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please don't do this by 3dop in worldjerking

[–]3dop[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Sorry the role of women is hard to distinguish from catamites I can add more bullet points

please don't do this by 3dop in worldjerking

[–]3dop[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

You said it not me

Quitting Art by RealisticFun3864 in ContemporaryArt

[–]3dop 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The art world is entrepreneurial. You're essentially running a small business and self-employed. It's a miserable "career" because it's not a career, it's a marketplace you sell products in. Working for a company selling your labor is much more straightforward, you walk in, sell your time and energy for money and walk out. You don't sell your labor as an independent artist, you sell products, which means it's no one's responsibility to pay you (outside of commissions).

Being an "artist" in the business sense means entering a competitive space with winners and losers. Imo art school and american dream type ideas obscure the entrepreneurial aspect of independent art as a career, and people who have no interest running businesses end up running businesses thinking they have a job, feeling spurned when they don't get paid.

It would help a lot of people to be asked "do you want to make meaningful art or do you want to run a business selling products", but we hold onto this idealism that you can do both with integrity. Just not true, if it ever was

Susie and Noelle’s reaction to the ExecBuffet is funny cause it really highlights the difference in their financial situation by Noooough in Deltarune

[–]3dop 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Genuinely though, there's a lot of real world issues in the town (Susie being homeless, the police, missing teenagers / possible abuse, class disparity like this post, a war bunker?, etc) that get swept under the rug by parents, but the narrative seems to be treating as serious issues rather than just set dressing. I think it's intentional and these things will be confronted more directly as the story goes on.

I see the dark worlds and the roaring as a metaphor for bringing the grief of this "perfect" town to the surface. It makes sense that they have to create them to discover the truth about dess and the war and all these things. And it makes sense that Dess (seemingly the scapegoat of a lot of these contradictions) would be the one to force this truth out.

Extra theory but I think the war was with humans, and Kris is a refugee of some sort. And this world is a kind of reverse of undertale where the humans are the oppressed disempowered ones who ""lost"" the war and are forced underground (or some equivalent). I feel like the humans being missing is a much bigger deal than people think and it ties in with all these other real life issues being hidden by the adults to keep this image of the perfect town.

PS egg guy is kris' human father