[blueherin]

I've had some new followers recently, so I figured this would be a good opportunity to make a pinned post and explain myself and my blog a bit:

Erin

Mid 30s

2 art degrees

Data professional

Art enthusiast and nerd

Accomplished sketchbookist

Fake gamer girl

Side blogs

@marigoldserenity is a fan page for the color yellow

@homesickforhyrule my Nintendo switch photos

@fernhenge my animal crossing new horizons blog

I don't tag with much rhyme nor reason, but I added my most used tags to this post, so feel free to poke around those.

Feel free to send me an ask or a message!

[curioscurio]

aragorn seeing a scared little boy that knows hes going to die fighting 10,000 roided up monsters and trying to give him a pep talk. swinging THE most shitass busted up sword in all of helms deep and giving it back to the kid and going "this is a good sword." knowing full well that sword was so ass it couldn't cut butter. kingly behavior. he would make a good lesbian.

[pmamtraveller]

The Bite, by Edvard Munch (1914)

[dailycatsblog]

[porcelainmorgue-deactivated2025]

[pocketss]

Ummm she's literally sensitive :/

[dogpuppy]

[itsalwaysdark]

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

[victusinveritas]

[blueherin]

Forgot to wear deodorant today and I can smell my ancestors on me

[odd-maid3n]

[knight--error]

[therobotmonster]

[leothewerelion]

inshallah he will be drank

[tigerleopardlion]

Jaguar | Andre Novales

[tigerleopardlion]

Yes

[sstrange-cloudss]

Les misreblog

[everydaylouie]

princes with a thousand enemies

[atapi]

girl imitates whalefall to escape the commotion of the city

[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.

[liivn]

A family of Ravens is putting the goth back in gothic at NYC's largest cathedral--St John the Divine. - by Above96th