Great Potate @greatpotate - Tumblr Blog

I don't remember finding fart jokes particularly funny even when I was a child.

I didn't find them funny as a small autistic child, but with age comes wisdom and the ability to recognize that fart jokes are the pinnacle of humor. Peepeepoopoo.

kippwire

my lesbian clown girls

stellerfly

"ai is making it so everyone can make art" Everyone can make art dipshit it came free with your fucking humanity

pizzaronipasta

Oh gee, you're right! Why didn't the people who can't even move their arms think of just making a painting? /s

And before anyone starts spouting some "art is more than just painting" spiel, you don't know what kind of art someone might need to make in order to express their vision. An artist may have a very specific idea in mind to create the perfect piece of graphic art, and using music, performance, etc. just won't cut it for them. AI is a tool that can help the disabled in so many ways. Not even just with art. Get off your high horse and accept that disabled people have different needs and, guess what, ABILITIES than you do. Fuck you, asshole.

you are a tar pit.

and you are ableist.

you're fighting against a tool that makes art more accessible, and actively dismissing the notion that it could even possibly be doing that. this IS ableist. YOU are the tar pit in this situation.

stellerfly

L+Ratio+It doesn't+i slept w your mom

cripple-woe

Hi I’m disabled I’m crippled I have a disorder that makes my fingers suddenly dislocate while I’m holding my pencil I have a spinal issue that makes it hard for me to bend over a desk half of the time I have leg issues that make it difficult for me to get around etc etc etc. I also have a bunch of other issues I don’t want to tell you about.

I’m also in art college. And even if I wasn’t, I’ve been doing art for almost a decade now. I’ve been disabled the whole bloody time.

AI, isn’t art.

There are many disabled artists and we have adapted our own ways of dealing with how we create. Fuck you, we have been doing this forever.

Vincent Van Gogh had temporal lobe epilepsy; Henri Matisse became a wheelchair user after surgery for cancer; Michelangelo had osteoarthritis, limiting mobility and causing pain in his hands and feet.

Paul Smith had a severe case of cerebral palsy and created art using typewriters.

Peter Longstaff has no arms due to Thalidomide, and paints with his feet.

Frida Kahlo not only had polio that disabled her as a child, but of course as we all know was injured in a bus accident at the age of 18, which caused her lifelong pain and medical problems.

Fuck, you want a personal annecdote? I knew a girl (we have lost touch since) who was paralysed from the neck down and she painted with her mouth and there are other artists who do so too! And with eye tracking technology I’m sure disabled artists will be getting more and more tools as the years pass. But we do NOT condone AI art. All that does is put us, real disabled artists, who exist and need support, out of jobs and commissions.

Fuck you.

solstice-snakes

hi, another disabled person here for more personal anecdotes! here is an art piece i made entirely with my non dominant hand 1 week before my most recent shoulder surgery on that same arm. i also wear splint rings to keep my fingers from dislocating while painting (or playing bass guitar cause i do that too). i make most of my income off hand painted art despite having hand tremors, frequent wrist dislocations/subluxations, and migraines.

my friend and her wife also make their incomes off wig making, leatherwork, and digital collage prints. both have chronic pain as well.

our lines arent perfect because we have shaky hands but thats ok, make it a feature not a flaw in your art. fuck AI.

punk-jaskier

Anyone who thinks physically disabled people need to use art stealing AI to make our own art is the ableist, actually.

Mine isn't as drastic (yet) but I've been having to wear wrist braces and finger splints since childhood off and on because using my hands in a repetitive motions causes them to be in pretty excruciating pain.

What is my art medium of choice? Knitting. You know, that thing where you have to do a repetitive motion over and over again. I hold my needles a bit strange, I knit through the pain, I sometimes have to give up working on it for weeks at a time. But I will not stop because it's what makes my heart sing.

Disabled artists don't need your pity, we've been getting by, doing what makes us happy despite the pain and hardships for thousands of years, probably longer, I bet there were neolithic disabled artists.

No actual real artist wants or uses AI, including disabled artists. AI is for losers who are scared of the extremely important phase in art where you suck and want to skip it by stealing and not even in a cool "I'm emulating your style because I wanna learn from it" way.

