#including penny :]

[mori-shige]

Sometimes a friend group consists of a girl hyperfixated on letting her pets beat up yours, a nerd who embezzles government funds, Schrödinger's daddy issues, and an onion-looking wet cat incarnate, and I find that beautiful

[mccoyquialisms]

thinking about riz and his love for the bad girls, and how if anyone fucks with them, then sooner or later they’re gonna answer to riz gukgak

[ryllen]

penny alex is a good ship, i feel it in my bones - - - - - [ the real fuel is of penex is @ stardewsally ]

[genericpuff]

Webtoons Is Making Moves - So Should You.

We all saw it coming ages ago and now it's finally here. There's no more beating around the bush or doubting if anyone is "reading into it too much", Webtoons' use of AI in its more recent webtoons is not an accident, not an oversight, but by design, it always has been. And I guaran-fucking-tee you that the work that already exists on the platform won't be safe from Webtoons' upcoming AI integration through scraping and data mining. Sure, they can say they're not gonna replace human creators, but that doesn't change the fact that AI tools, in their current form, can't feasibly exist without stealing from pre-existing content.

Plus, as someone who's tested their AI coloring tools specifically... they're a long, LONG way away from actually being useful. Like, good luck using them for any comic style that isn't Korean manwha featuring predominantly white characters with small heads and comically long legs. And if they do manage to get their AI tools to incorporate more art styles and wider ranges of character identities... again, what do you think it's been trained on?

Also, as an added bit that I found very funny:

Um, I'm sorry, what fucking year is it? Because platforms like WT and Tapas have both been saying this for years but we're obviously seeing them backpedal on that now with the implementation of in-house publishing programs like Unscrolled which have reinvented the wheel of taking digital webtoons and going gasp physical! It's almost like the platform has learned that there's no sustainable profit to be had in digital comics alone without the help of supplementary streams of income and is now trying to act like they've invented physical book publishing!

"The future of comic publishing, including manga, will be digital"??? My brother in christ, Shonen Jump has been exclusively digital since 2012! What rock have the WT's staff been living under that they're trying to sell digital comics as the "future" to North Americans as if we haven't already been living in that future for over ten years now?? We've had an entire generation of children raised on that same digital media since then! This isn't the selling point you think it is LMAO If anything, the digital media market here in NA is dying thanks to the enshittification of digital content platorms like Netflix, Disney+, and mainstream social media platforms! That "future" is not only already both the past and present, but is swiftly on its way out! Pack it up and go home, you missed the bus!

Literally so much of WT's IPO pitch is just a deadass grift full of corporate buzzwords and empty promises. They're trying so hard to convince people that their business model is infinitely profitable... but if it were, why do they need the public's money? And where are all those profits for the creators who are being exploited day after day to fill their platform with content? Why are so many creators still struggling to pay their bills if the company has this much potential for profit?

Ultimately even their promised AI tools don't ensure profit, they ensure cutting expenses. The extra money they hope to make isn't gonna come from their content generating income, it's gonna come from normal people forking over their money in the hopes that it'll be turned around, and from Webtoons cheapening the medium even further until it's nothing but conveyer belt gruel. Sure, "making more than you spend" is the base definition of "profit", but can we really call it that when it's through the means of gutting features, retiring support programs, letting go editing staff, and limiting resources for their own hired freelancers who are the only reason they even have content to begin with? That's not sustainable profit or growth, that's fighting the tide which can and will carry them away at any moment.

I'm low key calling it now, a year or two from today we're gonna be seeing massive lawsuits and calls to action from the people who invested their money into WT and subsequently lost it into the black hole that is WT's "business model". This is a company that's been operating in the red for years, what about becoming an IPO is gonna make them "profitable"? Let alone profitable enough to pay back their investors in the spades they're expecting? The platform and its app are already shit and they're about to become even worse, we are literally watching this company circle the drain in the modern day's ever-ongoing race to the bottom, enshittification in motion, but they're trying to convince us all the same that they're "innovating".

Webtoons doesn't want to invest in its creators. We as creators need to stop investing in them.

[wildflowercryptid]

tossed these guys into a 1920s au just so i could draw them in neat clothes, they're my dress-up dolls now.

— as per usual, credit to @whisperingrockers for harrow's design. pls go check out her blog, her content is always killer!!

[the-anime-void]

And here we see the coldest take I've seen in a while. It's subzero in here

I realise I’m kind of late to the party just getting caught up on Pokémon Scarlet and Violet now, but: it’s generally agreed that somebody at Game Freak had to have known what they were doing when they were writing Penny, right?

[casstars]

They’re having a steel samurai marathon

[octodrawn]

Cringetober Day 7: Crossover

Compared to yesterday, I had wayyy to many ideas for today, but since it's spooky month, I thought I'd pick my favorite (and first) slasher movie, Scream. The characters fit a little too well if you ask me (I mean except for Sunil and Penny but they're so out of character that it's funny. trust me on this one)

I wanted this one to be spoiler free but some time I'd like to do a more spoiler-y one >:3c

[action-not-despair]

ive been rewatching the seven and just wanna say that it is very cute that both penny and riz were different subclasses who eventually switched over to arcane trickster. they are friends and nothing brian murphy or brennan lee mulligan do can convince me otherwise

[cozylittleartblog]

VERY important update

a mother

the baby's name is frankie :)

[peonypyxels]

[deztryx]

MADE MORE CAUSE IM OBSESSED W THESE

[dailypokemoncrochet]

Okay so we're at 623/1025 Pokemon done right now that's 60.78%, and did you know that each 1 (one) new unique crochet brings us .09% (NOT EVEN A /TENTH/ OF A PERCENT) closer to 100%. That's 402 more Pokemon to go (currently) (not including ones that have different variants/forms). That's so many. Whoa. Wow.

[askthel0callamb]

do you miss him?

[🎢]—

" .. I understand I am not what he needs. It.. may be for the best, as of now. I wish to not be a burden on him. "

Another voice chimes in. A quieter one.

" It'd- It'd be stupid to say t- that I regret everything now, of all times. I could've prevented- so much. Maybe some others would still be here if I wasn't just. stupid. .. I wish I could tell him I'm sorry. For everything. "

[slime-sandwhich-nom]

I wonder what the rest of the classmates look like (this can be dealt with anytime, so take your time, aight?)

I do have some messy sketches for all of their human designs!

[bamsara]

ngl ever since this post, im designing and cutting out these stickers out at home which is a very time consuming and repetitive labor process only to know that there's thieves out there selling my designs at a fraction of the cost is extremely discouraging like. what is the point. what is even the fucking point.