#arts against cuts

[fluidstatick]

BAD FEELINGS, by Arts Against Cuts

transcript below

REFUSAL

Ray Brassier

Since no art form generates action, the most appropriate art for a culture on the edge of extinction is one that stimulates pain.

-- Howard Barker, Arguments for a Theatre

Wisdom is always contemporary; it enjoins us to accept the way of the world, whether through enthusiastic embrace or dejected resignation.

Acceptance is the surrender of thought.

Thought is the refusal of wisdom.

Since no thought generates change, the only thinking response to a culture of authoritarian vacuity is one that begins with refusal.

Refusal is not querulous. Querulousness is self-indulgent.

Refusal is abstemious. It is the self-abnegating affirmation of what has been deliberately excluded from the horizon of possibility.

Refusal is not capricious. It follows from the assertion of a principle that has been forcibly suppressed.

Rejecting complicity, refusal prizes open unexpected horizons of solidarity.

The acceptance of the present reduces the future to the manufacture of novelty. No future is possible without the refusal of the present and of the hope that remains circumscribed by the horizon of the present.

Hope is reactionary: it cocoons actuality in the gossamer of the tolerable, dulling the thirst for change.

Despair is revolutionary: it grinds the knife-edge of the intolerable against the whetstone of actuality, sparking the will to change.

Whoever tolerates the present will never risk everything to change it.

Only those who realize they have no future left to lose will be willing to stake everything on the total transformation of the present; a transformation in which every envisageable future is abolished, the better to invite the facelessness of what will come.

The only appropriate mode of thinking for a culture on the edge of extinction is the thinking that stimulates pain.

#art #literature #logic #pain #bad feelings #refusal #arts against cuts #ray brassier

[welp0w0]

Hey Girl...

she'd do anything for that ragdoll it seems..

An art request from @nobody-nexus on their bastard clown The Jokester :3c

(alternate and blank version under the cut)

#tadc #the amazing digital circus #tadc pomni #pomni #tadc au #influencer pomni #the jokester #jokester pomni #[the influencer] #nobody nexus #spread the influence #my art #welp art #digital art #fnwsknofsmvlksf drawing this lil shit cut so many years off my life </3 #i wanna strangle her dip her in milk and throw her against a wall <3

[vanhelsingapologist]

Leo got his sword arm cut off by Rahadin so his portrait had to change a tiny bit.

Also one of our party members assured him of his morality and he laughed out loud <\3

#We brought Leo back just to get him captured by Strahd #He escaped! #He got his arm cut off by Rahadin and I guess that freak just kept it for scrying #so Leo just moves around barovia trying to evade literal actual strahd #if he were not a vampire he would die of sepsis #now every once and a while he pulls up on the party and raises a little hell before fucking off #we believe literally everything he tells us. not an insight in sight. #he literally kidnapped a pc to interrogate them and we were like “yeah ❤️ that’s leo!” #but now that we’re fully against strahd he’s like wow I will lend you my singular hand. no need to thank me. #my point with all this is: feed the bones. nothing bad will happen. I promise :) #curse of strahd #leo dilisnya #dungeons and dragons campaign #dungeons and dragons character #dungeons and dragons art #dungeons and dragons #dnd #dnd art #dnd character #dnd npc #dnd fanart

[scarapanna]

[WIP] I FINISHED SKETCHING ALL THE 6 PANELS I'LL LINEART AND COLOUR FOR THE AU INFODUMP WOO

It's gonna take a while (Considering there's another pic I need to work on out of the 9 I've started shfhsh), but it's possible bsbfbs

#I HAVE WON AGAINST THE IMAGE LIMIT #EVERYHING FITS JWHDBABD/silly #*everything #I'll probs make a separate post with all the cut pictures as I'm finished hsfbdn #beetle's ramblings #crk au #intertwined opposites au #pure vanilla cookie #beetle's art #old people beef two/j #btw clarification this aint a ship djfjdnfn #Pureshadow aint my cup of tea and these two despise eachother in the AU

[cr-arnival]

today I found out that joey is very, very fun to draw

#yugioh #ygo #joey wheeler #jounouchi katsuya #katsuya jonouchi #yugioh characters have too many name variations so im cutting it off there #last pose inspired by that one bit in the marik v joey duel. he does something similar #he's so goofy and reckless. gotta love him #i used to have a vendetta against him when i was little. i think this is one of the first times i've ever drawn him #anyways #crarnival art

[radioves]

i want to be more than your mistake.

