A friend of mine who’s a professional singer got told by his former conductor upon firing him, “well, see, if a violinist has a bad instrument he can just replace it. But in the case of a singer, well, it’s just not so easy.” Very roundabout and very crushing.

Rules for thee, not for me? *Shocking. *

Whoa, I’d be careful sharing that you did that, it’s still the internet. But maybe I’m being overly careful.

…daddy?

Why not? Which person owning multiple companies would be disadvantaged in a way that could be considered unfair in this way?

Powerful and saddening. It does feel like, as an artist, everything revolves around how good others think you are. I try to go around it by only performing others people’s work, but also then, you’re dependent on those people wanting to work with you or not. Still dependent. Always dependent, as an artist, which is so so heavy.

I do enjoy these writeups. Really makes the project come alive.

No chance this has also happened in other countries though, right? Right?

Ooo, you can do that?

One of them is significantly more gleeful about Israel winning than the other, though. World politics is nasty stuff.

Not at all. But then I, thankfully, live in a country where makeup use isn’t as normalized as in many other countries like the US and more eastern European countries.

Wow, that’s a very passive aggressive reaction. I enjoyed a lot.

Busted.

this is a man who ran afowl of his home country’s laws about pornography.

Afoul, surely?

The icon for media reminds me of a bidet on a floor plan.

These are great writeups.

I’m happy with Pipepipe myself, it’s on the izzyondroid F-droid repo.

And it’s a middle-aged white man? *Shocking. *

Now that sounds like literature right there. Real solid parenting, too. Wonder if grandma was sitting on a couch during this conversation.

Not that I disagree, but how is this pertinent to the comment you replied to?