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#manga #comics #漫画 #漫画家 https://www.instagram.com/p/Buxb_jOAwgT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=90vwtrbap57p

I really think THE single most surprising false truth that was revealed to me in adolescence is the classic “bad people lie and cheat” statement.

By age 17, it was basically rammed into my head really hard that a lot of people we on the surface believe are “good” are subject to doing all the stuff that “bad” people do, and a lot of people who are mistreated and shoved to the side are actually really good people with bad curb appeal who just get misunderstood.

But yeah - I absolutely am still shocked by how many “good” people I’ve met who just openly cheat in relationships, manipulate others, steal things, lie, used to bully - all sorts of shit.

It’s just a bit unsettling to think about how most of us have secret lives in one way or another, yet we feel so ashamed of that aspect of our nature that we just push our society’s false truths onto the younger generations. It just makes them feel responsible and guilty for things that most people frankly have for many, many years been unable to master in their lifetime. https://www.instagram.com/p/BvSuSvFA10M/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=n4h648t2nlk6

I will say, not a fucking fan of the point I see from some leftists that "Actually specialized artists shouldn't exist as a field, art should be something you do after working all day in the community garden."

Like, A) that would fuck up so many artforms that rely on specialized skill and time it's not even funny and B) Denying "inefficient" art resources and time that being allowed to focus on it brings because you don't consider it "real" labor is already what happens under capitalism, and the results speak for themselves.

Like, I get that there's a deep and abiding working-poor anger at the Middle Class Professionals that are so often the face of art-as-profession and the way they turn skill/polish from a ceiling into a floor for access, doubly so if you're a member of said working-poor denied access to that field.

But like... sweet genius

Uploading some of my favorite photography I’ve done from the past couple years https://www.instagram.com/p/BvfRwJLge1k/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12xdz1n3e8bba

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G-pen and brush ink sketch https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnl-w4WF7Ah/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2deztt3z7z21

“It’s Too Early, I Don’t Want to Wake Up!” is a one-shot/pilot comic I made during mid 2016. Pt. 2 (the rest of the pages becasue Tumblr has a cap on the amount of photos uploaded per post) Thanks for reading! It

had a minor crisis when 12ft.io went down yesterday and thankfully it's back now but this seems like a good opportunity to compile a list of similar paywall-evading tools in case 12ft ever gets canned for real:

12ft.io: the legend himself. definitely my favorite of the bunch by virtue of being the easiest to use (and the easiest url to remember), but it's configured to disable paywall evasion for a handful of popular sites like the new york times, so you'll have to go elsewhere for those.

printfriendly: works great; never had any issues with removing paywalls, even on domains that don't work with 12ft.io. since this site is literally designed to make sites print-friendly, it might simplify the overall formatting of the page you're trying to access, which can be a good or bad thing. my only real issue is that the "element zapper" (which lets you remove content blocks from the print-friendly preview) is a little sensitive if you're browsing on a touchscreen device, which means you might accidentally delete a paragraph when you're just trying to scroll. but if that happens you can reload the page and it'll revert everything back to its original state.

fifteen feet: basically a 12ft clone, minus 12ft's restrictions. haven't used it much since I only discovered it yesterday in the wake of 12ft's 451 error but it seems to do the trick.

archive.today: an archival tool very similar to the wayback machine, but it also works as a de facto paywall removal tool. (the wayback machine seems to remove paywalls as well, but archive.today has better UX imo and is way faster to use.)

and an honorable mention for sci-hub: only works for scientific/academic journals, not random news articles, but the other sites listed above only work for random news articles and not academic publications so you gotta have this one in your toolbelt for full coverage. pubmed is your oyster.