An excellent addition to a collection, regardless! 👍

OMG, does this exist?! Is this real life? Where can I acquire this vinyl? 😂

So pleasant! It looks like a quiet walk with very clean air.

Cultivating the growth of young minds is not an insignificant project, but I hope you can find space and time for creative ventures soon enough!

In a very real sense, reaction culture IS the internet, so whether embraced or written-off, you can't quite avoid dabbling in it. Grains of salt for everyone!

I think I've subconsciously assumed this over the years as it's more often that I first hear of something from the reporting of the controversy, backlash, and/or "canceling" phase of it, never the initial story itself. The contrarian in me learned to disregard "reaction culture" as a news source. 😅

I'd imagine that making art is often our first therapist! In developmental phases where we're so vulnerable, looking for the questions to ask, let alone being satisfied with answers. And to bring back the bit about AI—how effective can art-as-therapy even be if it's more shortcuts than reflection?!

I recognize you're referring to conversation with a younger self in terms of as an audience member, where a work or artist may land differently depending on when or where you are in your own life. I think there's a lot of honesty & appreciation available to us when we're mindful of all these sides.

Having conversation with one's younger self—that reminds me how I once revisited & finished an album after an 8-year hiatus. It was an effort to resume the momentum behind decisions I'd worked through, and how to continue in the spirit of original intentions versus new maturity, wisdom, and insight.

I've always written from a cerebral and introspective voice, but some of my 25-years-ago stuff is … naïve?, selfish?, entitled? I've wrestled with rewriting versus abandoning, but sometimes I'm glad I DON'T have an audience, so I avoid defending or disavowing THAT person. I'm not sure I like him.

So it's our duty as artists to share our process & intention, with equitable attention to how it's received. The less visceral or intimate the creation of a piece, for instance something prompted & generated rather than thought through & toiled over, the less robust & reciprocal the conversation.

My art and music have never grown to the point where I've been lucky enough to have such a conversation or a relationship with an audience. But I'm equally opposed to generative AI because there's so much essential value in knowing MYSELF, my own perspectives & reasons, through the creation process.

Sometimes one person's void is another's safe space to poke their head out and make a bid to find a semblance of human connection. Group chats can definitely have a delicate nuanced protocol, which isn't quite conducive to pondering & "unpacking" much of the time. I miss forums; but also I don't. 🤷‍♂️

Haha, yeah, it's like maybe I wouldn't keep forgetting IF you didn't make me come up with a whole new one each time I have a temporary memory lapse. Like, how about a hint AT LEAST!

I think there was one site/service that asked for a "hint phrase" with the password when signing up. Bring that back!

"… justifying the use of actual violence". So, words aren't violence, but they'll justify the use of actual violence. Which demonstrably makes them violent. In two sentences seems to have figured out the meaning of the slogan, then blathers on to obfuscate the oversight, digging herself deeper. 🥳

*scoffs* Like, omigawd, like everyone who's anyone knows about these! 🤣

But seriously, I didn't know the series and just wanted a good RPG in 3D. I'd read about this one, came with booklet and soundtrack CD, and I thought I was a great deal. In retrospect, I don't think I got too far in it. 🤷‍♂️

I'll definitely check this episode out! I still care deeply for my handful of 3DS units, and remarkabley have a small backlog of titles on the shelf I've barely started, if at all. I was always a "3D slider all the way up" kind of player, and ... what do you mean the system's THAT old!? 😭

I can't tell if it's a willful, insistent blindness to context and reality, or if it's an intentional "wink-wink" overlooking, forgiveness, passive endorsement of it. And I can't say I'm comfortable around either type of role.

Not only don't I know what the word means, I can't say I'd even heard of it until THIS post. Getting a crash course in context clues, though, is all we can hope for sometimes.

It's amazing how accommodations can feel like chains being lifted. And sometimes it doesn't take much more than someone's understanding. Sometimes it takes more. But to feel like you're living underneath oppressive weights, AND being shamed for it actively, is undeserved. We can do better as people.