#platform studies

[vanhelsingapologist]

Publishing has always been a fucking nightmare, but now it’s a layer of hell. It’s not enough that writers be good at what they do. Writers have to maintain an active social media presence and cultivate a following. Be available.

They have to be conventionally attractive enough to look good enough to see on a screen, aesthetically pleasing, kind, funny, up-to-date on trends, socially aware but not so controversial that they turn off a brand from California from slapping their discount code on a video promoting a book.

They have to do all of this with no media training, with little help from the companies that are supposed to be doing this for them.

Of course, a lot of this isn't possible for say, the 40-something mother of two who teaches English at a school and writes on the side. She’s boxed out of an already complex industry that already has enough walls.

On some level, I think authors have always marketed themselves a little, but we’ve reached such a crazy point where we’re demanding the author become the influencer. Accessibility in publishing has narrowed from an inch to a sliver. And that inch was hard enough to get in as is.

#This is about traditional publishing but there’s pretty privilege and ageism in self publishing too #I can’t think of the last time I saw an up and coming author recording videos who was over thirty #And frankly that’s a shame #It could be that I’m not looking hard enough #but it’s more likely that algorithms are trained the way they are #truly I don’t think they should have to do any of that at all #And forgive me but (and I know it’s rich because I’m an artist on a platform) but art shouldn’t be at the mercy of an algorithm #Now there’s also something to be said about self publishing becoming easier and easier to achieve success in #And doors opening because of influencer status is real and makes publishing wider in a way #But that doesn’t mean it’s accessible #I’m not gonna plaster my health issues over the wall but that life is certainly not accessible to me! #are you healthy enough to write and make sure people on social media still want to like your stuff #are you mentally well enough to be your own pr #I’m sure people who have studied this have more to say and have said it better but this is what I’ve observed #writing #publishing #publishing industry

[sisaloofafump]

Here's a video I made! The culmination of my Batman style studies :)

#I know this isnt really a video platform but I've been sharing the behind the scenes here so why not the final too #dc comics #my art #batman #bruce wayne #art study

[buumbaby]

edward teach x pedro pascal @ the met gala

#ed wears fine things well #met gala #ofmd #painting the coat was my favourite part #ofmd fanart #and he'd slay a red coat and sexy knee #no hand tattoo from the side but we do get leg tat #edward teach born on a beach #i love black patent platform boots SO MUCH im so happy he can have them too now #pedro pascal #outfit swap #photo study #my art #our flag means death

[petiolata]

Duolingo recently sacked most of their translators to replace them with AI, and kept on a few who now just check the AI content for errors.

I knew Duolingo was aiming to be the poster child of good apps turned to shit by greedy soulless stockholders but this takes the cake.

#duolingo #langblr #platform decay #enshittification #anti ai #language learning #if ppl wanted to use AI to study why would they need Duolingo? they can go directly to an AI if they wanted AI content

[mercifullymad]

Radical compassion is a will to care for, a commitment to feel with, a striving to learn from, and an openness to be vulnerable before a precarious other, though they may be drastically dissimilar to yourself. Radical compassion is not an appeal to an idyllic oneness where difference is blithely effaced. Nor is it a smug projection of oneself into the position of another, thereby displacing that other. Nor is it an invitation to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes and amble, like a tourist, through their lifeworld, leaving them existentially barefoot all the while. Rather, radical compassion is an exhortation to ethically walk and sit and fight and build alongside another whose condition may be utterly unlike your own. Radical compassion works to impart care, exchange feeling, transmit understanding, embolden vulnerability, and fortify solidarity across circumstantial, sociocultural, phenomenological, and ontological chasms in the interest of mutual liberation. It persists even and especially toward beings who are the objects of contempt and condemnation from dominant value systems.

Most urgently, mad methodology primes us to extend radical compassion to the madpersons, queer personae, ghosts, freaks, weirdos, imaginary friends, disembodied voices, unvoiced bodies, and unReasonable others, who trespass, like stowaways or fugitives, in Reasonable modernity.

