I went to the smallest comics festival in Finland (Turku Comics Festival) but funnily enough since Max Sarin lives in Southern Finland they stopped by and even kindly signed my copy of Harley Quinn: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour 1. <3

I "love" this discussion around zoomers' media preferences. It's just:

"Oh no, zoomers don't want to see sex on screen! Why is this generation so anti-sex and puritanical! They only want to watch Heartstopper, these tenderqueers and puriteens! Why aren't the young people fucking and reproducing more!"

But also

"Why is Young Adult fiction full of depravity! Sarah J. Maas and Colleen Hoover are ruining art with their stupid sexy tropes!! It's not healthy that BookTok teen girls are so obsessed with "spice"! Maybe these people should read some real books! These yaoi fujoshi gooners are not beating the porn addiction allegations."

Yeah, it's pretty hard to take this seriously guys.

what was Aaravos doing during S5?

guess you could say he was finding himself

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I LOVE learning about the prodution of Steven Universe and animation production in general. SU podcast is a brilliant resource for learning about how American animation gets made. Say what you want about Hazbin Hotel but the talent behind it is some of the most interesting people in American animation. I love this interview with the story board artist specialising on Angel Dust. He is also a sex worker and has some extremely insightful things to say about the character. The Dragon Prince behind-the-scenes stuff doesn't really do it for me. I'm usually interested in seeing that sort of production stuff but there are some reasons why I'm not that into it here:

To be completely honest Women of Woderstorm really soured the things for me when it comes to the co-founder of Wonderstorm Aaron Ehasz.

Those who don't know: three women accused Ehasz of workplace misconduct in 2020 and then left the company (repost of Ehasz's rather condescending PR statement about the controversy. Very Deck Nine if you ask me). Definitely a stain in TDP's reputation as a progressive show. While being (an alleged) shitty boss and engaging in toxic and sexist behaviour doesn't mean that you can't create beautiful art, I just really am not that interested in his opinions. Like, is this the guy I want to listen to when it comes to inclusivity and representation? I sincerely hope that things at Wonderstorm have improved. All the people working there clearly just want to do their job and do it well.

2. I've checked out YouTube interviews and various podcasts and it's almost always Ehasz in the interviews with the voice cast. Okay there are some interviews with the other writers but not that many. Like I get it, the VAs are great for promotion. Nothing wrong with that. But they don't write the show or even choose which lines end up in the show, the voice acting director does that as far as I know. In general I feel like it's pretty hard to find interviews with the storyboard artists or 3D modelers etc.

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I've learned about SO many new TDP pairings I'd have never even thought of after seeing how people tag my fan art.

for the non comics ppl following me, webcomics are a notoriously indie space and comics as an industry as a whole is not profitable and not some you can make a living off of.

however, webtoons offered a change of pace here—in exchange for digital publishing exclusivity, webtoons would contract and pay selected artists to make their comics. years ago this was a pretty good contract, nowadays they have gradually increased how much they ask for with whistleblowers revealing they are now actively trying to trick people into handing over all of the exclusive rights to their IPs.

but that isnt all. older contracts only have digital publishing rights, most WT originals can do print runs of their comics, because they own the rights to the print publishing still. Recently, an artist came forward about their experience with webtoons deleting any mention they make of the print run for their comic. They're unable to cross post their comic anywhere, so their audience is only on webtoons and they want to inform them of the print run.

a bunch of people are making snide comments about not putting your eggs in one basket, but when you legally can only post in one place that becomes the most useless thing anyone has ever said.

Can I be controversial for one sec

Young Aaravos

ok this was actually hilarious

When South Africa dismantled apartheid, it did not end with the expulsion of all white South Africans. They became part of the new South Africa, just without the criminal discriminatory oligarchic powers the apartheid goverment had. When Bolivia recognized its indigenous heritage and became a plurinational state, it did not mean that people of European descent were expelled in masse. It meant the recognition of the previously discriminated indigenous and mestizo people of Bolivia and the beginning of a path of integration and revalidation.

What I mean is that it's ridiculous to think that decolonization inherently means mass suffering and relocation, that's what colonization does. Decolonization is recognizing the crimes of colonization, but more importantly, material, political and social steps to give power and self-determination to the exploited native people who were victims of colonialism and imperialism.

In multicultural societies, you don't go like in that Peter Griffin meme with a skin tone chart and saying 'well, you go back to Europe, you go back to Africa, you stay here'. You build a new society on the paradigm of dignity for exploited people and equality under the law. People are acting like this is some sort of fantastic utopia instead of real initiatives that were done in living memory, with successes and failures, as all such initiatives have. One must ask why are some so insistent that multicultural societies can't thrive, especially when for most of history, societies were indeed like that. Consider why you think like that.

you know he would have been one of Those kids

inspired by this pic:

First date idea

I NEED aaravos whimpering on loop right now or I'll explode