#but I couldn't get the print rights

[70sscifiart]

Last day to sign up for my free sci-fi art newsletter before the next issue's out, all about floating cities!

Here's the sneak peek, featuring Steinar Lund, Morris Scott Dollens, Ray Feibush, and Robert McCall.

#photo set #floating cities #I wanted to get a two-page spread about floating cities into my art book #but I couldn't get the print rights #so you folks can have it for free! #newsletter

[b4kuch1n]

hi! birthday. which means it's finally time t

yo what the itch store is fixed up now

damn what? I don't know where this came from. look all the comics I put on g*mr**d a year ago are back here again with all the formatting and typesetting by @fireflysummers as well as the exclusive bonus art wtf who did this. my werewolf comic on here too what the hells!! that one also got re-toned for printing if u want to AND an exclusive cover spread !!! what the fuck!!!!! come see for urself I can't make this shit up

#bakuspecial #comic #itch.io #bakugoods #<- made up a tag for when I sell things that aren't commissions just now #for folks who still remember me talking abt a physical run of these comics: I'm so sorry this year and the last have been brutal #and I live in a well and suffer a curse of international mails never going well. so the logistics became Very complicated #I still think abt it tho! I've prepped up all the assets just bc I thought abt it so much... we picked out a gift print for the orders #And a bonus print for the pack #but I couldn't gather my brain enough to make it happen. yet #it takes a bit of overhead so I gotta build that up. which is. right now talk for after the shit that just happened to me got smoothed out #but I do want it to happen. I've been sitting on this exclusive custom print for like two years now #I really love that drawing its so cute. I still hold that project close to my heart #anyways uhh itch store! happy birthday to me! #last year this time was so rough I didn't even Want to think about my birthday lol #strangely enough with this small little fragmentation grenade we just got I became more motivated to fuck around on my bday lmao #probably out of spite. hammer philosophy #my parents love making a whole thing out of me and the brother's bdays lol so dinner's gonna be something #but for now I can still chill. and prep up stuff. and do my thang #if u look thru the itch store and get something from there thank u so much! I hope the comics treat u well #and now. I make hot drink. have a good day lads! do a little jig for us let's go

[anaalnathrakhs]

i feel it's so fucking stupid and ungrateful but it still hurts a little when someone gifts me something i just don't like. i don't know. i know it's dumb and inaccurate to astrain that much meaning to a simple gift, but it feels kinda like they don't know me. i guess it feels like people don't see me, like a reminder that the person i reflect and the person i feel like are incredibly different.

#two fairly recent examples jump to mind #last year my class did a secret santa #the guy who got my name barely knew me so instead he asked our litterature teacher for tips #i was doing an effort to participate a lot in her classes and discuss stuff and i felt like she was an adult i could really trust #and adult who Gets It #and she picked just. the wrong gift. a classical philosophy essay. #stuff i hate reading. stuff i hate thinking about. #i said thank you to both of them and tried to read it during christmas break still. but i was right. i hated it. #and this year's christmas #recently i tried patching things up with my parents and we are a lot more communicative now #so they've opened up that my demand not to receive any gifts was painful to them #so we had an agreement: we write open-hearted letters to each other on christmas. #and they can gift me something if they'd like but no pressure if they don't find anything they feel would be a good gift #bc i myself opened up about the whole ''inaccurate gift'' thing being one of the reasons i dislike receiving stuff #and guess what. christmas comes. they got me a printed card from an artist whose work we saw at a local art thing earlier that year. #that artist does mainly either plants or nice architecture. stuff i love. #they picked the ONE work of hers that doesn't look like that. some reinterpretation of the great wave of kanagawa #a piece which i dislike with a passion for aesthetic reasons #i had promised i'd be honest if their gift missed the mark but tbh i couldn't. it's just an aesthetic thing it's completely begnin. #it's not like they spent lots or tried to pick something that was USEFUL #so i smiled and the picture is hanging with other stuff in my room #and i thanked them and i can't express how genuinely glad i am we have a better relationship #but man i felt my heart break a little under the tree in that moment #idk #i know it's silly but it makes me feel weird. and cold. #broadcasting my misery #vent

[the-halfling-prince]

I miss this show so much.

