#i need to WORK

[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.

[tokillaking13]

[triaelf9]

I can't work if you're EATING MY PENCIL, CAT

[fukuwatchesbl]

I have too many suspects as who poisoned Armin in both timelines… my brain is both eliminating people from that suspects list and adding them back again and again.

[lambment]

choosing the fool tarot to represent my lamb has produced so many brainworms

I think I'm going to assign some major arcana to represent different core aspects of characters and two secondary cards later. and then I'll do past, present, and future.

[self-indulgent-paw-patrol]

So @littlegoodpups sent me a gif on Discord and I was like "I need to draw this" and now here we are

[nico-the-overlord]

my bones smell cold again

[jerry-the-leech]

they tell me how lucky i am to be young

that i have opportunities for work and for fun

they say, imagine you're old?

all alone and ever so cold

they say, imagine your family--dead

and you remembering all the things they said

and you didn't respond

and you were not fond

they say, imagine every joint hurting

imagine not being able to walk

imagine tossing and turning

and you have no one on your side

no one to turn to or talk

they say, what if right now is your second chance?

and this is your warning, in advance

they say, enjoy your youth while you have it

they say, stop scrolling, go out and have at it

but i am already scared of the mirror

i already hate the dark

why?

each day, the monsters get clearer

what if one day, i look and see

my life was nothing

and never will be

why?

around me they whisper

"stop it. stop scrolling.

cant you feel the seconds going?

can't you feel your blood boiling?'

oh and i wish i could

i wish i could do what they say

ive tried and ive tried

and i can't live that way

so ill let my blood boil

let my bones rot

let my dreams fade

with nightmares besott

watch them come true

and ill evaporate away

like morning dew

because maybe i want to

why does it matter?

which one is caged,

the crone or the maiden

is it the former,

both,

or is it the latter?

[covertleathers]

pp

[crimsonbloomss]

AUGHGHGG. why is maeve being so loud right nowwwww. i scrapped this bg of hers but

I like making my muses suffer. Don't mind me.

comes from a line of top deepspace hunters; mother was very close to captain jenna

father is a shady guy, largest stakeholder and sponsor for the Association/UNICORN

maeve lost her mother and little brother during the chronorift catastrophe,,, mother died protecting them, and her father literally blames her for being so damn weak, couldn't even protect someone much weaker (her little brother) from the attacks

father found her evol to be extremely weak and sold her to eVER to get "enhancement" thus when the aether core got fused with her heart

she met caleb at the shelter, but every reset she would keep introducing herself whenever she saw him; like just imagine a small maeve skipping over after being dropped off by one of her dad's guards or smth and just "hi! i'm maeve!" (this gets worse btw)

she has no recollections wtf happened to her, but at some point, they kept her at the shelter until josephine took her and caleb in

when her dad (after disappearing for some time) comes back to take back custody of her, she began to train rigorously, literally day in and day out.

her induction into the association was not at all grand. she had to beat the nepo baby allegations after rumors started about her mother knowing captain jenna (as if that didn't make jenna sus about picking her when the list came out) but as if to add the icing on the cake, they find out her father is the largest stakeholder and sponsor to the association

ofc she eventually proves that connections and family ties meant nothing if she can't survive (and she probably proved this by going into an insane photofield) , eventually gaining the respect and trust of her peers in the alpha team

she oversees the new rookies and takes them under hear wing. ensuring they are welcomed because she knows how it felt to be unwelcomed sldjf

but yeah all that trauma, her insecurities concealed by dark humor. she can be a jokester and thinks of others before herself.

[too-young-for-maturity]

Ok but Jason not being in tsats REALLY bugs me. Like, not even when Nico is in that dream with Maria, Bianca and Hades,WHYYY

[webbiewebz]

Got some new pencils and notebooks with also getting into Dandy’s world so…

I LOVE YATTA AND GOOB GULP…!!!

So take some doodles yes!!!

(I am still in toh, I am multifandom!:3)

[amandarayyy]

Not me about to spend another morning getting nothing done because I turned on damn Netflix 🙃 bout to rewatch season 3 of Bridgerton for the umteenth time

[lolipette23]

Felt like writing a gay fanfic on two straight friend of mine where one of them is yearning for the other might not delete later :p (they were pissing me off soo)

[bertiebott]

the hamilton performance at the tony awards singlehandedly catapulted me back into my musicals/hamilton/amrev obsession from 6 years ago with such ease, i feel like it was never truly gone, just lying dormant

[majorproblems77]

SKKKKKKKKKKKYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY