Daily Drawing

Coffeline was kind enough to draw Taylor!

Commish 😼🍹

For @/AquaticTungsten on Twitter

Giant Steps - NES

Giant Stepsby John Coltrane, 1960transcribed and arranged for NES by bradsmith, 2012for FamiCompo Mini Vol. 9MP3 / NSF / NES ROM / LY / PDF / Source availabl...

I am having profound difficulty focusing for more than like thirty seconds today

Look at these colors! This is incredible

Another huevember experiment

beastars fanart i made (so far)

Hue 25

Today's entry is for the lovely @auxon thanks to whom I discovered a new, cool plant featured here - the sagebrush! They have such a lovely, unusual color, perfect for this entry. <3

viva la vida but it's giant steps

Sheet music here: https://fundamental-phantom.itch.io/viva-la-vida-but-its-giant-steps

I’m a huge fan of people making mashups with John Coltrane’s Giant Steps, since it’s such a weird challenge to bend most pre-existing melodies around the changes, and never has one make me do as much of a double take as this one.  The first time I heard it, I hated it; And yet like two days later it was still in my head. I’ve gone through the stages of grief with the fact that I completely seriously like this

when a girlie (Samussy) diagnoses you with Cringe and fires a fuckin Cero at you ✌️😔 (well deserved)

Hey, look at me. Look at me. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: you need to condition yourself to being okay with being inconvenienced by things. The first time I spoke about this I meant it in a mental health way- it is good to go out to the store and see people versus just ordering alone at home- but there is another more pressing societal issue you should be more concerned about as well.

Any service you rely on for convenience can be weaponized against you the moment you begin to rely on it. Streaming used to be a cheap and convenient way to see movies at home. It is now exorbitantly expensive, you need multiple accounts just to get what you want, and any of those movies can be taken from you at any time. And unless you have gotten used to going through the “inconvenience” of owning physical media, you can do nothing about it. Same goes for buying things on Amazon. Same goes for any service like DoorDash etc. These companies WANT you to be reliant on them for convenience so they can do whatever they want to you because, well, what else are you gonna do?

Same thing goes for the uptick in AI. If you train yourself to become reliant on AI for doing basic things, you will be taken advantage of. It is only a matter of a couple years before there are no free AI services. Not only that, but in the usage of AI’s case, it is robbing you of valuable skills that you need to curate that you will be helpless without the moment the AI companies drive in the knife the way they have done with streaming. Delivery. Cable. Internet. Etc. It will happen to AI too. And if you are not practicing skills such as. Writing. You are not only going to be at the mercy of AI companies in the digital world, but you are going to be extremely easy to take advantage of in real life too.

I am begging you to let go of learned helplessness. I am begging you to stop letting these companies TEACH you helplessness. Do something like learn to pirate. It is way more inconvenient at the beginning, but once you know how, it is one less way companies can take advantage of you. Garden. Go to the thrift store (older clothes hold up better anyway). These things take more time and effort, yes, but using time and effort are muscles you need to stretch to keep yourself from being flattened under the weight of our capitalist hellscape.

Inconvenience yourself. Please. Start with only the ways you are able. Do a little bit at a time. But do something.