✦☽ † R0TTINGR0SES † ☾✦

Remember the sixpencee child slave thing? What happened there, exactly? Was the kid freed? No? They were just run off the website? OK so what good exactly did that do?

Remember the bone stealing witch? What exactly did that witchhunt accomplish? The person got arrested, oh that's great, the american justice system surely rectified the situation

And again, those are instances where the accusations were true and involved real substantive harm to another person. We used to joke on here how callout posts were shit like "receipts below: [several paragraphs of petty fandom drama] [three paragraphs of petty interpersonal drama involving cheating on partners or stealing food out of the fridge or something] [fabricated evidence that the person is responsible for the murder of JonBenét Ramsey]"

And that was back in the 2010s. The meta has changed. Callouts used to be a tool people used to point out actual harm a person had done, rarely, and more commonly were used as a means of bullying somebody over petty drama. Nowadays they're used to manufacture outrage and harassment against marginalized populations. They are a weapon bigots use to turn us against each other. A few manufactured accusations here, some out of context or clipped screenshots there, and people who should be standing in solidarity with each other against white supremacy, patriarchy, cisheteronormativity, are instead devouring each other.

It's sinister as shit, dude, and people will still share these accusations without a second thought. So, why? What is the point? What's the best case scenario here? Raising "awareness?" what the fuck is that supposed to accomplish? Will we get the oh-so-trustworthy authorities involved? Are we hoping for an arrest? A conviction? Throwing a queer or poc person in prison so they can be abused and assaulted and humiliated behind bars? Is that who we are?

Callouts and the like don't serve any real good in the world. At a macro scale they divide us when we should be standing together, and at a micro scale they result in deeply traumatic never-ending harassment and threats and doxxing and worse to a person who almost definitely does not deserve it. And again, for what? A sense of "justice?" this is not justice. This is retribution. It is punishment.

Sorry for the vent but oughghghg

I'm tireddd I feel like everyone is complaining about the same thing but!!! It's tiring!!! I haven't been sharing stuff too much lately because it feels like such a chore. I miss just doing a drawing and uploading it and that was it. Now if you do that is as good as throwing it into the abyss. I feel like I can't reach anyone and to me art is a medium to comunicate and it doesn't make sense without someone to receive it!

To me the most frustrating part is having to be ME the center of attention and having to tell you what my art is about. That's what the art is for! The focus shouldn't be on me and my why, but on the art itself!!! I don't even know how to explain what

Anyways, I'll try to keep at it and do my silly little drawings and post them and be free and if someone sees it I'll consider it a win

Hiiii :3

I'll probably be mostly focusing on GW2CC mostly, but I wanna see how artfight goes this yr too!

METAL GRL

Continuing my yearly artfight tradition, here are some permission templates. I will also be uploading page decor on my toyhouse soon :)

Feel free to edit and use however much you'd like. That being said, my only condition is that you don't remove the "Template by uselesstherapy" at the bottom, It is there so other people can find and use the templates.

No credit is necessary, but it is appreciated, my Art fight user is UselessTherapy if you'd like to give credit