#(read: I don't get paid at all)

[royalarchivist]

I say this in the kindest way possible, but I think this style of prose is more appropriate for a personal account rather than an update account. I have no idea who's being talked about half the time. 🥲

[ Tumblr meme via @mikaikaika ]

#QSMP #Philza #Edited #Phil #Let me know if this needs an additional tag #I don't think this necessitates a discourse or neg tag or whatever because I'm being silly but I'm happy to add one if folks need it #I won't post this one on Twitter I don't think because I genuinely don't want to hurt anyone's feelings #but. I feel very strongly about this. It's not helpful #I say this as a fan and as a professional writer (who also worked in the Marketing and Communications field for far too long) #The prose is nice! It's very whimsical and they're having fun! But I don't think it's appropriate for an updates account #I recently turned off notifications for QsmpEN and I'm considering muting them because half the updates just aren't helpful to me #I want to be able to speed read through the update thread I don't want to spend an additional 30 seconds trying to decipher who's who #I don't like posting complaints so I tried to make it a funny complaint #because I do think feedback is good! And I know I'm not the only one who feels this way #but at the same time: these update writers ARE volunteers #(As a side note -- I personally think anyone running a large social media account should be paid) #(I did that for a few years and it was hell. I can't imagine doing that and NOT getting paid for it) #But anyways #They're all volunteers so I don't actually wanna go all pitchforks and torches on them (which I wouldn't do anyways even if they WERE paid) #I'm just venting my frustrations in what is (hopefully) a funny way #but you're welcome to disagree! That's ok too #Portfolio

[kingofthering]

I'll never be against an athlete choosing the job with the higher salary (hello, tons of regular people do that every day, I might do it myself one day if offered the chance) but I'll be honest, when the lesser offer is still a 7 numbers figure, I'm not going to think that that offer is a bad one.

#yes this is about fabio and deep down yes I understand his choice and no I don't think this is about just the money #of course it's also about pride (factory seat) and staying with the team he's won with and that he considers family #I get that!!! #and yes motogp riders should be paid more when you compare them with other racing series #but I think it's a little out of touch to not consider a salary in millions (besides all the brands deal) something already huge #esp when some moto2/moto3 riders have to PAY for their seat #and I don't even want to know about what's in wsbk riders' contracts #and I'm not saying this only about motorsport #the base contract for an nhl player is like 800k or something #even if he just plays 4th line/3rd pairing minutes #yes they can get injured and out of job in a snap of fingers #and I have read so many stories about former athletes going broke because they can't manage their money #(and yes sure maintaining a high lifestyle cost more and they spend more money but be real with me we're still talking millions here)

[heftbyjapanesebreakfast]

barns and noble haul yippee🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️

#girls when they get paid hehe #honestly i just want to read more so i picked out these books bc they stood out to me #and i recognized the names of the authors but i honestly don't know much about them #m #this was all gonna be like more than $70 #but i saw this girl who i used to do musical theater with and she gave me her employee discount #and i onky paid $40 😇😇 #so i told her the next time she wants coffee it's on me #bringing back the barter system

[feykrorovaan]

"I don't like that character because their actor/VA is a piece of garb-"

Me:"Shhh the character and the actor are not the same person. They haven't done the same things, nor do they hold the same views. Your argument is invalid. Shhh."

#feykrorovaan #elder scrolls #elder scrolls online #eso #skyrim #dragon age inquisition #tes #dragon age #Just because an actor is a horrible human being doesn't mean their character that never did anything to deserve the hate should be hated on #and just because a character is a terrible being doesn't mean their actor that never did anything to deserve the hate should be hated on or #blamed for the things they were paid to read/act out #that the character did #unless it's one of those rare cases where the actor is playing themselves then by all means dislike them #All I am saying is learn to separate the actor from their craft #I get not wanting to support an actor/character for what they've done #but don't try to tell someone they shouldn't like a character because their actor is trash #I'm also tired of hearing about actors that seem nice being bullied off of social media/out of acting because of the hate they get for their #character. They're human beings with feelings #I'm not saying that you have to like a character #just don't have THAT be the reason for you disliking them #Find an actual reason #Be nice humans

