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[byelacey]

he’s innocent, your honour

#great pyrenees #mac #dog

[byelacey]

Oh.

To call WT's actions "antics" would be reducing the severity of what they're doing to creators. This is unacceptable behavior and it should be all the more reason for creators to start exploring other career paths outside of WT. For years they've been meticulously crafting an environment where people believe that WT is the only path to success, where WT controls the degree of success creators can achieve, from the manipulation of the promotional system to the lack of tagging and proper search functions on the app. Now that they've boiled the frog to this point, they're cashing out by flooding the platform with cheap imports, implementing AI tools, and of course, trying to use their contracts as a way to trap creators and keep them from owning their own IP's and maximizing on their own success.

I said it before and I'll say it again - Webtoons is planning to go public with their IPO this summer, so it would be a real shame if creators spoke up about the underhanded tactics used by WT to keep them from finding success in their own works. At the very least, it should serve as a reminder to all of us that companies like these can't amass billions without exploiting people along the way.

We can't even use "they're creating jobs for comic creators" as a reason to want to see WT succeed in spite of their flaws anymore because they're literally ruining people's careers, cutting them off before they've even started. That's not the platform being "flawed", that's the platform and the system it's built on being broken, full stop.

[byelacey]

it's happeniiing 👀 page 14 of ONCE BITTEN is up! come get your vampire smoochin comic!

#lies within #webcomic #once bitten #vampire #monster love

[byelacey]

LIES WITHIN chapter 10 cover is up 🩸 lieswithincomic.com

patrons got a sneak peek at this in WIP form; consider joining for $1 and seeing more posts like these! thank you!

[byelacey]

LIES WITHIN chapter 10 cover is up 🩸 lieswithincomic.com

patrons got a sneak peek at this in WIP form; consider joining for $1 and seeing more posts like these! thank you!

#lies within comic #lies within #webcomic #lysander #blood #gore

[byelacey]

mlem mlem mlem mlem

[byelacey]

mlem mlem mlem mlem

#important announcement #dog #great pyrenees

[byelacey]

LIES WITHIN has updated on tapas & webtoon! [content warning for depiction of domestic abuse] 🩸 READ ON TAPAS 🩸 READ ON WEBTOON

thanks for your support & make sure to subscribe so you never miss an update!

[byelacey]

happy pride & remember: there is no such thing as a heterosexual vampire

(also there are t-shirts now! 👀)

[byelacey]

LIES WITHIN has updated on tapas & webtoon! [content warning for depiction of domestic abuse] 🩸 READ ON TAPAS 🩸 READ ON WEBTOON

thanks for your support & make sure to subscribe so you never miss an update!

#lies within #webcomic #webtoon #tapas #webcomic update

[byelacey]

here he is sniping “my” spot on the couch (ownership of spot contested) and side eyeing me for daring to say anything about it

great pyrenees are so fucking awesome theyre just big. if i didnt think that owning one was a supremely bad idea for me in particular id get one. i just think itd become my boss or something. im too lazy for a working breed truly

#sarcastic dog

[byelacey]

Cursed Queens, werewolves, vampires, mermaids, old gods, demons, witches, odd marriages & undead of all sorts… Sink your teeth in these comics filled with supernatural enemies... or lovers!

😈MONSTER MARCH😈 is coming to an end. But these creature features will keep you company until next time.

⚔️Harpy Gee by @briannedrouhard 🩸 Lies Within by @byelacey 💜Barbarous by @aidosaur + @ananthhirsh 👿Bybloemen by @bybloemencomic 🐸Hemlock @mildtarantula 🐯tigertigercomic.com @leppu 🐺howtobeawerewolf.com @shawnlenore

For werewolf fans, here is a reminder that How to be a Werewolf Book 1 is available on our store!

The webcomics Alice and the Nightmare and Fantomestein, included in the image above, are also notable for their unique twists on literary villains. Fantomestein mixes Frankenstein’s monster and the Phantom of the Opera into a singular, unnaturally tall, tortured composer, while Alice features a autocratic Red Queen scarred by an ancient curse.

A nod to Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, is a fitting end to Monster March!

[byelacey]

Which rocket dudes?

cliff and arlo from team GO rocket haha

#asks #darquingdragon

[byelacey]

mark my words when i find time to sit down at computer and draw something that isn’t lies within i’m drawing those rocket dudes smoochin

#lacey says stuff

[byelacey]

i’ve been playing a lot of pokémon go lately and while i haven’t touched the fandom i just think these two should [redacted]

thanks for ur time

#pokemon go #team rocket #leader cliff #leader arlo

[byelacey]

this small & angry man wants u to know that LIES WITHIN updated & you can read page 352 HERE!!!!

🩸 start from the beginning 🩸 support me on patreon

[byelacey]

In your view/experience. is the rate of "incompleteness" among webcomics more or less the nature of online personal projects as a whole? Or is there something specific to webcomics like laboriousness, audience expectations, relative medium infancy or whatnot?

well for one thing webcomics has changed significantly in the last ten years. it used to have a much lower barrier for entry, just get a smackjeeves account or set up a website with a wordpress plugin. starting a webcomic when i started my webcomic vs starting a webcomic now are totally different experiences.

so i can only speak to people who started their webcomics roughly ten years ago. and roughly ten years ago a lot of us were a whole lot younger with a lot more time and energy to spend on a comic for free. this part is probably still somewhat true for new artists.

but then you get older. your ideas change. your skill develops and the old stuff isn't as good. or you don't have as much time, you got a day job. unless you're one of like five people on earth your webcomic is not paying your rent. you need to make money. your shoulder hurts. you're 30 now. you're struggling to make updates on time between whatever else makes you happy and what else you need to do to live. you wrote this story when you were 21, you don't relate to it anymore, you have different ideas, you've grown up, your audience has noticeably dropped off from the peak, social media managing is hard, you have to go to work, you're so tired, all the time.

it's a lot of things.

#long post #YEA #we are the weird little mammals post extinction event #we are still around #and i joined the scene so late #2017 #and yet the platforms did not eat me #i’m doing great #there is hope