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The first ones are (I think) unused Mandys from the Big Boogey cover. The second are from the Midway game. I used to try to draw the characters "fresh" each time without tracing them back, so there's always be a bit of variety.

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I’m in my late 20’s and still feel like I haven’t found myself or a career to move toward. How old were you when you finally started to figure all that out? I always loved drawing but I recently became disinterested and I’ve had a hard time finding something to do with myself

I thought I had it all figured out by age 14. I wanted to become an animator! Nearly thirty five years later, I wonder more than ever what my future career will be. Maybe I'm being a Negative Nelly due to the state of the industry, but I do begin to wonder if it's wise to bank everything on Kids TV Animation.

If it makes you feel any better, I become disinterested in drawing too sometimes. I love to draw, but occasionally it's like pulling my own teeth to get myself to do it. And then I finally do it and suddenly I'm in love all over again.

I just booted up the ol' work computer for the first time this month, so we're gonna see how this goes. It sounds like the Millenium Falcon when it refuses to jump to Hyperspace. Fingers crossed!

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I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.

So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.

Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.

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I was on a plane this weekend, and I was chatting with the woman sitting next to me about an upcoming writer’s strike. “Do you really think you’re mistreated?” she asked me.

That’s not the issue at stake here. Let me tell you a little something about “minirooms.”

Minirooms are a way of television writing that is becoming more common. Basically, the studio will hire a small group of writers, 3-6 or so, and employ them for just a few weeks. In those few weeks (six weeks seem to be common), they have to hurriedly figure out as much about the show as they can – characters, plots, outlines for episodes. Then at the end of the six weeks, all the writers are fired except for the showrunner, who has to write the entire series themselves based on the outlines.

This is not a widespread practice, but it has become more common over the past couple of years. Studios like it because instead of paying for a full room for the full length of the show, they just pay a handful of writers for a fraction of the show. It’s not a huge problem now, but the WGA only gets the chance to make rules every three years – if we let this go for another three years and it becomes the norm? That would be DEVASTATING for the tv writing profession.

Do I feel like I’m mistreated? No. I LOVE my job! But in a world of minirooms, there is no place for someone like me – a mid-level writer who makes a decent living working on someone else’s show (I’d like to be a showrunner someday, but for now I feel like I still have a lot to learn, and my husband and I are trying to start a family so I like not being support rather than the leader for now). In a miniroom, there are only two levels – the handful of glorified idea people who are already scrambling to find their next show because you can’t make a decent living off of one six-week job (and since there are fewer people per room, there are fewer jobs overall, even at the six-week amount), and the overworked, stressed as fuck showrunner who is going to have to write the entire thing themselves. Besides being bad for me making a living, I also just think it’s plain bad for television as an art form – what I like about TV is how adaptable it is, how a whole group of people come together to tell a story better than what any of them could do on their own. Plus the showrunner can’t do their best work under all of that pressure, episode after episode, back to back. Minirooms just…fucking suck.

The WGA is proposing two things to fix this – a rule that writers have to be employed for the entire show, and a rule tying the number of writers in the room to the number of episodes you have per season. I don’t think it’s unreasonable. It’s the way shows have run since the advent of television. It’s only in the last couple of years that this has become a new thing. It’s exploitative. It squeezes out everyone except showrunners and people who have the financial means to work only a few months a year. It makes television worse. And that is the issue in this strike that means everything to me, and that is why I voted yes on the strike authorization vote.

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Lil mom

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phobia

[school project. artistic concern: perception. depicting objects that make people cringe]

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I’m friends with Yuji Naka on Facebook and as of about 3 minutes ago, he’s aware of Sonic’s revealed movie design.

Don’t know about you but his perceptibly curt comment may indicate that he’s not a fan of what Hollywood did to his, Oshima’s and Yasuhara’s creation.

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The first adventure.

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There are a lot of posts going around about hypothermia and let me just say that anyone who tells you to take clothes off to prevent hypothermia (unless you’re soaking wet) is trying to fucking kill you

Check your sources. If OP has no stated/proven medical training then you shouldn’t trust their medical advice. Sweating will not kill you- but dress to your comfort. Listen to your body. Learn about wind chill and frostbite. Your sweat WILL NOT FREEZE if it’s hot enough under your layers to generate sweat omfg

Edit: obviously if you can, change your clothes if they’re wet, but like it’s not necessary and if you’re poor and you don’t have options keep your clothes on

And lastly never fucking sleep naked if you have no power and are trying to not freeze. Your house will never get warm enough in an arctic blast to make you sweat.

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Life is a party and i’m the pinata 

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shoelaces #41

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YUP

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she gonna hammer you to mars if you make her mad so beware

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MY DARLING WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME WHY DID YOU GO?

i forgot this man existed

REDBUBBLE ::: ETSY