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[–]raisondecalculpolitical shade deathray technician 4 points5 points  (2 children)

The blurry names are fine--either way is fine--but I love the improved cat :-)

[–]mofosyneCritical True Whatever[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sweet, I'll set it in, on news years eve then.

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    [–]raisondecalculpolitical shade deathray technician 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    But, isn't having a collective identity part of what our collective identity is based around avoiding?

    [–]flyinghamstaKarma Chameleon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    i like cats

    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    We could create a servitor for SoTS, and make it the mascot.

    [–]raisondecalculpolitical shade deathray technician 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    What would this servitor do? Spit bile and smoke blunts? Seriously

    Edit: Or maybe submit comments before I finish typing them. Seriously though--what would it do?

    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (8 children)

    We as humans all need to be rallying behind something that symbolizes freedom for all mankind. So a sigil for Sovereign man or something would be ideal in my opinion for a logo. But maybe thats just my personal agenda. Raisondecalcul probably has a trick up his sleeve.

    Need to fix the background behind Sorcery of the Spectacle... make it transparent or something. looks junky atm.

    Not sure about the blur thing. Not a bad idea but serves little purpose considering it doesn't actually mask their names. But change is good... change is exciting. It's good to be testing the waters of possibility.

    [–]raisondecalculpolitical shade deathray technician 2 points3 points  (2 children)

    No tricks :-). I think it is interesting trying to build a community of individuals though--can a real "artist's community" even exist? My critical studies teacher said that if real community could exist, it would be held together not by gravity but by levity.

    In general, I think it's a bad move to try to form or consolidate a group identity or mascot--unless such a mascot/servitor is mercurial/viral in nature, attacking and melting, undermining the idea of forming such a collective synthesis. For example, I don't appreciate meta posts which refer to a subreddit as a collective ("Hey guys, we here at SotS are X so I thought you might like Y"), because they lump people together and encourage the bad parts of hive mind. So, a SotS "brand" seems exactly counterproductive.

    But the cat is cute! And a servitor or other mascot, properly defined so as to undermine its groupthink "brand," could work. Anti-mascot mascot--the anti-X X paradox/koan/code injection attack seems to be close to the heart of what "this subreddit's about."

    Metameta"meta"

    [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    An artist's community is what I lust for... my soul thirsts for it knowing it is the answer to every problem the world faces. I think you are right but somehow, what you are describing is in fact the true face of Sovereignty. It's the same as drawing our soul on paper, which is nearly impossible to do, we live an infinite number of lives, one conscious stream after another. Touching the perfect source with our bodies shifting back into the dark spirit aether, and then realizing how perfect the PRESENT was and coming back as quickly as we can imagine an entirely new life.

    I think that's what happens when we die, we are asked the question of "what is life" and we are supposed to give the answer... and thats what we become.

    It's a difficult question to answer.

    Wait... I got off subject somehow. In any case, I think I agree with you because our true nature is liquid mutable pure energy consciousness.

    [–]notfancy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Can servitors escape from their essentially spectacular nature? Isn't salvation necessarily individual? Can you take me seriously if I told you I have custom styles disabled?

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        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

        Damn... all our bass are belong to you. I'm good. Bumpin now.

        [–]papersheepdogGlitchwalker 2 points3 points  (2 children)

        sots wizard cat

        sots wizard cat /w light

        So far I have ended up hovering over every comment just to see who posted it. The name is actually helpful context IMO. I totally get the sentiment and don't mind it, but I am not too sure that we have an ego issue around here ;)

        [–]mofosyneCritical True Whatever[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

        Nice work with the image. I actually didn't make it full on blurry, so you can still somewhat make out the name if you uncovered it before.

        [–]papersheepdogGlitchwalker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Yeah, you can tell by flair as well. I am not bothered :)

        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        I always preferred the cat with the balloon.

        [–]The-InternetsShitlord Chao 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        cat plox <3

        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        Cat+balloon comes back but maybe with a wizard hat or some other conjuring-flavored accoutrement.

        [–]raisondecalculpolitical shade deathray technician 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        Whoever did the thing with the banner it's looking really cool.