"Palm Tree Portal" By Deep Space Violet, 2024

Lots of thoughts recently. Everything feels plastic.

I could go on and on about why all that AI "art" is bad. I could mention theft, lack of creativity, it's impact on the work field and environment, but countless people have already said all that. I wanted to touch on something that to me is the most utterly wrong about all of it.

Art is more than just something pretty to look at or listen to. It's therapeutic. It's a form of communication. A tool for human connection. It's a pure, human need.

Support real artists ☀️

People don't like to admit it bcs cringe or w/e but Homestuck really did revolutionize the webcomic as a storytelling medium and I am endlessly frustrated that before webcomic artists could really stretch our legs fucking webtoonz swooped in, set a new, more restrictive standard, and then monetized and monopolized the ever living fuck out of the concept of The Webcomic until it drove away anyone who couldn't be a professional quality manga artist for free, and now the only webcomics that actually feel like spiritual successors to Homestuck are so obscure they're basically cult classics that you have to beg people to read.

Like it's just so wild to be in high school and see Homestuck be like "we're using like fifteen different artistic mediums to tell this story bcs we can" and be really fucking inspired by that, only to grow up and see basically every webcomic ever have to conform to One Single Standard or fucking perish.

absolutely. friendly reminder from your local russian: our government still says "we're killing only the nazis☝️🫡" while slaughtering ukrainian civilians, bombing schools and hospitals, etc. and it's plain obvious that they lie. then why isn't it obvious that israel lies, too?

with regard to israel stating that they’re “only killing terrorists”: you know that members of government can (and often do) lie, right. you do realize that we have historically seen multiple different systems of government commit crimes against humanity and lie about it, right. and you do realize that taking “we’re only killing terrorists” at face value when the casualty tolls for palestine and lebanon collectively are over 100,000 people and going “well they must have all been terrorists” is straight up racist, like plain as fucking day, right.

homophobes are not allowed to use computers because the inventor of the computer was gay

I hate all of those old "Diana's/Artemis' Bath" paintings. Yeah, take myths about a virgin goddess not wanting to be watched naked... and make them into male gaze nudes.

That's just sexism, plain and simple.

Terfs don't touch this post.

I am very passionate about how Portal is a very feminist game. I see a lot of people say that Portal is progressive because it could’ve had a protagonist of interchangeable gender, and that Chell being a woman affects nothing. But it completely does! Chell being a woman is inherent to the plot and theming of the narrative! Portal is progressive because it depicts corporate exploitation of women and actively shows a woman perservering and overcoming that abuse!!!

Being plural isn’t equal to being transgender. Endos do not exist.

There are OSDDID systems in endogenic communities being gaslit into believing that they haven’t experienced “severe enough trauma” for their mind to fragment to survive.

Endos and non-traumagenic systems are not a healthy community to be a part of and cause more harm than good.

Friendly reminder that if you support endos and non-traumagenic systems, you are not welcome on my blog.

You’re causing harm to people.

And AspenFrostEN fans are not welcome here. No one deserves to be harassed or threatened because your little hive mind said it was okay. It is not okay to call anyone slurs or use mental illnesses as a means of mocking someone. You’re not welcome here either.

Aspen fans harm the anti-endo community as well and make it a harmful place even for anti-endos.

You are not saints but rather the wolf in the clothing of the sheep, not protecting the herd but killing it.

You are also causing harm to people.

Reminder: Being a system isn't an identity or a label. It's a fucking mental disorder caused by childhood trauma. You cannot choose to be a system. you cannot transition to being a system. You cannot be a system without trauma.

We are not gatekeeping systemhood. It is quite literally the criteria and psychological process of forming a System. Systems don't require you to have a medical diagnosis, you just have to actually fit the criteria because how else the fuck do you expect yourself to be a system? Go identify with something else. Make up your OWN words. Don't fucking steal ours! And don't steal our tags and invade our safe spaces.