Notices by Ami Angelwings (ami_angelwings@urusai.social), page 2

@waitworry as a commenter pointed out at the time, due to the mass popular campaigns for breast cancer awareness, it's very easy to find anatomical depictions of breasts so there's no excuse for a how to draw book not to be able to find a reference

@waitworry yeah they're adipose tissue/fat on top of pecs, they're not pure muscle

@waitworry it's also very weird because the title implies that manga characters have different basic anatomy from like regular humans or superhero comic book characters, which I suppose is true... superhero characters have no organs and also their legs are 3x their torso, while manga characters apparently have muscleboobs

@waitworry https://eschergirls.com/photo/2013/03/28/infamous-muscleboobs

this one, which is hilariously from a book called "Basic Anatomy for the Manga Artist: Everything You Need to Start Drawing Authentic Manga Characters"

@waitworry this is probably 2nd next to the one that said boobs are made of muscle as my favourite western "how to draw manga" pages

does anybody recognize which "how to draw" book this page came from?

#art #anime #manga

i don't think people realize just how important libraries of all sorts are to "book culture", i think they're so normalized in our lives we just take it for granted that some kids grow up with a love of reading and become readers and book lovers and writers... if libraries die off or are killed off enough that they're a shell of themselves, the book industry is not gonna be swimming in cash like they think, in a generation or two, they'll find that the culture of book reading will have massively died, people will still read but they won't have this "love of books", they'll be like "I can get free fic on AO3, why do i care to buy an expensive book from an author i don't know?"

ah yes, university

@yassie_j I thought you went home

@amydentata the meat breath of the universe

@amydentata the meat death of the universe

1960: the people of 2024 will have flying cars, 2 day work weeks, and be colonizing space

2024: "why is everybody mad at me today" i wonder as i stare at the notifications on my pocket depression rectangle

i can't imagine how some US people can still be so sure that the courts will "surely not" get rid of something they take for granted as a right given that Americans just lost abortion as a right 2 years ago

also libraries allow you to try out tons of books, i can't imagine without libraries how people would even decide what to purchase, simply going in blind based on reviews like movies except way more expensive and with a much larger time commitment which means people would be even more selective

but then publishers don't actually care about that, they want to turn digital books into a streaming model, where all works are just "content", a featureless sludge to be pumped into the machine to drive subscriptions :\

it's the opposite if anything! how many people got into reading and writing BECAUSE of libraries? I know I did! I started writing because I was always holed up in the library reading fiction and it inspired me. If libraries didn't exist, I wouldn't have had so much access to books. I didn't have money to buy books, I didn't have bookstores near me. Without libraries, your incentive to write if you ONLY care about paying audiences and profit, would also only be narrowly targeted at people who bought books, and not the general audiences available to you through libraries.

"Tragically, the Court then undermines the important ruling in the Betamax/VCR case that found “time shifting” (recording stuff off your TV) to be fair use, even as it absolutely was repackaging the same content for the same purpose. The Court says that doesn’t matter because it “predated our use of the word ‘transformative’ as a term of art.” But that doesn’t wipe out the case as a binding precedent, even though the Court here acts as though it does."

It's also really bad and is going to hurt a lot of other things about digital preservation and being able to copy/backup/record stuff if the courts now start to decide that recording TV never should have counted as fair use :\

the other thing is libraries are one of the few remaining public spaces that people can go to that serve people and not profit or landowners. the reason I read so much as a kid? I hid in libraries to escape bullying. Sure, there's some bookstores that allow people to sit & read, but they're still private stores, and they'll kick you out if they think you're "loitering" or the wrong kind of person. and they're not a place unattended children can just go into & stay.

Libraries provide access to information and access to the wider digital & analog world for so many people, but also, they're run for a completely different purpose than almost any other kind of "public" space left. The death of libraries would hurt more than even the lack of ability of people to read free books. :\

also, libraries aren't a charity, they're a public service, the anti-IA people say the IA allows anybody to borrow while "real" libraries exist for the poor

that's not the purpose of a library & RL libraries don't just exist as charity for the poor

we as a society have lost the concept of what a public service is, we only see things in terms of profit and charity

public libraries exist b/c we as a society decided that access to books, to information, to knowledge, and to a public space that preserves those things is a public good, it's something everybody should have

public libraries are not and should not be a charity that we only minimally fund b/c some people are too poor to partake in capitalism and therefore need a little handout so they can get smarter to partake in capitalism

From @mmasnick: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/05/second-circuit-says-libraries-disincentivize-authors-to-write-books-by-lending-them-for-free/

"Even though this outcome was always a strong possibility, the final ruling is just incredibly damaging, especially in that it suggests that all libraries are bad for authors and cause them to no longer want to write. I only wish I were joking. Towards the end of the ruling (as we’ll get to below) it says that while having freely lent out books may help the public in the “short-term” the “long-term” consequences would be that “there would be little motivation to produce new works.”"

"there would be little motivation to produce new works" without profit motive?

the ENTIRE FANWORK INTERNET WOULD DISAGREE, which is probably, by quantity, a sizeable if not majority of fiction writing in the past 2 decades, it contains some of humanity's longest works!

@waitworry penalize them 10 yards