I was asked my opinion on fame.  A good question, and one I’m sure you guys are interested in, so I’ll sketch out the details.  Fame and infamy are both recognition.  Recognition of something, an idea, a person, a place, a thing, serves a purpose to humans, whether we know it or not. 

By sharing a memory with someone, in this case I’ll use the MS paint adventure Homestuck, you include yourself into a group.  Two groups are created through the idea of Homestuck, the group of people who like the game, and those who don’t.  What Homestuck does, through this mechanism, is create cohesion, agency among people, grouping them together, allowing them to get along with eachother but also disagree with the opposing side. 

This force, the creation of agency among humans, is the most powerful in the symbolic world.  It breathes love and hate into people.  Fame and infamy (recognition to be more encompassing) is the most powerful thing in the human realm of existence and will inevitably be the thing that undoes us as Hominids, or brings us together to end global strife.  Whether you hate me or love me, what I serve to do as a symbol of culture is bring you together.  And so you can call me whatever you want, as long as it brings you closer to other people, than I have succeeded. 

in other words………Haters gonna hate.  :)

Profound.

I don't get this "slut" pride

Okay, I am pathetically begging for sex and I acknowledge that, but what’s up with these women who are proud of sleeping around. When a man sleeps with 100 girls, he has a key that opens 100 locks. When a woman sleeps with 100 guys, a woman has a lock that is opened by 100 keys. Remember Ghostbusters? There was only one keymaster and one gatekeeper. If Sigourney Weaver allowed 100 guys to be keymasters and not just Rick Moranis, then she wouldn’t have been much of a gatekeeper. I just don’t see the big accomplishment of girls that sleep around and are proud of it. If she looks you up and down, then says take a number like in a deli and you have to pass through a turnstyle on the way to her bedroom, the odds are she might just be sleeping around. If you have to double park on her ass for half an hour waiting for your turn, she might just be sleeping around. Meanwhile a guy that sleeps with 100 women, it’s rather sleazy, but he’s got a key that can open 100 locks. That’s a bit more impressive IMO. Here, let me save you some time.

“OMG WHY DO YOU HATE WOMEN YOU ARE SUCH A VIRGIN LOSER NO WONDER WHY GIRLS DON’T WANT TO GET WITH YOU. WHY DON’T YOU GO TAKE YOUR MISOGYNY SOMEWHERE ELSE YOU CREEP!”

Hi. I’m a virgin who is about to turn 24. 

My vagina isn’t a lock. It’s a vagina. When you put a penis inside of it, nothing gets unlocked. And a penis isn’t some kind of master key that unlocks vaginas. It’s a penis. Do you not see how making this analogy unironically encourages the idea that men (or other people with penises) are expected to have a lot of sexual partners because it means he’s a “master” at getting panties to drop? Do you not see how this analogy is saying that women (or other people with vaginas) should be ashamed of themselves for having multiple sexual partners while it’s okay for men to (yeah, you may have said that men sleeping around is sleazy, but, still…master key penis and your post isn’t focused on men, it’s focused on women who have multiple sexual partners)?

You are trying to justify your virginity with a fictional story line from a movie. I just wanted to make that clear.

There is nothing wrong with having multiple sexual partners regardless of what you have in your pants (I promise you the bits between everyone’s legs aren’t locks or keys).

Stop being silly. When women (or other people with vaginas) are proud of the fact that they have sex, they are just exhibiting the same attitude that men (and other people with penises) convey when they talk about all the people they’ve banged and get congratulated about it. You’re just uncomfortable because it’s women doing it and not men.

Here, I can make a shitty analogy, too. If my vagina is a net, I should be praised because I will catch more fish, using one spear doesn’t catch as many fish so therefore, I am superior.

See?

It’s a stupid analogy.

I am not a lock or any other material object. I am a human being who is capable of making decision about my body and who gets admittance to my vagina.

Love,

Rabble

I’m pretty sure this was written by the reincarnation of Louis XVI, the original super-virgin himself.  (Anybody? Anybody? Louis XVI made locks and was fascinated with locks and keys and there’s a story—perhaps unsubstantiated but still often said—that the way his advisors “cured” his impotence was to have him imagine vaginas/penises as locks and keys.) (I’ll take my random historical anecdotes and leave now.) 

^ I GET YOUR HISTORICAL REFERENCE! IT MADE ME "LMAO"! XD Also, flawless comeback to "person who knows they're being misogynistic and likes praising the penis a little too much."

The recent ask about improving got me thinking, so I thought I’d share this with you guys.

Now, I’m gonna start with a very cliche thing, but improvement does take a long, long time.  I was told by a teacher that if you notice improvement within a few days/weeks, that means you’re still sucking hard, haha.  Because when you’re at a really really low skill level, it’s much easier to improve, but once you’re decent, it takes way longer to improve, and the journey gets harder. 

Here’s a good Pokemon analogy: When you’re playing Pokemon in the beginning, it probably takes you a few minutes to level up from 5 to 6, but after you beat the Elite Four, leveling up from 55 to 56 takes goddamn forever.  This is exactly how art works.  Your skill in art is like your Pokemon.  Once you’re at a decent enough level, it takes goddamn forever for you to level up.  The difference here is that in Pokemon you’re capped at lvl 100.  In art, there is no ending; you keep leveling up, and it gets harder and longer everytime.  The ending is when you die.

Although, that said, if you’re noticing no improvement in months, then it’s either one of two things: 1) you’re already at a decent enough skill level that it’s going to take longer to notice improvement, or 2) you’re not practicing enough.

And while we’re on this subject, let me emphasize once again how important it is to step out of your comfort zone and try doing things you’re always afraid of, or is always bad at.  Even if you won’t end up mastering that particular skill, there is something to learn there that you can apply to the stuff you’re already comfortable with, that will make it better. 

Here’s another Pokemon analogy:  If you’re on lvl 55 trying to hit 56, will you go back to Route 1 and beat up lvl 2 Rattatas (or Bidoofs)? Or will you go to Victory road and tackle Pokemons that are around your lvl?  Unless you’re a complete grinding masochist (or EV training, but that’s another long story), you would definitely pick the latter.  The higher level Pokemons are harder to beat, yes, but you level up faster because they give you more EXP!  This is the same in art! Tackling things that you’re not comfortable with can only help you level up faster, because they give you a lot of EXP.  Sure, you might lose the battle, but you still keep that experience you gained from tackling that higher level pokemon.  And after recuperating, you can try again and eventually you will win, and you will level up faster than committing a massacre on Rattatas.

You cannot believe all the wisdom you obtain from playing Pokemon.

I think this applies to all the things you do in life, including tackling life itself; amazingly profound stuff.