Oh right those guys. I never watched them ever so I forget they exist. Though that imbalances the gender ratio of cat-themed male and female super heroes in even more.
Well Tigress is a villain, and Shadow Cat isn’t actually cat-themed.
Hellcat does bring the total up to 2.
Commissioner PSA
If you receive an email from PayPal saying your invoice/payment as been changed to “order processed” it’s just me updating all the invoices with tracking and unfortunately I have no option to not send an email.
I just don’t want PayPal shutting down, or fucking with, my account. So, I have to do this.
Please forgive me past commissioners, especially repeat ones, as I go through all my invoices and change there order status.
ATTENTION ZINE CREATORS, ARTISTS, AND ANYONE WHOSE BUSINESS UTILIZES PRE-ORDERS AND PAYPAL
As of June 15th, 2018, PayPal has changed their user policy with little to no fanfare at all in ways that could literally destroy your business. I’m going to say this as plainly as possible:
DO NOT USE PAYPAL AT ALL IF POSSIBLE.
I know this is a lot to ask, especially since PayPal is the most globally accepted digital tender, but unless you want to lose access to your funds for six months and PayPal possibly forever, you need to read this.
PayPal Business accounts are now being flagged, locked, and completely shut down if:
1. If you haven’t shipping anything within 21 days of your first transaction
2. You’ve received more than 200 orders
and/or
3. You’ve made an excess of $20,000 (USD)
If this happens to you, you will not be able to access your money for up to six months. PayPal is NOT willing to work with you, all they will say is there’s nothing they can do, they’re cutting business ties, and offer you the MAILING address of their legal department. That’s right, you can’t even get a direct line to these people, they’re just going to tank your business by dicking around with your money for six months. Your only options are to:
1. Wait six months and frustrate customers, and by-proxy tarnish your reputation.
2. Refund everyone, possibly lose their business, and tarnish your reputation.
3. Pursue the matter legally, which will likely take longer than six months anyway, not to mention cost money out of pocket.
IF YOU ARE CURRENTLY USING A PAYPAL ACCOUNT FOR PRE-ORDERS, GET OUT NOW. Deposit your funds and part ways with PayPal as a tender, this is not a battle they’re willing to let you win.
Thankfully most of my stuff is filtered through other sites first but fucking here we go again.
It used to be you could get around this by marking your stuff as digital goods that dont need shipment notification but I dunno if that’ll work anymore. All I know is paypal has been making it increasingly difficult for a lot of artists and creators lately and it’s a logistical nightmare for a lot of us.
I need to finish my storefront.
Why are they doing this? It seems to make their service clumsy and unusable. Is Paypal drunk and dumped so badly they turned mean??
It’s likely another way to try and stop sex workers or adult content creators from using their services.
It started out with “you can’t use a stage name unless you have a business account”. Which means you get a chunk of your money taken as a processing fee, but get to use a “business” name instead of your real name AND LOCATION, cause that’s a thing they were forcing you to post too unless you upgraded.
People used to tell me all the time when they put a tip in my tip jar that it was telling them my real name and the city I lived in, so eventually I bit the bullet and upgraded to avoid that. (Which is why ko-fi was/is so great, because it’s essentially a paypal wrapper that lets you use the service while not revealing your identity and location.)
But they’ve been making it increasingly harder and harder to run an online business for anyone who doesn’t ship physical items that can be tracked. Like part of it is likely to ensure that customers are getting what they paid for, but when it comes so quickly on the heels of numerous policy updates regarding sex work and adult content, it is undoubtedly linked to making it more difficult for those people to use their services.
Patreon might be doing my head in with their site constantly breaking, and they fuck up on communication issues a lot, but this is largely why they changed who they do their payment processing with, to avoid paypals “no naughty business” policies. They still use paypal and Stripe, but they moved their handler to other countries with less draconian laws, and broadened to other payment processors because of this kind of thing.
When I get my own site up, I will not be using paypal, which sucks cause everyone uses paypal. But I also cannot abide their business practices and ethics. Or the apparent lack thereof.
I contacted Paypal TODAY so if you guys could spread this around so people that use paypal would know that’d be great!
