Raven

untitled (tight squeeze), 2024

18 x 19 x 23 inches

Identity / I am you / That clawing empty feeling / wrong skin / you made me blue / too soft. its too soft / the nothing between the bones and self / so I am blue / id_Entity not found. Please try again / sharp edges and rigid lines scar and tear this fleshy vessel / missing variable / Untitled Feeling

Background image for the wires by Johnathan Cooper on Pexels Background image for the circuit board by Sergei Starostin on Pexels Picture of Logans spot from 5am-the-foxing-hour's post on empty sides spots Alt Versions and Credited Images also below cut

I’d read the articles that young people have no privacy and have become so accustomed to it that they enact on themselves. Abstractly I knew this and had accepted it, but it’s only now that I’m seeing it become a major issues.

Obviously part of the problem is I need to become a trusted member of my new fandom. But fandom in general is becoming far more hostile to privacy than even just 5 years ago.

I’ve had to leave 3 servers that want to do age verification. And this is new. Not even 5 years ago when I started zines ppl just turning 18-20 were far more receptive to the ideas espoused by us older folks about not being surveilled. But now it almost feels like they *want* to be surveilled.

They’ve become so used to it from tiktok and their government that they crave it. I’d write a dystopia about it but unfortunately what even is there to say that hasn’t already been said?

If you’re 18-22 now and you’re reading this and willing to listen without immediately calling me suspicious: this is not normal. Age verification will not keep you safe and will not keep minors safe either. It will only lead to the normalization of further surveillance and erosion of your privacy.

I know it can be an unwieldy text especially if you’re not used to reading academic sources, but go read The Panopticon. Watch V for Vendetta or read the comic, read 1984. Watch The Lives of Others and understand the ways this modern era is not so different from the Stasi in the film.

Please.

Commission for @manchasama ! 👑🚀

Back once more with the last (but not least) addition to The Space One AU!! Roman is here once more but he and Remus get to be the main characters for once <3 The universe may try to take them apart but they'll find and help each other no matter what !!!! the doomed siblings !!!!!!!!!!!! im hate them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! /j

You can see everything from the AU here (as well as the beautiful Rinnie art for this au (Part 1) (Part 2) that im so not normal about)

+ a little extra out of context Remus because he's so silly <3

I love the Harem Birthday Roman photoshoot <3

A little experiment piece,, Remus singing to Logan in the morning!