Emotional Writers Block

by Wholesome Rage | 2 May 2019

Art requires mental and emotional labour. Artists often feel guilty they’re not really working because they’re not lifting, carrying, moving… producing. They’re just doing their ‘dumb’ hobbies for an audience. They’re trying to make work they’re proud of, but it doesn’t feel like… well. Work-work.

Which is probably why it hurts that much worse when you can’t, say, make a minimum word count for the day. Because it can feel like if it’s not really ‘work’, then it shouldn’t be so hard to do.

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Christchurch and PewDiePie

by Wholesome Rage | 15 March 2019

So a mass shooting in New Zealand occurs. 49 dead, 20 seriously wounded by right wing mass shooters specifically citing the ‘great replacement’ racial science theory. This becomes an Australian story, because the shooter was an Australian emigrant.

So of course a senator from my state is making the news with their official statement.

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That Joke In Anime

by Wholesome Rage | 13 March 2019

[Transcript follows]

One of the commissions I offer is that, for just $7US per hour of content, I’ll sit through anything you want me to and I’ll catalogue the results live in my Discord server.

So far a lot of people have taken me up on this offer. I’ve even watched the single worst thing on Netflix, Leo the Lion, which will haunt my nightmares for as long as I live. Every time I close my eyes, I see the badly 3DCG baby lion-elephant hybrids imprinted behind them, and I break out in a cold sweat.

The rest has, without exception, been anime. All of it. A lot of anime.

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