Oh. Wow.

I haven't seen it yet cuz I was expecting more copaganda, but... huh. Might have to fix that now lol.

It's so deeply frustrating. At least in my neck of the woods, actual zoophilia is an *actual concern* in some groups, but when I bring it up, I have to constantly distance myself from the folks who just cry wolf over art. It's made half the fandom trigger happy and the other half overly-skeptical.

Echoing the critique that this is unfair to dogs, but adding that as a dildo brain cock sucker, I am also insulted to be compared to people who use AI.

(And I mean a proper conversation, not a fucking witch-hunt. We're trying to solve a problem, not ruin lives, even if people are "guilty".)

(In another life, a life with less access to artists in my young adulthood, I could 100% see myself being one of Those Guys who thinks AI liberates creativity. It's not an illogical conclusion, it just starts from different, incorrect premises. So the above arguments can just cause entrenchment.)

I know it's hard. But can we try to take a more welcoming tone? Can we please try to embrace all creative experiences, so long as they're actually creative expression (i.e. not AI generated)?

"Non-artists don't understand -- we can't NOT create!" Yeah, maybe that's true for you, but I deal with a level of anxiety with making art that makes avoiding creation the easier option, even though I really want to make music! I guess I'll never be a true musician and should just give up, then?

Sometimes I wish I could gather my few good friends and family, pull them close, and wipe the memories of me from everyone else. Blank slate. Start anew, with the little I've learned.

It would be easier if I had a reason to hate these people, so that I genuinely didn't care about their opinions of me -- or better yet, to use them as spiteful motivation to subvert their expectations. But they're not bad people. They don't deserve hate.

All of these possibilities are deeply uncomfortable. They have knowledge of me that I really wish they didn't, and they can't help but use that knowledge to be informed about my behavior and my hidden emotions. They can sympathize in a way that feels violating.

It's hard enough to socialize with social anxiety. It's way harder when someone in that space who you no longer trust KNOWS ABOUT the depth of that anxiety. If they see me talking with a stranger, are they proud of me? Pitying me? Surprised, uncomfortable, hopeful, cringing? Judgment?

Nothing against them at all. It's just that when I see them around, I'm pulled into those insecurities, and I can't help but think -- knowing what they know, what is their reaction to seeing what I'm doing? I'm forced into vulnerability with someone I'm no longer comfortable being vulnerable with.

This is the kind of attention to detail and care that I *love*, wow 😲

I can't say I'm in love with this idea; that said I do kinda wish MS would have paid a few dozen million per year for Redmond Technology Station to be named after them. I mean, that's a more informative name for the station, anyway xD