[Suppliers] Is it better to have a manufacturer or make stuff by hand?

I was wondering would it be better to have a manufacturer or just make stuff by hand? I do post cards , stickers , prints , pins , etc (basically anything that can be made with either cardstock , sticker paper or print paper) But I was wondering if having a manufacturer would be cheaper or more expensive than doing everything by hand? (I eventually want to go up to selling keychains , standees , etc but that won't be until I get into the hand of selling because I don't want to get things that won't sell well/at all) I really need someone to do those for me since I have no idea how to make anything acrylic but should I just make all my prints , stickers and postcards by hand and then get a manufacturer when I eventually decide to start selling keychains and stuff or should I try and get everything done by a manufacturer so I don't have to worry about messing up the quality of my products of making them by hand or should I just not have a manufacturer at all?

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u/Fearless_Ad5079 — 1 hour ago

Are these rare?

My sibling got these two a while back for chistmas (along witht the potato cat) I don't remember how old they are but I know they've been sitting in storage for quite a while. I don't really collect meemeows neither does my sibling they just really liked my inner demons but they moved out and now I have these two. I probably won't sell them I still think they're cute I just want to know what they'd be worth

u/Fearless_Ad5079 — 5 hours ago

Jack black confirmed voice actor for Mizi in the new Alien Stage anime

SPOILER ALERT Jack Black will play Mizi for the english dub in the upcoming ALIEN STAGE ANIME!!!!!!!

u/Fearless_Ad5079 — 1 day ago

[Recommendations] Any help / advice from other art sellers?

I'm pretty new to everything including artist alleys and markets stuff like that, I have my supplies and designs but I was looking for any help or advice with stuff like what apps should I be using/trying to use for editing and printing? How should coms work at artist alleys? I'm fairly new to all this stuff and I do have a lot of supplies I'm just not exactly sure on how to use them (like what app should I be using for my circut and stuff. So far I have designs for post cards , prints , stickers , etc but I have no idea where to start and I find selling also slightly confusing like how should I be selling and keeping track of customers stuff like that. If you'd have any advice on anything I'd love to hear it, I've already signed up for art events but I just don't exaclty know how to start without expirience

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u/Fearless_Ad5079 — 2 days ago

"You'd hate Sua if she was a man!!" o m g

I'm so tired of hearing the "oh but you'd hate Sua if she was a man!" argument I get that people might be more mad because yes , Sua did know what she was doing and Ivan and Luka didn't (bcs alnst and zomst are two very different things and the meaning of actions between both universes are vastly different to each other) But I feel like people are absolutly flipping out seeing the morally gray side of the characters, yes they're extremly morally gray the series practically runs off of morally gray characters and the scene NEEDED to happen in order to adress the mutuality of their toxic relationship together. I don't justify what Sua did but the scene was nessicary. In the OG series I think a really big thing about it was the codependency , talking about mizisua right now btw , even though their codependency was shown very prominatly during alnst I think a lot of people failed to see it as that or extremly victimize Sua by the way she's treated even though the toxicity is mutual between the two. Mizi was extremly toxic and cold towards Sua in zomst and without us seeing the obsessive and selfish part of Sua the whole fandom would've gone straight back to calling her a victim and treating her as small and innocent when she was never meant to be seen that way at all. If I'm gonna be honest Ivan and Till and Luka will probably be even worse so if people can't even handle these two right now I don't know how they'll feel.

u/Fearless_Ad5079 — 3 days ago

Mizi can't stop beating her wife

I was talking to my friend about mizisua and they said this to me and I can't stop thinking about it now

u/Fearless_Ad5079 — 3 days ago

Mizi is a girl lover sorry guys..

