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emeryleewho · 2 hours
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emeryleewho · 5 days
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I think the thing that's wild to me is that people are in "content consumption mode" until they find anything they dislike. I rarely hear from people who *enjoy* what I make, outside from the occasional ask. Until I made a Tumblr, I had to cut all private messaging access readers had to me because I was tagged in negative reviews or sent hateful messages every week, and received a single positive comment once every few months or so.
It's not that people no longer engage with art. It's that people no longer see art as communication between *people*. They see artists as businesses and art as products. Just like you won't walk into a Walmart and tell the employees how much you love that the dishwasher pods you bought actually did their job, if a story or artwork or webcomic entertains people, makes them happy, makes them feel fulfilled, etc. they see that product as "doing it's job" and the artist behind it as "a competent business". The second that artwork falls short of their personal expectations, they treat creators like the customer service employees responsible for getting them a refund for a nonfunctional product.
The biggest difference is that when self-proclaimed "leftists" do this to customer service employees, they see it as dehumanizing, but when they do it to artists, they see it as activism.
People used to comment on web comics.
People used to comment on fanfiction.
People used to comment on fanart.
People used to comment on OCs.
I hate "content" culture.
I hate "consuming content" and scrolling immediately to the next thing.
People used to be excited about the art that other people created.
People used to want to share that excitement with creators.
I hate this future.
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emeryleewho · 5 days
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it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.
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emeryleewho · 5 days
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and what if I told you nine was less afraid of love than ten. what then.
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emeryleewho · 6 days
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In case the esim process confuses you or you aren't able to buy them yourself for any other reason, crips for esims for Gaza is collecting donations, they've almost met their goal of $150,000 raised. Donating allows them to buy esims in bulk which allows them to obtain more than individuals would be able to. I just donated and it was super easy as you can use paypal.
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emeryleewho · 6 days
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I'm convinced it was a tragedy that tumblr learned the phrase "bury your gays" at the exact same time it decided that any fictional media darker than Landlord White was pearl-clutchingly problematic. Pouring one out for every creator of earnest LGBT+ media wanting to explore the themes of grief loss and tragedy who then got subsequently hounded by mobs of terminally online users brainrotted on nothing but conflict-free coffee shop AUs.
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emeryleewho · 6 days
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Okay, but I am literally not even kidding when I say this is what making art does for you. The other day, I forced my friend out to go watch a sunset, and I pointed to the trees and I said, "Look at those leaves. What color do they look?" And my friend was like "Green? So?" And I was like, "No, no, look. They're purple. Do you see how they look purple?" And my friend looked again and was like "Huh, I guess they kind of do." And I spent a solid ten minutes just showing them how the shifting pinks and oranges of the sky and the fading sunlight made *everything* look like art.
I didn't understand it before, but when you start to take on an artistic eye from doing enough painting/illustrating/etc. you start to *literally* see things different. We go through life so fast with so many things going on always that our brains adjust. When we see colorful lights on the pavement, our brain processes them as far as they're needed for necessary information, but that's it. Then we all move on. But when you stop and look, like *really* look, the world becomes beautiful. Everything becomes beautiful. Even powerlines. Even dirt roads. I literally stopped to photograph dumpsters in an alley once because of how perfectly the cobbled streets were dusted with rain and the overall ambiance. If you can, let yourself *look*. Really take it in. Life is so much better when you can find beauty on a sidewalk. It's exactly the kind of fulfillment our animal brains need.
brb going outside to wistfully observe the reflections of the shop lights in the wet streets
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emeryleewho · 6 days
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I have been a sheep caretaker for like two days and already I'm like. Wow. I get it.
I get why these were some of the earliest mammals to ever be domesticated. They look up to humans with this sort of dumb but all at once innocent and pure and trusting expression. They're happy to see you. They follow you around. They like to be rubbed under their chins. Maybe its just some latent Scottish highland shepherd DNA I still have in me but I look at my sheep charges and suddenly I see why the love of God for humanity is so often described as a shepherd and his sheep. I'd fight a wolf for these guys. I'd go way the Hell out of my way for them. I'd carry their young for miles on my own back.
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emeryleewho · 7 days
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Co-signed
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emeryleewho · 7 days
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occasionally there will be a queer person whose way of living their queerness is in conflict with our expectations and definitions for their label
at those times, we remember that queerness is not about the labels, or the definitions, or the rules of expected behaviour, but about living authentically to the crooked strangeness of our human conditions
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emeryleewho · 7 days
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Throwback to when I took painkillers and woke up with Photoshop open on my computer to this image I had made
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emeryleewho · 9 days
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i really can’t stress enough how much i recommend regularly engaging with older art– movies, books, whatever. like, “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it” and all that, but also, there’s just something really fascinating and kind of beautiful about reading something written by someone who lived so long ago and really connecting with it, recognizing the humanity of people who once seemed like abstract concepts to you
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emeryleewho · 9 days
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TransRightsReadathon Sales & Freebies!
