#no problem with the covers of this book

[inkskinned]

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"

#this was much longer i had to cut it down for legibility #but i do want to say i am aware this post doesnt touch on human rights violations as a result of fast fashion #that is because it deserves its own post with a completely different tone #i am an environmental educator #so that's what i know the most about. it wouldn't be appropriate of me to mention off-hand the real and legitimate suffering #that people are going through #without doing my research and providing real ways to help #this is a vent post about a thing i'm watching happen; not a call to action. it would be INCREDIBLY demeaning #to all those affected by the fast fashion industry to pretend that a post like this could speak to their suffering #unfortunately one of the horrible things about latestage capitalism as an activist is that SO many things are linked to this #and i WANT to talk about all of them but it would be a book in its own right. in fact there ARE books about each level of this #and i encourage you to seek them out and read them!!! i am not an expert on that i am just a person on tumblr doing my favorite activity #(complaining) #and it's like - this is the individual versus the industry problem again right because im blaming myself #for being an expert on environmental disaster (which is fucking important) but not knowing EVERYTHING about fast fashion #i'm blaming myself for not covering the many layers of this incredibly complicated problem im pointing out #rather than being like. yeah so actually the fault here lies with the billion dollar industries actually. #my failure to be able to condense an incredibly immense problem that is BOOK-LENGTH into a single text post that i post for free #is not in ANY fucking way the same amount of harm as. you know. the ACTUAL COMPANIES doing this ACTUAL THING for ACTUAL MONEY. #anyway im gonna go donate money while i'm thinking about it. maybe you can too. we can both just agree - well i fuckin tried didn't i #which is more than their CEOs can say

[egophiliac]

this started as a reply to someone (a million years ago) (I am so sorry) and then very quickly got out of control, as these things do. so...uhhh....here's everyone else at Playful Land!

sorry

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #(like barely at this point) (but it's there) #stage in playful land #stage in playfulland #i keep coming within thirty seconds of posting this and noticing something i've screwed up #so chances are good i'll wake up tomorrow and realize i forgot to draw fellow's ears or something #i just think it'd be funny if there was a malleus-shaped line that was just THE step too far #(especially because leona would get SO mad about it) #leona and kalim and vil? yeah no problem the investors are VERY good at covering their tracks #malleus though. hmm. ...hmmmm. #i mean. the commission on him alone... #but no. the risk isn't worth it. #...but WHAT IF

[totallyottie99]

Poppy’s pest problem- based on those golden spined books I used to get in cereal boxes

https://patreon.com/TaylorTottieOttie?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link

#art #my art #drawing #illustration #fanart #original character #comic #poppy partridge #welcome home #welcome home fanart #poppy’s pest problem #childrens book #book cover #muppet #sesame street

[dont-offend-the-bees]

That bit in the comics where Rose is only wearing a bed sheet in her dream so Morpheus shows up in an emo bed sheet and shows some skin. Solidarity, equality, 10/10 no notes

#Mr. Bees reads Sandman #Yes I'm 30 years late yes I'm reading it cuz the show slapped what you gonna do #Tbh I struggle with comics a bit bc I read them quickly/don't appreciate the pictures enough bc of the speed read instinct #Like I don't particularly enjoy books that power through events too quickly bc I get left behind/lose immersion #And comics for me generally are that problem to the nth degree #So they're not my media of choice #But I am enjoying it #(Morpheus shows some skin on many other occasions btw but this defo felt like a solidarity move on his part) #(it's actually wild that post-ep 1 TV Morpheus covers himself as much as he does) #(petition to get some of the sexy one-shoulder looks into season 2) #mr. bees speaks #the sandman

[ace-artemis-fanartist]

"The stories are all remarkably similar. They all seem to describe a person, and not an actual god. They're all tricksters - you never get what you expect from them. And, they are always attended by owls."― Natasha Pulley, The Lost Future of Pepperharrow

Recently reread this and annotated it, which was a lot of fun. Keita Mori is still such a fun character to read about, I had to do a mock cover.

#the lost future of pepperharrow #the watchmaker of filigree street #natasha pulley #queer books #lgbt books #twof #illustration #mock cover #keita mori #owls #artists on tumblr #my art #getting the colors to look right after saving this was a jerk and a half #which was weird #never had that problem

[winxwannabe]

I am about to become insufferable.

The world’s biggest thank you to @fierydragonprincess for finding an EU listing for the book and sending it to me in America. I’m so happy to finally have my hands on a copy.

