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I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be.
We know things are bad — worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.'Wednesday, 15-Jan-14 23:10:31 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark and then the messenger is co-opted by the capitalist to sell their products. A truly great film.
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@ceruleanspark never even seen that film and i recognised the quote. Must find this one.
Wednesday, 15-Jan-14 23:16:19 UTC from web -
@snowcone Don't worry, snowy. Everyone's sick of hearing about and seeing that the world, and indeed, the USA, is falling from grace quickly and so many people are jobless/homeless. It's a very difficult economy unless you get really lucky, like some of those people who make the MLP plushies. Oh my god those sell for a TON of money. I did the math once for one of the largest producers of those things on DeviantArt, and they said they had sold just less than 200 plushies in 2013...at the average price that her work sold for on Ebay, being from $500 to $800 per piece, I surmised that she would have made upwards of $78,000 last year. However, I'm sitting here and none of my work sells.
Wednesday, 15-Jan-14 23:20:30 UTC from web-
@clayinthecarpet regular art is a lot more flooded market than plushies. Have you ever considered taking sculpture commissions? that might make you in higher demand.
Wednesday, 15-Jan-14 23:22:10 UTC from web-
@rarity I have had it posted on my DA that I'd consider commissions since I joined up 3 months ago. *shrugs*
Wednesday, 15-Jan-14 23:24:24 UTC from web-
@clayinthecarpet you've just got to put yourself out there more then
Wednesday, 15-Jan-14 23:24:44 UTC from web-
@rarity Honestly, I really don't care. I make what I have to make because I have things to say through my work. However, I'm actually kind of glad that not a lot of people have commissioned me. I don't like creating for others unless it's MY idea to do so, out of my love or respect for something about them. In that way, I suppose I'm not very disappointed. I'm far from a production artist.
Wednesday, 15-Jan-14 23:26:39 UTC from web-
@clayinthecarpet why are you talking about how none of your work sells if it doesn't matter?
Wednesday, 15-Jan-14 23:27:19 UTC from web-
@rarity I'm not talking about horse art, for starters.
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@rarity I meant my sculptures. I have...5 or 6 that are still for sale. People know they're out there.
Wednesday, 15-Jan-14 23:28:16 UTC from web-
@clayinthecarpet most people would rather commission, I don't know really.
Wednesday, 15-Jan-14 23:28:38 UTC from web-
@rarity I agree. People get a TOTAL apples for one-offs, and I don't do one-offs because they'd cost the commissioner far, far, faaaar too much money.
Wednesday, 15-Jan-14 23:29:32 UTC from web
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@rarity plushies are on the decline because alot of the horses are bing mass produced.
Wednesday, 15-Jan-14 23:25:23 UTC from web-
@mylittlesistercantbethisincestual mostly badly though
Wednesday, 15-Jan-14 23:26:39 UTC from web-
@rarity to be perfectly honest i'd rather spend $15 on a decent plush than a $125 one no matter the difference in quality. I'm cheap
Wednesday, 15-Jan-14 23:36:10 UTC from web-
@mylittlesistercantbethisincestual And that's the thing, man. Most people are like that. I have to charge too much for my stuff because of how detailed and difficult it is for me to create it - most of the time. I was doomed from the start when it comes to sales. XD
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@mylittlesistercantbethisincestual I've got one of the mass produced ones, honestly it's pretty good. I would LOVE one of the custom made beauties though
Wednesday, 15-Jan-14 23:38:28 UTC from web-
@rarity my miku plushies. 5 for 7500¥ 4 snow mikus (2011, 2012, and two 2013) and another one. There shipping to my place should be nice.
Wednesday, 15-Jan-14 23:41:05 UTC from web
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