windows 10 is garbage so every time i boot up the computer i have to run command prompt and enter

net.exe stop “Windows Search”

so that the shitty goddamned search/cortana feature that i never fucking use stops running in the background taking up all my fucking disk space

Bothering the beast

i didn't reblog the post but I do agree that the terminology for zines has gotten completely twisted.

ON THE OTHER HAND I don't think that selling them for say 20$ (which is what i sell my sketchbooks for) is unreasonable or unfair to still call a zine. I need to cover my costs of printing and the time I put into putting them together. yeah I can TECHNICALLY get a printer and print them myself but with the cost of printer ink and the lack of space its easier for me to just pay for someone to do it professionally but I'm also NOT making them at like....the HIGHEST QUALITY, LIBRARY BOUND, HARD COVER, IT COMES WITH A THOUSAND DOO DADS AND GIFTS. its just sketchbooks ofpreviously existing doodles and a few new sketches or sketches that I had before and colored in. Its essentially like selling a full print but in carryable size with some notes from me.

Its a zine but I call it a sketchbook because the idea of zines has changed for a lot of consumers. Thats not their fault bc those zines or anthologies DID start out in the "lets make a big ol book together because we are all horny for Reigen" kind of thing. A lot of times they're projects made from passion. I HAVE noticed that there's been a turn in the whole process of making them that both stresses out artists, requires kickstarters, and all sorts of shit that should be considered Artbooks. ARTBOOKS have always been on the higher end of things. There's nothing wrong with considering an anthology thats proper bound, and for a certain amount on a kickstarter you get extra things like stickers, charms, whatever.

But zines SHOULD go back to being simple little things. The cost to buy them shouldn't be lost UNLESS the artist wants it to be. If you print at home or using a schools printer and just print a bunch of cute little zines yourself then that should also exist and you can set your price point for whatever you want.

Its all semantics and personal preference at the end of the day but I do think that...yknow it wouldn't hurt if we could start calling the big project 50$ range books that often get run into the ground from bad leadership (or fun stuff like the organizer of the thing runs off with the money to play genshin) ...something other than zine. Like Artbook or Anthology. Or even Collection lol

Zine should be a small thing that you collect for fun and doesn't require a committee, a new discord channel, and a contract to make sure your organizer doesn't run off to play gacha (I'm sorry it still makes me laugh)

ALSO another thing about zines is that often times they were originally made to be alternatives to really closed minded book sellers. Like...its where a lot of the OG star trek fanfic/porn came from. Its a place to have your ideas put down. To explore narratives. Essentially Doujinshi can also be considered A TYPE of zine in that it literally means self published (not NECCESSARILY that its...yknow...bl or waifu porn lol Sometimes its just manga that artists put out before they can get published)

But lately there are a lot of zine projects (again...more actually like anthologies or art collections) that are REALLY REALLY closed minded even when the subject is SHIPPING.

So even the nature of CREATING the zines has changed a lot.

So yeah I agree with that post that I forgot to reblog. My only REAL gripe is that it doesn't mean that you should undercharge your work because you didn't print your zine at home or hand craft it like a youtube diy video. I did enough of that at art school I am not gonna bind a book or try to cut pages ever again if i don't have to lmao. CSP even has a zine preview so I can see the pages in 3d as if they were bound before printing lol

YAKUZA 0 (2015) dev. Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio

The entire time I'm like

I could just be playing honkai or zelda

LMAO I was playing genshin this morning and I got into a battle that made me

so

mad

that I deleted the game off my phone lol

And then I spent the rest of the day ranting about it. I LIVE A LONE

I'M JUST RANTING TO MYSELF.

Sees a piece of media has SungWon Cho in it: It's prozd! my friend prozd! we went to tumblr posts together

Morning exercises for the gang;

They're so cute.

- Still Ryoko Kui's art -

Angel Sanctuary Artworks Illustrated By: Kaori Yuki (2004-2007)

i had the art book for ages but i never really read the story but the art was INFLUENTIAL on baby lydia

anyway in other news i started reading angel sanctuary and wow what a trip

its so funny bc i was thinking this recently about metal. I listened to a LOT of visual kei but like specifically dir en grey when i was a teen and I was a VERY ANGRY teen. I HATED high school the second i got there. But I also just genuinely liked metal music. But it sorta faded as I got older and now I'm like lol

I think I'm too old to listen to it too often or too stressed and tired bc that fun youthful aggression turned into Please I just wanna lie down and listen to some cute anime opening songs.

but baby metal still absolutely rules and dir en grey still fucking kills it.

unrelated i said "taco bell is a young mans game" and I laughed really hard at how much of a dad joke that was that came out of my goddamn mouth

if I forgot your favorite subgenre or misclassified a band feel free to argue in the replies 👍

I've been getting a few weird comments in old marvel fanart posts that I don't think are actually all that bad or intended at me but they just make me uncomfortable and I kinda wanna delete my old marvel art because of it.

I won't but like....maybe art might be new to you but its old to me and sometimes I see it and go oh....what an old drawing and then underneath is some weird comment and I just feel awkward about it