#winx club #Enciclomagia #I am about to make this book EVERYONE’S problem #(oh also I have the second volume which covers S3 HAHAHAHA) #fr though all the listings I could find in the US were HUNDREDS of dollars

[brother-emperors]

Well now I'm just having a lot of thoughts about Crassus pulling strings for Caelius and I place the blame squarely on you!

yes YES the conspiratorial theater of politics and patronage stays winning!! ngl @hortensius' posts on caelius has created an additional caelius agenda on top of my usual crassus-conspiracy brainrot and now I keep designing illustrations with them like it's a whole series from some historical fiction romance imprint

#ask tag #drawing tag #roman republic tag #marcus caelius rufus #marcus licinius crassus #i need to finish reading this book on the catilinarian conspiracy and also unpack these thoughts about dolabella and caesar #the patronage dynamics in the late republic sure are something like wow. what on earth #anyway I have a million of these fake cover looking sketches in my WIP folder it’s becoming a problem lmao

[comic-covers]

(1958)

#My Personal Problem #comic book #1958 #vintage #romance comics #Iger Shop #cover art #television #1950s #Farrell comic books #TV #love story

[xinyuehui]

Okay, one last post about Netflix's 3 Body Problem. I literally moved on (as in, I didn't bother finishing it), but today I saw a post on *** and some Chinese American saying the Ye Zhetai scene is the representation we need blah blah blah China could never. What triggered me the most about this is that the closest thing this person is to being Chinese is probably being born with the bloodline, probably never interacted with Chinese media. We are supposed to be in this together, and what are you talking about right now? There's a handful of Chinese diaspora out here who literally never bothered interacting with our culture (which is fine, nobody's business to tell them what to do), and then whenever America does any "representation," they are suddenly online! Sure, it would be nice if Western media started to be more diverse for us out here, but you literally can't rely on some white man to do it. You have to curate this experience for yourself if it's something you truly care about. There's no good excuse to not seek out things for yourself. The majority of the cdrama/cnovel fandom here on Tumblr (or Twitter) do not speak Chinese, but there are English subtitles on many official and fan-based platforms. Some non-Chinese danmei reader could probably tell you about censorship in China back to front better. Anyways, that's another can of worms.

Back to Ye Zhetai, I've already talked about it briefly here. It's not that deep, the scene exists to get people talking. It's all perfunctory, the banners are written in a Microsoft YaHei font (Microsoft invented this font in 2004), they do not care about the history behind it, it's to evoke a reaction in the West. Let's show this traumatic thing that happened in China, then segway all the world saving plot-line to England, is that clear now if that hasn't occurred to you yet??

There's a list of the media that stemmed from the Cultural Revolution on Wikipedia with one easy Google search. Did you really look? Did you watch and read everything on that list?? Is there really no Chinese representation apart from Netflix??? If it's not allowed in China, how could he ever write the book and publish it in China?? Did you even know about the speculation that Ye Zhetai is based on the real physicist Ye Qisun??

#third times the charm for three body - probably no more essays about this again i think ive covered everything within the 3 posts #3 body problem #three body #this is just not a good book to adapt to a western setting unless you change it to a western country revolution of some sort #which btw do exist idk why people act like china is the only one who went through a traumatic historical thing

[sylvrndoodles]

another fake novel cover, but for one of my projects this time ( ˙꒳​˙ )

#sylvrn art #illust #fake book cover #a story I've been working on for a while #will I finish it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #tbh I'm practicing bc 1. it's fun #and 2. I might not have a job for a while after this contract and uh #it might be really cool if I could do book cover commissions in between jobs #so if you guys know anyone... 👀 #anyways this is my favourite fake book cover so far #really leaning into prioritizing the overall look rather than focussing on details #which is a big problem for me I think #probably have to learn a bit about fonts too

[tciddaemina]

Coffee table: a mess

Tiny test practice books: completed and opening properly

Issue with casing and spine/cover spacing: hopefully resolved?

#fanbinding #bookbinding #i kept having a problem where the books wouldnt open fully and i couldnt tell if it was an issue with my positioning when gluing #the textblock in or whether it was bc of me mucking up the spine width or maybe the spine/cover gap #i went really carefully through this one and it seems the issue is resolved now tho

[nerdierholler]

Attempt number two. Now it dries overnight and hopefully tomorrow I can glue in the text block.

#the dry fit seems ok #fingers crossed the glue and fabric didn’t do anything weird #honestly not sure about the structural integrity of the cover #but we’re gonna roll with it #everything held together with elmer’s glue and prayers at this point #the elmer’s glue might be part of the problem #but it’s cheap easy materials for practice #I’ll order good glue before I try another #life at nerdy holler #nerdy makes a book

[hazelcephalopod]

Thinking about 3 Body and wondering if the Trisolarans/San Ti had multiple “escape” plans running? They might possess the ability to terraform, admittedly this would take a long time in all likelihood but they are probably biologically well equipped to actually run such an operation.

