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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Claire Keane
will byers stan first human second
cherry valley forever
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Sweet Seals For You, Always
$LAYYYTER
todays bird
noise dept.
Kiana Khansmith
occasionally subtle
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shoutout to the comment who pointed this out. whos gonna get their thinking caps on to figure what this is gonna be because we all know its no coincidence to showing up here
FINALLY, I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR A POST TO MENTION THIS!! Still trying to figure it out cuz being an adult with limited time suuuuuuuucks
SEONGHWA (성화) in Crazy Form MV by ATEEZ
Context:
The original video, for anyone who hasn't seen it:
And the relevant album cover:
Sessler was a teenager when "We're Not Gonna Take It" it was on the charts. Probably had MTV so he saw the video.
No fuckin' idea how he thought it was in support of "traditional American values."
Never not reblog. Dee Snider is iconic and queer as fuck for a cishet man.
-fae
No one disrespects my man Dee in this house.
Never forget when he sat in front of a congressional hearing about Lewd Music Corrupting the Youth and completely shut that shit down in the most professional manner that no member of that committee expected from a hair metal musician. They thought they'd get easy points off of a dumb metalhead and this man not only knew exactly what the fuck he was talking about, he tore their arguments apart.
DUDE THE VIDEOOO
For those unfamiliar with this ICON
This is why my working definition of queer is "queerness is that which accepts queerness."
It encompasses a radical welcome and celebration of things that deviate from "the norm" and a fierce willingness to defend them from people who think mere deviance is worthy of vicious and violent bullying.
Dee Snider is the embodiment of "Queer as in fuck you."
I love seeing this post make the rounds
dee snider is a fucking icon, man
Right wingers are incapable of creating anything of worth or value
They do not create art, literature, culture
Even most of their ideas are stolen
The only thing right wingers create is death and suffering.
They do nothing but take from others
They drain the world of life, while draining life from the world itself. There is no benefit to anyone other than themselves as a result of these actions.
There's a word in nature for such a creature
And that word is "Parasite"
Right wingers steal art, culture, music and ideas from those BETTER and SUPERIOR to them, because right wingers are a fucking parasite species that is a pest infestation upon the earth
Remember when I told ya'll last month to be ready to start looking for a Discord alternative?
Yeah things aren't looking good for discord.
#what is the alternative anyway
If you want a direct alternative there's Revolt, which is a free, open source discord clone.
Revolt is the chat app that's truly built with you in mind.
Oh...
It's even worse than I thought.
Time to go back to IRC.
I recommend Element; it's very similar to Discord and has basically the same features but it's privacy-focused and both servers and DMs can both be encrypted so only the actual users of those rooms can read the messages.
This means unlike most popular chat apps, including and especially Discord, Element doesn't sell your conversations or tracking data to advertisers, because the company literally doesn't have access to that data in the first place.
I've used it for years and I think it's a natural fit for Discord users.
sighs. saves for later
the framing of generative ai as "theft" in popular discourse has really set us back so far like not only should we not consider copyright infringement theft we shouldn't even consider generative ai copyright infringement
who do you think benefits from redefining "theft" to include "making something indirectly derivative of something created by someone else"? because I can assure you it's not artists
for years disney used their billions to alter copyright law. they kept extending the date that it expired in order to hold on to the rights of their movies for longer and longer (movies that were mostly based on public domain works fyi)
it was only after years of protest against this that they finally decided to give up indefinitely as public perception had turned against them and they didnt think the PR backlash would be worth it
with the conflation of generative AI with 'theft,' and the amount of support this idea has from creatives, i genuinely worry that if Disney tried this again in a few years, under the guise of 'protecting artists from AI,' it would pass with little push back and we would lose more of our cultural history to multi-billion corporations
also defining piracy (aka 'copying') as theft is what has let companies use the full power of copyright law to incarcerate people, destroying peoples lives in the name of 'lost profit' and, in the case of nintendo, even force a guy into what is basically indentured servitude for the rest of his life
two years ago tumblr users were spreading the fundraiser advertising itself for "supporting human artists" well into a five digit number of notes, organized by "Concept Art Association"
2. Concept Art Association (CAA) jumped into the Washington, DC landscape immediately by joining forces with fellow intellectual property organizations. CAA became a member of the Copyright Alliance (https://copyrightalliance.org/) as well as the Digital Creators Coalition (https://www.digitalcreatorscoalition.org/).