Sláinte, motherfuckers.

#Also that tartan was so hard ngl #And Orla's leggings. #Also I just left out the print on Orla's shirt because I couldn't figure out what it was lol #But yeah this was 7 hours of my phone overheating and me staring at reference pictures and trying to get the colors and poses right #derry girls #erin quinn #james maguire #orla mccool #michelle mallon #clare devlin #derry girls fanart #Yeah that's enough tags I think #Alos this was my first time drawing 4 of these characters (I've drawn Clare once and it was like two years ago lol) #my art #my posts

[solradguy]

Got me thinking about Halo so here're some pics of the baby (Halo 3 Legendary Edition) and a few of the books I still have. Most of this was pre-ordered so it's as old as its original publishing date (2004-2009). I still have the box/sleeve for the Legendary Edition as well as the Reach Legendary edition (with the statue) and the Halo Wars special edition, but they're in the side room in storage. I used to have the guide books for 2 and 3 too but I can't find them so I may have sold them.

Halo's media is extremely well documented, I'm not going to scan these since they already exist online in decent enough quality

#photopost #long post #Yes the Master Chief figure sitting on the helmet's base is holding a tiny 3D printed Ramlethal Rattle #Hot damn complete sets of the H3 LE go for like $500+ now lol #I got mine for $70 in 2008. Gamestop was having a big clearance thing and I turned to my dad and was like #'If I don't get this now I'll never be able to find it for this little ever again' and I was right. Core memory #I pre-ordered the standard edition of 3 because I couldn't afford the LE at the time (think it was $120 at launch?) #And the Heroic Edition was just a steelbook basically. Not worth it for the $70-80 or whatever it was tbh #I ended up giving my original preordered copy to a friend when his disc broke #It still had the bright orange 'Do Not Open Before 9/25/07' sticker on it hah!

[tentatechnologies]

two parts of a gift for @shadowsplice that i’m two months late to post — i made a print copy of his fic Graveyard Shift and wanted to include a surprise illustration of shiloh with it. i am still very pleased with how both came out and ridiculously glad to have had the chance in the first place, these are some of the most elaborate projects i’ve done to date :]

#splatoon #splatoon art #splatoon oc #inkling #salmon run #splatoon 3 #i am so fuckign unwell over these squid. #there are #two copies of the prints (one for me & one for him) #my copy's stitched w silver thread & his w gold because spencer's silver & shiloh's gold #the covers are two pieces of cardstock taped together w the colors inverted— again spencer is blue on the outside anf green on the interior #while shiloh's is green on the exterior & blue on the inside #i spent Hours w a ruler on the tape making the lines lettering & gutters were as even as i could make them #many of the colors are layered marker+colored pencil &each of the badges/stickers are emblematic of shiloh and/or an inside joke #thou art mine #i had to get the print redone like four times cuz the place couldn't get it right #i did this over CHRISTMAS #like?hello. there is no point to this ramble these are just labors of love and i'm damn glad of it

[sysig]

I decided to give a go to @niennanir’s lovely print-your-own-fic recipe on my Inside and Out as a test run and I’m quite pleased with the results as a first pass :D

I wish I’d taken a few more process pictures but there was a slight lull as I had to go shopping for 12x12 cardstock lol, but! I do have a couple closeups/extras that I added for funsies :D

I went with freehanding the title and I think in the future I would opt to not do that lol, at least not without a printed template. That said, both LibreOffice and SAI refuse to recognize my SCII fonts >:0 If you notice on the first page, I used the Ace Attorney font in italic haha, it’s an okay alternative even if it’s not what I actually want |0 I am happy with the gold detailing tho :3c

I did have an unconscionable amount of fun freehanding the ship caption tho ahh <3 <3 Immediate happy stims upon completion, their names together look so pretty ♥ Credit to Zarla’s original minicomic on that one :3

I also managed to get the last sentence of the fic isolated on the last page thanks to the formatting haha ♪

I was also able to add a bookmark! Ma happened to have a couple very thin ribbons to choose from and red ended up complementing the green very prettily!

