My fixation clutter

Tends to gravitate to the weirder themes of art. In my early 30s stage of age but already feeling too old for the modern era. Mid-life crisis at its finest.

[sourdough-seal]

“omg you’re so creative. how do you get your ideas” i hallucinate a single scene in the taco bell drive thru and then spend 13 months trying to write it

[ahb-writes]

Time for a pick-me-up.

[not-quitenormal]

Rage. In my heart. All-consuming. FUCK AI.

[neveragainfools]

For those who don't know, this piece is titled 'Unfinished Painting', by Keith Haring. He painted it about a year before his death of AIDs. I believe he actually finished other pieces between this one and his death. He left the majority of the canvas blank to represent his life and art career cut short due to HIV/AIDs. This was a deliberate choice and commentary about all that we lose (both personally and culturally) by ignoring the AIDs crisis at the time (1989). He was devastated he didn't have time to make more art. 'Finishing' Unfinished Painting is straight up spitting on Haring's grave and shows no understanding to the meaning behind the art. The AI interpretation doesn't even follow his extremely recognizable shape language and symbols. This is why people are angry about AI art. All commerce images and no meaning or humanity

[not-quitenormal]

Thank you for typing this out! I couldn't formulate my thoughts at the time because it really and truly goes beyond "they didn't match the pattern". There is significance behind this piece never being completed. "Unfinished Painting" is historical on at *minimum* three different layers - reflecting one person's struggle with AIDS, encapsulating a very terrifying time in the LGBT+ community (though AIDS doesn't discriminate by sexuality), and showing how the LGBT+ community was (and still is) all woven together with the same struggles. And while the completion *could be* a symbol of how even HIV can be overcome (at least two people have been cured!!!!), the fact that it was completed by a fucking computer rings this symbol as hollow. Our lives are not bits of data. We are not statistics. We never fucking were.

AI advocates, go pick up a brush.

[frozenartscapes]

The thing with this kind of use for AI is that it all too often is excused with something innocent. "It's so sad this was never finished! But we can now use AI to finish it! We're helping the artist!"

But you're not helping the artist. You're tacking your own name onto their work in an attempt to milk some of their credit for yourself. In one of the laziest ways possible.

Sometimes art doesn't get finished. Sometimes a song is never fully written. Sometimes a novel series isn't completed. Maybe it's because the artist died, or maybe it's because the spark they had for the art in question went out before they completed the work. But that's life. It's unfortunate, and often sad. It leaves the fans of that artist feeling empty, because they want what they'll never get. But that does not justify taking it upon yourself to "complete" a work for an artist, especially when the artist does not ask you to. Especially this painting, which was very obviously intentionally left unfinished by the artist. But even if it hadn't been, and it truly wasn't finished before he died, then that does not mean it is ok to ask a computer to finish it.

People look to AI as the big solution to completing all these things that were lost to time. They want to use actors who have died for those big, touching cameos in movies. They want to hear songs that were never completed, sung by voices who are long gone. They want to see more artwork, more creativity, by artists who aren't here anymore. But all throughout human history, people have accepted that once someone is dead, then that's it. The only way we can appreciate them is in what they have left us, not in what a computer might be able to create by stealing their work and creating a false image. It's not their work. They didn't make it. To call it theirs would be nothing short of a lie.

[meduseld]

Kelly Carlin, daughter of the late and all time great George Carlin, shared this statement regarding an AI-generated special imitating him:

She's right. Part of the beauty of humanity and its creations is that it is ephemeral. Death enhances our lives, not detracts for it. AI making a ghoulish reanimation of the dead should strike you with such horror that you understand why necromancy is banned by man and God.

[lady-inkyrius]

[Source]

God this is a gorgeous way to start a book. I wish more authors and publishers had at least a little bit of fun with their typesetting like this.

