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Idil

@idilsukan.bsky.social

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artist / writer / director Books / tv / animation / movies / TTRPGs just a ridiculous and brave shroom upon the cliff-top, bracing against ever merciless winds idil.studio

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · Mar 29

Still trying to process my excitement about this, here is my ludicrous show which I love dearly, selected to go to the Annecy Festival with Women in Animation

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 7h

He is also dedicated to playing with and around his innate handsomeness in a way that others don’t, both as a central tenet of his themes while simultaneously diminishing it as superfluous

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 7h

trying to boil it down. Maybe - Does masculinity control the man, or can man control how he expresses his masculinity

Or - are we able to recreate ourselves from the outside in, or will we always be limited by what we begin with

But wrestling with versions of maleness & masculinity is very central

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 7h

I have this half baked theory that artists only ever in their lives have one core theme, that all their best, most personal work hits again and again and again, albeit from different angles or genres or perspectives.

Glen Powell single-handedly proving this with Hitman and Chad Powers

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 10h

Just because you have a character tell off another character doesn’t mean you solved sexism if the first character was cute, funny, edgy or charismatic while being sexist or indulging in misogynistic writer-fantasies

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 10h

It’s very writer-insert, self-congratulatory, indulgent - it is incredibly tedious, subliminal sexism, takes up so much primetime space to reinforce sexist tropes without people really noticing

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 10h

Do people not see through scripts where male characters say either sexually inappropriate, or, witty but somewhat entry-level-edgy tirades -

Writers believe they get away with it because other (typically female, who don’t really get to be witty or edgy themselves) characters chastise them for it

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 10h

Oh you…. Paywall taking care of people and pour pollution into the air and the sea

We literally are the ones all wearing mirror universe goatees

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 10h

Really we should have had more stories about people arriving in our dimension only to find out if is we who are the evil mirror universe

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 14h

Ideally all of them. To start with I am just being uh, conservative

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 14h

We would like simply one Labour MP to run for office like this

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 1d

the competition for worst possible tweet of all time is so fraught, so rabid, and yet, there is somehow still room for one more

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

⁦
@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 3d

“Speaking at an event promoting his new book”
No pushback from the audience or event hosts on a blatantly asinine statement getting easily ratioed here, saying that it is simply not feasible to not be a shameless criminal

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 5d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 4d

The thing we must realise is this awful ability to grift to centrists so effectively that your flavour of voice outpaces & dominates over better, progressive work other people are doing, especially people of colour -
is it’s own skill in if itself. It is practiced & refined. They are GOOD AT IT

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 5d

A ridiculous mini cephalopod called S’pur, keen assistant to the marine biologists

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 5d

“Contrarian” what a cute and whimsically-curious word to describe whom I assume is a cute and whimsically-curious person right

NPR @npr.org · 5d

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News. n.pr/4o634cr

CBS' next top editor to be Bari Weiss of The Free Press

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

n.pr

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 5d

Here is one of the infamous pink cudas and dedicated homicidal maniac from Barracuda Bay

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 5d

One of my work in progress drawings for my very unhinged marine biology mystery heist tale Barracuda Bay

All these WIPs, on my hard drive collecting dust, airing this one out to get its Vitamin D

A line drawing in symmetry by idil featuring very insane marine animals, cephalopods, a turtle, all up to NO GOOD

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 5d

One of my work in progress drawings for my very unhinged marine biology mystery heist tale Barracuda Bay

All these WIPs, on my hard drive collecting dust, airing this one out to get its Vitamin D

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 6d

Can you imagine it now. Access to the CSS. Totally customisable. Music integration. Make your followers Hunger Games each other info your Top 8

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 6d

The only one that we could have trusted to not do this was MySpace and we screwed it up

good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 6d

oh god we should have all gone to cohost. we fucked up. we backed the wrong horse

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 6d

Stuck on one drawing for three days then abandon it and try another one and I finish it in 20mins, a completely ridiculous skill

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 6d

Being good at something doesn’t mean you have to do it

Consider *becoming* good at that thing in the first place was…. A trauma response

Your reward for doing ANY grunt work is, instead of people liking you/promoting you, is

MORE grunt work because you accidentally proved you are exploitable

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 8d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 6d

Also, it is FICTION, a magical place in which sentience is real, it is MAKE BELIEVE for goodness sake

Commander Riker telling you off for bootlicking