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you do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

💙website: polyvinyl.neocities.org

🧧leftist resources website im working on: leftism.neocities.org

💖follow my soulmate and reblog his art @filospek

🌃art blog: @oddgear

DNI and more info about me below, for those who care about that kinda stuff

#🌌🦈 my talk tag

Victimization does not equal moral perfection.

treating marginalized groups as flawless monoliths does more harm than good

it makes it harder for people to come forward about issues like abuse and exploitation within the group.

it strips away agency and reduces these groups to tropes and tokens

it creates an unachievable standard for every member of that group.

it creates the perfect environment for conditional allyship, respectability politics, and reactionary behavior. when a member of the marginalized group doesn't match up with the perfect ideal in someone's head, they often turn around and become bigoted or hateful towards this group - not recognizing that all humans are capable of wrongdoing, and that wrongdoing does not nullify a groups oppressed status.

it invites harmful outside dynamics, like benevolent racism where people feel the need to "save", protect, or speak for marginalized people because they are shown to just be poor little victims incapable of speaking for themselves

it often forces people to become a "spokesperson" for their group and pressures every member to have deep knowledge on every subject regarding their own oppression, treating every individual like a seasoned activist

it's good to spread coverage of problems within marginalized communities. it's good to amplify the voices of victims within oppressed minority groups and religious structures. it's good to have a human, nuanced perspective on those that are persecuted.

so yeah, if people wanna copy, trace, repost, or just get heavily inspired by my art - go ahead! as long as you arent making a profit, using commissioned pieces, claiming you drew it or impersonating me, I really couldn't care less. ive got a communist mentality bro you cant bother me with this stuff.

ppl need to be less attached to their work imo but i know thats a controversial opinion. remember when you were a kid tracing anime in your school notebook? copying a bunch of stuff you liked and turning it into your first OC? remember when you were trying to learn how to do certain things, so you emulated the techniques of the artists you loved? remember your inspiration boards, full of other peoples creative work? look at your OWN art, right now, and tell me it isn't cobbled together from the work of many people over many years. you didnt wholesale invent your style in a vacuum, your OC's didn't manifest from the ether.