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I make bad lit memes sometimes 18+ blog lol Definition of horny on main I'm 21 not a minor

[lotussart]

behold my yuri #myyuri

[daisanfar]

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[dykeferatu]

i’m not even that much of a pervert i can just find the eroticism in anything. doesn’t get me bricked up necessarily i just like to appreciate it.

[ot3]

these are tags on this post but i don't want to add them over there and reply directly to this person, because i'm more thinking out loud and commenting on it as one piece of a general trend than replying to them and their take specifically.

but one thing i've noticed is a pattern when i have discussed my opinions about ai or copyright or exploitative business practices from small artists is that people will automatically jump to the conclusion that the perspective im coming at this from is one of a consumer.

they will also, whether intentionally or otherwise, form their argument from a place of believing that there are only two groups relevant to this discussion: 'consumers' and 'working artists'. putting aside the fact that there's a significant overlap between these two demographics (artists love buying each others art!) i think a group its worth keeping in mind when discussing the threats to artists livelihoods is the huge amount of people whom have already been boxed out of or forced to give up on being working artists under the current conditions of the industry

ill admit to being biased because this is a group of people i myself belong to. still, it just kind of goes to show how unquestioned the status quo is where any change to it that could hypothetically cause some artists to make less money in the future (despite whatever other upsides it may have for these communities as whole) is "threatening artists livelihood", but the ways in which being a working artist is already miserably unattainable for huge swathes of people isn't really something consciously understood to be "anti artist" in the same way. this because the only people who meaningfully count as "artists" in the public discourse are people who have already overcome those initial invisible hurdles.

anyway i dont think that your opinion on art only matters if you make money off your work. and i think that using "audience" and "consumers" as interchangeable terms when talking about art only entrenches the commercialized understanding of art and artists that i have been pushing back against with this and other posts. and i dont think a call to action for the relationship between creators and audiences to be less extractive and more mutually enriching is discussing this subject in a way that "starts and ends with threatening artists' livelihood". i think it is a way of discussing this subject that understands that the things threatening artists livelihoods are the same economic forces currently threatening the livelihoods of every other kind of worker, and as such structuring your beliefs about how creative communities should operate in a way that prioritizes trying ensure the current crop of freelance and independent artists can maintain their financial standing is ultimately a doomed endeavor.

[kuttithevangu]

One thing that seems to trip people up on this here website when it comes to discussions of bigoted representation is like. How do I put this. Bigots don’t particularly care if their bigotry ensnares more than one group???

Like the example that brings this to mind is people saying “I didnt know Dracula was Jewish coded, I thought he was coded as [insert other group here]”

And the thing is I don’t think Bram Stoker was particularly invested in seeing those as different types of person! As far as the text of Dracula is concerned Jews ARE evil aristocrats ARE undifferentiated, Orientalized inhabitants of the Ottoman borderlands ARE vampires. This is one of the many reasons I think it’s silly to try and “claim” some kind of unique relationship to this kind of scattershot oppressive coding. A man can be racist against

Bugs bunny meme

OUR people

[kuttithevangu]

Are vampires always antisemitic = no there's a bunch of other stuff going on

Is Dracula antisemitic = yeah

Is Dracula also depicted as a boyar, a class to which Jews have never belonged = yeah

Does Dracula also come across as racist toward Romanies and The Ottoman Empire Generally = yeah

Did Stoker choose to metaphorically depict English landlords in Ireland as Ottoman Jewish Boyars to make them look more Evil = Probably yeah

Does this mean Bram Stoker didn't intend for it to be antisemitic = no but also I don't care that much about what he intended because people get so hung up on that and end up talking in circles

[howldean]

“june is over so now it’s gay wrath month” blah blah reminder that july is disability pride month and is often ignored and disregarded!! funnel that wrath into advocating for your disabled peers and amplifying their voices

