I can’t hate my art bro that’s literally an extension of how I see the world and my own place on it who cares if it’s not nice or exactly like I wanted it to look like
every time my bf says “for the time being” i respond with “for the time bean” and then we say “all hail the time bean” and carry on the conversation like nothing happened
okokay so like. I normally do NOT do requests that jump the queue and are sent in as a submission, since submissions are specifically for YOUR ART and pet pics and neat things to show me
but I NEEDED to get this done while that ocean fuckup was still relevant so here we go
“When people talk about gender-affirming surgery using words like “mutilation,” that’s not very nice. Is that how you think about people who’ve had surgery for other things? It’s a disgust reaction, and I do not take disgust into account as a legitimate point of discourse. I don’t have to entertain it and I’m not going to. It’s a waste of everybody’s time, it’s knee-jerk, it’s not grounded in reality, and it’s not useful. And it’s a squeamishness about medical intervention. I think the idea of making legislative or cultural decisions in and around [that] is laughable. Your squeamishness is not what the world turns on; it doesn’t matter.”
Liv Hewson in Teen Vogue (italics added by me for emphasis)
When I complain about prices related to art (books, videgames, merch, etc) is ALWAYS in a “curse my minimum wage job and my pricey rent for leaving me with almost no money for things that make me happy” way and NEVER in a “how dare the artist set a price that reflects the time and effort they spent on the thing and keep some of the money for themselves” way