#art discussion

[birdantlers]

A heartfelt and grievously expanded-upon update to this—please, please read the whole thing if you can. reblogs much appreciated.

(DISCLAIMER, for all who are saying reasons like abusive parents/legal stuff/toxic ex/triggering memories/page got deleted/job/stalkers/bullying/[[insert any other shitty life thing]], This is not concerning that—personal safety & health ALWAYS comes first, and is worth more than any media ever could be. This is my biggest reason for defending that autonomy. I would be a hypocrite to say I hadn’t deleted triggering posts of mine or ones that got me in trouble with my family.)

it genuinely makes me sad and kinda upset when someone purges all their old art off the internet like. barring harmful content what if someone liked that. What if someone would have. And now nobody will ever know and it's just gone. even people's old invader zim askblogs or whatever getting deleted feels like a micro alexandria to me and that's just something I made up. I wasn't even thinking of a specific one it just stresses me out. Is this the autism I don't get why nobody else seems to freak internally abt it like I do. I see artists whose blogs I've never even looked at go like "man so glad I deleted all my old stuff it's so clean" or saying they throw out art from when they were kids I'm like. how are you not hurling. How is that not distressing that is literally your tree rings why would you do that. I want to see what's out there. people want to see it I promise someone out there likes it

...don't they??? Does everyone get quietly irrationally upset by this as me, or is this just hyperfixation/autism/some amalgam of the two. I'm not a hoarder or obsessive compulsive or anything like that so i wonder..

Anyways. reblog if you had a favorite amateur youtube animator in your childhood whose channel got nuked without a trace one day that you still think about.

I wanted to attach this video because it condenses my point very well. A TLDR of sorts. Please watch the whole thing, it genuinely changed the entire way I think about art as a concept.

(2nd vid is "Subjectivity in Art")

“The moment your art touches an audience, the ownership shifts in an irreversible way. [They're] not having an art experience with you and your intentions. They're having an art experience with the art object.

“You can't just burn your past; it's not even your past to burn anymore. It's other people's history as well. Whether or not you like it, that art is already bonded to somebody's soul, and if you rip the art away, you're ripping a bit of the soul that has adhesive contact to it.”

The digital age makes it very easy to distance or detach yourself from the impact your work has—be it art, fanfic, videos, even memes. Online content is as important to people now as any other media, if not more. But it's also by far the easiest, fastest, and most effective form of it to erase from public access. Media so unbelievably important to people and in general. Yes, you—with the 2010s purple sparkle dog speedpaint. I still think about that speedpaint all the time, because it was the first time i learned that you could draw on a computer, and I thought it was cool as hell. I still do.

I do wish there was a stronger culture of preservation and consideration for this, because every time I see people talk about snuffing their stuff because it doesn't personally resonate with them anymore, I just think ...what about all the people it did?

I've seen lots of people saying "get over it, it doesn't even matter," but it fucking does. It does matter. Even if I didn’t make it, even if I don’t have to deal with being the one who made it, even if I'm naturally inclined to be distressed by it—It still matters. And there’s nothing you could ever say to suddenly make it not matter, because there’s nothing you could ever say to make it not matter to me.

Don't devalue the act of creation. Don't dismiss something you made. It's out there, in people's thoughts and hearts and souls, and that is real. Even if you don't know it. Especially if you don't know it. Especially in a world where physical media is being snuffed out, the internet is constantly dying without any physical remains to recover, social isolation is rampant, and simply because independently produced content online is still media.

Fanfiction can hold equal or greater significance to someone as a book, but you can’t unpublish a book. Authors don’t have a button that can vaporize every copy of their work across all time, but fanfiction authors do. I’m not counting people who download fics either—when you buy a book, that transaction is over. But online, you have the power of unending transaction that can be terminated instantly at your will. The process of publishing fanfic vs. publishing a book may be different, but people’s connection to the art is the same intensity.

So yeah. I do get depressed about the Internet being a constant Alexandria, but the times I get the most depressed is when I click someone's page and see that all their work is gone because they're ‘curating a new aesthetic’ for their page or some shit. Or weeding out all the "ugly" art. Or just went on whatever the hell 'thrill deleting' is, because they just get a kick out of it.

Fuck it—yeah! It upsets me! I’m not wrong to say that. I’m saying it!

