Enkou 🍵

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal.

The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright.

(Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

gamers love to write "now that the dust is settling" four days after a video game has released

now seems like a fantastic time to mention that while all of the dmca shit was going down, someone put out a fully playable english translation of cookie's bustle! even runs on modern windows (as long as you install quicktime v6.5.2, which is not what the game comes with)! cookies-bustle.net

me @ myself: you WISH they were paying tribute but u know there's no good faith here

rin brought up a good point like actually why am i even yapping about this it wasn't even intended with "bellydance" in mind they really probably just made a whole ass orientalism outfit just because like as if ppl walk around in in that normally LMAO 😭 help

it's actually so muddy because i can't figure out quickly where the whole (westernization hollywood explosion of bastardizing their vision of middle eastern dance and conflating it with burlesque) started because even when u try to search "traditional belly dance outfit" u get. yeah

i'd elaborate by showing example pics but i don't trust myself not to spread misinformation because jesus do u kno how long it took me to even find the difference between modern bedlah and the traditional egyptian baladi. and it's not my culture i am just. Aware Of A Specific Thing (belly dance)

i still think it could have been possible to do a respectful bellydance-inspired outfit. but then it's like which style. bc u have egyptian, turkish, ATS, etc. and then moreover, they aren't as revealing as orientalism fantasy .... so i could imagine everyone would think they were boring which 🤡

i guess i have a ton of questions now bc i'm so. i felt like there was like zero indication that corvos was inspired by some manner of middle eastern country, and looking at the outfit being an absolute mishmash of stuff it's like. WHAT IS IT SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT THEN 😭 cuz my next thought is like

like bellydance is all inclusive with tons of history and styles of origin so anyone can learn and dance together provided u approach w respect, but in general like. we were very strict about protecting each other cuz ppl get weird and every time we're not performing we have to cover up

LRT very glad op mentions the reduction of bellydance into seduction over art form that's the shit i got mild tism over but i also don't feel like the best voice for it because i was just a visitor and i just take my teachers' words for it

Of course! The sexualisation is, of course, a major issue. Middle Eastern women have been fetishised for centuries (see: harem tropes + the reduction of bellydancing to seduction rather than art).

However, it’s also how Orientalism homogenises entire regions and cultures.

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real!!

but i was at least able to get the adhd treated after finally figuring out i had it and every month and a half i have to clench my ass and pray my insurance won't screw me over so i can get the meds to work properly 😭 like nothing is ever easy

In some cases like (gestures at my shitstain of a country) having autism attached to ur name is dangerous so a lot of us have to just rawdog life pretending we're normal

A sped up 30sec time-lapse of my nightingale piece.

That bird wing and rose took me too long to figure out 💀 but I'm happy that I didn't give up

WAS NOT READY FOR COOKIE'S BUSTLE FREEDOM TODAY

We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.

Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.

More info:

i miss summon night...

it's not going to be summon night bc bamco doesn't care about it anymore but it would be so funny. to me

ohhh you don't even need to shake it that much for training. noted

shake shake

the beep sounds from this r pretty gentle but i feel bad shaking this thing at work LMAO

mischief

starting this today, i have no idea how to do the training minigame

old man's heart is big and warm, not your fault his boobs are in the way

村長你好香
#mhrise

why is the new post button in bumfuk nowhere up there, it makes no sense/so unintuitive 😮‍💨

i'm always posting on insect glaive (vid of guy screaming at the beetle)