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Some thoughts...
a year ago
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I used to blab all the time on the internet everytime I had a feeling or thought when I was younger...
I've learned as i've aged that was a bad habit so these days I try very, very hard not to take bait and
to always remember that if people are committed to misunderstanding you, they will.
They'll only ever see you the way they've been molded to by an amalgam of conflicting sources,
regardless of how much you try to explain yourself.
So, let me just say, even if I disagree with your views, or opinions, I see past that. I understand that people are
more than their views or thoughts on certain topics. Life is very complicated, it certainly is not Black & White.
I know that most people are good. That the things they stand up for they believe truly right and just, from their own complex perspectives.
I genuinely want the best for all of humanity.
I am absolutely no saint, and my well wishes go only so far as a hope. It's not my job to save the world
or burden myself with the weight of it on my shoulders. But I know myself, and my own heart better
than anyone else in this world ever will.
I hate the culture of judgeyness that seems to have sprouted up over the past decade.
It's sad that these days the places I hang out in that are supposed to be places to share art and creativity
have become merely cesspools of 'If you think this or that, you're a horrible lost cause and should kys' etc.
No where is safe anymore. It's become normal to have a list of those you would exclude without
ever even speaking to them in Bios/Descriptions. I understand the complexities of culture that have led to this.
I mean only to say that I find it all so exhausting...
I hope you all are holding up out there!!
Remember to be kind, and that we cannot influence those we would never engage with.
People are more than they appear to be in a paragraph on a screen.
You never know when you could be judging someone you could love, or who might love you.
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On a funny note, if you pay close attention, some of the haters are actually projecting and enjoy the so called forbidden fruit in secret.
I think, many of these people are loud and the accepting ones don't really talk about it. In the beginning I tried posting on Twitter but it's such a cesspool of boiling drama, mutual persecution for 999 reasons (it looks like, because you follow someone who follows someone who has rumors or some shit you're basically their partner in crime lmao) I deleted the acc and it was a great choice, there's much less of the mad twitter user archetype here and I basically don't encounter any drama here too, tho my watchlist is still small so I can't be super accurate in judgment.
Remember that there's people like you out there, and the best that can be done to make change is living it. I appreciate your presence 💜
But I still remember when it wasn't like this. When people had less bad experiences racked up that led them to have to put up so many walls. Before the online culture shifted this way.
I've been blocked before without ever even speaking to people. Only finding out because I will try to comment something nice on their artwork to find out i've been blocked. Since FA doesn't boot watchers for blocks. What prompted this particular vent sort of, is a former watcher of mine, someone who's contacted me on holidays to wish me well, bantered in passing with me for YEARS, blocked me suddenly after I said 'I think Artists should be able to profit from fanart, and that Pokemon/Disney/corporations etc going after the little guy is scummy.'
They literally called me 'Theft praising' for wanting to live in a world full of diversity, art, creativity and lots and lots of fanmade merchandise(My favorite thing in the fucking world).
And it's sad because, I don't even believe they really think that. I think they're afraid like me, and everyone else. I find it hard to believe people go to conventions and artist alleys and think 'Man look at all these horrible, scummy tHEIVES profiting off their artwork of STOLEN IPs'
I cannot believe anyone thinks that... No way that isn't a thought implanted by big corps to slither into the minds of the lower class to further hurt us. Because you step one foot out of line and it's off with your head. But I won't give up. I'll just keep being as authentically myself as i can with high spirits.
But yeah... Cancel culture, Hate bandwagoning.... It's tiring. Really sucks the fun out of the Artist space sometimes.
The best way to defeat that in my experience is to basically throw that at their face and point out they have more in common with certain political ideologies from the 1930s with historical evidence that basically shows them being 1 to 1 with those ideas and they lose their minds. And argument. Because it then boils down to, you bad because I say you bad. And that usually convinces nobody.
Point out their hypocrisy, tell them to fk off, never apologize, and double down. They have no means of hurting you if you refuse to be hurt by them. Offence is taken, not given. They choose to be offended usually. Therefore, don't apologize, and go about your day like nothing happened.
Remember the early 2000s when you could say whatever you wanted and nobody would even remember in a few hours? I miss the early 2000s.
Hope you're holding it together!