“Are the arts important?” Humanity practiced them long before they had use for science and will practice them long after math is gone. Is the dawn important? Is dusk?

Bloodthirst 🐞

🎲 Conviction

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

🦅 Earth Fashion~

This past week if anything shows there is no tuning this out. Find your joy, rest, but do not do it at the risk of numbing yourself to everything

I don’t find it productive to shame people for ‘showing up late’ wrt to social awareness. We all show up when we show up. But I strongly encourage new people who show up to do so while assuming a listening posture. I promise, we’ve heard your ideas & opinions before, back when we were less informed.

Courtship 🎃

I love iodized salt. I love fluoridated water. I love enriched flour. I love public health tools that save lives and improve quality of health just by silently existing. They're amazing.

Many of you are psyching yourself up to start that dream project in 2026. AWESOME Just keep in mind that devoting your free time to achieving your dreams is not the same as Hustle Culture. Keep your mind on you and your art and don't fall into the trap of thinking every minute should be monetized.

This is not a place of honor Fa la la la la, la la la la

The point wasn't that it had no algorithm, but you weren't actively punished for using the site without completely catering to one. People suggest using a different feed because the default one just kinda suck and we can actually do that here.

Wait i genuinely enjoy scrolling bsky with this for you feed thats crazy

So particularly if you are new to this and seeing frequent “if you don’t like making [art] don’t be an [artist!]” and thinking “But sometimes I DON’T like it…” and Imposter Syndrome is gathering you close and whispering you’re-nothings in your ear, please push it away.

👠Popular~

I think it's really important to keep imagining a better world. And that doesn't just mean wishing on a star aww how sweet, that means remembering that the way everything is shit right now is not written into immovable law. That means checking self and not believing so hard in the now as the always

People who argue this point were raised to think they were stupid when they were kids. Children are people and deserve rich stories. The movies that gripped me were ones that I saw as above my level, something I was fascinated by to watch again and again as I grew and discovered more depth.

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

👠The Wicked Witch

Now that most Black Friday shopping is done online, stores should add fighting games to their websites where you have to defeat other real-life shoppers to add a sale item to your cart.

I guess I just have no interest in catering a work for someone who inherently doesn't care in the first place. Trying to micromanage someone else's goldfish attention span sounds like a waste of energy and resources. Make your shit for the people who'll like it, not the people who won't.

🦅 Advisors 🦅 Villains' Day Off~ #Gatchaman

everything with SNAP right now is a nightmare, but today when I was volunteering with this org I'm a part of that gets home made meals to unhoused folks in the community had more meal donations than ever, so while none of us should be in this position, I appreciate all the people stepping up

Preview 🎃

the thing with art/gamedev/other creative endeavors is that you don't have to do it as a job, my dad and his other middle aged buddies used to play soccer and none of them harbor any fantasy of being athletes, you can just play a little soccer or make a little gamejam project it's good for the soul

When I think of A.I. I think of asbestos. To begin with everyone thought Asbestos was amazing, folk used it in everything. Then they started learning it was dangerous, research was done, they stopped using it, thou for some the damage was already done. Stop using A.I and limit the damage it's doing.

DK Bananza sketches~

Pros: it's finally cooling off and the crisp autumn air is hitting me like a party drug Cons: bed extra warm and soft no want leave nest soft warm outside cold and dark want sleep want eat meat chunk roasted over fire

Crimson Dance🎃

absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here

There is a graveyard of broken dreams occupied by hundreds, probably thousands of creators, writers, musicians, artists, who gifted years of their lives to a silent audience they never knew they had. So they gave up, and somewhere some fan wonders why they quit, but never asks.

Menacing 🐞

I'll say it again, Art is communication. "Create for yourself" really means "Create art that communicates who you are." And one sided communication feels terrible. Commenting on peoples art/creations can be scary, I get it. But COMMENT. COMMUNICATE. We want to hear it. I want to hear it.

Savior✨ #KoG #KnightsofGuinevere

Gonna go even further: don't refer to it as "consuming media" when doing this. You aren't a consumer - it's not a product. You read books. You look at art. You watch movies and/or videos. Be careful about word choice. Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT." IT IS ART. YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.

actions that will contribute more to pushing against bluesky's censorship than a blackout: -submitting a feedback request -@ing moderation about it -commenting on mods posts about it -making and sharing memes (ex: "i consent!" sticker) -leaving an app store review -just generally posting about it

Copycat🐞

The Favorite~ 🐞

Being a good artist isn't about having artistic talent. It's about practice and having the willpower of a roach that has been smacked 20 times with a rolled up magazine and yet still refuses to die. 😆 ~ seen on another social

Lollipop 👠

I really believe we’re headed for a creative revolution. Feels like we’re reaching an apex of creative industry jobs cutting pay/disappearing altogether, while the process for making/releasing indie comics/games/movies has never been more democratized. They’re making it so we have nothing to lose

My home Internet went kersplat, and I raced to the library for its wifi and ample table outlets for my work laptop. I worked for five hours straight. LIBRARIES. They have been there for me all my life.

I will be relentlessly unapologetic about the future being what we make of it. And as hard as things are right now, I unrelentingly want to keep working towards things being kinder and softer, even if it take tooth and nail to get there now. Have a hard shell, keep a soft heart.

ROOMMATE: Thank god we found the alien shapeshifter before it could escape containment. Imagine if that thing made it into the general population! ME: (fully aware he’s the alien but he promised to drive me to the airport in the morning) No kidding. Would you like another glass of gasoline?

Transphobes be like "a trans person was annoying to me online so it's fine if we give up their rights" Dude, if I thought every annoying person on the internet didn't deserve rights, I'd be Doctor Doom. Most people online are annoying! If we weren't, we'd have better things to do than post!

To which I add this wonderful Bruce Sterling passage, which for many years I kept beside my keyboard.

A mmorpg but every class is a completely different game, imagine a boss a fight, the wizard is playing a card game, the healer is playing rhythm game, the fighter is playing a souls like and the archer is playing FPS. This would incredibly hard to balance but pretty funny

I think people think that art taking a long time to learn means like a month or maybe a year and not an ever expanding process that progresses with you the entirety of your time drawing. You don't "finish" getting good at art because that's not the freaking point.

THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO STOP!! We are winning, but we have not won fully!!! Keep calling!! stop-paypros.neocities.org

If you're an artist it helps to sometimes step back and remind yourself you're not in other competition with other artists. Except with me, I'm gonna getcha