Art is dead, not only because its critical transcendence is gone, but because reality itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is inseparable from its own structure, has been confused with its own image. Reality no longer has the time to take on the appearance of reality. It no longer even surpasses fiction: it captures every dream even before it takes on the appearance of a dream.
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(joke question) even tho toyfolk cant even kids what would ship kids between the characters look like (like the current ships like jen and paul mel and tammy etc etc)
Okay, tvheadvoid, you brought these monsters into this world. Name them, and I'll show them all grown up.
There's a LOT of things people do wrong when constructing fantasy beliefs in pantheons of gods, but one of the more specific is having only one god related to fertility and it kind of being just a horny sex thing.
Like you'll have one in the entire bunch whose sphere is listed as fertility and it's basically like Yeah this is the sex one. She's always depicted naked (but not TOO naked because censorship and/or the writer's own skittishness). She's going to have the exact body type epitomized in contemporary western beauty standards and there's usually no chance in hell that she's gonna be fat (unless MAYBE they're referencing 'venus' figurines). Her thing is fertility, which means having sex and making babies. Might be a goddess of beauty or love or marriage too, because these are kinda sex things, but that's probably it. And yeah that sort of thing is virtually nonexistent in real life.
Like the concept of fertility is so fundamentally important to the function of most societies in human history in ways that it is just Not in industrialized imperial core countries. Most people are getting food from stores, and not having to worry about harvesting crops or breeding livestock or foraging for food or having enough animals to hunt, so fertility only really comes up as a concern if you're trying to have kids (and there is certainly societal pressure to have children, but your wellbeing and survival is rarely going to Depend on it). And I think writing only from that perspective and not even trying to learn about WHY fertility is so conceptually important is why you see this trend.
There's no absolute universal statement about how people believe in gods but it's broadly accurate that systems with many deities will Usually have more than one deity associated with fertility, and these associations will certainly include human reproduction but also the fertility of livestock/hunted animals, plants, the land itself.
Some fertility deities may also be heavily associated with seasonal changes or environmental factors that agriculture or foraging is dependent on (spring/summer/fall, seasonal rains, seasonal flooding, rain itself, sunlight, good soil, rivers, wetlands, etc). Some certainly might be related to love, marriage, sex, and beauty, but that's VERY RARELY going to be the sole way the concept of fertility is embodied. And they'll often will have other associations not directly about fertility, or related to fertility in culturally specific ways.
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art — and, by analogy, our own experience — more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
You know what would be cool? A VR video game/art program that lets you play with different mediums.
Specifically thinking of hammer and chisel and a giant marble block, the kind of thing financially and logistically out of 99% of people's reach, but still desirable. Being able to play around, get an idea of what kind of work goes into a statue, designing your own, and being able to start over as many times as you want? Having SAVE POINTS?
"Zims, they'll just make giant penises and SpongeBob memes." Yeah, and? It's a game. Let people play.
"It'll never compare to the experience of being a real sculptor!" Yeah, and? Cooking shows don't feed the people watching, but it's still educational and inspiring.
"People will start to undervalue real art if they think they can do something similar!" Yeah, and? Rock Band let people enjoy the experience of being a musician, but few actually believed the skills would translate to real instruments. This isn't new. Let people have fun.
It's not just marble sculpture either. Wood carving. Sand portraits. Oil painting. Basket weaving. Cake decorating. Snowman building. Any and all artistic mediums, endless supplies and storage, all for the price of a single game.
We have the technology, let's make the future now.
What would happen if Dolly used the VR system? Would it send her into the digital world, or Dolores? Or potentially both, allowing them to interact with each other?
So, the headset would only make one avatar since it's only being used and can only be used by one user. Since Dolores is buried and dormant, Dolly would be the one to manifest in the digital space. However, I'm not sure how to word it properly, but since Dolores is in a state of dissociation and Dolly is nothing more than a product of the body, I can see a chance of Dolly staying in the body while Dolores accidentally "flees" into the the digital space.