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forestine

@forestine@sunny.garden

I make noisy ambient with modular synthesizers. too many art degrees. i like sewing, plants, and making stuff.
white, fat, nonbinary (agender), transandrogynous, bi, adhd, cptsd, religious trauma, chronically ill (long covid, inflammatory arthritis), anxious as hell, still wearing a mask

Heads up: i have the chatty type of ADHD. sometimes i post a lot.

[header: a windowsill full of plants]
[profile pic: fat white agender person with tall wavy hair with shaved sides, and large square glasses]

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forestine , to random
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Covid Safer Pride zine from Act Up NY
available at https://actupny.com/zine/
or sharable here https://www.instagram.com/p/C7-BaWduahH/

forestine , to random
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this pride month, if you're patting yourself on the back for being an ally, remember that ally is an action, not an identity. what are you doing every day for queer and trans people who are in danger?

forestine OP ,
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can you support people whose identities are not legible to you? can you handle being corrected and asked to change? can you handle being wrong?

forestine OP ,
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do you support queer people who you do not find entertaining?

forestine , to random
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Did you know Wendy Carlos has been maintaining her own website since 1996, including a page on all the cats she's ever had?

https://www.wendycarlos.com/

forestine , to random
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a friend made a tiktok about ai art being the garbage it is and got this angry reply from an ai art bro that said "i hope you lose your art job over this"

WHAT ART JOB? do you think artists are out here making money?

forestine OP ,
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there is this real bitterness about these people who say they don't need artists anymore, they can make art for themselves.

it's like the kind of person who thinks they have an amazing idea and wants to do you a favour by letting you help realize it for them.

forestine OP ,
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In Pratchett's Thief of Time, the Auditors of Reality grind down artwork in the museum to find out what makes it art. But all they can find are pigments and binder. And they are SO ANGRY.

This is what these AI art people remind me of. They really don't understand what makes art special and are angry that they don't have it.

forestine , to random
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there is no sign that says "you must be this androgynous" to be nonbinary. you can be nonbinary right now, as you are.

forestine OP ,
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also the popular idea of what androgyny is supposed to be is a very narrow box of usually white, thin, etc. we're getting rid of the boxes. fuck the boxes.

forestine , to random
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just remembered my partner had been given an H.G. Wells collection recently and here it is

(none of the illustrations seem to include ants)

forestine OP ,
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When Wikipedia said the movie was "loosely based" on the H.G. Wells story, they meant loosely.
(spoilers ahead)

  • it's set in Brazil
  • the ants are a few inches long
  • the ants have venomous bites
  • did he say they were wearing clothes or is that a weird figure of speech?
  • Set primarily on boats
  • Basically this guy saw these ants kill a few people and then went back to tell the tale and is afraid they will spread and it ends abruptly

futurebird ,
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@forestine

That H.G. Wells story is about colonialism and the inability to see how powerful and dangerous colonized people may be. It has a slightly distasteful western frame IMO, but also raises interesting questions and I'd love to see a version that dealt with the same themes in a less "these savage lands are more complex than you think white man, the ants are gonna gettacha" way and more of a "they underestimate us" way.

Interesting if dated story.

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