#industrial remains

[pharawee]

Looks like things are so dire with the production company behind My Ride and The Whisperer (K10/Fix Entertainment) that My Ride's author Pat Rangsimant officially distanced himself from any of the company's potential mismanagement and/or contractual breaches. The rights for the My Ride sequel remain with him (I vaguely remember there was talks of filming the sequel).

Here's the full tweet (auto-)translated into English:

Announcement Repeated Once Again As the author of the novel "My Ride", I, Pat, would like to clarify that I have no involvement and no knowledge regarding the case where K10 Global Content company did not fulfill the hiring contract, merchandise sales contract, and any other contracts. My latest encounter with K10 Global was during the closing ceremony of the "My Ride" show at Show DC, and it was only on stage. After that, there was no further communication. Furthermore, the issue of the rights to produce the series "My Ride" Season 2 has never been discussed before. Therefore, if there are sponsors, investors, or any production houses who have discussed this matter with the aforementioned company, please be informed that the production company has never negotiated this matter with me, and the rights to the novel remain with me. This is to inform everyone. Rangsimant

Yikes.

So basically what he's saying is that he has no involvement or even awareness of any of the company's potential mismanagement but there must be some pretty serious rumours floating around for him to address things so directly.

Do I even want to watch The Whisperer finale at this point? 🤨

#bl industry #thai bl #the whisperer the series #my ride the series #i let this speak for itself #funnily enough google translate was extremely unhelpful and grossly mistranslated some of the tweet #i triple checked with other auto-translation tools #but pls treat this translation with a grain of salt #replies suggest that k10 remains silent on the issue and that actors have been complaining as well

[rythyme]

ok the director of Thame - Po: Heart That Skips A Beat is Mui Aticha Tanthanawigrai, who was one of three screenwriters for Girl From Nowhere, a screenwriter / director on F4 Thailand, AND the lead screenwriter and director for The Shipper. a super interesting track record!!

honestly if anyone was going to try to make a more serious boy band bl romance show, i'm glad it's her

#thame po #gmmtv 2024 #heart that skips a beat #i've said it before but i think the shipper is a chronically misunderstood show #i REALLY loved the style and the screenwriting in girl from nowhere #and like it or not f4 thailand was one of the most popular thai shows ever #this woman knows what she's doing #and she's uniquely qualified to (potentially) handle a queer idol industry romance in a nuanced and interesting way #will she? that remains to be seen. but honestly i'm a lot more interested than i was initially now that i know she's directing it

[blinkpen]

grumbles

what if portfolio day but its as slick and professional looking an image every given non-coward artist can muster of a character they made or have worked on saying "ceasefire now" or "they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor" and clogging the tag to total uselessness with it

#limited edition ambiguously sarcastic vent posts i know i'd get eviscerated for posting on twitter itself lmao #'this would keep me from getting hired' only by people who want you to be quiet and remain complicit about genocide #almost like any industry that puts you in that position should be burned to the ground or something #they're already trying to replace us more and more with fucking AI they don't have to pay or get backtalk from #megacorps have no loyalty to you why do you burn your morals to ashes to remain loyal to them #(-as i gently cup your face with my reassuring and also jewish hands- it is not antisemitic to say war crimes. are war crimes.) #(human lives will always be more important than arbitrary fucking lines in the dirt of this earth on which we were all meant to walk freely

[emphasisonthehomo]

More funeral home drama in Colorado.

#aron's opinonion #death industry #mostly cremated remains by the look of it

[lokisasylum]

Imagine BTS in the future giving the same speech of: "there are different ways of cheating, but i hope people would try to make music in more honest ways"

When one of the members accepted & received all the payola the "industry" has to offer, full IN YOUR FACE Chart Manipulation when it didn't make the numbers it was "supposed to" in order to surpass someone like Taylor Swift in the first 24hrs and SO MANY remixes of the SAME English song that it charts as a "full album". (how many vers are there now? 20? )

How are they gonna come up with another CYPHER to satirize the industry and shade capitalism, when one of them fronted in a vlive how much money the company was going to spend on his debut, while doing dynamic pricing for his own concerts, all while giving the middle finger on stage and singing about anti-capitalism.

