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All answers are coming from Dre because once again – these are her projects. I’m just happy to be here for the ride.
How do you two know each other?
We were friends, had a shit fall out on both our parts, lost touch and somehow similar to when we first met, reconnected at a moment when it seemed like no one valued either of us in any capacity. Turns out that even after all this time and regardless of how much we’ve changed, we’re still great at being a high level of obnoxious in our commitment to having a party – whatever that party may be. It just turns out that the party now is Rage Quit Ink.
What is your inspiration?
Life, Music, Books, Movies, Everything? IDK man. The amount of inspiration I have is way too broad to list. All I’m doing is stuff that speaks to me personally and that I would have likely lost my mind if I had seen around 18 because of how much it reflects my world view and experiences. I’m also somehow lucky that E agrees that things are also neat, has experienced similar things as me and wants to be involved in making all of this a reality.
What exactly are you creating?
Whatever I feel like creating! There’s projects that have been in development for two decades and some things that I’ve been wanting to pursue for just as long, if not longer but only really have the skills to pursue now.
Why is there no official release schedule?
Short answer: I’m too broke and I’m being actively stalked by people who genuinely want to ruin my career!
Long Answer: Because unlike most creators you’ll come across online, I’m not privileged enough to be doing this full-time, nor am I privileged enough to even have this be a hobby that I can indulge in regularly! I have to have a main source of income to make sure that creativity is something that I can do in any capacity. I’m not someone who comes from money, and my living relatives and my last relationship taught me the hard lesson that if I find myself in need, people can and will use that as an opportunity to trap me in order to abuse me mentally, emotionally, physically and sexually and will not hesitate in the slightest when it comes to retaliating violently if I make any attempt to break free from their sphere of influence in any capacity. They rely on creating these situations to prevent me from focusing on creating a clear trajectory in my life and use it as an easy tool to create extreme turmoil that prevents me from actually making any level of progress – forcing me to eventually land in financially vulnerable positions repeatedly.
As a result, I’ve faced homelessness and I’ve been on food stamps to try and forge a path towards financial independence which honestly has been futile due to an individual that I had a falling out with who used that as an opportunity to become extremely influential in the professional spaces I could be working in and has now made it their hobby to stalk and sexually harass me across all social media platforms whenever I try to re-establish myself professionally.
If money isn’t something that I can rely on, then the only other quantifiable resource would be time and that’s not something that I have even remotely close to in spades because – again – I have to work to financially support myself. So! I’m sorry to say that the only thing really keeping this going at the moment is a hell of a lot of love and dedication to seeing things through when and as I’m able to. It’s also the only way I can actively keep myself safe since calling too much attention to myself will either draw the attention of my former abusers including the individual who raped me, the oldest brother who is guilty of sexually harassing me and the individual with whom I had a falling out with (which I honestly have no fucking clue how they found me to begin with since I’m not even publishing under my legal fucking name!!!).
With that being said, everything I’m sharing IS the accumulation of the amount of love and dedication towards my projects, so if you enjoy what we’re doing then you’ll just need to develop a lot of patience and understanding as everything gets completed if you want to see more from me and hey! If you want to help me pave a way towards financial freedom so I can no longer deal with these psychos, please check out our tip jar because I could use every bit of support to create a new beginning thanks!!!
Why do this then?
Even though he died when I was really young, the influence my father had on me is pretty enormous. Having also grown up in poverty, he used to put a heavy influence on how important arts, reading and creativity were as things to cherish in life – especially as a healthy outlet to avoid falling into dead end avenues that would lead towards living life on the streets and joining gangs. So even though I’ve never had the chance to pursue this legitimately, creativity always served as my life raft when life got too tumultuous, too unstable and too uncertain in a way that prevented me from being able to imagine myself having a better and brighter future.
Just because I can’t guarantee when you’ll see anything from me doesn’t negate the important this is for me and the positive influence that it has on me that I want to honor continually. It’s always been my guiding light when I’m lost in the dark, always somehow helping me find my way out of trying times. I’m older now and have been through a lot, so I’m thinking that now is more important than ever that I commit to leaving room for this in my life indefinitely instead of it being something that I keep putting on the back burner repeatedly. It’s also been a great way for me to reconnect with E and for us to re-familiarize ourselves with each other and that’s not something I’m taking lightly.
Also? Because I fucking feel like it. A lot of these projects have been passively in development for 20 years and even the ones that I only started on within the last few years are deeply personal and important to me. I’m starting to build a massive Get To It pile at this point so yeah, it’s time.
What does a Mature Audience mean?
The Short Answer: You don’t expect us to hold your hand in what we’re doing, expect everything we do to make you feel safe, warm and fuzzy and are capable of exercising critical thinking – including deciding maturely that what we do may not be for you. However, because we do depict things like sex and sexual situations, you are at minimum required to be 18 Year Old to read and engage with what we’re doing.
The Long Answer: Read it here.
Where does the name come from?
It comes from the popular gaming term “Rage Quitting” that is used to describe what happens when you stop playing a game because you’re either losing or you’re finding things to be far too difficult to keep playing. Rage Quit Ink is – in a lot of ways – me “rage quitting” the game that I feel like I’ve been trapped into playing when it comes to engaging with my creativity. By creating an actual home for my work to live, I’m no longer playing that waste-of-a-time-game where I’m spending the majority of what little free time I have making something someone will hopefully find appealing enough to decide to publish in hopes that I can afford to create what I wish I was actually creating. Instead, I’m doing the smart thing and cutting out the middle man so that I can dedicate what free time I do have to actually creating what I love that hasn’t had the ability in any capacity to properly see the light of day.
