#industry hearts

[inkskinned]

you have to go to work so you can pay for your doctor, who is not taking your insurance right now, and if you say i can't afford the doctor's you are told - get a better job. it is very sad that you are unwell, yes, but maybe you should have thought about that before not having a better job.

(where is the better job? who is giving out these better jobs? you are sick, you are hurting - how the hell are you supposed to be well enough for this better job?)

but you go to the doctor because you had the nerve to be hurt or sick or whatever else. and they tell you that it is because you have anxiety. you try your best. you are a self-advocate. you've done the reading (which sometimes pisses them off worse, honestly). you say it is actually adding to my anxiety, it is effecting my quality of life. so they say that you are fat. they say that all young people have this happen to them, isn't it a medical marvel! they say that you should eat more vegetables. they say that you probably just need to lose a little more weight, and that you are faking it for attention.

(what attention could this doctor possibly give? what validation? that's their fucking job, isn't it?)

there is always a hypochondriac, right. someone always tells you about a hypochondriac. or someone who is unnecessarily aggressive during the worst days of their life. or someone looking "for a quick fix". or some idiot who wasn't educated about how to properly care for themselves who just abandons their treatment. and again, the hypochondriac, the overly-cautious hysteric. these people don't deserve to be treated like humans (right), and since you might be one of these people, you also don't get treated like a human. because those people can really fuck with the system, you now have to pay for it. and besides. you're actually probably faking it.

(more often than not, you find a 2:1 ratio of these stories. for every "hypochondriac", there are 2 people who knew something was wrong, and yet nobody could fucking find it. the story often ends with pointless suffering. the story often ends with and now it's too late, and it's going to kill me.)

you are actually just making excuses. someone else got that procedure or that diagnosis and he's fine, you should be fine too. someone else said they watched a documentary about other inspirational people with your exact same condition, maybe you should be inspirational, too. you're just too morbid. your pain and your experience is probably just not statistically concerning. it is all self-reported anyway, and you're just being a baby.

(once, while sitting down in the middle of making coffee, you had the sudden, horrible thought - i could kill myself to make the pain stop. you had to call your best friend after that. had to pet your dog. had to cry about it in the shower. you won't, but that moment - god, fuck. the pain just goes on and on.)

you know someone who went in for routine surgery and said i still feel everything. they told her to just relax. it took her kicking and screaming before they figured out she wasn't lying - the anesthetic drip hadn't been working. you know someone who went in for severe migraines who was told drink water and lose weight. you know someone who was actively bleeding out and throwing up in the ER and was told you're just having a bad period.

in the ER there are always these little posters saying things like "don't wait! get checked today!" and you think about how often you do wait. how often the days spool out. you once waited a full week before seeing the doctor for what you thought was a sprained wrist. it had actually been broken - they had to rebreak it to set it.

but you go into the doctor. the problem you're having is immediate. the person behind the counter frowns and says we're not taking your insurance. you will be paying for this out-of-pocket.

they send you home with tylenol and a little health packet about weight loss or anxiety or attention deficit. on the front it has your birthday and diagnosis. you think about crying, and the words swim. it might as well say go fuck yourself. it might as well say you're a fucking idiot. it might as well say light your money on fire and lie down in it. and the entire fucking time - the problem persists.

it's okay. it's okay, it's just another thing, you think. it's just another thing i have to learn to live with.

#spilled ink #warm up #can you tell what i'm mad about today specifically #i will say that there are a LOT of things that go into this. like a lot. this is ungendered and unspecific for a reason #it isn't just sexism. it's also racism. and ableism. and honestly classism. #and before a healthcare professional reads this as a personal attack: i understand ur burnt out #we are ALSO burnt out. your situation is also dire. this is not an attack on you. #this is a commentary on the incredible amounts of bigotry that lie at the heart of capitalism #where people have to pay money out of pocket to be told to fuck off. #your job is important. so is our humanity. and if you cannot accept that people are fucking mad as hell #at the industry - you are probably not listening . #anyway at some point im gonna write a piece about sexism specifically in medical shit #but i don't want terfs clowning in it bc they can't understand nuance #> it is true that ppl w/a uterus are more likely to experience medical malpractice & dismissal globally #> it is also true that trans people experience an equally fucked up and bad time in the medical field #> great news! the medical industrial complex is an equal opportunity life ruiner :) #(if you find it necessary to go into a debate about biology while discussing medical malpractice #i want to warn you that you're misunderstanding the issue. because guess what. #cis MEN might experience this. particularly black men. particularly disabled men. #so YES having a uterus can lead to more trouble for you. but this happens a LOT. #instead of fighting those ALSO experiencing your pain.... try working WITH them. #which btw. is like. actual feminism.)

