#or collaborating creatively with other people

[lettersfromangela]

𝐀 𝐆𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲: Pick-a-Card Reading

{ Pile 1-4 from Left-Right }

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬.

Pile One:

𝐀𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 ��𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐝 | 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐭 | 𝐄𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬

In June, you lost a chance. You are regretting a missed opportunity thinking that you're letting life pass you by. This July, get ready to take the reigns of your life. A change will happen so quickly that before the month bids you goodbye, you are at a different place and state of mind: happier, brighter, and more fulfilled than ever.

You may have lost a job, got your heart broken, or you may be showing constant efforts without seeing real results that satisfy you. This has left you feeling powerless. You became a prisoner of your own mind. The universe tells you to keep going out there. Keep waking up to face whatever the day has in store for you. You will feel the magic in the air. A call from someone you miss. An unexpected job offer. The local barista giving you a drink for free. It will be in the things you won't see coming, that the chance you missed comes to you again, reminding you that your life is not over yet.

Pile Two:

𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 | 𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 | 𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬

An air sign and a fire sign. These two will be more prominent in your life this July. Perhaps you already are one. Know the saying that goes: "Two's a company, Three's a Crowd"? Well, this July will prove you wrong. You will work with two people to explore the realm of intellect and creativity. Ideas will come fresh, it may even come during a casual conversation. This collaboration will serve you well in the long run, and it will grant you material blessings as well.

Be cautious of overwork, forcing your beliefs and ideas on others, and rushing into things. July will teach you discipline and cooperation. You will be reminded that not all ideas are worth investing your resources in.

July will be a passionate, and happy month, with room for growth and days filled with laughter. Cherish it. Embody your childlike wonder.

Pile Three:

𝐒𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 | 𝐊𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 | 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐭

Your year has been quiet and slow, and this July, nothing much will change. Instead, you will be given energy and perseverance. You will continue to tend to the seeds you planted, slow and steady. And in the middle of it all, you will get to know yourself more. You might see synchronicities, experience waking dreams, feel strange sensations out of the blue, or hear the signs you've been waiting for.

And they will all tell you the same thing. That is to keep going.

July may be uneventful for the most part, but before it ends, you will find yourself thanking the heavens, because you will see how much you've grown since then.

Pile Four:

𝐓𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐮𝐩𝐬 | 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐮𝐩𝐬 | 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐭

Romance. A wish coming true. A Pisces will be offering their cup to you and you will be elated. You have been waiting for an answer for so long, and this July, it will finally come to you. If you're waiting to get proposed to or be asked out, it will happen this month. If not, then you'll be reconciling with someone you departed from 10 weeks ago.

If love is not your wish, then you will find happiness. The sun shines brighter, and you will wake up most days with a smile on your face. Things will go in your favor if you wish for them to be. July will make your heart happy, so have faith and trust the will of the powers that be.

thanks for reading! i hope it resonated with you. let me know what pile you picked, and if you have suggestions, leave it in my inbox!

𝓐𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓵𝓪 ♡

[myobsessionsspace]

Not me getting emotional thinking on what they said in their live.

That they will have a sort of song camp where “all seven of us will begin working closely together on new music. Since it will be a group album, it will reflect each member’s thoughts and ideas.” That they’d start off in the states but follow Jin (who is touring) if needed.

Subs not up yet but army translators here and here

During their solo chapter we saw Jimin have his smeraldo garden marching band who lived, ate and breathed their project into being.

We saw Namjoon and his artistic friends come together and create the documentary ‘Right People, Wrong Place’ and his raw album ‘Right Place, Wrong Person’

We saw Yoongi during ‘Road to DDay’ with his team of collaborators including El Capitxn

We saw glimpses here and there of Jin, Jungkook Hobi & Taehyung’s solo process but the whole ‘song writing/producing camp’ felt more reminiscent to what we were shown with the aforementioned members solo process.

It’s amazing to see what they wanted to accomplish before their ‘hiatus’ put into action.

They wanted the time to work separately, to try new things, to explore themselves artistically, how they would work without each other. To then bring what they learnt back to each other and make something they feel connected to again.

It’s one thing seeing them all together in the live today. Their first live as seven after nearly THREE YEARS. But it’s another thing hearing already how much it was needed, how it impacted them and how excited they are to bring it back home to each other.

Yes they pretty much were still in each others orbit for those three years, yes they mostly worked with the same people (I’m looking at you musical genius Kang Hyo-won). But let me be emotional dammit 😭

Yes the giant ‘green fatigues uniform’ elephant in the room had a lot to do with their growth, yes the craziness that happened within the fandom, solos, boycott etc happened with chapter 2. BUT just hearing this little thing, to me really brings home how much this ‘hiatus’ was necessary for them.

I’m so so so excited for what they have to come and really don’t care if it comes next spring, summer or autumn. As long as it’s what they want, when they want and how they want it.

Maybe we’ll even get a glimpse of the process, seeing the seven, as well as probably other producers, song writers, creative team staff etc.

