#*company she ran

[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.

[molathesunfish]

[d7kyoshi]

This is it. This is the dynamic.

[rimupon]

in my mind Tanya is like one of those dog breeds that in the past were selectively bred to do work and now go stir crazy when they have nothing to do bc instincts demand they be doing Job

she absolutely needs to be useful. it is vital for her self image and the preservation of her ego.

sure she wanted that Job to be Boring Paperwork originally, but also as the books go on it kinda seems like she knows that ship has sailed and she’s stuck as a frontline commander. so Job is now aerial combat.

and after the war this outlet to be useful is no longer allowed and she probably gets antsy

anyway that’s why u need to bring Tanya to laser tag or paintball or something for enrichment post-war so she can get some excess energy out

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

I am returned! Crazy things happened on hiatus, and here is a play-by-play:

Spent the bulk of September with our dogs at my great-aunt's lake cottage (which is a 15-hr drive from here), due to the abundance of birthdays this month.

Shortly after arriving, I got a cold from my sister, which as per usual, turned into bronchitis, which lasted the entirety of the vacation (I still have the cough).

Around midnight on the eve of our departure, I had a gallbladder attack (first one since early spring).

Except it was way worse. Like, I couldn't breathe, couldn't speak, couldn't even cry.

Called 911, got in the ambulance, and the pain suddenly vanished in the space of a minute.

The wee mountain hospital didn't have imaging equipment beyond a CT scan and the Dr. was like "If the pain is gone, you shouldn't expose yourself to that much radiation" (which I appreciated)

My labs were normal, so we conclude this must've been the passing of the gallstone. Big, if true.

I take hydrocodone and we all go to sleep.

In the morning, my mom and sister pack my stuff for me and my parents and I drive the 15 hours back home so that dad can make it to a job interview the next day.

During the last 45 minutes of the journey, my mom's very very old & frail chihuahua experiences a sharp decline in his already poor constitution.

I'm knocked out on hydrocodone, but my dad is up all night with the dog, and in the morning, he takes him to the vet to be put down.

My mom is devastated, this dog was adopted to be her bedside companion during chemo twelve years ago.

My dad's interview goes well.

I still have bronchitis.

Two days later, my sister (who stayed longer at the lake house to clean up) drives back to her home in Southern GA, but for hurricane Helene reasons, the highway is closed and she gets lost.

She finally makes it home to find her power is out, for hurricane Helene reasons (it's still out)

Three days later (last night), I have another brutally painful attack (clearly I'd NOT passed the stone), so my parents drive me to the ER.

Am able to get an ultrasound there, which confirms I still have either many gallstones or one huge one, but my labs are still normal.

Unfortunately, this makes sense because I underwent some rapid drastic weight loss after my attack in the spring.

ER Dr. thinks my pain is instead being caused by gastritis for genetic reasons (which reminded my mom that as a teenager she passed out at work from gastritis).

He prescribes me a trio of gastritis drugs.

I'll be going to a trusted functional medicine doctor next month because my dad got the job (an amazingly good job, praise God) and we can afford it at last. My hope is that this Dr. can point to causes beyond genetics for the gastritis and also get rid of the stones once and for all, even if that means going on Ursodiol.

My dad's new job requires him to move to the Middle East in three weeks.

Oh, and my personal Instagram account (which was about to become the cornerstone of my small business) was inexplicably terminated during my hiatus and I have no means of getting it back besides writing to the state Attorney General.

[mothhuuny]

limbus company au where instead of fighting to the death, all conflicts are solved via roller derby. "limbus company" is actually a travelling roller derby group with dante as their coach. do they know a single thing about roller derby? nope! thats not stopping them, though!

[zipmode]

no kids on the ship. wellll i will make an exception because he looks very polite.

[do-you-know-this-adhd-character]

Do you know this (noncanon) ADHD character?

Evidence below the cut!

