Andrea

@andreademonakos.bsky.social

I’m a queer Bermudian / Canadian living in the Seattle area, as a perpetually busy small biz owner. She/Her/Hers

Mistria's full 1.0 release arrives tomorrow, 8/5! @aidosaur.bsky.social & I have been working on it since 2019-- seven years!! -- as Senior Writer & Character/Concept Artist! I wrote thousands and thousands of lines of dialogue... I hope they make you laugh and feel things! See you in the Fields! 💖

Fields of Mistria 1.0 Date AnnouncementAnanth Hirsh: Senior Writer, Yuko Ota: Character & Environment Concept Artist

i think transparency is important because things can’t improve otherwise, and without it we get explosive issues like we’ve seen in the last year or so with hiveworks and silver sprocket. we can make these things better and we can make our own, whether that’s digital fairs or pubs etc

You can only control yourself and what you do, what you care about, and how you want to move on the world. If there is anything I truly hope people can do is to learn to build wide and varying interests that don’t always involve IP or individual celebrities or the like, build who YOU are

My toxic trait is that I love when artists shit talk their scummy clients. I think we as a society are way too used to the "customer is always right" mantra, because sometimes, the customer is a chud. Self-employed folks have every right to talk about people who devalue their time and skill.

Apple charges people ~20% more than the Patreon list price and they keep the difference for themselves. They also hold the proceeds of iOS app sales for 75 days, making it impossible for creators to accurately predict earnings. They basically inserted themselves in order to rip *more* people off

Part Time Yeen@parttimeyeen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Any of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year

The fig trees in our backyard are full of fruit and they’re almost ripe! But it turns out the local raccoons don’t care about the perfect level of ripeness, they spent most of last night grabbing figs and breaking branches! 😭

Green figs hanging from a branch

There is a real sense that they were supposed to be grateful the pandemic was “over,” but all of these things in their lives were worse than before. And now, the way things got worse feels unspeakably permanent.