How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind by La Marr Jurelle Bruce

#how to go mad without losing your mind #la marr jurelle bruce #mad studies #mad methodology #radical compassion #dw to anyone who has followed me here from insta i will not simply repost all my quotes from there #but bruce is too good and too insightful not to share on every platform #if i knew what was good for me i would reread this book at least every two months #my readings

[vivenecii]

It's all I drew in the last two weeks. Who could've guess I'll be this busy when uni starts. (It's me, I should've guess, and yet every year it surprises me anew.)

And now let me disappear again for another indefinite period of time to study all the irrelevant informations I most definitely do not need for my degree.

#but also who knows maybe I'll need brain mri from neurosurgery site for my English philology studies #I also bought six new plants this week because I have no self control #digital #fanart #good omens #good omens season 2 #aziraphale #michael sheen #I love this heavenly outfit #don't understand me bad tartan bowtie is everything #but there's something majestic about these robes #artists on tumblr #did I say how much I love this weird old-fashioned platform #and yes i didn't have time to pick colors so it's just random orange-ish blob #you're welcome

[hawper]

secret santa for @cactuupng :)

#mumbo beats to study by #mumbo jumbo #mumbo fanart #hermitcraft mumbo #hermitcraft #hermitcraft fanart #mumbo #sorry im pinging you on like every social media platform cactuu LMAO #hawp art

[mpekamitzii]

honsies

#mitzdraws #the digital sketchbook is done !! i just need to find a platform to publish it on #art studies #anatomy #horses #horse #skeletons

[leona-florianova]

* looking at prices of new rock boots*

"It cant be That hard to make some fancy boots yourself, right?"

*i say while fully aware of how hard it would really be*

#technically not impossible #i could always go back to my zlín uni n beg at the shoe department if they perhaps dont have some shoe lasts I could borrow #also just did the numbers n it looks like if I made them myself it would be only slightly cheaper than what actual new rocks are sold for #+ high chance of mistakes since i never made shoes before #+ my time #n to get the soles i would have to gut some other shoes cause where does one get nice platforms for good price that is not in bulk #why the fuck did i study animation in the shoe making city when i could have gone and studied shoe making #joking.. i dont regret that #but i really do want to make some boots #father might also make drama about this if i bring this up cause he specifically said that we cant afford stuff for making boots #and time and effort for making boots #¨which of course to me is like #challenge #this will haunt me #personal

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

By Prem Thakker

States across the country are moving to provide universal free school meals to all our children. Meanwhile, Republicans are trying to stop them from doing just that.

The Republican Study Committee (of which some three-quarters of House Republicans are members) on Wednesday released its desired 2024 budget, in which the party boldly declares its priority to eliminate the Community Eligibility Provision, or CEP, from the School Lunch Program. Why? Because “CEP allows certain schools to provide free school lunches regardless of the individual eligibility of each student.”

The horror.

Of note is that the CEP is not even something every school participates in; it is a meal service program reserved for qualifying schools and districts in low-income areas. The program enables schools that predominantly serve children from low-income backgrounds to offer all students free breakfast and lunch, instead of means-testing them and having to manage collecting applications on an individual basis. As with many universal-oriented programs, it is more practically efficient and, as a bonus, lifts all boats. This is what Republicans are looking to eliminate.

It’s the kind of provision that many would want every school to participate in. Why not guarantee all our children are well fed as they learn and think about our world and their place in it, after all?

But indeed, as California, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, New Mexico, and as of this week, Vermont, all move to provide universal free school meals in one form or another—and at least another 21 states consider similar moves—Republicans are trying to whittle down avenues to accomplish that goal.

Along with trying to stop schools from giving all their students free meals, the proposed 2024 Republican budget includes efforts to:

• cut Social Security and Medicare • make Trump’s tax cuts for the top 1% permanent • impose work requirements on “all federal benefit programs,” like food stamps and Medicare • extend work requirements on those aged 55–64 • bring back all of twice-impeached and twice-arrested former President Donald Trump’s deregulations, including the weakening of environmental protection.

And that’s just a taste of their hopes and dreams. But don’t mistake it all as just wish-casting: “The RSC Budget is more than just a financial statement. It is a statement of priorities,” the party assures in the document.

