LOUIS TOMLINSON | FAITH IN THE FUTURE

right so who else thought that the daylight mv looked similar to midnight memories specifically

There’ve been a few responses to/reblogs with tags on my post about DIY clothing embellishments that basically boil down to ‘I’d love to do this but I’m scared it’ll turn out bad/I’m not a good enough artist’. And I get it, I really do! I also want my art things to turn out nicely. But also...making it badly is sort of the point of punk DIY. 

Listen. We live in a world that would dearly love to charge you a subscription fee for breathing. The bastards are doing everything they possibly can to figure out how to turn art - stories, visual art, music, textile/fibre art, sculpture, crafts and creations of every kind - into a neat, discrete, packageable commodity, a product they can chop up into little pieces and stick behind a paywall so they can charge you for every drop of it you want to have in your life. 

The whole sneering idea that ‘everybody wants to be some kind of creator now’ and anything less than absolute mastery right out the gate is somehow shameful and embarrassing is a tool those bastards are using. It’s a way to reinforce the idea that only a set group of people can create and control art, and everybody else has to buy it. 

But art isn’t a product. Art is a fundamental human impulse. Nobody is entitled to a specific piece of art (which is where this message gets skewed into pitting people who love art against the artists who make it, while the bastards screw us all and run away with the money). But making art belongs to everybody. We make up songs and dances and stories, and paint things, and make clothes, and embellish them, and carve flowers into our furniture and our lintels and our doorframes, and make windows out of tiny pieces of coloured glass, and decorate our homes and our bodies and our lives with things we make and make up, simply for the love of beauty and of the act of creation. Grave goods from tens of thousands of years ago show that ancient hominids gave their dead wreaths of ceramic flowers, tattooed their bodies, beaded their shoes. Making things for the sake of beauty and enjoyment is one of the most ancient and human things we can do. 

The idea that we can’t, that we have to buy shit instead, because art is a product and you have to have the bestest prettiest most perfect product, is the enemy of joy. It’s the death of culture. And it means that, instead of whatever it is that you cherish and enjoy and value, you get whatever inoffensive (and to whom is it inoffensive?) bland meaningless samey-samey crap that the bastards want you to be allowed to have. What are you missing and what are you missing out on, if you don’t make or modify or decorate anything for yourself, if you don’t think you can because the product at the end won’t be polished or perfect or marketable enough? What do you lose? What do we lose? 

It is a desperately vital and necessary thing for you to make shit. For you to know that you can make shit, that you don’t have to just lie back and take whatever pablum the bastards want to force-feed you (and charge you through the nose for). That the bastards need you more than you need them. 

Become ungovernable. Be your own weirdly-endearing punk little freak. Paint on a t-shirt. Sing off-key in the shower or at karaoke night or at open mic night. Make up a story where you get to meet your favourite fictional character and you guys hug or fuck or punch each other in the face. Make art. Do it badly. Do it frequently. Do it enthusiastically. Do it for love and joy and creativity and fun and the spiteful joy of thumbing your nose at some smug motherfucker with a Swiss bank account who wants to track your heartbeat and location for the rest of your life in order to automatically pump AI-generated beats matched to your mood into your earbuds for a small monthly subscription fee of $24.99/month. It is literally the only way we are ever going to have even a chance to save art and our own lives from the bastards. 

So. Paint that t-shirt. 

(Also support artists where you can, and buy your music from Bandcamp.)

You've heard of Spiderman: Homecoming, Spiderman: Far From Home, and Spiderman: No Way Home, but may I introduce you to:

Spiderman: Please Just Let Me Go Home

A movie in which Peter Parker keeps finding himself with task after task after chore after chore after errand after errand to do while he keeps trying to escape and go home so he can watch tv in his pajamas

I have a lore question if you habe the time: do we know why yyxy is in Cher from Clueless cosplay?

