Fedup Sheep

it's an art.

The Fedup Experience

(For clarity: I, he, we, and us refers to the same individual – me, Brent j. Slabbert, the founder of Fedup Sheep and author of all its works.)

Here we’ll cover the ABC’s of what you get and how to get it, printing permissions, translation permissions, and payment options.

At Fedup Sheep, by default, we believe we can trust our fellow family members (subscribers in internet lingo). You’re here because you’re a different breed of character, and won’t go round sharing links and downloads with others who can’t be bothered being a part of our community, nor paying the small prices for our work, but have no problem usurping it, changing it, and even presenting it as their own.

You have developed a little place in your heart for the author, and realize what it’s taken him to get to this point, and you have no interest in taking advantage of his trust, nor mistaking his generosity as a weakness to exploit.

Of course, there’s nothing I can do about any of this should things prove otherwise, but you’d have to live with that side of yourself, not me, and, at some point we all reap the rewards of our choices.

The short version:

  • We provide free and paid-for content, consisting of prose, poetry, and short fiction (read The Spark and What the FAQ! for clarity on our aim, purpose, and intention, so I don’t have to repeat it here).
  • Joining the Fedup Family is free, and always will be. There are three ways to join: Our WhatsApp Channel, our Telegram Channel, and our newsletter.
  • For the moment, there are no subscriptions; it’s all pay-as-you-go.
  • All our work is available only from our webpage.
  • You have (limited) permissions to print our work.
  • You have (limited) permission to translate our work, using
    Proton’s Lumo AI Assistant (free).
  • Our newsletters can be translated using Brave Browser (see Fedup Translations).
  • Our Channels (WhatsApp & Telegram) can be translated if you use the web app in Brave Browser.
  • You can unsubscribe from Fedup Sheep at any time.
  • There are no refunds.

The details:

  1. All our free stuff is available on our blog, Substack, Tuhat, X, Pinterest & UpScrolled. You can download it, print it, share it, make a poster out of it… whatever. All I ask is that you at least show who you got it from, and adding a link to my website would be nice. But you do not have permission to sell it.
  2. NONE of my work is available in any retail outlets (Amazon, Smashwords, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, etc.), except, maybe, some free stuff to get attention1. Should you find them there, then you’re purchasing from one of those shallow, unethical, usurper-types, lacking what it takes to come up with their own stuff.
  3. Joining the Fedup Family is free, and always will be. There are three ways, and each path caters to different tastes. If you want, you can join all three, though some info may be repetitive:
    1. Our WhatsApp Channel. Encrypted, doesn’t display your name or number. Notes, thoughts, insights or poetry several times a week. Updates on works in progress; direct access to new publications as well as our monthly publication.
    2. Our Telegram Channel. Not encrypted, displays your number. Less restrictive, and occasional messages may be deemed offensive by some. Updates on works in progress; direct access to new publications as well as our monthly publication.
    3. Our Newsletter, called Bleet! You’ll receive 1 email a month with some more personal stuff, including a photo of your’s truly (in the welcome email; I won’t torture you every month, just once). You’ll also get access to free works (poetry, short fiction, article, etc.) not in the public domain, and only available to our close Family Members (newsletter subscribers), as thanks for trusting us with your email. And like the channels, you’ll get updates on works in progress, and direct access to new publications as well as our monthly publication.
  4. By joining the Fedup Family, you acknowledge that:
    1. I (meaning Fedup Sheep, meaning Brent j. Slabbert) don’t live from air alone. I use this platform (Fedup Sheep and it’s third party necessities) to sell my premium writing (at non-premium prices. See further down for details).
    2. You’re under no obligation, but purchasing something regularly would be nice.
  1. Knowledge is the property of no one, and to charge for that would be fraud. The fee you’re paying is for the years of experience, the originality of the work, and the effort and time in writing, editing, formatting, and designing the works, and maintaining this platform. Or the service, in economic lingo.
  2. We will (or do our best to) produce 1 publication per month. But, depending on circumstances, health, etc. at the time, we may produce none.
  3. The monthly publication is priced at $3. Books and collections are priced at $5 & $8, depending on length, genre, research involved, etc. (see Fedup Payments for details).
  4. You’ll always have access to our work should you wish to purchase at a later date. Neither will we bug you with blinking specials, countdowns or discounts, although reminders of our available works will be mentioned in the Channels and the newsletter.
  5. All my premium content (PDF & EPUB) is encrypted and stored on my personal Proton Drive. Due to the changing nature of the internet (privacy concerns, LLM’s, corporate and government surveillance, etc. See The Fedup Privacy Thingy), I prefer having control over my stuff, rather than storing it elsewhere. So, we operate a little differently in this regard:
    1. Upon successful payment via credit/debit card, PayPal, etc. (Fourthwall) you’ll receive an email with a single page PDF, which has the direct download links to the PDF & EPUB documents in my Proton Drive. If you use Proton Drive you’ll have a preview of the full PDF and the download link/option. If you don’t use Proton Drive you’ll just see the download link. Because your email is automatically collected for payment, and if you are not already on our mailing list, you will automatically start receiving our newsletter.
    2. Upon successful payment via USDC/T, DAI, Monero (Atlos), you’ll be redirected to the direct link of the folder in my Proton Drive. In the folder is the PDF & EPUB. Download the one you want or both. If you use Proton Drive you’ll have a preview of the full PDF and the download link/option. If you don’t use Proton Drive you’ll just see the download link. Important! You will have access to this operation only once! Please don’t stuff around! Download your files after redirection, because there’s nothing I can do about it if you don’t, and there are NO REFUNDS!

