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My current thoughts on the state of living machines
6 months ago
Hello there…
I haven’t been uploading anything relating to my living machine Universe 29A as of late. Doesn’t mean to say that I haven’t got anything in the works involving it at the moment, but I’m not in a rush to finish them right now. As recently due to some recent drama from a certain living machine community that I had long since left and has caused someone who I knew who once part of that community to leave with all of their LM art being lost to LM history and never to be seen again and another load of drama that occurred more than five months ago that caused in idol of mine to quit LM as well. I’ve decided to vent out my current thoughts and disdain towards the current state of living machines on the internet and the communities that involve them.
I was originally going to do a bit of a rant going through each of the toxic aspects that are caused by some of the more problematic individuals in the living machine community and how it has been leading to living machines potentially going down the pan. But I decided that the arguments I would be presenting wouldn’t add anything new aside from what some former members of the community have already said in regards to how the living machinery scene on the internet can have that bad minority of people who are the most hateful, childish, toxic, immature, argumentative and drama driven kings and queens who just have to ruin the fun for true living machine creators like me who are trying to spread positivity with them online through our art and stories. But these dramas that arise from the toxic minority of living machine circles I feel are making us goody goodies look bad in the public eye.
Last month I had to comfort an old friend of mine (who’s name will not be mentioned for their own safety) who was from my days in the living machine community suffered from a terrifying case of trauma when someone within the LMC stalked them on their personal social medias and did some awful things that ruined their personal relationships and their life and caused them to leave the living machine scene completely, and when they told me about it that I could see through their words that they were very upset and angry about what this person had done. With me having to comfort them to help them overcome the suffering this person, whoever they were had put them through, and seeing them describe what this individual did… Oh it made me sick and angry… Not only angry, but fucking pissed that someone had hurt a friend from the community I used to be a part of who’s life has now been affected because of this one persons actions towards them (and if your that individual who stalked them and you happen to be reading this, I hope one day you come to regret what you did as what you have done is fucking illegal and if you ever did the samething in real life. I swear the police would be after you in an instant and you’d be arrested and thrown in prison).
Not to mention the departure of an idol of mine from the living machine scene who was a very good LM artist that happened over five months ago because of all the drama in the LMC, and who is now likely never to return again because of it, and honestly it still hurts me inside even now when I’m writing about it here as they were among one of the good artists of the living machine scene to have left who did amazing Cars related art and at one time did living ocean liners and ships during their early days in the LMC, and yet the toxic minority drove them away like they had done before to other former members.
Now I know that not all living machine fans are terrible people as there are still some good living machine artists and creators in the community who do amazing and inspiring art of living machines of their favourite machines, whether they be trains, planes, cars, ships, boats, spacecraft, etc, with some even doing worldbuilding projects based around their own living machine creations with lore all that, my 29A Universe also being one of them with my first story for it TFTTOH currently being three chapters in with the fourth currently in the planning stage as of me writing this and honestly it makes he feel glad that there are still others out there, other than me who are still doing living machine content to this day and it just warms my heart to see their creations whenever they do post.
However, whenever the toxic minority of the living machine scene and the communities their form cause dramas such as these and it causes living machine creators, including those from the LMC to quit. It only makes one thing clear to me that reflects the current state of the living machine scene on the internet in general.
It is very clear to me that things in the LM scene are not the same as they were more than ten years ago when the living machine scene on the internet was at its peak and when I used to be a member of an LM community. While these days I rely less on taking inspiration from other living machine artists and worldbuilders to create my LM universe (tho I still do take inspiration from them whenever I see something from them at inspires me) years ago I used to be able to rely more heavily on other LM artist who did very good LM art and worldbuilding creations for inspiration, and help come up with ideas for 29A and for the stories involving my OCs who live in it, as back then their used to way more LM creators to take inspiration from and who’s creations helped me come up with ideas to develop my 29A Universe.
However, in recent years I have been having to take inspiration more from real life, books on various railway related subjects, movies and other fandoms and artistic scenes outside of living machines, as the amount of good living machine creators that I could take inspiration from while still decent have been becoming fewer and fewer as time goes on. Showing that these dramas by the toxic minority of the living machinery scene are not only having an affect on those who have left, but also having an effect on those living machine creators like me and others who stay out of those dramas too, as they are making it harder for new interesting LM creators who are not the generic aeromorph and NSFW artist (most of what they do is uninteresting to me (not all of them just the ones I find generic and boring)) to get invested in the LM scene due to their toxic behaviour discouraging them. Thus making good creators rare in the process and making it difficult for others such as myself to find any inspiration that is LM related at all, as it means less interesting art and LM worlds are being posted and shared on the internet, turning the scene into a wasteland. And to be honest because of this issue, I rather take inspiration from elsewhere rather than depend solely on the living machinery scene for inspiration all the time at this point.
Fortunately I’ve done my best to stay out of most of these dramas coming from this toxic minority of the living machinery scene as there’s no point in reasoning with them and just focus on what I do best and that is bringing great living machine art and 29A and all it’s characters to all of you, and I’m grateful for the following I’ve been able to build up over the years since leaving the LMC back in 2017, and if there’s anyone out there who loves living machines as much as I do, just keep doing what you love creating, even if you don’t want to share your living machine creations with the world, and never let any form of negativity from others including toxic members of a community involving the thing you love take that away from you.
No one including yourself should have to put up with and endure such toxicity at all. However, it does make me wonder that if this toxicity from the LMC is just going to continue and it keeps driving more LM creators away, then I really don’t know if the concept of LM or the LM scene online is going to be around in the next ten years, and at some point I too might one day decide I’m tired of doing LM and move on and do some of my other hobbies and interests in life, with my love of trains still always being there and it always will. So, who knows what will happen to LM in the next ten to twenty years. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens.
