Hurt Me Daddy, for I Have Blogged

 It's so interesting to observe how "safe" arts and entertainment feel overall right now. Anyone else have any thoughts on this? Boundary: I will not debate either cancel culture as a concept or the ethics of AIs with you. But it's so interesting to observe. I'd love to create a followup video piece to our "Are You There?" short we did last year that explores arts and entertainment as an especially self-soothing mechanism of familiarity right now. Even a lot of the AI cyberpunky stuff that's getting generated has this very fantasy, dreamlike quality. Nostalgia is getting recycled at a breakneck pace. And a lot of the "experimental" stuff out there, at least in my entertainment-based town, is specifically rehashing a lot of the same very fem-leaning stuff. How are fems subverting or playing with or conforming to tropes and expectations? How are historically marginalized people reinserting themselves into utterly Disneyfied, conventional narr...

  Old people rant ahead… Before I begin, I would also like to request that people who’ve never been a part of the goth scene in any location anywhere not participate in this discussion. I actually kind of feel it’s an intracommunity discussion. So at my age right now, I can rest assured that most humans on earth don’t think like I do. I need those regular reminders to humble me sometimes. And of course, inevitably, a lot of us don’t see eye to eye on things like politics. But I guess I’ve always maybe been either naïve or overly optimistic in assuming that Goth subculture should always be, at worst politically centrist, but most likely by default progressive, inclusive and left-leaning. Because I still remember the era of getting screamed at on the street for how I dressed and folx who dressed like me getting threats of violence. I remember my friends in the scene older than me explaining exactly how the queer nightclubs were some of the few willing to host goth clubs at the ...