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☆ taylor robin ☆ he/him my book! Hunger's Bite art bluesky

[ohcorny]

Hunger's Bite is out!

A specter is haunting the Atlantic!

After growing up together on the luxurious SS Lark, Neeta Pandey and Emery Botwright are ready to start their lives. Emery wants to follow in his father’s footsteps and sail the Lark forever, while Neeta yearns to travel the world. But neither will have any future at all if the Lark’s new owner, Mr. Honeycutt, has his way.

Mr. Honeycutt... The first-class passengers adore him, while he makes the ship a nightmare for the crew. Twisted by unnatural appetites, the rich are actually transforming into something less than human, and their insatiable demands soon push the staff toward a—quite literal— burnout.

Something otherworldly is undeniably aboard the SS Lark, something horribly hungry. But it’s not Wick Farley: vampire, secret agent, and paranormal investigator. Alone and at sea, with only Neeta and Emery to help him, he must uncover the truth about Mr. Honeycutt. And fast—before a ravenous craving for power consumes them all. 

Available in hardcover or paperback, and ebook from your favorite online retailers! Or ask your local librarian!

[ohcorny]

happy birthday!!! I hope you have the best birthday possible

thank you! i've been having a very good one so far :)

[ohcorny]

it's my birthdaaaaay ❤️ i can't do any special sales cause that's not In My Power but if you wanna throw a buck my way and get a present for Yourself, anything you buy through this link (even if it's not My book) gives me a little cut!

but it would be best if you buy my book with it 😌

[sreegs]

You should take some time to read @3liza's post documenting the Phantom Report Bug (which she deserves praise for doing, thank you eliza) and see how fucking broken Tumblr's report tool is. I also want to reiterate something she is once again correct about: no one files bug reports. I have first hand experience working at Tumblr and I remember having to tell web devs on Staff "i saw a post about someone talking about a bug" and they were unaware because no one followed through to file a bug. I have fixed bugs that I saw people posting about that were in my domain (I'm a mobile dev) but were not in the system. No this is not an endorsement of "complain about it enough and eventually someone will see it", this is an endorsement of "file a bug report directly to computer companies and people will most likely read it and probably fix it". I mean it this is not a Tumblr-only thing. I've seen this at every company I've worked for. Just fucking file a bug report please I beg you, software gets complicated and the devs are just unaware that there's a bug until you bring it to your attention. And they want to fix the bug! I promise!

[3liza]

WHAT AM I ALWAYS SAYING TO YOU PEOPLE. COMPLAINING GETS THE GOODS. YOURE NOT ALLOWED TO GET MAD UNTIL YOUVE COMPLAINED ABOUT THE PROBLEM TO SOMEONE WHOSE JOB IT IS TO FIX IT

[3liza]

POLITELY

[ohcorny]

Is “The Sailor Song” by Autoheart an Emery/Neeta song ,,,

boy autoheart really did write multiple songs about emery and neeta huh. picturing modern emery curled up on his bed crying and listening to autoheart

[ohcorny]

The Other Wind, Ursula K Le Guin

[ohcorny]

the pon farr episode of voyager is Hilarious

[ohcorny]

OH MY GOSH WE HAVE THE SAME BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bet i'm older than you though >:)

[ohcorny]

my birthday is next wednesday so if any of yous were thinking of making hunger's bite fanart there's your excuse :)

[mousidy]

the state does not need to assign you a sex, nor does it need to keep inalterable record of it btw

[mousidy]

a very interesting terf objection to this one boils down to "but how would the state know who to protect?" because it speaks to the incredible privilege of being in a class the state actually ever remotely wants to protect. most oppressed groups do not want the state to have a registry of them, lol

[mousidy]

the patriarchy has done a great job convincing white cisgender women that it's in their best interests to maintain it

[vacuously-true]

Researchers can do studies that track disparate impacts across genders just fine without the government storing your assigned sex as part of your legal identity. They do this with race and orientation and disability and so on just fine.

