u/PendantsMyGem

Merhaba.

Türkiye’de yaşıyorum. ABD’deki bir arkadaşım bana hediye olarak 4 tane doğal kuvars kristali gönderdi. Kristalleri doğada bulmuştu, satın alınmış değildi ve satılık da değildi.

Paket İstanbul’a geldi ama gümrük beyanname istemiş. Bana ne SMS geldi ne telefon edildi ne de e-posta gönderildi. O yüzden herhangi bir işlem yapmam gerektiğini bilmiyordum. Yaklaşık 10 gün sonra da paketi göndericiye geri göndermişler.

Şimdi merak ediyorum, ben nerede hata yaptım?

* Yurt dışından gelen hediyeler için alıcının ayrıca beyanname vermesi mi gerekiyor?
* Artık yurt dışından gelen her paket gümrüğe mi takılıyor?
* Faturası olmayan, doğadan toplanmış taşlar hediye olarak gönderilecekse nasıl gönderilmeli?
* Son zamanlarda yurt dışından arkadaşından hediye alan oldu mu? Sorunsuz alan varsa nasıl yaptınız?

Tecrübelerinizi paylaşırsanız çok sevinirim. Teşekkürler.

Not because I spammed links or ran ads. Most of the time I was simply sharing things I had made by hand.

* r/GothFashion removed a photo of a pendant I had made for someone going through a special moment in life. The title was: "I made this pendant for a specific person, for a special moment in their life." It was marked as promotional.

* The same subreddit also removed a video called "Transforming wire and a stone into a pendant" with no explanation I could figure out.

* r/pagan removed a photo titled "Made this pendant with an aurora opal that glows like magic" because it was considered promotional.

* r/Fairycore banned me after I posted "Transforming wire and a stone into a pendant" with a photo of the pendant. I still don't know why.

* r/WitchesVsPatriarchy banned me after a post I made on Saturday was reviewed by a moderator on Monday and classified as being posted outside their marketplace day.

* r/goblincore became my biggest mystery. Several of my posts were removed (December 2025, February and May 2026), including "I made a bat. It took me 90 hours of weaving to bring this winged pendant to life" and "I spent hours weaving wire around obsidian until this creature emerged." They were just stories about making fantasy-inspired pendants by hand, so I never quite understood what rule I had crossed.

None of this is catastrophic. Reddit moderators have difficult jobs and every community has the right to set its own rules.

But as someone who makes things by hand, I've realized something strange: sometimes sharing a handmade object or the story behind it is immediately interpreted as promotion, even when there's no shop link, no price, and no invitation to buy. Many of the pieces I posted had already been sold months or years earlier I simply wanted to share the craftsmanship and the stories behind them.

For creators here: how do you share your work and the stories behind it without accidentally crossing into what Reddit considers self-promotion?

I'll check again in two weeks and reveal the answers.

On April 29, we moved to Turkey. Not long after that, a stray cat started visiting our apartment.

She would come and go whenever she wanted because we usually leave the front door open. She especially loved sitting on our balcony and watching the street.

I had seen her around the neighborhood before, usually with three tiny kittens following her. Then, a few weeks later, I noticed her belly getting round again and started suspecting she was pregnant.

On June 6, I woke up and discovered that she had chosen my kitchen as her maternity ward.

She gave birth under my sink.

These little ones are now 11 days old. Their mom still lives in my kitchen and takes her job very seriously. She leaves only briefly to eat and then runs back to check on her babies.

I guess the Cat Distribution System decided that I needed not one cat, but an entire tiny family.

Leave your guesses in the comments!

Example:
1 - Girl
2 - Boy
3 - Girl
4 - Boy

P.S. For those who don't know their story: on June 6, a stray cat came into my apartment and gave birth to these kittens right in my kitchen.