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THE CRITICS ARE RIGHT
lets talk on big issue for artists, REVIEWS. lot of discussion on how to feel about these things when youve put so much work into your art. usually buds will assure you 'dont worry, that negative review is wrong,' but i disagree. i think it is important to remember that NEGATIVE REVIEWS are correct
lots of folks will look at subjective nature of art and say ���well this reviewer doesnt know what theyre talking about because NOBODY does’, and HEREIN LIES MY POINT. i think there is a subtle but very meaningful difference in acknowledging that, when it comes to art, everyone is actually RIGHT
so why frame it this way? when you write a book or a song or make a film, the second it is released it is no longer yours, IT EQUALLY BELONGS TO THE AUDIENCE. i do not get to decide what my books are worth just because i wrote them, this timeline does, and how this timeline feels is never static
i happen to like pretty much everything so i would be a terrible critic, but those who CAN do this are also CREATING SOMETHING with their opinion, and that is just as important as the initial piece. it is PART of the initial piece, even when it is negative. everyone gets ONE vote: their perspective.
so how does this work in a practical sense? let me say, my first MAJOR REVIEW came when i was a literal child in an international publication. it was (drumroll) VERY, VERY BAD. it hurt, so i am not immune to those feelings, but i have not ONCE been bothered since then because it TAUGHT me this truth
criticism is not some opposing team. art and critique are the same thing, because creation is inherently a review of reality, and critique is a valid form of creation. WE ARE ALL WORKING THROUGH THE SAME GIANT PERFORMANCE TOGETHER and it is so much more beautiful by everyone having a say
now i am sure some buckaroos will think ‘well this person was mean in whatever bad review’ and SURE, sometimes people ARE unkind, but i would argue a bad review is not, by the nature of being bad, UNKIND. you can be very unkind in a good review. they are unrelated
anyway artist buds, i hope this helps. next time you see a bad review, instead of thinking 'well theyre wrong' consider thinking 'they are ALSO right and that is a really really cool part of creation.' always worked for me and being able to create with you all is one of the biggest blessings i have
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If a girl is to do the same superman thing where he takes off his disguise, we just look pervy. Not the same effect
#I actually knew this and didn’t realize this update hadn’t happened#hope things are still goin well for y’all!#these two were still one of the best and most memorable parts of dashcon 1.0#iirc it was fairly mutual and friendly but obv I don’t know them lol#either way glad she is still rocking the spin!
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good lord WHAT is your job?
I'm a software engineer for Microsoft. Which is a job I DID honestly enjoy quite a lot until whatever the hell's been going on lately.
Like imagine you're an architect and you get pulled in to help build a house. And it's a pretty well-engineered house! You can recognize and appreciate this and contribute the same standard of quality.
Until the guy who controls all the money shows up one day and says houses are NO good anymore. People want a BOX for the AI to live in. And actually start tearing down walls and ripping out the electrical and plumbing because the AI doesn't work with all that. Just make it a BOX for the AI.
So you do what they say and rip out things you're proud of and smash holes to drag all the AI through. But the AI is constantly changing and no one knows who you should ask to understand the shape the house needs to be to fit the AI. And the people who do know are probably too busy getting their necks breathed down by members of leadership who are paid millions a year to tell you to just do whatever ChatGPT does. So your team gets dicked around with unclear instructions given with absolute urgency. Also every 6 months they lay off 3% of the company so you walk in one day and Bob who's worked here for 25 years is just gone.
Also the AI is supposed to get good enough at building houses to replace your job. Maybe. It doesn't actually do that but the guy who controls all the money is hinging all that money on convincing other people that's true.
I miss house.
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I don't know anything about coding but isn't admitting this basically the app developer version of showing off your new debit card on social media
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Crazy to think that this is all Ronald Reagan’s fault
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THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN
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i am as white as a white american can get and the thought of using the white color emojis sickens me to the bone. bitch if you dont make me simpsons yellow
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A few years ago while trying to find ways to commit suicide as painlessly as possible, I came across a PDF of Dr. Paul Quinnett's The Forever Decision. Thinking it might go into actual methods of suicide (I read an article once that actually did that and was trying to find it again) I started to read it, and I think I only got about two pages in before I was crying too much to actually see the words.
