M. A. Wisniewski
@marksakura.bsky.social
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Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.
December 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.
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It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.
October 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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Restricting the expression of sexuality through fiction and art made by adults, for adults – including those you find personally disturbing or offputting – is conservative censorship, full stop. When that censorship disproportionately affects subgroups, that's also discrimination. For shame.
September 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Restricting the expression of sexuality through fiction and art made by adults, for adults – including those you find personally disturbing or offputting – is conservative censorship, full stop. When that censorship disproportionately affects subgroups, that's also discrimination. For shame.
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how is noncon determined in a single illustration?
how is consent determined in a single illustration?
fictional characters are intellectual PROPERTY.
property CANNOT issue legal consent or sign waivers.
conflating fiction w/reality is the root of the problem here.
how is consent determined in a single illustration?
fictional characters are intellectual PROPERTY.
property CANNOT issue legal consent or sign waivers.
conflating fiction w/reality is the root of the problem here.
September 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
how is noncon determined in a single illustration?
how is consent determined in a single illustration?
fictional characters are intellectual PROPERTY.
property CANNOT issue legal consent or sign waivers.
conflating fiction w/reality is the root of the problem here.
how is consent determined in a single illustration?
fictional characters are intellectual PROPERTY.
property CANNOT issue legal consent or sign waivers.
conflating fiction w/reality is the root of the problem here.
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Okay, in regards to the recent porn/ban talk/legislation I need to reiterate something very important:
ANYONE making the argument that you can tell enough about a person's character from the fiction/art they make to take retributive action against them is UNTRUSTWORTHY
THIS IS A BAD-FAITH ARGUMENT
ANYONE making the argument that you can tell enough about a person's character from the fiction/art they make to take retributive action against them is UNTRUSTWORTHY
THIS IS A BAD-FAITH ARGUMENT
August 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Okay, in regards to the recent porn/ban talk/legislation I need to reiterate something very important:
ANYONE making the argument that you can tell enough about a person's character from the fiction/art they make to take retributive action against them is UNTRUSTWORTHY
THIS IS A BAD-FAITH ARGUMENT
ANYONE making the argument that you can tell enough about a person's character from the fiction/art they make to take retributive action against them is UNTRUSTWORTHY
THIS IS A BAD-FAITH ARGUMENT
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Okay so look. You know that belittling some pieces of sexualized art by sneering at it being for 'gooners' is actually part of the same culture that's allowing censorious assholes to shut down sexual and violent/horror games right? It makes it easier for people to justify shutting this stuff down.
August 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Okay so look. You know that belittling some pieces of sexualized art by sneering at it being for 'gooners' is actually part of the same culture that's allowing censorious assholes to shut down sexual and violent/horror games right? It makes it easier for people to justify shutting this stuff down.
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it's so dumb that the language in the mastercard thing is like "it'll damage our BRAND!!!!!" as if anybody on earth has ever given a real shit about what symbol is at the checkout other than "is it the one i have"
August 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
it's so dumb that the language in the mastercard thing is like "it'll damage our BRAND!!!!!" as if anybody on earth has ever given a real shit about what symbol is at the checkout other than "is it the one i have"
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The better you are at a thing, the more "AI" will be a drag on your time, because it's operating at a lower level of skill than you are, and you have to fix what it does, rather than just do what you already know how to do.
July 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The better you are at a thing, the more "AI" will be a drag on your time, because it's operating at a lower level of skill than you are, and you have to fix what it does, rather than just do what you already know how to do.
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Similar to my post about "liberation means even for that annoying guy you hate" - weird art includes art you personally don't get, don't like, wouldn't spend money on, find unsettling. Games you wouldn't play. Books you wouldn't read. Decommercialise your preconceptions of what art deserves to exist
Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.
January 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Similar to my post about "liberation means even for that annoying guy you hate" - weird art includes art you personally don't get, don't like, wouldn't spend money on, find unsettling. Games you wouldn't play. Books you wouldn't read. Decommercialise your preconceptions of what art deserves to exist
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Right after "Don't use semicolons," "Don't use adverbs," "Don't use speech tags beyond 'said' and 'says,'" and "Always delete the word 'that,'" my favorite piece of writing advice is "Don't listen to people giving writing advice who are incessantly telling you not to do things."
May 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Right after "Don't use semicolons," "Don't use adverbs," "Don't use speech tags beyond 'said' and 'says,'" and "Always delete the word 'that,'" my favorite piece of writing advice is "Don't listen to people giving writing advice who are incessantly telling you not to do things."
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Weekdays VS Weekends
May 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Weekdays VS Weekends
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People need to be ready to specifically defend porn and erotica as art. There is nothing that the government does to censor porn that they won’t use on every marginalized group after. Banning porn means banning people of color, queer people, disabled people being depicted in sexual relationships.
Well, here we go. The GOP has just introduced a bill to effectively outlaw all pornography.
The bill dismantles the Supreme Court's Miller Test for obscenity, removing provisions that the content be patently offensive to community standards.
dailycaller.com/2025/05/08/n...
The bill dismantles the Supreme Court's Miller Test for obscenity, removing provisions that the content be patently offensive to community standards.
dailycaller.com/2025/05/08/n...
EXCLUSIVE: New GOP Bill Seeks To Take Sledgehammer To Online Porn Industry
Congressional Republicans will introduce legislation Thursday that would severely crack down on internet pornography and upend the online porn industry.
dailycaller.com
May 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
People need to be ready to specifically defend porn and erotica as art. There is nothing that the government does to censor porn that they won’t use on every marginalized group after. Banning porn means banning people of color, queer people, disabled people being depicted in sexual relationships.
