#Website Value

[darkwood-sleddog]

once again i am asking tumblr to hold public polls for users to vote on potential changes. imagine if you were the 'respect our users opinion website'. like that could be us but apparently not.

[wild-at-mind]

I would honestly call the left's inability to accomodate people with morality-based OCD compulsions an accessibility issue at this point.

[lowvintagesims]

@funkiesims and i saw john mulaney last night and this is the front and back of the shirts we made for the occasion

[freakpit]

“we need more flawed characters in media!” you guys can’t even handle the dungeon meshi cast

[maxknightley]

people on this website are really weird about the concept of "a business is trying to make money by selling you tangible merchandise"

it's like the inverse of the "yet you participate in society" thing

[foldingfittedsheets]

I desperately hope the person who just bought my Eating Out design on an apron knows they’re wearing a dirty joke.

[cupid-circus]

Your boy finished the drawing for the gary mousepad!!!!!

I will show it properly soon, and hopefully get the actual mousepads soon

[adhdandcomics]

adding to my tags because i’ve been thinkin a lot about the post i just reblogged and have more thoughts:

i’ll be real, the more i saw ‘hey adhd influencers are so annoying’ the more i worried that i was unconsciously contributing to the spreading reputation of adhd folks as annoying and over-pathologizing every symptom they experience

and then i realized. i am not a goddam influencer or life coach or representative. obviously i have some obligation as someone who cares about myself and the people that like my comics to not spread harmful ideology or blatant misinformation but i never intended myself to be a “’increase your productivity!!’ blog OR a ‘if you have XYZ you have adhd!’ blog. and i do this for fun, and originally started this blog bc i had a lot of internalized shame and self loathing about my adhd and thought if i could make it funny i might have less of that. let’s get real! and it worked!

i’ve obviously done this kind of thing— (hey these symptoms might be adhd!) a lot before in my life & on this blog, but there’s more to it than trying to be an “influencer” or whatever. a term that didn’t even exist when i started this blog!

i felt very isolated trying to find out if i had any mental problems & what have you originally because of large advice (etc) blogs with staunchly anti self Dx views at the time

so i overcorrected when i DID get dxed and tried to validate everyone who was like me. and of course. not the best course of action always for the ol mental health. tried to be the source of positivity and jokes that i didn’t see because the online adhd presence was near non-existent.

and anyway. i make a lot of fun of myself & the way m brain works in my comics obviously but it is not my obligation to... how do you say.... not be annoying online.

because if folks interpret MY little jokes as a strict guide to diagnosis. that’s on them, really, not me. i also believe “making adhd your entire personality” is a non-issue. so what if people find out they have it and get over excited with identifying as adhd. saying this as someone who DID do it. criticism of this gives the same vibes as people being annoyed that young queers make “being queer” their whole personality. im very obviously more than a guy with adhd, and id reckon other adhd comic artists are too. (im friends with a lot of them!) it’s fine to post about it online.

anyway. i just don’t take myself too seriously and i’m a comic artist for myself first! and you know what, i’ve been considered annoying my entire life. what do i care if a few more folks think i’m annoying. neurotypical or not

[mistressemmedi]

Considering the massive migration from the bird app is happening as we speak, I feel like we should start shooting in the air once in a while to keep the property value low and taxes at a reasonable level

[pennyserenade]

i became a movie lover all on my own and i say that not to flex but to stress the importance of the arts and the accessibility of them. i figured out how to find movies online for free at a very young age and it took me so far. i’ve seen a million movies i would’ve never seen had i not acquired that skill, and it’s shaped my worldview incredibly. i think more critically. i understand how important storytelling is. but most of all, i’ve simply got to experience the love and passion and care people have put into these movies. i’ve learned how to be creative through them. it is so so so so important to make art accessible to people !!!

[fruitless-vain]

Love when ruffwear says x locations are retailers of our products and then the stores’ websites have nothing about ruffwear on them at all

[janiedean]

@ eurovision anon 1

if anyone wants to discuss that matter please feel free to get a burner account and we can talk in dms but as I think is obvious atm I am in no way shape or form inviting any form of political discussion on here because I am mentally exhausted and not up for putting on main things that need to be discussed with nuance, thank you

@ eurovision anon 2

thanks for informing me I didn’t know about it and tbf it seems to me like your approach is entirely sensed

[ondiamcndseas]

at this point tenrose haters be just repeating the same three arguments they learned on twitter dot com like a fucking parrot, and then thinking they did something. come up with something new!

[3416]

if you guys could not repost my gifs as your own on this website at least, that'd be cool lmfao

[gynecologistmsfrizzle]

I’ve seen a really concerning trend in how some well-meaning people online are talking about Israel and Gaza, where they’re outright saying that any and all mainstream media coverage of the assault is propaganda. I saw a post saying word for word that the only reliable source is social media posts from Gazans.

So I think it’s a good time to remind y’all that “every government and mainstream media source is lying to/manipulating you, and unverified social media posts are the only place you can get uncorrupted information” is word-for-word conspiracy theory. This is not a way of thinking that you should cheer for just because it’s coming out of the mouths of people you agree with.

Yes, every sort of media has bias, especially around a topic this politically fraught. Yes, you should absolutely question the narratives and facts you’re being presented with. Yes, you should read coverage from multiple publications, in multiple countries, by multiple authors. And yes, you should even supplement that coverage with the type of up-to-the-minute first-hand accounts that social media is fantastic at providing. But having bias is not the same thing as lying. There is no global conspiracy where every world leader and media outlet on the planet has met behind closed doors and agreed to Do What Must Be Done to make Israel look good. And there are many, many journalists from around the world risking their lives on the ground in Gaza right now so they can report the facts as quickly and accurately as possible.

An updated version of this graph is appended to every article the CBC has posted about Palestine in the last few weeks:

If every Western media outlet is bending over backwards to make Israel look good, they’re doing a pretty shit job of it.

[goodlucks]

hey uh. i just reentered the “doing art for money” and why is genuine art being VASTLY undersold now. i’m actually terrified and scared🥲 i saw someone’s super cute art style and they were reducing prices to 5USD per full body full color.

i get that the average shmuck probably is running to some ai and churning out a stolen art slop with ambiguous and error-infested … nonsense but is that where all of our audience or consumer base has really gone?

i want to say that i hope these are just particular incidents in the ever nameless discord marketplace, but i haven’t retraced my roots on where i had my biggest holdings. and to be honest. i’m scared.

you should understand that they get to take ~4USD after your typical payp*l fees which depends on most artists but i think a good common number i have seen is 1-6 hours for their time.

that math means 60 cents per hour. remember when we used to reblog and share someone’s little simple hourly rate calculator for people’s art? i am scared for the future for artists. no matter how small they are.