After 146 days, the Writer's Strike has ended with a resounding success. Throughout constant attempts by the studios to threaten, gaslight, and otherwise divide the WGA, union members stood strong and kept fast in their demands. The result is a historic win guaranteeing not only pay increases and residual guarantees, but some of the first serious restrictions on the use of AI in a major industry.
This win is going to have a ripple effect not only throughout Hollywood but in all industries threatened by AI and wage reduction. Studio executives tried to insist that job replacement through AI is inevitable and wage increases for staff members is not financially viable. By refusing to give in for almost five long months, the writer's showed all of the US and frankly the world that that isn't true.
Organizing works. Unions work. Collective barging is how we bring about a better future for ourselves and the next generation, and the WGA proved that today. Congratulations, Writer's Guild of America. #WGAstrong!!!
Ayy fanart! And of Lackadaisy's Mordecai Heller no less! :)
Like my Property of Hate fanart, I am looong overdue for expressing my love for this comic! I found it in high school years back and I cannot understate the influence this comic had on me. I remember saving every character art and tutorial that Tracy J. Butler would post and it taught me so much about art. And in light of Lackadaisy's spectacular pilot coming out on youtube, I finally feel like I have the skills to express my appreciation towards this comic. :)
I am so proud of Lackadaisy and everyone that worked on the short film!! If you have seen it or read the comic, please go check it out!!
"Alexander isn't superstitious, per se, but he IS a believer in his own bad luck. After all, if you see rain clouds, you learn to expect rain..."
Ay! Haven't posted on my main blog in a second, mainly because I haven't drawn in a second. :Y
I'm trying to get used to drawing Alexander again, and for some reason I ended up drawing a modern version of him? Guess I wasn't feeling very Victorian today (still couldn't resist a fancy coat though)
my boy Alexander can be found at my webtoon Door of Despondence, please consider checking it out!
"Alexander isn't superstitious, per se, but he IS a believer in his own bad luck. After all, if you see rain clouds, you learn to expect rain..."
Ay! Haven't posted on my main blog in a second, mainly because I haven't drawn in a second. :Y
I'm trying to get used to drawing Alexander again, and for some reason I ended up drawing a modern version of him? Guess I wasn't feeling very Victorian today (still couldn't resist a fancy coat though)
my boy Alexander can be found at my webtoon Door of Despondence, please consider checking it out!
This really started over a year ago, with a project started in the Renegade Bindery server: people would format different chapters of My Immortal, without knowing what anyone else was doing, and we would put them together into one file. It was agreed upon that everybody would disregard both good design and good taste.
(If you click on each image, the caption lists who designed the page in question. I couldn’t include them all here, but every page is basically a work of art. Horrible, typographically hellish art.)
After raiding a Joann’s of materials I thought belonged in Hot Topic circa 2005 (before it just became Think Geek II: We Don’t Light Our Store,) I almost immediately tested positive for covid. So I made most of this over the last four days, and with varying levels of coherent thought and common sense. The process is documented in a thread here
Not a fan of alcohol myself, but I will say that as a barista I have never been explicitly told by management to limit the amount of espresso in a drink, which means that people can ask for as many as 7 shots of espresso in one drink if they want (when the average amount is 2-3).
I always try and talk people down to a smaller amount when they try and get that much, but the fact that I do that because I WANT to and not because its a REQUIREMENT is messed up. I love coffee, but I hate how normalized its overuse is (especially among my fellow artists)
all you smug ‘well akshully there’s no safe level of alcohol it’s always objectively bad, fner fner,’ self-righteous nerds are exactly the Americans we’re talking about when we say, Americans have absurdly Puritan views with respect to drinking. please grow up.
Hey nerds! Take a minute and read this if you agree that creativity is one of the pillars of D&D. If these changes go through, the corporations will be able to crush all those independent creators who push the game into new realms of weird and awesome. This world is all about freedom, is it not?