It reminds me of VUX tongues hehehehe ❤️💕💖💞

#What do I tag this lol #SCII #I am continually and incurably in love with papercrafts <3 #Hard to believe it's been since Pokemon Homestyle since I've given anything a go! These darn talented artists inspiring me! Lol #Honestly tho I would absolutely recommend this project :D The prep work is manageable and friendly and the action itself is enjoyable #Depending on how much you enjoy repetitive motions haha ♪ Folding and creasing the pages was very relaxing to me :) #I went for my own fic as a first run since y'know - I have very direct access to it lol #Plus it'd be less sad if I messed something up - I want to do right by my favourites from other artists! I'm allowed to make my own mess lol #Also finally convinced me to return to the loving embrace of LibreOffice after like a decade away lol #I just never had a reason to redownload it! Wordpad does exactly what I want 95% of the time! #But it couldn't do columns so okayyyyy fiiiiine I'll get it again (lol) I do rather like it :) #There's still some things I'd change! I'm sure you can see from the pages where you can see both edges that the layout's a bit uhmmmm #Skewed? Corner-heavy? Lol just a matter of changing the borders :) LibreOffice's measurements are wack tho :P #But I fully intend to do this again! :D Print a few test sheets first >:3c Legitimately looking forward to it! #Probably gonna do another one of mine next before I give a go to someone else's I'd like to keep #I have ideas for how to improve! And better and more plentiful supplies! It makes me want to make! :D #Oh yeah and being in the book-making mood reminded me of one of the Vargas-as-a-psuedo-bible ideas I had but didn't put anywhere lol #If I may posit for your consideration: Before as the Old Testament and After as the New Testament :3c #I'd Absolutely buy two versions - And a full version for the record lol I would easily own multiple copies of physical!Vargas lol #Fun thought to me hehehehe ♪♫

[lonely--seeker]

My mom bought the ugliest ass little freak of a 3D printed alien, just because. It's supposed to be like, one of those phone holder thingies.

#me blabbering #there's a whole plottwist in this story because she got mad when i said it was ugly and took it away #then i was like. wait i can maybe do something with it's ugliness and I kinda need a phone holder thingy for my fucked up wrists #so I named him Ricky Montgomery because... i actually don't know. #anyway #a few days later my mum told me she had sold it to someone else and took my Ricky Montgomery awayyy #she said “Dw i'll get you the same one again” and i was like “Actually. like. please don't. i hate this bitch” #a few days later i find him still in the house because somehow one of his feet broke and she couldn't sell it like that. #My mom says Ricky Montgomery really wanted to stay with me because he loves me #i am cursed #I glued his nasty feet on again and gave him make up. He watches me work sitting on my desk and I try not to mind him #I have always hated 3D printed stuff don't ask me why. #I am still trying to think what could I do to make him less ugly. but also. if i paint him he's not going to match my little speaker #irrelevant but my bluetooth speaker is named “little loo” which sounds just like little lu and I am lu so it's like my son #she's playing a song right now. isn't she just the best little loo ever like i don't know what i'd do without her

[isfjmel-phleg]

@scarvenartist and @lady-merian​ frames!