#and the stocks keep plummeting #but that's none of my business #that is the vodka infused tea bitches #they'll be the laughing stock of the kpop industry forever #they should just disband and remain as solo artists atp

[sunmisbf]

woodz is always going to be kind of a flop bc he’s always doing his own thang n the kpop industry hates that

#sunmi holds herself back bc she wants to remain popular in the industry n i understand that #but i think seungyoun doesn’t care like he’s going into the studio to do what he wants to do. as he should! #he will always be at the top of the charts in my room #.txt

[mumblesplash]

never do i feel more like a conservative uncle performatively ordering black coffee at starbucks than when i’m meandering around the pharmacy/skincare section of target trying to find soap that you can use on your face. where is the Regular Soap. the closest thing i can find contains imported volcanic ash from africa i’m just going to stick with splashing water on my face and calling it a night

#what is HAPPENING in the face soap industry #i’ve been on this skincare wikipedia spiral lately and i feel like i know less now than i did when i started #my ‘L+ratio’ list of holistic self care tips remains unchanged by this deep dive #mumbling

[beautifulpersonpeach]

I don't call myself army, just a music fan, like to follow grown up fans of kpop and other groups and honestly up until now I thought your characterization of kpop fans and multis behavior to BTS was very one-sided and overblown. But now I'd like to offer you an apology Bpp. I keep up with a bunch of kpop podcasts run by kpop fans and black women and I follow this 30+ black woman whose whole shtick is being in kpop for vibes, not engaging in fanwars and overall being above the gross behavior from immature racist armys. So imagine my horror when I open my Twitter today and the first thing I see is this:

https://twitter.com/SideShowShit/status/1647483768423464961?s=20

My heart is so heavy and burdened by this I don't even know where to start bpp. Just last week I saw a Shinee/taemin/multi fan say the hate against Jimin should 'show give those armys a taste of what they do' when Jimin has been the target of overwhelming hate from the same shinee fans since his debut. I'm thinking to just leave kpop completely because this kind of brain rot in adults over nothing makes me depressed as fuck. I sympathize more with armys now more than ever. I love Jimin and don't want to stop actively following him. How do you deal with all this hate? Seriously how do you do it?

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Hi Anon,

Your link.

Abridged answer: "I got no worries because you can't stop me lovin' myself" - reference linked here. :)

Long-form answer:

Like I've said before, if you've managed to make your way to the podcast side of k-pop stan environments you already have my condolences lmao. I won't state the exact reasons for that here but you're already experiencing a few of those reasons it seems.

That user is actually familiar to me - she's a black woman who works in the US entertainment industry, Hollywood to be exact, in a semi-administrative role. That person is a Blink who runs in the same circles as Ash - a k-pop writer/podcaster and multi in the US; Carrie - an Exol and Shawol in Toronto who writes K-drama/film reviews; Tamar - a Jewish Blink and multi who is a k-pop journalist; and a bunch of other k-pop writers, journalists, DJs, and otherwise 'grown-ups in k-pop' who can't seem to speak even in a neutral capacity about BTS, let alone ARMY, despite many of them deriving their livelihoods from the spread of k-pop in the West spearheaded in a large part by BTS. It's partly why ARMYs are extremely skeptical of k-pop journalism because oftentimes these content creators, journalists or reviewers are just stans of other groups with barely concealed animus for BTS. And also why the quality of critical conversations in k-pop fandom is so poor. I mean, how can you trust the opinion of an adult Black woman who should intimately know the implications of racism, calling Jimin, Oli London, unprovoked? It's all so comical but also kinda tragic lol.

You sent me this ask just as I was publishing this post so perhaps you hadn't yet seen what I've said about the dominant behaviours of k-pop stans in fandom.

I understand how painful it is to see things like that but I suggest you ignore them, report and block the account if it bothers you that much, but otherwise focus on celebrating Jimin and the things you love about him. I keep saying that hate does nothing but create more of the same. Many of the people who belong to rival fandoms, especially the fandoms that have a history of being abusive to BTS and ARMY since as far back as 2014, including fans of Shinee, EXO, Beast, Super Junior, and since 2018, BlackPink, many of the people in those fandoms default to hating anything connected to BTS, and it fascinates me even now how it's like a social contagion.

