#So much work to do

[crystalmagpie447]

>:(

[xannador]

Spent an entire day trying to build a new rig that is more animation friendly. Turns out is was not more animation friendly. And like an idiot I had already drawn the cynder assets too. I nuked it all. I will ree

[rattkween86]

Sorry I'm kind of absent and slow to respond right now. I'm feeling a little burnt out, super low energy, and tons of stuff is going on with the holidays coming up, and I'm feelin stressed with not enough time to recover in between events. I love u guys very much and hope u don't forget me 🥲

[character-profiles]

Guess what fucking psychopath successfully juggled 24 dms and didn't go insane from their own stupidity? THIS GUY! WOOOOOOOHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

i am going to fucking collapse.

[lovelyillustrations]

Banananannanana needed a reference. Several OCs need one. It is the year for updating I think. Also I accidentally CYMKed the canvas and I CANNOT EXPLAIN JUST HOW UPSETTING IT WAS TO REALISE THIS WHEN I WAS ON THE CLOTHING...

[sapphos-ode]

Brewing up a lil songfic rn…

[ughidkwhattoputasmyurl]

Am I cute or what.

[kingkyks]

if you think I'm doing okay, think again

[belovedrival]

I feel like others are doing way more work on our new house than me, but today I mowed the lawn and primed the back wall of the living room and part of the wall up the staircase and now everything hurts and oh my lawd I’m out of shape.

Mister was priming the CEILING. Poor guy.

Ugh, I just want to go to bed. I’ll try to cram more clothes into my suitcase and hopefully I’ll have some energy tomorrow.

Did I mention tomorrow is our official moving day?

[whatkindofnameisella]

can you believe that we have fanfiction. that we have websites dedicated to fanfiction. that there is a place that you can go and read tens, hundreds, thousands and thousands of pieces of writing that strangers have made. people who are not "writers". people who come home at the end of the day and have feelings and say, i am going to put that into words. i am going to share those words. short, long, sweet, sad, horny, funny, wonderful words. we are all just human and we all love to make and remake and share that with others. can you believe that.

[artkaninchenbau]

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus

[mortuarybees]

same people crying about ups drivers winning $42/hour are the same people who dismiss unions and say they just take your money and don't do anything for you. Bet you'd like $42/hour!!!!!!!

[clown-owo]

been replaying the Portal series I think this is where its heading

[carissimipaixao]

this master's really said, "you thought you weren't anxious? think again"

[unforth]

Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.

[unpretty]

the thing about having been really broke. averaging $500 a month in a good year broke. using a gamestop credit card i shouldn't have qualified for to buy taco bell gift cards for food broke. is that i am SO bad with money. i have a degree in accounting and i am so bad with money. i do not think of myself as superstitious at all but money feels so cursed. not in a spiritual way, i mean literally. practically.

having 'too much' money feels so bad. money is a thing you spend as soon as you get it because it's so cursed. the more it is the more cursed it is. i save too much money and bad things will happen that cost all my money. money is a thing that summons expenses. if i have no money and the car breaks down i find a way to make it work. i scrounge and resell and pass the hat and talk to my mom's friend's friend who knows a guy and in the end i'm so relieved to be right back where i started. but if i were saving my money for a new computer and then the car broke down, the money is just gone. i spent the money i saved for a thing i wanted on a thing i needed instead and after all that hoping i'm right back where i started.

i get a windfall and i set the money aside because if i'm careful that's enough to pay for gas for months. but then i need to pay for heat and i apply for assistance and they look at my bank account and see i have money and now they won't help pay for heat. soon it's just a habit. i get the money and i spend the money. immediately, as soon as possible, get this money away from me. don't even save enough for cigarettes. i can find money for cigarettes, somehow i can always find money for cigarettes. cigarette money is a weird magical fake money i summon from dark corners whenever i run out of cigarettes. i don't know how it works either. i've tried to summon the cigarette money for things that aren't cigarettes and it never works. just get this out of my bank account. get it out of here before something notices there's money here.

anyway i'm working on it but god it's hard