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Declutter Tumblr

The new layout it a whole mess. Thankfully Xkit can already help with a bunch of this! I’m sure it’ll give more options soon.

Vanilla Tumblr:
(I have marked in red what can be removed. The tabs can be set not to stick, so you will really only see them at the top of your dash. Empty box on the left for hidden notifications and shop sparkle, i just didn’t have any. I’m EU so no Live for me).

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thethrillof:

insulting your own work (art or writing or whatever) super openly, especially directly on your work is also insulting everyone who sees and enjoys it. you’re essentially calling them a liar or telling them that they have shit taste.

i think abt this a lot (and it helped me stop being an asshole abt my own writing), but i’m especially bitter when it’s people who have commission stuff all over. like. you say your stuff is worth buying, but you’re calling it awful? do you see what you’re saying?

i know it’s not always that simple to realize, but still. ghghgh.

yeah gonna tack on here - not to put too blunt a point on it but if you post your work because you want it to be seen and interacted with, but in the same breath you’re telling people it’s not good, at the very least it’ll look like you’re not proud of it. implies you don’t want it to be seen or spread around, it’s not work you want to be known for, etc. you’re actively harming your own chances at an audience by making people reluctant to interact with your work from the start - people will think you don’t want them to

it can be dead tempting to tack on something like “i know it’s not very good but” or “sorry it’s kind of crappy” especially when you’re first starting to try and get confident about posting your work publicly. you wanna add that little apology because you’ve seen some incredible work out there by others and you think people expect that and it’s somehow a shame that you don’t make stuff quite like that. this is the devil talking. resist the urge to be apologetic about your work. don’t sabotage yourself!

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mostly-funnytwittertweets:

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hugealienpie:

basement-prussia:

perhalta:

“why bother writing bisexual characters if they just end up in a m/f relationship”

my dude

my guy

my pal

stop talking forever

Oh I have never reblogged faster in my life

Watching my bi friends’ identities get erased when they‘re in m/f relationships makes me think it’s even MORE important to write bi characters in m/f relationships and then be REALLY BLATANT about the fact that one or both of them is bi.

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candlecoo-sideb-art:

Oh Everlong

First

anneapocalypse:

anneapocalypse:

anneapocalypse:

So, just curious how many writers and creators will have to be forcibly outed by relentless harassment before we acknowledge that “This queer characters was written by a cishet person and that’s why they’re bad” is not good criticism.

Also I cannot overstate how much “We should scrutinize out queer authors MORE” was not the point of this post, or my tags on it. Queer creators already cannot fucking win. If they’re not out loud and clear, they get ripped to pieces. If they’re out and proud and make art that doesn’t rise to the impossible standard of perfectly representing all queer people everywhere they get ripped to pieces.

There isn’t a way forward from this without being willing to admit that what is good representation is subjective. There isn’t a way forward from this without admitting that we aren’t all looking for the same thing in queer media and queer characters, that something not being for me doesn’t make it necessarily bad and harmful, and that what we need is more and a greater variety of queer characters, not to force them all into one arbitrary formula.

Less than a day after I posted this, the notes were already filling up with testimonials from creators afraid to represent themselves in their own work because they are aware of the unforgiving scrutiny applied to all marginalized characters and they know their characters will be seen as imperfect representation.

You have to realize that the rigid view of what constitutes “good representation” is not just hurting the privileged creators you deem acceptable targets. It is hurting marginalized creators who want to represent themselves and share their stories in their voices.

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studentofetherium:

yugiohz:

yugiohz:

no offense to anyone personally but I think we are way too used to and comfortable with weekly releases and if that wasn’t already bad enough, it seems like most of you aren’t even patient enough to wait for the official release date my point is this industry moves way too quickly

they could go on strike but the problem is that the anime industry is already falling apart, which has brought it to such a state where that couldn’t really happen (without even getting into Japanese labor laws / attitudes towards unions which are its own issue)

basically, the bulk of animation in Japan isn’t actually done in Japan. directors, storyboard artists, etc are typically Japanese, and a lot of key animators will live in the country, but second key animation and in-between animation is frequently exported to other countries, particularly Korea and SEA countries. those are the ones that are most underpaid, and also the ones being crunched the most. even if animator unions did magically appear out of nowhere, conditions wouldn’t improve too much

this outsourcing is only getting worse as the industry is pushed harder and harder. animators are getting burnt out and tossed aside faster than ever, so studios need to turn to oversees animators more and more. web animators are the newest niche, with studios reaching out to anyone on twitter they can find for key animation, and there’s no way that a group which is inherently defined as “fans being recruited” could ever unionize, because there’s no unity among them

also, while the weekly schedule for manga is an issue, there’s a similar issue for monthly releases as well. the problem isn’t the format per se (although a week is a fast turnaround time, even with assistants) it’s the fact that they have to keep doing this week after week or month after month for years on end, possibly upwards of a decade… but not all manga are like that. this is a problem of popular magazines like Weekly Shounen Jump, but in other magazines, it’s much more frequent for magazines to run series that are published for a year or two and then simply end, giving the author time to rest. the manga industry is not without issue, far from it, but it’s not falling apart in the same way that the anime industry is

and similarly, the issue with the anime industry isn’t weekly releases, either. if a production is going well, the production team will have multiple weeks or even months to work on each episode, and be done far ahead of when the first episode even airs. it’s only due to overwork that we have more and more productions running at the same time. it’s the quantity that’s the issue, since that forces the scheduling. if half as many anime were being made, then this would be significantly lessened (and this is why, for example, streaming-original anime can’t escape these problems. companies like netflix getting into original anime production only makes things worse because it’s drawing from the same increasingly small pool of workers available)

basically, good spirit, but there’s a lot more going on here. unions can’t fix everything and these are key examples of that

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clonehub:

clonehub:

SAG officially considers cosplays of current/past media as crossing the picket line as it can be seen as supporting the studios they’re currently striking against.

(link is to a series of tweets, which include the original poster of the screenshot directly asking SAG-AFTRA what the rules are for cosplayers who want to support the strike)

Y'all sorry for not clearing it up in the original post (frankly I thought more people would read the link) but this applies to influencers, professional cosplayers, content creators, and the like. Basically, people who make money off cosplays or otherwise promoting the

There is an official FAQ on the SAG-AFTRA site that details it better than the email (which came out probably right after the email did, hence why I missed it. I’d have just posted that link if I’d seen it).

Please be aware that although this strike might be of great inconvenience to you, that’s the point. This isn’t convenient for anyone. This isn’t easy for anyone. That’s the point. Between WGA and SAG-AFTRA, thousands and thousands of people are not working, and it’s going to keep being like that until AMPTP wakes up and pays these people their fair share. Rather than complain, find ways to support the strikers (the link’s final question offers ways influencers can support the strike, although frankly some of their suggestions aren’t limited to just influencers).

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enenkaydoodles:

enenkaydoodles:

Before Pride month is over, I’ve got something to say!!

AAAAAAA TODAY…!!!!

damazcuz:

damazcuz:

Day 1 of fucking that old man.

Good lird he crumbled to dust.

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