[trimmedarmor]

doing the equivalent of gripping something intensely hard then forcing myself to let it go every time i see something about the stupid fandom drama i got pulled into earlier this year

#nothing bad ppl just... bringing up its existence...AGAIN...... #every time i see it i wanna go on a rant for a billion years but the worst place to do that would be on tumblr #I rly don't wanna see anyone talking abt it unless it's to criticize the ppl who started the false accusations or to apologize to us #for the harassment #Buster: You Really Think Someone Would Do That? Just Go On the Internet and Tell Lies? #anyway I cant believe ive had the misfortune of interacting w some1 who has to b vindictive toward others to quell their own insecurity #to accuse us of racism because he wasn't allowed to be in a personal friends discord group... #and then saying that we didn't wanna let him in bc he wasn't a 'popular' account? 1. he has way more followers than some ppl in the server #hence why he was able to get so many ppl to attack us #2. he can't keep his own story straight. First we're racist then we're ableist then we gatekeep popularity? #Dude... we don't like you because you're vindictive and take minor slights way too personally...hence...everything that fucking happened #anyway idk who reported him but i thank them for it and i hope that was worth their account getting suspended for getting paid to harass us #to anyone outside of all this reading this mess... please question the validity of ppls accounts if they don't offer concrete proof #and the only proof is based on assuming that certain actions COULD POSSIBLY line up to the accusations #this includes if multiple people have the same accusation without proof because that's EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED #except it was dumber because several of their accusations literally contradicted themselves #wowww people apologized and informed their audience about possible microagressions once they were informed. they MUST be racist! #and if you don't want to dig into it that deep..then by all means mind your own damn business before you join in on someone else's witchhun

[no-mercy-bby]

I kind of just want to drop out of college and crochet and write books and

#get married (i don't have a boyfriend) #and have kids (i am not in a relationship or stable enough for a family) #i kinda wanna sell crochet stuff but it takes me like a month to make any and everything #plus i suck at reading and understanding patterns #and all ik is single crochet and double crochet and even then i think i do them wrong as well #Tunisian stitch is fun but i don't have a hook long enough and it hurts my hand #idk if it was just my sinuses and lack of sleep but ive felt so bad all day #and my back hurts cause i sit like a shrimp and don't know how to stand i guess #im so tired. genuinely. #and my mouth is fucked up again with sores because of stress and biting at my own lips #and its so lonely being in college #which is kinda funny cause i have more people i would actually consider as friends than ever #but i kinda just feel like im *there* #and i have a million projects to do but i played fortnite with my sis and her husband and my brother instead #and my dad taught my sis and i to play solitaire #and then i beat them both at black jack (it was actually a tie of how many matches i won but shhh) #and i know im blessed that im basically getting paid to go to college by my college but #it just doesn't feel right. like it feels isolating and lonely #and i have gone to some events btw they are not that great

[ditch-lily]

just a little sad noises post which may get deleted but

i'm in wanting to trying to but can't really write moment. and it ssucks cause I wanna! but also im just soooo tired. work is a lot (more markets, more creative deadlines) so having a weekend where i can do nothing and not create is so valuable yet here i am beating myself up about it lol. anyway idk why i feel so upset and guilty abt this? but welp . im just really exhausted and near tears over it

#tomorrow i slide into a 7 day work week #ending in a 2 day convention #then i get like one (1) day off before i have to hit the decks runnning again and its all oh i make my own schedule i can take breaks?? #but if the work doesn't get done #if the art/product isn't done by the deadlines i don't have that art/product later down the line and i don't get paid #so yeah today i have beaten myself up about not writing a bunch of times but lol i need to be kinder #so instead i made this post and writing it out im like yes actually #its fine if you wanna girl lay down and read fic all day #so thats what im gonna do #sorry this is a mini emotional moment TM i will probably delete #just needed to get out the stress

[kawuli]

you know it occured to me, as I wrote that last post, that one of the very BEST things about my current job as a bicycle assembler/warehouse ops person is that I have never, not once, had to navigate the various websites of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

#mo vs the fao #also i don't get work emails #like. at all #well i get schedules every 2 weeks and notifications that I've been paid #but my schedule doesn't change week to week and direct deposit is a thing so I don't have to actually READ work emails

[firebirdsdaughter]

Looking back at your Ask box…

… And realising you have Asks going back at least two years…

Which is a good thing bc I just accidentally found out someone blocked me that I think I only interacted w/ them all of once and I'm not sure why but I might know why and now I feel bad, and…

… Yeah. I'll. Uh. I'll go think about the Asks, maybe.