Under the cut, because it got long as shit! Also don’t worry the ending is way sappier and more ‘beauty of human nature’ vibe so it’s not all doom and gloom lol

What if that was someone's favorite art of that character. What if someone read that 'cringe oneshot' on the worst day of their life. What if that Warriors meme vid is still burned into a college student’s mind despite being gone for 10 years. What if it's actually not just you and the ones and zeros you rent out to the world—secure in knowing the original will always be on your computer for you to do whatever you want with it.

I really, deeply wish there was more of a general awareness of this, because even though social media can be used like a diary, that’s functionally the opposite of what it is. It’s social media. When you post, it’s no longer in a vacuum, even though you can’t see the real humans that content touches—often deeply.

Media is history. You shouldn’t burn that history just because you personally believe it isn’t worth saving.

Because it’s no longer just your personal opinion. It’s no longer just your personal work. it’s. history. Memory of media is not a suitable replacement for the media itself. If it was, we wouldn’t save anything at all. Nostalgia is an agent of that. The definition of nostalgia is grief for moments of the past that are inaccessible, and the biggest balm for that pain is accessing a physical reminder of those moments. That opinion of yours is no longer personal. It’s weighed against uncountable people across all time that your thing is ALSO personal to. People who would, and will mourn its absence.

How many times have you joined an older fandom only to discover that some of its most popular works are gone? How many times have you routed through random blogs looking for scraps people hopefully reblogged? how many times have you used Wayback machine desperately praying that a fan fiction or a YouTube video will be there? How many times do you look up crunchy old vines or YouTube videos or anime AMV‘s? How many times do you remember old fanfic.net sex that impacted you in middle school, only to shake your head and go ‘probably no point even looking.’

i mourn the absence. No, people can’t and shouldn’t have their agency over what they post revoked, but they should be conscious of that weight. If you’re reading this and getting extremely annoyed, and you’re not in the pink text above,,,, good.

I honestly do hope it gets under your skin. I hope it sits with you. I hope you feel it every time you hit that button, and whether or not you do hit that button—if you hesitate, if you remember this, even spitefully, I’ve done my job. I am howling into the void. And I may not want an answer, but I do want my anguish to be heard and remembered. Because it isn’t me just being melodramatic.

I know I sound that way writing so much, but if my favorite writing YouTuber can drop trow this week and go, "yeah, sorry, all my video essays from less than a year ago that you listen to in the car all the time? I'm "rebranding" my content so i deleted them. besides, my personal views don't really agree align with the analyses i did, or the techniques i taught in them anyway. Sorry if some of the literal tens of thousands of you used them, but I don't want to feel shackled to having youtuber "classics" tied to me”

….then i guess I'm just going to have to sound dramatic! That fucking sucks! Hours of work and knowledge gone! This was a new channel too. It’s very likely there’s no archive of any kind, because who would think someone who worked hard enough to write, record, and edit hour-long videos, would just turn around and nuke it all? I definitely didn’t see it coming, but I did just start a new screenwriting class a few weeks ago, so I’ll tell you at least one person is REALLY missing those fucking videos right now. Because a lot of them were about specifically screenwriting, which I know jack shit about. and that specific person’s pace, editing, and style of breaking down information was the best suited style I found that I could focus on and absorb. There’s no replacement for that. No alternative for his individual perspective. his jokes. his opinions.

No, they may not resonate with him now, but in this decision, he’s put up a big middle finger to everyone who might have. And he has like 100k subscribers! Those are confirmed supporters! Imagine how many silent and untethered observers are feeling this loss right now. Imagine how many will not have it in the future.

If he never posted them at all, we wouldn’t know we had it. It wouldn’t be a loss. But we did. We did have it. Until he decided that no, we didn’t, because he just happens to be the one out of millions of individuals holding the button to burn it in a hundredth of a second.

His personal work, the attachment I had to it, and the ways that it helped me are now just ripped away. I am one person out of millions, literal MILLIONS of people who saw and liked this content before it vanished. The soul has been ripped, the access severed, and by CJ’s (and my) definition, the art is functionally dead. Not for the YouTuber or anyone else lucky enough to save a link or download, but everyone else. From this point until the end of time, even if people even two weeks from now don’t know it. Even if someone who stumbles upon his channel today, doesn’t know it.

We only mourn the concept of Alexandria because we had some kind of scope for what was inside. Yes, maybe you got self-conscious and deleted your 12 year old deviant art account. Do you know who else is doing that?? THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of other twenty somethings who ALSO feel self-conscious about their old socials. Art. Fanfic. One direction fan videos. anything.

