#tough industry

[duckiemimi]

apparently the jjk we know now was not the jjk gege had in mind before chapter 1, and this...this makes a lot of sense actually (context: here, and also this is one of the first drafts).

[lordendsavior]

Nick and Olly Alexander pay tribute to Liam and talk how difficult it is to navigate such tragic situations online

[s0ulc1rcu1t]

[reverieaudios]

can we have more random lore drop

My life hasn't been all that interesting lol, a lot of my "lore" is more depressing than anything else lmao

But uh... I was stung by a jellyfish as a kid? I almost went to an art school in California for character design/concept art when I was like 18? As a kid I was such a nerd that I read encyclopedias for fun?

[aritany]

Can I ask what went wrong with your first agent? A lot of debut authors have been leaving their agents and I'm eyeballing the pub industry so hard rn

ultimately, she was the right agent for dead girls don’t say sorry, but not the right fit for… everything else i write.

[knightofspades]

Happy Bday Saya!

.....I forgot that your birthday was coming up

[pallas-cat]

ngl the paranoid idea that a bunch of people i know including my family are now only willing to see me if i get my shit together is pretty strong

as if i should message them with "i swear i won't do insecure rambling in front of you i am somewhat normal my apartment is presentable i have a job please forgive me" (obv won't but a girl has rejection sensitivity but it's unfortunately close to the shit my brain circus says)

[mariatesstruther]

yall gon be mad but…

lowkey i think kaitlyn dever was a good casting choice

[axolotlclown]

Listening to women right now is very important. We are witnessing other women step forward and speak about their experiences with Wilbur. As men, we need to be listening, because it's never just one woman.

However, we also must not forget the value of our voices. We as men need to step up and say that this behavior is unacceptable. We need to talk about it. We need to call out our friends and our brothers for this behavior.

Men that hurt women will not listen to women, but they will listen to men. If we truly want to support women right now, we need to be vocal about our support. We need to show up and acknowledge the reality—Shubble is not the only woman that has experienced this kind of abuse.

There are many women in our personal lives that experience this abuse. Abusers could be our closest friends, family, mentors, and leaders. We cannot let our guard down. We cannot sacrifice our morals to keep the peace. We must remain vocal. This behavior cannot be socially acceptable.

We say that we support women. We say that we will support domestic violence survivors. But when the abuse is staring you in the eyes, we remain complacent. This is not acceptable.

[fiveminuterice]

i turned in my two weeks recently and the boss lectured me today while i was. drafting a guide to help whoever replaces me. and then he implied i wouldn’t be welcome back to work in the future. and yesterday my manager told me she’d love to have me back if my new job doesn’t work out.

also he’s gonna talk to my new boss about me and how he doesn’t want my boss to hire people from his store without asking him. which is like. dude the reason i didn’t tell you when i was applying was because i didn’t want to get fired before i knew i had a job lined up. so like. not only would i not be welcomed back, but my new boss might decide it’s too much trouble to hire me and might rescind his offer.

[marty--party]

just found out about the uzumaki anime brb going to disintegrate myself with acid /j /neg

[aurosoulart]

new year, new art summary!

I was so absurdly productive this year that I needed to make two separate categories for both illustrative and 3D art pieces finished each month. October & November were so busy for me with my new job that I didn’t have time to create anything 2D at all for two months straight @_@

anyways my goal for 2023 is to stop working so much LOL (view previous summaries HERE)

[jensownzoo]

I had some suck-ass shoestring fries last night and I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out a way to make them more palatable instead of becoming chicken food.

And guess who just found a hunk of knock-off Velveeta in the fridge?!?!

Oh yeah, we're going for cheese fries.

[thewhizzyhead]

anyways in other ph related news I hereby would like to congratulate janella "valentina" salvador aka most loud advocate for queer representation in mainstream ph media aka "pls pls pls pls pls give me and jane de leon a GL series pls pls pls pls edi sige I'll just make a gay ass song and a gay ass mv to go along with it fine ako nalang gagalaw" for um more or less officially coming out as definitely not straight in an interview with easy rock manila

[unsurebazookacore]

y'alls parents ever start acting really nice and calm all of a sudden and u just get reallll nervous. like we havent spoken abt school without it turning into an argument in like 4 years, tf happened why ru acting like this what did u find out

[crazysodomite]

you know what has been killing me. those stories of legends in the art industry and how they got into it way back in the day. all those stories guys whose skills weren't super good but they got the job out of pure passion. or whatever.

and they were taught the trade after getting the job and got to interact with other experienced people and make connections and got to become so important in the industry from basically nothing. or whatever.

and contrasting this to how you have to be a walking talking human orchestra if you ever have any hope of getting any kind of job. you have to ALREADY have industry-standard level of skills before getting into a 'prestigious' uni or getting any kind of position in the industry. and even then you're super disposable and nobody is gonna root for you and nobody is gonna network with you unless you already start out with connections.

maybe i'm just pessimistic or whatever and it's not actually that way but it's how it seems to me. you can have amazing skills and still be thrown out especially if you don't already have mastery of basically everything. 2d, 3d, everything... what i'm basically saying is the barrier to entry is being put up higher and higher with time and if you don't keep up you're fucked