A YouTube thumbnail commission I did a while back! Had a lot of fun drawing this one! :D
leftist/liberal gentiles loooove "standing with Jewish people" when it comes to antisemites you already disliked for other reasons
me looking for y'all when leftists are being antisemitic
People really need to understand the games industry before critiquing anything about it. This is specifically about the use of the phrase ""crunch time"".
Let's define crunch culture.
- Work weeks exceeding 40 hours, often to the extent of more than 80 hours a week.
- Unpaid overtime, because developers are almost always salaried.
- Overtime not being ""required"", but if you don't, your contract is let lapse.
- Unreachable deadlines that are completely inflexible.
- Emotional abuse from management, from fans, from execs, and at times from coworkers.
- Normalized retaliation—leaving employees out of credits, suing, and even blacklisting from the entire industry if anyone speaks up.
- Employees falling physically ill and having mental breakdowns, requiring them to take unpaid leave. Sometimes for months.
BioWare uses the term 'stress casualty' to refer to those who take months-long hiatuses—usually unpaid, and sometimes never coming back. According to a creative lead on the game Anthem, the amount of developers who this happened to was literally uncountable.
As of 2014, 81% of developers polled had crunched recently, and an entire half considered it expected of them. This happens to non-developer creatives as well: Jessica Chavez, a localization writer for publisher XSEED Games, lost 10% of her body weight and was unable to find the time to even get a haircut during 9 months of 80-hour work weeks.
This is what almost every game you enjoy is made through. You can't just boycott the new Pokémon because you think it sucks and came out quickly so it must be made through crunch time, then think you're helping—regardless of whether or not it is, almost every other game you enjoy is made through abuse.
(Plus, crunch time at its worst will literally make games take longer, as is true with the game LA Noire, which took 7 years... despite consistent work weeks of over 110 hours.)
Boycott does not work for a cultural issue—which crunch culture in games absolutely is, given 76% of devs working over 40 hours regularly still as of 2017. Ignoring it when it's quiet is enabling it.
If you play games and you are the least bit concerned about workers' rights, support unionization efforts. Boost their loved ones' stories, like ea_spouse's story about her husband becoming ill due to crunch. Vote for mandatory limits on work weeks. Don't stop talking about the Blizzard harrassment lawsuit.
Only caring when the game is bad is insulting—especially to the devs, artists, writers and more that you're ignoring because their games are good enough that them being abused doesn't matter.
My dad has a massive vegetable garden and it is his life. Whenever I ask how things are going, he tells me about the garden. Periodically he will text me a picture of the things he's harvested and ask when I'm coming to pick them up. And for a while, the biggest bit of garden gossip has been his nemesis, the gopher. This gopher was consistently ruining his day by pilfering the best of everything just before my dad could harvest it. Anytime I talked to him, all he had to tell me about was "that damned gopher." He dreamt about killing the gopher, his truest enemy. He tried to train the dog to hunt the gopher, but the dog is a pacifist. He led some of the barn cats to the holes, but the barn cats have unionized and refused his offered rate. He then laid no-kill traps (can't risk having poison near the crops) with eventual gophercide in mind, but then suddenly he was faced with a cute and terrified animal and didn't have the heart. He released it. "He was so scared, he'll never come back." The gopher was back the next day, with a vengeance. That was some weeks ago. Today, my dad sent me pictures of his garden, and I saw a squash gently laid by the gopher's hole, like a package left on the doorstep. I said "Dad, what's that squash doing there by the gopher hole?" He said "Oh, he likes squash best." In an effort to appease the gopher, my father now gives him a little squash everyday, like leaving an offering for a garden spirit. This apparently works well as a compromise; the gopher has stopped stealing, content to have his meals delivered to his door.
no offense but if they did this i would become a terrorist
It always upsets me so much when I see interpretations/illustrations of the two headed calf poem that show a living calf being torn away from its mother and killed to sell to a museum and framing the poem as being "humanity kills beautiful things for being different".
Two headed cows almost never survive more than a few hours after their birth. The farmer finds the *body* the next day. The calf was destined to die, and that's a tragedy, but for the time it was alive, it had a beautiful and unique experience.
It's not a poem about the cruelty of man. It's a poem about the beauty of life in an indifferent universe. It's about purpose and beauty being able to exist even in an existence doomed to come to an end, as all our lives are. It's not a poem about how a calf dies, but how, even for only a brief moment, it was alive.
