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@mekanikaltrifle / mekanikaltrifle.tumblr.com

if you call me British or English I will maim you with my teeth like a dog 30, Practitioner of the Ninth Art (comics) Vampire enthusiast and creator of monsters. Pronoun indifferent. Scottish, gay as fuck, tired as hell. I don't tag every trigger, be under warning: I draw horror You've been warned, mate.
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quick update: I'm feeling less turbulent and ill for now (which is great!), but life's still busy. Will probably not be about much but if you see me liking a post just know I appreciate the good vibes 👍 (that's a crisp autistic thumbs up, the highest form of praise in my book) Also, an aside: thank you to the wonderful mutual who went on a reblog spree of my old art-- even if I got a fright that there's still art from 2016 and before on here lmao :D

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also, I have an art piece I am working on and am having a great time :D

it contains one of my most beloved and least marketable twinks, and I love having a good time with the Fucked Up Murder Twink From Libertarian Hell World

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quick update: I'm feeling less turbulent and ill for now (which is great!), but life's still busy. Will probably not be about much but if you see me liking a post just know I appreciate the good vibes 👍 (that's a crisp autistic thumbs up, the highest form of praise in my book) Also, an aside: thank you to the wonderful mutual who went on a reblog spree of my old art-- even if I got a fright that there's still art from 2016 and before on here lmao :D

#chatter#life stuff#feeling grateful
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just wanted to say thanks to folks who reblogged the nice post today; been feeling very rough lately, stressed out to hell and so on. Lots happening in life atm that's objectively not bad stuff (mostly), but big. So, yknow, anyone with the amount of mental illness I have is gonna find themselves getting symptoms. on top of that I've just not been feeling it on tumblr much or social media in general, lots of feeling kind of unseen or misunderstood... yknow the whole deal. So, aye, thanks for the nice reblogs. Made me feel a bit better :D

#chatter#life stuff#I'll probably be away for a while longer#idk if I'll post much when I do get back#if anyone wants to see art you're free to ask cause I /am/ still making stuff#but I'm just not posting it#feeling pretty dispirited and with the rise of people convincing themselves that it's 'okay' to use genai to produce images etc#just ain't a good environment#my art has definitively already been both scraped and stolen#from various places online#I'm not keen on continuing to worry about that#(also in general I'm probably just gonna work on sundogs and folks can ask about it more personally if you get me)#(I'd love to show off what I have so far. soon. get some feedback and find my folks yknow?)#and I hope folks read my tags#cause I do much thinking in here
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god I told myself I wouldn't do political discourse on tumblr anymore but I swear to god if I see one more "artists are only against generative ai because it threatens their petit bourgeois profit margins" take I'm going to lose it

  1. there are artists who are petit bourgeois. these are your mid-level gallery artists who run studios staffed by assistants and apprentices, as well as like showrunners and creative directors and the like who are at least partially in charge of a system that employs workers. there are also outright wealthy artists who are what it says on the tin. mosts artists do not fall into either of those categories however and tend to either be hobbyists (whose class is not defined by their artistic output) or workers themselves
  2. in calling anyone in the art world "petit bourgeois" we are acknowledging that the creation of art is labor, and that that labor can be exploited. anybody who knows anything about any creative field can see why this would be the case
  3. copyright is kind a double-edged sword in a lot of ways, in the united states it mostly functions as a means for forage corporations to hold onto power. this is true. while it can sometimes be used to help avoid the exploitation of smaller creators, that's not usually how it works.
  4. THAT SAID, copyright is a tool used by large corporations to hold onto the labor they have extracted from artist-workers, who obviously and completely do not own the means of production. this is why people say pirating from major corporations is always morally correct, that labor was already stolen

but so like you see where we're getting at here? that we're reaching a consensus that art is labor and artists can be exploited as workers?

I'm not going to get into the individual ethics of piracy since it's a big topic with a lot of nuance, I'm just going to point out that nearly all of my comics are already available for free. so with all this in mind:

how the fuck are you gonna use the framework of marxism to say it's perfectly fine to reconstitute the labor of others to your own ends without compensating them???

like I've been banging this drum the whole time generative ai is first and foremost a fuckin labor issue. all your bullshit phone games and product designs dumb commercial jingles were created by real people putting food on their tables. to treat it as unworthy of consideration is to concede that the need for these commodities outstrips the rights of the people that make them. like. oh my god???

#the point of what I've been saying about anti artist stances#i think this is pretty much ask that needs said on the subject and if asked i will just default back here#also nice to see another comic artist being right on the money
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Reblogged alternis
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shoutout to slow growers, late bloomers, people whose plans got derailed by circumstances beyond their control or their own choices, people who never had a plan to begin with, people who have had to start over when theyre too old to feel like theyre supposed to be where they are, people who cant pretend theyre built for the environment theyre in, and everyone who's not living the life they thought they would. im proud of you for making it this far and i hope you keep going until youre happy ♡

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i love that this is my post that broke containment bc so many of the notes are people trying their best and giving each other encouragement and comfort. we're in it together yall!! :') kisses each and every one of your sweet heads, we're not where we thought we'd be but we've got friends here ♡

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Reblogged enkidusbi
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“You are in the embrace of the history” — Deir el-Bahri in Nile West Bank. Luxor, Egypt

“The first written words started here” — Uruk, Iraq (Sumer, Mesopotamia)

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The blue sign’s translation is really selling it short. What it actually says is “From here the first letter for writing set off to every corner of the Earth”.

من هنا انطلق الحرف الاول للكتابة الى كل بقاع الارض

#history#egypt#mesopotamia#iraq#sumer#some of my favourite areas of ancient history
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If anyone's wondering why I've not posted art or stuff in a week-ish (which is not like me, as anyone that's followed for a while knows), it's because my arm is flaring up badly and has brought a bunch of other aches to the party. I'm gonna blame the stress of mother's day/ late mum's birthday for this one. It makes sense to me lmao

Anyway take care, be good to each other, etc etc

#chatter#chronic pain#chronic stress
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