Go suck at art for a couple years like the rest of us and stop talking over disabled artists.

icemankazansky

Can I just add

Chuck Close

Chuck Close was a painter and photographer who specialized in ENORMOUS portraiture. If you've never been in the same room as one of his works, try to remedy that if you can, because it is an awesome experience. Close had a number of mental and physical conditions as a child, but in 1988, in his 40s and already a celebrated artist, he suffered a blood clot that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After intensive physical therapy, he was able to regain enough control to move his arms (more his upper arms than forearms), enabling him to paint with a brush strapped to his wrist. He adapted his painting style for his disability... and he continued painting enormous, hyper realistic portraits.

Close with self-portraits before (left) and after (right) his paralysis:

the-haiku-bot

Close with self-portraits

before (left) and after (right)

his paralysis:

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

greatpotate

Disabled people have always created art and we always will. We don't need to steal in order to express ourselves. We make our difficulties part of the story of our work.

lilmamabeyellin

slaggaslime-deactivated20240320

Bro hopped out the whip 😂

sexhaver

is this a fucking leekspin remix

femlich2233

Transmasc Jax makes no sense if you think about it for even a single second.

Making this post because all the "Hahaha, wow, I can't tell if Jax is transfem or transmasc! Both have so much evidence!" type posts because they annoy me deeply. So I'm shooting down transmasc Jax once and for all.

Point 1. Why would a trans woman's self-insert be a trans man? That makes literally no sense.

Point 2. Why would Goose draw a trans man taking progesterone?

Point 3: If Jax is a trans man, why would Goose have Zooble put Jax in a maid outfit and comment that they thought he'd be into that kind of thing? All it does is make Zooble look like a total pos.

Point 4: Why would Jax make a sad, bitchy comment about Zooble's ability to change their body if he liked being a man with a male body?

Point 5: why would Gooseworx make this comment if Jax is a trans man? It just comes off as transphobic in that context.

Point 6: Why would she add this line about Jax being an egg if he's a trans man? He wouldn't be an egg; he'd just be a stealth trans man.

Final point: So much of the symbolism around Jax just becomes wildly transphobic if he's a trans man and not a trans woman. "These ears and this tail are representative of my masculinity." *Ears and tail are not actually a part of him but rather just a part of the fragile outer shell/mask he shows to the world.* If Jax is a trans woman? Based, relatable, and accurate. If Jax is a trans man? The only logical conclusion to draw would be that gooseworx is transphobic, which is fucking stupid and obviously not the case.

In conclusion, please, for the love of God, stop acting like transmasc Jax holds even a shred of the weight and viability that transfem Jax does. It's literally just this meme:

greatpotate

The whole "transmasc Jax" theory is just transmisogyny. They want their Tumblr Sexyman and they're willing to brush off the obvious trans coding as her being transmasc to keep him. I'm so fucking sick of this blatant erasure of trans women UGH

#transfem jax #jax #jax tadc #the amazing digital circus jax #trans jax #mtf jax #ftm jax #transmisogyny #trans erasure #transphobia

armengoldira

anonymoustypewriter

That's the fucking whoville Christmas band contraption that drove the grinch to madness

importantcatpics

greatpotate

creekmotel

greatpotate

Needed this reminder this month

#mental health #don't kill yourself #istg don't do it

gokucat

feeding her stuffie must live on....

gokucat

feeding her stuffie must live on....

minart-was-taken

You'd think after 5 789 948 siblings she'd be used to this, but this is new, ok

sonichedgeblog

In Sonic Adventure 2′s Security Hall level there’s a bunch of money flowing about freely. This is the texture used on that money. [Sonic The Hedgeblog] [Support us on Patreon]

metalbatteryzone

This is the low quality money Sonic reblog under five minutes (that should be plenty) for good luck and A Ranks.

greatpotate

Reblog the low quality Sonic money. Or else.

catchymemes

#potato of luck #i require it #things have been BAD bad

anthrophobixx

I had a dream where Brock was revealed to be a butch lesbian at the end of journeys and he thought that "ash and the others already knew" and the entire internet started losing their minds over it and after a couple hours the pokemon company tweeted "surprise faggots" with a picture of Brock holding a poorly edited lesbian flag

I tried to recreate it it looked smth like this