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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Ages ago (2018) I posted a bunch of screenshots of a cool D&D thread, and promptly got into an argument with the author of those screenshots because I hadn’t linked to her Tumblr.

She was really mad. She told me I’d lost her money, because she also does commissions (not mentioned in her tweet, or at the time, on her twitter page - I went looking when she complained).

I didn’t know she HAD a tumblr, I don’t go investigating the profile pages of everyone who has a cool tweet thread. After some arguing, I deleted all the back and forth posts and edited the original with her link in it. I do want to say that she was very hostile and rude, and I felt like I wasn’t, until I was. Then I deleted everything and made the change.

She left up that one post, so now I just look like a giant asshole on her page, and people won’t stop re-blogging the original, unedited version. (To be fair, I suspect she blocked me, so I’m just seeing that last post of mine on the top of her page? unless she pinned it there)

I didn’t think I’d done anything wrong. I used the same format I saw everyone else reposting screenshots of twitter had - no one else had linked to anything.

Anyway, it now has like, 600k re-blogs and still going strong. Every single time there’s a pile of those, I get people who follow me, and I’m reminded for a few weeks of something that WAS cool, and then suddenly wasn’t, and I get angry again.

ANYWAY - if you’re new because of that post, here is Smith’s tumblr: http://emilykcomicsmith.tumblr.com/

She pays for supplies herself.

derinthescarletpescatarian
queerical

all this fucking talk of "stealing" with the queer community. "gays are stealing from lesbians" "aces are stealing from gays" "transes are stealing from everyone" absolutely convinced white queers learned about cultural appropriation and decided it could be applied to sexuality and gender and it became entrenched becuz ppl are fucking obsessed with gatekeeping and exclusionism

besties, we are all in the alphabet soup together. the lines between us are blurred as hell. we are not stealing, we are inspired. our culture is bright and beautiful and a street fair that everyone trades at. quit being so goddamn individualistic and embrace the community. it's the only way we have solidarity

discodeerdiary

Yeah I'm convinced a big reason we got to this point is that white people took the real legitimate concept of cultural appropriation, eviscerated it of any recognition of colonialism or racism or Christian hegemony, and then restuffed it with the less challenging idea of private property

ragsy
charliejaneanders

Every single craft has been paying “The Passion Tax” for generations. This term (coined by author and organizational psychologist Adam Grant) — and backed by scientific research — simply states that the more someone is passionate about their work, the more acceptable it is to take advantage of them. In short, loving what we do makes us easy to exploit.

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s-leary

If the phrase “vocational awe” isn’t part of your lexicon yet, stop scrolling and read Fobazi Ettarh:

Vocational awe describes the set of ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries as institutions are inherently good, sacred notions, and therefore beyond critique. I argue that the concept of vocational awe directly correlates to problems within librarianship like burnout and low salary. This article aims to describe the phenomenon and its effects on library philosophies and practices so that they may be recognized and deconstructed.

—Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves

I see it in every field I’ve ever worked in: publishing, open source software development, higher education. It describes pretty much every industry that relies on creativity, altruism, or both.