#The Blackberry Bushes #The Blackberry Bushes art #scarvenartist #scarvenartist art #lady-merian #lady-merian art #Bethira Liddick #Ateva Callon #Odren Callon #Elystan Liddick #Delclis Phemister #Ayra Callon #Rietta Valencourt #Rebekah I would have much preferred to frame the entire picture #but couldn't get a print in the right size #and decided to settle for two details from the larger piece instead

[mintjeru]

keeping myself busy by posting wip screenshots

#not counting this as an art post bc i'm gonna start rambling right now: #shaking crying the face album is dropping soon #set me free was already amazing like he did a full 180 and it was so cool! cannot wait for like crazy to premiere #n e ways. this past week has been. a rollercoaster #we had a mini crisis ordering zines but it's solved ish now. there is a plan in place #hmm my project is almost done.. just gotta finish asap so i can get it in for printing #though the organizers didn't email me back on a deadline or whether my specs are fine so i'm :// definitely not annoyed at that #uhh yeah and the mv from last week that dropped! my embarrassing story moment- #i was on the elevator w/ one other person and they saw my b.t21 hand sanitizer cover on my lanyard and pointed it out #and i was like yooo did you see the set me free mv #and they were like yeah the concept was so different from their usual style?? he did amazing #and i was like yeeaaAAHH except the last part kinda got louder?? and we were off the elevator by that point?? #i swear i saw ppl turn to look at me auughghg but listen. i barely talk to a.rmys irl even though they're Everywhere #they seemed cool unfortunately i didn't get their name and idt ima see them again anytime soon LOL #it was a nice interaction in the middle of a busy week though #and 2 days ago i had a call w/ my friend which was really nice!! we ended up talking for 2h #we were talking about haha. spiraling in the abyss and weapon banners that would be worth my rolls among other topics #and then at one point he said smth like 'oh i couldn't talk about xyz with anyone so i went to you' and i was like. oh... #on one hand i was touched and on the other hand it was a reminder that i need to be more aware of my context when i talk lol #that's what my main blog is for! me yelling in the tags to the void #speaking of reining it in i was drawing for hours and had to drag myself away from this wip bc too much screentime!! #working through the ugly emotions by drawing a pretty kvh- exhibit a #spent at least 30min drawing lines that did not look good and now it's one of those wips that feels like i'm not skilled enough to finish #but we're going through with it bc i love the challenge and the image in my head is really nice so!! #this is also me being spiteful and proving myself wrong- that i can draw him well and that i don't need to compare myself to others #tmi of the day is i was looping j.iyuu no tsubasa as i was drawing this. and the song has. the complete opposite vibes hahaha #oh would you look at that the mv dropped as i was typing this up! time to stream the album for the next 48h #i will go focus on that now!! this is all i got chief #note

[artificer-dice]

A new d4 shape? A new option may be coming soon!

#dice teaser video #? #I guess that tag works #I made two different versions of this and the one that was shaped like a deformed d8 just didn't feel right to me #also I am working on the shaped liquid core prototypes #Garrett is currently printing shells for those as I'm typing this #the nerd started the print right before going to dnd with his college group #and I say nerd affectionately because I love him #but anyway #i like this version where it's more like a d10 because I couldn't get the other version to look right but #i instantly loved this one so that's always a good sign #it feels more like it would fit with a set #and i already modeled up the shells and the blank for it as well #i'm just weirdly nervous to send it off to print #i'll likely send it off tomorrow #also I will probably share the first liquid-core set I made on here soon #it is the shaped shells but the finishing process needs some refinement #I call them the Icarus dice after that one comment on the post I made with the 3d models #they have multiple things in them and they're a decent proof of concept #just not quite where I want them to be yet #also i have another project I'm editing a video for that I made weeks ago #which will be my first tiktok for the shop #which is nerve-wrecking and exciting #i'm an introvert and I usually am a lurker on social media so it's tough for me to put things like this out there #dice render #video

[bubaluv]

There and back again

#vent #ugh #i feel like such a kid #im trying to make something in print making and i fucked it up #even though he specifically TOLD us not to do this thing but i got confused and couldn't ask him #now I'm behind everybody else and i wanted to get it done today as a gift for my sibling #but now there's no chance of getting it done #it was supposed to be special i was supposed to do it right #i feel like i did as a kid #there were these times tables and i just could not do them #and everyone else was on like 11s and i was still on 5s #i had to do them outside because i couldn't stop crying and it'd make me feel sick #just like i feel right now

