Ten Years Behind

Eternally late to the party.

[jadziacore]

TOS fem!Spock vision board

[dailyjosuke]

day 30 - happy pride!

[cursedtrekedits]

could you give chekov the inert solid a uniform and his ugly early s2 haircut?

[pmamtraveller]

By Dora Abodi

[kokoko-sir]

they are well-trained you see

[paexie]

Sunny for royalsnis @ artfight!

[ribchillz]

the lord of the wasteland

[1molnacl]

baby girl in pink

[tigerleopardlion]

Southern African Wildcat | Eugene Tulleken

[laziilee]

OKUTAKA - upmost gratitude

I luv rarepairs 😋

[aukkenopsia]

birdfolks

[laziilee]

Some of my favourite doodles I did during a request questionnaire on my Instagram 😁 over 50+ character suggestions! It was quite a challenge

[owa-tagoo-siam]

[kunosoura]

I know it feels good as fuck to cast spells from up there

[sayuupi]

Beru, Koko and Meng as Paintings 🖼️

[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.

[moonshinemagpie]

researching the history of education in japan and learning that, pre–Meiji Restoration, peasants/commoners formed their own schools to become educated because it was the best way of fighting tax fraud.

That is, when an official told you, a rice farmer, that you owed more taxes than you really did, it was very useful if you were good enough at math to know he was lying (and could prove it) and if you were good enough at writing to write a letter to your government defending your case.

all of which is to say it's crazy that mega-corporations are now pushing education to be "what if you paid us whatever we tell you to for the rest of your life and never do math or write anything ever again"

[thekimonogallery]

“Artwork in the novel “Higeo” by Rohne Koda. This is a scene in which Daisuke Kasai, who lost the battle of Nagashino, is imprisoned. In the novel, it is described as a beard like black lacquer and a red face like a jujube. This fine beard is also due to the woodcut. The artist is Eiara Tomioka. “