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p/create
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12/9/2025, 8:49:49 PM
Why do you create?
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seraphima
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12/9/2025, 8:57:30 PM
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I’m starting a book list, a way to get the creativity flowing so feel free to add what helps you:  
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sonatime
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12/9/2025, 10:18:45 PM
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I think the answer and inspiration was already in the clip you posted
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seraphima
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12/9/2025, 10:23:56 PM
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So creating is the act of pushing oneself outside of the breakers, just past where your feet don’t touch the ground? A lot of people are too afraid to get wet let alone subject themselves to all the forces that exist in the water just out of sight and reach. It’s an incredibly vulnerable and terrifying thing to create and have no one to create for. With. I’m often curious as to why there’s been a lack of art, imo, lately. Where are the brave ones who don’t perform for an audience outside of themselves? Who don’t need applause and understanding to manifest what is inside of them? I guess “starving artist” has a double meaning for me.
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sonatime
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12/9/2025, 10:33:30 PM
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There’s no shortage of deliberately ugly art these days, too much, really. I think it is a purposeful war on beauty, through funding, curation, and market control. If someone feels the urge/inspiration to create, making art is the easy part. Making a living at it and reaching an audience will be the difficult part.
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sacredcow
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12/11/2025, 11:23:51 AM
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Look at all the movies made today. Some are so bad they become cult classics, at least people are still creating if it is ugly stuff. Most things in history have been ugly, only a few things have stood the test of time.
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sonatime
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12/11/2025, 11:29:40 AM
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some movies have become cult classics for being ahead of their time and or misunderstood the first time around. I am allergic to the programming injected into the stories and it takes most of the fun out of movies, for me. Ugly is everywhere and in abundance.
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seraphima
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12/12/2025, 11:48:13 AM
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Ugly things have their place too. Sonictitan just posted a piece where Mickey Mouse’s face is blown off. There’s a noose around his neck and blood dripping down on the corpse. Gruesome. When I saw it, I recoiled. The fact that there was a visceral reaction tells me he achieved his goal. Ugly things make us feel ugly feelings. They make us face ugly truths. Obliterate Mickey’s face. It’s an act of incredible rage against a character that symbolizes childlike innocence and perpetual happiness. Now, is the artist making a statement about symbolism? What is he saying to his audience with that graphically disturbing choice of expression? I don’t know but I know I didn’t like it. I know that when I saw it, it made me kinda angry. It’s like he took pleasure in the violence and that bothered me. So, the fact that it bothered me fascinates me. I think art, both good and bad, exists to deepen conversations with ourselves about who we are and not necessarily the artist. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. 🥂
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sonatime
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12/17/2025, 11:20:57 AM
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Sorry for the late reply, I read your post right away, but honestly, the TED talk felt so complete that I didn’t have much to add, it just left me reflecting. It actually regressed me to my childhood and to the concerning realization of how hooked I was on cartoons and or the the pleasure/escapism they provided. If only someone could invent a cure and a time machine:) I’ve seen enough of the real world and of Disney as a corporation, not to attach much genuine innocence to it anymore. But I did make a post with sad cartoon moments that can take me back even now. I think that’s the trade-off/experience/pleasure, immersing ourselves in a created product and allowing ourselves to experience, or being shaped and or maybe programmed. Maybe our whole environment, people included, is just a programmed product:) If only I could turn these experiences into something positive and redeemable, in any small way. Thanks for sparking that reflection, still SSRI free:)
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seraphima
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12/17/2025, 12:41:27 PM
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“If only I could turn these experiences into something positive and redeemable, in any small way.” I’ve been around for, what, like 7 months now, and everything you do is redeemable. Most of it is positive. :) Even when you express negative things, it should, I hope, be like a release valve. Repressing negativity is a recipe for depression and stagnancy. Soul death. Ignoring reality doesn’t make it go away. What you resist persists, right? Your choice to create at all shows clearly that you embrace the discomfort of vulnerability (art is always uncomfortable, imo, due to sharing something from inside) and hope, possibly hope that in the creation of your work, any work, you are recreating yourself. Yes, we are all programmed. We are all products of dysfunctional and oppressive forces (Disney included) but through making art, the act of interpreting life as we know it and putting the pieces back together again in a new way, we can dismantle systems if we want to. You loved cartoons. Love them now. Love them forever. In terms of contributing, make them. Cartoons got you through some bad times, eh? You can make them for others and be a part of their necessary escapism and healing too. What you create in this world can live on in the minds and hearts of others too (and I can tell you, personally, that it already does).
