The Bitching thread 2.0

[spicy_sweets]

Pfffftt, thanks for this xD

[dawgofdawgness]

Mmffrghgh everything is so stressful

[VibrantFox]

this is such a big mood....maybe cat gif will help??

[Heliox14]

this thing.
beautiful.
i don't know about you guys in the western hemisphere, but down in the east, this is worth dying for.
recipe: just make matcha latte (read: pour milk in green tea), then stir in espresso (read: double brewed 3-in-1 coffee).
yeah. that's it.

[jurinova]

Earlier today I had to call a vet appointment for my cat because he might have some problems with his teeth. It's been a long and tiring day, so I decided to take a nice little nap. However when I woke up I found that someone had peed in the cat carrier.

Coincidence? I think not!

(Luckily the appointment's not until Monday, so I have time to clean it up properly.)

[spicy_sweets]

I wish I could write continuously instead of on my breaks... but writing and keeping up with uni feels impossible.

[TheThoughtfulBoxful]

I just want to share stuff finally.

[VibrantFox]

i really want to try out speedpainting videos but i can't for the life of me understand how to fix obs for recording and i've yet to figure out anything save for layout just when i thought i'd found a way to provide some kind of content while i try to get myself into making comics again

i'm also upset at myself as a sort of artist meetup thing is apparently starting up at my local library but i never go nor do i have much reason to not to o<-<

[Chopythes]

Urg, I really don't want to bitch about this, but... Can't someone switch jobs with me?
I'm tired of this BS now.
Our boss is sick (like really sick, and should probably be in a hospital but they don't have a substitute so she needs to do all the work herself) and NOT ONLY that, our schedule sucks.
They've threatened me to go down in time because I say I'm unable to work 4 hours in 2 hours worth of time. It's impossible.

Got a call yesterday from them, saying that I may not be able to work full time. Uhm. Excuse you?
You're the one who told me I could take this other place at a later time which APPARENTLY I couldn't.
Ofc I get stressed out.

I've tried coming up with solutions to our schedule but whenever I try to suggest something it's not good at all. So when they told me to "open my mouth" and express myself I felt so... Miserable. I mean. wtf?
And today they told me that I got home nearly 2 hours earlier than I should've had and I'm just... No? I didn't?
But there's no point in arguing, I'm too effing tired for this now.

I've been in constant anxiety and stomach ache for nearly 2 weeks now due to this "amazing" schedule that doesn't work.

I think that if they hadn't been so sick, this wouldn't have happened at all.

I just urghh... And I feel so bad about ranting about it when I do have a job (which is really hard to get these days) but I'm so tired of all of this now. I just want to do something that's not scrubbing gd toilets every day. I'm sick of it and I'm sick of people not respecting me because of my work.
I almost never tell people what I work with, because it's either "how awful it must be" or "people like you don't have any education anyway so what can you do?"
and I'm just... Please don't talk.

I'm sorry, I just needed to vent. At the moment, everything I do feels like it's wrong and nothing I do is right. I just.. Want to go back to how my old work was, because I had so much fun with it. I felt like I could grow as a person and right now I feel so stuck with myself.
I've tried looking for other jobs, but you either need a relevant education for said job, having worked with it before or being good with numbers. None of which I have unfortunately so I'm stuck with cleaning toilets. Fun.
(and no, I can't afford education, even tho we have it free here. Because CSN, the loan provider, are butts and I've pretty much messed up all my chances of ever being able to do anything else, thanks 18yo me.)

I just... I have no idea what to do, I can't live on my art (yet) and I don't want to go to work on Monday.
One part of me wants to call myself in sick, but we're low on personnel so no one can subsitute for me while I'm gone and I want to prove to my boss that I can do this.

But yeah, dark thoughts have been pretty much increasing (I'm on meds, don't worry! It's just... they don't seem to help at the moment but I can manage that) and I just want to get away from life I guess?

Gosh, I'm so sorry that this got so long!! D:

[Wumbl]

I wanna kill someone right now.............

Recently I've been given the news that I'm being forcibly ejected from my family's house, and as a result I'm trying to get commissions to raise extra funds for this sudden change. (I only have one month)
I've been pushing my commission info as well as scouring for work in the DA forums like a coked up ferret.
And do you know what I get? I get someone replying to me in a random forum thread saying "I love everything you do and follow your stuff! draw my OC for free :^)"

Okay then. I'll just drop all the things I'm doing that are necessary to making money for my survival and give some complete stranger some art that they'll give me nothing for. On top of that, their only reference image is a goddamn minecraft skin. How in the hell am I meant to draw that? I don't even draw minecraft stuff! It's completely insane.

It feels like I'm having my wounds salted. I'm facing the incoming possibility of poverty and it's scaring me a lot, and I'm trying my hardest to make money and yet I get nothing but the same old "give me free art because I like you :^)" crap.

It made me feel totally deflated. It feels like this person is just pretending to care about my work or me as a person.

[Jenny-Toons]

The fact that they most likely know about your situation but have the gall to ask that tells me they're selfish.

They don't deserve your work and people like that don't understand that you're not obligated to give them art.

I hope you rejected them and I hope it was harsh. I can't stand people like that. Like, if you see someone is making commissions, don't even respond if you can't pay. That's like me going into a store and taking things and going "oh, I don't wanna pay for this, so can I just have it for free?"

[GesuGesu]

THis might help.

For me, I stopped being so picky and tried to draw anything I was willing to do for money - furries, porn, weird fetishes, etc.

Then I learned furries were big spenders.

[dawgofdawgness]

I bought an onscreen tablet to try it out (and because my other one doesn't work on my laggy Intel-infested computer) but my computer doesn't have an HDMI port because it's 3.5 million years old.

sucks.

[hades]

hey,
I do freelance commissions as my main income source currently...
May I give some advice on where to post and such to help gain traffic toward your goals?

I'm sorry you are going through a rough time.

[IdiotWithPencil]

had the same problem but in reverse, we had hdmi laptop but the tablet had a DVI cabel, had to go and buy a 30 dollar adaptor and we only found it after the 3rd store (conversion from pesos to dollar 1D=20P)

life sucks ='C

[IdiotWithPencil]

May I give some advice on where to post and such to help gain traffic toward your goals?

would love it this was a thread topic, artist need all the help they can get in these digital crazy days

[hades]

uhhh I can try I guess

is there anything specific you want covered?

[Wumbl]

Thanks for offering! I'd definitely be interested in your two cents. I haven't been doing commissions properly for a couple of years, so I could always do with refreshers and pointers.

[hades]

okay, I will attempt to put together a thread either before bed or sometime tomorrow when I get the chance.

I work primarily through personal character commissions far away from DA forums though just as a heads up.

[LordVincent]

Get a hdmi to usb adaptor (basically an external graphics card/reader for hdmi that then transfers the info to your pc via usb). I worked for years with one on my other laptop which has no hdmi.

If your local electronics store douchebags tell you no such thing exist, ignore them and order one online. I ended up a few times in an argument with electronics store mansplainers who tried their hardest to explain to me why this object (which I already told them I had one at home and had been using for years and used every bloody day in my work or as little as 10 minutes before i arrived at the store) supposedly DOES NOT EXIST, and CANNOT POSSIBLY EXIST. It's a waste of time and when they are proven wrong by their coworker who does a simple 5 second googling, they won't even recognize that you could possibly know more than them about any tech and will simply act all high and mighty and go "well we don't sell it HERE"

So yeah if you end up in that, just tell them to google it while you go buy it from someone that has it, and leave like a champ.