#i cant afford not to

[twowivestwoknives]

mother wants to call me about the money she’s been withholding from me as she’s been driving me into over 20k of debt over the past 5 years

[chaoticfandomthot]

Filling out forms to get money for school amd they're like

- tell us if you're a minority and which one

- tell us if you were off school for a while

- tell us your deepest darkest secret

- tell us if you are mentally ill

- if you are physically ill

- bonus if you have a wheelchair

- are you willing to pose for us in your wheelchair and with a sign that says 'is sooooo mentally ill'?

- be our pr stunt

- make us look good

- tell me what went wrong

- why do you need money have you been foresaken?

- would you like to be?

- it helps your chances..

- walk into hell willingly because you can't afford not to

- relive your worst trauma onto this form so you have .5% more chances to get hmmmm... 1000$? Once?

- it's enough right?

- you'll have to do this again

- you cant afford not to

- you hate this

- it's against your values

- it's frustrating

- scary

- too personal

- you havent told most people about this

- but

- you

- cant

- afford

- not

-to

[hyzenastrrr]

bugs i love them theyre so underrated anyways im so happy to hop on the wof tumblr ride its so fun here

[cryptocism]

the more i think about this au the sillier it gets

[describingcolours]

"well youve had it 6 years that's a good amount of time for that kind of thing to work"

"you should be grateful you got 3 years of use out of that thing, I'm lucky if mine last a year haha"

listen, in 1977 nasa launched the voyager spacecrafts to take advantage of a planetary alignment that takes place every 175 years. These 2 crafts were planned to flyby the outer planets of our solar system and gather data on them to send back to us. Voyager 2 launched first on the 20th of August despite its name because it was planned to reach our gas giants after its counterpart voyager 1, which launched a little later on the 5th of September.

The voyager mission was planned to end 12 years later in 1989. In that time, voyager 1 and 2 passed by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. They discovered new moons, confirmed theories about Saturn's rings, found the first active volcanoes found outside the earth, and they take close-up images of planets only seen at that point from telescopes.

On the 25th of August 1989, voyager 2 encounters Neptune, the last planet in our solar system the voyagers will meet. And that was that. End of mission. Now obsolete.

~

Less than 1 year later on valentine's day in 1990 voyager 1 looked back on the planet that had built it and sent with it a world's worth of hopes and dreams and took a picture. We called it the solar system family portrait and in it, we see ourselves. The pale blue dot nestled in the darkness of space

And then commands were sent to shut down their cameras. Preserve fuel.

35 years after launch, in 2012 voyager 1 sent back to us data about interstellar space. The very first manmade object to enter it.

41 years after launch voyager 2 did the same. Still operational, still going. Still sending back to us invaluable data, teaching us about our own solar system and the suns influence in our local bubble of space.

They are expected to continue to operate until the year 2025 - almost 50 whole years after they were launched and 36 years after their mission was supposed to have ended.

48 years of harsh space travel, battered by solar winds, pulled by gravity but fast enough just to escape, pelted by who knows how much space dust and radiation.

And even after that, they still have a purpose. Each craft was given a golden record. A disc filled with human knowledge and knowledge of humans and the planet they live on. Greetings and well-wishes to any prospective extraterrestrial life that could potentially pick it up. Co-ordinates, an invite. Samples of our music, the things we love, sounds of the earth, a story of our world. The surf, the wind, birds and whales, images of a mother, our moon, a sunset. Long after the voyager spacecrafts go dark, probably long after we are gone, they will still be doing their job; educating a species about our very tiny corner of the galaxy.

They are nasa's longest-running operation.

And it was all done using 70s technology.

So excuse me if I want a phone that lasts more than 2 years or a vacuum cleaner that doesn't break down after 6, or god fucking forbid, a refrigerator that will keep my food cold my entire fucking lifetime.

[yeehawbvby]

[rocals]

CDs are obsolete because the sound quality sucks

yeah sucks me good and hard through my jorts

[fairycosmos]

i cant believe you have to pay for glasses. why is life more expensive for me just because i cant see right. fuck off and die

[peskyvinot]

this clip of these old men making all sorts of silly noises and giggling made me laugh for some reason so. a little edit

(also bdubs calling keralis "papa"- for some reason this name without the "k" at the end made me Loose it.)

[chimaeraonwards]

no ai generated content will ever compare to the absolutely cartoonishly evil plot to cut down trees to prevent workers from striking to get livable wage.

[fascinationstreetmp3]

I have what you're looking for. High quality. Befitting a man of my tastes. I have a room over on Divisadero, not too far a walk.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

my father the ghost

[shiploaf]

big if true

[lokorum]

so before i got back to work can we please talk about my bestie here? 👉👈 dont get me wrong i love gortash and 🔪durgetash🍷 as much as the next unhinged feral clown in our lovely burning trashcan BUT i need to clarify that id die for this man 🎅

[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.

[skrimpyskimpy]

Ya boi opening up commissions‼️‼️‼️‼️

Here's what i will and won't draw:

Price sheet

I can draw better than this i just made it in a rush 😭💔

ARTWORK EXAMPLES‼️‼️‼️

Pls reblog this so it gets attention bc i am not well known on here