Printing Permissions:

Presently, Print on Demand (POD) is not a viable option, so we give (limited) printing permissions to rightful purchasers of our work. Limited, because I still own the intellectual rights, even if you may disagree with the term “intellectual.” Where “rightful purchasers” are those who purchased from our webpage. This is a highly unusual practice, but with a little effort:

  • You’ll be eliminating delivery times, costs, and environmental damage incurred if I offered the usual print-on-demand (POD) option that’s widely used today.
  • You can form your Fedup Sheep collection on the paper of your choice, the binding of your choice, and all at a fraction of the cost of POD.
  • If you’re up for it, you can print and bind the books yourself (there are videos on YouTube). You’ll be a pro in no time! You can even make the paper yourself from recycled paper, and even grasses, leaves, bark, etc. from your (or someone else’s) garden, for a truly bespoke, natural look and feel.
  • As your Fedup Sheep collection grows, you’ll be the envy of your family and friends.

As a rightful purchaser, you have permission to print a copy for yourself.

You DO NOT have permission to print for friends, family, neighbours, anyone who asks, your pets, or anyone (or anything) you may know living beyond planet earth, anywhere in the universe. Neither may you mass produce, distribute, nor sell any of our works.

The size of all our PDF publications are standardized. This helps maintain uniformity across different screen sizes and also, should you wish to print them, a standardized stack in your bookcase.

The size is Digest: 14×19 cm/5.8×8 inches. Or a little smaller than A5. It’s formatted and print ready, whether on a home printer or a local printing/school photocopy business.

Translation Permissions:

We give permission to translate all our work within the framework set out here. If you are not in accordance with this, you do not have permission to translate my work.

About Payments:

We accept credit & debit card, PayPal, Google Pay, Apple Pay, AliPay. We also accept USDT, USDC, DAI ( on Polygon, Solana, Base, BSC networks), and for the truly financial privacy-conscious: Monero. We also accept donations!

Did I mention we accept donations?

We do. We accept donations!

Please read Fedup Payments for the details. Because, depending on where you live, you might not have any.

For now, there are no subscriptions; still working over some things. But we’ll offer monthly and yearly subscriptions in the future, for those who prefer that option, alongside the pay-as-you-go option. Fairness is one of our things! So there will be no difference in price just because someone can pay more in one go, while others can’t.

There are NO REFUNDS on any of our publications.

Finally:

You can unsubscribe from Fedup Sheep at any time by hitting “unsubscribe” at the very bottom of every email, or simply leaving the Channel (WhatsApp & Telegram). We won’t bug you with questionnaires about why, nor “for our statistics…” and you’ll never hear from us again. We’ll miss you, but we won’t hold it against you. Seriously! We won’t. Honest!

And finally, finally

This Agreement (and it’s attached pages) serves as an ethical handshake between Fedup Sheep and yourself, and is active from the date of publication (October, 2026). By joining the Fedup Family, you accept, even though not necessarily agreeing to, all of the above (and the attached pages). Fedup Sheep reserves the right to modify anything in this Agreement, and Family members (subscribers) will be notified via our Channels (WhatsApp & Telegram) and the newsletter. Should you disagree with anything, you can unsubscribe, and you’ll never hear from us again.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Peace… but until then, make a noise!

Brent j. Slabbert (Fedup Sheep)

1 At the time of publishing this Agreement, this is not the case.

Disclaimer (dull, but necessary)


Fedup Sheep delves into topics that call for independent thinking and may invoke introspection through the lenses of prose, poetry & short fiction. We provide both online (website, social media, and email) and offline (PDF & EPUB) material. The various writing styles may or may not be used together, determined by the author’s creative spirit, circumstances, health, etc. at the time. The views and beliefs expressed are the author’s (Fedup Sheep’s), and some topics may be deemed offensive. Those who go into a wobbly in the face of certain truths easily seen by looking for oneself, but prefer not to, are advised to go elsewhere. Hence, Fedup Sheep cannot guarantee the safety of one’s present world-view, and accepts no responsibility nor shall be liable for any loss or damage of any kind, including emotional and psychological, caused by interacting with us. Both online material (website, social media, and email) and offline material (PDF & EPUB) may contain links to third parties that may not reflect our views and beliefs. By using our website, social media, email, PDFs & EPUB’s you acknowledge and agree that Fedup Sheep cannot be held responsible, and shall not be liable for the content, advertisements, policies, cookies, webhooks, analytical trackers, AI bots, AI agents, AI Large Language Models, or anything else we personally may not agree with—that exists now and in the future—from other websites. The same applies to the applications, payment providers, and hosting services (email and website) we use. Fedup Sheep reserves the right to modify this disclaimer, and any content on the website, without notice. By interacting with Fedup Sheep (online and offline), you accept—even if not necessarily agree—to the conditions listed above. For a deep dive, please read The Fedup Experience & The Fedup Privacy Thingy (links below).

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