from the book of: jesus just yapped

more comedy gold from the /k/ server :D

> B: Whales literally can’t eat humans

Their throats are way too small

4-8 inches for a blue whale

> J: WHAT

That jesus fella lied to me

> B: I think you mean Jonah

> J: Jesus wrote the Bible tho

> N: Nah it's a biography not an autobiography smh

> L: jesus just yapped, some others wrote down what they remembered or heard from others

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still cleaning out my tumblr likes! (from 21,000 back in november to 13,000 as of this post; i try to delete 500-1k on days when i'm bored and don't feel like drawing.)

random observations after seeing what my 2016 likes:

* wrow i forgot how big overwatch was in fandom circles; probably my last true mainstream fandom i was reasonably in. other big fandoms between then and now were dragon age inquisition, the force awakens, and marvelverse stuff. i strongly suspect mass effect 3 is coming up soon.

* i ... honestly feel like i was a far more boring person back then? the likes are a lot of fanart with no real depth or story (just a semi-popular posed character) and discourse posts that i either actively disagree with now, or are so "one layer deep" that it circles back into vaguely contemptous satire. one way of looking at that slightly differently is appreciating my maturity that's happened in ten years alone, and that i'm far less likely to just nod along with something if it's put in front of me.

* that said i do appreciate that i was consistently kind to everyone by leaving kind and thoughtful comments; never got mean. slightly slow in the head little golden retriever is not the worst thing to be. :P  also seemed to pretty consistently make giftart for people; it's something i remind myself i do whenever i worry about being accidentally too misanthropic to people who don't deserve that.

* slightly amusing to see other flavors of complain-y discourse have not changed one bit (bring back squicks, 'you can dislike a character Just Because' etc).

* melancholy at realizing that all the creative works were at least never AI (somebody hand-made all of 'em even as ..... unpolished.... as they were and that's worth something); something you can't say now. the art style is also surprisingly distinct compared to the flavor that's hot today. today has a lot more dynamic work (dare i say a certian flowing dynamism I see a lot in talented Chinese artists) versus the more flattened-down style before.

it's been an experience. glad i'm doing this.

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i think there's something really interesting going on now with the cultural zeltigest that's terrified of imperfection and AI landing right in the middle of that.

why i say the former: the masses of media-oriented people are afraid of not showing their manicured selves on social media. afraid of showing imperfection in ideology, whether not saying the right thing or crafting a PR statement wrong and getting bombed/dogpiled. they're afraid of being overweight, of being Bad, the wrong kind of whatever identity. afraid of "freaks". they're afraid of drawing art that's not gonna produce maximum clicks. afraid of AAA games and movies without bombshell leads (whom i can't tell apart anymore lol). afraid of visible unglamorous age. lots of anxiety. lots of people regressing back into their notion of what is perfect to them. disney is a perfect flagship of this being 'nostalgia perfected'.

(i say "they" not to create a us/them division where it's unwarranted but i do believe there's a critical mass of people who are afraid of these things whether consciously or not.)

and it's easy to slide into subconciously even if you fight a little - i think the algorithim-ized world these days plays a smaller but critical part of this whole thesis where there's much less friction to subsume in the slop rather than having experiences with each other and media randomized.

and AI. absolutely fascinating.

like a genie, AI-generation has given this afraid-of-imperfection-critical-mass their wish granted that they get all the perfection they want in certian sectors of media; right now 2D images and text, with video emerging. here's a tool that can create a perfect engagement-bait image version of yourself. supposedly perfect resume with all the right keywords. perfect algorithim-optimized media or style. ""perfect"" inoffensive digital roleplay company in character.ai instead of sloppy humans. etc etc.

i really think that's going to accelerate a cultural pendulum back to quietly appreciating imperfection once when a critical mass of these people get tired or bored or more cynically, when there's no more growth to be strip-mined in "perfection" media pools. (absolutely bizarre but relevant sub-tangent: it's my pet theory why i think old man yaoi has gotten hot out of nowhere lol. just the "right" amount of imperfection.)

fellas, you're looking for dignity to fill the soul, not perfection.

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