tarax @bananabytez - Tumblr Blog

i have several names but most will call me Tarax or Banana

my pronouns are he/it/byte and many others

mutuals feel free to dm/ask for discord!!

all my art has the #art tag on it, i do both traditional and digital (and i take requests)

I do commissions, information is on my strawpage

im in too many fandoms to list all of them but currently the main ones are: Knight Rider, and AvA/M, dfigures, no mercy (roblox)

uh yeah thats it i think

#intro post

mtftk9

panicked when i heard crouton.net was down so i went and got the crouton from the wayback machine in case anyone needs it

#crouton

obgythem

this is a political compass of sexuality to me.

purple

shadow-von-vamp

reblogging a post that says “do it scared” vs actually doing it scared

tractorgoth

im so bored i could make the character explode

i watched musical today and it was good

good night tumblr

ausgoth

its 2013 why cant i fuck music

ausgoth

youre so right brother

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.