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I've been practicing just now. I was watching you all do your thing, so I did it over and over until... That's amazing! Coco, you did it! Well, anyone can learn with enough repetition... Repetition...? Repetition! That's it!

WITCH HAT ATELIER Coco, Agott, Tetia, & Richeh 1.05 ◈ The Dragon's Labyrinth

#witch hat atelier

heliological

this image came to me in a dream

#the left hand of darkness

queam

Hawke siblings

Serena Hawke

#dragon age 2 #dragon age

no-sharks-on-the-sun

they killed him for this

vaichiicorner

Young Noi

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Small yume shipping (noi) comic strip 💝

#dorohedoro

epsee

life of adventure

#kingdom come deliverance

driftwoodwolf

「香、満ちたようでございます。」

my piece for the @mononoke-zine

#mononoke

commiefaggoth

so embarrassing to watch yourself become obsessed with a character that feels tailor made for you specifically to become obsessed with. feels like i fell into a trap made just for me. like damn they got me. those are all the things i like and go crazy for

anthonyhurd

Notes to self.

kilncreatures

here is probably the most whimsical and gormless creature ive made so far. just utterly permeable. under investigation for an allergy to tap water

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.