Augh man I am experiencing the agonies. I hate when a flare up gets bad enough that my hands start cramping up 😭 two days off and then I'm back to work again for another four open-closes in a row and I am getting STRESSED just thinking about it...
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i love to get home and im hungry and i need to do things but i literally cant move off this couch because my legs hurt too much
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I was out for one day. One day before the Christmas break and I get back and someone has touched everything that I own. My stapler googly eyes are gone, I don't think this is my tape dispenser, I'm out of mints, my shelves have been swapped with my co-worker's shelves, my desk... is sticky. I can't live like this
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY YUMICHIKA!!!
these are pieces i commissioned from @drugsandsocks_ on twitter!
it's been just over a year since i posted the first panel of yumichika on this blog and alot has changed since then!! i'm excited for cours three and manifest new chapters from kubo one day soon
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-- TAKING A BREAK --
hewwo, im gonna be taking a break from tumblr for the next while.
ive come to realize that im on tumblr wayyyy too much bc of my (newly found) ocd so im leaving for a while to try and deal with it (+ other stuff in the op tags)
i'll be back once im satisfied w/ my progress, but there is a chance i won't be back for months, so if u want to stay in contact send me a DM w ur discord or smthn, i'll check them a couple of times in the next couple days, but after that no tumblr at all.
so yeah, byebyes & i'll see u people later hopefully <3
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I continue to find it deeply frustrating that I got a two-book deal with a traditional publisher, but still won't have the resources to actually make the second book.
I get 18k per book with the payments split up. The way things play out, I get the 12k before I start, and the last 6k upon delivery or publication. I make my comics with colored pencils; each page takes anywhere from 10-15 hours to complete, and I can manage 4 pages a week when I'm In The Zone. Each book is 180+ pages long. So yeah. That's a full time job for about a year if I work like a machine.
But I can't live off 12k for a whole year, which means I gotta do part time work, which means the book takes longer to produce, which means that 12k gets stretched out over like three years. I get fucked either way, basically.
It's just. Not great! That there are only like...two grants out there which might apply to a graphic novelist working with a traditional publisher, and they only give out like. Maybe $500?
It's insane to me?? I guess?? That I'm gonna have to Kickstarter a traditionally-published book. This is the sort of thing I expected to like, not have to worry about as much if I went the way of traditional publishing. There are definitely benefits to this approach (!!!), but I honestly don't know how I'm gonna get the money to actually fulfill my contract! Which?? What???
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the fact that I cannot simply quit my job. there’s plenty of food and space and skilled people in the world. things could function so much better with a tenth the labor if we were efficient about it. but we aren’t. and under capitalism I love my job - I am incredibly lucky to have it and even find it fulfilling in its way. but also I am disabled and my life would be 1000% easier if I just didn’t have to find miracle jobs to make what still comes to below poverty wages given how few hours I can manage. but even though the amount of money I make is play money to other people, it’s the only thing giving me dignity, both the dignity of privacy in spending and the false dignity of being a “productive member of society”. plus, like, I gotta eat and feed my cats, even if I’m currently rent free. but sometimes I think about the ways money and my job (and their relationship with my health) play as such large factors in my decision making and I just think, ideally, those would have less weight. ideally I could just quit my job and somehow still have money. not because I don’t love the work, but because of the limitations having to maintain both a work schedule and my fatigue put on me.
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Guys college sucks, I can't just draw Optimus prime and me being cringe all the time anymore :((
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