[shrimpricebowl]

oh thank god

#art from a while back #i played hk first and deepnest was like. the most uncomfortable ive ever been playing the game #mainly because its just so DARK #as for rw... when i got to shaded...... what the actual Hell #i eventually got used to just dying in the dark and exploring the first parts of the region but like. Why is it pitch black #i didnt even realize there was a path to the scav merchant at the first room..... i got to memory crypts before finding it in my next run #hollow knight #rain world #hk ghost #rw slugcat #rw survivor #artatat #?!?@?@?@?@ the alt text got removed for a sec Sorry about that im not sure why or how that happened #also im completely aware deepnest without a lantern is much darker but atleast it isnt pitch black. You know #i also wanna add on the fact i entered deepnest after the mantis lords and thought. “what kind of winning gift is this!?!?!?” #and felt like cornifer for the first couple of minutes LOL #but i had nowhere to go so womp womp :P #to clarify: i dont hate shaded its actually my top route to go from industrial to shoreline #but i hate deepnest with all my heart❤️ godbless #reading the rbs here is so fun.... so true guys

[elodieunderglass]

#swan comics #a swan in a santa hat #🦢 #I thought about posting this in response to someone #but that would be a bit too much I think #no harm done #least said soonest mended #but this is a conversation I have in my home as well so #perhaps we need a visual shorthand #where the FUCK is my CUP #this is the response to a) kids not putting their socks on but coming downstairs dressed as crocodiles #b) spouse mishearing something but gallantly giving an opinion on it that was so in depth I didn’t have the heart to interrupt #and c) someone explaining to me about the discworld reading order #on a post about the saddening lack of risk-taking and support for creators in the content-gatekeeping industry #none of those are crimes not even the socks #I can strongly understand the Considerations that beset and bedazzle you when you go to put socks on and how the best response is to put on #a fuzzy crocodile onesie #but it’s not what I asked. #like this is a good response to a different thing #please recall the input here - the assignment if you will - was about socks. I love what you’ve done here though #good contribution. you know what we’re keeping it. love it. #just don’t present it as if the original incident report can be marked closed now okay? #do not close the support ticket #the support ticket remains unanswered. #no I completely agree. the outfit DOES need green face paint too. a topic we can add to the queue when oddly enough you have socks on

[otlwoozi]

MAMA 2024 ALBUM DAESANG - FML

#seventeen #art #my KIDS. my hearts. 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶 #i lost track of how many of them i drew multiple times so i had to do tally marks on a sketch layer #8 years after their first mama award seventeen is the DARLING of the industry this is all ive ever wanted for them #idols of idols #had a long talk w my friend abt the direction of kpop and not many groups still feel like classic idols they just feel like a group of ppl #svt has never let me down on that front bringing emotions n connecting is so sososo integral to their mission #and its through music but its also through ground level activities n styaing in touch w their core fans n eo #amidst the globalization of kpop SEVENTEEN STANDS STRONG AS IDOLS #ok sorry for tag rant #u have to endure it if u want to see my art

[piplupcola]

Writers trying to convince Disney execs not to cancel Nimona, Owl House, and many other IPs:

It's almost laughable how ironic this scene is with what a dumpster fire Wish turned out to be

#honestly this scene goes on and the more it goes the more it's literally the pot calling th kettle black its hilarious #please dont watch this movie #the rat doesnt deserve your time #wish #disney wish #nimona #owl house #thankfully Nimona was able to be salvaged after Disney closed down Blue Sky #but sadly many other IPs arent that lucky #imagine an idea or story you made that you put your heart into only for disney to sweet talk you into a movie deal then steal your idea #lock it in their vault and never let you see it #talk about it or make anything from the idea ever again #this happens in game studios too *AHEM*EA*AHEM*ALICEMCGEE*AHEM* #it's incredibly sad and a lot of creatives lesve the industry because of things like this #animation industry #disney #animation

[drrav3nb]

It's all in the past now. Everything is in the past now. You will have to face what you must eventually. You cannot always hide under the wings of your family.

