Kinda weird that the US elite is full of child molesters flying to pedophile island but if a poor artist ages Sailor Moon up to 18 to sell porn to anime fans she gets obliterated from the internet
The state of the internet is a bunch of people who are on record as having raped children telling you that artistic expression is immoral.
I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.
my most common self criticism when writing, especially after reading really good prose, is God i am not smart enough to be doing this. but you can't listen to that. you have to keep writing your dumbass little story. you have to
🌼Remember the powers that be rely on your despair. That's why they bombard people from every angle; they know we're too powerful when we're organized, joyful, & loving each other. If all you can do is survive that's still an act of resistance. It takes millions of small actions to move mountains 🌄💝
I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.
"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.
Like the world is burning & this is how you decide to act. Curating your bullshit is one thing, calling people 'dangerous' because of their fake erotic art is horse shit, thanks. Spend more time campaigning to get the global sexual predatory elite behind bars instead of bitching about small artists
If you're doing callout posts about artists creating fictional taboo content, you may not consider yourself a fascist, but you are one. You are their stupid tool at the bare minimum. The good news is you can stop doing that at any time
I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.
Do not give websites your government ID
Do not give websites your full government name
Anonymity on the internet is safety
It keeps bad actors from knowing who you are and where you are
This is internet 101
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this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit
you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table
you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from
Another aspect of modern online media criticism I can't stand is how nothing is allowed to just be good anymore. Everything either has to be a "groundbreaking masterpiece/absolute cinema" or "the worst thing ever made".
Reminder that "degenerate" was a term coined by Nazis to describe art they didn't like and labeled problematic.
Unless you have proof of real world harm, leave people alone and let them draw fucknasty shit. You have block and mute features. Stop making your disgust everyone else's problem.
A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”
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Discord out here inventing noncon age regression
it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences
I would argue don’t wait to cancel nitro until they implement the change. Cancel it and only resub if they backtrack on this
Rem used to give him apple juice in shot glass and call it whiskey for his cowboy games. Another lie. Another reason to nuke this fucking planet.
The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
Sex is good, actually.
"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
sorry for being cringe I'm trying to enjoy being alive
To the cis people in the fandom who say drawing Vash with a vagina or xeno genitalia is trans fetishization: sit down and shut the fuck up. Queer people have a right to self expression whether you approve of it or not. Many Trigun artists who draw trans characters are trans themselves.
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my only notes to people under 30: your 30s aren't for ditching fandom, they're for re-evaluating all the "cringe" stuff you liked as a teenager through the lens of someone who can appreciate it fully, going, "that owned, actually," and becoming even more unhinged about it. please look forward to it.
With my upcoming bottom surgery, this is gonna be a big year for me - even bigger if I get accepted to the Toronto Comics Arts Festival. I gotta get a lot of money together just to prepare.
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