#heavy talk

I absolutely understand.

And I have encountered many situations where people talk about how much they love their family and spend all this time with them. Then they act like I'm the weirdo Because I hate spending time with my family. In my time, I've learned the people who've always had a generally good family dynamic just don't understand what it's like. They don't understand that it's never just this one incident or one comment. It's been a year of bullshit. And you just become exhausted maintaining a relationship that was, well, never really there.

Cause it ain't a relationship if only one side is doing the work.

And it helps to see a character with complicated family dynamics because it helps validate our own feelings. Which can be really important.

I’m glad I could help, and I understand as I’ve been there, and at times I’ve realized social media just tends to exacerbate it, but sometimes social media can be our only escape from irl problems, so it can be disappointing when that escape doesn’t quite pan out how we want, or even need.

I’ll see if I can find some links to active sims discords and reblog them, as it tends to be what a lot of ppl prefer these days when it comes to meeting new people inside communities ( especially gaming ones ).

I also highly suggest trying an introductory post if you haven’t already, it’s a gr8 way to make your arrival into a community “official”, and for new folks to find you, and reblog to tell others.

Either way I hope you find the light at the end of this dark period.

Anon, I am perpetually astonished by the depths of cruelty to which humanity will sink, as a race and as individuals. I’m horrified when I find those same threads of callousness within myself or my friends and family. It is very hard to remain positive in the face of such things, and nearly impossible to be open or friendly or trusting.

However, I remind myself that there are shining moments as well. Instances when we pull together and accomplish something truly good. We aren’t perfect. All of us are a mixed bag—on our worst days, we’re probably nearly unrecognizable from the people we are on our best days. And I think most of us have more good days than bad days.

Never lose sight of that darker side of humanity. It could save your life—or it could save you from doing something truly terrible. (We’re all capable of doing terrible things in the right circumstances. Remembering that is the first step to guard against our own capacity for evil.)

But don’t lose sight of the good either, and don’t lose your hope that things can become better. If you lack hope, if you ever start thinking that your actions don’t matter, or that you can’t do anything to make a difference, then you’re one step away from standing aside and allowing monstrous things to happen around you. Passive indifference is a close cousin to active cruelty.

I am Australian, so although I’m unsure how exactly it passing will affect me, I’m still terrified. For my communities, my future life, and my prospects as a queer artist online and all the people I love here.

If I require having to show my official ID to websites, I will vanish off most of the web. This is not negotiable. Like I said earlier, I am Australian and not a minor so I don’t know the exact impact, but yeah. Everyone in the US who’s seeing this, please fight for those of us who don’t have anything more than a whisper in the crowd.

I love ya, internet. If this is the last you see of me, just know that I’m still chugging. If it all ends up alright, I'll be back to my regular posing shenanigans soon! We can do this. <3

I feel like the AI bros who call image generation an "accessibility tool" have genuinely no idea what actual artists and creatives need. As someone with frequent hand shakiness and mental blocks that stop me from actually making stuff, it's infuriating when people who have no clue about the artistic process think messing around with what to put into a computer is ANYTHING like art, let alone something that helps disabled artists in any way. It feels like rather than listening to the people who make stuff they'd rather use us as an excuse to make a mockery of human creativity. It's not a fill tool or a custom brush or a stencil or tool grip, it's a machine that does not understand anything about the creative process and only churns out a blended mess of what it is told art is. Not even getting to the other issues.

Okay ramble time over, have a pic of my cat watching Cubfan135.