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I am seriously becoming a night person again. I wake up during the day and have no idea why anyone would choose to be awake during such a hot bright miasma of awfulness. I’m not leaving bed until it’s cool and dark, thanks.

rendigo:

athenaswink:

I’m posting this to set the record straight on our sale of hats that where inspired by the character Nepeta from the Comic home stuck.
We first designed and made Nepeta hats in April of last year. We then sent you a message asking if you would like to officially sanction our hats for a percentage of our profits.
Since then we have never heard a peep from you or anyone else representing you so we went ahead and sold them as they are a product that many of our customers have been requesting and you do not manufacture them. We make them all by hand in our own homes.
This was well before the sales FAQ was posted. They have since then been part of the normal mix of hats we sell at conventions and have been sold in a normal way at our booths.

Our making and selling the hats is in no way shape or form illegal or copyright infringement because items of clothing are not something you can copyright. Please read this if you have any questions regarding this statement.
Our contacting you in an attempt to get your official sanction on the hats was honestly just an act of good will on our part, we are making money off of a design inspired by your character and while that is perfectly legal for us to do I would have preferred to work with you and create a product that you approved of.

I have stated that I would stop making these hats if Andrew or anyone representing him contacted me requesting that we stop, as making them past that point would be, to me at least, disrespectful if not illegal.

I was highly disappointed to see that instead of contacting us directly and asking to stop the sale of the hats you publicly posted a very slanderous entry on tumbler full of false accusations against our company. 
We had never before been asked by you or anyone representing you to stop the sale of these hats, they are not illegal to sell, it’s not copyright infringement and we have not been selling them shadily “under the table”.

I’m sorry that I did manage to lose my temper last night, however when someone publicly post things that could very seriously hurt my lively hood I find it hard to maintain my composure.
We will stop manufacturing these hats as you have now asked us to, and I’m still willing to retroactively compensate you for the percentage of the hat sales I had previously offered for hats that we’ve sold.

We apologize if you feel that you have been wronged by us in anyway, we have a large amount of respect for Andrew and his creations and my business partner Carrie Wink is a huge fan of the comics.

Any additional besmirchment of our company by you or anyone legally representing you will be considered harassment and will responded to accordingly.

It’s not actually slander to post that you’re selling a design you don’t have liscense to sell. 

Also it’s really unprofessional on your part to keep dragging this into the public arena—if you had posted this as just an explanation or a public adress would be one thing, but to address it to the parties that you’ve actually legitimately wronged makes it weird and aggressive! 

You knew you were doing something wrong from the start—that’s why you sent Andrew an email about it. If you really respected his requests not to sell homestuck related merchandise, you would never have sold these in the first place, especially so after you inquired about consent.

Also, slander is spoken. In print it’s libel.

conversationparade:

[step 1] open your mouth as wide as possible. make sure to stick out your tongue as far as you can, too, since kisses are like, 90% that thing

[step 2] find someone to kiss. you will know they want to kiss because their tongue will also be extended at full length

[step 3] move in for the kill

:[ goodluck lackwit

called my parents, doing better now. learning to head it off when I realize I’m having one is helping.

anxiety attacks suck

I’m riding a train thru farmland and see all these crops and canals and things, and the first thing that comes to mind is “I could make that in Minecraft”