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@byelacey / byelacey.tumblr.com

lacey | comic artist | she/they making webcomics @ hiveworks linktree
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kottkrig

People liking your personal OCs is still such a crazy feeling, I've been doing this for years and ppl asking about them still fills my entire heart with warmth and idk how to handle it

You enjoy this fictional guy I made up for fun?? Whose only content is random artwork or writing made by me and a handful of other artists at most? They have no show/book/game with a large fandom, it's just one person with an art blog?? I love u

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genericpuff

Oh.

To call WT's actions "antics" would be reducing the severity of what they're doing to creators. This is unacceptable behavior and it should be all the more reason for creators to start exploring other career paths outside of WT. For years they've been meticulously crafting an environment where people believe that WT is the only path to success, where WT controls the degree of success creators can achieve, from the manipulation of the promotional system to the lack of tagging and proper search functions on the app. Now that they've boiled the frog to this point, they're cashing out by flooding the platform with cheap imports, implementing AI tools, and of course, trying to use their contracts as a way to trap creators and keep them from owning their own IP's and maximizing on their own success.

I said it before and I'll say it again - Webtoons is planning to go public with their IPO this summer, so it would be a real shame if creators spoke up about the underhanded tactics used by WT to keep them from finding success in their own works. At the very least, it should serve as a reminder to all of us that companies like these can't amass billions without exploiting people along the way.

We can't even use "they're creating jobs for comic creators" as a reason to want to see WT succeed in spite of their flaws anymore because they're literally ruining people's careers, cutting them off before they've even started. That's not the platform being "flawed", that's the platform and the system it's built on being broken, full stop.

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bigbigtruck

No beef with anybody who still uses WT (we all gotta eat) but just a heads up, and a reminder to always retain 100% owership of your IP

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byelacey

LIES WITHIN has updated on tapas & webtoon! [content warning for depiction of domestic abuse] 🩸 READ ON TAPAS 🩸 READ ON WEBTOON

thanks for your support & make sure to subscribe so you never miss an update!

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imlizy

great pyrenees are so fucking awesome theyre just big. if i didnt think that owning one was a supremely bad idea for me in particular id get one. i just think itd become my boss or something. im too lazy for a working breed truly

go white boy

sarcastic dog. dog that has contempt for you

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tevruden

@byelacey i need to know how sarcastic your dog can get7

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byelacey

here he is sniping “my” spot on the couch (ownership of spot contested) and side eyeing me for daring to say anything about it

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hiveworks

Cursed Queens, werewolves, vampires, mermaids, old gods, demons, witches, odd marriages & undead of all sorts… Sink your teeth in these comics filled with supernatural enemies... or lovers!

😈MONSTER MARCH😈 is coming to an end. But these creature features will keep you company until next time.

For werewolf fans, here is a reminder that How to be a Werewolf Book 1 is available on our store!

The webcomics Alice and the Nightmare and Fantomestein, included in the image above, are also notable for their unique twists on literary villains. Fantomestein mixes Frankenstein’s monster and the Phantom of the Opera into a singular, unnaturally tall, tortured composer, while Alice features a autocratic Red Queen scarred by an ancient curse.

A nod to Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, is a fitting end to Monster March!

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