#makes me feel guilty

[haowenyang]

if i live in denial i can ignore the fact that the script got changed into something 100x more ableist

[the-cinnamon-snail]

My parents get upset when I share that I get a bit upset when I hear them hating an entire area due to stereotypes and their small experiences in that area

[sacharowan]

justifying to myself spending £20 on a drawing app bc I will actually use it regularly

[azz-modeus]

Every time Dick tries to have a serious conversation with Jason it gets shut down very quickly. If anyone asks the context imma just say they’re taking a small break on patrol and Jason took off his helmet to smoke.

[lunerabo]

I regretted this post almost as soon as I made it because I didn’t clarify some things I think a lot of people aren’t aware of, and I also looked into it to check my facts before this reblog and I was also dead wrong about some things I wrote in the tags, so if there’s any part of this post you should pay attention to, it’s this part.

This post is not about shit like viagra, even though that’s a huge point of interest when arguments like these are made. Those medications open your blood vessels. They’re made to treat heart conditions, which, obviously, are researched tremendously, because their indicators are difficult to detect. And they’re a little bit easier to detect in men, because an inability to get hard AKA an inability to get blood flowing to the penis is a pretty significant indicator of a much larger, more serious issue.

There’s also the fact that men have this weird fucking attitude towards going to the doctor where they think of the penis as something of such monumental importance that they’ll sooner visit the doctor for a small abnormality on that than for a missing leg. And that’s society’s problem, not the medical industry’s. In this particular case it had a positive outcome, because doctors noticed that it wasn’t a coincidence that most of the men complaining about not being able to get it up in bed also happened to have heart conditions, but this type of thinking is another aspect of this many headed issue that’s too important to ignore.

It’s also worth mentioning that plenty of doctors actually do want to help you. There’s only so much they’re allowed to do to help you, because insurance companies love to prolong the problem. Keeping you on treatment makes them money, but solving the problem costs them money. If you don’t have a problem, they’re not making anything off you. So, to make as much as they can, they want you to wait until the problem is disastrous to actually seek a permanent fix.

And women’s health IS researched, I found out, and even gets decent funding, but they don’t actually research solutions. This is a problem for men’s health too, because the companies need to be making money off everybody, but it’s way easier to do that with women because we don’t know as much about women as we do about men. It’s super easy to say female body is such a mystery while dicking around with treatments that make insurance companies more money rather than researching solutions for problems, and then telling everybody about the progress they made researching what are essentially bandaids when the patients need surgery. And we eat that shit up every time, because bandaids are way less expensive than surgery. And since women are statistically more likely to be hypochondriacs, they’re either given shitty treatments so they can be used as cash cows or not taken seriously because they visit the doctor more often than men typically do (another thing that isn’t always the fault of the doctors themselves; they often don’t have time to look into something, or there are restrictions on what they can look into because it costs the company to have an employee who spends time and resources looking into every issue).

So, this post is about a lot of things. It’s about how certain problems are more difficult to detect in women and we don’t seem to care to find out how to detect them because it makes researchers more money to research treatment than cures. It’s also about men’s attitude of not going to the doctors until it’s about dick and balls. It’s also about women not being taken seriously at the doctor because the doctor straight up isn’t allowed to take them seriously sometimes. It’s also about insurance companies caring so little about actually protecting people that they wait until the last possible minute to solve a problem for good so that they can get every penny they can out of you. I think we as a society are focused on only one specific aspect of a very large problem, and it’s not even a cause, it’s a result. And it’s one caused by many different things. The picture is so much bigger than we realize, and we can’t get anywhere in solving the problem we’re focused on unless we pay attention to every part of it.

