Daily VA-11 Hall-A 2022 #12

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A couple of days ago I talked about my own goal to strive for naturalism. I actually have another personal philosophy creating things that, while still an extension of this one, I’d say it’s separate enough to talk about it individually.

I call it “A respect for death”.

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Daily VA-11 Hall-A 2022 #11

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We’ll be back into using shitposts for covers later but this piece from our threateningly amazing @merenge_doll from when we got Jury Selection from the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival was too fitting not to use

So things got heavy yesterday, and they’re not gonna get any lighter anytime soon. As such let me lighten the mood for now the best way I know how: Bitching about trends in content creation that will eventually, hopefully, coalesce into a concise point  related to our topic at hand.

No promises, though.

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Daily VA-11 Hall-A 2022 #10

More art by the lovely @merenge_doll

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Protests have, sadly, been a constant part of my life growing up.

Some of my earliest memories involve, for example, the lead up and aftermath to the April 11th protests in Venezuela (feel free to google them, too much to explain in a single post here). I remember I had to sleep in my parents’ room, on a mattress set on the floor because things were… quite volatile.

And you’d think an 8 year old wouldn’t be affected by it or wouldn’t know enough to care, but then I spent the rest of elementary and middle school being teased because whenever there was a student protest in the city I’d have a panic attack even though the protest in question was far away.

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