This image isn't just a fleeting news item; it's part of our daily reality in Gaza. While thousands of trucks loaded with tents, blankets, food, and medicine are held outside the Strip, prevented from entering by the Israeli occupation, we face a humanitarian catastrophe that worsens day by day. We die here every moment. We suffer constantly, and everyone ignores what we're going through.
i have turned it into a letterboxd list: good films that are free on the internet archive!!!! Each film is linked in the notes on letterboxd. this will be continually updated so it's a good link to save if you want to keep up!
The Hiveworks Artists Guild has released a statement alleging various incompetence and mismanagement in Hiveworks leadership. You should read the whole thing, but the main claims are
- Hiveworks leadership was a forbidden enigma of mystery and no one knew what the fuck was going on at any time.
- Hiveworks spent money inappropriately, most notably Xel using Kickstarter money to make a"large personal purchase".
- Less dramatically but still bad, money was spent on ads for comics that were long-dead instead of active ones [This is the only claim I can say 100% is true; I've seen ads for dead comics on Hiveworks sites a lot and have long been confused by it]
- Hiveworks leadership were just generally huge assholes
- Hiveworks staff has not been getting paid, and Hiveworks has $17,000 in unpaid wages floating, and $340,000 in debt.
- Support Hiveworks Artists in this trying time
- Don't spread speculation and rumors
Pretty much every claim made here has been floating around for years, so I believe every word of this, and know how difficult it is for the Hiveworks Artist Guild to stand up so officially like this. If you know any struggling Hiveworks artists that you like, maybe now's a good time to throw 'em a few bucks on Patreon.
A good number of the affected artists have joined to form the Chimera Comics Collective; please check out their work and support them if you can!
received this as I was writing smut about him and nearly had a heart attack
To celebrate being able to work on it again I posted the beginning and prologue of my lesbian cowboy thriller comic on patreon, (link here) available for free and paid members! That's 21 pages of sketches to read for free! I'm so excited to be making progress on this comic again. check it out!
To celebrate being able to work on it again I posted the beginning and prologue of my lesbian cowboy thriller comic on patreon, (link here) available for free and paid members! That's 21 pages of sketches to read for free! I'm so excited to be making progress on this comic again. check it out!
To celebrate being able to work on it again I posted the beginning and prologue of my lesbian cowboy thriller comic on patreon, (link here) available for free and paid members! That's 21 pages of sketches to read for free! I'm so excited to be making progress on this comic again. check it out!
Curating a list
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.
It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
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Ending the year by doing something I have wanted to do for ages and starting a newsletter! This first issue is me raking the top 5 best and worst books I read all year. Hosted on my Patreon but FREE TO READ for absolutely everyone !!! (Though there is a tiny bonus section for paying patrons at the end). Come! Judge my book opinions!
i'm almost finished with giovanni's room and genuinely i feel like I have been put through a blender. what the fuck James Baldwin?? what the fuck. what did they put into this thing???? tfw you know for sure that the second book you read all year will definitely be in your 2026 best of the year list. i'm being tormented
i finished it....
5/5 stars
i went and bought a physical copy. woohoo! now i can suffer whenever I want!