Stella isn't mean, but speaks without thinking. She is the loudest of the main characters and others perceive her as "excessive". She's doing poorly at school, despite being intelligent. She's shown having short attention span. Her room is disorganised.

[sqlmn]

Art I did during my break but don't wanna post on main but you know what. I like Levi and Richard (and Arienne the redhead).

Basically, Levi and Richard go to school together, Richard decides to go by the name Richard and the only person to without question go along with "I'm a boy now" is Levi who calls him Dick. And then gets into fist fights with boys that don't call him Richard. So Richard falls pretty much in love in school then his parents divorce and he moves away.

Many years later (10+) Richard meets Levi again and it's very much nothing grand. Levi overhears Richard introducing himself to someone and is like "lmao Dick? You work here now? Sucks to be you" and Richard is immediately 'I love him so much I hate myself for how easily I give up all dignity for him' but yeah. They work in different departments so Levi does more behind the scenes stuff while Richard talks to clients and is very social.

And their coworkers in both departments love Richard because he's such a nice guy and Levi's department hates Levi a lot cause he's an asshole. (then stuff happens that would require a tw blah blah blah) So after a month of Levi not being at work he returns and Richard immediately goes over to the department to check on him and he's just. Incredibly mellow. No cussing and no cockiness and worst of all, he's being called Richard which is very much not correct from Levi. So he points it out that no one else calls him Dick and if he had a problem with it he would have said something by now so hey, maybe don't suddenly change the entire friendship on your own. (So Levi texts him later to say "sorry for being a dick, Dick" and Richard is v happy and content with that turn out)

Richard is honestly tragically created out of spite for the fact I saw a name IRL and I know that the state that I live in would in fact NOT have someone that intentionally funny and trans so I have to make my own funny trans guy to fill the void.

[wedonthavemanydays]

[beefjerkybuffoon]

Welcome to the Bronze Sea, Ishmael

[mosspapi]

My "legally not allowed to drive a car" status also applies to Lethal Company, for those who may be curious

[lilrobinbird]

Mmmmm thinking about how Kyoshi and the flying opera company kept in touch after the events from the second book

Because she didn't reach out to them until the finale, I think that'd change later or at least for a while, then she'll get busy and it's gonna be just the same as in the second book until one day they somehow reunite again

(But I'm too tired speak with sense, anyone has any headcanons for them?🙏)

Edit: added some hcs and thoughts in a reblog

[drbtinglecannon]

I still can't get over the fact that Korsica was the head of security, right, and the entire reason you needed to reason with her was because she was the only department head that didn't have all of her passwords on a fucking thumb drive like every other one did, and you needed all of the department heads' passwords to shut down Spectra, so you had to get her to tell you what hers was because she didn't foolishly write it down like the others did, which ultimately led to her joining your team, but then you get to the end of the game and

Her password...

Was just "password"

Head of Security.

"Password".

I love her.

[fluffymuffincentral]

yall I am trying to understand lethal company please send help

[quietlyblooms]

@goldcnpeaks helps me test kojirou!

" what the fuck's going on? "

his tone is harsher than he'd typically use, but surely jovie will understand, considering blood pools beneath his fingers. his neck aches and stings where chiyo bit him only moments ago, though the blonde is nowhere to be seen now. she bolted the minute jovie and luka managed to tear her off of kojirou, her eyes wide and panicked as he stared back at her. he isn't sure what he felt, what he feels -- scared? concerned? both, perhaps, and confused definitely. maybe a little woozy, too ( blood has never been his friend ).

speaking of which... the artist pulls is hand away from his neck and goes white, feeling his stomach churn at the crimson glistening upon his fingertips. hastily he discards his flannel and presses it to his wound, takes several steadying breaths. oh, this is bad. he's not lightheaded yet, but this has to be pretty bad, right?

" you know something i don't, so spill it. " it's easier to focus on jovie than himself. " why the hell did chiyo nearly take a chunk outta me? "