If seeing opinions like that really distress you, it's okay to step back from k-pop completely. In fact I recommend it for people who tend to get really emotionally connected to the artists they support, because none of those people are going to learn to do better, and chances are you could begin mirroring their behaviour if you get too attached. I'm friends with many people from those fandoms because they've known me since before I became ARMY, they know what I think, value, and tolerate, and they share the same values as me. But a few of those friends have been sort of 'excommunicated' from their fandoms because they refuse to engage in the hate towards BTS, and this happens far more often than you think.

I write as much as I do about this topic because I get it. Nobody wants to see shit like that. But at the same time, those sentiments towards Jimin and BTS have always existed and Jimin is still happy, thriving, more concerned with knowing what his fans think about his music, so if he's the reason you're here, then focus on him.

For me it's really that simple.

#Juwon Park too used to run in their circles since she's a VIP who doesn't like BTS and ARMY #That was until she said something anti-black and they realized she had very limited access to the industry anyway #You'll see these sorts of characters from time to time the longer you spend time outside ARMY spaces #If that bothers you then I strongly hope you detach from k-pop completely because it will only get worse the longer BTS remains on top #kpop #kpop fandom #multis #bts army #fandom behaviour #fandom behavior #bts #jimin #park jimin

[draconscious]

bit late to the party on this one, but...

Clair is strong like a professional athlete at the top of their game (sharp, disciplined, jacked.)

Eris/Jupiter is strong like a madcap genius frantically trying to discover/hoard everything before time runs out (manipulative, insatiable, diabolical.)

Neither of these active muses are the most skilled trainers (even though Clair's dragons can duel with the best) but they are terrifyingly strong in other ways. A shared trait between them (and all of my muses, tbh) is that they may lose, but they always dust themselves off and rise again. They never relax or take a single grain of time for granted, gazes always fixed firmly upon their goals.

They will never, ever give up.

#dragon dashviewing #(dans brand of muses: nihilism is super lame. go out scrapping and leave your mark!!) #('professional athlete' remains the main source of inspo for clair. masks and hunger for eris.) #(clair will crush heads. eris will use her industry connections to wipe your rep off the map.)

[age-of-moonknight]

Which website do you use for MK comics?

( i am desperate for content)

To track when Moon Knight pops up in a comic, I usually use the Marvel Wiki's "appearances" section. As for where I read the comics, well, uh.....hrrrng

Okay so the thing is, I always use Marvel Unlimited or buy the comic itself whenever possible; ....however, when it comes to issues that are a bit harder to come by, I have been known to use certain websites that can be found by typing something akin to "Moon Knight [insert desired volume number and/or issue number] read online" into Google's search bar. The viewing experience of these sites is also greatly enhanced by a strong firewall and an even stronger ad blocker. ...and then I try to find another comic to buy to compensate. To use similar language to when I got a similar ask almost a year ago: sorry I can’t give you a more direct or ethically upright response, but that sort of "open-source of questionable legitimacy" is usually my last ditch strategy for finding an issue. Access to such sites unfortunately also tends to vary depending upon where you are in the world, so I wouldn't want to hand out a link that's DOA (or worse potentially harmful maybe???) for someone else. Sorry again about this indirectness, but I sincerely wish you well in your comic reading journey and thanks for shooting an ask my way!

#Knight Mail #I hope this very uuuuuh roundabout response is at least of some use to you! #and now I have to go take a good long look in the mirror to consider how I would /ever/ navigate a polygraph interview #considering how fast and loose I play with copyright law #(if Marvel's lawyers don't SWAT me first) #remember all: support the comic book industry whenever and however you can! #(since I got that similar ask last year my guilt + fear of alphabet agencies finding this blog remain almost entirely unchanged hahahaha) #the Frenchie panel is from Moon Knight Vol. 1/1980 no. 1 btw

[miamicommune]

"no man it totally has different connotations to the american one that popularised it in the uk it's totally not the same. police here are different bro we promise. anyways here's an article about how it's fucked up that the Met downed tools in solidarity with an officer who murdered an unarmed black man in london."

