chimpanzeedotcom:

Fun prank to play on sleepy girls: drill a hole in their forehead to let the demons out

powerburial:

snekbitch666:

powerburial:

Babe, ever since I met you, your power level has been over 9000. With you, I know the cake won’t be a lie. Together we can rule the galaxy, and all their base will belong to us. I can haz marriage?

OP I am going to break into your house and unleash a horde of locusts in your closet if you don’t stop

wouldn’t even notice with the type of shit i got goin on

olliemnjones:

Trespassing

genericpuff:

triaelf9:

Naver's 'Webtoon' CEO says barrier for new entrants is high

South Korean tech giant Naver's webcomics business, called "Webtoon", will rely on its deep bank of content and creators to fend off new com

Reuters

This article makes me SO MAD

some choice quotes:

“Webtoons are low-cost to produce - one person can make them with a tablet and stylus.” I’M SORRY WHAT?? THE ONLY REASON IT’S LOW COST IS BECAUSE YOU UNDERPAY YOUR CREATORS

Webtoon Entertainment and its subsidiary have run amateur artists’ debut programmes for years, generating 1.6 million titles from 900,000 creators as of January.“ generating from creators ah yes, just like solar panels generate energy from the sun that we can use up, WOW what a gross way to put this

”'If big tech is serious about this IP-creating business, they’d have to buy us out,’ Kim said.“ OH CEO, you don’t say? Sound like this article with tons of unverified numbers & projections is more you all advertising yourself FOR a buyout

"deep bank of content and creators” OH COOL WE’RE JUST MONEY TO USE AND TRADE. you could have used any other anaology, a LIBRARY comes to mind “a collection of outstanding creators” maybe, but the use of the term DEEP BANK here is very telling.

Especially given THIS is more the truth of the situation for webcomic creators in Korea rn: https://www.cbr.com/korea-occupational-agency-report-tragic-picture-health-webtoon-artist/

Reblogging this for visibility and to add my own points as someone who’s been a webcomic creator for a decade and an enthusiastic pain in the neck for platforms like Webtoons for at least half that time.

Everything the CEO here is saying is a shitload of audacity for a platform that relies entirely on its creators to even have “content” let alone survive in the literature market. The fact that WT doesn’t release its internal numbers to its own contracted employees (the creators) speaks volumes to how far up shit creek WT likely is, at least here in NA, and they’re just trying to save face in an attempt to pull in new investors and creators.

Just to remind y'all, Webtoons doesn’t create an equal playing ground for its NA creators and they criminally underpay and overwork their LATAM creators.

Creators are not paid for their pre-production time. Many creators are subject to WT’s “Minimum Threshold Revenue” rule, which means they do not get a cut of their FastPass income until they’ve hit a certain threshold for profit which Webtoons does not disclose to them. Webtoons depends on keeping their creators in the dark and enticing them with the stick-and-carrot method as if the vast majority of them aren’t sinking due to WT’s own practices and methods.

Originals creators are still subject to the same “fight for attention” games as Canvas creators. They still have to do their own networking, supply their own marketing designs, and fight with Webtoons staff to get even just a few hours of attention in the banner reels, all the while Webtoons continues to advertise the same outdated series that don’t need help in the banner reels for days - sometimes weeks - on end.

Webtoons’ own creators are not pleased with how the platform is run but are often still forced to work for them because of how their malicious work practices have trapped them into a grind of constantly working just to make ends meet.

Even after Originals creators put their job on the line to write to Webtoons and demand better treatment and communication, Webtoons refused to cooperate, making it clear that the creators are just capital to them, not people. Instead, Webtoons put out a statement filled with false platitudes and empty promises.

We’ve called out Webtoons on their bullshit before. Don’t let it fall on deaf ears. Take the WGA and Marvel VFX artists strikes as motivation - we have more power than they want us to believe.

schoolsoutmp3:

It’s happened to Becky Albertalli, who wrote a book about how terrible it is to be outed.

It’s happened to Keiynan Lonsdale, who starred in the adaptation of that book.

It’s happened to Kit Connor, who starred in a show that makes it clear you don’t owe people your sexuality.

This list will only ever get longer, because you are weaponising the concepts of authenticity and “own-voices” to creep into strangers lives to find out some of the most personal things you could find.

“Queer actors for queer roles” is a right idea until all you can focus on is harassing anyone who’s not stated they’re gay. Forcing them to tell their parents, their whole extended family, their neighbours, their old pre-school classmates, and thousands of people who will never ever even see them in person let alone interact with them.

endrae:

more long-time wips resurrected from my work folders, finally got this rendered!

lesbiacebian:

no offense but you guys need to learn the difference between someone implying their experience is universal and a post simply just not being about you

doyouknowwhatimeme:

teathattast:

headspace-hotel:

garfsaysacab:

catgirl-kaiju:

workplaces should have to legally provide unlimited paid sick leave available immediately upon hire. the limits that companies that even provide paid sick leave put on it is so fucked up. no one can control when they get sick, how often they get sick, or how long they are sick for, and they shouldn’t have to suffer for the transgression of being ill.

“oh, but some people might take advantage of that and just stay home all the time and get paid for it!” if there is really a statistically relevant amount of people you have hired staying home on paid sick leave for months or years on end, perhaps your workplace sucks to be at, and you need to change.

give them reasons to come in to work. make it safer and easier to do their jobs. give them work that they can get invested in and talk to them about what that looks like. make sure you aren’t overloading them with too much work or making unreasonable demands. pay them an amount that makes the work worth doing to them. actually form a working relationship with your employees instead of treating them like infinitely exploitable wage slaves.

only allowing your workers to accrew “2 hours a week of sick time starting after 6 weeks of employment” or some shit just doesn’t match the reality of how sickness or human health works

on the argument of “people might take advantage of sick leave”:

the company already steals from you way more than you can even imagine taking from them, let alone what you would “steal” from them by faking sickness for a few days

that is the very nature of capitalism

I don’t want to be served food by someone who has a stomach bug actually. This isn’t hard.