#not paywalled or anything like that

[icaruseater]

The Way We Talk About Art Is So Weird Now

We, as a culture, reward effortlessness. Look at who we platform, when and how they’re presented. Art icons arrive fully formed. Rarely do we see their infancy, the time spent reading books and articles, visiting museums, etc. In other words, developing their taste and acquiring a level of expertise.

We don’t see any of that. They blossom before us as beautiful flowers, the roots which harbor the actual work buried deep in the dirt.

More people want to fast forward, to somehow blossom without the root. But the only flowers that can do that are fake, cheap, plastic. And you can tell just by looking at them!

However, perhaps even more dreadful, people simply don’t care. The fake flowers are treated as though they are just as valid as the real thing. But they’re not. And the more I see this attitude permeate online discussion of various art forms, the more concerned I become.

In this post, I discuss the weird way we talk about fashion, music, personal style, modern art, and books. I also explain why yes, it is that deep. Click below to read! :)

[ganondoodle]

theres people that build the entire map of botw in fucking minecraft and im sitting here for the 100th time within less than a year crying bc i cant draw a line how i want

[windslar]

messing around reshade while waiting for the nine kids in this neighbourhood to ring my doorbell

[cozy-the-overlord]

Catching up on the whole watcher situation because I ironically stopped watching their channel regularly because I didn’t like how expensively produced their shows were compared to Buzzfeed Unsolved’s simplicity

[yooniesim]

"free (for patreon followers only)" isn't free imo 🤔

it's just kinda weird. like what is the point there? to get more followers on the off chance that they decide to pledge from exposure? or just to boost your numbers in general?

idk, been seeing this more lately for some reason and just kinda wondering why

[zombies-who-speak-simlish]

the ts4 community will never cease to amaze me

Ya'll are really locking ts2/ts3 to ts4 conversions behind paywalls now for up to $6 a month?

I wish my ts2 game ran better on my computer, cause I miss it and the ts2 community (and the ts3 community) like crazy Legit might just start a patreon/site for free, convert shit myself and post it for free cause like, this dumb. Things from previous games should not be paywalled. I get it takes time and effort to convert/update things, but that's why you include a wallet for people to TIP you for your work, not paywall it. That's scummy.

[shinyeeveelynn]

I can feel this Su-Bong thing is gonna be somewhat of an uphill battle because the majority of his screen time he's high off his ass and- I mean years ago no issue; I knew my men like the back of my hand. I didn't need canon to hold my hand or to see them in situations to know how they'd behave or react. Unfortunately for me my ability to fill in the blanks like I used to with my ships just isn't there anymore. I have so many other IRL things to worry about my creativity just kinda tanked (which is also why I hadn't f/o'd anyone in a hot minute and disappeared of Tumblr entirely). I have to like, be spoon fed ideas and what not at this point to come up with stuff and it sucks cause there really is something between us and I managed to figure out Gi-hun (though I struggled SO HARD and it was the first time in a LONG time I fell so hard for someone again) so I don't want to just? Not? Cause I do love him and I have a base level as to who he is to me, but ??? AH? ITS HARD. Whatever. I think life just killed my spirit when it came to my imagination and its been affecting my ships for so long and I'm sad about it because shipping has been a life long comfort and life line for me. It's definitely not just been him either but that's where I'm at at the moment.

Annnnyway.

[practically-an-x-man]

I regret nothing. this game is still very fun

[icaruseater]

Heyy I wrote a little rant about “the irony epidemic” a little while ago. In the wake of Ethel Cain’s post about irony, I thought it might be of interest to some of you. It’s aptly titled “I’m so over irony”. Mentions include: music, comedy, satire, fashion, and a dash of art history!

[deoidesign]

Are you slowly going insane over your OWN ocs?

No, I've been infected by brainworms the entire time. Nothing slow about it.

But honestly, no... It's not really about my characters to me. I love my characters, of course, and I love telling stories, and I hope to keep making art of my characters every day until I die.

But it's not about them! They're not REALLY what I love, what I love is people! And I hope I can leave the world with a hundred different love letters so my readers can feel how much I love them for even one day longer than I am here.

My characters are a conduit through which I can give that to people. I want nothing more than to make someone feel a little more loved, a little more seen, and a little less alone. And my characters are the best way I know how to do that.

So for that, they're incredibly important to me... But they're not for me. They're for you!

So I hope you enjoy them

and I hope you can feel that I love you through them.

[mxwhore]

embarrassing sex!!¡ fuck yea!!!

[eachuisge-cc]

do you happen to have any psds saved for the cat skins? i love how high quality yours are and would like to make my own custom patterns, i understand if not tho!

I will not be releasing the psds as they are, because they're large files and they are not set up in a way that would make them easy for someone else to use. They're also 100% painted from scratch and I'll admit to feeling kind of protective over them, since releasing a template for recolors pretty much immediately relinquishes any further control over what's done with them. I could see maybe releasing a template for personal use in the future but I'd need to think about how I'd want to go about that and reorganize the layers etc into something easier to parse.

[florasstudyjournal]

paywalls are the ENEMY oh my god (how do y'all find book chapters that are behind paywalls/you don't have access to?)

[1o1percentmilk]

i dont want to do that

[godblooded]

….fucking Spotify requires you to buy more fucking audiobook credits????

[kastukj]

I hate micro transactions and permanently limited content I hate micro transactions and permanently limited content I HATE MICRO TRANSACTIONS AND PERMANENTLY LIMITED CONTENT