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toki! mi joki moku e kasi lape: tan mi wile kama sona e toki pona
(i'm gonna stop now since i literally just started today and it's hard to write like that for long periods of time)
anyway thanks for checking in!
i'm finally at a point with this site where i think i just need to touch up a few more design things and then i can start just throwing stuff on here.
this blog is one of them!
now for the actual blog bit ig
just finished going to my first ever furry con this weekend which was pawsome.
also kinda my first con too so it was kinda scary but also cool.
inspired me to make some new ocs so you'll see those pop up here on the blog and on the "art" tab above.
also gonna revisit a couple ocs that i abandoned, one of whom actually has lore which you will also see soon lol
anyway i'm either gonna get back to fixin things on here or sleep... or both.
so bye! \^w^
so i've been thinking about making my own conlang, despite only speaking english fluently and having no academic lingustic study. why?
because it's fun :3
anyway it'll take inspiration mainly from english, toki pona, japanese, spanish, and maybe some other languages. the phonology'll be primarily based
off of southern american english though, because that's what i'm most familiar with yk?
i'll be building the conlang around the following principles:
as many autistic people are want to do, i LOVE categorizing things to help better explain the world around me.
and as many artists are want to do, i LOVE deciphering what exactly it is that i love about art.
this post is an attempt to nail down this idea i have about the dichotomy of "arts" and "crafts", a phrase with a far less thought-provoking connotation
than what i'm talking about. please keep in mind that this is going to be kinda philosophical from someone whose philosophical background is mostly from podcasts :3
the primary difference between arts and crafts is thus: "art" involves the creative expression of ideas about the self, world, etc. while "craft" involves
the maintenance or improving upon existing ideas. some other ways to describe it would be "experimenting" vs. "perfecting" or "ideation" vs. "execution".
from this primary difference, we can draw out what "good art" vs. "good craft" looks like (good may be substituted for "quality" here).
good art, then, is art that is the best at being a creative expression of ideas, right? in other words, it is art that presents the most out-there, new ideas
or presents known ideas in the most interesting, experimental manner.
the great thing about this definition of "quality" art is that it enables even the most amateur aspiring artists to create some of the best, most compelling
art out there! you don't need professional equipment or years of practice to express a weird idea in a weird way! this is especially good news for people who have
experienced a very wide variety and/or depth of art in whatever field, including a lot of amateur art.
to be frank, one of the things that latched me onto this definition as i was developing it in my head was this realization that it allowed me—a lover of many genres
of music and what i'll call for now "Youtube Art"—to create genuinely great art despite lacking particularly developed skills in any one medium.
i'd consider myself to very much be a jack of all trades, master of none in the arts considering i have a bit of practice in:
in the sense that i have at least a couple finished works in these skills that have (mostly) been released to the public, which is where i personally consider a piece of artwork to be "finished".
amateur art in particular excels at pushing the limits of weird thanks to