#so fucking tired of the narrative about the british police as somehow better than other police #'the british police are the best in the world; i don't believe any of the stories ive heard' remains a relevant lyric #person who wrote the article mentions that they were a cop in the past so u see this coming but. still. #also insane to me that it's being framed as an industrial protest. it's a fucking tantrum. #they're not negotiating they're angry that they're being held accountable for being horrible fucking people. #cw police brutality

[bunneis]

i see a lot of artists escaping twitter listing discord servers as alternatives and honestly that just spells disaster

doesnt matter how organized and civil you try to keep it, it just seems like a disaster waiting to happen

#this fucking sucks man for artists everywhere #instagram: heard the algorithm was cruel. deviantart: past its prime. even tumblr i wouldnt call ‘artist friendly’ #mastodon: getting started might be the next new thing but moderation rules sound suspicious #this new thing called hive is mobile only and since its so new its not very safe regarding your personal info #itaku is also a new thing and who knows may also be the next big artist website #pillowfort hasnt had a lot of growth #no worst time for being an artist #not only for sharing artwork but also for getting in the industry #like it or not companoes were there and it made it easy for artists to be noticed #what remains? portfolio websites? #i mean it will get worse #but at one point things have to get better….. right? #and discord servers are not gonna make things better #s.txt

[touhoutunes]

Title: Izanagi Industry

Arrangement: 紅い流星

Album: 東方爆音ジャズ16 虹

Circle: 東京アクティブNEETs

Original: The Obsolescent Industrial Remains, Ore from the Age of the Gods

#touhou #misumaru tamatsukuri #ore from the age of the gods #The Obsolescent Industrial Remains #unconnected marketeers #東京アクティブNEETs #tokyo active NEETS #東方爆音ジャズ16 虹 #紅い流星 #紅維流星 #蒼井刹那 #ショボン #山石本薫 #ヒロコマン

[coffinsister]

Love seeing the constant Doja cat meltdowns because she very much intentionally caused this all to herself she made herself famous on purpose and she made part of her brand to be chronically online what exactly did she think was gonna happen

#like with some ccs i get it because they weren't intentionally aiming to get viral and famous they were just people online #but Doja cat literally dropped out of school hung around music industry involved people would spend all day literally all day making music #in Instagram lives where she would involve the people watching her her then fans into her content creation #she literally called her growth a very natural thing because it was if you make content online all day people are bound to find it and watc #plus her stuff that went viral also went viral in waves from smaller to bigger #and in all of that she chose to remain chronically online so all the people who always had access to her still have it like girl what #soleil shut up

[smp-live]

if anyone wants some good (?) news, I have pretty much all but officially decided to switch my major to medical physics (and from there I'll probably specialize in cancer treatment)! I want to keep my options open until I literally can't anymore (just in case) but today one of my profs was explaining how radiotherapy works (and how it's a new field with only two clinics in Canada so there is a need for people doing it) and it really clicked as like.. yes I want to do this. in a way that nothing else really has yet

wait edit I was distracted when I wrote this: there are many types of radiotherapy and many clinics in Canada, but there are only two of the method described in the tags

#personal #cancer tw #basically instead of operating to remove the cancerous tumor which exposes it to oxygen and causes any remaining bits to reproduce faster #they aim a proton accelerator at it so that the particles release all of their energy right where it is and kills the cells #which is SICK and has so much room for optimization and improvement #like. I've pretty much decided against astrophysics at this point and I don't wanna work in industry really #and academia is an INSANE workload so I'm not sure if I'm cut out for it #but being an oncologist...... yeah

[blue-kyber]

I'm looking for another job at a different restaurant.

In one application, they ask why I left my current job (which I haven't. I'm still there until I can get another job).

This is what I wanted to say:

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I was forced to sign a warning accepting responsibility for something I didn't do. I was told - and I quote, "I'm sorry, but your best isn't good enough." I'd worked there for two years without an issue like this. They said accepting responsibility for something I didn't do builds characters. Which it doesn't. I've done that all my life, and all it did was harm my mental health and turn me into a doormat once others found out I wouldn't fight back out of fear and hypersensitivity. Then they said I was lucky they didn't take the mistake out of my paycheck - which they are not allowed to do by law and had no right to threaten me with that in order to gaslight me think they were doing me a favor. I know my rights. I saw right through it. They also tried to gaslight me into believe I was the one at fault. I refused. That only angered me more, and them, since their attempts failed. I couldn't leave that table until I signed it despite pleading my case. I am a sensitive person with RSD (rejections sensitivity dysphoria), so I had difficulty arguing my case due to my history of being a whipping boy, and my effort going into staying strong. I cried later, and felt raw and beaten for the next few days.