[verystressedcollegestudent]

if there's one thing i hate more than slackers in group projects its goddamn hypocrites

#this guy did jack shit for two full weeks when we're building the damn prototype #but STILL brought up the fact that most of our team blew off a report till the last minute in the beginning of march #*prototypes don't work* “sEe tHis iS wHy wE nEedEd tO hAvE a cOnvErsaTioN aBouT MS3” #like hon you lost the rights to the “y'all need to contribute more” argument the moment you left me hanging for 2-3 FUCKING WEEKS #like excuuuuuse me you been prioritizing extra curriculars all week get off your high horse stop lecturing everyone else about contribution #he made maybe 3 contributions? maybe? #first he 3D modeled an adapter and sent it to someone else to print (couldn't even do THAT himself smh) #then he sent the gc a sketch of an idea i roughly proposed literally the NIGHT BEFORE as his own contribution (that I ENDED UP BUILDING #then he...screwed on a few pipe fittings and called it a project :) #would be a LOT less pissed if he didn't show up to One Thing outside weekly team meetings/class #then apologize for slacking off BUT then launch into a FUCKING SPEECH ABOUT HOW HIM BEING HERE PROVES HIS COMMITTMENT #all because he DOESN'T LIKE GETTING UP EARLY. like sir. sir i am rIGHT FUCKING HERE. i was up till 4-5am working on this stfu #we've been building for three weeks and he's come into work on stuff wo me there ONCE for an HOUR #for context id spent about fifteen hours in the shop alone working on the fucking thing that WEEK #like im trying to be understanding ik tech week is hell #but i took “stepping back” as “i only have a few hours here and there to be in the shop and will do the writeups” #NOT “won't show up outside meetings AND we're splitting slides and writeups 80/20” #like id been in the lab all fuckin day and notice we have an assignment due (missed a SINGLE meeting due to exam) #and i ask him if theres anything i can do (and im thinking like look it over maybe add a spec or two) #and this fucker has the AUDACITY to ask me to write the full four paragraph summary cause he #*checks notes* copy-pasted some specs from milestone 3 so of COURSE its only fair that despite the fact I've been in the lab ALL DAY #that i write the four fuckin paragraphs too #course we're troubleshooting and he's like “did you clean the pump? did you disassemble it and rinse it?” like yes??? #i did EVERYTHING i could think of before i even bothered texting you cause i know you're fucking useless #and then he raises fifteen different concerns which while valid would have been NICE TO HEAR WHEN I SENT YOU MY INITIAL DESIGNS #y'know BEFORE i spent over fifteen hours of my free time building this damn thing #with slackers i just pick up the work and move on with my life this idiot is trying to gaslight me into thinking that he contributed fairly #when i heard “i need to step back due to play stuff” i thought we'd be splitting it like 65:35 NOT FUCKING 95:5 #and now hes probably going to give ME a poor peer review because I've been passive aggressive with him in the few meetings he showed up to #like i got shit going on too? how the fuck does he expect me to respond to being abandoned to do this shit myself

[dravidious]

You're more amazing than an even cooler frog

I had this idea a long time ago, did I already make a card like this? idk. I think it's neat

#asks #custom cards #i wasn't sure what to name it #thought about trying to make it like an arrow shot because that feels appropriate for first strike + reach #but i couldn't think of anything that sounded right #as usual for my cards the mechanics are the centerpiece and the flavor is only there because i needed something to put in the name bar #anyway i'm absolutely SHOCKED there isn't an instant that gives first strike and reach #they're both in red! #i made this one green so that i could include “untap it” but i totally could've just left that out and made this mono red #actually wait i just remembered and just double-checked there's only 1 red instant that gives reach #Academic Dispute #red doesn't get much reach which makes sense because red doesn't get much defense at all #but idk this just seems like a really solid simple card that they could totally print #making it mono red would make it a slightly stronger Sure Strike but they already did that with Furious Bellow so it's fine #and the green version is multicolor so that makes it fine for it to have extra power