#us politics #news #the new republic #2023 #republicans #conservatives #gop platform #gop policy #gop #Republican Study Committee #2024 Republican budget #Community Eligibility Provision #School Lunch Program #universal free school meals #California #Colorado #Maine #Minnesota #new mexico #Vermont #social security cuts #medicare cuts #trump tax cuts #work requirements #deregulation

[kayforpay]

eric being left charles' Entire Estate, School, and Legacy in the will, saying he was so used to charles being in his mind not because he was being interrogated but just because they thought about each other so consistently that charles was There before they split, and fully dropping his life's work and ultimate belief system to continue in charles' footsteps, and saying "friendship" the whole time really, Really captured the "gay in the 90s" vibe

#kay talks a lot #x-men 97 --------------- #cheric is canon I'm not an expert but I have seen the studies #anyway: show good so far #dw I am not watching it legally fuck streaming platforms

[syrupyyyart]

Just opening that Motley askblog has immediately made me remember how much I love tumblrs formatting. Like oh that's right, I love running askblogs!!!!

#just gonna go back to doing art as a hobby and study fish instead or something #way more fun that way #follow askmotley btw #some of you sent some 10/10 asks. ecstatic to answer them #everything went to shit when i made twitter my main platform. i love u tumblr #not art

[simplytolkien]

One last post about Rings of Power. Last defense post anyway. Any other posts about it will just be normal posts from someone enjoying a tv show. Well, this post really isn’t about Rings of Power. It goes beyond that. I never ever intended on being one of those people who paste their opinions all over the internet just because I have them. My first post about RoP was just because I don't know anyone else who is even interested in a Tolkien show, so I just wanted to say something here on my humble Tolkien tumblr to people who would know, maybe have a little dialogue with people who love Tolkien. But geez, the messages are stupid. And oh my word, I should never have scrolled through the Rings of Power tag that one time. People are losing their minds over something that is happening with every other show they watch and love. Look, Amazon isn't MAKING Rings of Power. They are FUNDING Rings of Power.

This is how the entertainment world works, since so many people don't seem to have a clue: A person or people have an idea and would love to make a show or movie. They are usually not the people with the money, and since they need this money to create their project, they approach studios with their pitch as to why this project is a good investment. If all goes well, the studios agree that yes, this is a project people will be interested in and will, therefore, make us a lot of money. If the creators are fortunate and multiple studios are interested in the project, they get to pick the offer they prefer. The studio then gives the creators the money, and the creators take it and make their idea a reality.

That is why every studio invests in every project ever. Period. Because they can make money from it. Amazon is just doing what every other tv or movie production company does. They put in the money but aren't working on the project. The actual people behind the show are doing it because they love Tolkien. Yes, people can quibble about this all they want, but if you want to make a movie or tv show of a book you're not actually legally allowed to use, then you'll find that you have to change some things that you probably don't even really want to change. I am impressed with what they've been able to do NOT being able to use any of Tolkien's books besides LotR and The Hobbit. It's pretty creative. I’ve worked on screenplays for projects I would love to see made purely to the book, and I was shocked at how much harder it was than I thought it would be, even without the limitations of copyrights or the difficulties of stories that span thousands of years.

My first thought when I heard that Amazon was funding this project was, 'Hey, they'll have the budget to hopefully do justice to it.' And who on earth could refuse such a budget when they have the dream to bring Tolkien’s big, rich, lush world to life on the screen? Yeah, they're doing a great job. No, it's not always perfect, but again, there are usually compromises somewhere. Every project has its weak spots, but there are a lot of strengths so far. Off the top of my head, that scene where Míriel has the dream about the destruction of Númenor was awesome. Just incredibly beautiful. Númenor itself is just beautiful. Among other beauties. And I'm looking forward to what is to come. 