And, for that moment, because of that life, however fleeting, the sky had twice as many stars.
white people please just purchase native artwork and jewelry from native people i keep seeing idiot white people be like “waaah i wish i could support native creators but its cultural appropriation” girl why would beaders sell you their earrings then. just dont get a medicine wheel or a thunderbird then like damn it is that easy
http://www.beyondbuckskin.com/p/buy-native.html?m=1
If Native folks are making it to sell to white people with the approval of their tribe, it's not "appropriation"--its support and appreciation! So yes, buy that native-made dream catcher, but not the mass produced fakes made by white people. Like, you can go to a pow wow and buy native crafts there, too.
why in fucks name would we be picky about who buys our crafts, we are just trying to pay rent. pleaassse. id rather a rando white person on their 3rd "namaste spiritual journey" buy native made stuff instead of having them buy the actually stolen designs from big name brands
there are many reasons to seek out and become fans of indie movies and generally less widespread media but the craziest one is that like 90% of the time if you express admiration for an underrated movie the cast and crew will just be like. thank you. i’m following you on twitter now. and then you have to live the rest of your life knowing people involved in the making of one of your favorite hidden gems of cinema are seeing your tweets about having a whole blue hawaiian fishbowl to yourself at 4 PM
We need to make it clear early on that anyone spouting this drivel is either a domestic abuse apologist or an abuser themselves. Because let us be extremely clear here: what these men miss is literal ownership of their wives. That is what they want, that is what they are aiming for. That is its own form of domestic violence, and it encourages other forms of domestic violence.
Edit: Since multiple radfems have reblogged this addition, I feel like it is fucking essential to point out that while this push is clearly and obviously coming from misogynistic cis men and primarily directed at cis women married to cis men, that domestic abusers come in all shapes, sizes, ages, assigned sexes, genders, and backgrounds. If this bullshit were to pass, it would 110% be utilized by abusive cis women to prevent their husbands from escaping them and these male survivors would have even less recourse because of how unlikely it is that they will be believed about the domestic violence they've endured. Domestic violence is an LGBTQ+ issue also, but I seriously doubt that if society has regressed to the point where no fault divorce has been rescinded, that same sex or perceived same sex marriages would be legal, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Any ideology that promotes the idea that men are always abusers or are the only abusers, and/or that women cannot be abusers of other humans regardless of assigned sex or gender, are ALSO abuse apologists or abusers themselves.
Anyway, I wrote this in a very truncated way that can apparently be misread by bigots and other fools, so I thought it was critical to clarify what I'm saying here.
Reblogging this for my necessary correction. Do not reblog the prior version if you happen to see it, and maybe check up on who you saw it from to make sure they're not a terf or similar bigot that you're inadvertently following.
[image description: a printed out flyer with the picture of a sleeping grey tabby cat on it. It has text on it that reads:
Muffin disclaimer
So you’ve ordered a muffin! We hope you’re up for a challenge.
Our wobbly tabby cat Bea REALLY likes muffins so there are a few things to be aware of if you have a muffin in the cat area.
- She WILL climb you to try and get your muffin - She is not very good at climbing so she will claw her way up your body - It WILL hurt - She WILL NOT give up - She may try to eat the muffin right out of your mouth - She is not allowed to eat muffins
You may pick her up / move her away if needed and if you’re really struggling, come and talk to us and we will help. No matter how much she wants to, it is still very important that you don’t let her eat any muffin as it will make her sick.
Good luck and we hope you enjoy your muffin experience!
She may look sweet and innocent but we promise you she’s not
/end image description]
Bea the muffin thief has come upon my timeline again and I am obliged to reblog.
You see that big smokestack attached to Belos’ castle at the Heart?
Highly reminiscent of a forge, and given his working with the portal, metal, and machinery, I’d say it’d be apt to call that particular feature a crucible.
You know. Like the famous play written about witch hunts.
just want to pop this in here in regards to velma being gay
also this
i think if someone was trapped in a timeloop for long enough they would start to fear getting out of it. how long would the initial agony last before it fades into the repetition of your regular life? the comfort of always knowing what would happen next. it's never-ending but always familiar. would the thought of experiencing something new be too much to bear?
a beautiful and rare marbled mink! these mink actually get their temperature sensitive pigmentation in the same way as that of a Himalayan mouse.