I fully belive Mizi is lesbian sorry bi belivers but I feel like we need to discuss this more. I know it's really up to interpretation but I really feel that Mizi is lesbian rep and you odviously don't have to agree it's just my general opinion but onto the discussion, off the bat she already has a very close relationship with Sua (I mean odviously) and they are romantic interests for each other (which I think it would be possible for Mizi to be demi definitly but I just don't really think she likes guys) I'm not gonna be talking about Mizi and Till because they do not really have a close relationship at all though It's definitly NOT because of sexuality (even though even if they where closer I don't think they'd be love interests for each other at all) she does not have a good relationship with Till solely for the fact Till is too distant because of his crush on her driving him away from her which makes her think he hates her( thats why their relationship is only 30% in alnst) . She does have close relationships with other males in Anakt Garden but she has no romantic interest in any male she's close to like Ivan, though he's the male she has a highest relationship with she doesn't exactly care much for him romantically though she finds him kind. Especially with the fact she didn't have a good experience with the males at anakt garden (like being smacked by the unamed blonde boy) I feel like she just wouldn't have any attraction for people of the opposite sex. Now moving on to Zombie stage , one could say it could be a different story because it is a different universe and since they have more freedom of figuring out their sexualities it could be that she has a different sexual orientation but we have to remember she's still the same person no matter universe. Yes she did get with guys in Zombie stage (or from what I'm guessing from what happend) but she was sexually exploited and exploitation can happen reguardless of gender prefrences and especially with her being in the k-pop industry she didn't have much of her free will to express or learn more about her orientation and I feel like a lot of her violence or coldness towards Sua was internalized homophobia in herself especially after being exploited by so many men she loved Sua but her mental health definitly messed her up entirely, she shows no joy or emotion with any of the men she's with in Zombie Stage and even when she does have her free will to get a male lover herself she's not shown to have actual romantic interest for anyone other than Sua (tho she tries to mask it under her cover of being a perfect idol) they really did love each other before Mizi became a k-pop idol. I feel like when people want a specific character to be bi (without any reason) just want a reason to ship the character with someone of the opposite sex (which does not mean everyone who headcannons her as bi I just mean the people who do it specifically) which sucks specifically because of the lesbian sterotypes of 'oh a lesbian can be fixxed if the right person comes along!' and it just feels like we disreguard that lesbians can just be lesbians and it kinda just destorys the rep (sorry if it's getting too political or something like that and I don't mean to offend anyone at all I just really think Mizi is a lesbian )

u/Fearless_Ad5079 — 3 days ago

Bunny theory? (ZOMST)

Many say that the bunny in the image is representing Luka and it shows a bunch of body parts including Mizi's eyes , Sua's arm (I'm guessing since they chopped off her arm in the video) , Someones guts and then someone elses heart. But who do the other body parts belong to? Theres a bow on the little guts which I would assume is Sua but it wouldn't make sense for them to take Sua's guts unless she lost a second time. Maybe Ivan wears a white bowtie? I'd assume he dresses in white since he dressed in white in cure (I'm assuming this follows the same cannon deaths) Though that leaves the mystery heart. So we have Mizi's eyes , Ivans guts and Sua's arm but theres just one missing and it's the heart. It would either be Till or Hyuna but it wouldnt make sense to have all the main cast besides one character right? I would guess it would be Hyunas heart (because yk like the ship and stuff) But theres still Till missing, Unless theres some type of representation in the frills since the heart already symbolizes Luka. Hyuna= heart Ivan=Guts Sua=Arm Mizi=Eye Frills=Till and they all combine together to make Luka, I'm guessing Luka is going to be made of all their best features (though I wonder what they're going to do about the heart part since in cannon Luka naturally has a weak heart, maybe they'll take Hyunas heart to replace his??) In the official rabbits have always been used to represent the whole cast instead of just one person, so that does that basically mean Luka is a physical representation of the whole cast put into one body?

u/Fearless_Ad5079 — 6 days ago

I really want to be peoples last choice

I don't know exactly why but for some reason I've always waanted to be peoples last choices. Like a person who's there as a friend but like the friend people don't really care about, the friend they'll talk to if their other friends are busy but they'll forget about me after they're real friends come back to talk to them. I wanna feel important, but I don't wanna feel too important you know? Like people don't care about me at all but they'll trust me enough to vent to me or talk to me about the things they like and stuff. I don't like being attached, It's not that I don't like people, I love people a bit. I just don't know how I feel I don't want to be important or life changing I just wanna be there. But the problem is I'm just there, I'm not their choice at all. Nobody vents to me , nobody talks to me. I'm just like not a choice really. Or sometimes people get too attached and then I have to distance myself but I end up as nothing to them at the end. I just wanna be peoples last choice, I have been a couple of times but not in the way I want to be because nobody trusts me enough to have their back.

