#six-legged

Orchid (Art Fight) :: detailed half-body (2024)

Art for 'Meriaun' for Art Fight 2024.

六本足の黒い牛 Six-legged black cow

Art on the Beach

Kohama Island Tumerl Beach

A concept of the Rimarian sea god Lekiatan, and a similar species of sea dragon found in Rimer’s southern oceans. Lekiatan’s a bit of a favourite of mine. Also, it was fun to finally make a Sixartusa species (Rimarian dragon, that is,) with six fully realized legs instead of four legs with the third set either being wings or redundant and only recognizable from skeletal data. Sea dragons are a bit like otters, coming on shore sometimes (well, a little more than sometimes, given dem mobile legs,) and living in the water the rest of the time. They’re rarely seen, and not really any threat to humans, although they have been known to occasionally upset small boats. (But so have whales.) These specific guys aren’t actually hardwired to live in the ocean either, they can live in lakes too, but the ocean has better prey diversity.

Talk about hitting above ones’ weight class. Oh boy.

I believe there are already rules in place concerning physiological and psychological health for pilots. Lubitz seems to have flaunted those rules, out of fear that he would lose his career if he came forward - much like a pilot with a heart condition might. While it’s true that a more compassionate stance towards mental illness might have prevented him from feeling he needed to hide his struggle, there are no guarantees. The degree to which he was trusted to self-report “unfit to fly” conditions is, frankly, absurd. Why would the airline realistically expect pilots to report conditions that prevent them from flying, especially if they aren’t obvious? If a pilot with a physiological illness will hide it from his employers, why wouldn’t a pilot with a psychological illness? New rules that do not rely on self-reporting should not be seen as a slight against those with a mental illness, as a pilot with a physiological health condition could also endanger a flight, under the existing rules. 

I can’t speak to any asinine regulations Germany has coming down the pipeline, but the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt has decided to mandate that two pilots be present in the cockpit at all times - which I do not think is asinine at all, and is not particularly discriminatory with regard to those with mental illness. It seems very fair, to me. A pilot with no health history could have just as easily endangered everyone, so having at least one additional human around seems pretty obvious.

I think tagging post content is a deal made between the OP and the readers. What I mean is this - yes, there are some readers who demand more tagging than I am comfortable with providing. The likelihood that I would remember all that potentially taggable content is low - plus, I find the expectation stressful. I’d rather not blog than play a semantics game where the stakes only ratchet higher. The more you do, the more expectations you create. It’s just not for me.

However, readers with those expectations, tend not to be people reading my blog. If I found myself in a situation where people started demanding a lot of tagging, I’d have to decide on a case-by-case basis whether I make that deal with the reader, or if they leave.

Leaving is a perfectly sound thing for that reader to do, no matter what the reason is. There are not under any obligation to stick around if I’m doing something that makes them uncomfortable or unhappy. I am also not obligated to tag for, say, food. Or weapons. Or anything. Both OP and reader have a great deal of freedom in making (or not making) this “deal”.

I have chosen to tag things that are broadly upsetting, like severe injuries. I was asked to do so, and was happy to comply.

As for the question you actually asked - yes, the very precise tagging bylaws that you see in certain parts of the community, do strike me as being out of touch with reality. That said, since everybody involved has 100% say in whether they participate, I can’t say I’m mad about it. You know? Everyone has to wander around a little, until they figure out what matters to them. The fact that some people are into obsessive tagging now, doesn’t mean that this characterizes their future - or even their present. I don’t think it’s got more (or less) of a potential effect on mental illness, than other aspects of communication. It might make one person focus excessively on their symptoms, but might fit seamlessly into someone else’s life. It’s so contextual. Who knows!

Even if someone settles on a community obsessed with rules and group conformity instead of meaning - which is how obsessive tagging strikes me, personally - that’s something people are going to do whether tumblr exists or not. People will do it whether obsessive tagging is a thing, or not. If those people come to your e-door and scream at you for not complying, just let them turn back around and leave. It’s not that big of a deal.