For Just $40.00 - Printed Via Dye Sublimation On What Is Apparently Polyester, But It’s So Soft And

Guess I’m coloring this drawing again B ) I gotta work on some new art for my pals at @catchmeyesterday and my comic but I fell in love with this drawing’s facial expression and needed to change stuff. It’s silly to not make changes when I see where improvement can be made

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Ganbatte - Do Your Best!

For just $3.00 がんばって (ganbatte) in Japanese means to exert yourself or to "give it your all," and we hope that you always are! This item is a pre-order! We will…

For just $3.00 がんばって (ganbatte) in Japanese means to exert yourself or to “give it your all,” and we hope that you always are! This item is a pre-order! We will be attending AnimeNYC from November 16-18th, henceforth orders will be fulfilled in the couple of weeks following the event。

Fruit Punch

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Swipe for alternate colorings and progress pictures! >

This is artwork for a new single called “Marubatsu” by @catchmeyesterday 🙆🏻‍♀️

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Thought Forget-Me-Not #1:

I recently listened to Peter Gabriel's In Your Eyes, and I read an interesting insight about it on Wikipedia. The article foremostly defines the song as "inspired by an African tradition of ambiguity in song". Reading this makes one wonder more about what makes Gabriel's prose so enigmatic.

When reviewing the following three verses, something clicked in my head with the "ambiguity" between the lines:

The grand façade, so soon will burn

Without a noise, without my pride

I reach out from the inside

Taking a look at the first and third lines, both are statements which can stand on their own with profoundness. Though, the second line at the middle seems to be adjectival/adverbial in purpose. What statement does it compliment though? The one above or the one below?

Considering the meaning behind the entire song, I found it to be both verses. Going back to the Wikipedia description I quoted, the gist of Gabriel's poetry can be illustrated as "ambiguity in song between romantic love and love of God". The very first word of In Your Eyes is just "love". We can say he's altogether singing about love, the one-word concept, and not as if both types of love are seperate in definition. If Gabriel's song overall implies two meanings of love at the same time, it's thematically fitting that his words are both a blur, figuratively and literally, between the two loves.

Returning to the three verses above, the second verse can gramatically applied to both the first line and the third line. Combining the first and second would mean that the singer will burn his concealing outer-self, without regard to his entire ego and to any self-pitying struggle. Synthesizing the second and third lines instead, would convey that the singer's true self is reaching out to his lover, absent of distractions and selfishness. Both permutations of the three verses serve Gabriel's message, while emphasizing how the the mysticism of love influences his attempt to convey it.

It's certainly hard to discretely notice this at a first or second listen of In Your Eyes, but that also adds to the intentional experience of ambiguity Gabriel gives. His technique can be paralleled to an African musical technique, termed by John McCullough as "layering". The term McCollough defines is familiar to what I can see in Gabriel's method with those selected 3 lines:

"The polyphonic texture is difficult to wrap your head around, as the drums play their own rhythm while the guitar and bass, though sharing a funk music influence, are playing two completely different musical lines. This is evident of layering, as the instruments are placed on top of each other in order to make the entity of the song."

McCullough's conception of dual meaning in the music-piece can be paralleled with my own:

"When writing the song, Gabriel was interested in the idea of there being no difference in African love songs between the love of a woman and the love of God"

For me, writing this analysis down is how I solidify my appreciation for songwriting's capabilities. I appreciate how the three-verses I keep on mentioning can be read and thought about in more than one order, without conflict in chronology and logic of reading. This poetry is unrestrained by time, the conventional way of listening and reading from left to right, and first second to last second. It's why I love it.

...as a copyright minimalist, it really pisses me off that so few people in my corner bother to try and come up with very good solutions to "How do artists make a living."

Like… so many of them just fucking default to "use donation models supported by true fans uwu" and while that can work, even most of the top fucking eschelon of creators on Patreon are basically making poverty wages, and most people who make a living have to treat it as one of many income streams, because again, it's not fucking enough.

Not at the scale artists need, and the way some people in "my" corner ignore that to moralize while failing to come up with better solutions infuriates me.

Like, you'd be surprised that I could be called relatively conservative on my current demands wrt copyright reduction, specifically for reduction back to 56 years in the US (Life + 50 in the countries where applicable) and massive expansion of fair use.

This is because these are things that are doable now without fucking over artists.

I want more, but I am painfully aware that'd be a much bigger project because you'd need to overhaul so much about how we economically handle art as a society, and it pisses me off how nobody's looking for those solutions beyond platitudes!

I've seen a few decent ideas. A "Mario Kart" version of copyright, where the larger in scale a works' rightsholder is the less protection it gets, was suggested by one person, I'd say mutually-supporting collectives based around Creative Commons works (Think akin to the SCP Foundation) would be a good start, as would long-term income-y government art grants that require the stuff produced under them to go into the Public Domain.

Even beyond that, the Peer Production License is also a great way to open up your ideas as well without making them vulnerable to corporate exploitation, that's worth looking into.

But like, we need more of those, and it does piss me off that people supposedly in "my" corner call artists entitled babies for pointing out the problem here!

It's the big obstacle to actually getting shit done, stop calling artists fascist for wanting moral rights Patricia and come up with something that actually works!