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If you want to appeal to more people and sell more art, you kind of have to be apolitical but not so apolitical that your work ends up saying nothing. Buyers like images and objects that make them feel good, that seem to reflect their beliefs in some way. But if you take a clear stance, you risk alienating other groups. So your art ends up meaning almost nothing, but it sells really well because it has broad appeal. This is what it means to be an artist who sells.

Do you really want to be an artist, or do you just want to be adored?

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Queering the Map - No Pride In Genocide 

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Do not allow this to be normalized as a thing that can silently happen. Strike, yell, make a scene, write this on every surface, cry all day at work until you’re excused. Do something like your words matter.

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AFRIQUE, JE TE PLUMERAI // AFRICA, I WILL FLEECE YOU (1992) dir. JEAN-MARIE TENO

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Got a new ace-spec card 💚

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The looting of the National Museum of Iraq and other cultural sites in Baghdad in the wake of the American invasion of Iraq in March 2003  Documentaries without people: No End in Sight (2007, Charles Ferguson, dir.)

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After watching this video I think we could define art as emotionally expressive work. And I am very worried about the person or society which can only confess to horniess as the sole emotion.

so I have a sort of rant and I just want to connect to a community who can tell me whether or not I'm being ridiculous

so in light of AI art, etc., I've seen a number of posts saying something along the lines of 'AI cannot create art because art has to be erotic, and AI cannot do that' and 'AI cannot feel horniness so how can it create real art' and I know that people aren't thinking about asexual people when they create them, but I can't help but feel hurt? for lack of a better word. Like once again, everything is about horniness and sex and once again, there is the insinuation that I am a robot, and idk.

I was hoping that someone else might have a better perspective or thoughts then me

I thought I heard every anti-ai and pro-ai argument out there. For a second I wanted to be like maybe they meant erotics like defined in asexual erotics but "the art/artist have to be able to feel horniess to be art" is absolutely a weird and insulting take.

SMH 'real art has to be horny' there's so many things wrong with that I can't even emotionally bear to explain it all. You are totally justified to get the ick over that take. I fear people are going to do nonsense in the comments and replies so if we want to talk about art maybe lets focus on this topic

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BREAKING: Today, more than 1000 authors are launching a mass boycott of Israeli publishers who are complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. This declaration amounts to the largest cultural boycott of Israeli institutions in history.

Please check out and even sign the letter from publishing workers on refusing complicity in Israel's literary institutions: tinyurl.com/refusingcomplicityletter

In solidarity with @bookworkers4pal and @pubforpalestine

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Hello all, I wanted to tell you about the over 300 listings for authors and readers alike to help raise money for displayed people in Lebanon!

I’m telling you here because these two books have asexual characters in them but please check out all the listings if you are able to donate! 💜

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The Demon Librarian Cover Reveal!

Hades’ librarian is ready to claim love for herself, but word to the wise, those late fees are killer.

Melinoe worries she’ll never find love as legendary as her Olympian parents’. Once content working with her hellhounds to collect overdue books, the demonic librarian now travels the land of the living in a desperate search for the unwritten oral tales of Elysium’s heroes. Sam never expected to study in the church's library while seeking clues about his cultist upbringing, and he definitely didn’t mean to summon a charming horned woman only able to visit Earth at night. But Melinoe is a tantalizing distraction, and he can’t seem to stop himself from coming back, seeking truth in Melinoe’s sweet and irresistible darkness. As their devotion to each other deepens, stolen nights are not enough. There’s one way to have more, but it carries a heavy price – unleashing nightmares into the waking world. Sam’s angelic nature should make them natural enemies, but their only chance at being together, and keeping the world safe, is to work together. Will their love be enough, or are they fated to trigger the Apocalypse?

Good Omens meets The Wicked + The Divide in The Demon Librarian. This reimagined Greek myth is for adult lovers of all things dark, deadly and gothic, with an LGBTQIA+ positive twist, opposites attract, and a standalone happily ever after. This fantasy romance is a m/f dual point of view featuring a cult member who accidentally summons a demon, but can you blame him? Who doesn't need a hot demon in their life?

We wanted a single moment, a single good minute, to tell people about our next book. How inside is a Christian cult has gone awry and how their ‘Chosen One’ summons unlikely help. But there’s not going to be a single good minute until Palestine is free. But may a story about finding freedom and liberation in faith keep you company while we all fight for freedom.

