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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

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

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

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

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

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

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--

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

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