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@kotaline
going back in time to tell myself that im doing all the cool things i wanted to do as an adult and waving my arms frantically about it in hopes that i won't ask present me things like "who's the president" or "how are global politics doing"
“it’s circus work.” not to me. not if it’s my monkeys.
jim henson, frank oz & don sahlin showing off how to make various characters with a “whatnot/anything” muppet, 1969
#actual wizard like ACTUAL#you could take the absolute most cutting edge deepfake with every hi-res freckle and hair in place so you could zoom in to the atomic level#and it would not be as Real as this felt egg#with 2 puppeteers clearly visible (via @harrietvane)
studying ancient history will have you thinking stuff like The 18th century was basically yesterday
i'll never live down the time i was talking with a friend and i said "given recent events". my friend said "what recent events?" and i had to reply "the Protestant Reformation"
every once in a while the internet gets into Art School Discourse and at this point i think most of the blogs following me are abandoned but yk. the thing about this conversation is it's largely US-centric and in the US post-secondary education is blatantly unaffordable. at 18 years old, desperate to escape a Not Great Home Situation, i signed my name to what is functionally a mortgage, but with worse interest.
the other side of this is that the incentives for professors are batshit. no one who taught me was professoring because they loved teaching (though that's not true for everyone in the dept, just most of the people i had the displeasure of encountering).
the irony of, "if you can't do, teach" is that by teaching you actually in theory should be affirming your mastery of a subject. the thing i tell people all the time (and do as often as possible) is to try teaching someone else something, because vocalizing your skills in an instructional manner will actually help you sort your own thoughts. somene else asking you a question could drive you to seeing a problem from a new angle, or force you to research a gap in your knowledge. it's genuinely cool.
unfortunately modern american academia attracks a variety of assholes. i could swing some guesses about why my particular menagerie of assholes gravitated towards the classroom but thinking about it will just make me mad about Ten Years Ago and that's not how i wanna spend my sunny sunday.
anyway, the thing i'm trying to drive at is that i am increasingly of the thought that art school discourse is kind of moot until the american post-secondary education gets an overhaul, period. it needs to be more affordable, more accessible, lower risk. professors need to be vetted better not just on their subject matter expertise, but on their pedagogy. and then yeah sure, art school, have at it.
unfortunately the biggest benefit of modern art school isn't the art education, it's the networking and the decicated environment in which you can work. but at this point you can do a lot of the networking online if you do people the basic courtesy of treating them like people and not like career stepping-ladders, and there's plenty of great online art education collectives that can help you skill up. their attached communities can help with the discipline.
and the final part of my rant is that, it is really worth evaluating if you just want to be really good at art as a hobby or if you want to attach your livelihood to it. i worked really, really hard to land a TV job and then learned pretty quickly that i hated drawing for money and being "marketable."
i think a lot of prospective art students can save themselves a ton of grief if they just figure out how to pay their bills and then follow the dopamine to whatever workshops they want to be a better artist. it's not like getting paid suddenly opens up some sort of skill cap you would have hit as a hobbyist. doing your craft for the sake of the craft, on your own time and to your own benefit, is a lot different than doing it for 35+ hours per week while balancing it against all the other trappings of professional life.
I think the thing that hobbyists generally don't understand, especially when they decide to get into art as a career, is that art production for a commercial product and art as a hobby are two vey different things. That's not a value judgement, they're both very valid, but just because you like one doesn't mean you would like the other. Rather than "do I like making art?" the questions should really be
Do I like working with other artists to achieve a common goal, while not necessarily having control of most of the process?
Do I like being critiqued regularly by people with significantly more experience?
Do I like working towards creating a product I might not personally like or care about, just because I like the process?
Do feel satisfied in creating something even if I get little or no credit for it?
Do I like creating things in a variety of styles and programs?
Do I like all of these things enough to justify extreme job instability and a largely contract-based economy?
The reality is that most "professional artists" people are familiar with are art influencers. Some of them might have prior experience in the industry, but the work you're familiar with them for (a specific art style, prints, youtube videos, commissions, brand crossovers, whatever) is not reflective of industry work. If you want to be Markiplier, you shouldn't be going to film school, and if you want to make cute animations like your favourite youtuber, you should just do that and not try to make a career out of it
i will add two more things to this which is:
there is so much making-of content, so many panels, professional and para-professional communities, and just people willing to answer questions on the internet. if you want to understand how a Commercial Work gets made, you could find out and use that information to figure out if commercial art is the life for you.
everyone should watch defunctland's "disney channel theme: a history mystery" because it's a love letter to commercial art and as someone who still works in media (just not in the drawing/asset-making bit) i find it incredibly affirming.
Reblogging as someone who somehow has ended up both teaching manga history at university and working in comics editorial simultaneously after going to a very expensive comics school that was weird, isolating, and really only good for learning a couple Hard Life Lessons:
The arts fields are team sports, period. The people you see who seem to be earning money from their own work are 5% of the industry and even they have to work with other professionals, who remember which creatives were team players and which were not.
The more you know about how the 95% of the arts fields you can't see work, the more likely you will be happy making a living in an arts field, no matter what you end up doing.
A professor in an arts school who is training your whole class to be auteurs is not a responsible professor.
You don't need to do art full time to give your art value, and even if you do have a full time arts job at one point, there will likely be other times in your life when you don't—this doesn't reflect on your passion or ability.
If you're in school and art is making you feel miserable, step back and ask why. You don't need to suffer to make good art.
And if you have a really bad experience in art school, even if you never make art again, I hope you find a relationship with your work that makes you happy.