Until then, call upon Melinoe, saffron-cloaked, and pre-order today!

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the destruction of knowledge and culture

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It has been brought to my attention that a large number of people probably don't know why Campbell's "monomyth" is bunk when discussing anything other than a piece of modern literature written under the direct influence of Campbell, in much the same way that a Freudian analysis of any story that was not written a) after Freud and b) based on acceptance of Freudian theory is bunk.

If you've studied English Lit and haven't done genuine rigorous dives into the serious studies of folklore, mythology, religion, anthropology and a number of other things, then you may have unfortunately been told by your literature professors that Campbell is not bunk. This is, indeed, unfortunate.

This is a solid takedown of why, both in terms of the fact that even Campbell's theory in and of itself is honestly so vague that it's much like a newspaper horoscope (you could shove anything in there and make it match if you tried hard enough), and then also in terms of engaging with the ethnocentric and also intellectually lazy nonsense it is.

Campbell was a literature prof who fully and completely believed in the Jungian (or at least branch of Jungian) premise that humanity has a collective psychic unconscious that is shared across the globe. He took single versions of stories, many of them in translation, massive numbers of them from cultures he did not know and did not understand, and hacked them up and reinterpreted them, out of context and based on Freudian and Jungian principles, to make a claim about a Universal Human Understanding.

This, of course, is ethnocentric bullshit.†

Now much like Freud was incredibly influential on the European literature of the early and mid 20th century and as such you absolutely should keep Freud in mind when reading, say, Sons and Lovers, Campbell was influential (and sadly continues to be influential) among lit and other creative spaces and is certainly applicable to, for instance, Star Wars and Labyrinth.

But much like Freud, you should not actually apply him to anything that wasn't written under his influence, because in terms of application to anything else, his theory is bunk.

It's also not taken seriously in literally. any. field. outside European lit circles and the visual media/etc that are their heirs. In fact the renowned folklorist Alan Dundes* said at one point, "there is no single idea promulgated by amateurs that has done more harm to serious folklore study than the notion of archetype".

tl;dr: fuck Joseph Campbell, stop letting him collapse the gorgeous array of human storytelling, mythmaking, meaning-making and metaphor into a boring tawdry (heterosexist and hetero-sex-obsessed) pastel, he is bunk.

But he's relevant to Labyrinth bc Lucas was a fanboy and also a producer, and the guy managed to convince a lot of people that he was legit.

†for instance just to start with the idea that there is only one version of literally any major cultural/folklore story is itself deeply silly; this is basically never the case. Even stories we here and now are used to thinking of as having one authoritative version - like the story of Achilles being only the Iliad - does not reflect the actual reality of the people of the time. Or us, for that matter: the cultures between the first written form of that epic and now have all of us reinvented, retold, reinterpreted and repurposed the story of Achilles to suit ourselves a million fucking times. There are a billion Achilles.

Fuck, man, you can't even claim there's only one version or one myth-set for fucking Batman, and he really was made up by one dude less than a century ago.

*who is himself not at all perfect, but who was at least an incredibly serious, dedicated scholar of folklore in its inception as an academic field

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Wow you can now upload 30 images to tumblr in a single post now, which is super helpful because I made 30 social media graphics you can have and repost or edit with canva templates because canva didn't think Palestine was worthy but I fucking do. ----- Direct Link | Twitter Link

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There was no kufiya in the Sims 4 so I fixed that. <3

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(20 November 2023)

One may wonder why Israel would kidnap a poet. The answer, though painful, is simple. In its genocidal war against Palestinians, Israel seeks to erase not only Palestinian lives but also their culture and heritage. From shelling the Great Omari Mosque’s minaret to bombing Gaza’s universities, libraries, historic homes, and ancient churches, targeting a poet, a journalist, or an artist is part of this genocidal war against an impoverished population.

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Mosab Abu Toha, award-winning poet from Gaza, has been kidnapped by Israel forces. Mosab and his family were asked by the State Dept. to evacuate to Rafah Crossing – his 3-year-old son is a U.S. citizen born in Boston. He was snatched by Israeli forces while fleeing Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. Along with 200 other men according to his wife and reported by The Guardian.

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