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Monterey Bay Aquarium
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Three Goblin Art
almost home
Not today Justin
KIROKAZE
Sweet Seals For You, Always
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Claire Keane
Sade Olutola
Misplaced Lens Cap
we're not kids anymore.
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@ciaochiyu
Little things that help moods
getting enough sunshine
short walks with your favourite music
don’t stay up until 3am
get off tumblr/social media if it’s unhealthy
don’t stay in bed the whole day
plan out your day
listen to music
change your clothes
set yourself small goals
say yes to fun events
drink water, it takes 5 seconds
talk to a close friend
you’re not unwanted or hopeless, also you deserve love so be nice to yourself
a fools guide to not wanting to die anymore
by me, a fool who doesnt wanna die anymore
never make a suicide joke again. yes this includes “i wanna die” as a figure of speech. swear off of it. actually make an effort to change how you think about things.
find something to compliment someone for at least 4 times a day. notice the little things about the world that make you happy, and use that to make other people happy.
talk to people. initiate conversation as often as you possibly can. keep your mind busy and you wont have to worry anymore
picture the bad intrusive thoughts in youe head as an edgy 13 year old and tell them to go be emo somewhere else
if someone makes you feel bad most of the time, stop talking to them. making yourself hang out with people who drain you is self harm. stop it.
basically:
it is not a virtue to not set boundaries
ignoring your own wants and needs is not a healthy way to show love
people worth loving will respect your boundaries
people worth loving will not want you to set aside your own wants and needs to make them more comfortable
‘having no boundaries at all’ describes a person who is very hurt, not a person who is very virtuous
suffering for others’ comfort is not how you be a good person, it is just how you become very hurt
sometimes you need to make others uncomfortable in order to get your needs met
your needs are more important than others’ comfort
your comfort is equally important to others’ comfort
making other people uncomfortable is not, in itself, ethically wrong or morally dubious
Many of us are guilty of prematurely giving soulmate credentials to people in order to speed up the relationship process. However, relationships require a stable foundation submerged in a vehicle of vulnerability and an abundance of mutual trust and respect. Rushing a situation can sometimes force you to maximize someone’s potential when they in fact are the complete opposite of the kind of partner you need. Embellishing the traits of your possible partner will eventually lead to disappointment once its clear that the version of them you contrived doesn’t actually exist.
Ray Frenden reviews the too-cheap-to-be-true Monoprice graphics tablets. How do they stack up to industry standard Wacoms?
After spending a week with the 6.25“x10” Monoprice, my Yiynova and Cintiq remain unplugged and I gave my Intuos away to a friend. The Monoprice tracks subtle pressure variances and small movements with less lag and more crisp fidelity than any of the others. It is, put crudely, fucking awesome, in both OSX Lion and Windows 7 x64.
I have one of these, 10x6.5 I bought about two months ago for 48 bucks. It’s a billion times better than my old Wacom Bamboo and works like a fuckin dream.
ATTENTION ALL PENNY-PINCHING ART FRIENDS!!!
ooo reblogging this for potential future purchase
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I’m definitely thinking of getting one of these, or asking for one for Christmas. ‘Cause as much as I appreciate Ian giving me his old tablet, I think the pen might be on it’s last legs. ;~;
Oh my god these start at $25 for a little one.
I would be so okay with a little one.
Reblogging this again because I fucking lost it and don’t want to forget it again.
Relevant to some friends’ interests… vaultedthewall , trows …
i got mine for $75 including shipping to australia and i’ve been using it since 2012 and it still works well today, definitely recommend
reblogging so i can find this if i ever think of buying a new one
Steven never seems to get what he wants when claiming his relation to Rose: the saga.
(to the tune of The Final Countdown) it’s a mental breakdown
*off-key kazoo*
After vine died we are reduced to text form vines
please don’t forget how important you are to me
@ciaonaomikai
@midnightsshadows
People who are YouTube famous: Million dollar houses, sports cars, adoring fans who send nice messages.
People who are Instagram famous: Always travelling, attractive as hell, living off fit tea sponsorships.