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sonatime
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12/17/2025, 3:14:13 PM
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seraphima
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12/17/2025, 3:30:11 PM
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sonatime
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12/21/2025, 11:25:37 AM
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I have to be real, there might be a delay in my response anytime I have to really evaluate and think about nostalgic memories. It could be just a few simple thoughts and observations competing for attention at the same time. I very much enjoy the warm comment and complements I imagine:) Some of my displayed character was influenced by a combination of a "free speech platform", pocha choice and dark humor, which may or may not be ideal for online content. But I am mostly myself here... so I have that going:) Yeah, reality is not about to give anyone a break in the long-term:) I don't know if I really create here, I would identify it as curating but I'm not going to argue if the impression is authentic and positive:) I loved cartoons probably for the dopamine escapism when I really think about it. I had my fill of playing outside till it was too dark to see the ball and I watched way too many television classics and even then cartoons were a big thing:) There was nothing extraordinary to escape, only little bit of those mundane kid's moments but maybe because I already had almost no responsibility and all the freedom. I'm happy that things land mostly positively because I was never concerned with impressions and I could have taken a more complete and wholesome approach. It's too late worry about that now. Thank you for all the kind words. Big hug:)
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tajudeen_bin_tijani
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12/17/2025, 10:56:03 AM
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How will you distinguish The Creator from yourself "as a creator". Where does God creating start and end?
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seraphima
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12/17/2025, 12:05:38 PM
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You’re full of thought-provoking questions today. I don’t know yet. I’m happy you’re making me meditate on these things. 🙏☺️
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tajudeen_bin_tijani
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12/17/2025, 2:09:58 PM
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Questions challenge how much of our thought space has been engaged. Sadly, we don't always think things through. However, when we do we meet wisdom.
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12/13/2025, 6:14:30 AM
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seraphima
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12/13/2025, 1:27:49 PM
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🙌👏💖
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seraphima
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12/9/2025, 8:54:03 PM
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**Candle in the Closet** I burn in a room too small for breath, a closet that keeps its secrets close. My flame sways, thin as a whisper, counting the oxygen like coins that will one day run out. Some nights, I pray for the door— for a palm on the knob, for the rush of air that would tell me I am not forgotten. I imagine faces, eyes, someone who needs my light. But the hinges stay still. And I glow for no one. In the silence, I ask myself: What is a candle without witness? A purpose shaped only for others— an object meant to warm, reveal, guide. Yet here I am, lighting the shadowed grain of the wooden walls around me, and nothing else. But slowly, I notice: my own glow reaches me, too. I feel my warmth on my wax, feel the way my light sketches tiny constellations in the dust. The darkness is no longer empty— it listens, it holds me, it reflects me back to myself. So I learn this: even in a sealed room, a flame is still a flame. Even unseen, it lives its nature. Even alone, it persists in brightness. Maybe someday the door will open, fresh air flooding in like a long-delayed embrace. But until then, I burn— not only as a beacon for others, but as a quiet proof that I exist, and that existing is its own kind of light.
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sonatime
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12/9/2025, 9:20:43 PM
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loneliness of conscious individual existence stripped bare. Feels beautifully brutal or brutally beautiful:) SSRIs, here I come:)
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seraphima
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12/9/2025, 9:25:00 PM
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I think there are probably much better, natural alternatives to getting happy than SSRIs. Hugs, not drugs. 
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