[arolesbianism]

You know I rly rly wish Jackie had more personal logs because god damn do we barely get to see her perspective on like anything. Like... What gets me most abt Jackie is that she clearly on some level still cares abt Olivia. Olivia was a very important person to her. I don't think Jackie is some victim or anything, but I have to imagine it hurt to watch someone that close to you drift away and grow to hate you. I just find it interesting to imagine Jackie as almost petty in her coldness to Olivia. Like, the two have been working closely for years, Jackie Knows that Olivia isn't the purely moral scientist she seems to think she is, and while I do still think Jackie is worse, I also do think she had a point when she did point out Olivia's hypocrisy. So it just makes me think... Did Jackie maybe become more stubborn against Olivia's feedback because of this? I think it'd be interesting if from her point of view, Olivia has been actively manipulative in her hypocrisy. I think it'd be so fun if Olivia wasn't just an annoyance, but the villain of Jackie's story from her point of view? I just like the idea of them both being the villains of each other's stories, it adds more to the doomed toxic yuri I think

#rat rambles #two middle aged divorced women who low key high key want to get back together but also hate eachother still #I am poking jackie with a stick and begging her to monologue more gimme more perspective pleaseeee #I also desperately want more fuel to add to my olivia jackie parallels that I fully made up bucked #this is me wanting jackie to even vaguely accuse olivia of having a superiority complex pls itd make me so powerful #olivia isnt like. a horrible monster in my eyes. to be clear. #shes not a bad person per say just. not as good of one as she'd like to believe #in fact Id say she is very very narrow in her perceptions of right and wrong #as she seems to only consider the ethical implications of a thing if they directly affect agency or the livingness of a thing #and by agency I dont mean it fully I mean just the literal ability for a being to act on its own #again she doesnt seem to mind the dna stealing enough to make a fuss abt it so her agency horror is quite limited #in fact she seems quite eager to put people into all sorts of extitentally horrifying situations girlie do not give the dupes memories #and when she talks abt this shes all like just think about the possibilities for new ai and technologies like girl. #shes all for giving computers the ability to have existential crisis's until shes the computer having one lol #but also. fucking imagine if she made real progress in restoring the hosts memories in the duplicants. #like imagine not only did someone steal your dna but also your fucking Memories #imagine finding out your memories your Mind being planned for commercial use #how is that not just horrifying? wouldnt you be afraid of being replaced? of being exploited in ways you couldn't possibly imagine? #this is why I love olivia so much. shes so fucked up and thinks shes the most normal scientist here at the same time. #also I can't help but see her putting herself in the printing pod ai as almost. a last grasp for control. #god olivia fucking broussard. she should explode (affectionate) #blame juice for this btw I listened to mr.telephone man by tape girl for the first time and there was no going back #oni posting

[zooophagous]

So why do you hate the advertising industry?

Hokay so.

Let me preface this with some personal history. It's not relevant to the sins of the advertising industry perse but it illustrates how I started to grow to hate it.

I wanted to be a veterinarian growing up, but to be a vet you basically have to be good enough to get into medical school. I do not have the math chops or discipline to make it in medical school. I went into art instead, and in a desperate attempt to find some commercial viability that didn't involve moving to California, I went into graphic design.

I've been a graphic designer for about seven or eight years now and I've worn a lot of hats. One of them was working in a print shop. Now, the print shop had a lot of corporate customers who had various ad campaigns. One of them was Gate City Bank, which had a bigass stack of postcards ordered every couple months to mail to their customers.

Now, paper comes from Dakota Paper, and they make their paper the usual way. Somewhere far, far from our treeless plain there is a forest of tall trees. These trees are cut down and put on big fossil fuel burning trucks and hauled to a paper mill that turns them into pulp while spewing the most fowl odors imaginable over the neighboring town and loads the pulp up with bleach to give it a nice white color.

