wispfox

Artists need to make a living, too. (my paraphrase) Via

haikujaguar.

I try very hard to remember to give money to those artists I read (usually, read) when I like what they do. Partly, this is to encourage them to continue, partly this is because I make a decent wage and _can_ (although returning to school will make this not true very soon, and I really need to remember to start scaling back my donations to people and causes!), and partly because being able to survive is a goodness. I note that I am _far_ more likely to pay money for something when I know it's going to a person and not a company (so I will look for used books/use paperbackswap/libraries, but will actively try to pay for PDFs).

I definitely appreciate those artists who I follow online (most often how I follow them) who include a paypal link with everything they do, and periodically remind people to give. It's not, to me, pestering; it's reminding because I may or may not think of it otherwise.