[prettyboykatsuki-moved]

its so freeing when you realize you can literally write whatever you want 

[prettyboykatsuki-moved]

it doesnt have to be good or anything you can just write things and post them and it doesnt matter at all

[prettyboykatsuki-moved]

“your story sucks” what are you going to do? refund the money u didn’t pay? you are a bozo

[deeeaahh]

[depression-took-over-my-liiife]

[sleepydepresso]

At this point I'm willing to donate every organ of my body as long as I get assistance to offing myself. I tried doing it myself but I'm gonna be honest I'm a coward with experiencing physical pain. I don't want to wait anymore. I don't want to be a burden with anybody, a waste of space and resources, tortured by my own mind.

[yousaveeveryonebutwhosavesyou]

I'm proud of you for making it this far.

[sleepydepresso]

I heard from somewhere that culture shouldn't only exist for those who can afford it. Sad to say with all the things going on right now, this world needs an apocalypse.

[frostedicebells]

“And I don’t think anybody should feel bad if they get diagnosed with a mental illness, ’cause it’s just information about you that helps you to know how to take better care of yourself.

“Being bipolar, there’s nothing wrong with it. Being bipolar is like not knowing how to swim. It might be embarrassing to tell people, and it might be hard to take you certain places. But they have arm floaties. And if you just take your arm floaties, you can go wherever the hell you want.

“And I know some of you are like, ‘But Taylor, what if people judge me for taking arm floaties?’ Well, those people don’t care if you live or die, so maybe who cares? Maybe fuck those people a little. I don’t know.”

Taylor Tomlinson, Look At You (2022)

[lelif]

on self-love

?// @heavensghost // @roach-works //Richard Bach //?// @bakwaaas // @llleighsmith // Clarice Lispector// Anonymous

[bunnighost]

[rapidpunches]

"SURVIVING"

[maroon-ram]

I love the message and artstyle but did they have to give the cute lovable gator depression? T^T carry on lil buddy, this too shall pass

[grimeclown]

The gator is the whole point. It's a stand-in for the author that has felt the need to suppress the aspects of themself that others find unappealing, their anger, their sadness, the things people find abrasive or just "weird" in order to make themself more digestible for the people around them because the alternative is to be alone. The gator is only "cute" and "lovable" because it was not allowed to be anything else.

[intezaarlily]

the ache of nostalgia

[the-bar-sinister]

"People mostly write and read very character driven, specific ship focused fic, because what most people want out of fanfiction is to focus on the romance between characters they're not getting in canon so they can soak in the vibes."

Yes, absolutely. And thank hell for all the authors who write character-driven, ship focused fic for us to soak in the vibes to.

But also…

thank hell for all the authors who write angst, whump, and hurt no comfort, for us to luxuriate in blorbo's hurt and pain and cry or cackle.

thank hell for all the authors who write cheating, love triangles and affairs for us to consume large quantities of popcorn to and yell 'oh no, they didn't'.

thank hell for all the authors who write case fic, mission fic, and intricate, plot-driven stories to replicate the feel of canon, when canon has stopped or gone wrong.

thank hell for all the authors who write 'fix it' fics when canon has betrayed us with bad vibes, plot holes and deaths.

thank hell for all the authors who write poly ships when what we need is just for everyone to get along and screw instead of screw up.

thank hell for all the authors who write gen fic when we're not interested in romance.

thank hell for all the authors in fandom, and all the wonderful, different kinds of fanfiction they write for us.

[prettyboykatsuki-moved]

my truest and sincerest opinion about writing is that if you want to develop a passion you must write something incredibly and unbearably niche at least once and i mean this. you need to have an almost fetishistic and primal desire towards a man in a fandom with 12 fics in his ao3 and 9 of them are crossovers. you need to let your lust and affection drive you to the depths of earth itself and write your most beautiful soul-crushing gut-wrenching work of an audience of ten. you need to think and be delusional to what feels like a brick wall and tear your meat asunder trying to become sane. after you've seen all nine circles of insane delusion 2d man lust can your fic writing prosper. you will come out of the other side better for it