changing of the seasons
I have very bad not at all good news considering my Good Omens stuff. This morning, I got a email that every fan artist dreads.
This letter includes 80+ pages of screenshots from my Ko-fi, printshops, and socials, even my Twitter header, where I simply listed my main fandoms.
They’ve also demanded to delete all the freebies: PDF version of Ineffable Affirmations and wallpaper packs (not sure how free/donate stuff violates IP, but that's what they say).
I will have to comply with these demands — if they start any legal process, it would be absolutely catastrophic.
They also have the right to block or deactivate my social media for IP infringement, which would be basically a starvation sentence for me and my family, so I don't have any other options.
Yes, I should have seen it coming — it was always a grim possibility. But right now is quite literally the worst time to get a letter like this. I had planned to gradually shift toward creating more original content, but the war and forced emigration disrupted everything.
When we suddenly lost all our sources of income, I had to stick back to drawing mostly fanart. Basically the tiny amount of money I got from Ko‑fi and occasional commissions, was all our means for survival these years.
All this time, we’ve been trying to find a safer place to live — an incredibly difficult process with Russian passports. And just yesterday, we got an invitation to apply for a long stay French visa.
The cruel irony of it all...
Honestly, I am shaken and trying not to fall into despair.
If we get these visas, we will have to move in April, which means we’ll need A LOT of money for tickets, rent, transporting our stuff, and who knows what else. If you ever moved between countries, you can imagine that.
I was hoping our Ko‑fi and the new projects we planned for this year would make it possible. But now, we have to delete most of the shop and cancel half of the projects we were working on.
I’m very scared, and have no idea what to do now.
I have to remove everything before March 9th.
Tomorrow, I’ll set the lowest possible prices on all our GO items. If you wanted something from these collections, this will be literally the last chance.
Please, please tell me everything is going to be okay 😰
I decided I needed to do a 1940s Crowley to go with magician Aziraphale.
~ sometime during S3, when they finally let themselves be angry at each other about being rejected ~
If you'd asked either of them what had happened, you'd get something along the lines of "a great battle between enemies in which neither could best the other."
And indeed a few, half hearted punches and insults had been thrown, a bit of scuffling that landed some books and feathers scattered. But before long, far less than they'd have you believe, they ended up like this. Every so often one of them might spit a venomless jab or thump their first down lightly.
They didn't move for awhile.
Clacomat, she/hermassive Good Omens fan
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