#the rebel princess #monarch industry #cdrama #cdramaedit #chinese drama #cdramasource #cdramagifs #asiandramasource #asiandramaedit #asiandramanet #zhou yiwei #zhang ziyi #xiao qi x awu #xiao qi #wang xuan #awu #rewatching this show and omg these two own my heart fr #this scene will forever be everything to meeeeeee

[soupy-sez]

“You can have my isolation. You can have the hate that it brings. You can have my absence of faith. You can have my everything

You tear down my reason. It's your sex I can smell. You make me perfect. Help me become somebody else.”

↚ Nine Inch Nails – Closer ↛ x

#nine inch nails #trent reznor #musicians #bands #music videos #music video #musicgifs #musicedit #90s #industrial music #closer #my gifs #gifs #gifset #90s music #music #soupy's #nin #this isnt the first time ive gotten a beating out of body heart gif to sync it is in fact the second time #lemme tell you it is very easy and satisfying

[389]

Viktor Bezic

#installation #industrial design #design #sound #speaker #system #sound sys #electra heart #u

[demonsandbullets]

Ok more touching grass. I’m blocking people because I don’t intend to belabour this point with newbie activists but this is for the rest of you, for future reference.

We are all typing on phones and computers that are directly complicit in the genocide in the Congo. On an internet funded and infiltrated by US and Israeli spyware. Your lack of “silence” on either matter doesn’t erase your complicity.

When you mature your politic, you will come to realise that the true wickedness of this system is we are all put in ethical gridlocks and stalemates, which make doing the 100% pure thing, dangerous.

If you can get on here and not get fired for saying Free Palestine, especially anonymously, or under the cover of a lack of major influence, understand that is a privilege EARNED for you by generations of activists, who learned how to manage the risk of taking on this system by using nuance.

You think a man that marched against the Iraq War is complicit in this genocide because he is, IN YOUR DEFINITION, “silent” on it?

This is what I mean about a) controlling other people’s behaviour, and b) creating a false dichotomy of action that is antithetical to how the very system works. “Silence” was never meant to be a colloquial term when used with “complicity” - it is a systemic term. The silence of those with institutional power is complicity. Not miss ma’am at the coffee shop.

And THIS IS WHERE I REMIND YOU ONCE AGAIN - “celebrities” are Gig workers in an industry primarily funded and run by religious conservatives. Just because the industry says they’re liberals, doesn’t mean they are.

Movements work on consistency, and there are many ways to act. Demanding one way of action, and not providing any institutional power to back that demand other than “your disappointment” is reckless. This is not the stuff of movements that last. How are you planning to potentially support performers who’ve spoken on behalf of Palestinians, when all this is over and you’re back to drinking Starbucks? Will you care? Will you, once again, use your “lack of silence” (only one part of activism) to proclaim that you want to support them, or will you have tangible means to do so? I fucking doubt it. We don’t, even collectively, currently rival the support structure of the entertainment industry, that is run by religious conservatives - anyone that speaks out, is calculating their risk against their action.

Allow people to do their own fucking math, and if they haven’t been openly and brazenly fucking Zionist on main, give them the fucking benefit of the doubt. That’s what the adults/seasoned activists are doing. We have to see through the liberation of everyone, and that doesn’t happen by burning through everyone’s support systems at once.

This ain’t dick riding. This is me telling you to stop centering your “disappointment” on the internet, and keeping score about things that only move the needle by increments. This man, and his words, and your “disappointment” in him, in this moment, DOES NOT MATTER TO THE CAUSE. AT ALL. Get on the fucking phone and out on the streets like the rest of us. There are lives at stake and his part of his math, so he still has a voice to use in the long term, does not affect you at all if you’re truly here for the systemic change.