This is 100% not the first time this has ever happened. Yet I get up, and keep going like nothing happened. They know I am an ADHD autistic person. They know I work my hardest at giving my customers a good experience while facing more problems than a neurotypical person. They know I am managing it through medication and CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy). I always get my work done with little to no accommodation (like taking a few minutes from sensory overload, or having understanding that some things are just harder for me to process. What they did do was let me keep my silent fidget toy, and agreed to letting me work 4 days instead of 5 so I have time to recover for the next week.) Battling an overload, burnout, or shutdown, or all-of-thee-above simultaneously and still mask takes a large amount of energy. But I still do my job with a smile and give my best customer service. Both of what I struggle with daily are state recognized disabilities. I can support myself, but it's harder for me. It's very energy draining to constantly mask, which is why I can only work 4 days a week - by my doctor's recommendation to help avoid burnout and meltdowns/shutdowns. To be told "Your best isn't good enough" invalidates the hard work and effort I put in to doing my job. It shows me that they don't care. Someone's best changes from day to day. I am a firm believer that there's always room to learn and grow, and take opportunities to go above and beyond to give my customers a good experience. What that warning and statement said to me is that they don't believe I understand these concepts. Being ADHD and autistic doesn't automatically make me an idiot with no ability to reason or conceptualize. I can't work for someone willing to throw away my two years of accomplishments in favor of one customer having an issue that they aggressively blamed on me to avoid admitting they were wrong. Since it's my word against the customer's, and my employer believes in the outdated and incorrect 'the customer is always right' rule, I - an employee they know and trust, with no record of delinquency, who has never lied about what happens at work, and admits when I did make a mistake, and works to avoid repeating that mistake - was forced to take the fall without an iota of understanding.

I am not a problem employee. I actively avoid causing drama. That negativity literally hurts me. If someone else is getting reprimanded in front of me, I feel it. I stay away from it. I work to keep the environment either neutral or positive.

I was punished by way of having my tables limited to 4 for 3 weeks, two 5 hour shifts switched out for 3 hour shifts, and one 6 hour shift switch to a 3 hour shift. In the 6 hour-turned-3-hour, I was taken off server duty and delegated to handle to-go orders. (they gave me 2 tables, which my coworker tries to seat people at, but you know customers - they will sit wherever they want). All of these changes heavily affected my finances, and now I'm struggling just to make rent. As of last week, they began alternating sections for the servers. I won't be surprised if they say they'd always done that, and I'd been assigned to one section that whole time. Before this incident, my coworker and I swapped off every other table to make it as fair as possible, and would offer tables if the other was lacking. Immediately after I had to take the fall, I was confined to one section. I wasn't even allowed to help my coworker when they had to handle two busy sections on their own - which was not only unfair to me, but unfair to them, and the customers. They got a frantic server while I had 4 tables, and all I could do to help was run food, make drinks, and get supplies ready so my coworker wouldn't have to take extra time for that.

If they had written me up and left it at that, I'd be mad about being wrongly accused, but I would have eventually let it go. A coworker said this happens to other servers there, too - it happened to them - and to just accept it. And I would have had they not added on that punishment. Adding that punishment is what pushed me to look for new work. It's very sad, because I honestly do enjoy working there. I love the crew, the food is delicious, and the customers are cool. I love my regulars. But I can't work for a company that forces their employees to take the blame for something they didn't do, and sabotages their employees' income as a punishment.

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It may be a little long winded. But hey, they asked. And my neurodivergent ass gave them the exact reason.

#service industry #restaurant work #server #work problems #life #ADHD #autism #hardships in the workplace #What do you guys think? Too much? How can I condense it to remain concise #and still give the full picture. #See what I mean when I say it's hard for me to write short stories? :)