Rose Over Chaos

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[lakevida]

i bet the pain will end if i arrange a perfect enough sentence about it

[uglyparkbench]

Women on Stamps: Algeria, Syria, Egypt, Somalia, Yemen, Tunisia, Lebanon, Iraq, and Morocco.

[mangafascination]

[which-ocs]

Which OC has this hat?

[ahmedsarsour]

"Let’s burn their den of crime”

This artwork was made by Taika, inspired on the community poem “A promise”.

I want to thank my community wholeheartedly for the artwork and community poem ❤️

[cutecipher]

science has always been political. what gets studied. what doesnt. who gets to do the studying. on and on and on.

[cutecipher]

scientists on this post: yuuuup 👍

people who aren't scientists: um actually ☝️

[mens-rights-activia]

The most vile and vitriolic person you know is online right now talking about the importance of building community and there’s nothing you can do about it

[peanutsniffer]

i generally dont understand when ppl look to art as a means of political activism. I feel as if every artist who sets out to enact positive change with art gets co opted by bourgoise interests.

[peanutsniffer]

I'm not saying you can't talk politics in art. I do that myself, but i dont expect my visual novel to like fix racism or whatever.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

During the Vietnam War... every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.

-Kurt Vonnegut

[peak-widow]

"In our struggle for the liberation of the Chinese people there are various fronts, among which there are the fronts of the pen and of the gun, the cultural and the military fronts. To defeat the enemy we must rely primarily on the army with guns. But this army alone is not enough; we must also have a cultural army, which is absolutely indispensable for uniting our own ranks and defeating the enemy."

- Mao Zedong, Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art, 1942 (emphasis added)

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

Mao was, of course, correct to say this, because he won the war, so clearly the overall strategy worked. But we are not in 1942 and we (proletarians) do not have An Army nor do we even have A Party (which is the first step). In the western world in 2025 we are much closer to the situation described by Vonnegut. Artists are operating either as individuals or as employees of media companies. Unorganized individuals can make political statements via art but without mass coordination of the message there will be limited impact. And of course artists who are operating as employees can hardly be said to have any ability to make political statements outside of an extremely narrow range. But the point is that even if you get every artist in the western world to coordinate on the message, if they have no party and no army, then they will ultimately not be able to liberate themselves.

Moreover, education about socioeconomic issue such as racism, strictly speaking, does not require art in order to educate people. In fact, if someone is educated about racism (or another socioeconomic issue) ONLY through art, WITHOUT materialist theory and factual history, their understanding will surely be incomplete. And i think that state of affairs is extremely common among the Tumblr userbase.

[artoverchaos]

[combataromantic-deactivated2026]

attackdog puppyplay where I rip your enemies to bloody pieces and then lay my head in your lap to hear ‘attaboy’ and feel fingers in my sweaty, bloody hair

[artoverchaos]

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[secondlina]

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[handweavers]

"violence is never justified under any circumstances" types when you tell them that they have already implicitly accepted that violence is sometimes justified by expressing ambivalence if not outright allegiance to capitalist politicians and systems of governance. you have already accepted that violence, under certain circumstances, is at least tolerable if not entirely reasonable and necessary, and you assert that all the time. you have already decided what sort of violence is okay to you

[boobieteriat]

If you want to appeal to more people and sell more art, you kind of have to be apolitical but not so apolitical that your work ends up saying nothing. Buyers like images and objects that make them feel good, that seem to reflect their beliefs in some way. But if you take a clear stance, you risk alienating other groups. So your art ends up meaning almost nothing, but it sells really well because it has broad appeal. This is what it means to be an artist who sells.

Do you really want to be an artist, or do you just want to be adored?

[boobieteriat]

It's so insane though that we have to live like this in order for people to buy our art.

[fuckyeahasexual]

Queering the Map - No Pride In Genocide 

[creative-aces]

Do not allow this to be normalized as a thing that can silently happen. Strike, yell, make a scene, write this on every surface, cry all day at work until you’re excused. Do something like your words matter.

[roseillest]

AFRIQUE, JE TE PLUMERAI // AFRICA, I WILL FLEECE YOU (1992) dir. JEAN-MARIE TENO