[txttletale]

and like, if individual pieces of art aren't materially impactful on the world, is capital a Art capital I Important in some big metaphyiscal way? i don't really think so either honestly. i mean i love art and creating art and thinking about art. that's like half of what this blog is about, the fact that i need somewhere to put all my thoughts about works of art. art is hugely important to me and has shaped my life. but ultimately art is just a particular set of social and intellectual activities, and many people live perfectly happy and fufilling lives without ever particularly thinking about it. i think "art is a deep metaphysical need of the soul", "art is what makes us human" etc is just more artist self-flattery

[txttletale]

(Different anon from anon 1 and anon 2) If all individual pieces of art are unimportant what's the point of designating pieces of art or artists or fandoms as like,,,, something to stand against politically? You often say that X artist is reactionary or that Y art is orientalist or that fans of Z art are liberals and if it doesn't matter at all why fight tthat fight, I guess?

i mean, when i say that a work of art is reactionary or orientalist or what have you i'm not fighting any kind of fight! i just think about these things a lot and naturally. it's not a call to action, i don't think i'm doing important political work when i say that, like, the grand budapest hotel (my favourite movie!) has a foundationally reactionary ethos. i'm just like, observing and analyzing and chattin about it here on my blog--another very low-impact, unimportant thing. it ony a blog!

[txttletale]

in the events where i think cultural critique and analysis of media objects can be very important and relevant, it's as case studies to better understand a trend, an ideological current, or the political and economic circumstances that produced it. but even when i am talking about things in this context on my blog (as i often am), i am doing so with little rigor and without any particular positive aim, because it's chiefly a hobby for me. but again, it's not useful because it Fights or Stops the artist or art, but simply because it can further understanding of the work itself and its cultural, historical, and social context

[txttletale]

i say this a lot, but it's always really striking how many people assume that like, criticism necessarily comes from a place of moral outrage and personal vitriol, and that therefore when i make a comment about something's political positions i'm "fighting a fight" against it. i literally just enjoy thinking about art and verbalizing those thoughts is useful in organizing and refining them

[ryan-sometimes]

Tumblr I need everyone to log in rn because the most important, quotable, instantly iconic celebrity post of the century just dropped

[ryan-sometimes]

A ship — a magnificent ship — full of gay men. And me.

I am furious, but I am sailing.

[senatortedcruz]

Didn't you retweet incest porn on 9/11?

we all mourn in different ways

[jessaerys]

[tooies]

anyone else think it's kinda fucked up that the wise men went to little baby jesus and brought him a frankenstein. really scary

[deadgenerations]

"did you know that actually, civic society is also religion?" I can't think of a way to describe this besides "pseud midwit". are tables actually chairs? or are they both furniture technologies which share similarities in structure and function, and both have internal variety in form? Should we call couches, futons, and beds chairs as well, or should we use a word like furniture to describe them all?

[notahorseindisguise]

"its a living" <- guy who has a job it hates

"its'a living!' <- dr mario frankenstein

[alfedena]

"The liberal is so preoccupied with stopping confrontation that he usually finds himself defending and calling for law and order, the law and order of the oppressor. Confrontation would disrupt the smooth functioning of the society and so the politics of the liberal leads him into a position where he finds himself politically aligned with the oppressor rather than with the oppressed. The reason the liberal seeks to stop confrontation [...] is that his role, regardless of what he says, is really to maintain the status quo, rather than to change it. He enjoys economic stability from the status quo and if he fights for change he is risking his economic stability. What the liberal is really saying is that he hopes to bring about justice and economic stability for everyone through reform, that somehow the society will be able to keep expanding without redistributing the wealth."

Kwame Ture, The Pitfalls of Liberalism

[the-owl-tree]

i'll always make fun of how stupid the "born evil baby" trope is but truly it is such a wretched trope i hope it dies forever

[the-owl-tree]

it's like the perfect package of "child you are allowed to harm" and "easy way to not interrogate how commonplace child abuse is". thank goodness this child was simply born wrong, we never have to examine the conditions they grew up in.

[youreallymustbe-deactivated2013]