#Firebird Randomness #there's no real point in pursuing the other thing #I'm guessing it was my 01 melt down think I pushed a lot of people away w/ that one #I was twenty five and it was Covid and I was not in a great place emotionally #in it's own way 01 kept me going but damn did I get emotional about it #I still have pretty much the same opinions although I think I could explain them better now #I'm not stuck living w/ my parents I'm not in one of my most formative ages stuck in a global pandemic #I am constantly exhausted and burned out from work and thinking about going on meds again #I still have executive dysfunction and my social skills are subpar #I care to much and get worked up #I still have anxiety and depression #but I'm almost thirty (twenty nine end of this month!) I'm in a better living spot and I get paid okay #I still have weight and image problems and no motivation #but I don't have scurvy #gotta do my taxes #all in all… Doing okay #I still love Horobi and Fuwa w/ my whole heart #test for whoever reads the tags: who wants to see my merch/display wall??? #it's covered in dust and has some Hakuouki and DMC stuff on it as well but I still think it's cool!

[reverend-meat]

I hate fandom drama but:

*Starts fandom drama*

Just saw someone very popular in a fandom that I'm in post this big huge rant about how no one is characterizing their fave character "correctly" in fanfic? And how its clear "Nobody who writes him has played his spinoff game!"

Its like

chill out.

It's fanfiction. Literally the nerdiest fucking thing worldwide. It is so 100% such a completely unserious way to spend our time?

We are all literally grown ass adults playing makebelieve with our favorite characters. We are smashing these fictional characters around like Barbies and making them do dumb stuff for our own amusement.

ITS FINE.

ITS LITERALLY FINE.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO CHARACTERIZE SOMEONE "PERFECTLY".God, you don't even have to write "good" fanfiction? You can literally just write total dogshit and post it and so long as it makes you happy thats fine??

Write bad fanfiction. Write dumb takes. Mischaracterize someone for fun. Make them do dumb shit they wouldn't do in canon. Write 100k words about two characters in different timelines doing shit that is literally impossible in canon. ITS FINE. LITERALLY NO ONE AT ALL IS BEING INJURED BY YOU WRITING MAKE BELIEVE SHIT.

ITS ALL FINE.

YOU'RE NOT BEING PAID TO DO THIS WHY WOULD YOU LISTEN TO SOMEONES SOUR ASS TAKE?? Especially on something you decided to dedicate your own time and effort to and post for free?? Radical self love is the future babes.

#JUST BE NORMAL #we are all in our thirties GO DO YOUR TAXES JESUS #sits back down and bangs on my keyboard like a chimp #not to be all “don't like don't read” but #it really is true #if a story someone writes bothers you that much #simply close your eyes and read something else #you are not paid to interact with anyone else in a space #nor is there any reward for interacting with their works besides the gift of reading something someone else wrote #the privilege of seeing something someone else drew #it is a privilege to get to read the fruits of someone elses efforts #and I think we need to understand that more #and appreciate that for what it is #i am privileged to get to read the stuff my friends write/draw #its is a lovely GIFT of dedication and time that I appreciate very much #and the idea that someone could sit down and consume that and read something that took a significant amount of effort and time #and then decide that it personally offends them not bc of the content but bc of some internal metric of what is “right” about #a little guy who just literally does not exist? #just does not sit right with me

[moonlit-tulip]

One inconvenient side effect of my state of being somewhat allergic to most fan-translated light novels (for "the prose tends to be Deeply Awkward, probably because all the translators who reach the level of doing Actual Good Prose get scooped up by the official translation-licensing companies?" reasons) is that it makes it difficult and vaguely nerve-wracking to interact with the Monogatari fandom.

