Signal Garden

if you’re frightened about the viability of art as labor and your survival and fulfillment you should want to turn those feelings into a critique of labor itself and of capital. rushing to defend the survival of a petit bourgeois artist class as something integral to the existence of art is ultimately probably not going to save you and the expansion of property based law that paradigm is bound in is simply further restricting art to value production

that one bit of art nomura drew of aya with a gun and her boobs out covered by a cool jacket is maybe the effortlessly hottest thing that's ever come out of the entirety of square enix's lineage.

Moratorium on stories about the importance of stories! If I did not already think stories were worth my time I would not be spending said time reading! It's the literary equivalent of auto-fellatio, except instead of removing your ribs you've removed your capacity for shame.

If you want your book to be a "love letter to libraries" then write one that doesn't make this librarian suicidally bored

U literally cannot save your mother like it cant be done

trans women seeing themselves in someone and being honest about it and encouraging someone to transition is not “transvestigating” i will kill you so hard

“transvestigating” is a transmisogynistic harassment ritual that cis people carry out to further the stereotypes of predatory trans women. i will kill you

if anything i find "free will" as philosophical principle far more dehumanising than determinism; if you contest that i, being me exactly, in my exact circumstances, could have made a different choice—it's like saying there's an ineffable extracausal random number generator rattling about up there, like i'm no more defined or agentic than a goblin with a 1d6 behaviour table. like i obviously understand the necessity of the conceit as a heuristic tool in a world where understanding is necessarily limited and many choices are for all intents and purposes unpredictable, but all the philosophical arguments for it being actually real fall back into the big soul shaped hole

(guy who's not getting anything done voice) I need to learn every skill and all information

cis women really don't want to accept that the reason men treat them the way they do is because they are systemically and socially empowered to do so, because that means there is no real difference between them and a man when they treat trannies exactly how men treat them