hey gibbon – okay, I’m gonna ask you to do this, but please don’t get violently euphoric this time – I can’t reach this box. could you… [ sigh] extend your arms to get it for me?
[bones creaking painfully, gibbon screeching in pleasure and pain] YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
“Thank you for the quote, I’ll keep it in mind and get back to you sometime when I’m able to commission you!”
“That’s a little out of my budget for the time being, but thank you for your time. I’ll contact you again if/when I am able to pay!”
“I appreciate the quote, but i’ve decided to wait on the commission, thank you!”
“I understand your prices and that they are fair, but I am unable to afford this for the time being! Good luck on the rest of your commissions.”
What NOT to say when an artist quotes your commission higher than you expected:
“WAHHHHHHHHHHH”
“@-@ Holy crap that’s expensive!!”
“Could you maybe give me a tumblr follower discount? :3”
“Your prices are too high!!!!”
“Really?? Just for a sketch? I could draw it for half that!!”
Treat artists like human beings. We gotta eat too. Commissioning an artist is not different from any other contract work. You’re not going to ask your dentist for a discounted root canal or tell your contractor his cabinets are too expensive, don’t ask artists to change their prices because you perceive them as too high. More than likely, an artist taking commissions from the internet are drastically under charging themselves already. Please be respectful and understanding that art is a skill and not a favour.
the phrase “curiosity killed the cat” is actually not the full phrase it actually is “curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back” so don’t let anyone tell you not to be a curious little baby okay go and be interested in the world uwu
See also:
Blood is thicker than water The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.
Meaning that relationships formed by choice are stronger than those formed by birth.
Let’s not forget that “Jack of all trades, master of none” ends with “But better than a master of one.”
It means that being equally good/average at everything is much better than being perfect at one thing and sucking at everything else. So don’t worry if you’re not perfect at something you do! Being okay is better!
It goes to show that conformity isn’t always a good thing. And that just because more than one person has the same idea, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good idea.
what the fuck why haven’t i heard the full version to any of these
“Birds of a feather flock together” ends with “until the cat comes.”
It’s actually a warning about fair-weather friends, not an assessment of how complementary people are.
I’ve always felt like these were cut down on purpose.
I really like these phrases and plan on spreading this knowledge.
The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
I want to make designs out of these.
Funny how all the half-finished ones encourage uniformity and upholding the status-quo, while the complete proverbs encourage like…living exciting, eclectic lives driven by choice and personal passion.
this is what radical political comedic satire looks like
im Here for publicly funded jokes at his expense
Anyway, here’s how to donate to Sesame Street and support PBS with donations. Talking about how awesome a thing is can be great if you also take action to support it.
(I can 100% see the big-picture difficulty in centring a white person’s Big Revelation About History over actual lived experience of British PoC, but I think it’s also very important for people to internalise the idea that history is a continuum. Western culture has this weird amnesia of our ancestors; it’s like we picture History Times as a perfectly straight line from Game of Thrones to America Beating Up the Nazis to Now, when racism and sexism are over. The nature of history is actually a surprisingly big, scary, porous concept, and this interview makes it incredibly accessible, and I prefer to have 101-level political stuff on my blog to High Level Discourse.)
The Paradox Machine 