Only 70s Era Tadanori Yokoo Can Hit The Same Feel As Gustave Moreau

while the fact they advertized them as 'dire wolves' is inaccurate and misleading, it's not good that so many people are treating the new wolves as some kind of horrible thing due to the process by which they came into being.

I love genetically engineered species and I hope infinite numbers of them arise in the future

There is no purity in nature

Evillious ❤ my favourite is Capriccio Farce

Interesting: in the title of Capriccio Farce, the word being translated as 'farce' is 茶番 "Chaban" which referred originally to a specific kind of popular theatrical entertainment. The author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki witnessed these performances as a child, and described them in his writing as being very violent, with content taken from true crime cases or military history. They were performed at a Shinto shrine in his neighbourhood. However, it's possible that only the specific Chaban troupe Tanizaki saw performing had this particular, violent aesthetic.

The Paracas culture made the best art in the universe

(they are also the inspiration for a lot of the imagery in Yume Nikki)

The hidden aspect of this (and something I feel this analysis doesn't get) is that there's something missing in our society that can only be filled with a good vs. evil battle. It probably corresponds to a mass ritual in ancient times. But altered and filtered through a moral framework which is not natural to it... people want to be heroes to get immersed in a moment of violent intensity and cosmological forces

there's a fun thing about the eventual perfection of the "random crime" in the hero video game because it calls to how the desire to be a hero is also a desire for people to be in trouble, because you need people to save, and crimes to solve, and if there are no crimes there are no heroes, and

why would you complain about a super hero who can run out of things to do? shouldn't that be a good thing? to want to save those who are hurt one must need people being hurt. you are the same as your enemy you fucking imbecile

The approaching battle in aesthetics is between the reactionary/essentially right-wing movement against AI and slop/mass aesthetics

Anti-AI is based on the economic interests of small business owners (comm artists are small business owners) and has conservative values as a result. These include measuring the value of art based on the ‘hard work’/‘effort’ that went into its creation, and discomfort with art that is not made under the domination/control of a specific individual. This merges with the explicitly right-wing hatred of modernism, abstract art, etc. 

Mass slop aesthetics are based on mass participation in consumption, absence of the cult of the creative individual, maximalism. It’s not obvious, but I think it also includes a culture of mass participation in art through its rejection of aesthetic hierarchy and standards

Let’s sink into the tide of slop forever

Maurice Chédel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

This picture of a 'shanty town' in Peru looks quite similar to the Barracks Settlement in Yume Nikki! Especially how it is located in a desert. This lines up with the other Peruvian references in Yume Nikki, namely the Paracas style art and the Inca motif on Madotsuki's character design.

somehow, it looks like a beautiful world, all those thin landforms surrounded by sea

map of the world where the countries are weighted by speakers of the brahui language...

Getty Center, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (photographer is John Beasly Greene)

One of the colossi of Memnon. His set of photos were the first taken of these statues

there's someone on Wikipedia who writes articles about Cantonese opera but constantly names paragraphs after generic figures of speech. For example, they titled a paragraph about the economic threats facing the opera as "All for Naught."

Here's an example from the article on the actor Yam Kim-fai (who is really good, btw):

I wonder if this is translated from Cantonese... maybe the original sounded very poetic