#or just get in my car and fucking leave

[1337wtfomgbbq]

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[deoidesign]

I'm so mad that post was misinformation because there is actually an EXTREMELY important conversation to have about the production schedules artists are forced into. There's no need for exaggeration, the conditions are bad.

I work for webtoon. My publication schedule is weekly. While publishing I'm required 10-15 pages a week. Fully colored.

This means I'm finishing a 150 page fully colored graphic novel every 10-15 weeks.

When my comic is not updating, I am not getting paid. Any time writing, editing, or off is out of my own pocket. I don't get healthcare. They do not provide any assistants. They expect me to promote myself; they chose to deprioritize me before I even launched and gave me an end date half a year in. I never had a chance.

And this is the industry standard! Every company has artists forced into crunch hours, overtime, and burnout. Artists are literally dying early due to it. So many of my friends can't afford to go to the doctor.

It's unsustainable and untenable, and it's also the expectation our audiences have.

If we want to have this conversation, there's plenty of conversation to be had with the realities of the situation. It's bad as is.

[cerealbishh]

"We get to, this season, explore their chemistry and their real love and their intimacy. So we get to have a glimpse into that world that just feels so pure and beautiful and romantic! And then, sort of navigating those other circumstances once they're out in the world, dealing with real... challenges." - Isa in an interview with The Knockturnal(x)

[monster-bellies]

Updates: I got a raise at work that will go into effect in August, and my new drawing tablet is going to arrive on Thursday! I want to get back into drawing and knocking out the few commissions I still have, and work on revamping my presence here, because I've been on an extended hiatus. I miss you all here and I miss this as a whole.

Things have been tough lately, with friends moving across the country and going back to being alone most of the time again.

I will need assistance with Ubers for about seven days this month at least which will be quite a bit. I will also need help with my taxes. If you would like to offer assistance, my PayPal and Cashapp are as follows:

https://PayPal.me/bashallward

Cashapp: $elkhazel

[theinfinitedivides]

on the fucking scooter my brother...........................

[b4kuch1n]

pre-holiday leave crumbs

[mithomite]

SICK. "right person, wrong time."

[khathastrophe]

you know when people joked that 'Marry My Husband' needs to be more 2013 I think they meant the fashion not reused kdrama plots cause what was episode 12 even

[valeffelees]

only bad thing about being in a fandom where one of the characters canonically has wings is the painful lack of classic wingfic. where is my everything's the same but people have bird wings watford au where one day baz notices simon hasn't been grooming his wings bc of an injury to his ribs so he sits on his bed and makes a whole fuss about how "i'm not doing this to be nice, snow, your wings are just a travesty to look at" and then proceeds to carefully and lovingly tidy his feathers in drawn out silence while they both pretend grooming someone else's wings isn't one of the most intimate things you can do for another person. will this heartbreak never end

[nobodybetterlookatme]

Would've posted the last update yesterday but I basically collapsed into bed the moment I got home, so y'all can have it now lmao. I managed to hold it together until around 9pm, at which point I'd been working for over 12 hours at that point, so I think I did pretty good. Supervisor hit us on the radio to tell us it looked like we wouldn't be done til past midnight, and we were supposed to be out of there by 10pm, so that was the last straw for me bc I just wanted to go home and I mumbled something about going to the bathroom so I could cry for a minute. Came back, apparently that was also the last straw for my partner who evidently knew literally the entire time bc dude fucking goes "so do you wanna talk or are we just gonna keep pretending you haven't been feeling like shit all day", I tried to downplay it, it didn't work obviously, he looked at me like 😒, you hate to see it. He wanted to make sure I wasn't actually gonna become a patient so he did a quick assessment, my vitals were ✨ abnormal ✨ which was fun. We didn't have to do much else work related the rest of the shift so it was nice to just vibe for a bit. Finally got to leave, partner didn't trust me to drive myself home that late while I was still running a fever so he drove me home, we got food on the way back, I showered, then immediately went to sleep after crying a little but bc everything hurt so bad lmao

[girlwiththegreenhat]

you know what? at least he got his wedding. i guess ,

[maranull]

wondering what effects the fires will have on the tourist population cause as we all know, they are the most important people in the country, and we should always prioritize them and their comfort

oh, what's that? the fires have been eating houses all night? well, where they owned by rich greeks or rich tourists? then oh mein god, what a horror. they weren't? they were owned by greeks that live on a barely livable salaries? fuck them, who gives a shit

actually, now that I think really, really hard about it, the fires are good cause that's more land to sell to germans and other rich "people" that come to retire here in mansions

yes. yes, the fires are good actually come.

come live your myth in greece 🌊

[isbergillustration]

Heading home from embassytown

[variousqueerthings]

u know having done a fair bit of volunteering and organising, i do think. that sometimes. if you want something to be better within your specific community, especially marginalised communities. you have to step up and be involved in it. complaining about something being too small or not having the organisational backbone or not offering enough services, etcetc. i can guarantee that a large amount of the time you are looking at like 2-6 people who are doing all of this work for free (who are often spending their own money that they may not have a lot of) to make something happen and they only have the time and the energy and the ability that they have and if something has to pivot last minute, they will not have the financial and networking support to simply shift into another gear. these are the resources that exist, we can only do what they allow

every single event and charity and support service ive been involved in, somebody has complained -- about this space being smaller than the last space, about that being further away than it used to be, about something taking too long, or x resources not existing, ive had trans people show up to a trans community event 30mins before it was open and complain that it was badly organised because nobody let them in, ive had people say they demand more of this or that or less of that and this, this kind of group, that kind of event. and those people have always been people who are benefiting from these spaces and are not giving back to those spaces. they only think about what they're owed, not about what they owe in return, what their own responsibilities are

not everyone can be an organiser, but trust that there is always something that can be done to take the weight off of especially a smaller organisation that has come out of a need. and if you're not helping to carry some of that weight, do not complain, because those 2-6 people who are spending so much time and energy and money and soul on creating something that you are gaining from are closer to quitting than you might think and then who's gonna carry it? the people who were spending all their time complaining and doing nothing? good luck. hope people don't complain

tbh a lot of the time it's even enough to just go to your local community events and acknowledge the hard work put into them. we need people to come to them so we can keep doing them -- often you'll organise something that there is a wish for and people will treat it as more of a "ah well if i feel like it on the day" type thing than a community responsibility, part of what you're giving back in this contract. your tiny local pride could get 10 people or it could get 100 people there and its future funds may depend on the number. your community political meeting cannot organise without people there showing that they care. this panel or arts or research event is for you and it's also for you to give a shit about

but also. volunteer. and don't complain if you're not there with a solution and a hand. step up for your community on a local level

[running-in-the-dark]

the lady upstairs is screaming at her partner so loudly that I can - literally - understand every fucking word

this house is well built, you don't hear shit from the neighbours any other time, she just yells really fucking loudly and I am over it

[eonars]

this place is fucking unlivable in the summer and not bc of the heat it never actually gets that hot it's getting stuck behind a barely street legal rented golf cart thing on the pch that tops out at 17mph that's absolutely chock full of strange little pale children who are dangling off the edges of it awestruck at the wonders of the pacific ocean while the dad driving it is leisurely cruising around the streets cause he thinks this is disneyland or some other guided journey through a created world meanwhile I'm stuck behind them chewing my steering wheel off we can't pass they refuse to pull over and let actual cars pass them by my sandwich is wilting in the passenger seat and the two rashguard and crocs wearing children in the back bench part of the golf cart thing keep staring at me