Ain't nothing wrong with cosmetic surgery

I keep wondering if Miku's had some work done on her lips (or jawline) these days. Not that it's my business, of course, but knowing that would help me feel less insane. 😅 Every time I see her now I don't recognize her for a second. I'm always like, who is that?....Oh, it’s Miku. Okay.

At first I thought oh, she just learned how to use makeup at a super high skill level, but the more I see her, the more I feel like it’s less a case of becoming a make-up expert, and more something about her face that seems to have changed. I feel that way about Mari Yaguchi too (yeah right her look post-4ki was ONLY "weight loss" …uh-huh, sure), but that's decades ago. Miku is current! I can't look at the thumbnail for Liar Liner and make myself understand that's the same Miku from last year. A weirdly-timed single frame used as a thumbnail is one thing, but she's rather unrecognizable (to me) throughout the whole MV.

Hmm. I dunno.

Anyway, I can't stress enough how getting work done on your face or any kind of plastic surgery is NOT A BAD THING. If you're reading this and feel like I'm speculating something negative about Miku or Mari, you've got some deep-rooted misogyny in you that you should probably check and work on. I'm dead serious. I often worry about those weird fans out there who get defensive whenever someone mentions plastic surgery like it's a bad thing. Why do you think it's bad? It's someone's choice, like styling hair or getting tattoos. Don't like it? Don't get any. But thinking that wondering about it out loud is somehow akin to speaking negatively of someone is really weird, gross energy that you're projecting there. It says a lot more about you than anything.

All misogyny sucks, but internalized misogyny is a special kind of beast. Be sure you unlearn that shit.

Peace xx

Hollywood VS my imagination

 Maaaaan, I don't know how I feel about there being a Backrooms movie. It's something I feel that's too abstract & too personal to see interpreted by someone else, especially via such a creatively limited medium* (*meaning cinema, believe it or not). It's similar to why I feel weird, rather than excited, about the Zelda movie. The world I've interpreted in my head from the Zelda games over the past few decades is too private, too personal, and again too abstract for me to easily enjoy someone else's take on it.

...To be clear; I'm not saying these things shouldn't exist! I'm just saying I'm not sure how *I* feel about them. Do I want to see them or not? I'm so very curious about both movies, and that's an understatement! But if I end up disliking Hollywood's takes on them, I'll still feel disappointed as I can't help but want to enjoy them so very, very much!

(This has got to be one of the weirdest un-problems I've had in a very long time. 😅)

You can care in any way you want to care

 Hey folks. Remember:

- You don't have to post about anything you don't want to post about.
- Just because you don't post about something doesn't mean you don't care.
- What you choose to post or NOT post about does not give anyone any accurate depiction of what you do (or don't do) away from this looming, dooming, digital landscape.
- You can take a break or log out at anytime (and you should).

If anyone tells you otherwise, feel free to send them my way and I'll fight them for ya. :)
(And really, I need to learn to take my own advice!)

Cheers, you lovely people. And hugs. Always hugs! Maybe not from others, but definitely from me. ❤️

Apathy, or lack thereof

"Yay, whatever, who cares." Oooh, you know you've hit one of those prime spots in life once that attitude takes over. It's fleeting, like everything else in existence, so let's enjoy it while we can, eh?

I think apathy is a very underrated emotion. If it's longterm and constant, it'll kill you. But that's true about many emotions! Getting a chance to tap out and declare "not my problem" for a bit is pretty healthy IMO; the alternative is (likely) going crazy, so take a break! You've earned it!

...Or maybe not so much "you've earned it"* but more like "you'll die if you don't take a break, or at least get incredibly sick." Something like that.

(I may or may not change my mind about all of this in a few hours.)

*Or maybe you DID earn it. How could I know? I have no idea who's reading this, and therefore have no way of knowing any given potential reader's degree of effort, energy, morality, or "other".

Fuck AI

I'm so angry about all this popularized AI bullshit going around--especially exacerbated by the horrendously cringeworthy and harmful Ghibli theft machine--that I felt the need to update my blog after so many months! 

Yesterday I read a fantastically worded-Twitter post that said, regarding the obsessive use of AI to make “art” by stealing works of others, that people who do this don’t love making things. They love HAVING things. And oh shit, let me tell you---I was floored by how spot-on that is. They really hit the nail on the head with that one….the more I think about it, the more sense it makes, and the more it explains people’s behaviour. 


It’s scary these people call themselves “artists”, considering art is the last thing they’re going for. After all, what is the number one most important ingredient in art? What aspect of art matters most of all? 

It’s not skill, nor talent, nor knowledge. 


The answer is SOUL. 

THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF ART IS SOUL. 



AI does not have a soul. 
Therefore, AI cannot create art. 

I mean, at least be honest with everyone (including yourself!) and call it what it is—STOLEN art.

Moreover, the fact you'd even consider stealing bits of someone's soul that they poured out into the world, and repurpose it into trash for your starved talentless, grubby hands is an ugly reminder that we've hit peak dystopia. Or, perhaps, we hit peak dystopia long ago, but you types are certainly prolonging it. 



Learn to make your own art, you lazy little thieving fucks. 

Wicked Ranma

 I had to unpublish my last post because it wouldn't format itself properly. Weird. 

Anyway, just came here to say I'm loving the Ranma remake! It's soooo good. I didn't think it would be, but it totally is. There's so many things I love about it. Except the opening theme, which I actually hate. hahahaah. 

Also, the new Wicked movie looks absolutely terrible, and yet, I can't wait to see it. 

Mike Parsons is a murderer

Tonight the state of Missouri decided to murder an innocent Black man simply because they felt like it. 

Rest in Power, Marcellus Williams.