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soracities · 3 days

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People are wild lol rap does actually take a certain level of skill to both perform and understand, it takes five seconds of research to see that theres decent lyricism going on there. Lots of rappers are actually great at english, they dont all know the official terms for the things they practice but rapping is like a form of poetry really.

ofc there are subgenres that i personally do not like such as mumble rap (a conversation for another time i digress) but if you take for example kendrick's latest diss tracks to drake, its something that has to literally be studied and broken down by a bunch of people lol and once you break it down and understand the refrences you see that its not just a bunch of words and a beat. of course white people will think something they dont understand is ghetto trash what else is new lol they're the kings of ostricizing and devaluing what they dont understand. They did it to jazz they did it to metal and alternative music and they do it to rap.

At the end of the day, culture is a thing that will be understood by those who are meant to understand it. You dont have to like rap to acknowledge that its an art, but calling it trash and refusing to see it from any point of view but your own speaks for itself.

And for the record, im not a rap fan lol its a genre i hardly listen to in fact, but what i am is an artist, and i can acknowledge art when i see it.

i'll be honest, i don't think lack of understanding is solely what comes into it, if at all. the genres that get the most aggressive pushback are also ones that threaten a cultural hegdemony in their respective societies (white, male, christian etc) and that's not a coincidence. rap gets the worst of this and ultimately i don't think it has ever boiled down to not knowing what GOAT means and a lot more to do with overt and tacit hostility towards black people making outspoken art on their own terms in a deeply racist society.

but otherwise i completely agree with you! the lyrical complexity, rhyming schemes and dexterity at play in a good rap song is second to none and you could absolutely teach a literature class on it. it is as much a poetic medium as anything else while also encompassing its own deeply layered, complex and distinct sensibilities--just like, literally, every other art form on earth! to pretend otherwise is just ludicrous at this point.

#ask #Anonymous #literally the most common complaint i've heard since i was like 14 is 'its always bragging about money and cars and bitches' and its like.#ignoring the pertinent question of what bragging about power and material wealth implies in an #art form borne from deeply disenfranchised marginalised and unjustly criminalised communities...rap didn't invent bragging lol #and it certainly didn't invent bragging in verse bc humans have been doing that for THOUSANDS of years #literally that's what half the epic poem tradition is ABOUT and people just go up in arms when black people dare to do it.#but yes anon acknowledge art when you see it is IT i feel that way about dubstep i dont like it but im also not about to launch a moral #tirade about why my preference is CORRECT and an entire intricate music scene is WRONG

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soup-mother · 5 days

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yankee voice: "ah silly little foreigner, big mac is actually USD$2 cheaper in your country than in the USA, therefore really you're the privileged one. don't look at the differences in wages and exchange value though or you might realise I'm completely ignorant of how global wealth inequality works. but that's ok because we weren't taught that in school (american school, the worst in the world) and i don't know if you guys have schools over there? (i wouldn't know, weren't taught in american school, the worst in the world) and also if you get mad at me how do you expect me to want to care about you? i simply do not understand why you hate me and my great nation the united states of america, which i will only call America and get snarky at people who call it usamerica (we were taught to call it america in american school, which is the worst school in the world btw)".

#my post #anti yank action #inspired by the last post and having the common sense to understand wages don't match US commodity prices #so even if it's less expensive to you as a yank it's still unaffordable to people in that country #literally explaining global wealth inequality to a yank: imagine burger

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zooweemama143 · 23 days

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last rb had me thinking of how lame bif would actually be as a person

#as ive mentioned i dont think he has a personality if that makes sense 😭#like youd be able to tell that he TRIES hard to have some kind of identity but he kind of… fails?#like he kind of wants to be known for something beyond his money but at the same time he also still bears the hubris of his family's wealth #hes maybe like those rich kids who insist that theyre talented beyond their money but one look at him and youre like. nah lmfao #for what its worth i think he genuinely is a talented boxer which is why his other persona other than Rich Boy is Undisputed Champion #which is probably also why he takes his loss to jimmy hard #what i also find interesting is the common fandom consensus that bif likes things like hip hop and rap #which are things you dont often associate with white preppy boys (for lack of better wording)#do u think he started branching out to 'less convential' interests bc hes aware he doesnt have any identity outside of being rich #on that i feel like hed also desire to be known as someone beyond derbys lapdog…?#like i dont think hes blindly loyal to derby actually. i feel like theres potential for resent here #since derby and bif are both very prideful people #this just turned into rambling as per usual if u read all of this god bless u #bif taylor #derby harrington #(ment)#bully cce #bully scholarship edition

