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My demo on girlhood expired, now i'm a vending machine | It/She/they | 20+

[rottenguppy]

Watch me go silent for days on end as I work on and off a duel part big project for the Internet (and myself)

So hey, look out for stuff (haven't decided if I'll post the damn thing as just a video or a video and essay on here yet)

[rottenguppy]

My digital pen just broke, it's still usable but thank FUCK I am getting my new tablet soon.

[motaz103]

Urgent !!

Pay attention here, a life is at stake, please give it hope 💔🥹🙏

A year ago, we had a beautiful baby boy, named Adam, whom we lost to poisoning that afflicted my wife because of the war.

I work as a journalist from the city of victims, Gaza

Now I need to raise the money for a tent to shelter my family from the extreme heat, the Khamsin winds, and the weather fluctuations. Insects fill the place, causing some of my family members to get scabies.

I hope I can help my family get something simple as soon as possible.

I want to raise $354 !

I am now the sad story; I need you.

Donate to help Motaz and his family survive

Hello, my name is Ash, I'm fundraising for my friend Motaz.  Motaz is a journalist living in Gaza who has frequently been displaced from hom

i am Vetted by "gazavetter 527

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Freelance journalist, based in Gaza

[browniefox]

We don’t talk enough about how fanfiction writers love to give character large amounts of non-specific paperwork they hate doing

[streamofsalmon]

say more pls

[browniefox]

Yeah sure why not.

So most stories take place when Events are Happening, and this means that no matter what kind of job the characters have, they’re probably not too focused on them. Fanfics, on the other hand, often show the down time. Which means that the writer has to figure out what the hell these characters do in their jobs. Unless the characters have a job the author understands or knows well, the author is often at a loss for what to have the character doing.

So they sit them at a desk and give them paperwork. What is the paperwork for? Rarely specified. It is Paper Work for the characters Important Adult Job they have and they need to read or sign it or something. And there’s always a line about how Character Hates Paperwork. Doesn’t matter if Character is a Mafia Boss or a General or a Diplomat, here they are in an office trying to get out of Doing Paperwork.

There’s also a sense of, like, humor and mundanity that comes with it. Like the examples above, it always particularly stands out to me when a dangerous individual is griping about some paper they need to sign or something. The less you can picture Character doing paperwork, all the better to force it upon them. If Character is saddled with Paperwork, they’re usually now concerned about the physical damages their motley crew causes, because damage = More Paperwork.

Anyway I just think it’s fun or funny, Sephiroth doing paper work and Sawada Tsunayoshi doing paper work and this just in, Tony Stark is doing paperwork. Sorry, Phoenix Wright can’t play right now. Yeah, it’s paperwork.

[elumish]

A very non-exhaustive list of actual paperwork they could be completing/reviewing/approving, in no particular order:

Timesheets

Expense reports

Requisition requests

Budget justifications

Payroll

Performance evaluations

Incident reports

After action reviews / post-mortem analyses

Incident Action Plans

Contracts

Contract proposals / grant applications

Reports / briefings

[redwingedwhump]

Your Royalty or Nobles in your feudal society should be doing this constantly unless you want to show how they're losing the kingdom and about to be usurped or overthrown.

petitions, speech-writing, complaints, requests, assignations, disputes, judiciary forms, declarations that need signing off on, matters requiring the Royal seal, matters requiring a royal endorsement, pardons, judgments, invitations, rebuttals, census data, crop yields projected or actual, livestock records, water rights, Sumptuary laws, taxes taxes taxes...

[val-ritz]

solid point there!

even when the royalty look like they're just fucking off to have fun, they're doing Socially Mandated Fuck-Off and Have Fun Time

Tournaments? Gotta show you're manly and virile through sport, or the nobles will supplant you. Feasts? Gotta show you're wealthy through conspicuous consumption, or the nobles will supplant you. Patronizing the arts? Gotta show you're cultured and erudite, or the nobles will laugh at you behind your back and probably supplant you.

[delicatefury]

Lawyer here. Here’s some more mundane/modern ones for you:

Invoices.

Intake sheets (information about new clients. The one for my firm is 13 pages and requires an hour long meeting. Then you have to do something with the info gathered)

Data entry for invoices and intake sheets.

Billing. (More involved than timesheets because you’re justifying to clients why you’re getting paid so much).

Form letters.

Taxes. Including 1099s for any contracted work.

Bank statements/accounting spreadsheets. Gotta track how expenses are trending.

Insurance documents.

General messages. Lots of office still use a paper system for missed calls and “important” stuff because it just works better than emails and chats for some people.

Memos. Big enough office to have at least one attorney on payroll? You’re getting memos about every legal question and concern and contract. It’s how we’re trained to communicate in formal settings.