I get why they wanted earth, an already inhabited paradise -from their point of view- planet with only the inconvenience of another intelligent -but significantly less technologically developed- species already inhabiting it. They clearly spent a lot of resources on it but it seemed like their own planets destruction wasn’t imminent, just inevitable -eventually. The *when* of course being the question that couldn’t be answered.

Clearly there were some hurdles in trying to take earth, so if they hadn’t already looked at alternative plans I’d be surprised if they hadn’t done so between discovering earth and… well later on. At least by somewhere between the second and third book anyway.

*I hope this was speculative enough I’ve not spoiled anything for show only watchers. If you are -and don’t want to be spoiled- don’t look into the tags

#3 body problem #three body problem #big space to keep the spoilers hidden. #Big space begins—————————— ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— & ends #I hope that works on desktop… #tbf I could have missed something #This mighta been covered somewhere I don’t know much about the fourth book #It’s implied they do eventually settle elsewhere or somehow survive by series end if I understand correctly #But when that happened is less clear #or how it came about (again 4th book aside) #Feel free to correct me with any spoilers. I do t care personally. I want to know!!!

[bookish-karina]

in preparation for posting my WIP on AO3, I've been working on designing some cover art (though I'm not even sure if you can put a cover on AO3?? if not i guess the cover art will be more of a vibe lol)

here's a working summary for Your Average Fangirl:

Maeve can't help but wonder, how old is too old to be obsessed with a music artist? Last year, she won a concert ticket and meet and greet with Jace Alexander, aka jxce. Before this, she had no idea who he was or what music he wrote. Little did she know that one concert would change her life for the better.

Jace's music came to her when she was in one of her darkest times, and he pulled her out of it with the opening chorus of his title track, glowing silence. In person? He's everything she wasn't expecting. Sweet, kind, and genuinely down to earth, it didn't take much for her to be wrapped around his finger.

When he goes on tour less than a year later, she's bound and determined to make it to as many shows as possible, even if it only ends up being three. She buys two meet and greets and can't believe it when he recognizes her immediately.

Little does she know, she's all he can think about - and the only one that can pull him out of a rough place.

#writers on tumblr #writing #writer community #novel writing #writer problems #writing community #writers of tumblr #writers block #writeblr #ya romance #young adult #he falls first #rockstar trope #mental health representation #cover #cover art #book cover #ao3 #ao3 writer #wip #writing inspiration #music #slow burn

[t2rmin]

(Potential Spoilers)

The cover for The Dark Forest (Liu Cixin) translation into Indonesian goes so unbelievably hard, like it seems cool out of context but after reading, it only invokes the deepest level of terror and horror.

#the dark forest #three body problem #book cover #remembrance of earth's past

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

so what if harrison met a guy at ANOTHER party who sees him for who he is & makes him confront his internal demons <3

The man steps forward. Harrison recoils even though no one has touched him. Some partygoers have entered the kitchen now, all congregating around the punch bowl like he had been. The bang of music from outside follows them as they chatter and the noise is like an ice pick to the brain, and Harrison wants to tell them all to leave, Harrison wants to bolt from this city, Harrison wants to be someone else’s son for a day just to see if that might fix him.

“Who shamed you?” asks the man.

Harrison inhales, aware he feels like a deer just about to be shot. He glances at the others here with them—their golf ball eyes, their pearl necklaces, then eyes the door. He can’t look at the man again. If wisdom is a weapon, Harrison’s a prey animal, so gullible, death a requirement of his life.

The man opens his mouth again.

Harrison runs.

yeah i'm awful for this <3

#harrison physically running away from his problems is a mood tho it's giving prince charmont ella enchanted 2004 #WHICH REMINDS ME THAT HE COULD CANONICALLY FUCKING WATCH THAT MOVIE AND SEE HUGH DANCY AND GO SPIDER-MAN POINTING MEME #anyway I DID NOT HAVE THIS SCENE IN THE CARDS IT CAME OUTTA NOWHERE LOL #wrote 2100 words today??? WHICH IS INSANE FOR BB #he's giving BABY #WHO SHAMED YOU????? #I want y'all to know that yes this is abt his father #& abt him being outcasted in high school #BUT ALSO #about Lonan #(SUBTEXTUALLY) #think I just found the emotional core of this book and shattered it #so much for a man in “shameless excess” YIKES VEIL IS PUNCTURED BABE RUN FOR COVER #or in his case go run to another man to see if that'll fix ur problem and obviously it doesn't and then ruin ur relationship with jeremiah #thumbs up #ben affleck smoking.jpg #bodyback