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@aine-doine
I will legit scroll thru a random account that reposted me for hours just looking at all the porn they reposted and genuinely not even feeling anything from it. Studying my demographic like a specimen under a microscope. It's an amoeba holding a phone with a drawing of a girl with tits the size of a small ikea cabinet on it.
Possessor (dir. Brandon Cronenberg 2020)
What it looks like to me is that these churns of outrage aren't actually about anything that these creators say or do, so much as they are a kind of reflexive action in response to literally any kind of friction. Like an angry infected rash flaring up with pain when it is brushed by a feather.
The show you like is telling a slightly different story than what you want? Friction is the same as pain so it is hurting me, AAAA!!! Your expectation of what was going to happen to that character you liked didn't pan out? Friction! Friction hurts! You're hurting me!!
But where the Disney Corporation can run a fucking angle grinder across the rash and barely provoke an "ow," indie creators (especially if they are not men), can get nearly run off the internet for things like factually answering a direct question or stating that the story they are writing has main characters.
There's a lot of misogyny in that, obviously, and in many awful flavors, but I think there's also mixed in there a very peculiar kind of consumer-brained entitlement. We expect that the big corporations will fuck us over every two seconds, and we expect to be utterly powerless to do anything about it because all they give a shit about is Line Go Up, but indie creators (especially if they are not men) are expected to be the balm to that infected rash. Where everything else in the world is painful and mean and uncomfortable, independent queer creators are expected to produce the comfortable swaddling bandage that dulls the pain and soothes the sensitivity. This is supposed to be our happy place, our safe place. It's supposed to be ours and belong to us and serve us.
And so they moment they produce friction, any friction, literally the tiniest amount of friction imaginable, well that's a failure! You are failing to live up to your purpose, and that's not just a creative failure but a moral and personal and spiritual failure too. It's a sin, in fact, it is a kind of evil. Friction hurts, and that means you are hurting me!
It creates this fucked up upside-down bizarro logic wherein the corpos and the companies can transgress to almost literally any degree, as much as they want, as often as they want, but queer independent creators (and I cannot stress this enough: especially if they are not men) have to walk tightrope on a razor wire and may God help their souls if they ever put a foot wrong. We will shake and shake and shake the towers until they each fall down; I didn't like that step I think you were taking, how dare you believe you deserve to be up there!
I definitely feel a sort of hesitation and anxiety whenever I read peopleâs headcanons about my stories, because I get worried theyâll be upset that the way I write the story doesnât match up to the thing they have in their heads. This gets especially tricky when lots of folks speculate in different directions and I feel that whatever I write WILL disappoint somebody⌠(or, to Skyenâs point: create upsetting emotional friction for them)
Which, to be fair? Yeah. Thatâs normal. Not all art is for everybody. I try hard to internalize this⌠thereâs a really badly paraphrased Mark Rosewater quote about game design I think about a lot:
âAnything specific enough for a person to fall in love with must, by its very nature, be something that another kind of person doesnât like.â
Thatâs not a bad thing. Everyone is different and if you try to make something that perfectly inoffensive to everybody, you end up with something mild and flavorless.
All this to say, Iâm glad Iâve managed to cultivate a broadly cool audience who, for the most part, are super supportive of my work. I think itâs important to make stuff for the sickos (Affectionate).
i just donât feel like we as a society ever fully processed deedee megadoodoo
a cop pulls somebody over for a traffic stop when she gets flattened by a poop truck cause the driver of the poop truck was jerkin his shit nasty style and they report the copâs name was deedee megadoodoo are you fucking with me right now????
My "new" copy of The TĂĄin is a very passed around ex-student copy and the notes of the previous owner are so hilarious love this kid
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said this on bluesky but:
i genuinely encourage non black people to engage with this, who might be worried they can't because of the word "nigga" because they feel like it's overstepping. the only way it would be overstepping is saying it to me when ur not black, but please don't be afraid to engage with black art.
i kinda get annoyed when non black people police other non blacks on how to engage with black culture because it creates a problem where non black people avoid us all together which can be extremely isolating and create even MORE tension and overall being uneducated.
"Just fucking transition already" in all its forms is necessary counterculture to the endless fucking eggslop that litters the trans internet. "When you wish you were aâ" No. You are one. Transition about it. Quit romanticising the closet.
An addendum for those who cannot safely transition now: you're fine, you can make sure you're in a good position beforehand. Love to you all.
Working on getting to a situation where you can safely socially/medically transition counts as part of transition tbh
This includes finding community with other trans people, online or offline, and learning what your options are from others who've been in the same situation as you. Find mutual aid groups operating close to you, find out what your options are for accessing transition care, learn what you can do about your specific situation.
There's help to be found. You don't have to be alone in the closet.
I think, at least personally, the only caveat I have to this is to help people move forward, but listen if they say they need to slow down. If they are scared, the answer isnt to force them to do whatever you were initially pushing them to do, its to help find an alternative, or how to make it less scary for them. You are trying to help them move forward, give them a push, but please, please be compassionate about it and actually listen to them. someone treating me that way has saved me, and its something I always try to remember when trying to help my friends who are earlier in their transition. You are guiding someone forward, not shoving them off a cliff.
