#flooded home

[sheltiechicago]

Eruabai Ase, Otuaba, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. November 2022

Eruabai Ase at her flooded home in Otuaba. In September and October 2022, Nigeria experienced its worst floods in a decade. Millions of people were displaced and hundreds killed.

Photograph: Gideon Mendel

Head On portrait award 2023

[sunlit-mess]

📸 whoops

[lopashes]

i think she's fine

[teachyouhowtodothesponge]

Hello everyone! I hope you all are having a wonderful day! I wanted to give a quick announcement that I will be taking a break from tumblr for a little while. Life has gotten a bit hectic, so I need to step away for a bit. Thank you all so much, and I will see yall real soon. Please take this doodle of Poppy and Frank, too!

[scootarooni]

[yukipri]

feelin kinda sad so eating an obscene amount of pasta

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Little house in the ditch. I THINK it's supposed to prevent flooding? The description says it's a coastal neighborhood near the beach, but I don't see a beach. 2021 home in Warrenton, OR, has 3bds, 2ba, 1,819 sq ft, $749k.

The house is pricey, but it's cute and colorful. You've got a bright orange entrance hall with a drop zone and storage for winter clothing.

Then, they've got a nice living room area with a fireplace and pretty blue walls.

The main living area is open concept, so it matches the blue kitchen island.

Plenty of room for dining.

We like the cabinetry and backsplash.

It even has a pantry.

Large primary bedroom with sliders to a patio.

It's quite private down in here, down in here. Civilization is just over the ridge. I wonder if it fills with snow.

Black feature wall and sliding barn door to the ensuite.

Walk-in closet at the end of the large ensuite.

1 of 5 bedrooms has a nice orange feature wall.

The 3pc bath is a good size.

Nice laundry room.

Plus a mud room, although I don't know why it has a wood floor.

We see that there are a few neighbors down here. The one next door is surrounded by trees and shrubbery.

The road is right up on top, but there's no barrier.

1.36 acre lot. So, bad idea? Good idea? Claustrophobic? Would it help flooding or fill up? Is it overpriced? I'm intrigued- never saw anything like this.

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/89362-Arrowhead-Rd_Warrenton_OR_97146_M90697-99240?

[wizardnuke]

can't stop thinking about a shadowgast "i'm not looking to fuck do you have a screwdriver my bathroom is flooding" grindr au

[genericpuff]

Webtoons Is Making Moves - So Should You.

We all saw it coming ages ago and now it's finally here. There's no more beating around the bush or doubting if anyone is "reading into it too much", Webtoons' use of AI in its more recent webtoons is not an accident, not an oversight, but by design, it always has been. And I guaran-fucking-tee you that the work that already exists on the platform won't be safe from Webtoons' upcoming AI integration through scraping and data mining. Sure, they can say they're not gonna replace human creators, but that doesn't change the fact that AI tools, in their current form, can't feasibly exist without stealing from pre-existing content.

Plus, as someone who's tested their AI coloring tools specifically... they're a long, LONG way away from actually being useful. Like, good luck using them for any comic style that isn't Korean manwha featuring predominantly white characters with small heads and comically long legs. And if they do manage to get their AI tools to incorporate more art styles and wider ranges of character identities... again, what do you think it's been trained on?

Also, as an added bit that I found very funny:

Um, I'm sorry, what fucking year is it? Because platforms like WT and Tapas have both been saying this for years but we're obviously seeing them backpedal on that now with the implementation of in-house publishing programs like Unscrolled which have reinvented the wheel of taking digital webtoons and going gasp physical! It's almost like the platform has learned that there's no sustainable profit to be had in digital comics alone without the help of supplementary streams of income and is now trying to act like they've invented physical book publishing!

"The future of comic publishing, including manga, will be digital"??? My brother in christ, Shonen Jump has been exclusively digital since 2012! What rock have the WT's staff been living under that they're trying to sell digital comics as the "future" to North Americans as if we haven't already been living in that future for over ten years now?? We've had an entire generation of children raised on that same digital media since then! This isn't the selling point you think it is LMAO If anything, the digital media market here in NA is dying thanks to the enshittification of digital content platorms like Netflix, Disney+, and mainstream social media platforms! That "future" is not only already both the past and present, but is swiftly on its way out! Pack it up and go home, you missed the bus!

Literally so much of WT's IPO pitch is just a deadass grift full of corporate buzzwords and empty promises. They're trying so hard to convince people that their business model is infinitely profitable... but if it were, why do they need the public's money? And where are all those profits for the creators who are being exploited day after day to fill their platform with content? Why are so many creators still struggling to pay their bills if the company has this much potential for profit?

Ultimately even their promised AI tools don't ensure profit, they ensure cutting expenses. The extra money they hope to make isn't gonna come from their content generating income, it's gonna come from normal people forking over their money in the hopes that it'll be turned around, and from Webtoons cheapening the medium even further until it's nothing but conveyer belt gruel. Sure, "making more than you spend" is the base definition of "profit", but can we really call it that when it's through the means of gutting features, retiring support programs, letting go editing staff, and limiting resources for their own hired freelancers who are the only reason they even have content to begin with? That's not sustainable profit or growth, that's fighting the tide which can and will carry them away at any moment.

I'm low key calling it now, a year or two from today we're gonna be seeing massive lawsuits and calls to action from the people who invested their money into WT and subsequently lost it into the black hole that is WT's "business model". This is a company that's been operating in the red for years, what about becoming an IPO is gonna make them "profitable"? Let alone profitable enough to pay back their investors in the spades they're expecting? The platform and its app are already shit and they're about to become even worse, we are literally watching this company circle the drain in the modern day's ever-ongoing race to the bottom, enshittification in motion, but they're trying to convince us all the same that they're "innovating".

Webtoons doesn't want to invest in its creators. We as creators need to stop investing in them.

[bittsandpieces]

I think if we try hard enough we could sexualize migraines

[missionel]

im floodposting again

[thewisestdino]

Lil painting while I wait out the hurricane

[ophelieverse]

“not all men”

yeah,you are right because Daeron Targaryen would never do something like that to his own brother.

[clownsuu]

Ahhh, I fell in love with Robbie when I first saw him, (I LOVE his design sm for some reason, it scratches my brain just right) and I knew I had to draw him with my own WH beetle oc, Barvey Heetle! He's a Japanese Rhino Beetle and he's the pharmacist! Plus Jenna Floral, who's like- his only friend AJGSHSA

(Barveys mute and comunicates via ASL!)

aWEE CUUUTE-

[duahauuoplanh]

Junho & Yoona @Apan Star Awards 2023 in a nutshell

[gotyouanyway]

they did fail to be normal about adoption though. catastrophically