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tysm for all the love on my other starlight drawings!!!!! here's some more fanart, featuring other characters this time :DD

faunshiii

so i started watching the boys

xanythingbuthumanx

Small fandoms are actually so peak as long as there’s enough content on the internet to consume I love them.

“Oh but don’t you wanna talk to someone irl who understands?” No, I quite literally do not. I suck at socializing plus I’m autistic, guess what happens when I talk about something I like.

idiosyncatsy

ok I know this is somehow simultaneously preaching to the choir and winding up at a hornets' nest, and I know people have expressed this sentiment before with greater grace and perspective than I am about to, but it's been bothering me for weeks so I'm just going go ahead and say: human-made art DOES have inherent meaning. and I think watching the room (2003) is a perfect example of why.

because like. the room is bad. like, it's one of the few pieces of media I've ever encountered where I am one hundred percent sure that not only could a computer replicate it, probably a computer could output something that on every aesthetic metric would be technically superior. and you know what? that would still be slop! it would be meaningless! the reason the room is fun to watch is precisely that it WAS made by people. the shots of the golden gate bridge aren't funny because there's something inherently amusing about bridges; they're funny because you as the viewer are trying to figure out why the very human editor made that choice. the dialogue isn't just funny because it sounds like it was written by an alien; it's funny because it was written by tommy wiseau, who is a real guy who lives in the real world (we think). the line delivery is interesting because each choice you see was made, for some reason, on purpose. why?? how??? what was the thought process??? and that's not even getting into the part of it that is fun because of the context: who made it and when and the bonkers story behind the filming, which of course would be impossible with something that's 100% made by 0s and 1s.

like. AI generated 'art' is a bid for engagement. clicks, eyeballs, attention, whatever. which is just what machines do, that's not really the computers' fault. but that is the absolute most it is ever going to be able to give anyone, even if the technical side eventually becomes very polished. anything made by humans--even when it's bad or nonsensical or even, I would argue, cynical or in bad faith--is still, on some level, a bid for connection. it has the possibility to connect you with the people or person who made it. it is someone making a thing for whatever reason and asking that you respond to it in whatever way. maybe that response is mostly being infuriated! but it matters. as a form of connection, as a way we interact with and learn about each other. that is literally impossible for a computer to do, because a computer does not care about connection and at a base level cannot care about it. so like, make bad art, love bad art, love and make good art too if you are so inclined. and if you're reading this thinking 'wow so cringe' or 'human connection isn't actually that important,' like, whatever. but I would strongly urge you to reconsider.

ruusverd

I usually try to be tolerant of anachronisms in books, particularly ye olde medieval generic swords and sorcery type books, but I think I broke the sound barrier with how quickly I just shot out of my immersion in this book when ye olde ancient archivist in the ye olde fantasy-england castle's library tells the protag where to find a certain book by giving him its dewey decimal number.

ruusverd

Today in an arthurian retelling set in pre-saxon britain I encountered a character who said he was going to quit drinking "cold turkey," which I think puts him roughly a thousand years prior to European awareness of the existence of turkeys, and the dissonance had barely registered in my mind before I remembered the medieval lending library run on the dewey decimal system and decided a chronologically misplaced poultry idiom wasn't worth noticing in comparison.

therealredlocust

batmanego

fuck this time loop im leaving (walks into a different, worse time loop)

rapidlydecayingcorpse

dude i am so tired all the time. for what purpose bro im youthful as Fuck

wizardarchetypes

funniest convo ever with a guy who said 2 me "nobody uses journalism degrees" and i said "my mom has a bachelors in journalism" and he smiled like knowingly and said "yeah, but what does she do?" and i said "she runs a newspaper and publishes romance novels on the side." and he literally said "oh" and nothing else. like he ended the whole conversation there.

wizardarchetypes

i've just been informed he has a trombone degree. like the study of playing trombone. which is all well and good, i genuinely think we should all have the opportunity to chase our academic bliss but i do think the trombone studies guy should hesitate to judge the economic value of other people's degrees no

wizardarchetypes

i love the tags on this post because there’s other music/instrument majors implying niche field-specific drama like “of course it was a trombone player 😒” and then there’s trombone majors like “this was NOT me for the record”