hi any advice for a person who's trying to become a professional artist? everywhere I look in any art adjacent industry people are losing their jobs left and right,being underpaid or are freelancing while working a side job,I swear the only ppl doing well are the ai art bitches…I feel like I'm aboard a sinking ship 🥲🫠
I applied to multiple postings yesterday and honestly I don't know anymore 🫠
The illustrator + 2D generalist + concept artist hiring pools are pretty full right now with all the layoffs
Without connections or an insane online following idk how students and entry-level folks are supposed to make it anymore
Recommendations through positive word-of-mouth from my previous clients has been keeping me afloat so far + commissions + patreon, and I'm blessed with a super supportive parent; if I didn't have those things — and if I was able or willing to do a 9-to-5 office job— I would not be in a position to handle this
And honestly AI is a huge issue, don't get me wrong, but it plays a small part of why these creative industries are collapsing.
It's the unforgiving hours, the low pay, the burnout, the layoffs disrupting entire chains of communication, sudden project cancellations due to trend-chasing and investor expectations and internal politics, the looming uncertainty of the future. The unsustainable profit-first infrastructure is just finally buckling I fear.
Possible workaround: pop off as a fan artist and build a following large enough to subsist on subscriptions. Make a new draw-with-me tiktok every other day and/or stream for five to eight hours a day three times a week. I am in no way joking about this. It's a lot of work to get there but at least it yields consistent results. 🧍🏾♀️
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I wanna mark up my needy boyfriend's neck while sitting on his lap. Grinding against each other his desperate whimpers causing me to bite down harder.
“ Can you keep the marks lower please” He begged
“Why? Are you embarrassed of me? Are you gonna try & hide them” You say pulling away with a pout on your lips
“n-No..”
“Good cause they're too pretty to hide,” You say with a smile as you start to lean back down.
Very Spencer Reid coded :3
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Does Crowley actually destroy the "bad" plants?
I think not!
Neil Gaiman notably suggested once that he makes the shredder noise to frighten the plants, then sneaks the plant with leaf spots out and gives it to the old lady downstairs.
However, this was just in response to a question asking what could be told to a child who was upset by the scene, and so could not be considered canon. It does seem in character, but trying to be mindful of not headcanonning Crowley into too much of a meow-meow, I was prepared to believe either possibility.
But then, I was reading the book. And though much of the scene in the show was taken line for line, in the book it doesn't say he shreds the plants, or that the sound of a shredder is heard, or anything like that. It says he leaves the flat with the offending plant, and returns an hour or so later with an empty pot.
About the right amount of time to pop downstairs, have a chat and a cup of tea, and re-pot a plant, wouldn't you say? Hmmmmmmm.
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Roiree, listen to me. Arranged. Marriage. With. Ayato. That historical romance rotten brain of yours can go crazy with it. JUST GIVE ME MORE CRUMBS OF MY MAN 😭
CONTRACTUAL HUSBAND!AYATO who agreed to be married to you for a year and use each other as a means to get what both of you want before parting your own ways.
CONTRACTUAL HUSBAND!AYATO who initially saw your relationship as a tool until he realized he fell for you first, harder, and never recovered.
CONTRACTUAL HUSBAND!AYATO who found himself fidgeting with his wedding ring when he’s busy with work and randomly wonders if you’ve adjusted to your new lifestyle comfortably.
CONTRACTUAL HUSBAND!AYATO who can’t help but smile whenever you spend time with his sister and give her the fun outdoor experiences she always dreamed of.
CONTRACTUAL HUSBAND!AYATO who jokingly calls you “my wife” however, it slowly became a habit over time and often refers to you as that whether he is talking to you or someone else.
CONTRACTUAL HUSBAND!AYATO who never saw spending time with you in public as an obligation he had to fulfill in accordance with your contract but rather always looked forward to when you would sweep him away from his office.
CONTRACTUAL HUSBAND!AYATO who had to keep reminding himself of the contract but can’t help telling you how much he loves you before fervently kissing your lips.
CONTRACTUAL HUSBAND!AYATO who never really trusted anyone, leading him to always have his guard up, but found complete solace whenever he is wrapped in your arms.
CONTRACTUAL HUSBAND!AYATO who does loves spoiling you with the finest trinkets and high-quality silk kimonos because he can’t get over how you took his breath away when you watched the firework show together during the festival.
CONTRACTUAL HUSBAND!AYATO who pulls you closer to him in the middle of the night and tells you that he’s so lucky to be married to a woman like you.
CONTRACTUAL HUSBAND!AYATO who turns into a lovesick mess behind closed doors when he realized he has to be away for a week while you stay in the estate and writes you letters whenever he can just to make him feel a little less lonely in your lack of presence.
CONTRACTUAL HUSBAND!AYATO who asked if you could marry again and rather than being joined by a one-year marital contract, you would be bounded by unconditional and undying love.
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Interviewer: Avatar Aang, why did you run away from home?
Aang: I was told I was the Avatar at like 12, and the pressure got to me so I childishly ran away. :( Ironically that ended up being the right choice, but that's a diff story.
Interviewer: Fascinating. Did you take anyone with you?
Aang: Of course! My best buddy, ol' pal Appa! :D
Appa: Moo
Interviewer: Avatar Korra, why did you run away from home?
Korra: Well the first time- I don't want to talk about the second time- it was because those jerks wouldn't let me BE THE AVATAR! So I ran away to do my duties!
Interviewer: Fascinating. Did you take anyone with you?