Ugh, it’s good to be home 💜

[sparklecats2009]

Just like that, my time freelancing at South Press has ended. The people I met and lessons I learned here will be with me forever. I made an entire new FURRY brand for this coffee shop over the last 9 months and sold a whole lot of merchandise with my art on it! Some of you even visited me 🙀!

Here's to hoping for more amazing collaborations. If you'd like to support me while I look for my next gig, consider signing up for my mailing club!

Though that is very exciting for me, the South Press + Knox Pride staff are the reason it happened. They not only trusted me, but gave me support. They gave me my sweet tea and muffin and I would draw kitties and make menus for them. Nothing will ever replace the time I spent here- there are so many stories to tell. It truly does not feel real. For those of you who never visited- Google will say it is a coffee shop. It was much more. The employees of this shop helped community members raise money for name changes, flood victims, overdue rent, car repairs + other crises weekly. They hosted crafts, drag shows, open mic, karaoke, ASL trivia, sensory-friendly disco... every event under the sun. They worked extremely hard every single day. South Press did not close the doors due to being a failed business. South Press closed because it was not designed for a broken system. Capitalism rewards high profits, understaffed or overworked employees, and utilitarian emptiness. South Press, on the other hand, had baby dolls hanging from the ceiling. The current environment not only ignores small businesses, minorities, and working class humans- it actively punishes them. South Press was a beautiful mix of everything, queering the future possibilities of what could be. It was not a quirky business in a walkable area. It was a space owned by trans people. supporting working class people. in a red area. on the side of chapman highway. Joslynn, the owner, believed my designs would support her business, but she is an amazing designer. She designed a space that rewarded community, creativity, collaboration. In all of these areas, South Press was ahead of it's time. Getting to collaborate with her everyday made me feel so lucky. Thank you.

[selenepsyche]

k-pop will never be global and have a lot more groups be globally successful because of the continued racism and cultural appropriation. not just of black culture, but Latino and Indian cultures as well.

most K-pop idols are too self-centered and inconsiderate of other cultures, so they don’t care about why or how some things they do is offensive to other people. BTS and Blackpink are two globally successful K-pop groups, but some members still culturally appropriate black culture and get so much backlash because of it.

you can’t attempt to break out in the west while disrespecting cultures to profit off them, knowing we take that shit more seriously. you can’t attempt to break out in the west without doing research on what we do and don’t stand for. you can’t attempt to break out in the west by collaborating with the worst western artists possible, just because they’re still “trendy”.

most k-pop idols don’t care about black k-pop fans or truly respect other black celebrities, yet wanna profit off our culture and use it as an aesthetic. this is why k-pop is going downhill. honestly, it’s also going downhill because the music quality has been dwindling. so much lack of creativity that not even our aesthetics can save you.

[tbb-appreciation-week]

THE BAD BATCH APPRECIATION WEEK 2025 IS HERE!!!!!

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[biyoualwaysryan]

This isn't as directly relevant to your point about AI art but I just generally hate auteur culture. It's especially frustrating for me with Video Games (largely because that's my respective art field) but Games are by-and-large made by teams. Indie games can occasionally be made by one person at the forefront but those are rare and should not be viewed as the norm!!! Also most popular examples of 'solo indie games' still had other contributes. Toby Fox had Temmie Chang help with art and character Design. The Balatro guy commissioned someone off Fiverr to write the soundtrack. Schedule 1 had a composer and graffiti artist to help. Even when games actually were made solely by one person (as I believe is the case with Stardew Valley), they still pull very heavy inspiration from titles that came before (SV was based on the Harvest Moon series). Again though, I don't want these specific counterexamples to bury the lede that even if a few successful titles were "truly" made as a solo endeavor, that still is the exception to the thousands of other games that are released by teams of people.

I find it especially frustrating with AAA games because it erases the contributions of hundreds if not thousands of people who crunched to provide programming, design, art, audio, and writing. I know that we can't see their faces plastered with every skyrim rerelease meme the way we do with Todd Howard, but it still infuriates me when he gets treated as the sole decision maker. That's not to say The "Auteur's" didn't do anything. Hideo Kojima especially I know has a lot of influence on the writing process, and maintaining a cohesive creative vision across a large project like that is a skill in and of itself. However, even with the writing, he almost assuredly had a team behind them that he was leading. There's no way he wrote the entire script or even storyboard on his own.

Attempting to bring it back to your original point about AI art. Art is kinda inherently collaborate. That isn't to diminish the value or respect deserved of people who do devotedly spend years on their solo passion projects. but even if there truly was Only one person who did direct work on the art, they still pulled inspiration from elsewhere. People often rebuke the analogy of AI training data being akin to inspiration. And that's fair, there are flaws with the comparison regarding how each process works. But I still think the principle holds. They are both cases of the original artist contributing to the later work. I have issues with the ways that accreditation and rewards/royalties are (not) provided. But also tbf a lot of the ways that accreditation works with inspiration is minor (arguably lacking). George R R Martin doesn't pay royalties to the author of The Iron King (which he directly accredited as inspiring ASoIaF) and he certainly didn't get permission to write his own books.