Because, like... there are two whole seasons of the series which exist only in fan-translation, not in official translation! And the fandom has, very reasonably, gone and, like, read the books comprising those seasons. But I haven't, and don't expect that to change for a pretty long time! And thus, despite being a big fan of the series, I can't really safely interact with the fandom, for fear of spoilers.

Eventually, this will be fixed one way or another, either by the remaining novels getting official translations (...after the manga translations finish? I hope? Although my hope is somewhat weaker than it would have been a few years ago, given the context where the Zaregoto and Pretty Boy Detective Club translations both seem to have stopped too despite not involving the same translators) or by my learning enough Japanese to read the remaining books in the original or by my figuring out some way to increase my tolerance for light novel fan-translations.

Hopefully one of these will happen before I run into Major Spoilers, rather than only after.

#Archive #Monogatari #The Evils Of Taste #i'm much more allergic to fan-translated light novels than to fan-translated anime/manga/visual novels/etc. #i'm not 100% certain about why but i suspect it's about... those all have visual components and 2/3 also have audio for good measure? #so weakness-of-prose ends up being much less conspicuous? the prose is much less of a primary lens through which i view them? #something to that effect #(this is especially interesting because... sometimes fan-translated japanese prose *genuinely impresses* me?) #(nasu kinoko's prose as presented through his various visual novels' fan-translations is among my favorite prose i've encountered anywhere) #((far moreso than as presented through the mahoyo official translation in fact)) #(i plan to incorporate its influence into my own prose in a pretty big way as i learn to get better at prose-writing myself) #(and yet i'm not sure it would have worked for me at all if i'd been reading it in pure text rather than in vn-format!) #(maybe it would? maybe vn fan-translators just have a higher skill-ceiling before getting scooped up for paid work?) #(but i don't actually *expect* so) #(so overall i haven't really untangled what's going on exactly with my issues here)

[iminlovewithpercyjackson]

my mom called me earlier and she was asking how I am and like I'm fine I'm just kinda bored and I don't like my classes but tbh makes sense bc I don't like school

and she was like oh really bc like I loved college and it was so fun and she went on and on and then she was like hm I wonder if I romanticize it a little

like yes I think you do lol

#now i also need to take into account that she's extroverted and had lots of friends and met my dad #meanwhile i spent 8 hours on my couch reading last weekend and it was blissful except that i'm 1000 miles away from my bf and best friends #so like... different experiences #but i just genuinely don't get when people say college was the best time of their lives #like i'd much rather work bc i don't have to do homework and i get paid #idk maybe it's just that i'm a freshman but like this is not at all living up to the hype

[maniacalmole]

WOO this new GO fanfic has a production value off the CHARTS!

#good omens #this is not a complaint at all however I do expect some of my fandom friends to get paid their royalties! #this is a joke Ngeil please don't sass me <3 #with a budget this big the whole thing is ALMOST as beautiful as it always is when I read the fics and imagine them <3 #and that's saying something

[vulpinesaint]

sorry for talking about the fact that i work with kids so much. i spend several hours every weekday with children and do not do much else except come on here and talk so you can imagine how it is a significant part of my life and personality by now

#morning and afternoon shift combos too... #three hours with the kids in the morning. go home. come BACK for four more hours with the kids... #childcare sandwich. my day consumed and overrun by children on all sides #it's this and the reading and writing and sometimes the music i don't have much else going on 😭 #valentine notes #anyway if you did not know. i work for a before and after school care program for elementary schoolers #and!!!! as a summer camp counselor!!! now that summer's coming back around!!!!!!! #which i'm so excited for. lowkey highkey going to kill myself a little bit if i have to spend Any more time with the people i work with now #kids are fine i literally get paid to deal with them. HATE the majority of these adults though #i need to be reunited with the staff at the other location with whom i am all friends... #cruelly torn away from my summer camp counselor beach volleyball buddies every day of the school year #to work with the shitty people they send over here. heartbreaking #anyway

[not-poignant]

What is Tradewinds?

Tradewinds was an original Fae Tales novel set in the canonical universe, that has been shelved due to me not being able to find Aboriginal Australian sensitivity readers who were happy to read gay male/male sex scenes.