So when you do digital goods you go to “TRACKING INFORMATION” and then select “ORDER PROCESSED” and you’ll be fine and won’t get into trouble!
reblogging for the last part to save a life cuz I was getting the “shipping info” stuff added to my digital commissions and i just ignored it cuz it wasn’t relatvent but i went through and updated it to “order processed”
Well, I gotta do this so don’t hate me past commissioners :’3
ya know ive been telling this for the past fuckin 4 yrs of using paypal as a means of income and invoice
the following you MUST do if you are a nsfw/sfw content creator
-ALWAYS set each and every goods and service exchanged’s shipping details to “order processed” it tells paypal that you have processed the order and does NOT require a shipping label to be created
-when naming invoices, dont use anything that says like “cum gargling ball buster 9000 featuring princess peach from mario”, that will get you blocked since you arent selling any physical media and to paypal’s guidelines that soliciting sex/prostitution (only if you refuse to file the first step or fill it as the first step)
-NEVER have commissioners send money as “a friend” to bypass the processing fee, its a few $ that you arent receiving, get tf over it, its better than dealing with legal issues, have them send as “goods and service” and if they dont send as that refund the money back (this keeps you on good legal ground)
-when naming invoices just simply state the type of comm ie: “Cell shade +bg + 1 add char: Sluggirl OC” its that easy
and if people wanna argue with me, then lemme tell ya, ive used paypal EXACTLY like this for 4 fuckin years and the only thing that ive had happen was someone was attempting login somewhere and they notified me and i changed my password. I have OVER 200 invoices, and not ONCE have i needed to ship an actual item and ive been doing nsfw SINCE 2014
so all of this is a scare thing cause someone hates paypal or just doesnt properly understand paypal’s ToS. so ALL the artists that follow me and use paypal dont fall for this stupid clickbaity bs is just follow my steps and youll be 100% FUCKIN FINE
HELL i even have a paypal business debit card that i got at 210 invoices in and i was PRE-APPROVED so this whole fuckin thing pisses me off with the negligence in understanding their ToS and business practice it just UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH
Why do cat-themed superheroes always have to be women? Why can’t we ever get a Catman? And why do they always have to be agile, perfect thieves obsessed with shiny things? Every cat I’ve ever met is just a lazy lump of pure chaotic energy that cares more about swatting at anything remotely string-shaped than all the most expensive toys in the universe, and who fall off any surface they stupidly jump on because they’re fucking fools who don’t understand their own limits. I want that properly represented.
Once Again, 3AM Pop is 100% right about everything.
As I recall, there was a superhero literally called Catman. He never took off.
There’s also Wildcat in DC
He’s awesome and his aesthetic is tough boxer
Didn’t Wolverine have a brother called Sabertooth or someshit?
Surprisingly I’m almost done of commissions…however I won’t be opening another batch next week because I’m REALLY behind on LWAE stuff so I’ll spend next week working on that (and another non-wing it commission).
They are the worst. I should know. I was born one lol
My condolences for the place of your birth.
The character creator in Soul Caliber VI temps me to get the game even though I’m not particularly a fighting game person (in fact I’m genuinely awful at them)
I don’t think I’m getting another batch of halloween comms out this month after this. Mainly because my older sister and my nephew are here so it’s hard to draw when they pop in my room on a moments notice.
Anime Opinions:
Goblin Slayer - It’s a shame the quality is so low. When I saw it was the studio that did the Akame ga Kill! anime I immediately lowered my expectations. I didn’t like that they cut out the scenes from ep. 2 esp when they had that overly long monologue. They really don’t need to do 1 chapter = 1 episode. When they end up with a lot of really obviously long periods of blatant filler shots.
SSSS Gridman - I found the first ep to be REALLY slow up until the end. But, the show picked up a lot for me ep.2. Though one criticism is a lot of still shots with audio but it looks a lot better then Goblin Slayer.
Skeleton Bookstore - I forgot the actual name. But, I think the title should be obvious what I am talking about? That show is really funny and endearing. I don’t have much else to say it’s just good.
I still need to catch up on all the other anime I wanted to watch yet. But, I am lazy. I still have leftovers from last season to watch too.
Well it IS Tezuka, NOT having designs faithful to his style is damn near sacrilege.
Well, it’s not that the designs aren’t faithful to his style. It’s that they aren’t faithful to how the character was designed to originally looked (cute girl-ification not withstanding).
Both supposed to be the same character.
And they didn’t even give Black Jack a scar across her face but opted to give her a stupid fucking hairclip as if that’s an appropriate replacement.
Oh wow Japanese people are mad about the Tezuka Osamu game cuz the designs aren’t all that faithful.
