blog. wait, no, don’t just title it “blog”

this is so funny

"but uh when we advocated for indigenous sovereignty we thought you guys were just going to make a big park or something"

i am extremely lucky to have a robust enough support network of friends and family to know that whatever happens i will never be homeless, and even luckier to have friends hook me up with a work from home position i never in a million years would have been in consideration for without a referral. it's not lost on me that it is significantly easier for me to take a strong stance on this issue than it is for other people with similar circumstances through absolutely no merit of my own. but ultimately no matter how precarious your own situation is, being in a position where purchasing cheap foreign labor to sell goods at a significant markup is even an option is a pretty notable privilege! and not only that, but factory work itself can also be disabling. Disabled People and Foreign Factory Workers aren't two separate groups of underprivileged people with competing material interests and i just can't ever let myself think of it that way. it would be wrong.

disabled people outside of the imperial core aren't a gotcha to win an argument they're not a rhetorical tool they're not a thought experiment. a lot of them are in fact disabled because of what has been done to their environment in the name of global commerce. they're real people and any politics of disability that considers them irrelevant or disposable isn't good enough.

and so the question then becomes: if you are a disabled artist, if selling merch really has been the only way you've found to make ends meet, what are you supposed to do? i don't have a good answer because i'm literally just some lady with a blog and solving all the ethical contradictions of living as a disprivileged person in an incredibly privileged parts of the world is a bit above my paygrade. but it would also be wrong to pretend like this is not a real dilemma people have to contend with.

Gustave Caillebotte - The Floor Scrapers (1875-6)

Original on top, later version below

“Despite the effort Caillebotte put into the painting, it was rejected by France’s most prestigious art exhibition, The Salon, in 1875. The depiction of working-class people in their trade, not fully clothed, shocked the jurors and was deemed a ‘vulgar subject matter.’ 

freewill also has healthcare directives! if you have ever been concerned about your partner(s) being unable to visit you in the hospital or make medical decisions for you if you are unable to make or communicate your own wishes - especially if you are unmarried/poly - you should have a healthcare directive. they are extremely easy to put together and you can designate multiple people as agents; freewill's tool also lets you designate people you do NOT want making decisions for you (for instance, your very Catholic parents.) if you're outside the US you can search "advanced healthcare directive (country)" and usually find a toolkit; often end of life advocacy-type organizations will have them.

their big eggs are actually that size for a similar reason to human babies having massive heads!! being bigger at birth can be important.

kiwi are trying SO HARD to become mammals. fur-like feathers, whisker-like feathers, little beady eyes, nocturnal, great sense of smell.... that's basically a mammal!! they're well suited for life on the forest floor.

their big eggs work alongside these adaptations to give them a leg up in the bird world. their young hatch already feathered! they're precocial, which means they're born with the ability to open their eyes and move around. like foals.

big egg = more powerful offspring from the get-go. babies don't need to spend precious time vulnerable while they develop on the ground when they've already done all that in the egg!

Not seeing many people talk about this on Tumblr, so gonna spread the word myself: Webtoon is going to start using AI for translations and an AI chat bot with comic characters. If you're against this you should delete your account, and if you are publishing on the website, you should consider moving to other alternatives and especially having your own website to host your comic.

Also needless to say that Webtoon can absolutely afford to hire translators, this is just yet another way to not pay the people who are making the company behind Webtoon absurdly rich.

And for the people who might see this as a good decision: