#i'm unreasonably tired

[makanioverlord]

just a heads up, if you get a dm from nobugdev, this person is trying to scam you and will tell you to kys r slur (then deleted the specific kys message before I could screenshot it lol) when you tell him you don't want to be paid under federal minimum wage :)

this is just a small sample of the lovely conversation I had with this guy. it didn't last long because I didn't actually plan on taking the commission, and wanted to give this guy a wake up call as to how shitty it is to expect a grown ass adult to work for a wage that can barely buy a single candy bar in our current economic climate.

I've had an influx of scam artists and underhanded clients like this in the past 2 years, partially which I blame on AI art making ppl undervalue every creative profession out there. I'm fucking exhausted from having hours long conversations with someone only for them to tip toe around the fact they think my art isn't even worth a single grocery trip. not to mention people think artwork can be mass produced by a human like a machine now- it is not possible to do 10 cleanly lined images in "an hour or two".

even when I was working as a caricature artist, I was paid a base hourly rate on top of tips and was given much more time to work on black and white illustrations than what this guy was offering me. I usually block immediately and move on, but I'm tired of putting up with this type of shit on a daily basis.

tl;dr: know your worth artists, don't let these scumbags try to force you to do what is essentially sweatshop labor!

do NOT take this weirdo's commissions, even if the diary of a wimpy kid art style is simple you shouldn't be charged under federal fucking minimum wage for that type of illustration!

[dnangelic]

hi. this might sound very funny given the muse but try not to steal from me. i know i talk a lot about my portrayal if not the series itself all the time, and i'm happy to always try to share canon resources/material while being more than welcoming of dupes, (i still love them very much,) but many, many, many of my metas, even the ones that might seem like 'base canon,' are usually still laced with my personal interpretations or outright headcanons that i'm not comfortable with being overly plagiarized, at least especially without being asked or spoken to. (it's also because my hcs are sprinkled in so much that i like to think i can tell.) muses should bear their own integrity and be able to stand on their own as their own characterization. some overlap is inevitable when multiple people are writing the same character, but it just gets weird when, as soon as one person writes or talks about something, it seems to show up immediately in another person's portrayal when it wasn't there before. don't use me as an interpretation resource outside of learning about my own specific portrayal for rp; read canon and come to your own conclusions.

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

If you've never heard an LRAD go off in person, I *genuinely* do not want to hear your opinion about methods of resistance in the US.

[seaofreverie]

Anyway how is everyone doing

[practically-an-x-man]

ughhhhh my boss keeps changing my goddamn schedule

[salsflore]

i found happiness in 1 cup of boba and god decided to punish me for it tenfold

[forcebookish]

god if any of you could send me your favorite forcebook video/interview/whatever of them just being cute and happy that would be great idk why but i saw literally two people being nasty and it's ruined my whole day lmao

[iliketohavesexwithrobots]

if you put on a mask to be loved, they will love the mask, not you

if you put on a mask to be loved, the mask will drain you

if you put on a mask to be loved, the mask will ingrain itself into your identity forever, becoming part of you

if you don't put on a mask to be loved, would nobody love you?

[folkinsomnia]

I just read a goodreads book review that made me angrier than any inconsequential thing has made me in a WHILE. I loved the book, and I'm not a good critic of novels (or anything); I'm decent at analysis to be fair, but I like a read or I don't (on a spectrum of course).

But good goddamn, this review reeked with pretension and was written like the most unbearable food or music critic's diatribes. Adult character is lost in life, makes stupid choices out of grief/running away from issues/thinking distance from community will help/doesn't act logically as a character in a horror plot? Childish and not very bright! A large bustling family coming together for a major cultural and spiritual threat and asking the same damn questions over and over again, repeating the same arguments, etc.? Tiresome and muddled! Bro is your family (bio or chosen) totally chill? Have you never at least seen (in media or in others' lives) annoying family members beating dead horses for days on end out of concern and love and lack of knowing how else to help???

Dude I dunno, it just felt like legitimate criticisms one might have if they dislike a book or parts of its structure, but then those criticisms were a molehill buried beneath a mountain of hating some super fuckin' flawed characters making wild and awful choices in a time of grief and isolation. Screaming!!!!

[caracello]

downstairs neighbors cast spell of hammer things for ever so loudly after only 2 blissful hours of sleep so i'm awake now.

[nebulouscoffee]

Friends I crave distraction. Please feel free to send me random Star Trek asks - about the shows, the characters, hot takes, theories, your fics, my fics, someone else's fics- anything is fine, I would very much welcome it

[thelibraryiscool]

maybe i need to turn my monolgues (rants to myself in my room) into dialogues (expressing my annoyance)

[imwritesometimes]

having to tell my family I can't make the marinara sauce today like a solemn press conference 'due to unforseen circumstances I cannot make marinara today...' and everyone being like ok :(

[girlbossdean]

just got an email from netflix informing me that they're gonna put an end to account sharing, so guess who's gonna put an end to their netflix subscription <3

[starocide]

Kaguya looks GREAT but I really hope she's bottom 1 to spite 90% of the uni "fanbase" on twitter

[felikatze]

throwing my hat in the ring to say that posts like "damn your hate mail is bold when you cant even ask for no pickles irl" are perhaps not good because we shouldn't connect anxiety with "annoying" behavior.

i dont see many of those posts anymore but they WERE popular for a time and like. let me make the assumption that you bullied people in middle school then.

fact of the matter is online spaces ARE a safe haven for people with anxiety disorders. you cant stutter over text, no one can see the physical symptoms of anxiety, can't see you hyperventilate and blush and sweat. just the being invisible is already a huge relief in communication. you cant curate your self expression to the same extent. if i'm a stuttering mess irl, people hear it. if i typo, i can retype it.

people are bolder online. but that doesn't automatically make someone a shithead. people who already are shitheads will just use anonimity to get away consequence free. if you mean shitheads, call them that, instead of fucking demonizing mental illness again.