I went to an amazing arts highschool with rory. didnt know them too much but i tried talking to them once and they just ignored me which is whatever, but i do kind of remember them blowing off tips people gave during critique (given this was like 2 years ago so my memory might be rusty) but the thing is they used to have some beautiful paintings and stuff and now that im just seeing how they act and what their style evolved into its so dissappointing and harmful
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yeah, that aligns with what i’ve heard. their art from years back was good, i just hate that they’ve taken stylisation so far it’s landed smack bang in the middle of racist-land and transphobia-town. they need to pull it right back to where they were 2 or 3 years ago and start over. maybe pay less attention to pushing the style too far and get it right. they have the ability to not draw in a fetishistic way but they just seem to do it anyway. it sucks.