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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 9d

i love to make up a guy!!

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 9d

i got really into playing ttrpgs and other roleplay, so now all i draw is fashion dolls of my 20 different characters

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 14d

my own relationship to art is eked out around my relationship to capitalistic american work culture-- tiring jobs, debt, paying rent. & i think a lot of modern pop culture is designed as a balm for the conditions corporations produce, & that feels alienating to me. i dont want hobbies to alienate me

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 14d

basically, in 2025, i don't feel comfortable giving square en*x or E/A or the sort an unguarded piece of my heart

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 14d

ive never felt that fan culture "is queer" in the way i often see it described, bc at the end of the day, corporations profit from it (views/interest amount to money), & corporations are inherently opposed to marginalized interests. so while i particpate in fan hobbies, its never w/out that friction

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 14d

fan culture is kind of inextricable from capitalism in a way that does feel in friction with my queer identity; these days i'm not so comfortable letting corporations facilitate or have a large say in my relationships to art and creativity

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 14d

yeah. i'm really into DIY taboo bishoujo/yuri games right now bc the fan culture that cropped up around them as sincere personal expression is entirely different from the like, imo attention-economy drive of fandom based around capitalistic media properties, where arguing does accrue attention

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 14d

i was kind of a hardass at the beginning of college bc i was influenced by an internet culture that encourages hardline opinions, and reading academic works about pain that i later related to like, fascination with "torture porn" movies, really organically shifted my views to more open/personal ones

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 14d

complexities of uncomfortable modes of expression in other ways first, uncoupled from the competitive drive of the internet, because i think being given space to read about difficult works and why they matter in an expressive/sincere rather than combative way does tend to change most ppl's views

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 14d

i think a lot of art in fan spaces is presented in a way that sort of does aim to rankle, just due to the competitive nature of interaction in those spaces, and while the art is fine, that's not my favorite scene for actually discussing extreme subject matter. i wish people were exposed to the--

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 14d

i think a lot of "dark" art online is kind of reactionary, & i dont find that very interesting even though ill uphold its right to exist, but i think looking at extreme art ppl are making outside of reactionary spaces (a category i would honestly put fandom in) helps ppl grasp other reasons its made

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 17d

im a shy, private person, & dont like opening myself up to online misinterpretation & harassment by being radically pro-sexual expression on main, but to know that my own ability to express myself is being treated by policy as something dirty is like a vice around my heart, & i need ppl to know that

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 17d

queer/trans bodies and sexuality have always been sites of protest by necessity, because "public decency" standards are inherently opposed to them existing

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 17d

the idea that all nudity is inherently sexual is a tool of patriarchy that serves to enforce cis norms regarding bodies and objectify women, something feminists in the 2010s were protesting, so to see "what if my boss gets mad at a painting of a vagina" type stuff feels like we've just given up

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 17d

if you want "good tagging," you have to stand behind porn artists 100% and stop going "what if children are on bsky" or "what if my boss sees this" because that is the divisive pedantry that makes people see porn as an "unpopular issue" companies want. auto-tagging, & poor rules equal no tagging

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 17d

you CANNOT be pedantic in this fight against censorship and scapegoat artists for the policies of corporations, because if you give them an inch, they will take a mile, which they were already inclined to do, whether people were using their shitty system "accurately" or not

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 17d

blaming "nsfw artists who don't tag their work" for bsky's new policy is useless scapegoating, because bsky has literally never had any intention of supporting actual content curation, and has made it actively difficult for people to accurately tag their work by applying inaccurate auto-tags

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 17d

bsky has been actively hostile to nsfw art from the very beginning, bc any site that algorithmically auto-tags work, which will never accurately reflect human categorization of types of content, is more interested in lazily avoiding imagined repercussions than in empowering users with curation tools

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · Jan 25

thinking about gort

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 24d

once i have my patterns perfected im gonna become one of those people who sells crochet hats online, because i can only make so many crochet hats for myself lmao

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 25d

crocheting hats is my current favorite relaxation pastime

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 25d

crocheted a furry bat bonnet

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · Sep 5

this distinction is important to me bc i obviously still engage with works that passively reflect imperial norms (most of pop sff), but when i see things like "warhammer literary analysis group that won't respect your pronouns" im like ok so you think analysis is disconnected from culture?

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · Sep 5

so when people say "there are no good guys or bad guys," it's just as often an anti-intellectual "don't trace and critique the context in which this thing exists, or bring politics into how it is written at all" take as it is one that's meant to be taken as shorthand for "text isn't literal"

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museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · Sep 5

for example, "there are no good guys or bad guys in warhammer 40k" is a surface level examination of the franchise, which often does passively tout values like nationalism and "noble" warfare as virtues, because it passively reflects the beliefs of the imperial core (britain) it's produced in

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