I’m sooooo bad at being brief and succinct. But I need so many extra words to make my meaning clear. But then people don’t read the whole message because there’s too many words. So they skim it and don’t get the clear meaning….
Today's aesthetic: cosmic horror tabletop RPGs from the 1980s whose creators wrote the "madness rules" by simply plagiarising a list of disorders and their descriptions from the DSM-II and turning it into a d100 lookup table, except the DSM-II still listed "homosexuality" as a mental disorder (it wasn't removed until the DSM-III), with the result that there are several published tabletop RPGs where there's a small but non-zero chance that seeing Cthulhu will make you gay.
So: it turns out that – regardless of whether it was the original plan – what Homestuck: Beyond Canon's third writing team in five years is going with seems to be a cosmic battle between a godlike asshole who thinks transformative fiction has a moral obligation to engage in thematic and structural fidelity with its source material, and a godlike asshole who thinks transformative fiction shouldn't exist at all. It's an interesting direction, if an obvious one. In fact, it's so obvious that the Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy is treading the exact same ground at the exact same time; it's going to be pretty fucking bizarre watching to see which of them – if either! – manages to stick the landing.
imagine if the dadaist movement happened for the first time in 2021, and suddenly millions of rich grifters decided that they don't need to pay artists anymore if they can just appreciate the serendipitous beauty of the readymade, and then acted confused when the vast majority of the public was indifferent or annoyed with this. i think this is how i feel about AI art