#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.

[triaelf9]

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

[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

[missazura]

[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

[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

[majorproblems77]

SKKKKKKKKKKKYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[sfm-thevigilant]

Someone stole my stuff.

[schneiderenjoyer]

GET OUT OF MY HEAD

[videoaux-a]

Fuck it, I feel asleep 3 separate times today I’m getting back up and doing it for a 4th

[tricornonthecob]

Will y'all forgive me if the last few paragraphs I'm writing are just relationship-establishing dialogue between secondary characters, because that's all I can come up with rn

[withbeasts]

andrew and amelia

[too-young-for-maturity]

Imagine percy and annebth just walking road peacefully. Percy handling the cycle with one of his hands while the other one is holding his wise girl close to him by her waist. Annabeth talking about the new architecture project she is working on while percy loving looks at her and hears her talk. He suddenly pecks the top of her head kissing her princess curls making her fluster and stop mid sentence! Omg I need someone to draw this-

[psychicmisfortune]

see you can tell the author is burning themselves out riiiiiight there see they stopped using italics and the sense of dread for deadlines sets in right about here

[trickster-kat]

I'm so fucking tired... and I hurt...

I wish this would just stop.

I don't want to be in pain all the time. I don't want to be terrified to move my body because of back pain. I don't want the tendons or ligaments in my neck to snap or pop or whatever the fuck it is they are doing everytime I turn my head. Everything hurts. All the time. And nothing can be done to make it better. Rest? Helps until I move. Drugs? Aside from how expensive it would be to go to the doctor for this, there's no guarantee that I'd be prescribed anything or if it would even help. Massage? Temporary relief, just for it to come back. Physical therapy? Again, temporary relief...

That's just the physical bullshit.

I don't even want to touch on my mental health right now...

You know it's bad when you're wishing for some kind of tumor or cancer or other horrific disease/condition because at least there would be a reason for everything sucking, maybe even a solution.