I downloaded the PDF to my hard drive and I open it again whenever I'm feeling too suicidal to do much else, but not enough to start booking a ride to the hospital. And every time without fail I only go up to a few pages before backing off and choosing to live another day just because suicide suddenly seems even more unbearable than whatever the hell upset me in the first place.
All the book really does is [I'm pulling a summary from GoodReads here as, again, I've read no more than 5 pages] "discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a suicide attempt, and how to get help."
But it also starts with the author kindly asking the reader to complete the book before going through with anything, and for some reason I'm compelled to really just try to read it all before finalizing everything. Despite not yet completing it (hopefully never will) I think I can safely say it's saved my life at least a few times now.
It's intentionally legal to copy and redistribute this book to keep it as accessible as possible, and it's very easy to find, but here's a link for it anyways.
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Sure since adopting self checkout they got rid of 99% of grocery workers and if something goes wrong you gotta just stand there for 20 minutes while the employee managing 30% of the store singlehandedly tries to juggle helping you with their other responsibilities. But at least groceries are less expensive now right. Why are you trying to whisper in my ear I have a girlfriend
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it's genuinely bullshit that you should be required to own a mobile phone for participation in literally any aspect of life
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You'll have to turn sound on for this one
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Fallen London is like what if a piece of the most wonderful beautiful world ever dreamt up (by the biggest names in interactive fiction, no less) was just hidden behind this button you must press 16 times. And after that there will be a button you must press 17 times. And after that
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Lord knows that the United States has and continues to commit atrocities. I can't justify that. And the current political situation here is scary as hell. But I love this place. I love the Atlantic Ocean and New York City and the Pacific Northwest. I love my Blue Ridge Mountains with my whole entire heart. I love cardinals and mockingbirds and kudzu and possums and black rat snakes and the way the woods smell in the mornings.
I love that Americans are known for complimenting strangers. I love that we fry everything, and that we do it well. I love 12-foot-high plastic Halloween skeletons in people’s yards and tacky Christmas lights that stay up too long. I love that we are an unabashedly goofy people.
I love bluegrass music. I love stepping. I love that there are always folklorico dancers in my town’s Mardi Gras parade. I love that my town has a Mardi Gras parade, even though most people here aren’t Catholic or French and didn’t grow up with any kind of Carnivale tradition. I love that if "Livin On A Prayer" comes on a pizzeria, at least one person at each table won't be able to stop themselves from singing along. I love that the middle school gym shakes to the rafters when families cheer for THEIR baby finishing eighth grade and that they bring balloons and bouquets and flower garlands to celebrate.
I love the 80 year old couple at our local No Kings protest. I love all the little kids there with their families, too. I love the brass band that always shows up at protests here and plays old union songs and gospel music. I cry like a damn baby every time I hear “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing.”
This country is horrible and selfish and destructive, but it’s also wonderful and kind and full of people loving and fighting and trying to make things better. And the people saying that there’s only one kind of real American, and that if you don’t look like they do or talk like they do or think like they do, then you don’t count, those people can go pound sand. I’m as real American as they come, and those people aren’t the only ones who get to love our country.
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do y'all even know how much i hate being an "elder queer" at 40? a whole goddamn generation before me was wiped out by a plague that politicians deemed not their problem bc it was killing the "right" people. like. this was OPENLY STATED. i spent a large chunk of my childhood going to funerals. nevermind the fact that killing queer people for being queer wasn't codified into law as a hate crime until i was a junior in high school.
i should NOT be an elder queer, i should be middle at most. i am a middle aged queer. most of the elder queers died.
when i was growing up i didn't go to pride parades, i went to pride marches. because that's 100% what they were in the 80s and 90s.
from the absolute bottom of my heart, LEARN OUR FUCKING HISTORY. a generation was nearly wiped out so you young queers could be here. don't let that have been in vain, please.
#followed them and honestly noticed they were quiet#thought they’d moved on like others#there are so many ghosts in my follow list#stick together
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There might be a new hit drug on the street they’re calling nuance. It depends on factors
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