Lady @Lady@cat.family

interesting how this take which purports to criticize queer people is actually just a criticism of lesbians

i am very dog in this respect

humans learned anxiety from dogs

@Owlor well, allow me to ask questions, then:

- “Art requires the permission of an audience to function.” What do you consider the “function” of art? When is art “functioning”?

- “it can be discussed as something the audience gives you” Who is “you” in this sentence? A dead person? An algorithm? A chimpanzee? A piece of paper? (These are all things which have made or conveyed art.) What qualities do these things have which give them the ability to “receive” this permission?

- “the audience need to agree that what I am doing is in fact that what I am doing is telling a story” Agree? or assert? Same question above regarding who they are agreeing “with”.

- is what you are saying as simple as “art becomes art through the act of interpretation?”

@Satsuma i worry that if i go all-in on this i will find myself clicking through a lot of pages with zero results 😩

@Owlor @astraluma the concept which is focused on and discussed is “death of the author”, which is kind of this

(it is also widely misunderstood)

framing it as permission is a very internet way of thinking about it, where audiences and authors are in real-time constant contact with one another and that communication goes both ways. it also implies a sort of agreement and understanding, like an audience gets what you are trying to convey and says “yeah i’ll follow you there” or says “no i won’t”.

in fact, most audiences do not care what you are trying to convey, or about you at all. they care about what “your” work can do for themselves (which is actually “what they can make it do”). sometimes, they might force your story into doing things which you never imagined or intended (queer/perverse readings). it is only a very small subset which might say “what is this author trying to convey”, much less ask the further question of “do i want to allow that?”

for this reason, i tend to view art less as a contract or social creation and more like building materials. artists create building materials that audiences use to construct their worlds. of course, artists try to make materials which are enjoyable or useful, and maybe enjoyable or useful in specific ways or for specific things. but you wouldn't say a person gives a paperclip manufacturer permission when they use a paperclip for clipping paper, or that they revoke that permission when they use it for something else. they bought the paperclip (they read the book). they can use it for whatever they want.

#Ao3TagOfTheDay: the body horror is intended to be fluffy, but probably isn't for most people

author hasn't actually had sex? does author not have hands?

my fandoms are small enough that i could eliminate most of the completely uninteresting trash het pulp stuff by muting like, 3 authors, why can’t i just do that

why can't you hide authors on AO3

@nightpool@cybre.space good so far!

@nightpool@cybre.space new episodes of the pokémon anime just dropped so i’m doing well

@Satsuma https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:JN061.png

i didn’t realize plusle and minun’s butts were Like That

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#Ao3TagOfTheDay: Making Love