#You Are A Tar Pit

[flowerandthesongstress]

complaints I've already seen about Coral Island, a new Indonesian kickstarter cozy game: the barman selling a ruined dish is an uncalled-for jab at restaurant workers! cats shouldn't hang out outdoors! eew, this woman shouldn't display her pregnancy stretch marks! where are all the kippot! why is everyone in such good shape! preposterous! this partially deaf character talking in caps lock is triggering me! no one in doctors without borders would be that tattooed, this dreadful representation is literal murder! no doctor would forget her paperwork at a library, for that matter! why is a japanese fisherman talking like a scottish pirate, this is inaccurate!

meanwhile in the game: I freed a stone statue from a magical underground prison and he put an enchantment on my hoe. his brother asked me if I liked figs is he flirting. my hippie boyfriend is heartbroken because his bucket-wearing pet duck is sick but shhh watching tv will heal him. last night when I talked to the outdoors cat she mentioned that she has a crippling fear of birds and thinks of getting therapy. a stem academic looks like a kpop idol and is getting enough sleep. he wears his astrophysics degree all over himself like a linguist would have worn alphabet necklaces, just to spite his dad but it's not working why is it not working ah shit it's working. mermaids hired me as a janitor. it's not pro bono I'm paid in diamonds. my neighbor is worried that his shiba inu went back to rejoin the mountain whence it came from. a turtle won't let me pass until I serve her spaghetti. I'm fighting capitalism with a literal scythe. the local blacksmith is asking my opinion regarding a legendary battle hammer and if it's worth the logistics hassle. it's been a year crabs are still dancing in celebration their zeal is admirable but their choreography could use some work. this giant monkey covered in two layers of meta wants to sell me a nostalgic souvenir. I know it because he sent me a polite letter. how many propaganda flyers can I fish out of this pond a challenge. I barged into a local lab and upended a barrel of seaweed over intricate circuitry now my flowers are five percent prettier. the scientist at the lab attached a mermish translator to my diving suit via the power of coffee. hold on I'm doing meal prep for next week let me finish putting ectoplasmic slime on okra

[demontouched]

ongoing list of things that neutralize Online Insanity:

-you are a tar pit

-to be cringe is to be free

-people in real life: hey man how's it going

-this is my first time being alive

[sarah-sandwich]

vent

[ceasarslegion]

Theres a huge problem of this sites culture demanding more art from people while simultaneously refusing to engage with it. Clearly this is the creators fault for getting upset about the creative equivalent of baking a cake for a whole party and then nobody touches it.

Jesus christ

[skrillien]

"man i love this musician they make me sooo happy :)" "but didn't they-"

[lostryu]

why would i want to play as a fat person?

why would i want to play as a skinny person?

[rubiatinctorum]

i need some of you on this site to put down the internet buzzfeed therapy words with specific meanings until you learn what they mean besides "someone said something you disagreed with" or "someone said something is bad" or "someone said something in a way you didn't like"

[badolmen]

*the most ‘um, actually’ person you’ve ever met with the need to always be right* where’s your whimsy? ^_^ we should all be a little sillier and relax

[by-ilmater]

"iT's ThE gEnTrIfIcAtIoN of A FetIsh" shut the fuck uuuuuupppppppp omg that's not what that means! holy shit!

[uraandri]

why do people get so defensive about shit that doesn't even apply to them like ok your library is only open during your working hours and you can't go and that's fine but why are you leaving a 3 paragraph response to someone saying that going to a library is always a good idea if you want to go outside but not be outside

[overmorrowpine]

do you ever encounter someone online that is just a fucking tar pit

[canonickero]

I'd like to add my own part to this; I have mobility issues every now and then. I walk funny. I breathe wrong. I get random, terrible pain that lasts whole days. My hands shake no matter the circumstances. I drop my pencils because sometimes my fingers can no longer curl. Sometimes I tense up and my muscles hurt, or I feel like I'm going to end up on the floor.

But do I use AI to do my artwork? No. I still draw. Standing with whiteboards, sitting with chalk on the pavement. I hunch over and draw in my notebook like the rest of us. I sit on the floor with my canvas on the table and I paint. My twitching hands work well enough on a touchscreen - my phone or my computer. I can hold a stylus well enough.

If I can exist, I can create art. Do I almost pass out when I stand up too quick to show my mother my latest drawing? Yes. But that doesn't stop me from making my OWN, CREATIVE, NOT STOLEN ARTWORK.

AI "art" is a detriment to society. It steals from actual artists and spits out slop.

I still write. I still create art. Drawing on a track pad is hard enough, but my issues can make it worse. Does that mean I give up and run to an AI that steals the hard work of real artists?

No. There's no life, no creativity, no expression in AI "art." Telling an AI to draw my favorite character doesn't do the same thing to my brain as drawing them in my notebook or on my phone. Sometimes I have no motivation to move, but I can turn myself over in my bed to draw something, because it's what makes me happy. It's what gets me out of bed when my notebook and pencil are on my dresser across the room. It helps me work on my motor skills, too. AI "art" does nothing but hurt. Maybe I'm not as disabled as the people listed above. But damn, is it hard. And we're all doing our best. AI "artists" are doing nothing but their worst.

"ai is making it so everyone can make art" Everyone can make art dipshit it came free with your fucking humanity

[tamaaiba]

Truly amazing to see the difference between twitter and bluesky and how one talks about the other. People on twitter have built a platform off of bullying others and being incredibly egotistical, as opposed to bluesky, a much friendlier place that encourages blocking over negative engagement to the point users can create blocklists to avoid people they’re uncomfortable with.

So when twitter sees an environment like bluesky’s, their immediate reaction is to ridicule bluesky by acting like “it’s cringe” and that its users act like “2012 tumblr.”

Like this is just so fascinating. Minding your own business is seen as “cringe” now. We’ve gone from “cringe culture is dead” to twitter’s “bully everything.”

Anyways that’s why I abandoned my main account there and barely use it

[asordidbarwere]

Zero value.

A kissaroo from me to you! 💋

[caifanes]

some of yall have whatever disease kipperlilly has like sometimes it’s not about being right it’s about having FUN

[oliviawebsite]

honestly kindof disgusting to respond to women saying "ive had deeply negative experiences informed by the behaviors and decisions of men in my life and am therefore hesitant to form close bonds with any unless they can prove a modicum of trustworthiness and respect for women" by accusing them of being callous and motivated by hatred. like honestly fuck yourself. you are not a feminist if you think there arent valid reasons for women to distrust men. we have lost the plot so fucking badly. its shameful.