Suddenly, an unquantifiable amount of information from your age group—an entire age group in 2012, is. gone. And we will NEVER know what’s been erased from that history. We will NEVER know what could have been significant to us ten years from now. Twenty years from now. A hundred years. A thousand.

You could have deleted a fanfic that would have been someone else’s new go-to panic attack distraction tomorrow. You could have deleted a video someone used to laugh at with their friend who died yesterday. When you delete something, you risk tearing a hole in unknowable personal histories.

The Internet isn’t just a big library of Alexandria. It’s a library containing libraries. And those libraries have their own libraries in those libraries have their own as well. libraries inside libraries, inside libraries, ad infinitum. To conceive the amount of destroyed history on the Internet is crushing.

And I just can’t help but I ask myself how in gods name people can choose to contribute to that, instead of reposting everything to trash heap alts titled “hall of shame” or some shit.

You can offload to alts. Put up disclaimers. Make password locked blogs, or dropboxes, or anonymous imgur dumps. Anonymous reuploads. Orphan fics. Make a playlist or linktree of unlisted videos. Cut off the watermarks. Delete all references to it on your main. Make a dedicated unlisted playlist. make a google drive. Make new portfolio sites. Delete any questions you get about it. Change pen names. Pretend it never existed.

Give a heads up.

Something.

But don’t. kill. the media.

The knowledge that our stuff is going to forever be tied to us is a cross we have to bear, but the responsibility that comes with putting it out there in the first place, can’t be ignored.

Anyway. I'm not trying to start conflict. This is not a bash on anyone, nor a call for witch hunts. Or anon hate, or blocks and unfollows or anything of that nature. I'm not wishing ramifications or hate of any kind on anyone who does wants to do any of this.

I'm also not guilt tripping— I am not saying that you should feel bad. I AM saying why it makes me feel bad. That’s not guilting, it’s a dialogue. One I personally feel is long overdue.

It's me yelling into the void: please consider the real people on the other side of the screen before you hit that button. Realize and know that whatever you're about to erase from history could be the most important thing in the world to someone.

Art is an experience. It's why we revisit it. If art and history simply lived in the matter and code of media, we would only need to look at it once. We wouldn’t put things in museums. We wouldn’t build libraries. We wouldn’t look up vine compilations.

If you're able, consider (and I do mean consider, this is not a call to action) not destroying that. And don’t shrug it off as some pretentious asshole venting on Tumblr. You only need to look in the notes and tags to see that it isn’t just me. it’s never just me, or you, or the pixels.

And even if you do shrug it off, then at least recognize that what you make matters. Whatever you think about it, if it’s out there, that's not your discretion anymore. If a tree falls in the woods and even one person is around to see it, it fucking mattered. Because it happened. Don’t mulch your tree rings if you don’t have to. Because if enough people do it, a whole forest is gone. Media is history, no matter whether you think it’s worth putting in a museum, or only has 30 notes.

Thousands of years ago, a child named onfim doodled on his homework. They’re crude, and everyone has the wrong amount of fingers, and they’re also priceless archaeological artifacts recognizable throughout the world.

the only thing separating Onfim’s doodles and your MS paint Pokémon doodles is time. The only thing separating your old MS paint Pokémon doodles from being a priceless artifacts, thousands of years in the future is time. Your creations are already priceless artifacts. No matter what you do, don't ever, ever deny that. It isn’t blowing up your own ass, it’s artistic and anthropological fact.

The mundane and the supposedly unworthy are often the first things lost to time, and that’s why they’re so precious. That’s why artists who were before their time are scorned first only to be celebrated later. Do you think they knew that was going to happen?? What if they nuked it? Many probably did! But now that’s happening exponentially and instantaneously everywhere, WITHOUT the artist having to destroy their only copy—which makes it way easier and more dismissable.

Sometimes, If you’re revolutionary enough, people will make an effort to preserve your work, but recognized and thoroughly recorded work is rare compared to unrecognized and thoroughly recorded work.

Sometimes something is beloved enough that it would be impossible for it not to go down in history, but even then it isnt a guarantee, and it’s rare. But if van Gogh burned all of his paintings in a fit of despair before his death, we would have no van Gogh. Because he wasn’t respected as an artist in his time, but that wasn’t what defined the worth of his art. The people after him did, because his art was still there for them.