A census can understand population level trends just fine without storing your assigned sex as part of your legal identity. They can ask for this information in the census. The census tracking population level data is not the same as your assigned sex being permanently part of your legal identity. (At least, the way my country does a census.)

Your doctor can know your anatomy by you communicating it to them if/when it is relevant. There is never a time when they might need to know something that could only be conveyed by your assigned sex being officially relayed to them via government documentation. You can just use your words. The same way you tell your doctor any other part of your medical history.

People respond to "the government doesn't need to store your assigned sex as part of your legal identity" as if they are hearing "no one should ever acknowledge gender or sex at all" but that's not what's being said.

Your birth certificate conveys important legal information about you. Your name, as a designation. Your parents, as they have a legal obligation to you. Your place of birth, as that place has a legal obligation to you. Date and time of birth, since age is important for application of some laws.

And sex. That's on there too. But what is the legal relevance? What laws is the government going to apply to you differently based on what sex is on your birth certificate? I can only think of one thing my government really uses that for, and that is to determine who has to sign up for the draft. And guess what, fuck that shit anyway. The government also used to use this to decide who is allowed to marry who. They don't do that anymore. For now.

There is literally no reason my assigned sex needs to be part of my legal identity. My government is not using that for anything (important). It doesn't matter. If the gender markers on everyone's IDs vanished tomorrow nothing (except maybe the draft) would be significantly negatively affected. Data collection for research could continue as usual since researchers usually have people self report these characteristics rather than checking their government IDs. My doctors would still know which organs I have and if they forgot, I could tell them. I don't want anything to be part of my legal identity that doesn't have to be.

[ohcorny]

it's wild you're getting so much push back about the no-shading thing, part of me wonders if people just don't realize that comics need to be more efficient than single illustrations the same way that animation needs to be? Like I feel like if you said "don't shade your animation frames if you don't have to" virtually nobody would disagree. comics aren't just pretty pictures, and imo good color palette choices often go miles more than formulaic mindless shading anyways!

(also when I first saw your post it made me go 'ohhh yeah i don't have to shade do i? weird people are being so contrarian about it.)

oh it was only like four people Total, it's really not much pushback at all. but even then art is a subjective thing and you can't really argue with people about taste, people like what they like and will do what they want to do.

it's kind of tacky to go 'i liked the version you don't prefer' but it doesn't really matter very much

[ohcorny]

Are you familiar with the book "The Thief of Always" by Clive Barker?

no but i read the great and secret show and the fugue and abarat

[ohcorny]

anyway the point of that post was not whether shading vs no shading looks better or worse* but whether it adds anything to the work. i also thought my versions with shading looked good, i wasn't going to make them look bad on purpose. but if "looking kind of good" is all it's doing, it's losing the value proposition of the time it takes. because it looks good without it too!

*i mean i do genuinely think it looks worse in certain circumstances and i did bias it by using soft shading, my art style is suited to cel shading. but the people i was trying to reach haven't realized that yet about their own work and are usually soft shading

[ohcorny]

i think your shaded examples generally look better than the flat colors to be honest

you're allowed to think that, and you're allowed to spend an hour longer on all of your comic pages than i do, the guy who finished his first graphic novel two months ahead of schedule

[ohcorny]

I just want you to know that A) I love your work and B) Every time I work on my comic and find myself reaching for the shading tools, purely out of habit, I remember the phrase: "You're doing disney vhs cover shit to me." which immediately gets me to reconsider if I really need it in those panels lol

i'm in your head telling you not to ride a bike indoors. i'm hitting you with the professor oak

[ohcorny]

watching star trek get basic things wrong about their contemporary technology feels like a betrayal because intuitively, the characters should know better. they time travel to 1996 and i know most people at the time didn't know shit about computers but "he downloaded 20% of our data!" doesn't mean he TOOK that data and you no longer have it. it has never meant that.

[ohcorny]

SARAH SILVERMAN STAR TREK JUMPSCARE

[ohcorny]

these arent the worst star trek episodes i've ever seen (the one where kim gets sent back to earth was) but they are by far the most annoying