I will be collecting books that are reduced or made available for free by authors for the TransRightsReadathon here. Feel free to share any that you know of that I might have missed:
Queeird: A Collection of Unusual Trans Masculine Erotica edited by Max Turner | ebook 2,80 £, paperback 6,30 £
Androids and aliens, werewolves and vampires, furries and… tentacles? This is a collection of unusual, and at times monstrous, erotica featuring trans masculine characters. From the ridiculous to the romantic, expect kinks, quirks and tropes. All the stories feature trans masculine main characters, with a variety of cis, trans female, trans male and non-binary lovers.
Deck the Holes by WrenVLothaire | ebook 0.50$
It’s Yule, a celebration Aloysius is well versed in but never has the time of year been his favorite. But with Malachai, a partner with whom he’s come to love and cherish, this holiday may not be as somber as it’s always been. This time he has a surprise in store. Let’s just hope the owner of the home approves of the decorations.
Tales of Genesis I-III by H.S. Wolfe | ebook free, (the book one that these short stories are based on costs 1.99$)
Echo interrupts a lazy morning with a strange request of Ender. The first in a series of shorts set in the Genesis universe and can be read as a stand alone without having read In The Garden Of Echo
Beau Van Dalen Spring Sale | all of his ebooks for $14
Not everything is trans, but a lot of his work features trans man.
Δάιος by Andromeda Ruins | ebook free
A queer and anti-establishment retelling of the fall of Icarus. The Elysians are here to protect us. They uphold order, they keep citizens safe… unless you are their kid. When you are the child of an Elysian you get to see what they are truly like. You get to see their fears, their anger, their hatred. You get to be subjected to their wants and whims. Most importantly, you get to be trained by the ‘best of the best’ to become an Elysian yourself. At least that’s what we were told. We weren’t told what that training would cost us. What it would do to our bodies and our minds. How it would make us into what the Elysians really are, mindless abominations. These monsters are in every corner of our society. They are heralded as Gods among men, but not for long. I am doing everything in my power to show who they really are behind their masks. Soon, everyone will see these nasty creatures for what they are… Δάιος is a tragedy following Icarus as he takes a look behind the curtain of the Elysian Program and sees the disgusting framework that he was disillusioned to. Now the only thing on his mind is bringing down the program and the entire ATLAS corporation. Will he be able to when the world seems set against him?
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emeryleewho · 10 days
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I'm gonna say it.
It's unhinged to assume that someone's taste in fiction equates to what they believe is moral or good, or is something they want to see or experience in real life.
That is a bonkers assumption to make.
I'm tired of humoring people with long arguments about it when the simple fact is it is a totally fucking absurd reach to accuse someone who enjoys something in fiction of being in favor of it in real life.
I'm tired of pretending like this is a legitimate position to hold-- that they should be afraid of fiction's dire influence on a reader's moral decay or that it's a sign of what the author secretly wants for realsies in real life.
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emeryleewho · 10 days
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one frustrating element of the new content bans on gumroad and patreon is that they're doing it to stay in line with their payment processors' policies, which themselves are in place to stay in line with FOSTA-SESTA.
which is a law passed in the united states, a country of which i am not a citizen and in which i do not live. i was legally prohibited from voting for or against FOSTA-SESTA, but because the platforms and payment providers i use are based there, i am expected to comply with it anyway.
and the tiktok situation shows us that any platform based outside the US can and will be either blocked from operating within it or forcibly divested from its foreign owners.
this is just another facet of american empire, by the way. it's more than bombs and guns and client states: it's that the US leverages its dominance over technology and finance to set policy for, effectively, the entire world.
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emeryleewho · 10 days
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Gentle reminder here that there are elder queers out there. Real elders, people in their 80s and 90s who survived, who are here. You can get there, old age does exist for us.
I know an old lesbian couple who have been married since the moment they legalized it. One woman can hardly walk anymore but she loves Hallmark ornaments, so her wife supports her against her walker during Christmas so she can look at them more easily.
I know a transgender man who started transitioning only 10 years ago at 60, and he's brilliant and funny and brings his grandchildren by to get sweets.
I know an asexual woman who, beamed and told me she absolutely loved not having a husband, and that she "never once regretted not getting married. I never felt that way about anybody! Why force it?" She lives with her parrot and loves salsa dancing.
Our elders exist. So many of us have been wiped out and erased on purpose, but we're here. And that means you can get there. When you're old and grey, when you're retired and done, there will be people who will love you and will care for you.
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