Thursday, May 1, 2025

A Few Truthful And Thoughtful Words And The Awesomeness Of Bandcamp

This content is published in Canada by Brian Joseph Johns.



Greetings and salutations everyone.

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone yesterday who showed at least a bit of kindness and tolerance, as it goes a long way towards healing. I was a bit mean at some points yesterday having accumulated a considerable duration of abuse over the last six months, and that builds up like a kettle and can come out in some verbally intimidating ways when triggered.

I will not apologize for anything I said because it was all well within my rights to express how being harassed affects me, however, that doesn't mean that I need to carry it, especially when that accumulated weight didn't originate from my person, but from being intimidated by others at nearly a constant rate almost every day.

To those who read my stories and expect that I am a calm and rational person, I very much am but when I go out in public, just like Butterfly Dragon, I too have to wear scaled armour as a result of being mistreated myself and having no means to vent it healthily. I do my best to alchemize it, transforming that energy through my writing but often it comes in at an overwhelming rate.

Its a shame when soft spoken and peace loving people have to see my behaviour when its at a level of meanness and distrust like that, but I can honestly say that is my armour, and it certainly was never intended to be harmful to those you who wear their hearts on their sleeve, an ever so admirable quality, though certainly worthy of caution for such optimistic people. It never is and was directed towards you and inside of yourself, you probably already know that. Still, I'm very sorry to those of you for whom this rings true as it can't be very flattering seeing someone whose fuse has blown.

Still however, you might be happy to know that I put that energy to good use and in protection once again of women and their rights, as I was confronted with a situation yesterday involving the trafficking of women and in the face of the risk of harm, I stood my ground both in protection of the lady involved and my own principles and though I was NOT the customer, it seems that the people involved might have attempted to swap me and my identity for that of the customer who implied that he was 52 years old, insinuating that he was underecover from 52 Division in the Toronto Police Service, which I didn't and don't believe for a second. I have a very good memory and I've seen him around here before using other girls involved in that line of work. 

For a moment it seemed there was going to be an escalation of violence towards the lady in question and rather than fleeing to safety I went directly and confronted the alleged threat and helped to de-escalate the situation when by that time the security had arrived. Thankfully, the man involved in this situation managed to keep his calm as I was in no state to let anyone be agreesive towards me or the lady. Regardless, what could have been a very different outcome went decided well thanks to all involved and I never once backed down from my values in that regard. In retrospect what likely happened is that the people involved (including possibly the security) might have attempted to switch my identity with that of the customer. That seems to be a constant effort of this cult. To stick things to me of that nature, when I have no such involvement in any of that activity.

The danger with people who are systematically targeted for social abuse by members of the community is that if they can't manage the pressure cooker and release steam safely and productively, they can become a serious threat to those around them, and that is not necessarily their fault, but if harm originates from their person, then it is by and far their responsibility. The people who create such pressure cookers will at some point in their life pay the bill for treating a person in that manner, but ultimately the responsibility for one's behaviour falls solely in their lap. However and in the interest of peace and civility, I would urge the people who poke the tiger in the cage with sticks and stones, that you're part of what's creating a big problem in society.

Charles Manson never had his hand on the trigger, instead he had other people (members of his own cult) carry out his horrendous deeds (murdering a pregnant woman amongst other murders) but he was tried and convincted for the crimes, meaning that you don't have to have your finger on the trigger to be a party to the responsibility when the time comes to pay the bill and in the case of Manson, that day certainly came as it will likely for those of you who ceaselessly subject people to socially abusive treatment.

The irony of yesterday was this: that most of the harassers had stopped and backed off for the day, so in essence, I was harassed very, very little when compared to other times, but when you become conditioned to such treatment and traumatized by it over time, when it suddenly stops, you haven't stopped being hypervigilant and by that time, you're very distrustful of everyone.

In animal shelters when they receive domesticated animals who've been mistreated constantly by their owners (a very rare thing thankfully especially compared to neglect), the animals despite being treated very well by the animal shelter workers are hypervigilant and have been conditioned to think that all people are the way their former care givers are for their mistreatment of them. They have to be handled carefully and in most cases, such animals are simply put down. Imagine that. They did nothing wrong at all and the price of their being abused by others is a death sentence. Tortured (by their former owners), and then put to death.

When this happens with people, and they're used to being abused all the time and then it suddenly stops, its going to take time (a lot of it) for that person to properly heal and recover. I can tell you that I'll always have my armour, but its going to take me some time before I can trust people even a smidgen if I I don't know them. I take responsibility for my actions and my words and I am sorry to the people who've never taken part in this activity and who wear their hearts on their sleeves as I stated. Thankfully I was not mean towards any of them and treated everyone initially fair, and those who directed their harassment towards me I also treated very appropriately, hence there's no apology for them.

Finally in this long winded but extremely valid set of paragraphs, I apologize to anyone who might have been carrying the weight for my hypervigilance (perhaps there were people on a press tour who might have been labeled an a**hole on account of the colour of their costume being very similar to the  colours of the Shhhh! Digital Media website). 

Again, I certainly don't regard the colour red as being anything of an ill nature, because most of the things I love the most are red (including the most fragile of all) and I'm grateful for every one of them as much so as I'm grateful for the blue ones too. 

Try living without water or waking up to a clear sky or the caress of (red) fingernails or the gentle kiss of a woman's lips and you'll understand. Perhaps that person on the press tour was carrying the weight for my poor publicity skills as a diplomat for the red community? If so, I'm sorry that weight ended up in your direction, but as you know, these are things that we can't stop, but we can curb them by introducing people to an understanding of how their attitude and cumulative behaviour can affect others.