Then the paper is put on yet another big truck and hauled off to the local paper depot, then put on another big truck and delivered to my print shop, where I turned the paper into postcards telling people to go even deeper into debt to buy a boat because it's almost summer. The inks used are a type of nasty heat sensitive plastic that is melted to the surface of the paper with heat. Then the postcards are put on yet ANOTHER truck and sent to the bank, which puts them on ANOTHER truck and finally into the hands of their customers, who open their mail and take one look at the post card and immediately discard it.

Heaps and heaps and literal hundreds of pounds of literal garbage created at the whim of the marketing team several times a year. And thats just one bank in one city.

I came to realize very quickly that graphic design was the delicate art of turning trees into junk mail.

And wouldn't you know it there are a TON of companies that basically only do junk mail. Many of them operate under the guise of a "charity," sending you pictures of suffering children or animals and begging for handouts and when they get those handouts the executives take a nice fat cut, give some small token amount to whatever cause they pay lip service to, and then put the rest of the cash right back into making more mailers. "Direct mail marketing" they call it.

Oh but maybe it's not so bad, you can advertise online after all. Now that there's decent ad blocker out there and better anti-virus ads usually don't destroy your computer anymore just by existing.

Except now when I search for the exact business I want on Google it's buried under three or four different "promoted search items" tricking me into clicking on them only to shoot themselves in the foot because I searched for the specific result I wanted for a reason and couldn't use those other websites even if I felt like it.

And now we have advertising on YouTube and on every streaming service, forcing more and more eyes onto the ad for the brand new Buick Envision that parks itself because you're too stupid to do it on your own.

Oh thats ok maybe I'll get Spotify premium and go ad free and listen to some podcasts- SIKE we have the hosts of your show doing the song and dance now. Are you depressed and paranoid from listening to my true crime podcast about murdered and mutilated teenagers? That's ok, my sponsor Better Help can keep you sane enough to stay alive and spend more money.

It's gotten so terrible that now you have content farms, huge hubs of shell companies that crank out video after video to get more and more precious clicks. Which if the videos were innocuous maybe that wouldn't be so awful except now you have cooking hacks that can actually burn your house down and craft hacks that can electrocute you being flung into your eyes at the speed of mach fuck so some slimy internet clickbait jockey doesn't need to get a real job.

It of course goes without saying that animals are also relentlessly exploited by clickbait companies that will put them in compromising situations on purpose to create a fake fishing hack video or even just straight up killing them for sport by feeding small animals to a pufferfish that rips them apart for the camera.

And all of this, ALL of this doesn't even touch how adveritising is the death of art in general. Queer topics, any kind of interesting art, any kind of sex or substance use topics are scrubbed clean and hidden at the behest of advertisers.

Sex education, a nude statue, topics such as racism or sexism or bigotry in general have tags purged or hidden from search, even life saving information about SDTs or drug use, because if someone saw that and complained then Verizon might sell fewer tablets and we can't fucking have that.

Conservative talking heads often bitch and moan that they're being censored on social media. The stupid part is, they're right! They are being censored! But it's not by a woke mob, it's by ATT and Coca Cola not wanting their adspace sharing screen time with their stupid fucking opinions.

However, they won't ever figure that out, because the talking heads they get their marching orders from like Tucker and Jones ALSO rely on the sweet milk flowing from the sponsorship teat and they aren't about to turn on their meal ticket so they have to come up with even stupider shit to say for the train to continue rolling.

I managed to rant this far without even getting into the ads I see for the beauty industry. The other day a botox ad described wrinkles as "moderate to severe crows feet" as if wrinkles are a symptom of a fucking serious disease! Like having a flaw in your skin is a medical problem that you need thousands of dollars of literal botulism toxin to fix! I was incandescent with anger.

Advertising is a polluting, censoring, anti educational and anti art industry at it's very core. It destroys human connections, suppresses human thought and makes us hate our own bodies. It ads no value, actively detracts from value, and serves no real purpose and I believe it should be almost if not entirely banned.