bye gumroad

I’ve been using Gumroad as a digital asset store for years now, as well as for some of my physical goods. But I’ve been wanting to extricate myself from it for a while now, and recent developments have finally pushed me all the way there, and the timing was good given I’ve gotten a Dealer’s Den booth at Furality Somna.

My digital assets are now primarily on itch.io, and physical goods are now just on Etsy for now, although I’m not a huge fan of Etsy either, and my physical books aren’t currently available anywhere (not that they ever sell to begin with). I guess I should look at my ko-fi shop as an alternative for that stuff.

Anyway. I’ve already sent (manually-generated) itch.io claim keys to everyone who paid for my VRChat assets, and for folks who bought my books on Gumroad they can request a download key as well if they want to be able to redownload it from itch.io for some reason.

Now to figure out if I can sell my shares in the company…

Fireplace done!

The fireplace work has finished, and conveniently today my firewood storage rack also arrived. The fellow recommended that I wait another 24 hours before lighting it up, though, as the cement needs time to cure.

I’m wondering what to do with the decorative logs that were left in the fireplace all this time. They were just like. Cutesy logs that were used as part of the home staging and got left behind.

I think these are them and the description says:

This is a natural product with zero chemical treatments or additives. This is a decorative product and not intended for burning, which could expose user to soot and carbon monoxide.

so I’m getting mixed messages here.

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New pricing strategy

After years of constantly lowering my prices, trying to get a vanishingly-small amount of sales on things I care about, I’ve decided to raise everything and make it uniform, across all of my music storefronts, namely:

Here’s my pricing strategy and rationale.

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New store page

I finally got around to making a better store page. It’s still not great but it’s better than just linking to either my Threadless or Storenvy or whatever, and I’ll be able to backfill a bunch more of my items into it eventually.

There’s a lot of stuff I’d like to change of course, but this at least gives me a hook to setting up my own PayPal/Stripe/etc. cart as well.

Anyway I’m glad that Publ is in a state where it’s gotten easier and easier for me to make new sites from scratch with it. And I also released a new version of Publ with some shiny new features.

🔏 I got into GeekGirlCon!

Yay! This is the first year I’ve made it into GeekGirlCon as a solo vendor (last time was part of the Seattle Indies megabooth which ended up being a one-time thing for Reasons). I’ll be primarily selling my comics, but I’ll also have some of my albums present (as both CDs and download cards) and I’m looking into getting some enamel pins and art prints made as well.

For pins I’ll just be starting simple with three designs: transgender heart, asexual heart, and Werner’s head. For art prints I’m not sure what to make; I have a bunch of my own designs I could do, and I should also probably polish up some fanart since that generally is what attracts people to a booth in the first place.

I also have plenty of copies of Unity (books 1 and 2) but I guess I should print up more copies of Lewi since I have only like 20 of those.

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Prime Wardrobe: what the heck is the point?

So, I’ve been trying to find some nice dress shoes. I have pretty big feet for someone of my height and gender, so local shoe stores never actually have anything in my size in a style that I like. So, for this I still use Amazon, since I still have Prime for the next month or so anyway. (I do not plan on renewing after this year.)

One thing that Amazon keeps on pushing is Prime Wardrobe (affiliate link), where they heavily advertise that with a Prime membership you can now try-before-you-buy and have 7 days to decide which things to keep. Which is already a bit silly because with normal Prime you already have something like 30 days to return a thing you don’t want.

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