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Cruel choices #137: you must consume one - and only one - of the following pieces of media.

1. Sailor Moon retold in the style of a 19th Century Russian philosophical novel.

2. The Brothers Karamazov retold in the style of a magical girl anime.

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People talk about the surprise albums from people like Taylor Swift or Beyoncé that drop with zero warning but I have just been existing in this world where every album I've ever heard in my life has been a surprise album because I didn't know that musicians had schedules that we could see

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floating duck 🍑⁣

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battlebard

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Posting his portrait as a standalone because he makes me want to explode

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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.

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Ok but like. What the fuck is there to do on the internet anymore?

Idk when I was younger, you could just go and go and find exciting new websites full of whatever cool things you wanted to explore. An overabundance of ways to occupy your time online.

Now, it’s just… Social media. That’s it. Social media and news sites. And I’m tired of social media and I’m tired of the news.

Am I just like completely inept at finding new things or has the internet just fallen apart that much with the problems of SEO and web 3.0 turning everything into a same-site prison?

#the Real Internet #with Things and Stuff #super save!!

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woops

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Another one. the last one, don't worry I'll get back to the normal stuff

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-the Isle of the Ancestors-

What if, when a Cardinal is designated to be the next Papa, he first had to go through a kind of ceremony, a test to judge whether he is worthy of his predecessors?

I've taken this painting, the Isle of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin, as the basis for a papal sanctuary. I imagine that once the Cardinal has passed through the gate in the middle of the cypress trees, he finds himself somewhere outside time and space, where he can face the entire Emeritus line.

On this ageless side, it looks like the painting by Beksiński, with giant statufied mummies personifying each of the papas in an orange-yellow atmosphere.

As for what's going on there? Perhaps it's an opportunity for introspection for the Cardinal candidate, or a dialogue with these illustrious figures. It's a mystery.

If he is judged worthy, the Cardinal will return ready to take up his new duties, if not… who knows…

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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Illustrated by Ronald Balfour London Constable and Company Limited 1920 - New Edition 1930 unpaginated - 38 finely printed tipped in plates in colour and black & white, the monochrome plates very much echo the manner of Aubrey Beardsley

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I am once again thinking about digging holes

It's so fucked up that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification

I hate that so much discourse into fighting climate change is talking about bioenginerring a special kind of seaweed that removes microplastics or whatever other venture-capital-viable startup idea when we have known for forever about shit like digging crescent shaped holes to catch rainwater and turning barren land hospitable

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I drew the gang,

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Thinking about the werewolf from the hate mail Lemgo council pharmacist David Welman (1595 - 1669) got after being accused of being a werewolf

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