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sunlightfeeling · 3 months

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lol @ the first NPC’s name that i talk to

…so much for escaping the brainrot

#tagging infinite wealth spoilers to be cognizant of filters:#like a dragon infinite wealth spoilers #yakuza spoilers #spoilers #like a dragon infinite wealth #yakuza #rgg #so sorry I didn’t do a heads up tag i hope those are generic enough #anyWHO actual tags:#this is a joke but ffs REALLY!?#kimura just has to be a common last name *sigh*#and yes #yes i bought iw its so embarrassing #like not actually but embarrassed at my impulsivity #uHM #okay yep that’s it byeeeee #tsukutta #dumb shit

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ecrivainsolitaire · 7 months

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The Open Art Guild Project: a proposal to empower collectively owned art

Over the last few decades we have seen the degradation of copyright, the blatant manipulation of intellectual property law in order to monopolise wealth and the exploitation of artists in favour of an economy of artistic landlordship: massive corporations holding the prole artist hostage to their increasingly unoriginal library of content produced not to encourage creative enlightenment, but to hold on to properties that ought to be already in the public domain. The capitalist owns the IP, so the capitalist keeps getting richer, while the artist is more and more oppressed, overworked, underpaid, scammed out of their rightful intellectual property, deplatformed, and automated away whenever possible. This is unsustainable, and the arrival of new technologies for digital art automation has overflowed that unsustainability to its breaking point. We cannot continue down this path.

The Open Art Guild is my proposal to remedy this. This proposal consists of two main parts: a copyright standard, designed for the fair distribution of income and the collective ownership of intellectual property; and a distribution platform, planned to empower artists big and small to profit from said intellectual property without being under the thumb of corporations or fighting one another under senseless infighting caused by bourgeois class warfare. The artist should not fight the artist over ownership of rights. The big artist should not see the small artist as a threat, nor should the small artist see the big artist as an obstacle to their own growth. Through mutual empowerment, both may prosper.

The Open Art Guild License

The Open Art Guild License is built upon the current Creative Commons 4.0 License. This license is irrevocable until the work qualifies for public domain according to all relevant legislations, provided that the artist remains a member of the Guild. In order to participate in the Guild, an artist shall follow the following precepts:

The artist shall only publish works under the OAG License that have licenses available to the public. This means public domain, open source, Creative Commons and works created by other members of the Guild. Works derived from privately owned media, such as fanart of intellectual properties not part of the Guild, shall be excluded from the Guild. If the artist did not have permission to use it before, or if the artist only has individual permission, the work will not qualify for Guild submission.

All works created under the OAG License shall be free to adapt, remix, or reuse for other projects, even commercially, provided that the artist doing so is also an active member of the Guild, that the projects derived from it are also under the OAG License, and that the artist follows through with their dues and obligations.

Whenever the format permits, the artist shall provide the assets used for the works in their raw form in a modular fashion, including colour palettes, sound assets, video footage, code, screenplays, subtitles, and any other elements used in the creation of their work, in order to facilitate their reuse and redistribution for the benefit of all other artists.

The artist waives their right to 30% of the total profit generated by works submitted to the guild, regardless of where it is published. This revenue shall be redistributed in the following manner:

10% shall be designated towards the maintenance of the Open Art Guild platform. In absence of a platform that follows the requirements to belong to the Guild, this percentage shall be donated towards a nonprofit organisation of their own choosing dedicated to the protection and distribution of art in any of its forms. Some examples may include Archive.org, Archive Of Our Own, Wikimedia, or your local art museum or community center. Proof of donation shall be made publicly available. The artist shall empower the Guild, as the Guild has empowered the artist.

