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A commission done for @barkingbarghest. Wouldn't want to run into this fellow in the desert!

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Aaaaand today’s drawing is a cute tiny Legion that just saw Shepard and is happy about it because the world deserves cute Geths EVERYWHERE.

drawing him was a damn challenge tho XD

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Could you maybe reblog this post if you think respecting trans peoples' names and identities is a basic right and not a political opinion?

No pressure. Just seeking some validation of my sentiment. Due to some. people

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This was awesome. So many problems.

in which everyone trying to solve problems, causes them a lot.

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Barker then turned his attention to his fellow author J.K. Rowling, who has had her fair share of controversy over the last few years over her opinions on the transgender community. “There’s a lot of pain amongst the transgender people that I know,” Barker stated. “They have a lot of issues in the world as it is, without a famous author opining on the subject. It just seems redundant. It just seems unkind.”

Noting Rowling’s vast financial success, Barker felt that Rowling’s newfound position of fame ought to exclude her from discussing trans rights. He added, “It really just seems redundant for a woman as successful, as validated in the world, as Ms Rowling, to be negative, to be disruptive if you will, to a very beaten up subculture. These are human beings. She has no right to opine, I think, upon the lives of human beings that she does not know.”

“I feel very protective of people who are on the edge of our culture as gay people still are,” Barker continued. “And certainly transgender people are on the edge of our culture. And here you have one of the most successful people in the frigging world – Ms Rowling. Going after a very emotionally vulnerable portion of our culture. It just seems unnecessary and unfair.”

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Current recorded daily average deaths from COVID-19 in the US alone is 345. Current recorded death toll in the US is over a million. Current worldwide death toll is 6.56 million. I wanted to depict an homage all 6.56 million souls lost to COVID-19, but my computer isn't robust enough to even do a week's worth of losses in the US. So many people lost. So many families fractured forever. Hundreds die every single day, just in my country alone. The loss is insurmountable, and grappling with it is hard. The best I can do is small tributes like this to those who died, and do my best not spread it.

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This is more-or-less gonna serve as the rough draft for what I’ll put on the page, but I thought a lot about this shit today so YEEHAW. Text and pics. Zoid Manufacturing: Zoid Shells in the modern era are almost exclusively mass-manufactured. Zoid Cores can grow themselves shells (read: whole bodies) if given long enough, but this takes time and can have wildly inconsistent results. Neither of which work for mass manufacture.  Every Zoid Core starts as a bud. For most Zoids this is about the size of a golf ball. 

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idk if this is a phenomenon that has a name yet but like. scheduling doctor's appointments when you work a 9-5 job is really fucking hard when said doctors' offices are also open 9-5 and closed any time i could actually make it without needing to take PTO. im lucky bc my boss doesn't care if i duck out for under an hour for medical stuff but he very easily could force me to submit PTO for all of it. staying healthy in this country is such a hellscape on so many levels

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Fuck OpenSea for ignoring my copyright infringement notices till the NFT got sold.

I saw so many artists give up, because they couldn’t take the stress and sadness of not being able to protect their works.

Because they are not able to take on windmills and neither have the strength to ignore them.

Every person who ever made an artist wonder if they should stop what they are doing, if they should stop filling the world with colour and beauty, deserves to fucking burn in hell.

Fuck NFTs and anybody involved with them for making the world a greyer and darker place.

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I'm very happy to finally introduce my Zeke the Organoid poseable model!

From the anime and manga: Zoids Chaotic Century and Guardian Force.

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Tornado Reborn! 😀

Stealth Dragon from the Zoids manga! Modeled in Fusion360 and printed on my Anycubic Photon. Fully 3D printed ball and socket joints giving a pretty good range of posing ability.

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Organoid Zeke Reveal Trailer.

Please excuse my crappy video-taking/editing. Best I can do atm, XD

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Feel this HARD most days. -_-

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Disney's writer wage-theft is far worse than reported

Back in November, we learned that Disney had pulled a breathtakingly criminal wage-theft manuever on one of science-fiction’s most beloved authors, Allan Dean Foster, an elderly cancer-patient caring for his sick wife.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/19/disneymustpay/#disneymustpay

Foster is the bestselling author of some of the most successful movie novelizations ever, from the first STAR WARS novel to ALIENS novels and more. Thanks to Disney’s monopolistic buying spree of companies like Lucas and Fox, they now owned the movies and Foster’s contract.

Here’s where things get criminally weird. Disney argued that when they bought out Lucas, Fox, etc, they acquired their assets, but not their liabilities. In other words, they’d acquired the right to sell Foster’s work, but not the obligation to pay him when they did.

This is not how copyright contracts work, period. If it were, then any publisher with a runaway bestseller novel could incorporate a new company, sell its assets - but not its liabilities - to that company, and stiff the writer.

Both Foster’s agent and the Science Fiction Writers of America tried to negotiate with Disney quietly on this, but they were stonewalled and insulted (Disney insisted that they wouldn’t even *discuss* a deal without first getting nondisclosure agreements from Foster, another unheard-of tactic).

After failing to make progress with private negotiations, they went loudly public, launching the #DisneyMustPay campaign. The good news is, the campaign was successful, and Foster has been paid.

The bad news is that the campaign flushed out *many* writers who are also having their wages stolen by Disney. The company is stalling them, too - refusing to search its records or volunteer info unless the authors can name the specific instances in which they’ve been robbed.

In response, SFWA has joined forces with the Romance Writers of America, the Horror Writers of America, the National Writers Union, Sisters in Crime and the Authors Guild to form a coalition called Writers Must Be Paid.

https://www.writersmustbepaid.org/

They have a form where writers who suspect that Disney has stolen their wages can report it, anonymously:

https://airtable.com/shrE1hJbqMHsjP9Ll

There’s a reason for the anonymity: Disney’s anticompetitive mergers (culminating with the destructive Fox merger) has created a monopoly with vast market-power to destroy creators’ livelihoods by excluding them for speaking out.

The coalition has five modest demands for Disney:

I. Honor contracts now held by Disney and its subsidiaries

II. Provide royalty payments and statements to all affected authors

III. Update their licensing page with an FAQ for writers about how to handle missing royalties

IV. Create a clear, easy-to-find contact person or point for affected authors.

V. Cooperate with author organizations who are providing support to authors and agents.

More broadly, I hope this brings more creative workers into the discussion about competition.

Specifically, “monopsony,” the excessive buying power that happens when a companies dominate access to a market, which allows them to squeeze their suppliers, especially workers.