If you rip the art away, you're ripping a bit of the soul that has adhesive contact to it. If you belittle your art, you belittle the very real relationships and emotions and revisitations people have with the media. You defy the inherent worth and weight of a creation. you created. That's effort. It's passion. No matter how flippant or unskilled or worthless you think it is, it matters. Because at the end of the day, you could have chosen to make nothing at all, and you didn't.

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Muting notifs

[possessedpasm]

I feel like making art digitally has helped project this undue stress on ppl that art Needs to look perfect. (Whether it be shared or not). Because making art on a computer can pressure its users into making art that should look As Clean and flawless as possible, with even the smallest mistakes being such a dreaded thing. It feels more akin to a task sometimes than creating. And these mindests start to bleed out into other mediums as well.

I love art in all its uniqueness. The human-ness in it. I love when I can see someone's penmanship. Sketchy lines. Coloring Outside the lines. Thought processes. It's personality...

And not to mention; art has been so capitalized on, more and more, as perfectionism becomes industry and social media standard. It is a harmful, capitalistic ideal that is based in profitability and marketability. And I dunno, I think that's pretty soul-crushing imo!

Get sloppy with it

[if-you-are-tired-clap-your-hands]

On making a living as an artist

In a world where art and other creative pursuits should be an inspiring, honest and a direct reflection of our society, it is truly disheartening to realize that most mainstream artists come from some place of privilege. Whether it be racial, financial, social, or geographic, artists succeed not just from their skill alone, but from having the privilege to make enough sacrifices to pursue art as a full-time job. Even when you do find the right representation, it may feel as though you must sacrifice your independence and your voice as a trade for financial security. This can make you feel like you're alone, or just another piece in a system designed to exploit you for capitalistic gain. Now, now, sweet artist. I know you may feel quite depressed after reading all this. It's hard not to. Part of these frustrations are why I'm here writing this in the first place : because I believe that these systems must change and our approaches to financial stability as artists must be more transparent. I believe positive change comes from the transparency to know what it is that needs to change. For too long, our culture has resisted a more public conversation about personal finances. In many ways, this has enabled us to become a society that's content to embrace the outdated trope of the starving artist. Let's change that.

« How do I make a living as an artist ? », answered by visual artist Yumna Al-Arashi, in the Zine On making a living as an artist by The Creative Independent. You can read it for free on their website !

[mothykins]

Man, when I look at Palworld it's so interesting to me as an artist because everything about that game is a collage. It's a remix, a mashup. This is such an old type of art, China was doing it in 200BC, Picasso did it in 1912. Taking a bunch of things and putting them together. You find the Newspaper clippings and pieces of sheet music in there. It's like listening to Daft Punk and picking out the Alan Parsons Project and Eddie Johns samples. I enjoy looking at the designs and seeing where they pulled bits of them from. It's art in its own way. And not everyone's going to like it or think that it's right to do. But, like Fountain by Duchamp, it's gotten a lot of people talking about it and what is or isn't a valid creative endeavour, what is or is not the boundary for appropriative art. And in that way, I'd have to say it's a very valid piece of art.

[sparklecats2009]

Strange digital artists in the new modern internet are cast aside..

The only curation you get is what you can achieve through premade UI systems decided for you. You only get what a websites algorithm gives you and the amount of small reach you may have through Internet friends or family. It has become an addictive spiral machine that makes you lose all empathy for others, so now you have to sell your work to people who hate you.

It doesn't matter if the work is web-based or not before. It is now. A video, illustration, painting, sketch, it is now all online through the web and you don't get much choice in the matter. Adapt or don't

Artists who have a social media following are seen as outsiders, a special gift. If you can make a living with fans online alone, you are not the majority. This rhetoric hurts.

Gallery systems and traditional art calls don't know how to handle any digital art whatsoever. Digital artists may not be familiar with printing, packing, or mailing, and these requirements become burdens for any newcomer.

. ... see any work relating to any internet subculture or video games and it is immediately deemed unworthy to be on the wall.

These short days have caused me to stay up thinking too much. I am grieving the future of young artists like me and younger than myself. There's not too many artists at all, but people are too closed minded so new and fresh work is brushed off.

The writers / animation strikes because our work is no longer valued. ..

You can order lots of stickers from your favorite artist and put them around your town. You can volunteer them to family members who need graphic work done. You can send and comment a nice message to one of them , it might make their day just a little easier.

The work has to be made. It has to be done. Someone must do it. So let the artist work. Fine.