10% shall be designated towards the Open Art Guild legal fund. In the absence of a fund dedicated to the protection of the OAG, this percentage shall be donated towards a nonprofit organisation dedicated to the protection of the legal rights of artists in any of their forms. Some examples may include Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Industrial Workers of the World, or another artist union like the WGA. Proof of donation shall be made publicly available. The artist shall protect the Guild, as the Guild shall protect the artist.

10% shall be designated towards the Open Art Guild creator fund. In the absence of a fund dedicated to redistribute the profits of the OAG, this percentage shall be donated to other members of the Guild, prioritising small creators. Alternatively, it may be directed towards the recruitment of new members to the Guild via donation and an invite. Proof of donation shall not be required, but the receiving artist(s) is(are) encouraged to declare in their own platform that the donation was received. The artist shall give to the Guild, as the Guild has given to the artist.

The artist shall continue to create Guild submissions for the duration of their membership, with a minimum of one submission per month in order to guarantee their continued support. The artist shall live off of labour, not property.

In return for these duties, the artist shall receive:

Permission to adapt, remix, or reuse any of the works in the Guild’s archive for their own derivative works, fan fiction, remixes, collages, or any sort of transformative application, provided dues and obligations are in order.

Protection of their intellectual property as part of the collective works of the Guild by the legal fund designated and sustained by all paying members, to prevent non Guild members from trying to exploit their works unauthorised.

If an artist strikes a deal for non-Guild adaptation, the proportional dues shall also be paid to the Guild fund and members by the non-Guild institution in charge. Said deal shall not be allowed an exclusivity clause, and all works derived from a Guild work shall follow through with their dues in perpetuity. If the non-Guild entity chooses to terminate the business relationship, all intellectual property rights over the adaptation shall irrevocably be granted to the Guild as compensation, guaranteeing the distribution to the creators and the legal fund, as well as the follow-through with whatever payment terms the Guild artist has agreed to.

No Guild artist shall prosecute another Guild artist for use of works under the OAG License, provided that the derivative work also follows the OAG License terms. If these terms are violated, amicable resolution shall be sought by both parties. If litigation becomes inevitable and compensation is required, said compensation will also require the 30% dues to fund the Guild and its members, no matter which way it sides. In no case shall an artist, Guild or non-Guild, be left without recourse.

If an artist becomes unable or unwilling to continue to pay their dues, the artist shall be given an option to suspend or cancel their membership. If a membership is suspended, the artist will be excluded from the creator fund until their dues are renewed. No compensation shall be required of the artist for the suspension period, and all protections other than the creator fund shall still apply. If a membership is cancelled, all works published by the artist under the OAG License shall automatically be granted a Creative Commons 4.0 License instead, in order to protect Guild members from litigation by non-Guild members.

Membership that has been cancelled shall be renewable at any time, provided that the former Guild artist has not engaged in predatory litigation against Guild member or the Guild itself. The Guild shall determine what constitutes predatory litigation on a case-by-case basis. Licenses that were lost during cancellation shall not be given back, as CC4.0 is irrevocable, but new works shall still qualify for OAG Licenses.

These protections shall not be conditional to the artist’s moral values or the content of the works created. All works that do not break the laws applicable to the jurisdiction from which they were submitted shall be treated with the same respect and granted the same rights and obligations, in perpetuity and throughout time and space within the known multiverse. The Guild shall not exist to police art, but to promote it.

Open Art Guild License Template

All submissions of Guild works and projects shall include the following legend, both in English and in the publication language when applicable. Point 4 may be omitted if the artist chooses not to submit the work for dataset training.

This work was created and published under the Open Art Guild license, and has been approved for reuse and adaptation under the following conditions:

For personal, educational and archival use, provided any derivative works also fall under a publicly open license, to all Guild members and non members.

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For commercial use to non Guild members, provided any derivative works also fall under a publicly open license, with the explicit approval of the artist and proper redistribution of profit following the guidelines of the Guild.

For non commercial dataset training of open source generative art technologies, provided the explicit consent of the artist, proper credit and redistribution of profit in its entirety to the Guild.

Shall this work be appropriated by non Guild members without proper authorisation, credit and redistribution of profit, the non Guild entity waives their right to intellectual property over any derivative works, copyrights, trademarks or patents of any sort and cedes it to the Creative Commons, under the 4.0 license, irrevocably and unconditionally, in perpetuity, throughout time and space in the known multiverse. The Guild reserves the right to withhold trade relations with any known infractors for the duration its members deem appropriate, including the reversal of any currently standing contracts and agreements.

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gemkun · 22 days

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i was having a shower and i started to think about the potential of assassination attempts or sabotage on veritas. i also have to credit @zorkaya for the delicious bodyguard au we've been creating and especially the recent response involving a threat on the doctor which meant ushering him away to safety.

it's clear that dr. ratio can take care of himself and the other guy(s) are probably going to come out worse than him , but i still think that it's not unheard of for him to be a target of envious researchers or people he rubbed wrong because let's face it , who doesn't find him displeasing ? someone asked me once to name veritas' friends and i for the life of me couldn't.

i also think when he was younger at least he was in the safety of the university but perhaps he hadn't been as methodical as he is now , so , if other students picked on him then he probably had to learn how to diffuse that as well. he's also the type to cover up any injury or tend to it quickly since he firmly believes he is capable of handling confrontations and battle. like he's a doctor , his job is to heal and tend to ailments. that extends to him as well.

this makes me wonder about who would be veritas' enemies because i'd be lying if i said he has none.

#* ✦ 𝐈𝐕. ❮ isms ❯ ⸻ ❝#* ✦ 𝐕𝐈. ❮ muses ❯ ⸻ ❝ 「 veritas ratio 」#just having those think thonk shower moments #it's not only him though so i don't think it's unusual especially in the hsr universe #like so many characters are also targeted so it's quite common at this point #i feel like that's how he feels as well #he just knows that there are people plagued by envy and they're lost causes unfortunately #if they hurt him at least he can take care of his wounds but if you hurt those that he cares about then you might want to run #i also think he's probably encountered people who tried to steal his research because they're breakthroughs and they want the credit #since you know you get sponsorships and then you become rich and it all comes back to wealth and success #robin reminded me you can be targeted by groups so its no longer just 1 v 1 which would make sense cause like #a group might have a higher chance of victory

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04tenno · 9 months

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Listen to me.

Funny little yuppie

Considered very handsome and "moderate"; capacity for violence is underestimated, as such

Psychological issues, erratic behavior, at least semi-unprompted extreme emotional reactions

Has a secretary who is implied to have feelings for him

Has no interest in his female partners

Hates nearly all of his colleagues

Kills one of said colleagues

Specific murder method of beheading

Shares many of the same interests (baseball, American whiskey, working out, dining at expensive restaurants, acts of torture, etc.)

Sound familiar?

Either way, I'll let you in on a little secret: making comparisons between Patrick Bateman and Yoshitaka Mine shouldn't be about making either of them out to be Cool or Scary or Intriguing. It should be about the bit.

It should be about being able to say Mine WOULD have a routine that can only be explained by him having an excess of executive function. It should be about being able to say Mine WOULD seethe over minor (some would say imperceptible) differences in color and font choices between everyone's business cards. And it should be about being able to say Mine WOULD pop a boner at a U2 concert.

#american psycho #patrick bateman #yakuza 3 #yoshitaka mine #sorry for tagging this atrocious post but anyway if you know you know #american autist. american boyboss. THESE are the archetypes #like It Just Works because mine specifically styles himself after american yuppies #that is 100% on purpose and something kanda brings up lol #and a lot of american psycho is about really struggling to have any connection with your humanity #when you're obsessed with the hallmarks of. “success”#and the way amassing wealth and power leads you to chase less and less moral thrills to live up to the lengths you've gone to already #there's a lot of thematic overlap #But Also It's Funny #But Also He Drinks His Respect Women Juice Religiously That's It That's The Main Thing #and the “saying deranged shit that just gets ignored” and “vacuous exterior” traits went to rggjo #also im not fuckingjhkesrkgjhujeklshgks THE LAST POINT IS A REAL THING THING THAT HAPPENED TO BATEMAN AND WOULD HAPPEN TO MINE #SORRY. MINE HAS BAD TASTE TO ME #BECAUSE IT WOULD BE FUNNY #ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD CAN'T FIX THAT #i guess that's another thing they have in common though. being queer in a way every dudebro fan wants to ignore lol

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