Im gonna be so real can yall actually talk about ways we can support trans women in the UK instead of giving all the attention to fucking JKR. I already know that Harry Poter sucks, I wanna know how to actually HELP people. Something something you have to love the oppressed more than you hate the oppressor
trans actual uk - trans led and run advocacy, education and empowerment organisation
fiveforfive - collective fund for trans women and girls and transfem causes
gendered intelligence - trans led advocacy org
mermaids - supports trans youth
akt - lgbtq youth homelessness charity
loving me - domestic abuse service for trans people in england
not a phase - for trans adults
I can't stop thinking about this post
Taggeth Thyself.
TBH maybe more people would rp with real humans instead of chatbots if we sat them down and taught everyone proper roleplay etiquette
Springhole has a lot of really good pages on anything you could ever need to know:
Community stuff
Beginner Tips For Entering a RP Community
Right/Wrong Questions to as a RP Community
Power-Tripping GMs/Server Admins- What To Do
In-Character Tips or Issues
Character Playability Test (To see if they are Ready for RP)
RPing Tips
Tips for Better RP Characters
Why People May Not Wanna RP With You
Absolute RP No-Nos
Your character is creepy (in the bad way)
Parasitic RPers
Common game ruining mistakes and how to fix them
This doesn't scratch the surface and may also not perfectly capture every type of rp community or setting- but ive been roleplaying since I was in middle school, so I stand by the majority of what I linked here.
Its up to you if you want to get in big open communities or if you want to be self indulgent with a friend- most of these are about wider communities so the point still stands,
Remember that Roleplay is Collaborative Story Telling and it has to be fun for everyone, because otherwise its fun for no one.
Watch Tracy Chapman Start a Quiet Revolution
You guys may be too young to remember, but I remember tuning in on TV with 600 million other viewers to watch Stevie Wonder live at Wembley Stadium for Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday celebration tribute in 1988. There were technical difficulties and Stevie Wonder couldn't go on yet. The crowd was antsy, milling around, singing their own songs. The TV cameras were rolling and the show had to go on, so TOTALLY UNKNOWN ARTIST TRACY CHAPMAN GOT UP ON STAGE AND PLAYED FAST CAR ARMED WITH ONLY HER GUITAR.
The crowd fell silent. Captivated by the absolute raw honesty and talent on display. Did we know we were witnessing history? A black queer artist who would rocket to fame and win a Grammy for this song the following year? I don't remember.
What I do remember is getting to the end of the song and not caring about Stevie Wonder any more. I wanted to know who this woman was!
Watch Tracy Chapman stun a rowdy crowd into silence:
Listen to her voice shake in the first line. The fear/excitement, I don't know for sure of course, but I can imagine that stepping out onto that stage was the scariest damn thing she'd ever done.
And then the tremble fades as the crowd just goes SILENT and she sings and just stuns them. The emotion in that song is just– I've heard it SO many times over my life, but I'm crying right now as I type. It just hits that hard, seeing her sing it like that. The first time, on an old guitar with no other accomplishments, to a crowd of thousands.
listen. aging into your thirties rocks. yes your joints get a little creaky. yes you can’t sleep in a pretzel on the floor anymore after a concert or a convention. and you lose some friends. but the thing is that you sort out who your real friends are and you sort out who you really are. and you get to see your friends settling into careers they like, and adopt new dogs and cats, and you find a job you can stand, and get really good at arts and crafts, and maybe that book you loved as a kid gets a movie deal and it doesn’t suck, and you learn to like new food and bake your own bread, and you realize that the great portfolio of self harm scars you all used to curate are going white with age and not updated, and half your friends are a different gender now and so much happier and maybe you are too, and you know who you are, and that it’s a journey and not a revelation. it’s a direction you’re headed, and you’re enjoying the trip.
reaching your 30′s rocks. and i’m hearing good things about what comes next, too.
i am looking into your eyes, i am holding your hand. i absolutely promise.
if you can just live long enough, your soul will build your body into a home. you will live there and you will find a way to be at peace. it’s worth the time and it’s worth the work. i promise.
forgot my login to my new tumblr and accidentally logged in to this one
i spent almost all of my young adult life only really feeling comfortable with myself online and revisiting my old blog feels weirdly like coming back to a childhood home. idk. when i think of a good internet i think of a quieter one with longer posts and bigger thoughts and more gentle weirdos. tumblr was never quite that but this blog feels like visiting a me that was struggling through a slower, kinder world
Frank Bidart
New Art Tumblr!
Hi, all! I’m making a new art tumblr at kotalinejones.tumblr.com!
It’s always frustrated me that this account has been a sideblog, so I can’t follow who I like as easily, and both this and my main blog are very old now. I’m lucky that being on Tumblr when I was was always a super positive experience for me, and it’s not an understatement to say this blog was essential to my creative growth.
With the things happening over at the -other- blue social media network, I just want to have more of an art-forward presence on here. Feel free to follow me on my new account for more of what I’ve been posting on this one, plus a little more reblogging/boosting of other artists I love. :) I’ll still try to reblog new stuff I post there to this account, and I hope I can follow and support more of you better, too!
New Art Tumblr!
Hi, all! I’m making a new art tumblr at kotalinejones.tumblr.com!
It’s always frustrated me that this account has been a sideblog, so I can’t follow who I like as easily, and both this and my main blog are very old now. I’m lucky that being on Tumblr when I was was always a super positive experience for me, and it’s not an understatement to say this blog was essential to my creative growth.
With the things happening over at the -other- blue social media network, I just want to have more of an art-forward presence on here. Feel free to follow me on my new account for more of what I’ve been posting on this one, plus a little more reblogging/boosting of other artists I love. :) I’ll still try to reblog new stuff I post there to this account, and I hope I can follow and support more of you better, too!