To be fair, I'm not saying that I'm not trying to defend the poor accreditation policies behind AI model training. I overall find that to be the crux of any ethics issues with AI, but that's a whole other discussion. Maybe there needs to be better cultural expectations for people pulling inspiration. Maybe there needs to be better legal expectations. Maybe the difference between a rip-off vs. an homage is impossible to distinguish. Maybe only the solution to AI art is to just do away with capitalism and replace it with a system wherein progress mutually benefits the entirety of society so that way inventions like this don't just consolidate artificially scarce resources into the hands of those who already have power. I dunno. I have a lot of mixed feelings about whether 'ethical AI' is possible but I don't have any conclusions related to it.

The one thing I do know is that I'm sick and tired of people trying to apply an individualist view towards art. Art is one of the most collaborative and beautiful aspects of our culture, and that collaboration is a huge part of why it's beautiful. Stop trying to view turn it into an individualistic thing!

Can I be controversial for a second. I think it's rlly interesting that a complaint that a lot of people on here have about AI art is that the artist, usually construed as a single person or in rare cases a few people who do the entire process of "making art," is viewed as having not "made" the art as in done all the labour to produce the work, when going into irl art spaces often reveals that this is the case far more often than people seem to believe it to be. I can only speak with authority on photography because that's the community I'm involved in but I can't tell you how many shows I've gone to which credit one name but, when you speak to the photographer, they either had someone else develop and print the film/edit the files/whatever, and while this is definitely not the rule (not even in film) it happens enough that it's significant because the person who does those things makes kind of big decisions about the way a photograph... is, for lack of a better word. changing things like exposure, how much dust on the lens/scanner to edit out, how much to doctor the photograph to show a more idealised idea of the subject (editing out wrinkles etc), these are big artistic decisions that someone else other than "the artist" is making. which brings us to AI and the idea of "not making" something yourself. a photographer exposes a piece of film to light for a fraction of a second and then other people develop, edit, and print their photograph, and through this engrained idea of art as unilaterally solitary rather than a conversation between everyone involved that's the work of the photographer alone. somebody on chatGPT comes up with an idea and gets a machine to execute it and they didn't "make" it. idk if I'm trying to make a point other than it's weird how labour is viewed in the arts + under my communist regime people who don't credit richard avedon's darkroom staff in exhibits of his work will be executed by firing squad

[adambomb82]

hahahahahahahha uhhhhhhhhh

[allieinarden]

“Young men don’t have role models!” Phineas and Ferb are right there.

[freedelusionshere]

S4. Carmy stares at Syd even more closely.

[cerbreus]

theres a lotta things i wanted to do this year but I think the thing that would help me the most is to like. start personal projects that make me enjoy my work again. x( i wanna be excited about game development and making games again, it really helped me push myself to learn and get better and this stagnating just feels terrible. Knowing what I'm capable of but not being able to set on the path to getting there.

[sendmyresignation]

ok one thing that's been pissing me off lately is the way. in both positive and negative opinions holder's estimations. hole is completely reduced to courtney love's band. in ways that completely ofuscate the conributions of the other members. this is very typical in music generally in a way i already find frustrating but it's especially egregious in the case of all-female or mostly female bands where each member had entire histories completely just removed from the discussion outside of the frontwoman. how many female drummers do you know list them top 5 lets go. ok now how about female drummers NOT in all female bands do you take the time to discover these women to listen to them to track the different bands and projects they're in do you CARE outside the list-ification of "diverse bands" about these artists as creative contributors who have tangible effects on music at large. <- guy listening to a lot of shift rn voice

[good-beans]

🌻

[trying-to-get-somewhere-real]

the feminine urge to convince @luther-alice to watch my current hyperfixation and then convince them to make me a hacks parallel gifset 🙃

[xx-dark-dart-xx]

Any other actors out there out of fucking room in their head for things they're trying to memorize in a day?

I have a 2 page monologue assignment for class I'm doing a paragraph each night, but I memorized an entire scene today for Little Mermaid cause I didn't get it until last night. I just. Can't cram any more in here. I'm not head empty. Head quite full, actually

[thaliagrayce]

hnnn.... my roommate is participating in a fandom bang and it sounds really fun..... ive always shied away from them bc when i'm not crazy about an idea it takes me forever to write it but i think being paired w someone else who was excited about it and making stuff would help........... i wanna do a bang

[yther]

v

thinking "whatever happened to good art collectives" lately but so many of my peers are atomized and obsessed with making art that is only reflective of their "lived experiences", their specific intersections of identities, and being idiosyncratic to the end of making sure they don't speak for anyone else or at least speak so abstractly that they speak for no one. like listen to me i'm an authentic voice no one else can speak for me to the point of no connection. bastardized ideas about consciousness raising that turns collaboration and constructive criticism into moral vivisection or platitudes. there's no curiosity here. you can't be in conversation with other artists when you're so anxious about being a closed off identity