Tldr; His voice would be nice, but not at the cost of having his voice in the future. You dig?

#Pedro pascal #motherfucker. #Sarah Paulson broke my fucking heart. Beyond belief I was furious. #But he has other friends. Most of which signed the ceasefire letter #You know while YOURE at it #why don’t YOU do some math #Perhaps starting with thinking about how that HBO deal might be structured #And who at HBO and across the industry at large stands to benefit from adapting a video game that’s fucking based on the Israeli Project #Let.people.do.their.math #We’re aiming for long term change here. #You don’t think they want the first Latino man to be nominated for an Emmy in a decade the fuck outta here? #You must be new and I’ll do my best to hold space for you

[dreamings-free]

The West Lothian band's new label venture Happy Artist Records seeks to do away with punishing demands for musicians to "milk fans" and make endless TikTok videos. As they return with a new song – and a Reading & Leeds appearance – the band tell NME why now was the time for change.

By Tilly Foulkes 23rd August 2023

Emerging from West Lothian back in 2015, The Snuts were set to be guitar music’s freshest triumph from the beginning. A string of successful singles and their self-produced EP ‘The Matador’ caught the eyes of major label Parlophone (The Beatles, Lily Allen, Babyshambles), who signed them in 2018. After two releases – both rated 4-stars by NME – they decided to walk away and form their own label: Happy Artist Records.

“When we got signed, we were young, and the landscape of music was completely different,” bassist Callum Wilson explains to NME ahead of their sold-out homecoming shows in Glasgow’s SWG3. Joined by vocalist and guitarist Jack Cochrane, they tell us of the pressure they were under to adapt their marketing strategies to gain success.

“The way the label worked was that they had a marketing team, a digital team… they had all these people to help you to get your music out there. Then as TikTok started to rise, all these things got stripped away from us.”

TikTok – and the demands that comes with maintaining a profile there – is a recurring issue artists have confronted since the app’s boom in popularity.

“Your life needs to be marketed, basically, and we were struggling with that for a while,” Wilson continues. “We went to a meeting to talk about [our upcoming] record and we got promptly told that the music doesn’t matter. It was strictly a TikTok planning session. Which is quite hard as an artist, when you put so much into what you’ve created… and [then] it needs to get stripped down to a one minute sound bite for a social media platform that, chances are, is gonna die in ten years.”

please read the full article at nme.com

I'll add the full text here later..

#super interesting interview! #the music industry is fucked up tho.. #i hate tiktok with my whole entire heart #the snuts #interview #music industry #record labels #parlophone records #nme #23.08.23 #article #louis’ music recs #industry pals #link #m

[halogalopaghost]

Really extra tired of black and white thinking around COVID like can you guys activate your brain and understand that lockdown was NECESSARY to prevent massive economic and social breakdown that would have been induced by our entire population getting infected at once before we figured out how to treat it

Not to mention the whole "young people didn't need to worry about dying they shouldn't have been locked down what about their social lives!!11!!!"

Hi. Hello. I am a youth that was disabled by COVID how are you doing today. Oh, you're not disabled by COVID? Cool shut the fuck up forever.

#not this book talking about seven papers between 2003 and 2014 being a 'wealth of information' and 'entire catalogue of research' #you aren't a scientist are you sweetie #less than a paper a year on a subject and you're claiming we should have been setting aside everything to treat sars cov 2 patients based on #that alone???? #sweetie #BUT OUR FREEDOMS!!! #but sweetie the medical complex #BUT THEIR SOCIAL LIVES!! #but dear my ability to walk and regulate my heart beat at the same time #I'm bitter I'm so so bitter #these were hard choices made by pros and cons and risk management #was staying home for a while really worse than the entire medical industry imploding even worse than it already did #and yes by complaining about the government MAKING you stay home you are in fact proving that you wouldn't have otherwise #ffs

[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

[madame-mongoose]

crying screaming throwing up sobbing

#AND A SMILE IN YOUR HEART #HES SO ADORABLE???? #GAH #i want to put him in an industrial mixer #marvin the martian

[spotsupstuff]

