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Two mermaids. A lionfish girl with curly hair, reaching out for a tiger shark boy floating above her

Beloved in Lacquer

This regime is garbage

I love love love that they hired a painter to do these portraits and then acknowledged her by name. Artists of all kinds supporting each other is so beautiful.

Counter proposal: public hangings of tech billionaires.

Read the banned books.

But also read the ones that could be banned. Ones from trans authors, Palestinian authors, and indigenous authors. Read the ones about black happiness and sapphic history. Read the ones from climate scientists and critical comedians. Read the romances and the horror novels.

She continued: “You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, overprocessed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.”

If this reminds you of an extremely famous book you might have read in high school… yes.

please don't rank fanfictions, but especially not in the public bookmarks because the authors can see that

the pursuit of moralizing fiction is in fact a fascist movement and more importantly, it seeks to deny individual thought by replacing it with group adherence. if your morals are broken by a work of fiction, your morals were not real in the first place.

fanfiction is free, yes, but so are kudos and comments! life is an expensive, depressing slog sometimes; leave a little digital trinket in exchange for the word food people offer you.

I've been making a genuine effort to use the term "fanworks" instead of "content"
I feel like it's important, with the rise of fandom fracturing into a "consumer demands" type of vibe instead of the old hobby enjoying and friendship vibe I am more used to

i hate the fic vs. books comparison because in only one of those the author is being paid in order to just sit down and write. fics are written for self indulgent reasons, at no cost. no author owes you their fics being “good” or to your taste.

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“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement.

YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.

Speaking of old artists, I also recommend Gwendy and muddgutts (hopefully their work is still archived)

They still make art! It's not as frequent tho

the daily struggle

There's art!! If you want recommendations: arishatistic, disgruntledwing, raydarkwolf, dema perbhat, yanka (most of it is on the HHr discord)

They both have Instagram and Twitter

More Midwest side but I highly recommend Literati Ann Arbor and politics & prose!

fanfic authors writing to escape the horrors or to put themselves directly into them for cathartic purposes

tradpub author: the problem is the women writing fanfic

Using ChatGPT

The mutual pining AHHHHHHH

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Agreed 😭😭😭 is it really that difficult to use your brain (general you)

Libraries make the world a better place.