Also Ink is tossed in there because writing/drawing and pens/paper or whatever harharhar clever, clever me.
Where can we find you?
Short Answer: Here at Rage Quit Ink!
Long Answer: While you may come across our accounts on Tumblr or BlueSky, they’re no longer active because of the fucking creep who is actively stalking me and sexually harassing me across every platform we set up on! So until social media becomes a safe space to engage with, this is the only place I’ll be because honestly fuck rapists, fuck sexual harassers and fuck anyone who feels this god damn entitled to someone’s body, attention and energy. So seriously if you read this which I 100% know you will because you’re a fucking psycho – fucking rot in hell and stay the fuck away from you you absolute cretin who is devoid of any capacity of humanity, empathy and sanity!!!! No means fucking No! If I don’t answer, address nor seek you out, it means I want absolutely nothing the fuck to do with you and honestly fuck you for ruining every god damn career path I can possibly go down just to make sure that I have no where else to run and you can keep fucking harassing me to your heart’s god damn fucking disgusting content!
To top it off, Social Media as a whole has devolved into an absolute cesspool of unfiltered thinking and commentary. Being on Social Media these days feels like someone decided that it was a good idea to let 4chan be the deciding factor for what is and isn’t okay and I have no idea what to feel about that either – especially since I actively avoided 4chan due to how absolutely vitriolic, toxic and violent the platform is as a whole! I mean really! It feels kind of fucking weird trying to find other creatives to connect to and a lot of the things you see is them trying to defend fucked up shit like “pedophilia art” or lolisho as worthy of being protected and people are actually lapping that up as having validity!!
So yeah! I have zero interest in maintaining a social media presence because I don’t really want anyone getting the wrong impression of me, what we’re doing and what we stand for. If the only way you can let people know where you stand is to boycott something then I guess we’re basically boycotting social media until fucking disgusting PoS are forced to hide and die in the shadows as should be intended!!! It’s bad enough that the governments around the world are run by these kinds of people who are actively ruining and destroying lives with absolute frivolity. I honestly thought the one space where it’d be safe to avoid this kind of energy WOULD be in so-called leftist and progressive creative spaces but good fucking christ have they taught me that the spectrum of political diversity wraps into a fucking god damn circle.
Also! Once again! I cannot stress enough how fucking weird it is to have a stalker who is so obsessed with you that they were able to use what free time they have in apparent excess to STALK YOU AND FIND YOU WHEN YOU’RE NOT EVEN OPERATING UNDER YOUR LEGAL NAME!! GET A FUCKING LIFE YOU GOD DAMN FUCKING LOSER!!! Especially when it’s been YEARS since I started to establish and maintain any kind of a god damn online presence because of how aggressively I’ve been trying to avoid you!!!! Maybe if you spent less time making someone else’s life a living hell, you’d actually have something worth living for so if my making it as hard as fucking possible for you to continue to access my energy forces you to recognize that then so fucking be it because I know it’s also really god damn hard for you to wrap your head around but I REALLY. DO. HAVE. SIGNIFICANTLY MUCH BETTER THINGS. TO DO WITH MY TIME. THAN FUCKING TRYING TO TELL YOU REPEATEDLY THAT I’M NOT FUCKING INTERESTED YOU GOD DAMN FUCKING CREEP.
And just in case you struggle with reading and need a meme to understand what I mean you fucking chronically online god damn fucking loser:
Why tell us so much about your past when you’re trying to maintain privacy?
I believe in a world where talking about things like this isn’t something considered taboo so that we can actually figure out a way to move forward and, idk, maybe do something crazy like find ways to make a world that’s better so that no one is trapped in abusive situations and circumstances. Will talking about it do something? IDK. Maybe. Maybe not. But I spent the majority of my life being silent about it so let’s see what happens when I start talking.
Will you be open to submissions/publishing the works of others?
No. I’ve spent way too much of my work experience being of service to others. I didn’t build this so that I can go back into it. If you want someone to publish what you do, there are plenty of indie or mainstream publishers out there that will likely gladly accept what you have to offer. Otherwise, you can just do your own thing like I am if you really want to.
I/We respect and admire your work and would like to hire you. Where can we reach you?
All Business Coordination – including freelance opportunities – are handled by E. For further information, please check out the section regarding Professional Opportunities.
I need help with something.
You can send any questions or concerns to questions@ragequit.ink.
Re: Professional Opportunities
In order to better suss out legitimate work opportunities, we’ll need you to include the following information so we can better understand if Dre would be a good fit:
- What is the project? As much information regarding what the details of what you’re expecting Dre to be contributing to would be extremely helpful as we can’t guarantee that every job opportunity will receive a response asking for further clarity.
- Scope of Work Expected to be Completed. This is something that will be compared to the Timeline and Budget. If we don’t know how much work you need her to do, we can’t provide you with a decision on whether or not that’s a feasible job for her to take on.
- Timeline. This is necessary to see if this can be fit into her schedule.
- Budget. We offer flexibility, however we can’t properly provide a quote if we don’t know what you’re realistically working with.
After all of that information has been compiled, you can reach out to us via email and we’ll respond if and as we are able to.