#for underpaying

[wntrsnat]

I’d sell my fucking soul to see Ed Brubaker and Phil Noto collaborate on the Winter Soldier/the Black Widow graphic novel

[littlebigmouse]

"Reigen was extorting free labor from Mob", "Mob working at spirits and such is child labor"

I mean yes kinda but also that is so not the point.

Reigen and Mob first met when Mob was ten. Mob asked if he could come back. Mob needed companionship and life advice and a safe space to hang out, all of which Reigen provided. Mob gets paid in pocket change and food and snacks at the office. In return, Reigen gets to not die a horrible and gruesome death once a week.

It's a mentoring relationship. They're friends.

Mob doesn't need money. Mob isn't at the office to get money. If Mob genuinely needed and wanted a part time job, then yeah, 300 yen an hour is bullshit and he should book it out of there. But the two just needed an excuse for Mob to hang out and Mob meeting spirits and going to excorcisms was probably helping a lot with feeling in control of his powers in the first place.

Is it always the healthiest friendship? Absolutely not. It's explicitly adressed that Reigen has come to rely on Mob a little too much sometimes and increasingly doesn't respect his boundaries. That's also what made Mob bail in five seconds flat and he only came back when Reigen apologized. Not because Mob wanted the 300 yen give or take a bowl of ramen and some plant seeds back. But because these were friends having a conflict and they talked it out and wanted to hang out again.

Do you think Mob has a work contract? Set work hours? Do you think either of them care?

They are friends, your honour, who cares about the pocket change.

[r0semultiverse]

Y’all are aware we probably have to keep it in the top 10 overall into at least the 19th right? One business day after initial intended marketed advertised release supposedly. Then we should be good unless Mark says otherwise.

[sheriffofmagic]

it's so funny the whole polygon fandom has migrated to dropout

i think we were doomed to end up like this the moment we started making fanworks about pcpr

[acekindaneat]

guys please this isn't OSHA approved

[jattendschaton]

I think we spend too much time thinking about Adrien buying a bunch of Ladybug merch and not enough time thinking about him making his own. Taking all those boring white Gabriel pieces of clothing and dyeing them red. Painstakingly adding spots to them. Marinette teaching him how to sew so he can rip apart his old clothes and use the fabric to make something new. Embroidering "Lady's Man" onto clothing he already wears. Learning how to crochet so he can make LB plushies.

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

in todays news of asinine bullshit discourse on tiktok: apparently there's a hot debate over whether or not you're entitled to nice greetings and conversations with cashiers/retail workers. and. now here's the kicker. whether or not thinking no one's entitled to the pleasantries of an overworked exhausted employee is counterintuitive to the idea of a "third space". yes this is real life

[puppyeared]

i wrote this as a joke because I wanted to strangle a guy watching tiktoks without headphones on the bus, but im genuinely disturbed that we've gotten to a point where convenience comes first. and it depresses me even more that its used to justify and monetize greed

[tiger-grace]

mp100 pencil sketches 😪

Also I got the first manga and that version of mob does not put up with reigen’s bs at all holy cow?? 😭😭

[theorahsart]

bless these people from Hatchette, time and time again, offering way below mininum wage for book illustration work.

This happens to me like once a year, its always for something autism or mental health themed- I feel like they think they can get away with paying peanuts if its to a disabled artist. They like to throw in the classic 'this book is going to do so much good for the world' line, as if that's changes the fact that what they're paying wont even cover a month's rent.

Anyways, they offer barely anything (including no royalties, and a deadline thats in less than a month), and seemed to have forgotten that I got a book published with them that sends me royalty statements, so I know exactly how much profit they are earning from my one book lol

Buddies, you made like 12k from my book alone in the last 6 months, let alone all those other books you got out there in the world, some much more famous than me! Don't offer me a lousy £350 for 9 illustrations when I know you made 12k just from one book!

