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@Oneironott Blocklists for altright and gamergaters were a useful development and important during GG's high time but nowadays I just don't know if I can trust them for this very reason.

There was this one blocklist called... BadFurBGone, that while it *touted* that it listed sexual abusers and racists, there was an air of ambiguity that felt open to manipulation and it made me uncomfortable.

@Oneironott If these people are so vindictive and petty they'll block people based on hearsay, they're probably not very nice people anyway, so not much is lost. Even if that mindset is because social media makes outraged conservatives out of everyone.

But I guess that ultimately doesn't change how crappy it feels to see friends-of-friends like that.

World-shaping toy...

Imagining getting space-pattern leggings or dresses but then using the silken material for a fursuit.

I have five different songs I've imagined as Twelve Thousand's OP over the years, and while some reuse visuals, there's a lot of changes I've imagined over time and show the evolution of the story's feeling and my brain wants there to be animations of all of them...

I wish it was easier to do music, 3D, and animation. Also that I could focus on art more instead of putting it off due to anxiety but that's a different subject.

I'm mostly annoyed that my brain does a good job at imagining anime OPs to my ideas but I can't even get myself to storyboard them, never mind what animating them would be like~.

@Ylfingr *thumps a sleek squeaky tail...*

@Ylfingr Raaring to assert dragon-ness to myself, I guess~.

Raaaar.

@Silverwing @Oneironott This talk of malleability and joy and cartoon-ness has me curious and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

"Galaxy brain" except for me it's literal.

This is an interesting article on issues around creating media that's... english enough to be understood by Americans, but not American enough to be completely understood by Americans, resulting in some cultural tension and miscommunication.

This part in particular stands out to me:

America’s cultural and linguistic hegemony is stifling and all-consuming. [Media is] either Familiar — made for you, an English-speaking American — or it’s steadfastly Foreign, made for people very much unlike you.

That's such a big frustration for me, personally.

I want to insert some cultural dissonance into Twelve Thousand, my visual novel (half) set in New Zealand. I want it to have elements that are distinctly New Zealand-y. The problem is that when your friends are online and in the US, but also introverted weirdos, it can be hard to tell what international culture you're assimilating.

I don't get out and about so I can't be sure what about me or how I write would come off as New Zealand flavoured either, as opposed to plausibly "neutral", or rather, American.

Also, you know, I fucking hate how we have Black Friday and other junk down here. It's not just that we're getting American culturalisms (e.g. "Santa" over "Father Christmas"), but we're getting American capitalism. I would go so far as to argue capitalism is the main driving force behind homogenising western culture, because it smooths out the bumps in marketing demographics.

It's especially egregious in dubs in the 90s. Take this example from Pokemon 2000:

"I didn't know vikings still existed."
"They mostly live in Minnesota."

Completely incomprehensible joke to anyone outside of America, and even to Americans it might not make any sense. I think it's a reference to a sports team? It doesn't even make sense in-universe, but that's just 4Kids for you.

Point is, I would be pretty happy if America stopped sticking its nose into EU and Oceanic culture. Let us have our quirks and differences. Let us express our cringey, dark, ironic humour that we use for confronting difficult issues. Let us do things in different ways that might make you uncomfortable, and don't make it out like we're wrong for it.

oh god I think I spent 10 hours in blender today