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I took a few artistic liberties... like giving zach glasses, it made it feel more like himself

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The Whitest Miis U' Know
I took a few artistic liberties... like giving zach glasses, it made it feel more like himself
You guys would like my posts a lot more if you had my exact life experiences and internal monologue
real exchange i overheard between two of my bosses. ????
why is this getting notes again everyone STOP talking about white collar & rich guy shit i am a BLUE COLLAR DYKE!!!! THIS IS A JANITORIAL COMPANY!!!! i will NOT let you make this about white collar businessmen the poors are funny too ok
some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it
Shakespeare is like this
Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away
Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal
You guys ever see a DNI that makes you break out into laughter and almost cry
If graphic design is your passion then !!! GET OUT !!! 🚫🚫👎‼️🥶🥶🚫
matt and jay in 2008
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guys I just found the greatest video on the internet
Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself
so happy and free
this is going to be a silly reblog but i have kind of a fixation on animal qualia and the idea of an animal's umwelt, so i ended up wondering whether pudding was actually "enjoying" this.
which meant i went and read about snail brains.
here's the bad news, at least by human standards:
snails do not have anything like a centralized brain. their nervous system is made up of small clusters of neurons (ganglia) that mostly handle very local tasks. they don't have a cortex, they don't build big integrated models of the world, and they almost certainly don't experience things like appreciation, anticipation, or savoring.
pudding is not looking at the sky and thinking it's beautiful.
snail eyes are basically light sensors - they can tell bright from dark, but not form images. snail "taste" is done through chemoreceptors on their tentacles and around their mouth. those receptors don't produce flavor the way ours do; they just detect chemical compounds and sort them into "approach," "ignore," or "avoid."
so there's no evidence that snails enjoy food, or wind, or views, the way mammals do.
and that does sound kind of sad. but then i thought that maybe we are asking the wrong question.
snails do have valence. they detect aversive things (like salt or dryness) and withdraw from them. they detect non-aversive or beneficial conditions (like moisture) and stay extended. when pudding is stretched out like this, it means his nervous system is basically saying "this is safe; nothing is wrong."
if we define pleasure not as our human experience of dopamine and reward chemicals but instead as "the absence of aversion" - a state where the organism is open to its environment instead of defending itself - then this does count as something positive, even if it's extremely nothing like human enjoyment.
pudding isn't appreciating the wind. but his body is registering humidity, safety, and the ability to keep functioning, and that matters to him in the only way his nervous system can make things matter. he does not think "this is great, this is awesome, i love the weather", because he doesn't think in the way we do at all, but the neurological action in his ganglion tell his body that he is safe, that the moisture is an acceptable level, that it's not too dry or windy, and that there's nothing imminently threatening.
i think a lot of the sadness comes from assuming that a good life has to look like ours: full of enjoyment, meaning, and aesthetic experience. but a snail isn't missing those things. its world just isn't built to include them.
snails don't have a sense of flavor. they don't even have tastebuds. this seems like a gimme, right? but again that might be asking the wrong question about what "taste" is. biologically speaking, it's chemoreception. we taste sweet because it indicates high value, high calorie sugar molecules. we taste salty for salt, umami for proteins. so in what way does pudding's chemoreceptors differ from ours instrumentally? we can say "by our human perspective, pudding can't experience "preference" or "savoring" or "anticipation of delicious food"", but from pudding's perspective we have radically overengineered ourselves for the task at hand. pudding can tell what's salty, what's high value, what has the chemicals he needs. the functional outcome is that he can discriminate food souces based on their composition. is that not taste?
so maybe the point isn't "this is sad because he can't enjoy it," but "this is a reminder that minds come in radically different shapes, and value doesn't have to be rich to be real."
please. what is chuuni. please...
I will quote ZUN
I have been thinking a lot about Chuunibyo as a state that is; anti-normative, aspirational, and generative.
1) Chuuni is anti-normative. A comfortable and copacetic individual cannot be chuuni. Chuuni is founded in a dissatisfaction with the world, the type commonly found in adolescents. This lends the chuuni to both delusion and generation. The two are ideally not mutually exclusive.
2) Chuuni is aspirational. Chuuni is not a static state. It is something that must actively be pursed. The chuuni seeks something, be it a desire for identity, a more just world, or an escape from an unacceptable reality. A chuuni mindset is maintained for a reason.
3) Chuuni is generative. Chuuni in its best artistic expression is generative. After all, desire must inevitably articulate itself. This might manifest as "a desire for special powers" or "a cool bisexual vampire bf" but because Chuuni is ideally both anti-normative and aspirational, it will not stop with these ideas. It indulges the adolescent, but continues building based on that trajectory.
The result is --i think-- a good response to specific artistic struggles. Chuuni balances and breaks the hyper-appolonian, recursively ironic, often-twee spirals of self-critical cleverness that a lot of postmodern art gets stuck in. You need to want something that is embarrassingly revealing. This is why I think David Foster Wallace needed to be more Chuuni.
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Everyone say thank you american indigenous people for cultivating corn, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, cacao, pumpkin, squash, and anything i missed. Makes life more meaningful globally
Yes actually I will not shut up about how these foods are from the Americas/cultivated by the people there, and did NOT exist in Asia, Africa or Europe before the 1490s, there was an absolute food revolution going on in the 1500s. Whatever you think is traditional food for your country? Check again, you’ve maybe only been using that ingredient for maybe 500 years. Here is the full list of crops, it is very interesting :))
I'm officially homeless so if you have any money to spare, I really need it
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all i've had today is applesauce, some pretzels, and a slice of white bread with peanut butter on it. there aren't any hot meals served because it's sunday.