Sang So Loud So I Wouldn't Hear The Bang

i think its sad that people think talking about music using the vernacular of Genre immediately makes the discussion "pretentious" or something. its words and labels that r made to help with naming styles and methods of music. obviously solely focusing on it is silly, but thats the case for anything like that. its not the case when people start talking about film, styles of horror or whatever, so why are music genres seen as pretentious and inaccessible? you are allowed to just say what you feel. someone using vocab you dont personally know is not them inherently looking down on you. you also dont have to use them at all, whether you do or not is not a statement on your music listener status. idk. coming from my experiences as someone who loves music trying to talk about it with people

makes me sad that most YouTube art videos are about "how to make your ocs interesting", "how to grow your account in social media", "how to not make mary sues" like what happened to just drawing for fun and sharing it- oh wait I forgot this is the result of lolcowing people for their technical art skills and or clout related things.

we are in an era where people openly and harshly judge people's creative output because of the normalization of having a "freak" of the week. it makes me sad cuz as artists we should be having fun, not treating social media like an art competition or forcing our art to be "perfect" and digestible.

When people talk about all art being political (hard agree) they always talk about the content, themes, etc present within the art itself. Which obviously I get and obviously is a huge part of it. Of course. But I’m personally always struck by the politics surrounding the more metatextual elements of the art; that is, stuff like access to the tools needed for the creation of the art. I mean the literal materials of which an artpiece is made. This is a low-hanging-fruit example but I’m reminded of that Disney adult who tried to claim art isn’t inherently political by being like “I just drew a stick figure on a napkin, is that political? 🤣🤣” & while I think there are multiple different angles from which one could criticize this blatantly pathetic argument, I remember being really struck by like… the flagrant “waste” of implicitly throwaway resources that many parts of the world just literally don’t have and/or that carry with them deeply fraught histories of capitalist labor exploitation and destruction of natural resources. Like. Napkins?? The apolitical canvas that is paper napkins?

hey man, I can’t make it tomorrow. mom just told me I have to go into grandpa’s funeral barrow and fight his draugr for the family heirloom cursed sword. it’s probably going to be an all day thing. yeah, I know. I’m sorry.

242/615! Thank you to everyone who's helped so far

Update: my work finally hired someone to fill one of the gaps in the schedule, so I will have a harder time getting 40 hours (I'm only guaranteed 32). In light of this, I went ahead with making a proper gofundme. It can be reblogged here. As the post and description on it states, the goal currently listed only works if it is reached within two months. If it takes more than two months I'll have to increase the goal. The goal is currently 2000 + the remaining amount on this post. I will be making weekly posts as well to try and encourage donations. This week's goal is still hitting 615 on here (and 373 on the fundraiser). Please boost and donate.

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People on here talk about Laura Palmer like she’s their friend who actually died

there are too many things happening this summer that i'm thinking we are going to need an extra 6-12 months of june and possibly another 3-4 months of july. probably no extra august as the problem should hopefully sort itself out by then. we are also looking into extending the day night cycle to 55 hours and extending the human lifespan to 10000 years.

[woman who won't stop posting Guernica voice] guess the mood today ladies

you'll never guess today's motif