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[terris-mayweather]

I Kinda' Wanna' Kiss Your Boyfriend If You Don't Mind

Art commissioned from Kemmuono.

Here is all of their commission info: https://kemmuono.carrd.co/#

Niles is a very lucky hyena to have two men in his life that love him so deeply.

This AMAZING piece was done by Kemmuono again. I loved their art so much and had to get another piece that was rattling around in my head. We were all listening to Chappel Roan's new album together and Kaynen (the lab) and I had a mischievous idea once we heard the lyrics. I gave the artist a bit of a headache since I wanted so many details but it came out AMAZINGLY. Even included my necklaces! Truly an incredible artist. I included detailed alt text for anyone that wants to read the full scene. Also a textless alternative. If any of you are interested I did write a small prose piece in conjunction with this scene, do you all want to read it? I hope you all have a lovely day!!!

[science-lings]

I need to consult the gay counsel

[popqorn]

Hualian is such a soft pairing. They are endearing and sweet and so, so in love. But they are also extremely eccentric and completely obsessed with each other, to a degree that would make any sane person run for the hills. And I love that for them. They can be weird, as a treat ❤️

[fryday]

phands

[samuelwalker]

Obsessed with the idea of Red Hood hiring sex workers for everyday tasks HOUSE MD style. Like trying the new recipe he just learned, or he needs someone to proofread the essay he wrote for his night class. He wants help putting together one of those Ikea bookshelves or picking what to wear for a date.

[kod-lyoko]

dennis reynolds is stuck in TRAFIK!

[teaboot]

Your post about art vs content got me thinking about the differences between the two. To me there is no difference besides the mindsets. One is of creator and the enjoyer, the other is content and consumer it removes the personhood, the joy/emotion, from the equation. Like a writer or video creator may not see their work as art so content creator maybe a way to refer to themselves comfortably but it sounds so machine, emotionless and lifeless, like a cookie cutter recipe mass producing something verses people lovingly crafting something...then again Disney uses a cookie cutter recipe for the most part and it brings out bangers cause people lovingly make it their own so maybe I'm thinking too hard on this

Does my long-winded rant make sense?

see, I get what you mean, but I still feel like the willingness to entertain calling art of any kind "content" reduces it to the facet of consumption where in reality, the experience of consuming art is not the sole defining trait of it.

Reducing arts like music, writing, painting, dance, voice acting, theater, etc. to the role of "content"- a thing created to be consumed, measured and valued by how pleasant or easy it is to digest- I feel that it was our biggest red flag to herald the incoming tide of AI "art".

Because if art is "content", if arts are nothing but consumable matter, then obviously the key to success is to produce as much soft, tasty, edible paste as we possibly can at the lowest possible expense.

It's the same issue I have with "meal replacements", diet culture, nutrient slurries, twenty-step skincare routines, 24/7 body padding and shapewear and laxative teas and "grind culture". It's not a cause, but a symptom, of the disease that is late-stage capitalism.

Things must be produced at low cost and remain in high demand forever. Things must be perfect and palatable and the new hit trend forever. People must pay hand over fist to consume without asking anything in return, and if they start dropping like flies at the unending unrewarded thankless demand of it all, then that must be treated as a weakness. We should all take pride in how much we can spend, pay, give, produce, and think as little as possible about what we ask for ourselves.

So, who cares if, of two identical paintings, one was made by a person and one was made by a computer program? It's the same work, so what does it matter? What does it matter?

I am an artist. I make art. I ask a question, make a statement, declare something horrific or challenging or upsetting or wrong or grotesque, and when you respond, we are together experiencing a conversation. We are existing, two people living one life and reaching out and touching across time and space. No matter the work, you're at the barest minimum saying, "I'm alive, and you're alive, and at one time or another we shared this same world, and at the end of the day we aren't too terribly different. My heart is worth sharing, and your heart is worth the struggle of understanding."

An AI-generated piece, a computer-generated voice, a CGI puppet of someone long since dead and gone, they cannot speak. They have no voice. Ay best, they are the most chewable, consumable, landlord-beige common denominator possible that you can sit and listen to like the lone survivor of a shipwreck listening to the same three songs on a broken record, and at worst, they're the uncaring vomit of an empty, unloving, value-addled hack wearing the skin of someone I know over their own.

When you abandon art to say that you make content, that should not be a point of pride. That's an embarrassment. That's not sitting down for an intelligent discussion with an equal, that's kneeling at the feet of the crowd and saying, "what do you want to see me do? I can be anyone you've ever loved. I can be them, I can be anyone, as long as you love me."

I can make content. I can be consumed. What do you want to consume? I'll make myself consumable. I'll make myself just like anything you like. And I'll make so much of it that you'll never have to go anywhere else, because it'll all be right here, and under all the cut-and-paste schlock you've seen before I will sit alone in the dark and the silence and I will know that I am safe, because I am valued, because I am desired, and I need to be desired or else I am worthless like a factory that no longer churns out steel or a hen that no longer lays eggs or a cow that is too old to make milk.

Content, the most literal meaning, is something which is contained inside a container. What it is doesn't really matter, and the best it can hope to be is something worthy of being scooped out and used.

Art is an experience that transcends value. Art is something you can eat without paying for. You can make it out of anything and anyone can do it. It can be crude and vulgar and bad, and that's a strength because it means something. It always, always means something, and it doesn't matter if you like it or not. It's not content because it doesn't fill anything. It's a living, breathing thing, and whether you want to birth it or eat it, then you're going to have to be willing to put the fucking work in

[the-final-sif]

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[fazgoo-connoiseur-1987]

Bill: hahah :) I wonder what Henry's thinking about :) he's so cool and smart it's probably really interesting :)

Henry:

[thatrandomlemononyourcounter1]

Who in the Keeper gang would drink iced tea

[bethanydelleman]

I saw THE MOST ridiculous thing on a soap opera (I know, what am I doing looking for logic?) and I can't stop thinking about it. So this woman wants to test if a mother and fraternal mixed-gender twins are related, but on the down low. She goes to the mother's bathroom and steals a toothbrush and hair, so far so good. She goes to the room where the twins have their at-home study desks and takes a brush off the girl's desk and takes hair. Believable. But then, and this I cannot believe, the son's desk has a picture of just him, a framed glamour shot. Then in front, his toothbrush, in a travel case. I mean, perfect for DNA thieves, but like... wut?

*By this I mean, you aren't doing something fun (I could see someone having a picture of themselves hiking or something), you are just posing for a picture. All by your lonesome.

I could understand the glamour shot if this character was extremely vain, but he wasn't. Another character on the show had massive wall-covering prints of herself, but that fit her character traits.

I could understand having a toothbrush at work, which would be in a travel case, BUT AT HOME????

[cultureosmosisenjoyer]

I’ve looked at this block of leather for hours I am LOSING MY MIND.

Atlus, I just want to know what’s in that backpack that is never acknowledged by literally anyone. Is it every possible igniter ever? Is it books like the one Basilio leaves in the bookcase? Is it the rope Del and Bas used to break into prison? Why didn’t Del pack anything remotely resembling medical supply in it during the island arc? Cause you know his ass would’ve been trying to treat his own leg before anyone found out, if he had the means. No other character has any kind of visible bag to carry stuff around, so why is Fidelio the exception to this?

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

Please share your thoughts and opinions in the notes and reblogs! This is extremely important to me as this is a situation I'm currently facing and I want to be informed for the future.

[rynfloros]

i have this idea that whoever will will do it at the cliff that kenji likes so much because i can see that specific spot being important for the both of them. but i can't decide yet