I've spoken about this before, I can't find where I've spoke about this before, but I think it's to do with setting yyxy's time in Eden as a story that takes place in the 90s. A lot of the lore is set in the late 90s, indicated primiarly in Vivi's and yyxy's arc with fashion and technology, such as the cassette tapes, walkmans, computers, VHSs and whatnot. As mentioned in the 1/3 section of this post, I think there might be some geopolitical signifiers too, that suggest a lot of the story is set in this time period. Talking about Walkmans at all reminds me of this theory, from ChoerryColour, whose theories are focused on metanarratives and the music industry and really worth checking out.

By using one of the most iconic outfits from the 90s, right in 1995, it helps indicate when this part of the story is taking place, and what that means. If yyxy's arc occurs at the same time as Vivi's pre-robotification life (as suggested by EDILY's retro vibes) then you can more easily make connections between the two, like why Yves shows up on Earth in The Carol 2.0, why Vives go on a date in 'new', why a lot of strange things happen like they do. What message are they trying to deliver by setting it specifically in the 90s, over setting it in present day, or a nonspecific time all together?

pain and suffering and pain and suffering

[photo id: tweet from Paladin (Chelsey) Poko (@/PaladinPoko) "So I am now officially never buying a Vegas editing software again. The Developers have removed Vegas Pro Edit 15 for purchase on Steam and are now revoking licenses for the software. I'm now out $150 and no longer have an editing software. Very cool! Please retweet for awareness" /end id]

Link to thread: https://twitter.com/PaladinPoko/status/1563250945655721985

First Clip Studio Paint, now Sony Vegas Pro is apparently also going towards a subscription-based model. However, it seems like the people behind Sony Vegas Pro is going about it even worse by revoking licenses from older versions of the program!

I hate the "loan not own" model. Earlier you could at least save up to buy the more expensive professional tools. Now you gotta fork up monthly fees on anything you might be interested in.

A nice thing to come out of that thread however, was that i got my hands on Sony Vegas Pro 18! Earlier I've posted a link to the 17 version, so this is a newer version of the program. I'm still planning on keeping the older version too though. The original installation guide has been rewritten and all the files has been checked, so it's now available over at the drive in the pinned post! Here is the direct link for anyone interested: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18ZhSzf5Qt1nEmz3lK2j1tO7ecZo9LsPg/view?usp=sharing

As a Kpop fan now, if you've been here since at least 2021/2022ish~ you've outlived 2 apps. V Live and Universe, congrats, you don't get anything, but you can say you've outlived them.

i wanna be a vtuber just so i can meet cool people and make friends

psa to silverfoxlou: stop reblogging posts from people u think are fucking stupid. the option to make your own posts is also there

"do you see what i see?" 🫂🌈

random screenshots that happened while i was aiming for something else

you can either see it as a cat meme or as something nsfw 💀

*big deep breath*

If they straight-ify Aloy (meaning that she's highly hinted at in game to be very bisexual or to be in the future outright lesbian or she's dead on arospec/acespec or a combination of these identities like lesbian ace or aro bi, etc) I'm going to cancel my subscription to Netflix lmao

There's A LOT of other things they can screw up

OR FUCKING FIX (like for Christ's sake, don't kill Vala or Varl!!!! Seriously Erend could have died in HFW instead of Varl),

But I'm going to be kinda chill, just kinda, about those possibilities. For now.

But if they make Aloy straight, having no flirtationships with Petra or Talanah or the not-hetero bonding she had with Ikrie. And hypersexualize her.

I will flat out remove Netflix from my life lmao

Actually the only thing that would change my mind if if Vala and Varl are handled better. Like especially Varl because he's such a huge character in the second game, if the Netflix adaptation saves him, I'd forgive anything else and just bitch and grumble. But I guarantee that if they straight-ify Aloy, they'll still kill off two black characters.

“ My lawyer now. ”

so lets review the ps plus free games for this month and how absurdly bad they are

toem, which is a £20 indie you can complete in 6 hours at a push

granblue fantasy versus, a £15 anime fighting game

and need for speed heat, a £60 racing game

like theres been some Stinkers before, and idk why this particular set is making me so annoyed fghj but wowww they really picked a Bunch huh??

writing…… words…… google doc expanding…….. god save me…….