Category: Daily VA-11 Hall-A

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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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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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Art by our ever-talented @merenge_doll

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I feel like the most important thing any creator has to establish is a “mission” to take upon themselves.

It can be as simple as wanting to fill the world with more pictures of women with armpit hair, it can be as high reaching as wanting more stories depicting the complex relationship between a single mother and their pregnant teenage daughter.

For me, it’s been to strive for naturalism.

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