Women: every waking moment I am in debilitating pain. My entire body is on fire and I can barely go to work. I have been waiting for an actual diagnosis for three years. My mother had this and it killed her. Please help me

Doctors: that sucks lmao hope it gets worse faker

Men: dick no worky :(

Doctors: ohguhh oh mym fUCJKIGn god we have to DO something about this

[ineed-to-sleep]

Blacked out in front of my tablet and woke up with sketches of my Touchstarved mc + Kuras my beloved. woops

[not-quite-normal]

hi!!!! there been news articles saying that the working conditions of spiderverse were rlly rlly bad to the point of 100 ppl quitting or someting…. sorry to be liek an annoying reporter and b kinda invasive but is this tru D:

the big article that came out, for anyone curious: https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/spider-verse-animation-four-artists-on-making-the-sequel.html

there are some aspects about the article that i don't feel comfortable commenting on, but yes a lot of animators did quit. a lot of it had to do with the issues mentioned in the article, but a lot also left because disney opened a studio in vancouver (where sony imageworks is located) and had to hire an entire crew. i don't blame people for leaving spiderverse to get in on being a part of establishing the disney vancouver studio

i will also say that some of the information going around is incorrect; we did not work 11 hours a day, 7 days a week for over a year. working 7 days a week is illegal, and though some people worked sundays, they were clearly told that they could not work the next saturday if they worked a sunday. we encouraged people to not work ghost hours, and OT was always optional (except for saturday work towards the end, but nobody was punished or anything if they couldn't work a saturday). we also get paid for OT. i was on the movie for over a year but we certainly weren't crunching that whole time. like the article said, we were idle for a long time

it was undeniably a hard movie to work on and with such a large crew, everyone had a wide variety of experiences. the anonymous animators in the article aren't wrong, but i will say that there are people that felt differently, or not as strongly as them. it's a complicated issue that doesn't have a simple solution

i just hope this doesn't tarnish your view of the movie. we worked hard on it and everyone's immense celebration of the animation is making all that hard work very worth it!

[ruporas]

feast (ID in alt)

[phonification]

ive been thinking about taco and balloon forming a little alliance post s1/ pre s2 where they'd (begrudgingly) work together planning on how to break into hotel OJ to steal stuff to take back to their makeshift camp like food, blankets, pillows, etc,,, anything that could be useful to them

[crimeschild]

the barbie (2023) experience as an afab non binary person is just [reconnecting with your femininity and love for pink bc you couldnt when u were younger bc being too girly will get u made fun of] [feeling guilt bc u dont identify with being a girl but girlhood is so inherently beautiful and magical and no experience is truly like it] [healing the inner child in you by allowing yourself to enjoy dolls and pink and maximalism] [unapologetically letting yourself wear pink and be stereotypically girly in a society where being non binary means you have to be presenting androgynous 24/7] [getting your grown-up heart shattered and then put back together again by your inner child using sparkly glue over and over in the span of two hours] [realizing that no matter what you do you have somewhat experienced girlhood and it shaped you to be the person you are today and you will never get to erase that experience or truly disconnect yourself from it] [appreciating and understanding your mother in a way that you thought wasnt possible without experiecing motherhood]

[stillgotscars]

have we talked about how “we twist in our self-made cages” in the midnights prologue preceded “this cage was once just fine, am i allowed to cry?” in guilty as sin by almost two years because… oof. that’s just absolutely devastating to think about.

[wyrmswears]

its only been a day since the new episodes dropped and im already making a libber centric au out of it

anyway, heres some doodles of if libber was in super-hell all these years and thats why we never see her

[pseudophan]

i really hope that after dan and phil get to bully us on stage on tour people will finally give all this self phlagellation a fucking rest. you literally cannot post anything at all about phandom history without someone chiming in to remind you of how horrible and awful and evil we were like jesus fucking christ do you people just lay awake every single night crying over everything you said and did at 14? get OVER it. contrary to popular belief you can actually reminisce and speak fondly of times that weren't entirely perfect without having to add ten disclaimers about how you used to be the devil incarnate but you've grown as a person and now if you ever accidentally step on a snail on the pavement you will make sure to throw yourself into oncoming traffic as punishment. aren't you tired

[agarthanguide]

Weeks ago, @teaweltzer asked me what is going on with Orym’s level 10 shirt, and now I’m undressing him layer by layer on my iPad. I’ll keep you updated as I go lol.

[hedgehog-moss]

Jour de brume

[deoidesign]

I met the me who made different choices