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Taylor Swift is honestly just like any other Taylor, but faster

#pffffff

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Expanding on the tags I left on the post I reblogged earlier because the whole "I'm a communist because I want people to have free shit" is like. Such a fundamental misunderstanding of what communism is.

I think it's a topic that also popped up last year when the banana discourse was going on (a.k.a. when global north "communists" were throwing a fit when confronted with the idea that a communist world economy might involve bananas being slightly less available in global north countries because massive amounts of worker exploitation in the global south are currently required to make it possible for bananas to be not only available but commonplace year-round in the global north) and a bunch of people were going "well how do you expect me to support this as a communist, i thought communism was about wanting people to have nice things!"

(Of course I'm simplifying a lot of stuff here but) Communist politics exist primarily in the realm of production. Communism is primarily concerned with the question of who owns the means of production and thus gets to decide what gets made, how much of it gets made, how it gets made, and how it gets allocated and distributed once it's made. And the answer that communism gives to this question is that it's workers who should get to own the means of production and make all these choices, either through the state apparatus, through a decentralized federation of labor syndicates, through workers's self-management, or whatever other medium depending on the specific branch of communism.

Meanwhile, "I want people to have free shit" or "I want people to have nice things" are statements that I think most communists agree with, but these statements themselves are not what communism is, because they are statements made from the angle of consumption, not production.

#communism #labor

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Honestly the whole Tall-Man thing is such an elegant solution to the whole human problem in dnd. So much language like "have some humanity" gets so awkward when there's a group called humans. Having humans instead refer to all humanoids just makes so much sense in this context!

High key gonna bring this up to my dnd groups and am gonna hard code it in if/when I make my own system.

#dungeon meshi

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flashy armless friends

#homestuck #homestar runner #fanart #cuteness #d'awww

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I am not Jokerfied but Riddlerfied, which is when, instead of enacting individual, shocking displays of violence - in ways that are not particularly conducive to successful class struggle, I believe - I instead become haunted, overwhelmed and depressed by endless questions

#vi mumbles

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still thinking about "decolonising" missionary work.

the way you decolonise missionary work is by not doing missionary work

the way you decolonise missionaries is like this:

#imperialism #blood /

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suddenly orca twins

#art #monsters #others' characters #cool!

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Some stray observations thus far about Venture Bros:

Dr Opheus rules

There's a fair share of humor there that wavers between "grim" and "edgy in that very 2000s Adult Animation way" but it's mostly relatively restrained so it doesn't turn me off nearly as much as some other stuff might. I do feel sometimes like they just use people saying slurs as a quasi-punchline, which I do find pretty distasteful

I keep mistaking Brock's name for Hank's. I feel like Hank just looks like A Brock

The way the show pastiches a lot of adventure/superhero stuff is...intriguing. It's not always a straight up parody - I dunno exactly how I'd describe the distinction. That said, though I am enjoying myself, this series does feel like a case study of the thin line between "pastiche of racism in media" and "straight up racism"

#vi mumbles

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such beautiful interesting dragon illustrations, going through your blog has made me so happy.

I'd love to see what about a dragon inspired by fern leaves, no pressure though if you are working on other suggestions.

#102 - 龍頭 (lóngtóu / dragon head) - A pretty sight for over 360 million years! 🌿☘️🌱

#art #dragons #cuteness

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Final design and turn around for my swamp witch character design. Wanted to do a turn around of a more stylized character.

#art #monsters #others' characters #a cute!

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Nobody in this game has any chill

#ace attorney

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Dio Brando is such a world class hater it's insane. Kid hated his adoptive brother so much he decided to make it his whole family tree's problem. Haunted an entire gene pool for over a century just cause his punk brother got in the way of his inheritence. It took a temporal armageddon and a full world reboot just to scrub away the consequences of his fuckin around and he still shows up as a cowboy weredinosaur to ruin everyone's day. A master class in causing problems on purpose.

#JJBA

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mushi-shi

#mushishi #fanart

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Arbok

#Pokémon #fanart #arbok #WOW that lighting RULES #snakes /

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I think there's something very interesting about the way social media including people from across the globe results in this uneasy coexistence in this stretched-and-squashed space between the ordinary beneficiaries of imperialist exploitation and the people who either are or exist in the global vicinity of those who are exploited (often those who speak some english, which, due to cultural hegemony, is a good amount). Like, geographical space is one obvious way that these two groups are separated - out of sight, out of mind - and, of course, anglophone internet access isn't a given everywhere, but now you have this relative porosity not only across class lines, but across the power veins of the entire world. So you can casually talk about the struggles of the global south from the heart of capitalist empire (class may vary) within digital earshot of someone who is living there right now

And, you know, this is, in some ways, just another unfolding of the way information and its distribution have been reshaped by the internet, but it's just struck me how remarkable it is that you can have two people in this website casually interacting from two different ends of this long chain of exploitation and all the...fraughtness that comes with it. It's like how the growing online intersection of various social spheres, plus relative anonymity, probably contributed a lot to discussions regarding social justice reaching a larger audience a number of years ago, but on full throttle

#vi mumbles

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My personal opinion on the concern about real human beings being happy to submit "garbage" AI text as content for various web media, is that if web copy can be acceptably replaced by its human originators with low quality AI approximation then that's exactly what it deserves. Perhaps we are coming to a reckoning with how much human labour and informational output went into producing pointless fluff and marketing filler; if that is the case, so be it. If the web is filling with such content that is made more visibly bad by being improperly authored by AI, then that is already content that I don't care to protect, honestly. The solution should be phase out the dominance of corporatized text slop in our online resources; not force humans to go back to writing it ourselves.

This is a distinct opinion from my views on protecting the livelihoods of those content writers themselves, but, in a similar manner to corporate illustration, we need to reckon with the fact such workers are producing filler that is every bit is soulless in purpose as the AI replacement, as proven by how effectively it can be replaced. And in both cases, I think the solution with regards to automation threat to livelihoods is a restructuring of how we compensate people for their labour and provide for everyone in our society, rather than forcing people to undertake senseless busywork that those commissioning (e.g. corporate content mills) admit could just as easily be done by a machine.

#technology #labor

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Religious art leaves out the best part and it’s such a goddamn shame. Livestock, Agriculture and Food is an integral part of any culture and we all need to be pushing for more realistic sheep in religious art. #FATTAILSFORJESUS

#sheep #zoology #long post #gif warning