War and Peas 🧿Aug 23, 2025
Having 1 million followers is like throwing confetti into a hurricane: people cheer, platforms profit, and you're left sweeping your own glitter off the floor. Everyone loves the art, shares it, while we're over here perfecting the art of checking our bank balance with one eye closed.
Show threadWar and Peas 🧿Aug 23, 2025
Now AI companies are scraping our "worthless" art to train billion-dollar generators. Apparently our work was valuable enough to steal, just not valuable enough to pay for. It's like being robbed by someone who insists they're doing you a favor by "increasing your exposure."
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So here we are on Patreon, asking our actual fans to bridge the gap between "viral content" and "paying rent." Because in this rigged game, the only reliable currency left is people who genuinely give a damn about creators surviving.

https://www.patreon.com/join/warandpeas

Aug 23, 2025 at 5:22pmWeb
Show threaddazfuller Aug 23, 2025
@warandpeas well, every time I see one of your posts it makes me smile and brightens my day. So supporting seems like a no brainier. You have another member as of like, 3 minutes ago
Show threadWar and Peas 🧿Aug 23, 2025
@dazfuller Thank you so much! We're so glad to keep on making you smile!
Show threadTwoowls Elt 🦉 🦉Aug 23, 2025
@warandpeas glad to be a current supporter! Love love love what you folks do, I hope that you manage to keep on keeping on!
Show threadWar and Peas 🧿Aug 23, 2025
@twoowls73 Yes! Y'all have to suffer through posts like this one from time to time but we'll keep on doing it :))
Show threadMaho 🦝🍻Aug 23, 2025
@warandpeas I will buy one or two signed books, but I can decide which.
Show threadWar and Peas 🧿Aug 23, 2025

@mapache Well "Hi Earth" is the newest and kind of a must. And "Once Upon a Workday" is a book we personally love love love. It's filled with poems about creativity and work-life-balance.

If you don't know the Fungirl universe, you you check that out, too! It's about chaos, friendship and some more chaos!

Show threadJ. R. DePriest    :EA DATA. SF:Aug 23, 2025

@warandpeas have you considered setting up on LiberaPay as well? That's how I donate to the folks running the Fediverse systems I use.

Either way, I've signed up for your $3 tier because you are someone whose work I always love to see. You create your own art and it is extremely queer-friendly. I know $3 isn't very much and I'm sorry I can't do more.

Liberapay

We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.

Show threadWar and Peas 🧿Aug 23, 2025

@jrdepriest $3 is amazing, thank you so so much!

Never heard of liberapay? We'll take a look at it!

Show threadWilliam B PeckhamAug 23, 2025
@warandpeas I am on a fixed income, so I may have to drop my membership in a year, but for now, you have a new member. Your work is definitely worth it! I enjoy every single one.