which then joined "Copyright Alliance" which consists of following members, among others:
MPA ("In the 1980s, it spoke out against VCRs and the threat that the MPA believed they represented to the movie industry")
RIAA
Authors Guild ("guild has been a persistent critic of controlled digital lending"; more like Publisher's Guild amirite)
Adobe (which made its own image generator)
Getty Images (which sued Stable Diffusion (for people not familiar with it: free and you can run it on your own computer), and then released its own paid AI generator)
Disney (guess fucking what)
Oracle ("the Nestle of software" in how if you ask 5 people why Oracle is bad you will get 10 different answers)
and furthermore all of them are keen on destroying the Internet Archive
by supporting copyright further, we're heading into a future where copyright gets tightened even more, and AI generators exist anyway, owned by the largest media companies, which is honestly the worst possible future for everyone
Saying that a certain group of people is too privileged to complain about the way that things are is its own sort of defense of the status quo
Like if a white person from the American suburbs who had doctors for parents says "the suburbs are set up in a way that's designed to alienate the people within them from their neighbors growing up there can be an incredibly lonely isolating experience" and you respond with "shut up you had everything you ever wanted growing up" you are sort of pretending that this asocial way of living we've set up based on harmful ideas like castle doctrine and individualism is in some way desirable for someone when the reality of the situation is that everyone is miserable.
Oh boy this is popping off. But I just want to put on this post that this isn't just about the example that I used this is also when people get mad at you for complaining about aspects of living in America because other people are getting bombed by America how dare you, or when (usually neurodivergent) white people complain about how wasp monoculture is high key hostile to be raised in, or when people with middle class jobs complain about the shit their boss pulls, or any other number of situations in which a relatively privileged potential ally talks about the unique ways the oppressive systems we're looking to overthrow effects them negatively. Like yes sure if you have a minimum wage job it's annoying to listen to someone with a salary and benefits say "my boss treats me like shit and my company is doing x evil thing" but if you're in that situation and you're actually down for the cause instead of just here to play oppression Olympics, you want to gain allies in this fight by saying "have you considered unionizing" instead of pushing people away by saying "shut up at least you can afford rent"
To The Substitute Art Teacher - Jordan Bolton
🌱✨ An All-Consuming Desire ✨🌱
ages ago i saw this post and couldn't stop thinking abt it so i drew falin as the bone hydra
The thing with amateur local theater is it is almost always bad BUT keeping it alive is the most important thing
The joys of artistic expression cannot be limited to talented people everybody needs it to survive
This is such a hilarious take we should give untalented people who make bad art money you know just because guys
Exactly. Glad you understand 💗
For millenia humans have existed and danced and sung together up until around 100 years ago when culturally it was decided now that the process of entertaining has been legitimised in a post industrial-revolution world via the proliferation of musical recording and playback devices and a certain level of 'quality control' has been established, only certain people were allowed to do the dancing and singing.
my theory is dragons kidnap princesses for the same reason they hoard gold and other treasure, which is the perceived value and the bragging rights thereof. however, unlike precious metals and gems, human attractiveness is way more subjective, so you end up with dragons calculating the most valuable princess to nab and getting frustrated when their math doesn't check out...
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A Case of Split Identity in Unknown Mother Goose
I’ve been listening to Ai/Solate a lot recently and it got me to think about Unknown Mother Goose again and how it’s an absolutely fantastic song that’s such a deep personal view into wowaka’s relationship with Vocaloid and how it was ultimately what made him successful in music but also completely isolated him as an artist and one thing that wasn’t ever brought up in ForgetfulSubs’ translation nor have I seen ever brought up anywhere else is a Japanese-specific grammar oddity.
If you know literally anything about Japanese you’re probably aware that unlike English, which only has one first person pronoun of “I”, Japanese has multiple, each with their own levels of politeness and implications of gender and rank etc. etc.
Generally, in songwriting, the pronoun used is 僕 (boku), a pronoun that is polite and familiar. It implies the speaker is male but many female songwriters will use it too, as it’s become sort of a lyrical standard.
This is the first line of Unknown Mother Goose:
Noticeably, the first person pronoun used is あたし (atashi), an exclusively female first person pronoun almost never used in lyrics (and even less frequently in lyrics not about romantic love/not trying to appear ‘cutesy’ to a male audience). Why this unusual pronoun choice? Though あたし has three mora, it is pronounced as two syllables, and 僕 could be easily substituted. Even if wowaka didn’t want to use 僕, he could have used 私 (watashi), a word nearly identical in sound with the same number of mora but with fewer gendered connotations.
Japanese is a pronoun drop language, so not every line that has “I” translated into it actually contains a first person pronoun. However, あたし is used a couple more times until–
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do you think if you hit him with a rock he’d go “ow!”
Frog.
Frog, but now in motion.
Launching my first art blogs with a small comic based on the amazing words of Ursula K. Le Guin!
