*throws money in your general direction* Now gimme porn!! XD

Kidding aside, I wish you success So I understand you have a new job by now?

And congrats on the watchers-thing! I will never make it past that point, as I keep adding new artists to my watchlist, faster than I get watchers. I did though consider unwatch you for a day to joke-spoil your celebration, but decided my sense of humor isn't that crude

Ah, thanks! I'll need it.
That's exactly it, I don't have a job. And if my resume says that I was unemployed for the month of September, it'll fuck me up. I'm not exactly the greatest candidate; neuroatypical, transgendered, very bad with human contact, and fighting severe depression. I haven't gotten a nibble on the applications I've been sending out.

Totally cool! I have to tell you, it feels so damn exciting to be watched by someone with more watchers than watches; I feel like I've been selected. The idea that I'm making people feel that makes me overjoyed... <3 And thanks for not being so cruel, man XD

Is it really that fatal for the resume to be unemployed for a single month? I understand that larger gaps may shed a not so good light on it, but that...especially since you're seeking a job in the creative, or may I even say, artistic industry? And do you write all these things in your applications? Maybe you should put emphasis on more 'positive' attributes (not that I think being transgendered is a negative attribute; maybe it is when applying for a position in the Republican Party, though XD).

In America it is. Resume gaps are among the worst things you can have. The unemployment may certainly be comparable to yours, but this culture hasn't caught on to the fact that there's a labor surplus right now; your life and usefulness are still mostly defined by how productive you are. I'm not looking for jobs in the creative industry (HA), I'm looking for jobs that are jobs, any jobs. _{This is why Mitt Romney was almost elected, because we're fucking obsessed with the idea of "good honest work" and we don't care how much we destroy ourselves in the process, the goal is that everybody in the world should be working at all times. It's our culture... I'm told that in Germany and Austria, leaving the office exactly at 5:30 is a way of saying "I'm competent enough to finish everything on time," but over here, up-and-comers are expected to work overtime or do office work in their free time to show just how incredibly devoted they are and how hard they work. We like work. The idea that someone would go a month without a job telegraphs the fact that "I'm not important enough for someone to hire me."}
Well, of fucking course I don't put that shit on my resume, but it's immediately obvious what I am when I walk in for an interview. No matter how cis I try to look or how much I try to make eye contact and speak up, it doesn't work.

In the last twenty years, Russia has become a land of robber barons with churches in every factory, and America has become the land of anti-capitalist protests and uselessly obstructionist government positions where you need to bribe people to get a job. Irony sometimes...

Well…the way I see it, you’re judging yourself by society’s standards that you can’t meet anyway. It makes sense what you wrote in that meme, that you’re afraid of success, and therefore set up goals you can’t meet, and that you’re afraid of failure, which is why you struggle to meet expectations you simply can’t. Kinda sad, really. I hope for you to escape that vicious circle one day.

I can’t say much about American society, as I don’t live there, I only know the bits and pieces from media, but the way you describe it sounds pretty Orwellian. Like there are only armies of drones marching in line to their corporate jobs. Even if that’s true, do you really want to fit into that? It does sound to me like a path of self-destruction, where a month of unemployment in your resume should be the least of your worries.

It also reminds me of people I’ve met, who couldn’t pass for straight, no matter how hard they try, and who absorbed homophobia and channeled it into self-hatred. They even made careers, because the outside bias was never as strong as their self-loathing had become. Don’t do that to yourself, buddy.

Don't worry, I have years long resume gaps! =D

Ah now I has a sad. =-<

I'm still totally worrying, because it's not the same situation... you're a semi-functioning adult, you have a history of work (I assume), and you don't live in a country where it takes sixty hours of work to pay for a credit hour. (despairing envy face)
You're living off your savings? I'm financially somewhat well-off, I have some savings and some favors curried, I'm attending college mostly on a scholarship and I scrounge for old food. So I don't have the pressure to FIND a job. It's that... as a self-esteem thing, holding a job down for three months convinced me that I can still totally function in the world. I want to be able to do that again. (And that was the only firm, store or franchise within a mile's radius of my house that was hiring... just for the summer. There's a labor surplus, and I'm in it.)

I've got a job, now - and I've had jobs in the past but there's some gaps and it's always a pain explaining!

It's a pain getting hired, much less!

I'll happily hire ya, I've had that in mind for a while.

Ooh, thank you! I'm suspicious yet intrigued... doing what? 0u0

Something TF-related... you say you have an affinity for my particular 'oeuvre', whatever specifics that may mean. :)

"Hire" or "Commission?" I'd certainly be interested...

Well, 'commission' if we're talking specific words, but for resume purposes the same thing as 'hire' isn't it?

(wiggles index finger) THAT... is a good point. Well done.

How much would one of your pencil or colour comics be per page?

For these purposes, a "page" of comic is assumed to be three panel rows' worth (some pages depending on genre, after all, may be more or less dense with images).
*(USD) $10 a page for pencil comics (if it's, say, a TF sequence longer than three pages, like the Unicorn one, I'll probably throw in a bulk discount or something);
*$20 for fully inked comics pages,
*$25 for fully inked and colored (It's +$5 for any of my options to put flat color onto them),
*$35 for watercolor comics pages (I want to do more of them because they look so gorgeous, but it took a month to make the last one and it's only three panels long; all the mentally grueling parts of color harmony are exponentially worse when you have multiple images in sequence to harmonize the color of).

Alright - let me work something out and get back to you.

You say you have an affinity to my sort of TF oeuvre; what kind of things related to that would you most fancy taking a crack at?