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May leave this up so people can read my work that's already here, but scramble my password and only log in with my pro account. If you want to keep contact with me then you'll have to hit me up in a message before I stop being able to get into this account.

I don't think there is anything worrisome in people breadcrumbing back to my other account, it's mainly me talking about social theories which I also talk about in other places.

The main issue I have is that reading my dash, or engaging with anything outside of the world of my creative work and AI stuff, are both things I can't stand to do since last year. I can't stand to read my dash anymore. I don't want to read about the culture wars. And I like you if I follow you, but most of you share culture war stuff and I have to engage with it whenever I read my dash. And if you want to interact, I'd really rather do it somewhere besides Tumblr. If you follow my other thing, you'll be able to find me on FB and Twitter and Insta as I get those hooked up. So yeah I'm feeling I'm going to just convert over to art/writing-only blogging activity. Makes it much more manageable.

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Haven't decided what I'm doing yet.

Nuke this account entirely. Probably the best for opsec. There are too many breadcrumbs linking this to my pro/artist/writer account for me to really maintain an account on which I do any personal blogging or reflection. (If I've given you the info for that privately then you can follow that to my Twitter, I talk about decadeology fairly openly as a retrofuture creator.)

Just walk away from it and leave it here but not maintain it. That might suit my needs too. Probably not the best for opsec. But... suits my need to not read Tumblr posts or culture war stuff. I can't control for what I can interact with on Tumblr the way I can in other spaces.

Anyway, a giant chunk of you have already followed me to where else I live on the internet, I will chew on this for a little while and make a choice.

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If there's anything you want to save from this account, do it, because I'm taking this account offline.

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I'm done. Taking my ball and going home. I'm just going to be on Tumblr for my art page and pro shit. If you wanna see my artblr, then send me a message. I'm nuking this page after that.

#I've just about McFuckin Had It #sorry

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You all suck. That's why.

Well. Half of you.

So can I just make my side blog my main and nuke this one?

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So can I just make my side blog my main and nuke this one?

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I'm so tired of franchises. I want you all to imagine a world where, in the 60s-80s, we'd had the climate we have now around franchises.

This means that none of the original sci fi or fantasy of the period, as we know it, would exist. This means you would not have Star Trek, you would not have Star Wars, you would not even have the adaptations of Dune and Lord of the Rings.

You might not even have the X-Men.

We'd simply have remakes of everything that every new writer has to shoehorn their work into, and that try to retrofit old properties to changing mores.

If we'd had the current climate then, that we do now, we would not have any of these things. Lucas would actually have made Flash Gordon.

And that might have been cool, but would it *still* be cool? Or would you have been tired of it 30 years ago and wish you could see stuff by authors who had new things to say even when they're mainly thinking "I could do this better?"

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Caught some people speculating that some of the weird linguistic tics of GPT were in fact common features of "Nigerian Formal English," didn't see a lot of evidence for that but it would make sense given who that sort of work would be given to.

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What I'm observing is that a vast number of people in the anti-AI space, don't actually make money (directly) from their art. At least, no money is exchanged between themselves and the recipient of their art. What they DO get however is social capital and a form of distributed patronage. The art pumps up their visibility online, boosts their algorithmic reach, so that people will donate to their GoFundMe's. They get places to stay, help with food/rent, and sex partners via the social capital created via their art.

That's the only way a lot of this makes sense to me. Especially given that it's now considered more ethical to ask an artist to create for free for you (which would have been out of the question two years ago), than to use AI to make something for yourself. People who DO make money from art, are not really in direct competition with these people in any way. There is no way in which I'm competing with the people who make waifu pics or fan art, because I don't make that kind of work nor market my work to people looking for it. We're talking apples and oranges here.

I'm guessing that who they are in competition with, is their own "client" - because now that person can make their own waifus.

The new anxiety about AI "automating away" creative work reads like someone who just found out about the RealDoll and is concerned that this means no one will want to have sex with them anymore, but they know that no one will take them seriously if they say that so they're disguising that insecurity by feigning concern about sex workers.

#many of these people are socially awkward and the only thing they bring to their subculture space that makes them desired by other people #is their art #and I think they're afraid of losing that #I'm just trying to understand.

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I really think that the 20th century was uniquely horny in ways that aren't legible to either the past or the present. It may be the horniest century in history

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It's funny to me that moderns read The Mummy as bisexual.

But it's modeled off of older work. You will probably read a ton of midcentury heterosexuality as bisexual for that matter, the way that men's material of the past often seems homoerotic now.

#part of my analysis that Cold War Hetero is a specific historic and social construction of heterosexuality unique to a couple of specific #decades #and also intersecting with the Sexual Revolution and car culture #in ways that aren't legible to the present #the idea that heterosexuality is This Horny and that your marital partner should be the source of your hedonic completion #is relatively new #and a marker of a particular time - we actually are culturally weirdly resetting to something very Victorian and it's weird

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Is hair color the new equivalent of 60s/70s Hair Politics?

Or do some people legit have colorful hair and it doesn't mean anything?

#asking because people in some of my Jewish spaces are expressing that they don't trust colorful hair anymore and want to stop dying theirs

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The thing with horny jail is that it's full of horny people

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A lot of people are gonna learn in the next 6-18 months that the “activists” they’ve been following and reblogging are absolutely Hamas or Russian fakes trying to get you to hate Jews. And you’re falling for it because you hate Jews. And all your Jewish “friends” knew this already and won’t forgive you.

Just calling my shot now. Not gonna tag this cuz I don’t want the inevitable hatred. But I want this on the record now so I can say “I told you so.”

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People in my writing group are saying that my current novella in progress is a massive weird tone shift from what they've read for a while

This is so bizarre to me because it's not a weird cultural tone shift for me, as a Gen Xr who read and wrote 90s material

I'm also just writing in a borrowed 70s voice to some degree.

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Placeholder: the construction of postwar thru 1990s heterosexuality and its intersection with a unique 20th century monogamous amatonormativity norm i call "erosexuality" or "erotoromantic"

Modern and pre-Postwar heteronormativity are... not this

Some reference to Dorothy Tennov/limerence and how limerence was seen as actually the beginning stage of love, and how that reflects us marrying for capstone and not cornerstone now and also marrying much deeper into a relationship

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Having great discussions with ChatGPT about my interest in decadeology