If haboob got a new puppet in the off the string au would she make it sand proof? (No gaps around joints for sand to get stuck in)

excuse her, her puppet is just a touchy subject. the structure is the one with the sand problem, the puppet is more than fine

#spot says stuff #rw #oc tag #to the no heart part → reminder that Gen 3s have Way way less organic tissue in them than the other generations #and are meant to be skeletal/unnatural because of bigger industrialization of things at large. puppets arent that important for- #-interaction later on so they are gettin smaller and more hostile looking. since they rarely use their legs the question of if the spine- #-can hold up the torso is kinda redundant. but they also have 'belly padding' in the clothes that helps with the support im thinkin now 🤔 #Haboob's puppet upgrade journey made her even less organic. she isnt even covered in modified Ancient skin anymore #she doesnt count Hivemind members as organics too btw so to her fleshies are Neat but you keep all that organ business to urself #fuckin... haboob with clothes on → baby!!!! my babyyyy!! | haboob without clothes on → this machine could kill me and honestly might.

[ja3hwa]

I JUST SAW GYEOMMIES INSTA POST AND EXCUSE ME BUT MR SONG FUCKING MINGI WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!!

#my multi fandom heart is screaming!! #got7 x ateez collab when? #the fact svt nct and icon were there too! #simon dominic and gray and LOCO!!! #im gonna cry #all my favs in one room together #gyeomie really knows the whole fucking rap/kpop industry doesnt he #atz #ateez #got7 #svt #nct #ikon #btob

[public-trans-it]

I'm already know for being very opinionated and having some Hot Takes, but I still usually keep it in line and fairly reasonable. Typical "Unpopular (but still somewhat safe to voice) Opinion" territory, where I might get some blocks and some scowls, but like, nothing major.

However I'm... gonna be posting an uncharacteristically rancid take this time.

I cannot fucking STAND vibes based design. Its become a trend lately to explain game systems by vibes, and it feels EXACTLY like the tropification of romance novels. A thing so many other people have complained about far more than I have, where so many works of fiction are now just being advertise as "Its a queer little slow burn, found family story that features enemies to lovers" OKAY, BUT WHATS THE FUCKING BOOK ABOUT?

And I feel like over the past 15-20 years, the TTRPG industry has been having the exact same issue. I can go through dozens of listings on itch.io for indie games and not see a single fucking game mechanic mentioned, and its frustrating. "This game is about gathering your friends to turn your local farm into a sustainable commune!" WHAT KIND OF FUCKING DICE DOES THE GAME USE? DOES THE GAME EVEN HAVE A GM?

And like, this isn't just about the feel good warm and fuzzy games. OSR is JUST as fucking guilty in this. "This game is a black metal death crawl through your worst nightmares." IS IT A RETROCLONE? IS IT A RULES LITE D6 SYSTEM? HOW THE FUCK DO I RESOLVE AN ACTION? DO ENEMIES USE STATBLOCKS?

If a video game showed absolutely no gameplay in any of its advertisements, only showing concept trailers and cutscenes and talking about its plot, you would probably shy away and think the game isn't worth playing if it can't even stand on the merits of its own gameplay. So why the fuck are we accepting that as the norm in TTRPGs?

#special shout out to Avery Alder #Avery I fucking love your games #The Quiet Year is one of my favorite games ever #its pretty much my go-to for any campaign of any kind to give players control over the worldbuilding pre-session 0 #BOB is so well designed and such a rad way to handle diceless/GM-less design #and I ABSOLUTE understand the need for queer designers like us to carve out a space and stand our ground #in a hobby that has historically housed people who want people like us dead in a ditch #but the idea that BOB can only support inherently queer/marginalized stories is ABSURD #and the way every BOB game advertises itself/is listed on your site makes me want to tear my skin off #please #you designed a game #AN INCREDIBLE ONE at that! #please please let it stand on the merits of its own design instead of just the vibe its built for #I was about to post this on my game design blog... #but I really dont have the heart to do that. This isn't actually about game design and the industry its just... personal frustration #and the fact that the thing that makes me autistic about games to the point to where I have spent like 25 years studying them #is just... no longer even the main focus it feels like