Pay your artists
Feb. 8th, 2016 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressSo! One of my unofficial rules for myself with this new job, and it's *astounding* new paycheck1 is that each month, when I get said paycheck, I buy art.
November belonged to Seanan McGuire --who applauds my financial choices. In case you didn't know, Seanan was *the* author for me for 2015. I read 17 of her novels in nine months, and have absolutely zero regrets.
December I took a break from it, because Christmas.
January belonged to Shaenon Garrity --I finally got my act together about buying the Narbonic strip I most wanted, except she didn't have it anymore. So I bought one with reference to children's folklore, and then bought a Li'l Mell strip to go with it. I plan on having them framed together, because gawdamn, do I love children's folklore.
February. February will belong to SJ Tucker. As if there was any doubt in anyone's minds that she was to be a part of this tradition --the only shock is really that it took me four months. But here's the problem: I own all but two of her albums2! I can't really make as much of a dedicated effort to throwing money at her as I'd like (and just straight-up throwing money at her, while effective, is not what I want to do. 'sides, I already subscribe to her patreon-like object)
There's a solution. Read the next post I make for details...
~Sor
MOOP!
1: I have jumped from making 13.5-18k a year before taxes, to 39k. This is _fucking significant_. Last week, I literally doubled my savings account --and I intend to do it at least twice more before summer. My new job is amazing in that it's actually what I want to be doing with my life, but it's also amazing because _for the first time I am actually doing better than breaking even_.
2: "Solace and Sorrow" and "For the Girl in the Garden". Which are both based on Cat Valente books I haven't read. Which feels a little weird to get --I mean, yes, it's been ages since I read Palimpsest, but I have at least read it!
PostScript: Next month will almost definitely be Tailsteak, but after that, I'm willing to take suggestions.
November belonged to Seanan McGuire --who applauds my financial choices. In case you didn't know, Seanan was *the* author for me for 2015. I read 17 of her novels in nine months, and have absolutely zero regrets.
December I took a break from it, because Christmas.
January belonged to Shaenon Garrity --I finally got my act together about buying the Narbonic strip I most wanted, except she didn't have it anymore. So I bought one with reference to children's folklore, and then bought a Li'l Mell strip to go with it. I plan on having them framed together, because gawdamn, do I love children's folklore.
February. February will belong to SJ Tucker. As if there was any doubt in anyone's minds that she was to be a part of this tradition --the only shock is really that it took me four months. But here's the problem: I own all but two of her albums2! I can't really make as much of a dedicated effort to throwing money at her as I'd like (and just straight-up throwing money at her, while effective, is not what I want to do. 'sides, I already subscribe to her patreon-like object)
There's a solution. Read the next post I make for details...
~Sor
MOOP!
1: I have jumped from making 13.5-18k a year before taxes, to 39k. This is _fucking significant_. Last week, I literally doubled my savings account --and I intend to do it at least twice more before summer. My new job is amazing in that it's actually what I want to be doing with my life, but it's also amazing because _for the first time I am actually doing better than breaking even_.
2: "Solace and Sorrow" and "For the Girl in the Garden". Which are both based on Cat Valente books I haven't read. Which feels a little weird to get --I mean, yes, it's been ages since I read Palimpsest, but I have at least read it!
PostScript: Next month will almost definitely be Tailsteak, but after that, I'm willing to take suggestions.