ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʀᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇxᴛᴇʀɪᴏʀ

「 ✦ ring student in training , they/them ✦ 」

[radio-fry]

꒰ ᴏᴋᴀʏ, ᴛʜᴇɴ ᴍᴇ ꜰɪʀꜱᴛ. ᴍʏ ɴᴀᴍᴇ ɪꜱ ᴀʟʙɪɴᴀ. ɪ'ᴍ ʟᴇᴀʀɴɪɴɢ ᴄᴏʀᴘᴏʀɪꜱᴍ ᴀʀᴛ ᴜɴᴅᴇʀ ᴍᴀᴇꜱᴛʀᴏ ᴄᴀʟʟɪꜱᴛᴏ'ꜱ ᴛᴜᴛᴇʟᴀɢᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴍʏ ʙᴇʟᴏᴠᴇᴅ ꜰᴀꜱᴄɪᴀ. ꒱

you can call me radio. I decided to retheme this thing because I suppose I'm taking tumblr a little seriously. I really like project moon's games (majority of the post content) but I do have some other media interests:

the binding of isaac

mewgenics (I'm so bad. I'm really bad at it)

really all of edmund mcmillen's stuff. I'm close to finishing spewer right now

DREDGE

hollow knight + silksong

the void rains upon her heart

as well as some general interests:

marine life (mostly fish)

drawing, writing, the works

I've gotten into analysis as of late so expect some longer posts

꒰ ᴇᴠᴇʀ ꜱɪɴᴄᴇ ɪ ꜰᴇᴅ ᴀ ꜰᴇᴡ ꜱʟɪᴄᴇꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴛᴏ ꜰᴀꜱᴄɪᴀ, ɪ'ᴠᴇ ʙᴇᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴀ ᴠᴇʀʏ, ᴠᴇʀʏ ʙᴀᴅ ʟɪᴀʀ. ꒱

tags:

gallery's exhibits -> text posts

fascia's wisdom -> analysis posts

corporist artwork -> art

valuable critique of artworks -> asks

ingredient gathering -> reblogs

frequent visitors of the gallery -> mutuals (hi!)

core ingredient -> favorites

꒰ ʙᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏʀᴘᴜꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀꜱ ɪꜱ ꜱᴛɪʟʟ ꜱᴏ ᴄʜᴀʟʟᴇɴɢɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴡᴏʀᴋ ᴡɪᴛʜ … ꜱᴏ, ꜱᴏ ᴍᴀɴʏ ᴛʜɪɴɢꜱ ᴛᴏ ᴛᴀᴋᴇ ɪɴᴛᴏ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ ʙᴇꜰᴏʀᴇ ɢᴇᴛᴛɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ᴡᴏʀᴋ. ꒱

I don't really have any special DNI criteria outside of the usual conservative or otherwise bigoted nonsense, but there are some topics I would generally prefer not to discuss:

anything particularly suggestive (that's meant to be titillating. for comedy is fine). that's a rabbit hole I don't want to even peer into on the internet

super niche discourse isn't really my thing unless I choose to involve myself

as well as some medias that I very much dislike and cannot engage you with if you are a diehard fan:

the amazing digital circus. it's not as deep of a show as it's been touted and if you don't agree we cannot see eye to eye

not super into "roblox fandoms" or "roblox lore" (i.e. grace, forsaken). nothing wrong with it but it doesn't click with me

anything vivzipop GOD I am tired of her ass

other than that, I'll try my best to be friendly whenever I'm on here <3

꒰ ʜᴏᴡ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴡᴇ ꜱᴘᴇɴᴅ ꜱᴏᴍᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ɢᴇᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴇᴀᴄʜ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ… ᴀɴᴅ ʙᴇᴄᴏᴍᴇ ꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅꜱ? ꒱

[radio-fry]

anyone that knows me personally will probably disagree with this post but he's actually me vvv

and yes pastheim specifically. every day my oxymoronic pride continues to burrow its way into my brain. it's becoming an issue

