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myuniverseinabox

Playing around with this brush I found, drawing some dragons.

sergal

everyone shut da fuck up this is the only thing that matters

sergal

Oh My God Damn

ratsoupee

field trip cancelled

Based off hit tumblr post:

planetsoda

who remembers this tweet

planetsoda

this is your annual pride month reminder that queer rose is real

nifrequerne

I often wonder what happened to authors of unfinished fanfictions.

everyoneinspaceisgay

I hope they’re having a nice life

ts-virgil-angst

we absolutely are not and that unfinished fic haunts us to this day

sensiblereblogifposts

Reblog if that unfinished fic haunts you to this day

#don't attack me like this

victusinveritas

nondelphic

writing is just sitting in front of a computer and making up problems for imaginary people while ignoring your own. fun and casual hobby.

neometalpussy

mimi modelo

neometalpussy

it's mimi modelo monday

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.