[letslipthehounds]

And if you want to get into modern military, the forms are numbered, and people will refer to them by either their actual name, or the number. (Have you filled out the 4187 for this? Yes, I filled out the personnel action form.)

The military has so many forms.

[leebrontide]

If you want to add a rage level, there’s the Regular Paperwork and then the special hell of Fuckup Paperwork.

Cause there’s the invoice, and the follow up invoice and the we are about to have a problem follow-up invoice.

There’s the incident report and then the I swear I yelled at that worker about this don’t be mad at me if they do it again second warning documentation

The requisition form and the it has been six months now get me the fucking thing or you’re gonna hear from Cindy escalations form.

Paperwork has layers and protocols and backups.

[booberrybawls-deactivated202504]

i need this hold on a minute

[fuckthisshit-ugh]

please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

reblog. share. don't scroll past.

[standwithdaanes]

India's youth-led Cockroach movement vows to continue protest after police crackdown

The movement, which began as a satirical protest, has evolved into a nationwide challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.

Supporters of India's youth-led Cockroach movement said Tuesday they will continue their protest in New Delhi, refusing to leave their sit-in site a day after police used tear gas and batons to disperse thousands of them as they tried to march toward Parliament. Hundreds of protesters camped at Jantar Mantar, a designated protest site, under heavy police presence, saying they would stay until Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigns over alleged failures in India's examination system. "We are going to continue our protest," said Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, which emerged just two months ago. The movement, drawing students, professionals and families, marks a rare public challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's government in its third term, reviving criticism over its handling of dissent and its use of force to respond to protests. [...] Sona Bisht, a 20-year-old student who was part of the protest, said the confrontation strengthened her resolve. "If the government thinks that doing this with Gen Z, they can stop us, then that won't happen. We are here talking about education, talking about securing our future. And till the time our demands are not met, we will not move from here," she said.

"Definitions developed thus far about youth, like the Gen Z narrative, have largely been linked to roles attributed by the dominant system. The rulers have invented a whole range of terms — rebellious, irresponsible, apolitical, extremist, consumerist — not to understand youth, but to neutralize it. They know as well as we do that whoever wins over the youth wins over society. [...] Thus the question is not whether youth is powerful, but in whose interest this power is directed. Today’s uprisings — such as those in Nepal, Bangladesh, Madagascar, Indonesia, Kenya, Morocco, and beyond — demonstrate that youth continues to emerge as a decisive actor. Young women like Deniz Ciya have proven this with their lives. These uprisings are not expressions of generational temperament. These „Gen Z uprisings“ are expressions of a social force confronting structural crisis inherent in the current system. [...] Recent youth uprisings — whether in the form of environmental justice protests, labor movements, or uprisings against authoritarian governments — are proof that youth worldwide are not only responding to a set of circumstances; they are consciously and collectively rejecting the narratives that seek to define them. Thus, it is crucial to analyze what transpired, and draw lessons from these uprisings, particularly in the context of building a global youth democratic confederalism. For the power of youth movements is interconnected, despite being geographically distant." — "Beyond "Gen Z": Defending Revolutionary Youth Spirit" by Lêgerîn

"The youth in general, and especially the young women, are the spark of every revolution.We can’t look at the history and found a revolution without the youth. We are a fundamental factor. We should be aware of this reality, we should take conscience of our historical role. By doing this we will provide ourselves with a plan that will allow us the unity of action and objectives. The Youth should not be condemned to be a slave of the capitalist system. [...] If we reject the labels and mentalities imposed by the system, taking consciousness as Internationalist Youth in a global level and organizing ourselves, is there someone who can stop us?" — "The youth is the spark of every revolution" by Lêgerîn.

[monstrous-femme]

as a regular donor to Gaza Soup Kitchen I get their email updates, and they said today that while they've continued to be able to expand, donations are slowing down as Gaza gets less coverage. If you have a few dollars to spare, I encourage you to send them here to continue the amazing work that Hani and his team are doing.

[moishe-pipick]

[cosmikazie]

hey remember when people said we gotta keep talking about this and then two days passed and it just went quiet. anyways

[cosmikazie]

due to recent (and frankly ongoing as far as this website is concerned) events

[genericpuff]

I saw your post about Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, and as a Greek person I wanted to share some context that many people outside Greece may not know.

The Greek government allocated €6.5 million of taxpayers' money to help fund the production, but Greek taxpayers had no say in that decision and were not aware their money was being used for it. Not a single Greek actor participated in this movie, and yet they filmed it in Greek land.

