why does this song actually go so hard tho

ok tell me some basic gen 5 facts

victini was designed with the intention of appealing to female players

"I don't consider rise April x turtle tc*est since she's not canonically related" Uhhh, someone missed the season 2 finale :/

Man it's been like...so long since I posted an art piece oniline that I put genuine effort into and like I forgot that ppl will look at it and go "that shit slaps, hay ppl on my blog, look at this art that slaps" and then i look at my PC like this:

Not sure I believe this, but it do be a theory- Ramblings and spoilers under the cut.

Maybe Welcome Home never existed at all. All the media that came up was sparse, just disparate imagery. No one remebers it, not even people that should! Which is wild, because it was huge. One of our exhibition notes (or was it in the back end secrets?) talks about the very toy company being missing. A whole toy company being erased with the show too? No, it would make more sense if it never existed at all.

More importantly- if that hard to decipher letter really does say that the first name that person could read was "Wally", that means we have our reason for Wally being the most aware. He's the first character to become "real". Active. He's our first point of contact. The real question is- what's making Welcome Home form in the world? It feels a hell of a lot like our engagement makes it more solid, real. Obviously as the story beats progress in the real world new material has to be made, but the story makes it feel like this material is being made new too.

So what made that first scrap of Welcome Home? What made the material that became ground zero for this almost memetic beast that is this show?

I think it's Wally. The bare bones basics were whatever Wally is reflecting what he's seen in our world. He's trying to understand.

Clown has said that Wally has been taught most major aspects of interacting with people, and the world, and that he doesn't really feel like others do. What better way to learn how people work than a kids show? Where Wally is the analog for the children learning how to be people, what things mean, how to be social. So Wally's effort to understand us and his very nature warped into a method that he could learn from, and now people talking about it retroactively creates the show, and space for him to learn.

Just some food for thought. I do also hope the idea of our loud fanaticism gets to be useful, as much as this series blowing up has caused Clown stress.

Am i the only one who though Tomo and Kazuha were siblings?

Really? The only one? damn.

It's just me and hobie against the system

As Steven (with a V) would say, my mental health has been in the bin recently

"Separate the art from the artist" is so insulting to the artists too actually (and totally irrelevant to the question of financial support of said art, in the age of pirating). Have you ever seen as artist say who they are is irrelevant to their work? Why are you implying that what we create is so unspecific to us that you can ignore us. You are trying to extend the capitalistic alienation from our labour to something inherently resistant to commodification, as much as the system forces its monetization for artists to live (and I wish all domains stopped alienating production from its producers, but it's particularly egregious for art imo). It’s something given or sold to the public for them to give the meaning they see fit, and you can decide to discard the initial/intended meaning for yourself, but it was still born from the artist and specific to them, created with their intentions motivating it, their biases colouring each and every choice, it is ludicrous to argue it can be totally dismissed. Trying to erase our role is downright offensive and akin to failing to credit properly. Copyright law has many flaws, in the sense that it is ill-equipped to handle the fact no art is ever 100% original and builds off existing elements, but it exists for a reason, so that artists get their due, you better believe corporations would not compensate us if they could. And minimizing our place in creation is the same mindset

I think it’s also tied to the myth we're born this way, given talent from birth and therefore not really the inventor but merely the executor of our art, negating the amount of training that goes into building skills, and the intellectual labor necessary for any creative work (see: ai bros acting like artists are hoarding drawing skills??), as well as the disregard shown for artistic industry workers anytime there's talks of unionizing (see : caring more about their marvel movies/video games releasing early than making sure crunch is avoided). Some people don’t like to think in depth about neither the context of what they consume nor the breathing bodies that make it come to life (and I understand, cause honestly it makes a lot of stuff depressing, be it food, clothes or art, but it'snecessary sometimes), and seem to think an artist’s relationship to a piece of work is over, all ties severed the moment they publish it, when it is a lifelong and everchanging relationship that takes labour to bear

On another topid so much of art is made of collaboration and merging intellectual properties and building off other people’s work i would like to beat up the myth of the lone genius artist or the mastermind director who deserves all the credit for his big brain, all projects would be nothing without the teams making them happen and an artist with no fellow creative friends literally will shrivel up so pls start putting all the people working in artistic fields on an equal footing, financially speaking too, i am begging society to stop disrespecting craftspeople too btw-

guys, I need fluff prompts! I have absolutely no idea what I'm gonna have the boys do for the next couple of weeks. I'm really bad at coming up with fluff!

@miss-night @jakersdaboss @callthemorg

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I don’t think I’ve touched on how it’s a given that Orellia steals a lot of the high brand fashion pieces and jewelry—but she is a ‘art’ thief. I think the art was an afterthought in her mind but no less important.

I know she dosent take care of her fancy shamshy clothing but I like to think (as long as they arnt dupes) she does care for actual art pieces.

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holdon i have more takes. amphibia and toh being as popular as they are sucks because A for shows with protagonists of color they are frequently overshadowed by white characters and B you cant criticize them without getting jumped