[radio-fry]

what if i just started putting eckhart art that youve already seen in your inbox instead of posting it to my blog

I would say HIIIIIII OMG HIIII 💞💞💞💞💞💞 WELCOME TO MY BLOG 💕💕💕💖💖💖💖💖 you deserve a much better life I LOVE YOU I'M YOUR BIGGEST FAN 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁💕💕💕💕💕

[radio-fry]

this render idea is tearing me apart I'm making thumbnail sketches. Multiple of them

[atlastyougrieve]

being fed money to make an abstract representation of one of my creatures

[atlastyougrieve]

he slowly takes shape

[radio-fry]

I love the eckle...

[sh4rkguts]

YOU GOTTA LOVE IT WHEN FISH PILE UP TOGETHER. WHO'S WITH ME?

[penandinkprincess]

truly few things instantly put me in a bad mood more than humidity

WHY is the fucking AIR out here TOUCHING ME

get OFF

[radio-fry]

what is wrong with you..... why are you blue????

i dunno

[radio-fry]

what if you were blue...

I would never be blue What's happening

[radio-fry]

more shamble tower boss spoilers bleeeh

new favorite fight in the game and it's not even close

[definitelynotdistorter]

Fun Carmen facts!!

A lot of people in the city who distort are probably Trans.

This is because the only place you'd even have a chance to transition in the city is a nest, and because it's the city and everything is awful, if you asked a doctor for E or T, they'd probably look at you weird and ask what kind of Augmentation that is or something.

Also no one has time to be happy in the city because fuck everyone in particular, you're spending your life trying to survive, not be happy.

And if you're in the backstreets. . . You already know.

So therefore, distortion! And you get powers out of it.

[radio-fry]

I'm sorry Carmen but I have to disagree with this.

We've been shown that discrimination based on gender isn't systemic within the City: the most blatant form of it we've seen is through Dulcinea, meaning it likely did exist at some point, but those events took place at least 200 years ago. I'd say the City in its current state has plenty of female figures whose gender does not appear to impact their lives in any significant way (Jia Mu, Alfonso, Iori, Kali, etc). Dante also freely uses they/them pronouns, something we haven't seen from any other character, and nobody confronts them about this.

Gender presentation also doesn't seem to be limited by the actual gender of the individual. There are a lot of men who present, by our standards, moderately femininely, such as Yan and Jumsoon. The inverse occurs relatively frequently as well, with characters like Nikolai and Harold.

With this in mind, who's to say there wouldn't be a market for gender-affirming care? Those who experience dysphoria would be a demographic that a hyper-capitalistic world like the City could easily exploit because of their desperation to get the care they need. There have been more than enough examples of what happens to trans people who don't have access to these things, and the Backstreets is known to offer dubiously-effective but cheap means of augmenting yourself.

Your comment on doctors being generally unaware of HRT, I believe, also ignores the technological advancement of the City. It has developed far enough beyond our reality to cure every known disease. I doubt it would be a stretch to assume that issues of the mind—such as gender dysphoria—have been studied as well. Though, it's all a bit nebulous—we don't know much of anything about medical care in the City, ultimately.

What I mean to get across with this reply is that a read of the City that says "everything is awful" without looking further into how the individuals within it are treated is rather dismissive of the vast worldbuilding we've been given. There's plenty to support the classism and ableism that's nested within the City's ideals—much of its population is reduced to their value in labor, which many disabled people struggle to keep up with—but I can't see a reading where the City is, systemically, transphobic.

I also don't mean to call you stupid or unobservant with this reply! Thinking about how minority groups would exist within a society, fictional or real, is something many people don't even bother to do. Analysis takes time :thumbsup:

[radio-fry]

^ read these tags they are truthful

I probably could've been a bit clearer on what I meant there, so I'll say it now: I think a lot of disabilities are at least known about in the City. Whether anything is done about them is a different story since research alone hardly ever stops people from being cruel and that cruelty can very easily impact treatment methods—and, again, it's hard to say because we haven't seen much of places like M Corp. that focus on this sort of thing—but with how much Singularities have pushed the world forward (and especially the fact that brains can be transported to different bodies) I'd believe it if things like the structural differences in the brain seen in ASD were known of in an academic sense.

