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God, just when you thought that Instagram can’t get any worse in sh00ting itself in the foot as a platform for artists, it not only introduces gene/rative A/I but also makes expressing your objection to it as a user SO DIFFICULT??? Even if the chances of my art being used to train such things are slim, I don’t consent to the whole practice at all and I WANT them to understand that.

IDK if archiving posts is a loophole to take advantage of, but for now, I’ll just have nothing public. I don’t mind reuploading everything when I can glaze them (I need more RAM lol), but it won’t be anytime soon (I’m literally flying out in >7 hours).

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rip to all the “fuckyeah___” blogs that carried our society at one point </3

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(Please don’t repost or edit my work. Reblogs are always appreciated)

Many wealthy countries—particularly Western, white-dominated ones—treat Southeast Asia as their playground and dumping ground, then have the nerve to blame Southeast Asian countries for the poverty and pollution they helped create. These countries—which enrich themselves by devastating Southeast Asia through war and colonization, and by exploiting its labor and resources—have the capacity to process contaminated plastic waste, but because it’s expensive, they instead export the burden to Southeast Asia, which has far less means.

They’re just like the begpacker, who has the capacity to fund their trip with their own money but instead chooses to leverage their white privilege and exploit the kindness of Southeast Asian locals, and ends up draining rather than boosting the economy for the sake of personal “adventure.”

They’re just like the sweatshop-owning corporation, who has the capacity to pay a living wage and provide safe working conditions but instead chooses to exploit and abuse Southeast Asian labor because turning a profit is more important than valuing Asian lives.

They’re just like the sexpat, who has the capacity to pursue a romantic partner who is a peer but instead chooses to prey on desperate or even trafficked or underaged Southeast Asian victims because they expect no consequences for their depraved and violent behavior, and usually receive none.

These are only recent examples of the ongoing colonization of Southeast Asia. Southeast Asians around the world have long been regulated to positions of service/servitude such as maids, nannies, and nurses. We’re expected to clean up privileged people’s trash because we are seen as trash.

So when we talk about climate change, it’s not enough to call it a crisis—it’s a climate apartheid. We’re not all suffering equally and that’s by design. Southeast Asia and other countries who are majority Brown or Black are being hit first and worst thanks to white/waste supremacy.

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#reblogging here because #twitter is (re)circulating discussions on #the Global North literally trash dumping on the PH #and it’s just PH data i’ve had the time to read up on #what more other SEA countries? #other Global South countries? #i vividly remember the issue from a decade ago (holy shit) #that involved waste from Canada coming in here #it was the first time i heard about all this #and it really infuriated me because #i grew up hearing about all the waste #smokey mountain was still a thing (oh my god) #we still have a long way to go #there’s the issue of consumption habits enabled by capitalism #and even if we were to curb that by #achieving a zero waste lifestyle on a collective level #capitalism is still killing the environment through other means #such as continuing investment of nonrenewable energy sources #and we can’t just say no to having energy #not everyone can afford to go off-grid #i don’t want to diss on people making that choice #only that it’s not feasible to pull it off on a mass scale #for reasons that include their necessity in our capacity to work #(and therefore earn the wages that supports us) #basically i just hope we don’t stop at the waste talk!!! #and even the energy talk!!!!!!! #(i’d ramble MORE but i need to focus on readings!!!!! and research!!!!! WAAAHHHH…)

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A wild Fat HO-OH Appeared!

Inspired by this amazing plush Link

#what an absolute unit

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I don’t think people have the right to learn about my country’s history, especially when they’re the same people who literally shit talked how I’ve built Piri based on that very history (more appropriately, the histories made possible in this archipelago).

#I’m not saying this lightheartedly. Fuck off fr.

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Pearl Hunting (74pp) is now available for purchase‼️

For those who missed out during ShortBox Comics Fair, now's your chance to read my folk-horror about otherness🦪

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reblog to make prev stop having headaches

#I GOTCHU @ PREV

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I still don't think that fighting back prejudice (racism) with another prejudice (antisemitism) will make you any more morally correct.

#what a hill to die on

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Hetalia Prussia

#OP SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!! (AFFECTIONATE)

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yeah!!

#PALABAN MILITANTE #inang bayan #cool moots

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directors using colorful or "impossible" lighting to convey mood and meaning and beauty my beloved. directors making night scenes impossible to see for the sake of realism my beloathed.