The country whose history, mythology, taxpayer money and landscapes were used for this film, was left out of the main cast's promotional premiere tour, despite being heavily used in the film's production and marketing.

For many Greeks, the casting, narrative choices, and some of the statements surrounding the project regarding Homer feel deeply offensive and disrespectful.

Where is the line between artistic interpretation and cultural appropriation?

Damn, that's so fucked up. I had no idea about the taxpayer dollars being used to fund this, that's so insane especially considering it all went into a Western-produced Hollywood film that doesn't at all contribute to Greek arts and culture. Surely that money could have gone towards something more beneficial for Greece, whether it be entertainment or healthcare or literally ANYTHING else that isn't paying for Christopher Nolan's fanfiction project 😒 I'm so sorry you're all being subjected to this shit.

To go on a bit of a tangent, I suppose it's a grim but necessary reminder that cultural appropriation and colonization doesn't just affect POC communities - it comes for any and all cultures that the Western colonist amoeba can stand to leech off of for their own gain.

It really sucks because something like this should be invigorating for Greek culture and Greece's economy, like any culturally-specific film should be. But instead it often just results in exactly this, private foreign corporations taking advantage of government money, while the individuals beneath them get screwed by outsider influences, appropriation, and tourism culture that takes advantage and doesn't respect the land these stories and resources came from, much less that land's people.

Not to compare or change the subject, but it brings to mind what's been done to Hawaii and its people for decades, becoming just token stereotypes and cliches for Hollywood to play with instead of being treated with the respect and dignity they deserve (see also: the Quileute tribe depicted in Twilight - they are in fact a real tribe, and public perception of them was severely harmed by the rhetoric in that movie).

While Greece has fortunately stood strong as one of our oldest nations, that doesn't make the country itself any less prone to having its stories and culture appropriated and twisted to fit Western norms and ideals. If anything it almost has the opposite effect - because Greek stories and art have become so globally recognized and popularized, people outside of Greece tend to take it for granted and forget / don't realize that it's not just fairy tales for them to take from and use without thought towards the history and culture that created them in the first place. Sort of the opposite problem from those aforementioned countries and tribes - the nation is still there, it's not under threat of disappearing overnight, but Westerners forget / don't care that it's an actual nation with people still alive and living in it who are being blatantly ignored and passed over in favor of Western actors and artists roleplaying as them.

I know it's probably a rhetorical question, but I don't want to think the line is so thin as to be rendered invisible and walked over completely. Problem is the answer to that question and solution to this problem is 'it begins and ends with respect' and there's never really been any of that in these industries or in the consumers who keep them alive. Just exploitation and profit.

[ephemeral-roses]

Them taking the people of Greece's money just to erase their culture and history is genuinely so messed up. I feel so bad and even more pissed off with this movie than I've ever been.

[rottenguppy]

I will forever laugh at my parents for never telling me that my grandmother (and great grandmother) on my father's side were allergic to pineapple and strawberries

I went my entire childhood not knowing that strawberries and pineapple weren't supposed to make my mouth numb and tingly! Not until I mentioned to my dad how it seemed like the tingling has gotten worse and I was worried I was beginning to have an allergic reaction to my favorite fruits.

This man explained to me that it wasn't normal, and that my grandmother and her mother both were allergic, and it seems it's now on me, all while he explained when I was eating strawberries and pineapple in front of him.

It was then my dad said "oh, you're just like your grandmother"

It's now a bit in my friend group to just casually bring up my allergy when I mention what I'm eating, which always seems to be something strawberry or pineapple related, lol.

[teomodo]

art books on the internet archive for you

morpho books

figure drawing for all it's worth (+ creative illustration)

framed ink

will eisner comics and sequential art

will eisner graphic storytelling and visual narrative

understanding comics (+ making comics)

folder of various animation production art

burne hogarth drawing dynamic hands

perspective for comic book artists

michael mattesi force drawing

the animator's survival kit

color and light james gurney

be free

[murcurys-underling]

Happy Art Fight everyone! I wanted to post one of my recent attacks (character by @rottenguppy ) go check out the creator, their art is gorgeous!

[rottenguppy]

AAAAAAH THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!!!!

[rottenguppy]

Finally updated my reference for my Oc Sammy

Ain't she cute?

[rottenguppy]

I'll probably end up posting all my artfight attacks at the end.

[yourfavpunchesnazis]

you punch nazis!

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[yourfavpunchesnazis]

[tnystrk-exe]

[entropychronicles]

[catcrumb]

( hi everyone! it's that time of year again... expect me back sometime in august! in the meantime, consider donating to direct relief for earthquake recovery in venezuala! )

[vicaly]

I know ArtFight is dying to stay up rn but I NEED MY REFERENCE