Also, "just fucking transition already" is like, a great way to sum up your point OP, and i 100% agree with you, but i think saying those exact words is to a trans person you are trying to help can do more harm then good. If someone who was helping me break out of my shell and begin to transition told me that, it probably would have set me back instead of helping me forward. give them confidence, tell them they can do it, thats what we need to do.
Yeah so the thing about interacting with someone directly and in person is that instead of vague, wide-reaching messaging slogans you like. Talk to your friend and apply basic social skills like respect for boundaries and meeting someone where they're at.
Cause like. Posts on the internet addressed at nobody in particular, and interactions with people you know personally, those are different entire forms of communication.
hey @ whoever is reading this: just go ahead and print out dozens of copies of that last paragraph, and then tape it to every surface in your house, and then get it tattooed onto the back your eyelids, and then read it to yourself every morning when you wake up and every night before you go to sleep and before and after every meal you ever have for the rest of your life
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you tell me that all the bad people are stupid. you tell me that stupid people should be killed, bred out, that evolution will leave them behind. i tell you that's not funny, that i have an intellectual disability, that i want to be allowed to love and to have children of my own. that maybe it's not the end of the world if "stupid" people get to stay. that my caregiver loves me and takes care of me. that she reads to me. that i get by with my little accessibility tools scattered about the house, my aac, and by being gentle. you tell me it's a joke. clearly you aren't like those REAL eugenicists, you only talk like them. you tell me surely i must agree- all the bad people, the ones who take away my rights, they must not be smart, they must be lacking some information to make them like this. i tell you smart people have hurt me more than anyone else because they know better and they still choose cruelty. these people in power aren't lacking anything. they have all the resources in the world and brains that work the way they want. they don't know struggle, they doom everyone who does. you don't stop talking about "stupid people" like we're a disease to eradicate. i note you down as one more smart person who has failed me by choosing to be cruel when you knew better
A lot of people seem to mix up âcommunityâ with âfriend groupâ so when they read âno one should be abandoned by the community. No matter what they didâ they think it means âyou have to be friends with abusersâ. When in reality it means âno matter what someone does they shouldnt be left to go homeless and be denied financial, housing, medical, etc aidâ
You donât have to be friends with these people, no one is saying that. Itâs just saying that you should support rehabilitative justice, support programs that help homeless people, support funding for free medical services, and make sure they donât turn away anyone who needs help.
Diamanda Galas called this the most terrifying song she had ever heard. This song uses the UPIC composition system - it essentially translates shapes into sound. The Y axis refers to sound frequency, and the X axis time. Basically, instead of using even a microtonal scale, you have note continuums, which was also used by composers like Ligeti. The result is indeed one of the most terrifying and powerful things I've ever heard - and also stands as excellent visual art too. If you want to compose like this (I myself occasionally use something similar for graphic scores), there is a modern recreation available here. You can even get it for iphone/ipad. I'll likely be using it more as I learn it. Anyway I love Xenakis. And not just because he is one of the greatest and most innovative composers of the 20th century. And not just because I owe so much of what I do to him, especially as he went into outright noise music. And not just the fact the was a fantastic architect. But also the fact he had his face disfigured fighting british imperialism, and was part of the armed resistance against fascism during world war 2.
Fuck yeah comrade.
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Bro you're lowkey sleeping on the golden calf, everyone is worshipping it! We should go sacrifice something to it later lol I'm kinda bored
golden calf is a noob trap
I'm so fascinated by people who seem to believe that analyzing media is somehow taking the joy out of it. Like. Do you not enjoy thinking? Does taking stuff apart and figuring out how it works not give you a hit of dopamine? And you get mad when you see people having fun in this way? What a sad, miserable way to engage with the world.
Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?
Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw
Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.
I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS
I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.
I feel like people who believe that we live in a simulation don't have enough fun reincorporating existing conspiracy theories into that. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald exploited a unique geometry glitch you can only get by shooting the president which teleports you to the grassy knoll
[TN: This is a translation of this note by Maromi. If you are able, I encourage you to read the original article for yourself as translation
I have never read a more excellent article
This is a great take and I would like to adopt âFeelings Yakuzaâ in English actually, I feel like it conveys the whole thing way more obviously than âantiâ (not to mention the muddled meaning of âproshipperâ).
To avoid harassment, EA and SEA artists have started pre-emptively blocking users with "proship DNI" or any variation thereof in their profiles as a result of this article and said feelings yakuza are getting pissed that their DNIs are being hard enforced by the other side. How very dare.
Iâm screaming with laughter at the actual Japanese term, o-kimochi yakuza. The âoâ is an honorific indicator to indicate how prissy and self-important these people are being.
I don't know if Maromi intended this to be the incredible takedown that it is, but I couldn't not share it:
Amazing
I know the term "Feelings Yakuza" is mostly related to shipping, but I think we should use it more broadly to describe anyone who conflates 'comfort' and 'safety' because it's actually perfect
Can't stop thinking about the hot butch who I thought was flirting with me when she said she gets in the pussy like the vacuum from teletubbies only to leave with her gf like five minutes later I think this is how people become the unabomber
You didn't leave with them??