Anyway, I am definitely not a womanizer nor do I hire prostitutes and never have, but I would never tell a woman what she can and can't do with her own body. I've never fathered a child in my life either. I don't smoke at all either but be careful as the impressions of my person that you're getting might be coming from someone else. Something that this harassment cult often does and often does so purposely to sabotage or steal aspects of my life direction or give people a much different impression as to the nature of my interests. For instance, I am not attracted or have a fetish for obesity or brown skin and never have, but I believe that women come in all different shapes and sizes and that there's men and women with all sorts of different tastes, meaning that there's usually someone for everyone. 

Be careful of people who weaponize or sabotage identity, to give others a very different impression of a person than is factual. Its like broken telephone. You might read my work here, but be given a very different impression of my person that originates from someone else locally, so that you assume the writer to be someone very different than it actually is. This often happens too as a means to sabotage friendships, relationships and a whole host of life's aspects. I am not a member of Christianity at all but am an Atheist that leans toward Buddhism and Taoism. Some people disagree with that and want others to believe that my stories originated from someone else, so be careful of the nonsense that you're sold in that way. I'll be doing my best to make sure that every aspect of this harassment cults methods are exposed fully.

However, its good to know that when the fuse has blown, there's a few of us who can use it productively to a better end for the community and the world, hopefully without turning into overbearing tyrants. 

A future storyline I'm currently researching will deal with this exact issue from the viewpoint of the veterans it affects. This storyline will come after the current storyline in We Who Stand On Guard. Perhaps there will be even more insight within when that episode arrives.

Brian Joseph Johns


Bandcamp

I thought that I'd share this and give it some more exposure as I know many of my readers are fans of the music scene, both big label and indie music.

Bandcamp has been helping independent music artists since their launch in 2008. In 2020, they began their Bandcamp Friday campaign, which takes place on the first Friday of May every year.

During Friday May 2, all the music that you purchase on Bandcamp will go one hundred percent into the artist's pocket. Bandcamp waives their percentage entirely so every sale helps the musical artists to continue their work writing incredible music.

Since having run this campaign, Bandcamp has put $130 million dollars into the hands of music artists the world over so make a trip to Bandcamp on the web via the links I've provided or the one below.


Thank you very much to Bandcamp for sharing that with me and thanks very much for their putting that money into the pockets of artists the world over and keeping the spirit of music alive and well.


I'll be back later today with some more Shhhh! Digital content.

See you soon!

Brian Joseph Johns
CEO, CEO, Writer and Artist
Shhhh! Digital Media

Hate isn't love and love isn't hate and I am not a member of any ideology that swaps identities between people.

Credits and attribution:

Artwork: Amy Wong, Wendy Pusey, Ghastly, Birdman, Brian Joseph Johns, Daz3D, Unreal Engine...

Tools: Daz3D, Corel Painter, Adobe Photoshop, Lightwave 3D, Blender, Stable Diffusion (Easy Diffusion distribution), InstantID, Sadtalker, Google Colaboratory, Microsoft Copilot (Windows 11), Hitfilm, Borderline Obsession...

InstantID by: Wang, Qixun and Bai, Xu and Wang, Haofan and Qin, Zekui and Chen, Anthony. Research Paper Title: InstantID - Zero-shot Identity-Preserving Generation in Seconds.

Sadtalker by: Zhang, Wenxuan and Cun, Xiaodong and Wang, Xuan and Zhang, Yong and Shen, Xi and Guo, Yu and Shan, Ying and Wang, Fei.
Research Paper Title: SadTalker: Learning Realistic 3D Motion Coefficients for Stylized Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Animation.

Gratitude: Our Mentors, Senseis, Sifus, Sebomnims, lifetime inspirations, family, friends, the Nomads (ask Stanton about that one), the Music, the Movies, the Theatre, the Arts, ASMR, (both YouTube and Bilibili and the many other creators on those platforms), the Gaming and Developer communities and of course, the audience.

Martial Arts (in the words of real experts and at least one comedian): https://brucelee.com (home of the real Dragon and an entire family of inspirations), http://iwco.online International Wing Chun Organization (International presence of a very scalable intensity martial art, protected and developed by Shaolin Nun Ng Mui) and the alma mater of Jinn Hua's own specialized variation thereof, https://iogkf.com International Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karatedo Federation (even Hanshi had his teachers), https://itftkd.sport International Taekwondo Federation (Here there be Taegers), https://tangsoodoworld.com Tang Soo Do World (the path of Grandmaster Chuck Norris), https://www.aikido-international.org International Aikido Federation (how else would Navy Chef Steven Seagal liberate a Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier from a team of hijackers?), https://www.stqitoronto.com Shaolin Temple Quanfa Institute (The City Of Toronto's own Shaolin Temple), https://www.enterthedojoshow.com Master Ken's Ameri-Te-Do presence (If we can't laugh at ourselves, then we can at least laugh the loudest at others, and other Zen)

Special thanks to Aitrepreneur, Mickmumpitz, Hugging Face and the YouTube educational content producers, including those catering to the AI content production pipeline and of course AlphaSignal.

Special thanks to Bandcamp

Something to give you perspective: The very first teacher had no formal education, didn't graduate and was self taught, but only because they had no other choice. We do.

This content is entirely produced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 200 Sherbourne Street Suite 701 under the Shhhh! Digital Media banner.












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