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my toxic xennial trait is that i believe something should either be software (in which case after i download it i shouldn't need to be connected to use it) or a web page (which shouldn't require me to download anything to use it, however badly, in a browser). fuck your mandatory single function constant connection apps

elodieunderglass

You’re so right. Say more

direwolfs-stuff

doc-anders

Red Hood: “Feel this kid, that’s solid muscle! Wait where are y-“

#Jason Thiccum Todd lol #nerd favorites

tiktoks-for-dead-pope

multiversal-andra

I'm LEGITIMATELY crying omg he's PAINTING and it's ART and it's GOOD AHHH.

kakosophos

i just remembered dogs are colorblind so the red stem is because she thought that was green im crying

callmebliss-got-swamped

She's a pretty smart dog maybe she learned color theory

bluefandoms

Adjusted for Red-Green Colour Blindness:

So... it might have looked something like this:

#I'm losing my shit over the fact this dog can paint #random #like

ryan-sometimes

COVID is slowly becoming a “third world” disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can’t get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.

ryan-sometimes

Watch also when some first world countries finish vaccinating their populations, they will turn to third world countries and “donate” or sell surplus vaccines. People in these countries will go “Oh how sweet! The government is donating vaccines to the poorer countries <3” when it was their hoarding that led to many, many third world citizens dying before they could even get vaccinated in the first place.

comradesaucegay

african and latin american countries are also pushed by pfizer to give up sovereign assets as part of their vaccine agreement

nanalineni

Yo europeans, sign the fucking petition, get the european commission to lift the patents

Everyone deserves protection from COVID-19.

nanalineni

This is not a bullshit useless change dot org petition by the way this is an actual thing with legal consequences. If this petition gets to a million signatures, the european commission HAS to examine it.

queerqueerspawn

They need not only a million signatures but to pass thresholds in at least seven member states - which only Belgium has done so so far. Especially if you have Italian, Irish, or Cypriot citizenship, please sign. Sign it in general, but try to circulate if you can to anyone with those nationalities specifically.

leosuncancervenus

231,195 / 1,000,000 signatures as of 10/28/21

fanbynature

DnE got no time for your mushy stuff

#pfft #super junior #eunhyuk #donghae #eunhae

kaemiscellaneous

No thoughts, only Lady Ruth Salisbury

#random #this tickles me too hard

ultradude

Makes a video essay about the gentrification of webcomics

ultradude

This is a joke mostly, but I’ve been thinking about this since DC announced their collab with webtoon.

Webcomics used to be a great platform for amateur artists because they were relatively unpolished, could update one page a week or a few pages a month, and people would be happy with it. Websites like smackjeeves were cool because you could find basically anything on there. Sure, a lot of stories got abandoned (which still happens) and a lot of it was not very good, but people didn’t really expect amazing things from webcomics they read for free.

Nowadays with the advent of the webtoon, the expectations for webcomics, which were once an amateur’s way to experiment with breaking into comics and telling stories, have MUCH higher expectations.

People who are used to reading professional webtoons expect full colour long-form chapters uploaded every week. People complain if chapters are too short or if the story doesn’t progress in the way they like it, because ‘they’re paying for this’ and it kind of sucks.

The official Batman webtoon is a perfect example of this. Like. If you’re a beginner artist who wants to publish a small-time webcomic, webtoon canvas is one of the biggest platforms. You go on webtoon to see what other comics are on there, and you’re competing for views not only with other amateur series, but also with professional industry comic artists.

It’s very good that webcomics are being taken more seriously as an art form now, but it feels like it’s becoming harder and harder for small-time artists to find places and projects to express themselves. Everything nowadays is an industry, and if you’re a single teenager who wants to write a webcomic, nothing is more intimidating than seeing the professional full colour long-form stories on these sites, the artists of which usually have assistants and full creative teams helping.

ultradude

This is not to say webcomic artists make great money. The majority kind of don’t. But that’s also kind of the point.

As these small time amateur platforms keep getting more and more polished with the standards rising higher and higher (often without the pay to match) the stories that used to be considered pretty good get shoved down and forgotten, or insulted for not being professional level.

It’s just like zines! Nowadays all zines seem to be professionally published, and the pay rates for these things don’t nearly match the traditional industry standard.

The standards for art are going up and the value is going down, and it’s a problem. Eventually young artists are going to be priced out, and their confidence will take a major hit.

I fully understand if no one believes me, but let me tell you, the second Alec is put in this wig