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Ben Literal @benliteral.bsky.social · 2d

New pinned post to introduce myself to new and potential followers, and reintroduce myself after coming back from hiatus.

I'm Ben Literal and my goal is to make queer male art A HELLUVA LOT more diverse.

#queerartist #queerart #blackartist #blackart #gayartist #gayart

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 8d

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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Ben Literal @benliteral.bsky.social · 11h

Arby's, WHY?

I mean, I'ma get it, but WHY?! 👀

Ben Literal @benliteral.bsky.social · 11h

The life of a...no, girl.

a man with glasses and a mustache is wearing a red and green striped shirt

ALT: a man with glasses and a mustache is wearing a red and green striped shirt

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Ben Literal @benliteral.bsky.social · 12h

Period! I'm going MONTHS back and I'm not ashamed.

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Ben Literal @benliteral.bsky.social · 14h

Not to mention all the lying I have to do about how I loooove high pressure environments, as if I didn't have a meltdown just a few days ago because I couldn't decide if I wanted pizza or a sandwich. Girl, I am not built for pressure.

Ben Literal @benliteral.bsky.social · 17h

It's Day 1 of my new job today, so I know they're gonna expect me to be Mr. Happy Face. But I'm in such a garbage mood right now and I honestly just feel like crying.

I'm glad I'm employed, but I'm not glad about the amount of social masking that comes with it.

Ben Literal @benliteral.bsky.social · 17h

Ben Literal @benliteral.bsky.social · 20h

Define your music taste in 8 artists

Michael Jackson
Janet Jackson
Lady Gaga
Selena y Los Dinos
Celine Dion
Earth, Wind & Fire
S Club 7
Spice Girls

God, I'm gay.

Samzilla Slutton @samfloyd1987.bsky.social · 20h

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

Björk
Lady Gaga
The Killers
Janelle Monáe
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sufjan Stevens
Aretha Franklin
Annie Lennox

Eric Pinder @operahockeyguy.bsky.social · 20h

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

Prince
The Smiths
Richard Strauss
Foals
They Might Be Giants
Ella Fitzgerald
R.E.M.
The English Beat

Ben Literal @benliteral.bsky.social · 21h

Bro, I thought stinkyasher and snarkymarky were the same damn person.

Ben Literal @benliteral.bsky.social · 21h

Mentally, I'm here.