#financial capabilities

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

[beingjellybeans]

Should you cosign for a bank loan?

Signing up for a loan is a big financial decision, but so is cosigning for one. Cosigning a loan, simply put, means that you agree to be legally obligated to repay a loan should the borrower fail to do so on their own. On top of agreeing to take on a significant financial responsibility, cosigning for loans can also have substantial consequences on your personal and professional…

[iambecomeyourvillain]

fang runin getting rid of her uterus a day after getting her first period is so goddamn real of her please i wish i could

[canisalbus]

Hey there! Im sure your inbox is filled with other asks that are much more interesting than mine, but I just wanted to tell you that I love your art! Ive been following you for a while, both here and on twitter, and your artstyle and the way you color things always makes my day better and honestly, seeing Vasco and Machete acting all lovey dovey and cuddly heals something inside me. Just makes me feel nice and relaxed and heals something nasty inside me too. Well thats all I wanted to say! I wish you a very good day/night! <3

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[kiisaes]

1/4/25 gofundmes

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[lgbtlunaverse]

Payment for surrogacy gets really complicated because on one hand paying for it means most surrogates will end up being lower class women who need the money and will be easier to exploit, something which is rife in the current implementation of surrogacy, but on the other hand being pregnant is genuinely like body horror to me and I think that if you go through that for someone else you should get a billion dollars.

[sunsoak]

Whenever someone brings up the idea of a 4 day work week but is saying “with ten hour shifts so it’s still 40 hours” I re educate and indoctrinate them until they’re agreeing with me that it should be 6-8 hour shifts and a 24-32 hour week and we should all get paid significantly more. A 4 day work week with the same pay and 10 hour shifts is not what we need or want and you know it, you’re scared to sound lazy but you desperately need more hours of free time, not just a reorganization of the time you already spend there.

[ohmygraves]

my hormones got really wacky and i cried looking at a tiktok of ghost with a baby

just him sleeping with the baby on top of him and auuu,,, cries,,,

[raylangivins]

not the worst but perhaps the most lame part of miss swift's chart-blocking is that that album is only ok. like, girl, at least release an album worthy of the chart records you are trying to manufacture. you are genuinely capable of doing that!! why does this have to be the big legacy record???

[chibishortdeath]

Great googley moogley it’s all going to shit! Every day becomes exponentially more terrifying!

And all perfectly timed to just right at the start of what’s supposed to be my adult life where I get my shit together and be useful and productive!

[steelycunt]

you are so fucking cool to me.!!!! (Posted after the thing u said about literary fiction.) Yeah. Honestly i think the troubled #real character epidemic has just circled back and made up a new cookie cutter pattern for all of these unworked protagonists to fit into and in that way it's just as lame as making them unrealisticalyl doted and perfect because at the end of the day both of those things exist because that's what people wanted to see and channel into at the time. haterismmmmms. I felt this way about well i won't say actually

hiii yes absolutely!! i am tired of the whole 'messy' character thing...particularly 'messy' female characters that just means they are described as 'plain' but are actually just brunette and described as 'unhinged' which actually just means they masturbate sometimes and like a lie in. but in general i think more and more the 'flawed' characters in litfic are failing to be made any more real by their flaws despite the authors efforts...it feels a lot like they dont quite realise how their own characters are likely to be percieved by the reader. so they remain unconvincing but also often just slightly more unpleasant...and despite allegedly being messy and complicated they all communicate (when they communicate) in the most perfect therapy speak and by therapy speak i mean whatever twitter armchair psychologists happen to be peddling. they are all also very smart and artsy and desirable even when theyre not meant to be beautiful. these books feel like wandering around a sleek white car dealership with floor to ceiling windows their attempts 2 make their characters troubled and real are so half-assed and contrived that they end up becoming even more like caricatures. DYING to hear what book you felt that way about...this blog is always a safe space for haters + their hate especially when it comes 2 books..

[irlbop]

Babes, your Spider Society has at least one resident therapist. Please.

[shiraishi--kanade]

White knuckling through my family issues right now. Thoughts and prayers everyone

[doloresdisparue]

Really cool video essay by someone going over the abysmal previous movies and proposing a hypothetical new film adaptation! Lots of interesting ideas, some picking up from what the musical and Nabokov's screenplay did and some entirely new ones.

[classicintp]

It bothers me to no end that prices for everything are still going up despite it being well-known by this point that it isn't inflation, that corporations are continuing to make increased profit and raising prices anyway. No amount of organizing or informing has done anything, only like 12 people between 4 continents are willing to stop buying from McDonald's, Walmart, and Amazon. I am so tired of this place.

[1st-worldsaver]

all the men in my family are absolutely delusional in their belief of what type of loan they'll be granted