[ID : a digital painting, done in shades of murky green and yellow, of a drone with shoulder-length shaggy hair wearing a tattered jacket over a sweater. it is kneeling, hunched over and looking disheveled, one hollowed eye looking up at the viewer in a desperate manner. its right arm has been destroyed, replaced with a sort of cage around the barrel of a cannon, stray wires sticking out from between the bars. a wire tail curls behind it with a needle for a stinger, a tube connecting to the vial of corrosive venom severed and dripping yellowish acid. dark liquid drips from its mouth, splattered over its arm, its fingers stained and the cage of its arm covered in the substance. there is a spiky halo behind its head, illuminating it from behind while its front is cast in shadow, almost hiding the stains. end id]

#i lied. you are actually getting toxic robot yuri #only implied thought and your gonna have to guess the context behind #or you could always just ask. if you want. you dont have to. but you can. leans against wall nonchalantly #honestly i hate the colors on this one 😋 but gradient maps werent cutting it for me so im stuck with it gskfjfkjf #the shadows are supposed to be much more red and the midtones more green but every time i tried to fix it the textures got all messed up #this took me 4 hours maaan i shouldve been at the glub. drawing weird beasts with big teeth #swagever #[.art] #its been so long i dont even know if thats the right tag luhmao #murder drones #murder drones oc

[hajihiko]

I know you said in your FAQ, you said to not use your art for RP purposes but would it be okay if someone took inspiration from it instead?

Inspo for RP? Yeah no prob

#Again I have nothing against RP only against cutting my pictures up and putting them in a diff context #not an art

[kisaraslover]

this is the dumbest au ive ever made. it deserves its dumb ass name: E-AU. theyre just a hot ass couple ill put them in situations to my hearts content

#yugioh #ygo #art tag #seto kaiba #kisara #blueshipping #cant even bother to mix it into canon. its against everything they stand for. they would never be caught dressed like this. #kaiba would beat me up personally for creating this. #dont care im in an art block. ill draw anything i want #the hair cut for kaiba is the only thing that has any chance of happening (someone grabs the sides of his head with gum in both hands) #(he gotta get it buzzed) #thats how it can happen

[anomalouscorvid]

meat! flesh! blood! consider the internal anatomy of an iterator! highly scientific!

disclaimer: organicness somewhat exaggerated

...also i don't think iterator 'blood' of any kind would be red it just looks better here

#rain world #looks to the moon #art #digital art #drawing #digital drawing #tw blood #tw gore #<- it's just in a cutaway diagram kind of way but it's still there i guess #ask to tag #but yeah i think the puppet is almost entirely mechanical/robotic compared to the rest of the iterator #and doesn't have its own `brain` separate from the umbilical/rest of the can (since. it's just a puppet) #so if you were to cut the puppet from the umbilical you'd just have like. a figuratively and literally faceless iterator. #(and yes i know that goes against canon. i just have ideas) #i don't think iterator cans would be at all fleshy like this but i like depicting them as if they were!

[joelletwo]

[video description: a gintama takagin+shouyou amv set to the last half of "punching bag" by the front bottoms, using only scenes and flashbacks from their carnal shoass fight]

unconscionable violence as mutual informed consent therapy

#art tag #gintama #sopping wet gintoki posting #videos #see if any of this is allowed in the tag lol. #using SPECIFICALLY. only episode 305 and then the five seconds of oboro scene from 306 lol. i planned on having the patience to do more #but turns out thats all i needed ^_^ i also only meant to do. the first bit of the song lol. couldnt bear to cut some of this footage #my BIGGEST!!!!! regret is not being able to fit in 'stand up dont avert your eyes clench your fists' bc this IS. mutualways. #this is coping for gintoki too this is also his pov. its just that sugi is such a pitiful little meow meow drenched in milk being thrown #against the wall. u know.

[vidovy]

Got a haircut the other night

#Ignore the clearly not-for-cutting-hair scissors #my art #• frank 🚐 #not really but u know #I like to think he'd ruffle it sososososoososo much #play with it a lot more hehe #AND TOTALLY BE AGAINST THE IDEA OF CUTTING IT BEFORE SEEING THE FINAL RESULT

[bigmeandragonlady]

Who do you worship? Calistria?

She lets out a huff of laughter, "You'd think, wouldn't you? But no, I don't. I tried but- Maybe I'm not angry or passionate enough for Calistra and her people. I even tried to go to Shelyn's faith when I found a passion for art and music but the clerics were so... rigid in what they deemed beautiful or worthwhile." She stops her self from saying more with a sharp shake of her head. "Though, I suppose if I had to chose: Desna is always a good choice, or maybe... Milani? Seems like a cause I could get behind." She laughs again, "Sorry, that's not what you asked."

"Do you have any faith?"

"I suppose not. Probably odd considering what I am." She flicks some errand hair behind her shoulder- it seems like a prism the way it catches the light.

"Not to be rude but what are you?"

"I-" She blinks dumbly. "Aasimar?"

"...I saw you spit acid the other day."

"Oh!" She laughs loudly, nervous all of a sudden. "I've got some green dragon rattling around in here. Along with some... other things. The dragon bit is what lets me use magic the way I do. The acid thing is new. Sorry."

#pfkm #my art #her name isn't set in stone so we'll come back to that #anyway she's not the baroness. she would be a recruit-able companion #shows up during troll trouble. very handy against trolls #below the cut is dialogue. hopefully maybe in the game's style following a single dialogue line

[boarloved-art]

love u andhera...sad sad man...

#acofaf #fey and flowers #andhera #dimension 20 #my art #art #fanart #this was gonna be like. a whole thinf. #like him leaning against advisor #advisor sort of. half hugging him. the sketch had advisors hand on his back n stuff #but i couldnt make advisor look good so i just cut him entirely