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Little star

I love this interaction between them. Minthara is among my favorites when it comes to the banters. I swear that woman only has to look at Gale for a vein to pop on her temple kek.

strange-aeons

Surely Garfield of all things isn't something that gets in the way of religion

implication is that his previous religion was Garfield . . .

scavengedluxury

Sainsbury's (evaporated) milk packaging design concept, 1970s. From the Sainsbury Archive.

monster1994

happy june everybody i hope you get fucked and/or sucked this month

kazokuhouou

what if we don't wanna be?

monster1994

then i hope for peace

dogpuppy

escuerzoresucitado

#HAND CRANKED and TWISTED??!?!!#happy pride

soymoss

starling

jagalart

THE WITCHER DLC OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED LET'S GOOOOOOO

God I was so excited after the leaks, and it's so great to hear it's actually happening 🔥 What a perfect opportunity to share the two designs I did recently! (game/book Geralt since I've got a soft spot for both)

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.

hypokeimena

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)