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and it just makes me think, 'do you realize that you have trained yourself to experience shock as dismissal. so many irony poisoned buds have wired themselves so that something 'unusual' equals disgust instead of wonder and curiosity and joy at the strange corners of our timeline.
April 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
and it just makes me think, 'do you realize that you have trained yourself to experience shock as dismissal. so many irony poisoned buds have wired themselves so that something 'unusual' equals disgust instead of wonder and curiosity and joy at the strange corners of our timeline.
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the whole irony poisoned way of seeing something unusual and reacting with quips of 'kill it with fire' or 'i just lost brain cells' is such a muted way of trotting through this beautiful timeline, and such a common reaction from those raised by the internets depths. i hear this a lot with my books
April 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
the whole irony poisoned way of seeing something unusual and reacting with quips of 'kill it with fire' or 'i just lost brain cells' is such a muted way of trotting through this beautiful timeline, and such a common reaction from those raised by the internets depths. i hear this a lot with my books
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we are depriving generations of kids of the formative experience of stumbling upon some weird horny sci-fi or fantasy book that was absolutely not written for them, which is the kind of thing that makes reading feel exhilarating, like you are unlocking the grownup world’s fun secrets
"well as long as it's age appropriate" no fuck you guys actually, i read adult books when i was 12 and now i'm weird as hell, as i SHOULD be
February 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
we are depriving generations of kids of the formative experience of stumbling upon some weird horny sci-fi or fantasy book that was absolutely not written for them, which is the kind of thing that makes reading feel exhilarating, like you are unlocking the grownup world’s fun secrets
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I am begging younger queer ppl to stop spouting right wing puritanical ideas of what is acceptable to like or dislike in FICTION
Fascism is at your doorstep in Real Life, wake up
Fascism is at your doorstep in Real Life, wake up
February 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I am begging younger queer ppl to stop spouting right wing puritanical ideas of what is acceptable to like or dislike in FICTION
Fascism is at your doorstep in Real Life, wake up
Fascism is at your doorstep in Real Life, wake up
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For every one big expose retrospective picking apart the art of a creative who turned out to be an abuser, tens of thousands of benign creatives & survivors are bulldozed & abused by witch hunts. No, you can't tell intent by art alone; ACTIONS matter, predators DELIBERATELY manipulate & obfuscate 🧵
Re: Gaiman
Saying "oh he wrote about abuse and turned out an abuser, there were signs!" is a huge fallacy. It's the same argument people defending artists use when they say "oh but he can't be abusive, he writes about feminist topics and and kindness..."
One is as fictional as the other.
Saying "oh he wrote about abuse and turned out an abuser, there were signs!" is a huge fallacy. It's the same argument people defending artists use when they say "oh but he can't be abusive, he writes about feminist topics and and kindness..."
One is as fictional as the other.
January 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
For every one big expose retrospective picking apart the art of a creative who turned out to be an abuser, tens of thousands of benign creatives & survivors are bulldozed & abused by witch hunts. No, you can't tell intent by art alone; ACTIONS matter, predators DELIBERATELY manipulate & obfuscate 🧵
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See also: writing fantasy
Writing science fiction involves a lot of Googling your made up alien names in order to check they don't mean something horrendous in a real Earth language
January 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
See also: writing fantasy
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This thread is important. The face of Death? She was a real person. She was kind, she was loved. All us young goth girls who costumed up as Death for events cause it was already in our closets? She was one of our godmothers. Remember her name and do not let his actions smear her beautiful spirit.
the sandman character death was based on a woman named cinamon hadley, a salt lake city goth scene icon who early sandman artist mike dringenberg was friends with when they lived there at the same time. is "friends" the right word? it's the word she used:
January 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This thread is important. The face of Death? She was a real person. She was kind, she was loved. All us young goth girls who costumed up as Death for events cause it was already in our closets? She was one of our godmothers. Remember her name and do not let his actions smear her beautiful spirit.
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Discomfort is not harm. Internalize that.
Discomfort is not harm, and if you're made uncomfortable by the work of a total stranger who does not know you exist, you can just process on your own and move on. You do not need to make it anyone's "fault" and no one needs to be "held accountable" for it.
Discomfort is not harm, and if you're made uncomfortable by the work of a total stranger who does not know you exist, you can just process on your own and move on. You do not need to make it anyone's "fault" and no one needs to be "held accountable" for it.
If you dislike something or it makes you uncomfortable, that’s okay! But you don’t need to let the creator know. You don’t need to let anyone know, honestly. You can just ignore it and move on with your life. Fandom is about enjoying the things you like, not bashing the things you hate.
I woke up in the night thinking about this & will forget if I don't wing it into the universe right now, so...
what are some etiquette tips you'd give to someone new to fandom spaces?
what are some etiquette tips you'd give to someone new to fandom spaces?
December 30, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Discomfort is not harm. Internalize that.
Discomfort is not harm, and if you're made uncomfortable by the work of a total stranger who does not know you exist, you can just process on your own and move on. You do not need to make it anyone's "fault" and no one needs to be "held accountable" for it.
Discomfort is not harm, and if you're made uncomfortable by the work of a total stranger who does not know you exist, you can just process on your own and move on. You do not need to make it anyone's "fault" and no one needs to be "held accountable" for it.