It's true that there's no practicable way to frame "style theft" as an intellectual property issue that wouldn't have horrifying consequences for independent artist, but that doesn't mean we can't have sympathy for all the artists who've spent their lives perfecting the craft of drawing moist-lipped, glassy-eyed, vaguely oily-looking anime girls in three-quarter profile and now everybody thinks they're a robot.
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drawing some bad kids as a warmup 🤕 i’m surprised i don’t post about dimension20 considering the parasitic hold it has on my brain
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Reading an exceptionally bleak piece where MrBeast talks about how he obsessively works and shutters finished videos he thinks won't be gigantic hits since nothing else matters and is afraid to show any personality at all or make things too complicated lest it turn off one (1) person and it reminds me of back in the day when The Oatmeal guy talked about how he was terrified to do a comic about dogs instead of cats, bc it was IMPOSSIBLE to tell if people could relate to dogs and it was so very risky and scary to make jokes about the most common and beloved pet on Earth
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anderpeanuts? dead peanuts society?
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Today, the 16th, at 5:00pm PST the final contest winning short will premier! Be there to react with other people and be the first to see it before it goes live!
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💙💙Baahir my beloved💙💙
wish baahir was still around. if only CARTMAN WASNT SUCH A BIGOT—
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I dont even think its lack of media literacy anymore, i think people just actively REFUSE to engage in anything. Don't even bother to read a summary on a wiki page. How can one be literate if they don't bother to read the shit to begin with? And DON'T want to?
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me if u even care
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"This webcomic got me through some pretty bleak times. In fact, it might not be exaggerating to say it saved my life."
"Maybe I should read it, too."
"What? God, no – it's fucking terrible."
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Shout out to those displays of "commemorative magazines" in checkout lines. The ones that are like CHARLES: THE CORONATION or REMEMBERING QUEEN ELIZABETH, that kind of thing. They feel like something from decades ago, which is enhanced by how many are branded with Life magazine, which stopped regular weekly publication in 1972. Some of them are clearly years old, promoting movies and events that happened years ago and lurking in a box since then (I mean, there are still Queen Elizabeth Jubilee ones next to Remembering Our Queen ones). Others are not. Nothing like looking in the middle of a display of royals, World War II, and half-century old pop culture icons, and seeing one identical-looking THE UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO BOYGENIUS
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I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.
Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.
just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?
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Girl are you the Hays Code the way you consider media irredeemable if it depicts anything that strays away from the norm you're comfortable with or depicts anything morally questionable without definitively condemning it and anyone associated with it, therefore creating worse stories and content and making it difficult for people to engage with complicated issues from a nuanced and controlled perspective?
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