Did we take NOTHING from the prophetic and perennial lessons of the Amazing Digital Circus? I think there was also some other story with the same lesson something about mouths and screaming but unfortunately I don’t know any media that existed before 2019
the art singularity is good bc it collapses artmaking as commercial product. we've all sought validation in online stats; now we must look inside ourselves and find purpose in the practice of expression, which brings out smtg deeper, scarier; smtg beyond the old tropes
@calzonecc@CryptoCyberia 2/ social labor too, ie being reclusive, not learning to share feelings, because the punishment for that feels like social death among their male peers. In the modern history of gender dynamics, women, being assigned the "subservient or weaker" role, PLUS heteronormative gender
@calzonecc@CryptoCyberia yes! the difference is just gendered, think of the men's side in the US(moreso pre-wwii but largely still true) the expectations of what they "should do as men" (be the physically dominant figure) pushes them to accept unfair and abusive labor conditions. this includes emotional/
@MidnightEffect_@praxisnation why so quick to jump ship? you can't really know either's structural integrity. captains that appear out of thin air can be tests of will and vulnerability.
@QuinCunning haha, that is the point! this is the 2026 slasher about slashers! kris gleefully becomes the archetype she'd watched, but in a new instance of it that reflects the current day. so of course this Slasher Instance will use "modern" techniques as well.