#i know this pertains to film but me fr as an artist #the light source is the spark of revolution conveniently hovering outside of the frame

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WIBTA if i confronted someone for liking h*talia?

i (20+nb) have recently become mutual with a super talented artist (16/17ish nb). at first i thought they were just involved in the fandom i followed them for, but then they started posting fanart of one character from the show. i immediately got the ick and messaged them about being a nazi and supporting problematic media. they haven’t responded and instead soft blocked me but i can still see them posting about the character and ships involving him, including one that pairs him with the country that the real life country had a war with. i think that they’re young and i can change their mind about liking this media so ive been writing notes to send them about why it’s problematic and how they can better themselves. the funny thing is they keep reblogging shit about being pro palestine and pro ukraine while also SUPPORTING H*TALIA?? the funniest part is that they’re poc, so i thought they would at least understand better why it’s not good media to consume.

so, WIBTA if i confronted my mutual about liking h*talia?

What are these acronyms?

#my childhood barkada has the same line of thinking as anon #not as direct but i won’t forget how #one of them vagued how relieved they were that we’re no longer friends #just because i like hetalia #YTA getting the vast majority of votes healed my soul

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frankly, i’m tired of pushing myself, after dealing with harassment from fellow filipinos and asians alike, to keep making seatalia content. because, at the end of the day, nobody likes what i make, so none of it matters. and all i’ve done is run away from that truth.

#idk if i need a break because #i’m already less than a nobody to the stupid algorithm #so even if i come back refreshed i’ll still be relegated to nothingness #and it’s literally hard to not care after being harassed #even if it was all petty and fucking immature #god i’m in a well-off family and i go to an elite af uni #and you can’t just blame people if you get called an elitista know-it-all #because our govt doesn’t give a shit about who isn’t elite #but fighting for the truth as a historian IN THIS COUNTRY #i don’t think people really fucking get how emotionally taxing it is #so when you literally get harassed #for calling out takes that subltly idolize the fucking cruelty this country went through #or because some stupid brats love to fight so much #that they make ableist insults because that’s their idea of being the bigger person #and outside of all that nobody cares #about your poor and brown country #because he’s too fucking minor of a character #or too ‘cringe’ because of how i’ve built my hcs #because god fucking knows why you don’t get the melting pot metaphor here as much #i guess the americans didn’t colonize us hard enough!!!!!!!!!!! /s #oh and getting called a red flag #because you just wanted to fucking talk about how #drawing a hetalia character inside a human zoo #is not worth the angst material #esp when you have a history of hc’d indigenous hetalia characters going white #how do you tell someone to not care about being accepted for who you are? #how do you not care about the violence of nonacceptance? #and i hope this is just my brain off meds for over 4 months now #i literally pass out and wake up to the day’s grind #so i end up forgetting or being too tired in-between to message my doc

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sometimes i'm tempted to rb from my art blog because i'm literally in a wholeass different timezone and just too busy to even care about timing my posting so some stupid bunch of code marks my worth. but also, no because i don't like it when people don't give a shit about my art or whatever but still actively keep tabs on me. why do people do that, why do y'all wanna be the receiving end of my retaliation so bad lmao

#nothing happened just stupid paranoia #from buried resentments that don't decompose that easily #but also when you know the things that have been said about you :) #i don't like the takes that trend on twitter but at least you get to exist as a seasian there than on this whitewashed website

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What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

#screaming because i'm OUT of space to update my glaze #i can figure it out but i literally do not have the time

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I love historical Hetalia, but if you only morbidly focus on the problematic aspects and grey areas of a period, all for this "phantom historical authenticity", you also have to remember that this media is satirical and humoristic

#now i wanna know where “phantom historical authenticity” came from and why it doesn't make sense asklgh #i felt that “morbidly focus” tho #i LOVE historical hetalia but i also dislike those types #esp when it's so clear that someone is trying too hard to maintain an edgy branding #ultimately it ends up one-dimensional af #even the grey areas fall flat if you leave out the range of values #oh that ended up being a lot deeper #but okay we're given a grey area. what about it? #give us some good contrast #i'd also add to the point of hetalia as satire that #sometimes people try TOO HARD to caricature tf out of these dirt children #for the sake of “drama” (read: shock value) #i've seen it in how some people tackled #not problematic but challenging aspects #challenging because if you lack that capacity to be sensitive #then you're simply not the best person for the job #and honestly there are just some things you can't reduce to just being “haha funny” #like shipping two countries because haha both fucked by corruption LIKE WOW

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Good to know we have a SEAtalian spitting antisemitic rhetoric because that's how condemning Zionism is supposed to be done, apparently. /s

#they're on tumblr but the noise is all on their twitter accounts #yes that's plural 💀