[ancientpersacom]

When will internet artist remember that tracing is a key part of learning art?? Like obviously don’t trace someone’s work and like sell it for a profit or something like that. But tracing as a whole? Girl I was tracing things under my teachers instruction all through my after school art classes to learn where to shade. They’d have us trace outlines of things and fill them in with all the correct shading and details. They’d have us trace the same thing over and over until we got a feel for where things would go. That’s why light boxes exist, to trace with. Tracing isn’t some big evil art sin, it’s part of learning. Obviously don’t be selling art traced from someone else, THAT would be stealing since you’re making a profit from someone else’s art. But tracing for practice, using a base etc? Literally not an issue at all. I’m begging y’all to take an actual art class and hear it from a teacher yourselves.

[setthephaserstorot]

While yes, the religious symbols in Evangelion were implemented mainly because the creators thought it would "look cool", I feel as though alot of people disregard the fact that any time it is brought up in the show its for a distinct purpose. Mainly to convey a theme or story element. It doesn't "mean nothing" as the narrative surrounding the symbolism goes.

[stresshyperdeath]

I really like Arkknights' fashion aesthetic and wanna do art studies of it, but as a... hmm

As someone who is still developing their art, Arknights is kinda overwhelming to tackle. Like, some of them designs are SCARY to even visually break down.

Like, lemme try to break down my favorite design so y'all know my pain here

[salt-in-my-eyes]

*taps microphone* if you like art, reblog it! likes do NOTHING at all. with reblogs it shares it to more people, especially if youre a more popular blog than OP! plus, i dont know about other artists but I LOVE when people have a little rant in my tags. oh you like how i Incorporated [?]? thank you! you have no words other than "HDGAJEYURVAIEGIAGDUWHBAJEH"? TYSM!!

also! this goes for ALL forms of art. collages, fanfics, original works of writing, drawings of ocs, a tiny rushed doodle that holds up a sign addressing a world issue, digital art, traditional art, photography, THE LIST COULD GO ON FOR MILES!!

if you like art, reblog it

[theicequeen623ggg]

Both can be true

So I’ve been thinking about this a lot while drawing pjo characters. I wasn’t sure if I should still draw blond annabeth when the show has her as a black person.

I decided that art is art and you can do both as long as it’s respectful

[alacrity42]

greed Iruma being the regular Iruma design js very good

Also please give sloth Iruma a proper bed

[enlightenedrobot]

So here’s a project I’ve not advertised at all. No Requests: Live! From the Tavern is an Adult focused Edutainment series focused on discussing Art, Music, and Media. Each episode is broken up into segments that work together in a playlist including various other videos on Youtube. This means Music Videos, short films, and other video essays, curated together with extra commentary from the host of the show, Tavern Barz.

That’s a weird and unnecessarily complicated format, why are you doing this?

It’s really easy in this day and age to use Youtube videos as a replacement for other content. I mean, why watch a two hour movie when you can watch a 20 minute recap? 

This is a bad habit. Critique is important aspect to a good media diet, but a diet consisting solely of critique misses the point completely. In order to talk about media, we must also experience it. 

This format means we don’t directly compete with the art featured. Rather, Tavern Barz acts as a museum curator, and the other media in the playlists serve as the actual art itself. The original videos will get their view, and… as a nice little bonus, I get to avoid the copyright bots.

Why are you using a cartoon?

I mean, I’m an animator. I don’t know what else to tell you. Why does the Chocolate guy use chocolate when clay will last longer?

But also, I don’t really have any desire to host the show as myself. There’s a hundred and ten other Youtubers who will get on camera to talk about stuff, and like, I don’t have the room for that. 

Besides, Tavern is a character distinct from me. As a writer, I have full control over the narrative I want to tell, and placing myself in the center of that just feels weird. Tavern’s allowed to act and be weird and hypocritical. Tavern is allowed to grow as a character in ways you can’t really depict through the lens of literal documentary filmmaking. 

So that Cyclops character isn’t just your rantsona vtuber avatar?

I mean, in a very literal sense, Tavern is a Vtuber. They are a virtual character serving as the host for a real show on Youtube.

But Tavern’s also an OC with lore and a planned Story Arc. The pilot is admittedly pretty bare bones with all this, but I intent to incorporate more story elements as the series goes on.

Alright, so what’s the lore then?

Tavern Barz is the Cycloptic owner of the Tavern Barz Tavern, a fifth dimensional divebar thar exists all across Time and Space. After several eternities of service, Tavern thinks they know it all.

This is not true.

Is this project family friendly?

Not really. The main character is a bartender, so there's a lot of alcohol focus. Plus, a lot of the featured videos will also contain plenty of adult themes.