[idcpxseur]

re: jess' tiktok

this post got a bit long so im cutting it for space but tl;dr i talk about how jess explaining her relationship with jason doesn't exactly paint aarmau in a better light and in fact makes it worse.

okay so everyone and their mother has seen jess' tiktok at this point. i made a brief video talking about it.

the video was basically me saying to leave jess alone about stuff in the past, especially regarding her real life relationship. i also apologized for believing the rumors with no proof.

but i wanted to come on here and talk about the ramifications of presenting her irl relationship dynamic with aarmau in specifically PDH and Mystreet.

aaron knew about aphmau's age from the beginning. he knew that he was older than 14 y/o aphmau and he knew that shu was significantly younger than him because she talked about her first day of high school openly with him.

aaron was presented as the better option. the savior. the knight in shining armor. he was mature and older than aphmau's of-age peers. he was always the person that aphmau could cry to and her escape.

in mcd that wasn't a problem because aphmau was an adult. but aphmau was a child in PDH, any way you swing it. i think PDH feels even grosser to me considering how they upped aphmau's innocence and naivety, making her appear even MORE childlike and wholesome.

because, like, jess. you weren't 15 when you wrote PDH, babe. if you knew it was wrong in real life why on EARTH would you put it in your fiction. if you as a grown ass adult knew that what you did as a child was wrong, why would you go on and GLORIFY IT in PDH and mystreet!

because no one calls out aarmau aside from sylvanna who is potrayed as a "psycho helicopter parent who doesn't really care about her kids happiness" when (in this specific case) she was RIGHT to be worried about aaron!

there's a difference between bringing awareness to a certain topic and fetishizing or glorifying it and that's what jess did. she potrayed an unhealthy relationship dynamic with a huge power imbalance and was like "yes, young teenage girls, this is what you should look for in a partner! this is the type of man you want in your life"

and tbh with the context we now have, it kind of makes her look worse because if you as an adult knew this was wrong and you feel guilty for it that is fine. but what isn't okay is knowing this shit is wrong and still writing it like it's perfectly okay!!!

bare in mind: i am not shaming jess for what goes on in her irl relationship.

im just confused and concerned because im trying to sit with this thought process in my head and it does NOT make sense because this situation was so easily avoidable.

literally just make aaron in the same age group as garroth and laurence. theyre only older than aphmau by a year! hell make aaron a freshman too for all i fucking care just not a SUPER SENIOR who is about to go to GODDAMN COLLEGE and who is literally old enough to pay TAXES.

you could've even not had aaron in PDH at all and have them meet in mystreet if you still wanted aarmau to parallel your in real life age gap.

anything. anything at all would've been better than what jess did

[someguyiguess]

anyone who’s ever hurt their back from lifting something wrong for an underpaying job deserves a purple heart medal

[mithliya]

like its truly wild to me that any of us are having to argue that no, women should not be left out of the workplace on the basis of being pregnant or having chidren. no, men aren't actually justified in doing that. no, its not actually good to have a system in place that specifically disadvantages women specifically bc of their capability to get pregnant & give birth. hello???? arent u a feminist??? isn't that like. feminism 101?

[pippindot]

We are taking a break from rally trials after our last competition weekend cause I felt our connection was not where I wanted it both days. Our first day back in class after two weeks off and she TAKES OFF AROUND THE RING. stinker. I've been humbled. But it's good for me to practice patience. I was getting too excited and competitive I think.

It happened right after I asked if she wanted to try the broad jump (she didn't, and told me so). She did NOT come right back when I called (thank god didn't not run into other rings). It could be the jump BUT it also could be that we were out of cheese (it went bad) and so the pipmoney is not as good. Low value reinforcer (I THOUGHT IT WAS GOOD OK) has made her behave like a kicked dog before so it might just be that lol.

[katsy-kitty]

I'm going to vacuum my apartment, which means I'll be out for the next few days.

Keep me in your thoughts.

[xerith-42]

The ways in which the masses failed to understand Breaking Bad's most important messages might be my Roman Empire.