Korra: Of course! Only the best girl ever, Naga!
Naga: Woof
Interviewer: Avatar Kyoshi, why did you run away from home?
Kyoshi: After witnessing the death of two of my loved ones. I swore to escape my sifu's control and to get revenge by any means necessary.
Interviewer: Fascinating. Did you take anyone with you?
Kyoshi: Of course! I took my totally 100%, platonic bestie Rangi! Mmmhmmm just friends, totally, ONLY friends. Haha. No secret longing feelings here, no siree.
Rangi: Platonic???? Not by the end of this trip, not if I have anything to say about it!
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of ten’s companions, if the doctor couldn’t handle losing them and crossed his own timeline to trick them into traveling with future!him instead of past!him so that he’d have a little more time with them:
rose would do it. first because bless her but she has the situational awareness of a rock, and legitimately would not realize this isn’t her doctor until his facade starts to break down and he starts bleeding grief-laced love for her at every turn. but once she does realize it, she’s both deeply sympathetic and a little scared that she could make him into this. it’s a lot to be confronted with having that much power over someone, to break them so thoroughly. rose would try to get back to her doctor, but while she’s with the future version, she tries to do what she can to ease his pain. (she also tries to figure out a way to subvert her fate. she fails.)
i think martha would be harder to trick. she can smell desperation on the doctor like a bloodhound. she is so tapped into the fact that this man wants to off himself so bad and that she’s 90% of his self-restraint, so present her with a doctor who is lacking that and she’s onto him immediately. however, assuming he gets her to come with him, explains why he’s doing this, there’s like. a minute where she’s kind of. not flattered exactly, but surprised, giddy with the realization that he’d come back for a little more time with her, especially if this is early season 3 martha. which would all come crashing down around the time that he reveals that he wasn’t pushed to this by losing her to some tragedy or her death or anything- but that she chose to leave. that is the point at which martha goes ‘oh i need to get the fuck off of this tardis right now’ and ghosts the past!doctor that she was also traveling with because holy shit, man.
donna, like rose, is easily bamboozled into following the wrong doctor home, provided that he shuffles her along into his tardis too fast for her to argue. but she catches on far quicker than rose does. like, three minutes tops of watching the doctor move through the tardis in a way that’s definitely not enthusiastic piloting and looks more like guilty panic. and then she yells at him for lying to her. and she yells at him for kidnapping her. and then she stops yelling because he’s gone sort of still and quiet and his eyes are just broken. and he doesn’t explain himself, he confesses. donna is going to try to stay with him after this btw. because how do you go back to looking your best friend in the eyes when you know he’d take everything you’ve become away from you, even to save your life? and this is still the doctor, he still did that to her, but he regrets it. regrets it so much that he can’t live with it, he’s breaking time and space just to hear her say his name again. and donna doesn’t want to lose him anymore than he wanted to lose her.
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“next door neighbor”
-matt sturniolo pt.1
warnings: nothing just a bit of fluff, strangers/friends to lovers, hockey!matt/sweetheart!matt
it was 8 o’clock when i heard a knock on my front door. i rolled my eyes and got up, throwing on a t shirt and shorts from the night before and fixing my hair slightly. i walked downstairs and opened the door, to my surprise i was met with THE matt sturniolo. matt was the defender of our school hockey team, he was one of the popular guys last year, but in summer everyone sort of forgot he existed, school started in a month and i had been sleeping in all summer, so boy was it a surprise being woken up at 8am, let alone matt sturniolo being the one to do it.
“hey, what are you doing here?” i asked between yawns, as his eyes traveled over my slightly clothed body
“uhm, right, sorry, i just moved in next door..” he pointed over
“and i know we go to school together..” he paused and laughed to himself
“but my mom wanted me to bring you these” he gestured down to a plate of cookies in his hands, i smiled that he even knew who i was, let alone brought me a gift
“that’s so sweet! thank you! so where are chris and nick?” i asked smiling, me and nick were in photography together in junior year and we haven’t really talked since, but i missed him and wanted to catch up
“oh, yeah, they’re at him getting shit packed yk, but if you want we don’t mind if you come over!” he said grinning brightly
“yeah that’s fine, just give me a few to get ready, i’ll be over soon” i backed away
“alrighty! see you soon!”
“thank you again for the cookies!”
“anytime!” he said before i shut the door and ran upstairs to get changed, shit. i just talked to one of the finest men i know, barely clothed and looking a mess, dammit i’m so embarrassing. i rushed to do quick makeup and i straightened my hair a bit to touch it
up before i changed and i was back downstairs putting on my shoes in a matter of 10 minutes. i walked out of my house and down the road a few feet over to matt’s house, i walked up his front steps. his house was beautiful on the outside and i was even more shocked when he opened the door to let me in.
“hey neighbor i’m here” i giggled
“mhmm come in” he shifted over to let me in and oh. my. god. his house was so gorgeous.
“wow.” i uttered
he laughed and looked at me “wow what?”
“your house, wow.”
he smiled “yeah? thank you”
“yeah, yeah of course”
an hour later
i had caught up with all of his brothers, met his parents and their mom even invited me to dinner tonight. of course i was gonna go, i’m not stupid. matt was so fine, not only that but he had an amazing personality, i used to think he was the stereotypical stuck up jock who has hoes and treats women like shit, but he was nothing like that. getting to know him made me even more attracted to him, for him as a person, not just his looks.
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…that’s it for part onee lmk in the comments how i did and if i should make a part twoo 🫶💋
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