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u/Fearless_Ad5079 — 6 days ago

Which cannon ship is most toxic?? (ALNST)

this is specifically just alnst not zomst but which ship is most toxic? I'd say they're all pretty toxic together but I guess you really just have to think about it like a lot. Mizisua was toxic because of their codependency on each other also followed by possession and stuff like that. Ivantill is toxic because of Ivans obsession with Till and the forced kiss scene. Lukahyuna is toxic because of his obsession and also the forced kiss scene and also the possession (and also luka killing hyunwoo) I personally think Lukahyuna is most toxic but it's hard to compare all three of them when they're so different but also so simmular at the same time..

u/Fearless_Ad5079 — 7 days ago

Zombie stage is more than just that one scene.

Everyone is talking about the kiss scene and Zombie stage is so much more than just that one scene like my god can we speak about anything else?? I get that yeah it was extremly important but everyone is talking about it and we honestly should be talking about literally anything else, theres still a whole 4 minutes of the video but everyone is enraged by that scene we can't open our eyes to see that theres more to the video than just that like yes you can speak about it but it gets to a point where its kinda like "when have we talked about it enough" or more like "when can we talk about anything else??" because my whole fyp is 'OMG sua SA!!' and for someone who is mostly scrolling through alien stage posts on EVERY SINGLE APP it gets tiring seeing the same thing on EVERY PLATFORM. Everyone is so pissed off at that one scene but like can we break down the rest of the video? 😢 got the whole fandom mad atp

u/Fearless_Ad5079 — 7 days ago

It's meant to be toxic

I've seen everyone being like "Mizisua is so toxic now!" and people fully leaving the fandom because of what happened in Candy Scar, YES IT'S TOXIC. That's like every single ship in Alien stage ok?? (or at least every cannon ship) Alien stage literally was so odviously meant to be toxic relationships. That's why we have a whole genre called toxic yuri or toxic yaoi the whole point is IT'S TOXIC!!! I know , the toxicity is way more prevelant in zombie stage than alien stage but it's so odvious in alien stage we basically had this coming to us. 'but SA!!' But Ivantill was also like that and so was lukahyuna we had plently warning from those two. I don't mean to judge anyone on whatever they think I'm not saying you can't say it's very toxic because it is very toxic I'm just saying it's meant to be a series with a lot of toxicity!! Thats like the whole part of what makes alnst what it is!!

u/Fearless_Ad5079 — 7 days ago

Scared of a friend

For some reason I am kinda scared of my friend , theres no real reason besides how they interact with me because they're very nice and they haven't really done that much for me to be suspicous of them I just feel a little off about it. Anyway I have this friend called A and I've been friends with them since the start of the year. A little while ago she used to use my phone to take 'selfies' of herself but whenever she gave me my phone back there was nothing there in my photos. I have this weird thing for being very anxious about like hackers with my phone or something since like forever especially with people I'm close to but idk.. they don't text me very often, only once every couple of months and usually they don't start conversations at least with me so I was supprised since they messaged me a couple weeks ago. I had been thinking of them for a while (not in a weird way) I just missed them since summer started because I miss all my friends. After they messaged me for a bit I didnt think much especially since they only read my last message I thought we where going to go back to that 5 month waiting time so I was super supprised to get a text from them today, I also found it a bit strange since today was also the only say I mentioned them/talked about them (I said something about them to my mom) they did say something to me two days ago but they only asked me a small question and after I responded they left me on read.. I know I'm probably paranoid but to be fair they are a bit mysterious because all their socials are privated and they block a bunch of their friends like all the time (sometimes for no reason) and they even blocked me (on a game without any reason and ik there was no reason because I haden't even spoke to them weeks or months before they blocked me so they didn't exactly have a reason to) Idk they just make me kinda anxious like literally whenever they text me and I don't know why because I enjoy talking to them I'm just very scared of them for some reason.

