Hurt Me Daddy, for I Have Blogged

  I want to bring something up here, since my FB is split between people I hang out with in person and people I know online. If I’ve said something that’s directly damaging to our connection together, ideally, I’d like to know. I realize that that implies a certain level of intimacy and familiarity that I don’t have with 100% of people here, so I allow for that. I also understand that the cultural norm is now to preserve oneself and just ghost and walk away. I’m fully, maturely aware that no one owes me a “breakup” conversation about anything. I allow for all of these realities and see and hear them. But for those who have the spoons, I’d like to actively know how I might’ve harmed our relationship towards one another, so that I can try to make it better, or at least know for other relationships in future. Some of it is going to be socially trained stuff, like various forms of privilege, that are not immediately visible to certain people on a daily basis and that we have to wor...

Ok so let me get this straight. NFTs came on the scene and y'all complained that it was a whole bunch of enviro wastefulness that was overvaluing low-quality art that looks like a stoned incel in his basement could've burped it out. Then AI art came on the scene. While servers were beta testing, literally the process of fine-tuning the machines to be less exploitative, less racist, less focused on body-normative standards etc as well as open to developer feedback on the Discord servers y'all were ignoring it or already complaining. When things ramped up a few months later and apps started offering pricing or much more limited free tiers you complained that it wasn't real art. And now, when most of you haven't bought the tiniest of shit nuggets off your friends' merch stores or even reposted their stuff for FREE unless it gave you clout, you're complaining that AI is stealing from artists. Who are, clearly, out here wiping our asses with money, right? Because...

Weirdly I've been revisiting a lot of Dresden Dolls' music and aesthetic lately, especially their first album. I'll admit to something--when the album came out I worked at Borders shortly thereafter (people got bored with releases a lot less quickly), and a LOT of people there compared my visual aesthetic to AFP, which really kind of put me off giving anything more than a single superficial listen, though I could recognize quality in that album when I did. AFP's Twitter shenanigans were no better and I continued to find her annoying, until around the early 2010s when I got a little more into her solo stuff and eased my opinion on her a bit. (I still do not give her problematic behaviors a pass but I finally read The Art of Asking early pandemic and it helped with some things. It's complicated and I still like Neil more but I can also see where misogyny might come into play with that.) Looking at some other personal artistic-aesthetic influences. Bowie's early m...