#artists deserve the money they get

[bananonbinary]

somewhat kicking a bees nest here, but hear me out-

"homemade and handcrafted goods should cost hundreds and even thousands of dollars" is why attaching a monetary value to esoteric concepts like "time" and "skill" (and, you know, "a human being") is a bad system.

now, before the pitchforks come out, i am not bitching because i want a handcrafted quilt for $20. i do recognize that it would be unbelievably unfair to the quilter. but like...doesn't that sound obscene? that we live in a system where things that used to be pretty mundane are now only available to the upper class, or the creator just fucking dies? where in order for someone to make anything artistic, they need to be independently wealthy or ONLY cater to wealthy people?

again, i am not suggesting that artists should sell me their shit at a horrific loss. im not really suggesting any solution at all here, we're between a bit of a rock and a hard place. but it feels really inherently fucked up to me that the only options are "Artists taken advantage of" and "only rich people get art."

anyways, UBI huh

[recklessmoss]

i'm so unironically baffled at the amount of downgrades this site pushes out on a nearly weekly basis at this point. Near half if not all of them are almost completely useless and give absolutely zero benefit to user experience, if anything @staff is quite literally distancing their userbase.... do you think i want another twitter? Like what purpose or benefit does taking away dash avatars has... what's the benefit of taking away basic accessibility features.. fucking genuinely. I hate it here. I don't know how many more feedback letters I have to send in order for all this shit to stop... i'm so tired.

[applesandbannas747]

actually i think I am going to be a dick about this even though it's possible I'm being unreasonable. I think it's shitty to post art from behind Jo's paywall unless it's art you commissioned. Otherwise, you are denying her income from posting and/or posting something someone else bought, which sucks a little

[temtamoo]

“let’s bully the Minecraft Movie into changing like we did with the Sonic Movie” pookie you are no better than the studios and executives that mistreat and take advantage of their workers 🤷‍♀️

[gedwimora]

refreshing myself on the exact real prices for the kind of work that goes into these graphics was a mistake now i'm remembering why i didn't do it for years lol

[lenteur]

waking up and seeing exo members terminating their contracts with sm was not on my bingo this year

[juusasu4evagrrl]

I just remembered that a naruto fan art rendition of Judith beheading her rapist Holofernes exists and ☹️

[rhymaes]

i know the 'i liked [insert popular artist/work] before it was popular' person is unbearable but also. i am that person and i do hate when something i love becomes popular like the straight people i went to school with & the cruelest people I've ever known do NOT get to like ethel cain & chappell roan like i like them they are both too brilliant

[aurosoul]

I finally met the founders of Figmin XR in person!!!!!! 💖💖💖

their names are Astra and Javier, they are a husband & wife duo, and their home is JUST as magical and tech-filled as you would expect from the creators of a futuristic, hologram-based sandbox application. every room was a mix of nature, technology, and childlike wonder. (they are also parents, and their kids use XR sometimes too!)

I got to try basically every cutting-edge XR headset that exists during my visit, and witnessed two of the most reality-breaking things my brain has ever been faced with:

1. with both of us wearing augmented reality headsets, Javier (pictured center in the first photo) pulled an animated gif out of thin air and handed it to me - just with bare hands. no controllers required. it was BEYOND surreal to be physically HOLDING a GIF. a GIF!!!!!!!!!!

and 2. I got to use ‘spatial mapping’ (AKA room scanning) in-headset. depth-sensing lasers & cameras around my eyes scanned the topography of everything I looked at, overlaying a green Matrix-style pattern onto everything in my field of view. I felt like a human scanner, and once the scan was complete I could project SHADOWS from virtual objects onto every real surface around me.

I spawned in an adorable virtual giraffe toy, and it was extremely brain-breaking to have a virtual object cast perfect shadows onto a wall, or a couch, or an end table, IN REAL TIME as I was moving it around. with shadows added, my brain fully accepted that the giraffe was a real object physically in the room with me.

ANYWAYS it was wonderful seeing all this cutting-edge tech used specifically for PLAY - and education, and accessibility, and bringing people together IRL, and paying artists, and assisting with everyday tasks, and just....... MORE good things! Figmin XR is built with such an optimistic view of the future, and it is forever going to be an honor that I get to contribute to it in such a significant way.

the future is not all bad. there are plenty of good things still happening, and being created, and yet to exist!!!

[matoitech]

like am i crazy am i the one whose wrong for thinking ppl trying to run businesses should actually try to be professional and also have some awareness abt the market and financial situation of customers rn since money is tight for a LOT of ppl rn, instead of choosing to like .. very publically complain on their business account that ‘there won’t be any fursuit makers left if no one buys fursuits :/‘ what do u expect people to do? pull money out of their asses to spend on luxury items? i’m sure they would if they could! you need to get paid but so does everyone else. not every furry is a doctor. like what are you doing here??

[crownshattered]

|| i would commission someone to draw kira for her/my birthday, but.....no......

[bezella]

now that christmas is over I can start thinking of my new year's resolution

it's 2 get more art of my bunny boy getting pegged

[brithombar]

people who get insecure about fine art also treating any serious artistic analysis of commercial art as an exercise in who can make the most ironic comedic reaction to the idea that their object of consumption is worth anything artistically are so annoying. barbie is a creation myth there is nothing ironic about gerwigs comments on this or on her legitimately beautiful film she simply possesses the ability to have sincere emotions towards her interests

[sparklecryptid]

Absolutely exhausting talking to people who don’t understand why hand made things are more expensive than mass produced items

[theanonymousbooks]

I use etsy a lot to buy hand embroidery patterns from artists so it always amuses me when I load it up and get a notification that something on my wish list is running low and it's a pdf downloadable pattern.

[squirrelno2]

I love paying artists actually.

I love when artists have prints or art books or cool little stickers, I love buying from embroiderers and sewers and knitters, I love homemade jewelry and weird little hats and whatever the hell else artists have come up with. I love paying for shows and buying books and someday when I can I'm gonna absolutely love being able to pay dancers and actors I hire for shows.

We live in a capitalist hellscape it's true. It's also true that not everything that brings you joy needed monetisation, that it shouldn't take cash for something to have Validity. But the world is so hell bent on devaluing what we do in any capacity, and so determined to fill all our time with Appropriate Work, that anything you can take here is huge. Take money for your work, because whether we like it or not our time has an implicit monetary value, and if you don't that's a signal that you are letting them take that value away. Art has worth, and it's not in money, but money has to be the symbol of it or else no art gets made.

Maybe it's because I'm a dancer, which is incredibly difficult to get paid fairly for as an individual artist, but like. You put the work in as an artist, you gave your time and effort and probably years of training. I spent twenty years on dance training and less than three months on my personal trainer certification - guess which one pays more? Guess which one is more useful? (Hint: the latter is not the certification). The world has very little to offer without the contributions of artists, whether in a practical sense (graphic design is my passion) or an emotional one. I fucking love paying artists.

Anyway uh. When you see art you like that's for sale, if you've got the money, just go ahead and buy it. We're all stuck in capitalism anyway, fill that void with somebody's passion.