Yes, Jeff Bezos is evil. Yes, he is a crazy narcissist completely out of touch with reality. Yes, all of the criticisms about Amazon are real and valid, and I agree. But Amazon isn't doing anything that just about every other company does, even the ones who charge $3000 for a freaking pair of shoes. And Amazon only recently started actually selling their own brand. All these years they’ve simply been a platform where other companies could sell things. All these years the other companies you have shopped from have used these evil production/selling methods while those of us protesting were thrown in the corner as loonies. No, none of these injustices should happen in any society EVER, but it does, and unless all of you 'activists’ are making the huge massive effort and financial investment it would take for an American to NOT rely on companies who exploit workers and destroy the environment and all that really crappy evil stuff (hint: it’s all of them who sell you anything you want unless you’re making your own {but then where do you get your supplies?} or only buy locally-made products {but then where do they get their supplies?} or from small companies who still have ethics. but can you buy locally-made cars or tvs or computers or smartphones or name-brand clothes? no. and do all the companies you buy your stuff from make efforts to have a much more environmentally-friendly fleet of transport vehicles? no.), then you can criticize Amazon all you want, but you're just being a hypocrite sitting there in your name-brand clothes and mainstream personal grooming products with your fancy new cars and electronics watching all the other shows and movies that come out from all the other studios while you eat genetically-modified foods thinking up your next ‘activist’ tumblr post just because Amazon is funding a Tolkien project. Yes, you’re right about Amazon to a point, but follow your arguments all the way to their ends and you’ll realize we’re all part of the bigger problem no matter how much noise you make about one part of it. 

I do subscribe to Amazon. It took me a while to do it, but I finally had to because I had to move to a small town in Texas due to health issues that hit my life like a nuclear bomb, and being an organic vegan who only uses 100% natural (truly 100%, not the marketing crap so many pull), cruelty-free, sustainable products and has to do it on a tiny budget, it is now almost impossible for me to support companies with an ethos I believe in unless I buy online. And because my budget is so small while I rebuild my life, the free shipping without having to spend $50 or more per order to qualify for it helps me massively and saves me enough money to be able to feed a good-quality food to a TNR colony of 40 homeless cats that was starving and reproducing until I stepped in.

I also would prefer to buy, for example, from a company that pays women in disadvantaged countries fair-trade prices to beautifully craft sustainable wooden knitting needles so that they don't have to succumb to prostitution to feed their families rather than go to the only store I have here in town that sells them, Walmart, and buy crap plastic ones that benefit no one. So until the day I can afford options that aren’t evils, I'll weigh all the info and pick the lesser of the evils for my situation and order my knitting needles or whatever from ethical sellers who sell on Amazon. And if I ever find a less evil option that tics all of the boxes I have at the moment, I’ll jump right on it. I live by a mantra from Maya Angelou: ‘I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.’ Many times in my case I have to change it to ‘I did then what I could afford to do. Now that I can afford better, I do better.’ And I will continue to know better and do better and hopefully afford better until the day I die.

Here is an E.M. Forster quote that sums up my take on it as someone who can’t afford to live 100% according to her ideals at the moment: ‘We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth facing the sunshine.’

So again, why all of this has to be said in a post about a tv show is insane. All of the big studios are backed by deep pockets who are evil and corrupt and don't care about you and are invested in companies that would surprise you. If this is your gripe with Rings of Power, you had better cancel your Netflix, Hulu, Disney, etc. subscriptions too! Bezos just has the disgusting arrogance to do it openly and publicly.

#rings of power #simply tolkien #my dudes i was studying organic horticulture and self-sufficiency when i got sick #i'm not just jumping on a platform because it's trendy and popular #i've gone down into the depths #i'm still learning the depths i don't want to plumb #there are many evils behind commercialism and capitalism that you haven't even dreamed of #c'est la vie

[theheartlandsblog]

свадьбе волчика, тысяча восемьсот девяносто пятый 💒🤎 • wolf wedding, 1895 💒🤎

original characters adrik grigory and annushka grigory. 19 june 2023. coloured pencil and pen.

#sfw furry #furry #furry art #furry OC #anthro #adrik grigory #annushka grigory #original characters #traditional art #mine #there's colour inconsistency depending on device and platform sorry!!! #thankyou to the beautiful wedding portraits and couples i studied. #OC art #i am still learning russian #so please forgive any mistakes i have made! #2023 #beating the no background allegations

[digitalteacherhydposts]

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[astonmartingf]

random lore but an account i'm following on twt is reading my stories here?? hello???

#amgf is yapping. . . #it's fucking shocking #whenever i see them on my notifs and 👀👀👀 #like??? hello??? i love you on twt flsnfisnxkznc #it makes me giddy like? you enjoy my content? because i enjoy yours in another platform 😊🖐️ #okay i'm going back to studying now hehehehe 🫡