It was based on a separate cast and set in Australia and Malaysia, with their series being part of the 'MerchantVerse.' Basically how merchants trade, who they trade with, and the stronger Seelie and Unseelie divide among fae.

The story features Matan, a Malay Seelie peacock pheasant shifter and master merchant specialising in selling batik, needing to find a cure for an Unseelie curse placed on his cousin. To go on the journey necessary to get information, he pretends to be Unseelie, and joins an Unseelie merchant caravan of birds of prey (almost all raptor shifters are Unseelie). There, he meets Udir, a Romansh bearded vulture/lammergeier shifter who is frequently down on his luck, and has worked as an assassin in the past.

Udir finds out Matan is actually Seelie, and then blackmails him into sex, thinking that he's being clever, only to not realise that Matan's very clever too.

And then it was basically about Matan and Udir falling in love, Matan going on an Eran-like journey of learning to understand that the difference between Seelie and Unseelie isn't as black and white as he thought, and finding the cure for his cousin, and learning about trading in Australia with his Unseelie merchant friends, while dealing with a pretty awful villain in the meantime.

It's very found family.

I really like the story, and I think with a little reworking, the novel would be super strong. However there's literally only one white main character, and everyone else is either Maori or Aboriginal Australian or Malay etc. so while I was able to get some of the sensitivity reading done, some of it I couldn't get done (and I lost money in the process, because one person said they would sensitivity read for me, asked for a $150 deposit about 7 years ago, and then took it and never talked to me again, which was frankly very demoralising and depressing, because like, as a disabled, chronically ill person with cancer, I kind of needed that money too, lmao).

So...the book is pretty much permanently shelved. I did share some chapters on Patreon under a redundant tier (which would now be the $10+ tier, but I need to edit those posts to reflect that). And everyone who's ever read it thinks I should publish it. I just...don't feel comfortable with that given I'm writing Indigenous side characters.

Sula did a really lovely sketch of Matan though:

#tradewinds #asks and answers #fae tales verse #fae tales #matan #udir #merchantverse #it kind of kills me that it's shelved but like #i also don't trust upfront payments anymore re: sensitivity readers #which is frustrating because i believe they should get paid half upfront to secure the commitment #but for all of the 'authors flake on us' rhetoric i've heard #even as a sensitivity reader myself #i had my money stolen #and that was not a small amount of money to have stolen #so it's also just kind of too depressing to go back into #it will be forever shelved #idk maybe glen will put it up posthumously or something #i have considered also posting it on AO3 because i feel like #it not being sensitivity read on at least some aspects #wouldn't matter as much there #but anyway it's complicated

[spite-and-waffles]

"But it's not like that in canon at all!" ok but have you considered I. Don't. Care

#it's necessary to have people who can check things against canon and to call out flanderized and one-dimensional fanon portrayals #but sometimes fanon interpretations are more fun for people and their quality entirely subjective #also it's COMICS. It's all fanfiction! Just licensed to a company who pay some mediocre white men to write it #people who haven't picked up a back issue about the character they're writing even if they're literally paid to do it #Sometimes this accidentally ends up making the story and character multi-faceted. Other times it's just a constant butchering #We all have the same right to do whatever we want with our characters #there's no 'right way' to portray anyone. There's just good storytelling and bad storytelling #canon matters when you're doing META #That's where fanon is annoying as all fuck because you need to show your work #And even then bad faith readings exist. Which is different from simply interpreting things differently #meta discourse is supposed to be fun too #Not a game of one-upping each other and behaving like this is a PhD program #where you don't get to have an opinion if you haven't read everything ever #that one popular fandom blog got in my teeth so much because she was not just checking fanon against canon #but imposing her interpretation on everyone like it was fact too #I really think too much canon just makes you lose perspective about yourself #We aren't all here for the same things and that's quite alright #Also those with white queer brainrot seem to think that stanning the correct blorbo is activism #anyway if your main aim in reading comics is to dunk on other people's headcanons I suggest you get a life #It's high-key hilarious if antis reblog this. Absolutely no sense of irony in that lot #DCU #DC comics #Batfamily #Bat meta #DC meta #canon #fanon #fandom discourse #spite waffle