Help me get the verified badge on vGen by commissioning me through the platform!!

I want to post more services soon and I'm always happy to work on your OC's and bring your ideas to life!!

https://vgen.co/RoastedWitch

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My little baby cat died yesterday. He was just about to turn 3 years old.

He climbed were he shouldn't have and injured his leg. We went to the vet and they sutured him alright. He woke up at the vet and... and he had a cardiac arrest. They couldn't save him...

He's gone and I can't do anything to change that. He's gone and my heart is burning in sadness. He's gone and I have to keep saying it because otherwise I start wishing this is all a nightmare

My baby is gone. My baby is gone and all I wish in this fucking world is to have him back

I want him back

He was such a good kitty, he did no harm to anyone ever in his life, he was playful and caring and so, so fucking soft, soft like a baby bunny.

He loved napping in the sun. He loved his brother. He loved his twinkle ball.

He purred so tiny he sounded like bells...

I'm gonna miss you so much baby boy. I'm gonna miss you, Jagger. I can't believe you left so soon. I can't... 

I love you baby. I love you so much... Good night, good bye...

I am now an artist available on vGen!

For now I have to wait until I can post more commission types but you can always contact me through DM or other social media if you're interested in knowing more about my services!!

vGen is a platform made specially to commission artist. You pay what you ask for, nothing more, nothing less!! Payment is secure and they have very good policies and catalogue! (but I hope you can commission me)

I need to get verified to post more services!!

For that I need:

• 10 followers
• At least 1 commission
• 3 reviews
• 4.6+ stars as rated artist!!

I really appreciate if you could help me reach this goal!! I'm constantly working on making my art visible and accessible to more and more people so I can keep doing what I love!!

I've come this far only thanks to the support of people like you, and I want to do so much more! I'll leave the link here:

https://vgen.co/RoastedWitch

Thank you so much for reading!! See you soon, I hope!!

Living on the other side of the world from that stupid cheeto with cheddar cheese on top (you know, that senile old orange man, you know who he is) and being affected by his stupidity.

His laws and his "silly games" affect the price of my daily grocery list. With the flick of his finger the whole world stops breathing in case it means the start of a war.

Man, that's crazy.

And we can't even do anything, because the society has numbed us to the bone, and it has educated us into obedience and silence, so even if we want to rise up, we don't even know where to start.

So strange.

Well if you aren't aware of the state of the world, I guess it's time for you to get out from under that rock.

As a Full Time Artist I've been struggling to find commissioners and work, I can't blame them, we're on a crisis everywhere and art is actually a luxury. I've been so lucky until now that I can find so many good people who want to take some of their money and give me their awesome characters to draw so I can eat another day.

The thing is.

• Social media is being constantly censored so it doesn't spread content freely
• Not to talk about how NSFW content has been shadowbanned from most of the social media and internet in general
• The world is entering another economic regression, so creative jobs and other non-essencial stuff will suffer first

So, as artists, as clients, as a person who just enjoys art on a daily basis:

What do you recommend to do from here? What can we artists do to survive this? Have you found some place were you think you can thrive through this challenging times? Do you know any place where artist and clients can interact and be actually seen by others without fighting algorithms or AI?

Twitter//X is full of yatzhees now

Bluesky is full of other artists, who I love, but they don't buy

NewGrounds has been working more as a forum than as a hiring place, it's nice tho

Furaffinity... Is furaffinity. Really cool too but people are not very talky there either.

Patreon has been bullying nsfw artists since 2020

Instagram, Facebook, pff do I even have to say anything?

TikTok? I'm not an animator, it simply doesn't work

Tumblr sold it's soul

Whatever happenned to Pillowfort???

I've even tried Hive, Cara, and loads of emerging sites, to no avail

I can't get interactions, I can't get connections to real people. Anywhere I go is bots, scams, invisibility cloak(?).

I'm so tired of how the world is out of control and it makes me so frustrated, because I chose to be an artist, is what I want to do. I don't need to sulk in agonizing regret for not choosing some other career like laws or medicine or programming.

I'm not even trying to whine about it or even plead for work. I literally break my back and ass working each and every day to make content, keep up on commissions, participate on communities, trying to interact with my (mostly) silent patrons. I'm absolutely burnt out (roasted, ha-ha) and I can't afford to even take a break because if I do so, I won't be able to pay my rent next month. That's just life for most artists and content creators I know.

Please if you have read this and have any input on it, do comment, share your opinion. I'd be happy to share any feelings or hearing from you.

Thank you for reading.

New Image comes with a new mascot! I've been thinking a lot about my brand and I decided that it was time to make a better based brand. And what do I like? WITCHES!! So I was having trouble with the brainstorm and then I thought "I'm Toast" so I wanted to be Toasty, but the name was taken...

This is Roasty, 'cause she's burned(?) I hope you get the joke, I'm not good at them...

The avatar I'm using was made by Nise Lofsteinn

Here are my updated Social Media, tho NewGrounds won't let me change my name properly until I become a supporter, which for now, I can't.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk!

PATREON

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BLUESKY

Zelda, The Roasted Witch