El Quia's Random Stuff

claiming anti-copyright is anti-artist is sooooo funny. can you imagine how many people could be artists if everything they loved and/or hated entered the public domain tomorrow? do you know how much music could be made if people didn’t live in fear of legal persecution for using basic chord progressions?

everything comes from something, so the question of who is entitled to the privilege of creating derivative art or outright adaptations becomes a question of money and power. how are we so hung up on copyright that we accept that it’s net positive for “small artists” to be able to “protect their work” from theft, when the most common instances of theft are perpetrated by people who already benefit from copyright’s pay-to-play arrangement? why can’t we see the bigger picture of how much culture is locked away for no fucking reason but to prevent people from using it or even seeing it?

I WANT NOTHING LESS THAN AN ENTIRE PARADIGM SHIFT!!!!!!! POST-FANDOM!!!!!!!!! START THINKING ABOUT TRANSFORMATIVE WORKS DIFFERENTLY NOWWWWW!!!!!!!!!

we really need to push back on this increasingly common idea that an adult and a child can never have anything in common and should never be interacting outside of very specific, strictly monitored circumstances. growing up my mom would take us to the park and she would also play with the other random kids who were there, I don't think you can do this anymore. I spent most of my 8th grade lunches hanging out alone with my english teacher talking about books and life and culture, I don't think this would be allowed anymore. the potential for someone to exploit a child and do harm will always be there, but I think acting like children can never benefit from a friendship with an adult really just harms children in the long run. as a child/teen who dealt with severe mental illness, to this day I still remember the impact that kind adults had on me growing up.

I hate 2 say it but being a part of a “weird” subculture does not meaningfully inoculate you against a conservative moralizing impulse. You gotta unlearn that. Saying “cringe is dead” is not enough, you have to actually be okay with things that discomfort, perplex and/or disgust you.