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fulmionce

I see we're learning about the flaming hot cheeto earthquake proof sarcophagus again

mewnbuns

a man who guides you around by your lower back

pawthorn

Really hate that most people don’t understand the difference between “self-expression” and “artistic-expression.”

I say this as someone who sells pottery, and many people who see my art assume I am using art as an outlet to “express myself.”

I am not.

I use art to challenge myself. A lot of what I do is the equivalent of doing a hard sudoko or a half marathon, answering the question of “can I do this?”

I use art to question things and explore ideas. Finding physical synthesis between concepts and working out a design to its end state.

I use art to make money. I make some things just because I suspect they’ll sell well, and I keep making them when they do.

This idea that an artist is “putting themselves out there” every time they create is not only stupid, but harmful, and it kills critique and analysis.

Yes every creative work is influenced by its creator, but the most preliminary step of analysis is to define the purpose of a work of art (functional, narrative, entertainment, persuasive, decorative, ceremonial, etc.) and a vanishingly small percentage of that is self-expression. Even then, it’s generally tied to the self’s relationship with something else—perception, society, etc.

It’s very tiresome to have people assume they know you because they like (or dislike) your art, to make assumptions about who you are and how you approach the world. It’s nothing new— people called the Impressionists insane and the Fauvists degenerate. And now people are expected to hand out their identities and traumas to prove they have the right to explore certain subjects.

But to actually understand art, you have to contextualize it beyond assuming it’s just what the artist felt like making at the moment and it’s somehow coming from their deepest soul, or you’ll badly misinterpret most art you come across.

hometoursandotherstuff

tlirsgender

Somewhere gender dysphoria can easily veer into body dysmorphia is that a lot of transmascs need to get okay with, like... their chests being "cisperisex man flat" and not "completely perfectly flat" because these are not the same thing. You're probably not going to be as flat as when you were prepubescent and That's Okay you're just adult shaped. You literally have pecs. Not in a cope way sometimes it literally just is muscular anatomy

tlirsgender

And on a related note: doing chest exercises is cool and fun for gender reasons and you *can* masculinize your chest that way but depending on body type/composition/chest size/etc etc it won't *necessarily* make it Flatter for everyone, because you're just adding muscle under the breast tissue, which can make your chest more square shaped but is in fact adding mass to it. Like personally I was already very thin (low muscle And body fat) and pretty flat chested so as I gain muscle I'm just giving myself Men's Tits. Which is cool 👍

Hope this eases somebody's brainworms cause I have been known to have them. This is a psa directed towards Me

tlirsgender

Cause idk this point has been made before and they typically point out, like, big buff action movie guys as their example, and that's true & easier to see but I'd like to stress that Regular Guys still aren't usually Completely Flat because the anatomy is just shaped like that. Everyone has pectoral muscles and some amount of breast tissue it came free with being a mammal

tlirsgender

Something Formative for me was when I put on my starfleet uniform cosplay and felt a little weird about how tight it was on my chest & then realized I genuinely just look like the male actors on the show. It just fits like that. A lot of you have Kirk's tits and it's Fine especially if you're binding and just not satisfied with the results

emcapi

I can confirm that getting bigger pecs has improved my satisfaction with existing chest shape for me, as well! I've got small but fairly dense breasts, so binders/compression used to give me a result that was like, slightly flatter but still distinctly Boob Shaped, which I felt wasn't really worth the hassle. I started microdosing T several months ago though, which has given me significantly more muscle, and last week I threw on a sports bra/compression top and was like "Oh hey! Those are way more guyboob shaped now! Nice!" Even though there's more total mass, I think the pecs really help fill in the space between top of breast -> clavicle/shoulder, which smooths out the shape a lot.

blumineck

Inspired by my recent love of the Raven Thrower (it looks like a corvid that you chuck at things!)

Also obligatory reminder that it’s the final week on my Bluminarmour fundraiser. If you want to see me test dumb stuff in proper historical armour please consider pitching in and/or sharing!

Blumineck is trying to fun a video series doing fun and serious historical and fantasy testing in fitted plate armour.

azspot

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech