#edit: fixed typo. teehee

[indigosfindings]

at the end of the day i think the online digital artist community has for a very long time operated on a set of like unspoken handshake rules generally enforced by social pressure which (despite being positioned on a moral & pseudolegal plane) have very little overlap with what is legal or illegal (de facto or de jure) but which have Everything to do with figuring The Artist as a universal would-be petit bourgeois auteur, reflected through these rules' emphasis on (1) the moral necessity of The Artist's unwavering & eternal power over their own art (& its reception) as articulated via informal pseudo-IP mechanisms (no reposting, dont tag as me/kin/id, dont use as your pfp, dont draw my oc), (2) the moral mandate toward Constant Self-Improvement (generally meaning adopting more of the conventional signifiers of "Good Art" eg realism) (admonition of "tracing" even for practice, artists who do things that are "not conducive to improvement" being fair game for mockery), & (3) attempting to induce in observers (often through guilt) a social pressure to further the ambitions of such artists ("you need to reblog/share, not just like", "you MUST commission 1 million artists immediately", "it's rude to express anything other than praise for any piece of art")

like these all (in tandem with SEO etc) boil down to attempting to lay the groundwork for an imagined future state of self-employment emanating out of one's (semi-)hobbyist artistry (& to obstruct anything perceived as interfering with that fantasy or its actuation). it's sort of like hiring a team of accountants on the assumption that youre going to win the lottery someday, like if it were in another context we'd effortlessly recognize it for the meritocratic grindset shit that it is. & none of this is even remotely conducive to the production of good art lmao

[hummingbird-hunter]

It always was funny for me when people say "oh other sites are all about chasing clout but on tumblr we haaatee to break containment" and then every post is like "nooo don't reblog this \(˶˃⤙˂˶)/ noo don't say that this looks like a 10k post!!! Don't curse this teehee (,,>﹏<,,) haha nooo I'm gonna turn off reblogs hehe touching the button already!! Oh noo I made a typo in my original post (>△< ꪱꪱꪱ)!! Better reblog it warning anyone not to reblog it instead of editing and fixing the typo!!! On nooo my silly typo is reblogged by thousands of people nooo how embarrassing (˶˃ᆺ˂˶)!!!" Website full of bottoms.

[xecat]

re this i have edited one or two minor mods to fix these before (eg a string tht was supposed to have apostrophe instead had bunch of random symbols cos of code error thingy )

but some mods r heavy on text and errors. and i dont wanna be rude and be like ""Oh i fixed all ur writing for u cos ur writing sucked teehee"" in their mod comments. you know??

but also some mods have typos that got pointed out several updates ago that the creator acknowledged and then didnt bother to fix and just told ppl to fix it themselves . so idk man

sims modders should hire me to fix their dialogue popups and menu options . i get not everyone is a native english speaker and typos are human nature but some mods have code error type shit pop up ingame like you didnt even catch that

also im autistic about this probably but typing is fun for me and i like writing things and i want to fix a lot of sims mods so their writing style better fits base game style (grammar-wise, punctuation-wise etc )