#i'm genuinely so upset right now

[jerswayman]

NOOOOOOO NOT LAUKS AS WELL????? I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY WOULD DO THIS TO US

[camellcat]

CLARA PLEASE PLEASE CLARA NO NOT YOU NOT YET NOT NOW OH MY CLARA WHY PLEASE NO PLEASE

[alatariel-gildaen]

I'm sat in my kitchen crying my eyes out.

I went to see Barbie last night and I just honestly don't think I'll ever recover from America Ferrera's speech near the end. I've never seen anything capture what it is to be a woman so succinctly.

Bits of her speech resonated more with me than other bits, and I'm sure that was entirely the point. That *every single* woman could relate to at least one part of that speech. Now matter how seemingly perfect they are.

Then, as if to prove my point, I was scrolling Facebook and came across this cursed image.

The OP was, of course, a man. And here is his "idealized" vision of a woman - posted in a page run by and for her fans - who is truly beautiful, inside and out, and yet who has suffered horrific misogyny and ageism from the entertainment industry. They've literally taken a woman in her 50s, who is, by any accounts, utterly stunning both inside and out, and turned her into "Stereotypical Barbie."

And this is why I'm sat here in my kitchen, crying my eyes out. None of us are free from those burdens.

[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.

[blackkatdraws2]

Blank Scripts AU OCs / Self Insert participants!!

Hey guys!! Just giving you a quick update that I'm still working on it! :3

I know some people are still waiting for their characters to be drawn and this is just an announcement to tell you guys that I'm still actively working on them! But I'm also working on other things [both IRL and my own projects] so progress is really slow uwaah 〒▽〒

Expect the illustrations to come out slowly! Please be patient with me!! 🙏 [Expected time for another illustration to come out is 1 month for each finished drawing.]

I've also been working on an animation too. Achromatic Loop AU viewers where you at?

↓ [LIST OF USERS I MADE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR!!] ↓

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I haven't forgotten about you guys <3 don't worry!!

[choccorin]

what the fuck do you mean they didn't animate the panel of rinnie showing off his horrible posture and his chipmunk cheeks are you kidding me

[orange-dreamzer]

Just a quick reminder (especially if you're a teenager) because my friends recently have started "diets" which sound pretty harmful actually: especially as a teenager or child you are Expected to eat lots of carbohydrates and also likely fats and glucose and gain calories so that your body can properly build itself!!! Please don't do harmful diets no matter how skinny or pretty you want to be!!! Being pretty means NOTHING if you're not healthy!

[hexastitchimera]

How genuinely fucking sick in your rotten heart do you have to be to not only be intimidated by queer children, but to hurt and even kill them.

You're grown ass adults who are terrified of CHILDREN. That's the most fucking pathetic thing I have ever seen. Take your own advice and "grow the fuck up, snowflake."

[fandomfucker]

Me watching as the canes post “thank you” to each player that leaves the team: THATS ENOUGH SLICES😭😭😭

[damnedvelvet]

spinarakis we won but at what cost

[kinard-buckley]

a truly terrible idea has latched hold of my gremlin brain which is, buck and tommy do break up so that buck can pursue eddie because either tommy thinks buck is in love with eddie or buck feels like he should be with eddie because everyone else keeps suggesting there's something more there BUT buck/eddie getting together changes their dynamic so much that neither of them are enjoying themselves (and they're worrying about losing what made their friendship so special because of all the changes to the dynamic) AND buck and tommy keep hooking up [air quotes] platonically (with tommy stumbling into inconvenient feelings and pining pathetically for buck while fucking him) while buck struggles to sort out intense feelings toward eddie (which obviously have to be romantic of course) vs. his calm, more settled feelings toward tommy (they're not as intense as his feelings about eddie so they can't possibly be romantic) blah blah long story slightly less long but buck realizes he's been in love with tommy the whole time and was having trouble separating strong but platonic feelings for eddie from his romantic feelings toward tommy and then tommy's like "newsflash asshole i've been in love with you the whole goddamn time"

i'll never write it because it's irredeemably stupid and i value my peace but it IS sitting in my hindbrain tormenting me right now

[softandwildx]

The physical pain I feel because one of my favorite bands of all time that I've wanted to see for like 20 years is coming to my city next month and there's no conceivable way I can shell out the money for TWO tickets because concert ticket prices have become so fucking outrageous and we are literally one somewhat large inconvenience away from homelessness lol.

[perexcri]

happy one year to her and one of my better opening lines for a fic <3

now, because i'm curious:

[natjennie]

:(

[gracekairos]

just had a series of disturbing half-nightmares (aka i wasn't fully asleep but was still having nightmares) where each felt like 500 years and i had to claw myself awake each time only to fall back asleep into the same nightmare immediately. so tell me why my mom was in it and when i started crying and asking her to help me she gave me a hug and then tried to strangle me to death. that is so fucked up. had to force myself awake so hard i woke up crying. i am so distressed right now like i cannot go back to sleep

[bluesey-182]

look, my dad is not a perfect man and he's not faultless in how disfunctional my parent's marriage is but at the same time I've been watching my mom bully him my whole life and now that my man-hating oma is living there with them it's even worse because now they tag team to make him miserable and it makes me so fucking angry