Still Figuring It All Out

its kind of distressing how you can tell a lot of people see popular indie artists and writers and such as like "a Celebrity but one which i stand a half decent chance of bullying to death"

#I've been watching four different iterations of this going down this past month#and the pattern is always the same#I get that people feel powerless in their own lives and have all this despair and anger with no outlet#but it's just wild to see this stuff spread by aspiring creatives#because it's like. what do you think will happen to you?? if you reach the top of the bucket?#not even taking into mind the professional bridges being burnt by flaming your potential peers#(because people in animation/writing/game development know each other and keep an eye on this type of thing)#but you're stoking the exact same flames that will burn you if you ever find yourself lucky enough to have success#you are not free of sin. no one is. there will always be some clumsy stupid thing you said or some unintentional subtext in your work#or some tweet from eight years ago or video clip that you've since apologized for#there's always something. and when it happens you won't handle yourself any better than the e-celeb you're making fun of. I promise.#ANYWAY very self-indulgent rant so apologies for that

You can make a movie with where the only white character is a man named Ray Cism whose one line of his 16 seconds of screen time is “I seriously hate women and minorities.” and you’ll find fifty bajillion reader x Ray Cism fanfics and renaissance style drawings of him with a halo of golden light

it amazes me how people still think fiction doesn’t affect reality when about 90% of us ran like naruto without a second thought just because we saw him do it and thought it was cool

for a more pertinent example- the creators of the original 70s ‘star trek’ created wrist communicators for plot purposes so crew on the ground could still communicate with crew on the spaceship because writing sometime in the early 80s a lot of actual scientists realized that sounded really cool and actually doable so lets create cellphones then later people who read ‘hitchhikers guide’ realized we had 80% of what the hitchhikers guide was and made a kindle Agatha Christie wrote mystery novels so precice she accurately predicted methods of poisoning that had not even happened yet, and her works are still used today to teach people how to diagnose poisonings bot malign and accidental. heck her understanding of toxicology was so on point she proposed antidotes for poisons made from poisons with opposite effects, allowing patients to be stabilized after otherwise fatal doses lets not forget the OG himself HG Welles who pulled stuff out of his ass like submarines, cross-continent flight, space travel, eccetera and later people realized that his fever dreams were something you could actually do with enough math and engineering in the late 40s Frances Glessner Lee started making dollhouses that contained crime scenes, only partially a hobby she was creating fantasy mysteries to puzzle people as there was no specific solution to the crime scenes she created. these dollhouses are still used to train detectives today and are considered to be the birth of modern forensics, solving thousands of crimes hell, someone read the 1911 story ‘ Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle’, which was largely schlock and realized a gun that shoots electricity sounds pretty awesome so made the TAZER, and the E and R still stand for ‘electric rifle’ and thats not counting the uncounted human moments when someone decided to do or not do something based on childhood memories of movies that shaped their personality, decided to do something based on a song that inspired them, got the courage by remembering a well written superhero moment, or some part of their soul that asked what their favorite muppet would think about their actions

nvm this is a valid response just intellectual

art changes lives

idk i would personally rather give up access to certain products seasonally or locally than have people enslaved to give me the ability to have any product any place any time. i think i can go without tomatoes in january.

World Heritage Post

I watched multiple seasons of this and even got to evil King Arthur. This is accurate.

One of the dumbest, most absurd things about Avatar is that they still kept the Dai Li even around after they conspired with Long Feng, did a coup, sided with Azula and then handed the whole Kingdom over to the Fire Nation effectively winning them the war in a single stroke. Tragically it being dumb and absurd does not by any stretch make it unrealistic.

imo the state monitoring your private messages is basically on the same level as opening and reading physical mail or perhaps breaking into your house to install bugs and cameras

What if everything gets better in 2016

this is a genuinely haunting post in 2026