Hi, I'm Gnot. He/Him pronouns. Black Lives Matter, ALWAYS. me: stoic, grey-aroace, bi/ply, genderqueer, autistic, trans, polyam, parent, chronic pain sufferer, born 1989, UK based, white, perisex. Lover of orange. I have a strong sense of identity and it's something to do with spreadsheets :: Icon by "fennethianell" :: ~ Art Blog = @gnot-art ~
truly do not understand how people just slip into relationships and jobs and opportunities and friend groups and lifestyles. to me there are a million obstacles to navigate in a single basic conversation
I think ironically the discourse that trans people are “born this way” and my earnest assumption that I wasn't was the biggest impediment to me transitioning. if someone had just told me trans people choose to not be the gender they were assigned at birth and that this assignment was inherently coercive and abstract in nature instead of trying to defend the idea that their brains were inherently different (whatever the merits of that) it would've been a lot simpler to figure that shit out
As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.
In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.
THOUGHT EXPIRIMENT for creators considering ai art: when starting out, i had to make my own covers in specific way which now IMMEDIATELY evokes 'tingle' identity. would my books have taken off if covers were just ai art that 'looked better'? OF COURSE NOT buds wouldve scrolled on
SO MUCH of artistry (but also branding and self promotion) is creating a visual identity. dont make your identity 'generalized slop'