it's like chopping a finger off, it's like ripping an eye out

I just can't do it follow from @partentts | art: @part-toons | I have a long queue so posts on here is not reflective of my activity

[part-3]

save me detective princes save me

[poppetsisters]

A crossover for the ages.

[poppetsisters]

Prequel

[poppetsisters]

The Climactic Battle

[shegs]

[qualityrain]

@aphantomdweeb

[qualityrain]

@aphantomdweeb

[phantomtheive]

persona 5 doodle dump ☆

[qualityrain]

ouuuuuu I miss painting this guy

[qualityrain]

I am WIP man

[storm-of-feathers]

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

[storm-of-feathers]

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

[crabussy]

media trope that makes me want to throw up and cry is when a character realises there's no way they're making it out of a situation in one piece. and in a single moment they accept it and turn to their distraught loved ones with The Smile. you know The Smile. sickening

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[part-toons]

Following my heart

[wolfertinger666]

I get rly sad that so many nonblack artists get scared of making black ocs because they "don't wanna be racist" but trust me with a bit of research and viewing black individuals with personalized style and autonomy, it makes the process easier.

I think ultimately if you are unwilling to force yourself to unlearn racial biases especially antiblackness then I just find your reasoning extremely lame. even my black ocs are from different diasporas besides American only. I just find any excuse upsetting atp because it feels like the fear of being racist or making a caricature overrides wanting to genuinely depict people like myself. it feels like you just avoid blackness all together. please engage in black art more, make more black friends, and please include us, especially in your art.

[wolfertinger666]

for example, I'm not japanese or Asian but one of my ocs is Asian(Japanese/Okinawan) + white coded and I get told by both Asian individuals (both east and southeast) + (mixed Asian individuals) that they see themselves or at least enjoy her presence and thank me for just, depicting an Asian character that feels grounded while also giving me tidbits and criticism and I appreciate it so much. it's not hard to make characters outside your culture if you genuinely love different people and the world. please don't box yourself into a self made prison.

[malviolet]

back 2 spreading trans masc akechi propaganda

[shorterthanchuuyanakahara]

Oldsona save me... Save me oldsona...

[paranormal-taters]

hang on i need to review my entire post history from all time and make sure i haven't said anything embarrassing

[paranormal-taters]

awful news guys

[palalife]

Unusual event happening on the daily commute

[maxxie-or-smth]

every time i lose at a social interaction a "you died" banner appears at the top of my vision and my eyes glaze over for a second until i respawn and can talk normal this time

[analog-system]

@funnier-as-a-system