow art-people...
Where do you sell your work? Anyplace that can still do commissions in the same place?
Other than Etsy. Etsy is killing me.
Suggestions? Comments?
Thanks guys!
Smidge of background to this anger/irritation:
Had a breakdown at work a while ago. Crying. "Quitting". It was a big deal. Been jokingly calling it my Quarter Life Crisis. Scared myself, so I've been looking for a good psychologist, and am now medicated, etc.
Since then, it's kind of like the bakery I work at has been trying to phase me out? Can't really say I blame them after The Fiasco, but I'm the best cake decorator they have (said by others, not just me).
So today I'm told they hired too many people in the department, so I'll probably have to get most of the 20 hours a week I need, as a cashier =/
My job is already soul crushing, but at least sometimes I get to do fun things...so...cashier...seriously? Fuck.
And I'm really starting to hate Etsy, but not sure where else to sell my artwork. Buh.
On top of the day job bullshit, I've been looking for a new job for months. JUST found out that Verizon apparently redid their voicemail system over the summer, and I havent had voicemail set up since =/
If I hear one more family member say "oh yeah, I haven't been able to leave a message for months, I thought you just wanted it that way", I'm going to fucking lose it, and move to Iceland.
Why the hell would I not want my voicemail set up? Killing me. Could have missed jobs because of that. I should apparently call my own cell phone from time to time.
Killing me.
Fuck humanity. People suck.
puts her soapbox away for now
Settlers of Catan is a must. Thought that was just a given? Haha =D
One game I've been wanting to play, but haven't yet... Forbidden Desert.
My husband watches a lot of Table Top with Wil Wheaton, to get game ideas. A few of them have been flops, but sometimes there're some great ideas.
I get that, but I'm clearly in that "fewer appreciate" category. I thought the wink-and-nod was kind of neat, but not for me. It's always bugged me when books/movies have so much obvious foreshadowing that there's not a single surprise anywhere in the rest of the story. I'm personally not a fan of being told the story twice in one sitting.
I did like that we were witnessing the novel the main character had written, though. I didn't go in expecting a horror movie, but was at least hoping for some more sneaky foreshadowing. At the end of the day, just not the movie for me, even though I'll likely watch it a few more times after it comes out, because I like to pick out all the puzzle pieces, even if I'm pretty sure I caught them all the first time.
Well...maybe not wrong, necessarily. We just kept missing when we died, and realized we should have "died" multiple times, when we'd just kept playing. And so we'd play it again, and the same thing would happen. Basically, we apparently don't work well as a team, and it eventually became a little traumatizing, as far as board games go =P
Kind of like everyone always wants to play Resistance, but we have to save it for last, because it pisses everybody off by the end of the night.
Don't know if these count as "board" games...more tabletop games..
Resistance
Coup
Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards at Mt Skullzfyre, and Rumble at Castle Tentakill (we just combined the decks and made it one game)
Farkle is the "warm up" game we usually play, just because it's stupid/fun.
If you like deck-building games, Legendary is pretty fun (Marvel game)
We have Mansions of Madness, I think, but we haven't played it yet.
... I really want to play Betrayal now... calls people over
ETA: I love Pandemic.... but I hate it so much. Especially after we learned we'd been playing it wrong for a while? Still can't make ourselves play it again. My gaming group always gets it out, stares at the box, kind of shuffles things around, and then puts it back, lol Betrayal at House on the Hill is definitely our go-to.
I knew I shouldn't have gone in with such high hopes, damnit, lol.
The friend I went with, and myself, basically were telling the story scenes before it happened. It was just a frustrating movie. I'm usually good at that whole... "i could write this shit" thing, but...buh... I just wanted to like it so bad. Disappointed =P
That said, I'll likely re-watch it a few times, because yes, it was very pretty.
Sooooo...
I just went to see Crimson Peak, because I'll pretty much see anything with Tom Hiddleston in it. Plus, Guillermo del Toro? Hell yes.
I feel like it was a movie written for not-bright people, though..? del Toro's stuff is always visually very interesting, so I'm a sucker for his movies but man... I just want to like his movies so much. Good actors/actresses wasted on a pretty movie.
Sadface.
I wish I could upvote that a thousand times. So very true. Probably why I love the show, despite its general insanity.
@Coin
I really want to watch it, but the hype about it makes me super wary... And the red leather outfit.... But mostly the hype.
While watching a bunch of Good TV (The Walking Dead, amiright?), I keep seeing commercials for the show Into the Badlands.
I feel like I'm going crazy...? Is it me, or was that on like..years ago? Or is my brain doing that weird, overworked de ja vu thing?
I tried googling, and either my Google-fu sucks, or I'm nuts but.... anyone know about that show? Maybe it's just been in the works for forever?
@tragedyjones said:
6 episodes in to Hemlock Grove. The crazy train has looped back around and ran the train into the shark, detonating a car full of dynamite
Rails? Where we're going, we don't need rails...
@tragedyjones
Hemlock Grove is terrible in all the right ways... I know what I'm binge watching in about twenty minutes >>
At work, I've been training someone to take over for me when I'm finally like "alright bitches, part time for real, none of this 12 hour days bullshit anymore" at the start of November. Considering the other person has only been doing the job I'm training them to do for about two weeks, they're absolutely fantastic - just slow and stuff still since they don't know what anything is, or where it's at.
So, cue this morning, after three days of absolutely busting ass trying to get stuff done, but still running behind, because teaching new-person. I was on my own, fully intending to bust ass for another day and get all of the production done, since I knew we were so behind. Thankfully I work better on my own these days...
Get to work and there's this snarky note from my manager about how I "need to find [my] hustle today". Totally struck a nerve, and I've been pissed off ever since. Plus another twelve hour day. I am only one person. She apparently got chewed out by upper management because we were missing pies or something... I don't know. I get that she's trying to do her job, but fuck... I literally cannot work any harder while I'm there.
Anyway... TL:DR - twelve hour days, snarky attitudes and managers who think you haven't been doing fuck-all for days when you've been doing the work of about three people piss me the hell off.
I found two fleas on my dog last night... As such, I haven't slept for two reasons:
Fuck you, fleas. =|
First ... There are people bored by porn? What? This is the internet, people. If you can't find something entertaining, you're doing it wrong.
Second, I was pleasantly surprised by Byzantium. Not the best movie ever, but good. Couldn't get through fifteen minutes of Only lovers Left Alive, despite how much I wanted to. Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton? Yes please.
... I might give that another try.
I was also pleasantly surprised by Moonrise Kingdom. Then again, I'm a sucker for Edward Norton and almost anything he's in, so... That could be a factor there.