People who are Tumblr famous: Lives at home with family, insomniac, gets called trash 24/7, what is money??, irrelevant
this girl is learning her bestfriend how to dance kizomba
i need new best friends apparently
so if you have a webcomic and are looking to host it somewhere, maybe avoid tapastic
they’re a pretty shady business overall. there’s the old TOS fiasco where they modified their TOS to affect your IP rights without your knowledge, and you auto-consented to it just by having your work there. source (yeah, i know, bleedingcool, big deal - but pay close attention to ironspike and george rohac’s tweets)
yeah, they mopped that up but after a public outcry. that’s old hat.
but here’s some new hat: the tapas creator incubator
tl;dr: the tapas creator incubator is an IP mill they will use to pitch to movie and tv companies, compensating you with scraps and taking full control of your own IP - your own work, YOUR BABY - out of your hands.
more details…
“wowwie, i get to work AT TAPAS HQ! with an editorial team and other creators in a big art house studio!!! i get to bump elbows with TV / original series big wigs! this might be my BIG BREAK!”
slow down there friendo! if it sounds too good to be true, then it is too good to be true. let’s take a closer look at what they want.
translation: tapastic wants you to produce 200 pages of comic work in 3-6 months. that’s 1.6 INKED, COLORED, AND LETTERED pages PER DAY, no days off! just an FYI, a “fast pace” for full-time webcomic artists is 4 pages a WEEK. scratch that - that’s breakneck speed for layouts, sketching, inking, flatting, coloring, and lettering comics pages. most comic creators produce a page every one or two weeks.
that is close to mangaka levels of workload, except mangakas have assistants to keep up with their outrageous level of production, and the other creators you’ll be working with are also busy with their own workloads. no help for you!
if you haven’t seen any red flags yet, let me drop some for you:
🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 STIPEND 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩
what is a stipend? wikipedia defines it thus:
A stipend is a form of salary, such as for an internship or apprenticeship.[1] It is often distinct from an income or a salary because it does not necessarily represent payment for work performed; instead it represents a payment that enables somebody to be exempt partly or wholly from waged or salaried employment in order to undertake a role that is normally unpaid (e.g. a magistrate in the United Kingdom) or voluntary, or which cannot be measured in terms of a task (e.g. members of the clergy).
a stipend does NOT have to meet minimum wage requirements, a stipend does NOT mean you are employed [by Tapas], a stipend does NOT mean you are entitled to benefits such as PTO, vacation, medical, dental, vision, or any of that. a stipend is COMPENSATION which has no MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS.
this means tapas is allowed to pay you LESS THAN MINIMUM WAGE for your work. and before people jump onboard with “YEAH STIPENDS HAVE TO MEET MINIMUM WAGE”, friends, pals, listen: stipends only have to meet minimum wage requirements if you are an employee-intern with the company.
it’s interesting to note that when users have questioned tapas staff about this, staff responded with:
seriously. there’s a lot of “we work out payments on an individual basis” responses in there.
why all the secrecy? marvel, dc, image and the others are VERY UP FRONT about how they pay their creators. when i go looking for comic work, the pay is discussed right from the get go. the fact that tapas is unwilling to discuss pay is another 🚩.
just fyi, san francisco’s bay area is the most expensive area to live in ($3800/mo for studio, anyone?), and if they wont cover your travel, relocation, living, accomodations cost, then you bet your ass that stipend they offer won’t cover it either. keep that in mind, even if you won’t be relocating.
also keep this in mind: since this will be more than a full-time job, will that stipend pay as much as a full-time job if it doesn’t have to meet minimum wage requirements?
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undisclosed pay? dividing up your control over YOUR IP? no clear outline on how much of your IP you still own? no termination clause? no info on royalties?
typically, comic publishers and hosts will tell you right off the bat who owns your IP and how profits will be split. this is standard and common practice. tapas has revealed none of these.
if you look at their TOS change and this “incubator”, this is a very clear trend that tapas is an IP mill out to exploit creators.
i can’t stop ya’ll from uploading your work there, i can only make you aware of the the trend and the things they are up to. i personally will never upload my work there and support their system.
if you haven’t already, give iron spike a follow on twitter, she is VERY good at keeping her ear to the ground for this kind of nonsense. join groups of experienced comic creators who keep an eye out for bad contracts (TokyoPop? Platinum? remember those guys?)
You know what. Tapas is shit. I’m glad I decided to no longer promote my comic there.
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In attempts to get Teka to stop chewing at my books, I put on some dance music.
Poor buddy’s confused because it wants to eat book, but HAS to dance
Classic
no homo. we’re fresh out. we should get a new shipment in on monday
can you check in the back