I haven’t been uploading anything relating to my living machine Universe 29A as of late. Doesn’t mean to say that I haven’t got anything in the works involving it at the moment, but I’m not in a rush to finish them right now. As recently due to some recent drama from a certain living machine community that I had long since left and has caused someone who I knew who once part of that community to leave with all of their LM art being lost to LM history and never to be seen again and another load of drama that occurred more than five months ago that caused in idol of mine to quit LM as well. I’ve decided to vent out my current thoughts and disdain towards the current state of living machines on the internet and the communities that involve them.
I was originally going to do a bit of a rant going through each of the toxic aspects that are caused by some of the more problematic individuals in the living machine community and how it has been leading to living machines potentially going down the pan. But I decided that the arguments I would be presenting wouldn’t add anything new aside from what some former members of the community have already said in regards to how the living machinery scene on the internet can have that bad minority of people who are the most hateful, childish, toxic, immature, argumentative and drama driven kings and queens who just have to ruin the fun for true living machine creators like me who are trying to spread positivity with them online through our art and stories. But these dramas that arise from the toxic minority of living machine circles I feel are making us goody goodies look bad in the public eye.
Last month I had to comfort an old friend of mine (who’s name will not be mentioned for their own safety) who was from my days in the living machine community suffered from a terrifying case of trauma when someone within the LMC stalked them on their personal social medias and did some awful things that ruined their personal relationships and their life and caused them to leave the living machine scene completely, and when they told me about it that I could see through their words that they were very upset and angry about what this person had done. With me having to comfort them to help them overcome the suffering this person, whoever they were had put them through, and seeing them describe what this individual did… Oh it made me sick and angry… Not only angry, but fucking pissed that someone had hurt a friend from the community I used to be a part of who’s life has now been affected because of this one persons actions towards them (and if your that individual who stalked them and you happen to be reading this, I hope one day you come to regret what you did as what you have done is fucking illegal and if you ever did the samething in real life. I swear the police would be after you in an instant and you’d be arrested and thrown in prison).
Not to mention the departure of an idol of mine from the living machine scene who was a very good LM artist that happened over five months ago because of all the drama in the LMC, and who is now likely never to return again because of it, and honestly it still hurts me inside even now when I’m writing about it here as they were among one of the good artists of the living machine scene to have left who did amazing Cars related art and at one time did living ocean liners and ships during their early days in the LMC, and yet the toxic minority drove them away like they had done before to other former members.
Now I know that not all living machine fans are terrible people as there are still some good living machine artists and creators in the community who do amazing and inspiring art of living machines of their favourite machines, whether they be trains, planes, cars, ships, boats, spacecraft, etc, with some even doing worldbuilding projects based around their own living machine creations with lore all that, my 29A Universe also being one of them with my first story for it TFTTOH currently being three chapters in with the fourth currently in the planning stage as of me writing this and honestly it makes he feel glad that there are still others out there, other than me who are still doing living machine content to this day and it just warms my heart to see their creations whenever they do post.
However, whenever the toxic minority of the living machine scene and the communities their form cause dramas such as these and it causes living machine creators, including those from the LMC to quit. It only makes one thing clear to me that reflects the current state of the living machine scene on the internet in general.
It is very clear to me that things in the LM scene are not the same as they were more than ten years ago when the living machine scene on the internet was at its peak and when I used to be a member of an LM community. While these days I rely less on taking inspiration from other living machine artists and worldbuilders to create my LM universe (tho I still do take inspiration from them whenever I see something from them at inspires me) years ago I used to be able to rely more heavily on other LM artist who did very good LM art and worldbuilding creations for inspiration, and help come up with ideas for 29A and for the stories involving my OCs who live in it, as back then their used to way more LM creators to take inspiration from and who’s creations helped me come up with ideas to develop my 29A Universe.
However, in recent years I have been having to take inspiration more from real life, books on various railway related subjects, movies and other fandoms and artistic scenes outside of living machines, as the amount of good living machine creators that I could take inspiration from while still decent have been becoming fewer and fewer as time goes on. Showing that these dramas by the toxic minority of the living machinery scene are not only having an affect on those who have left, but also having an effect on those living machine creators like me and others who stay out of those dramas too, as they are making it harder for new interesting LM creators who are not the generic aeromorph and NSFW artist (most of what they do is uninteresting to me (not all of them just the ones I find generic and boring)) to get invested in the LM scene due to their toxic behaviour discouraging them. Thus making good creators rare in the process and making it difficult for others such as myself to find any inspiration that is LM related at all, as it means less interesting art and LM worlds are being posted and shared on the internet, turning the scene into a wasteland. And to be honest because of this issue, I rather take inspiration from elsewhere rather than depend solely on the living machinery scene for inspiration all the time at this point.
Fortunately I’ve done my best to stay out of most of these dramas coming from this toxic minority of the living machinery scene as there’s no point in reasoning with them and just focus on what I do best and that is bringing great living machine art and 29A and all it’s characters to all of you, and I’m grateful for the following I’ve been able to build up over the years since leaving the LMC back in 2017, and if there’s anyone out there who loves living machines as much as I do, just keep doing what you love creating, even if you don’t want to share your living machine creations with the world, and never let any form of negativity from others including toxic members of a community involving the thing you love take that away from you.
No one including yourself should have to put up with and endure such toxicity at all. However, it does make me wonder that if this toxicity from the LMC is just going to continue and it keeps driving more LM creators away, then I really don’t know if the concept of LM or the LM scene online is going to be around in the next ten years, and at some point I too might one day decide I’m tired of doing LM and move on and do some of my other hobbies and interests in life, with my love of trains still always being there and it always will. So, who knows what will happen to LM in the next ten to twenty years. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens.
