people sometimes give a lot of sh$t to writer for not being realistic enough, but sometimes reality is just... so NOT realistic.
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
(https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/kazakh-entrepreneur-seeks-to-trade-soviet-shuttle-for-historic-skull/)
the title says it all but I feel like I should precise it's the lost skull of the last khan of Kazakhstan, which adds a lot more flavor to the thing.
Exhibit C:
Half of Tumblr's shitposts
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on the way to kill my favourite brba character thank you walter
my favourite ms paint again! he's not as detailed as i wanted him to be but still process was fun
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Creators I love you but it's time to wake up
Among rumors about our tumblr user data being sold off to Midjourney/Generative AI, recent Extremely transphobic events (that have been ongoing) coming to a head, another extremely concerning internet censorship bill being pushed in upper levels of government, and a general air of frustration over how the site belongs to and is operated by perhaps the second stupidest CEO (second only to twitters own) of our age, I'm very done with the last few vestiges of what the old internet held for artists.
And if you're reading this, you probably are too.
I know we're tired. We are all tired. It is not always viable to pack up shop and move, again and again and again.
From tumblr to twitter to anywhere else we've ever grown up posting, things no longer work. Our audiences are kneecapped by aggressive and hostile algorithms, our reach is abysmal - if we aren't shadow-banned or silenced for one (transphobic) reason or another, we're thrust into an ever growing pit of hostility where the only thing that drives clicks is fighting and contention.
We're tired. We're so fucking tired. We aren't businesses, we aren't content mills, we cannot keep this pace that modern social media has set for us, to wring every ounce of creativity out of us to profit from and leave us rotting.
The key to staying afloat here, and I cannot stress this enough, is to stay connected to your peers.
Pack up and move as units if you must. Exodus from the sites that are killing us. Push your entire friend group of artists to move from one site to the next that promises you a kinder experience.
Art drives movements, it drives change, it is all that encompasses being human. If you take that away from the shitty places, they will be left with nothing but a cesspit of inhumanity and the people who follow you will be more incentivized than ever to move with you.
Yes, this is terrifying. There are no guarantees. There never was, and never are, and never will be.
But stay connected. Stay human.
Support each other and be willing to hold hands and jump when we all - as a group - need to jump from the flames we're all trying to convince ourselves wont kill us before rescue comes.
Rescue isn't coming, rescue will be found hand in hand with each other. I'm offering you my hand, please take it. There's always a new start, there are always helping hands reaching for you. You have to look up from the doom-scroll long enough to see and take them.
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𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲'𝐬🌾𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲
Image via We Heart It - http://weheartit.com/entry/
⋆࿐໋₊ ☆m⃖e⃖g⃖,🧑🌾𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞
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I just finished watching Once Upon a Studio and holy shit?????
THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN?? ON SCREEN?!??
CHERNADADDY?????
THE QUEEN HERSELF??? Uh, no wait, she's famous I shouldn't be this excited.. BUT STILL!!!!
AND!! and- wait a second...
HELLO???
HUSBAND (and beloved Gremlin) SPOTTED! I REPEAT, HUSBAND SPOTTED! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!!
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The "why are people criticizing romance tarot readers, I don't want to do shadow work readings" shit I saw on here a few months ago did a lot to my psyche, mostly make me realize I should not be consuming that content as much as I have been over the past few years.
I also learned that anyone who has a problem with doing shadow work or self reflection readings but obsesses over romance are probably suffering with limerence like me and that snapped me tf awake
Edit: also what the FUCK do you mean "if this pile just sounds like it's describing yourself, that just means your person is mirroring you!!" NO???? THAT MEANS YOU NEED TO FOCUS ON YOURSELF BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE WHY ARE WE SAYING THIS TO IMPRESSIONABLE PEOPLE
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"Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality."
--Ursula K. Le Guin
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The take that if Trapper walked in on Hawkeye and Frank hooking up he would film their sex tape makes me laugh, but also it crossed my mind just now how would Margaret react?
I feel like there would be an initial angry humiliated and homophobic freak out, but then be relatively easily gaslit ("You're freaking out over nothing, it's fine!!") and be a calm kind of pissed off and probably say something over revealing in a sarcastic sort of way, along the lines of "Sure we all have gay thoughts..."
She would probably drunkenly compare notes with Hawkeye on Frank's relative prowess in the sack at some point. Then years later after the war be reminiscing with someone about how the chief surgeon at her MASH unit was so obnoxious, an inveterate prankster, one time for April Fool's he slept with her boyfriend! And whoever she's talking to just has to be like 😬 ma'am I don't think gay sex is a joke...
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