[definitelynotdistorter]

Fun Carmen facts!!

A lot of people in the city who distort are probably Trans.

This is because the only place you'd even have a chance to transition in the city is a nest, and because it's the city and everything is awful, if you asked a doctor for E or T, they'd probably look at you weird and ask what kind of Augmentation that is or something.

Also no one has time to be happy in the city because fuck everyone in particular, you're spending your life trying to survive, not be happy.

And if you're in the backstreets. . . You already know.

So therefore, distortion! And you get powers out of it.

[radio-fry]

I'm sorry Carmen but I have to disagree with this.

We've been shown that discrimination based on gender isn't systemic within the City: the most blatant form of it we've seen is through Dulcinea, meaning it likely did exist at some point, but those events took place at least 200 years ago. I'd say the City in its current state has plenty of female figures whose gender does not appear to impact their lives in any significant way (Jia Mu, Alfonso, Iori, Kali, etc). Dante also freely uses they/them pronouns, something we haven't seen from any other character, and nobody confronts them about this.

Gender presentation also doesn't seem to be limited by the actual gender of the individual. There are a lot of men who present, by our standards, moderately femininely, such as Yan and Jumsoon. The inverse occurs relatively frequently as well, with characters like Nikolai and Harold.

With this in mind, who's to say there wouldn't be a market for gender-affirming care? Those who experience dysphoria would be a demographic that a hyper-capitalistic world like the City could easily exploit because of their desperation to get the care they need. There have been more than enough examples of what happens to trans people who don't have access to these things, and the Backstreets is known to offer dubiously-effective but cheap means of augmenting yourself.

Your comment on doctors being generally unaware of HRT, I believe, also ignores the technological advancement of the City. It has developed far enough beyond our reality to cure every known disease. I doubt it would be a stretch to assume that issues of the mind—such as gender dysphoria—have been studied as well. Though, it's all a bit nebulous—we don't know much of anything about medical care in the City, ultimately.

What I mean to get across with this reply is that a read of the City that says "everything is awful" without looking further into how the individuals within it are treated is rather dismissive of the vast worldbuilding we've been given. There's plenty to support the classism and ableism that's nested within the City's ideals—much of its population is reduced to their value in labor, which many disabled people struggle to keep up with—but I can't see a reading where the City is, systemically, transphobic.

I also don't mean to call you stupid or unobservant with this reply! Thinking about how minority groups would exist within a society, fictional or real, is something many people don't even bother to do. Analysis takes time :thumbsup:

[atlastyougrieve]

ivans back

[radio-fry]

he's scary!!!! I'm scared!!!!!!!!

[radio-fry]

there are spoilers for the Shamble tower boss here!!!!

can you tell I like her fight

[radio-fry]

I know the concept of "can only see movement" has been brought up plenty in media, usually in cartoons as a way to escape a threat, but I don't think it's ever acknowledged how scary it is to be the one whose vision is restricted to movement.

I don't have glasses at the moment—I lost them about a month in and getting a replacement pair is a hassle without even mentioning the cost—so if it's dark, whether indoors or outdoors, a lot of my sight does depend on movement! This most comes into play with bugs! If you take your eyes off of a bug (say, to get a means of killing them like a shoe or paper towel) and come back to its total absence, you don't get to know where it is until it moves again! All you get is the knowledge that it's alive and well, crawling around somewhere beyond what you are physically capable of seeing at that time. Food for thought <3

EDIT: I FORGOT TO MENTION ANOTHER PART your brain looking for movement specifically means it overcompensates a lot and you start seeing The Ghouls in your peripheral vision. Guess whose peripherals are not too good.

[kilncreatures]

what the hell

[atlastyougrieve]

ive become endeared to a new video game... look at this Creature