[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]
a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”
She can’t stop thinking about him 🤭❤️❤️❤️
For the amount that people eat bread bowls, we rarely acknowledge pizza as a bread plate.
People with great imagination are cursed because they can imagine horrible things
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i think iāve accurately summarized my existence on this earth
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how to stay motivated as a writer
- Reread your old writing, especially those scenes you’re most proud of
- Write something silly. It doesn’t need to be logical, consistent or included in your story. Write something dumb
- Compare your old writing to your new writing. Seeing how much you’ve improved can be very motivating
- Explore different storylines, those type of storylines that would never make it into your story, but you’d still like to play around with
- Choose one of your least favorite scenes and rewrite it
- Read old comments from people praising your work
- Create a playlist that reminds you of your wip
- Draw your ocs
- Don’t push yourself to get back into writing the thing that made you stop writing in the first place. Write something else
- Write what you wanna write, no matter how cliché it might be. It doesn’t matter, if you want to write it, write it
- Take a break, focus on another hobby of yours. Consume other pieces of media, take a walk to clear your head
- You don’t have to write in chronological order from the very beginning if it isn’t working for you! Sometimes a scene you aren’t interested in writing can become interesting after you’ve explored other scenes that is connected to that one
- Read one star reviews of “awful” books. You’ll unlock a new sort of appreciation for your own writing
- Create a new storyline, or a new character! Anything that helps bring something fresh into your story. Could even be a completely new wip!
- Not writing everyday doesn’t make you a bad writer. Take a break if you feel like you need one
- Remind yourself to have fun. Start writing and don’t focus all your attention on following “the rules.” You can get into the nitty-gritty when you’ve familiarized yourself with writing as an art. Or don’t. It’s fiction, you make your own rules
- Go to sleep, or take a nap. Sleep deprivation and writing does not go hand in hand (trust me)
- Listen to music that reminds you of your characters/wip
- Remember why you started. Know that you deserve to tell the story you want to tell regardless of the skill you possess
Dropping a brick on the post below
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Well this is absolutely hellish
Mickey Mouse when I ask him why heās increasing my house rent by $100 dollars every month (heās my landlord)
The underpaid disney employees on their way to evict me and my family
disney literally tried to do this ages ago. please watch defunctland explain it. im losing my mind. why
I would like to let people know that is a reality for many of the underpaid Disney employees as they canāt afford housing on their salaries
So Disney has apartment buildings it buys to rent cheaply to their employees
And Iām sure you can imagine the level of control Disney has over you when they control your employment and your housing
Originally it was just for the college program employees (like me) but got expanded to being available to all employees
Now I donāt know how it is with the full time employees, but if you were a college employee and you got ātermed?ā (Disney loves alternative language to control their employees, see being a ācast member on stageā vs an employee at work). After being termed you had 24 hours to move out
Now, guess how well that worked for 19 year olds from Ohio who have nowhere to sleep and no way to get home
I knew a guy who had two āstrikesā against him (calling out of work gets points against you, 3 points get you a strike) that had been waved as he had good reasons to miss those days. He then made a comment his supervisor didnāt like so she reversed the strikes being waved and gave him the third one for his comment. He then had to call his parents at 2 am to tell them he was now homeless in Orlando. Imagine if your boss could evict you for talking back
Now imagine youāre one of the many semi retired employees trying to stay afloat through their 70s, or the many employees who are recent immigrants, or who are parents of kids, or anyone else without a lot of work or housing options
Think of the shit theyād be able to do to you if losing your job meant immediately losing housing because your boss owns your home
Think of how much leverage that gives against the unions when your workers arenāt even secure from their employer in their home, where union dues paying for you to not work canāt save you from eviction because your boss decides if you get to live there
Any fucked up thing Disney does is almost always worse for their employees, and likely tested on them first
Kill The Mouse.