#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! :)

[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

[practically-an-x-man]

I regret nothing. this game is still very fun

[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?)

[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!

[1o1percentmilk]

i dont want to do that

[godblooded]

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

[arcadekitten]

I can't remember if you've ever clarified, but how exactly did Twyla's parents die? (I can't remember much of her route, so if the answer's in there i apologise in advance 😭)

It's not said in her route (or the game in general), but there is a nod to how they died in the Cemetery Mary artbook! (available for purchase on Steam and itch.io)

[s0fter-sin]

Thinking you shouldn't have to pay for Watcher content is you being entitled, actually.

did i ever say i shouldn’t have to pay for it? no, i said it’s disappointing that i would now have to after years of it being free. it would be easier to take if they were completely changing and upgrading their shows or established that the stream wouldn’t just have their current shows and maybe discontinued ones, that it would be different from their youtube channel and worth the sudden charge, but it’s hard not to feel like they’re throwing their audience under the bus

[blackmagictrait]

if you've ever sent me a nice message know that I read it and loved it and love you, I just don't wanna bring out even more trolls by posting thank yous (bc for some reason it always does??) but yeah I see y'all! thank youuuuuu<333

[starpros-sunshine]

Sometimes I wonder why cold symptoms always get worse in the evenings there has to be a logical explanation for that