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Reminder to all my mutuals and followers that you can find all my art from now on on my art only account
I'll most likely repost there some of my original drawings posted here bc I want to have the content of my blogs more organized and I'll be using tumblr as one of my main backups/archive
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Promo art and sketch by Daigo Ikeno
Imagine being Daigo Ikeno and one day someone at Capcom approaches to ask you to make the composition less homoerotic
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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!
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the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire
icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at anyways, so why not have some fun with it before it all comes crashing down
cassandrean task: when you have to deal with people you KNOW won’t listen to you, despite having accurate information, and having to watch them fumble about when you told them the solution from the start (most often witnessed in customer service)
feel free to chime in i ran out of ideas much faster than i anticipated
Promethean task: opposite of a Cassandraean task. You have the right information, and SOMEONE has to share it. But it's all in the delivery and if you're the person to identify the problem you WILL be hated forever.
Oedipal Task: (1) Attempting to avoid an unspeakably awful outcome and in doing so creating the circumstances that will bring it about. (2) Trying to solve an problem and discovering that you are in fact the problem you are trying to solve.
Odyssean task: you’ll complete it but it’ll take 20 times longer than it should and involve multiple side quests and mini-adventures
Medean Task: Doing this is going to destroy you and what you love just as much as the person you're trying to destroy. Everyone is telling you this, and you already know this. But your "fuck that guy and what he thinks he can do to me" instinct is just that strong. Also admittedly you get an extremely badass exit when all's said and done.
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That video of Alex Hirsch reading S&P notes for Gravity Falls conveys a few things to me:
1) the U.S. entertainment industry (especially animation) is run by older conservative types who make up offensive terms and get really mad about them.
2) the people who run Disney would be the first to fall in line with a fascist regime.
3) most of the media we consume is tailor-made and watered-down to appeal to the tastes of older, deeply religious conservative audiences.
4) conservatism, not the left, is and always has been the biggest voice of censorship in American culture.
J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, was before that a producer and writer for a number of cartoons in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s (The Real Ghostbusters and the original She-Ra, most notably). After a few years of dealing with the censors and their obsession with finding Satanism (or at least looking for Satanism to further political agendas) he wrote an article about the whole corrupt and bullshit system.
And published it in Penthouse, to force those same censors to buy a skin mag. The editor there asked, why Penthouse?
That one is from his autobiography, Becoming Superman. See also:
(As he goes on to say, he’s never worked in animation again–he’s effectively been blacklisted by the cartoon industry.)
Every time something like this comes up, I remember two stories about making media. The first is about movies, and comes from Quentin “Feet Man” Tarantino.
When he was making Pulp Fiction, he was worried that the MPAA would object to the high level of violence in the film, so he shot a bunch of extra-gory stuff that he didn’t actually want in the film, and added it in before submitting it to the MPAA. Predictibly, they asked him to cut most of it (without even commenting on some of the things that had him worried, like the bits of Marvin’s skull that lodge in Samuel L. Jackson’s hairpiece). The resultant cuts were actually more permissive than he’d expected, so he cut a little more and submitted it, and it got passed with an R.
The second story is about that artist on Morrowind whose name escapes me (I’m not a big ES fan tbh) who figured out that if he made two creature designs, one weird and what he wanted, and one even weirder, he could get Todd Howard to agree to just about anything by showing him the whopper first, then going back and “working” for another few hours on a second, “toned-down” version, and it worked every time.
The reason I bring these up is that the thing that drives censors isn’t some extant physical rubrick of what is and isn’t acceptable, it’s the idea that they can have absolute power over someone else’s creative work. It’s about the social dominance of the interaction.
There is nothing so innocent, so clean, that a censor will not find some fault with it. Because they must find something wrong with it to justify their existence, and because it makes them feel powerful.
This is true of all censorship.
I’ve been a professional designer for 8 years and that last bit is so true. In addition to politics, a huge part of people meddling with creative work is just ego. They want to feel like they had a hand in the final product, even though they not only did not create it but are in fact incapable of creating something on that level. So they reach their hand into someone else’s work and command it to change, not in service of a mutual artistic goal, but simply because they have the power to do so and they like feeling that power.
Beyond personal ego, it’s also a matter of structural incentives and identity.
Imagine this: your job is to be a “censor” - whether that’s an actual agent of state censorship or a “stakeholder” or a producer or a middle manager. Doesn’t matter. Your job is to be someone who makes Appropriate Changes™ to creative work as a part of the creative process.
Now let’s say you work with artists who produce entirely inoffensive output that really doesn’t need any changes from you. Work which is entirely acceptable as it is, and which nobody would bat an eyelash at if it got published. Nobody would have a problem with it. Nobody would say “oh the censor failed to catch that one.”
If you just give the go-ahead to everything that comes across your desk, you are, objectively speaking, being unproductive. The product you are supposed to produce, the service you are supposed to provide, the function of your labor, is to make Appropriate Changes™ to things. If you are not making Appropriate Changes™, you are failing to do your job. You are being lazy, you are being ineffective, you are failing to do the work you were hired to do.
You don’t want to feel that way, and you don’t want to feel useless, so…
And this isn’t always even straight up malicious or egotistical, so much as it is a case of “when all you have is a hammer.” Even if there are no Appropriate Changes to make, you are conscious that your job is to make Appropriate Changes, and the entire lens through which you view the creative work that comes across your desk is “I must find Appropriate Changes to make to this, or else I am useless!”
That’s why the distraction gambit works so well here - if you give people something they can make Appropriate Changes™ to, then you satisfy their need to Do Their Job, and once THAT is out of the way, they won’t apply that same level of needful, box-ticking scrutiny to the rest of it.
The nature of the job itself incentivizes interfering with work that doesn’t need changes - in fact it often requires you to do so, lest your numbers look bad on your next performance review.
Even the nicest, most collaborative and creative soul can become a meddling busy-body if you put them in a job where their metric of success is measured in how much they meddle and interfere with the work of other people.
Of course, it’s also a kind of job which rewards people for being egotistical meddling busy-bodies by nature, and it is a job in which egotistical meddling busy-bodies have a natural advantage for flourishing, but it’s important to understand that it’s not JUST about individuals personally being egotistical assholes, there’s a structure which is shaping the behaviour as well.
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Concept art of Grog Strongjaw by Phil Bourassa for The Legend of Vox Machina
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• For this format you can choose the face features, body type, fashion style and overall inspiration for a gijinka of your favorite Pokemon.
You just need to bring me your references and we'll start working.
• Includes flat colors + cell shading(a more detailed coloring or render would mean a price increase. Up for conversation)
• you have free use for the finished design but I too have the freedom to reuse and redesign it for future projects.
• an extra character is 3/4 the price of your selected framing option.
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Seeing people say it’s stupid to go into academic careers because “the market doesn’t pay” really makes me realize just how we got into this situation we’re in now. Maybe the reason everyone doesn’t care about history and politics and let tech bros run the world is because they’re stupid. They think the value of information is purely economic and not cultural. Elon Musk is the face of a big tech brand that makes big numbers so therefore he’s more suited to be one of the main faces in a global political and cultural campaign. Like no wonder your politicians don’t know anything about major cultural events that are crucial to the knowledge of current political and human issues. No wonder. They’re already banning books on “controversial” historical events. A disinterest in recording history and culture because it makes the 1% uncomfortable can only be a sign of a corrupt society. Boohoo it makes you feel icky when you have to admit to the atrocities that are apart of what made your country the way it is today. Facts over feelings!
