Deviant Art Images

Most of my readers know, by now, that I spend a certain amount of time on the website DeviantArt.  I initially went there with the intention of getting artwork for the covers of some of my books.  (And I succeeded; at least 5 of my covers are from DA artists.)

The usual arrangement on the site is to show visitors (or at least members) a series of images; you get to give each one a positive vote, or make a comment, or just scroll along.  But having been—however briefly—a professor, I just have to make a comment.  I can't make negative comments—that would be rude—so I get into this blog, and complain!

I'm now realizing, once again, that I'm thinking about the girls in the images—they're invariably girls—in terms of whether I like them as people, rather than whether they're beautiful images. 

This makes no sense whatever!  When we approve of the Mona Lisa, for instance, are we judging the painting as something Da Vinci painted, or as a prospective bride?  Or a picture of Aphrodite, say, as a work of art, or as an entry in a dating service?  This is a measure of how unprofessional I am as an art critic.

Actually, there is a tiny minority of women members who invariably post selfies 🤳.   I have made friends with a few of them, and they're nice people, but there are only a handful of them.  Often it's their boyfriends or partners (of either sex) who take the pictures; that's what I conclude from their pronouns being 'They, and Them'.

Finally, in the vast majority of cases, the images are neither paintings nor photographs, but images produced by AI apps.  So the connection to an actual person is very loose indeed!  It's rather desperate to have feelings for an AI- generated image.  To go a little further, this is what people on online dating sites are up against: Real, or AI?

Kay

P.S. Girl I could fall for <blush>: I know, that's a bit personal, but I guess it's too late now!

https://www.deviantart.com/kareguya/art/Umaima-1044520040

Pretty Girl Again

Well, they showed me a video of this girl; this time in an awesome 'Little Black Dress'.  Evidently Fb wants to see me in a LBD.  Actually, that would work for me. 

But I resent how stubbornly they keep after me. 

Never Fully

I rarely get a hook from a Broadway musical stuck in my brain, but I attended a musical review by a semi-professional band in our town, and—you shoulda guessed by now—a song they played is «You're never fully dressed without a smile!»

I've always loved this show, especially on video, and I loved the kids singing this song, particularly.  I wish I could attach an mp3 of the song to this post!  I mean: I easily can, but the strict copyright laws make it illegal. 

Kay

Untitled

Well ... I don't know what to say.  I saw this image on DeviantArt.

 

Its title was: "Bloe job eyes."

I looked at the image closely, and all I could see was a pretty, blue-eyed girl, looking very upset, it seemed to me.  The title, in addition, seemed very misogynistic.  But that's very common in this website; there is a significant number of 'members' who seem to get excited about anything that suggests bondage, or demeaning of women, or fantasizing about demeaning of men, by magically converting them into women, or keeping women imprisoned for sex use.

I'm so upset; there is a box I could check, to complain about the image, but all they would do is request that the picture be taken down. 

Embarassing!

I had undertaken to wash a small load of fabric for someone, when the washer started stuttering.  That's the best weird for it; it would sound as though it's trying to do something, and failing.  I was staring at the washer—a ɓrand-new unit, too—but couldn't figure it out!  I tried some things,  e.g. pausing it, and putting it on just drain and spin.

I was just miserable; I was waiting for my life to end, when it quietly showed the "Done" light!  At least I wasn't making a fuss, like a drama queen. 

K

Another Reader

I just glanced (or 'glimpsed', as some weirdos say) at the sales/download statistics, and I saw that exactly one each of my books had been tallied.  What does this mean?  One person has decided to get one each of my books.  Why not?  They're mostly free, after all!

Love to all of you,

Kay

Eclipse

Huh.

I've seen a total eclipse before—or it may have been a partial eclipse.  But once I had seen it, had had a little insight into how it happened, I sort of stopped being excited by it.  I was watching my dad do bodywork on our rusty old family transport, and that seemed more exciting than the eclipse. 

This time I hardly paid any attention to the phenomenon.  I thought the photographs were great, and the coronas, and all that, but—not impressed. 

I think that I'm too much of a three-dimensional thinker to see the romance in it!  A major component of Romance is the strangeness of it; once it becomes familiar, it isn't romantic anymore. 

The process of two people falling in love, and discovering interesting facets about each other: that's fascinating, and oh so romantic!  So much so that I can re-read a story I've read before, and still make a fool of myself over how romantic it is!  Maybe once I get older, and worn down with life's woes, I'll stop going ga-ga over love and romance, but at the moment, it still hasn't happened.

I'm worried that my lack of interest in the eclipse may come between me and, well, you guys; once I start becoming unable to relate to what most people feel, it's sort of the beginning of the end.  There's no point in fighting it; I'll need to find something else to keep me going. 

Kay