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u/Fearless_Ad5079 — 7 days ago

why do people dislike transfem jax?

Genuinly why do people not like transfem jax? I get that some people would rather use he/him pronouns for Jax (And I totally understand/ am okay with it since gooseworx did say Jax can use either he/him or she/her pronouns) But why don't people like it? I've seen people say transfem Jax is disgusting which I don't get because we do have other lgbtq+ characters like Zooble a nonbinary character so it wouldn't make sense for a show with queer characters to have homophobic fans because why be a fan if you don't enjoy it? I've been thinking it's because there wasn't much leading up to it which yeah I get it the hints up to Jax being transfem where extremely subtle but not enough to be making a big deal about it. (when I say this I don't mean Jax as a person I know a lot of people are divided on Jax as a character I just mean the addition of her being trans)

u/Fearless_Ad5079 — 10 days ago

Whats your favorite version of mizi?

Like out of the four versions (not including aus) rebellion Mizi, Normal Mizi , Anakt garden Mizi and timeskip Mizi/ Black haired Mizi which one is your absolute favorite in appearance?

u/Fearless_Ad5079 — 24 days ago

I feel like alnst just isn't really meant for rare pairs...

ok so hi, I do ship some rare pairs but okay just hear me out for a minute because like.. idk just listen. I don't it's just something about rare pairs mainly the straight ones (not including hyunluka tho becuase it's really not a rarepair) I feel like everyones entitled to their own opinion but I have some problems with like most of the straight rarepairings and it's just that so many people ship rare pairs just to be homophobic (like I've literally seen someone say they ship Ivanhyuna Suatill and Miziluka ) and like I mean i guess do whatever you want but if your main reason for shipping something is because you want it to be straight isn't really.. especially since alien stage is literally the gayest thing I've ever watched like I'm sorry but there's absolutly no way.. or theres also people who ship mainly just because the other characters are dead (like shipping Mizi and Till because Sua and Ivan are dead and not becuase they actually like or care about the ship??) Like I get shipping characters with actual chemistry but I don't know.. and none of the other characters really have chemistry with each other (besides the cannon pairs) like idk how people ship Sua and Till when they barley even speak to each other but maybe I'm just a bad alien stage fan for not supporting all ships

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u/Fearless_Ad5079 — 1 month ago

why do people not like bbno$??

I was watching a video randomly on bbno$ that was in support of the trans community but I've been seeing so much hate about it literally from the trans community..

I don't know if I missed something but everyone just calls him a larper and like I don't get it did I genuinly miss something? I don't see anything wrong with bbno$ personally??? but I'm also not up to date on him much

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u/Fearless_Ad5079 — 1 month ago

I'm having trouble deciding...

I'm trying to make a oc for artfight and I need help... should I do one of these or should I try with other artstyles first? and which style should I do if these are okay...

u/Fearless_Ad5079 — 1 month ago

okay yes I'm asking about cos... again.

okay so... I have a convention next month and I just really need to decide, Angel Ivan or Angel Sua??? (either angel Ivan from Angel Devil Cafe or normal angel Sua not from cafe au)

I really love angel sua but I really want to do a detailed cosplay, I have wings already and even though I really should've done a devil cosplay instead because I love Mizi and Till so much I already spent my money so yeah. I really like Ivan cosplay idea since his design is more complex and I wouldn't have to get a wig because my hair is already short but I love love love Sua, Ivans a good character but I wouldn't say he close to any favorite (I'm sorry Ivan lovers) But honestly if I do a Ivan cosplay I could match with my sisters Sua cosplay.. but I just don't like Ivan that much but it's like ughhh the design thoo.. I'm stuck. I thought maybe angel Hyuna but I'm extremely pale (and I don't wanna be rude by cosplaying as her ;-;) need votes please please baaa

u/Fearless_Ad5079 — 1 month ago