The pilot is pretty mild. There's some swearing, but nothing too serious. But the non original videos might have adult themes. I have some later episodes planned, including one focused on The Male Gaze, and in those cases, I can't in good conscience recommend these videos to minors.

All in all, I like to call the tone of the project comfortably adult. I'm not going out of my way to be edgy, but I'm also not censoring myself. If this were an actual TV series, it's probably be TV-14. Edgier than the Simpsons, not as edgy as Rick and Morty, so about the level of Futurama.

When will this project release?

April, 2024. As of the time of this writing, the first episode is basically finished except for the credits, but I also need sometime to compile my sources, write descriptions, and make some thumbnails, as well as advertise the project.

Follow Me on this Account if you wanna keep up with the project. You can also see my other links at https://norequestslive.carrd.co/

[thecolorblockcurator]

Since I’ve been sharing things recently about growth as an artist- embracing the awkward stages - I wanted to add my own thoughts

You need those messy & frustrating stages- where everything is off centered and not quite the right size, where your colors are off & your composition is cluttered.

Every single artist has that stage. And it does get frustrating but you know what- that’s where you learn. You solve problems that pop up in your art like little puzzles & you get immensely proud of how you finally figured out how to draw hands, or something in perspective.

And skipping that phase of creation as an artist because you’re too embarrassed or frustrated to pop a few keywords and commands into an AI image generator won’t ever be art. It won’t ever be. (Not to mention it’s plagiarism)

I’ve been a professional artist for almost 10 years now. But really I’ve been practicing my whole life. But back in 2019 I decided to try a whole new medium and I started pretty much back at square one- well maybe square 2

And it was challenging. But instead of giving up (which is something I do a lot thanks ADHD) I did a 100 day challenge. And over time I got more comfortable taking risks and solving problems letting my creativity flow and just enjoyed experimenting!

I wanted to share some of those earlier pieces when I first started making digital art when things were awkward - & I encourage you to reblog & share your awkward stages in your own art too! Let’s have some love for the most difficult and most rewarding stage of being an artist.

& just remember - If you don’t work through the frustrating stage you’ll never grow.

[itsbansheebitch]

People who go on and on about how AI art is an accessibility tool are the ones you can 100% GUARANTEE don't follow or know any disabled artists.

There are artists without hands that hold paint brushes with their feet, their are blind people who sculpt, there are people with chronic pain that have their own break schedules, etc.

But you know what AI art generators do? They steal from disabled artists. They dehumanize them and then claim they're making a tool to help them. They see you as a "style" not a person.

Would it be too far to say that the rise of AI art has only made our consumer culture worse and made A LOT of people think they are entitled to someone else's work just because it's "available"? I'll let you decide.

[triaelf9]

It occurred to me that the issue we're having with all these art conversations is that folks are starting from a place of "art is there to be consumed by me" and that is what is fueling these folks to demand art they want NOW and FAST and FREE etc

The issue with that is not all art is to be consumed. Some of it is just for the artist, some of it is for fun, and that's not even getting into that some art is just about the process and how that informs the outcome, etc.

Forgetting this leaves an incomplete picture, forgive the pun, of the situation, and leaves people debating from two entirely different realities: on where art is there solely to be consumed by them, and one where there is nuance to the creation & consumption of art.

This is why they hate artists so much b/c if art is there for consumption by them, then it does look like we are "gatekeeping" it from them. The issue is of course, this is not the reality of the situation, so we will always be at odds.

It also doesn't help that, when artists do talk about why they created their art, doinkers online pop up to be like HUR HUR YOU HAD FEELINGS ABOUT A PIECE OF MEDIA, WHAT ARE YOU SOME SORT OF LOSER" so even if we explain it, folks are so cut off from emotions they won't get it

Anyway, food for thought ^_^

[katapotato55]

Dear artists: PROPERLY LABEL YOUR SMUT ART AS NSFW

not everyone wants to see your rendition of your favorite character smashing.

see that black squiggle ? that is a page break. pressing enter on your keyboard after a text allows you to put one of these in your post.

For the love of my sanity please use it when you are making NSFW content.

I don't want to block talented artists just because they don't have enough common sense to properly tag their post. every time I get on I have to play the "Don't make eye-contact" game when I just want to look at villainous fan art. You have just as much right to make smut art as much as you want. You have that right and I have no power to stop you. BUT: please let me fucking consent to this. thank you in advance.