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Mean Tweets: I don’t really understand how Anthony Mackie got this far, looking like a bug with buck teeth, but here we are…

momentofmemory

from “letter to my daughter,” by maya angelou

toastbutteregg

hittingfans

I’d do it BECAUSE of 2020. Get me the fuck out of here

ly0nheart1

I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY. If it gets me off this fucking ride….I’m ready to go. And if it doesn’t…oh well. I lived a life.

tikkunolamorgtfo

This is a headline on an actual news website.

abnormoinfo

new ebbits! new site!

poison-liker

this is probably my favourite comic of all time jsyk

sonic-gems-collection

can someone explain this to me?

shadeddaxion

Sure thing! For convenience I’ll refer to the guy with his arms in his pockets as SG (shorter guy) and the one on the computer as TG (taller guy).

In the first panel, SG sees TG playing on the computer and is disappointed. SG puts a lot of value in the idea of “making things,” specifically “art,” and thinks TG is just wasting their time

So he asks them if they wouldn’t rather be “making something” instead of just playing games and listening to music, implying that TG isn’t doing anything worthwhile or creative with their time

But TG replies that “interpreting is generative,” meaning that even if they spend their time just doing fun stuff, the mere act of enjoying something is creating an experience and an interpretation. Talking about something, dancing to music or sharing a piece of art with your friends IS “making something,” and each of those can be worthwhile and artistic.

SG leaves, complaining he “can’t be an auteur of [interpretation].” Auteur is a movie term that refers to a filmmaker with artistic control and vision enough to be considered essentially the singular creator of the resulting work of art. Turns out, SG doesn’t just want to “make things,” he wants to make things he and others see as “important.” He wants to make art not for the sake of art, but for the sake of being recognized and praised for his art.

This comic really speaks to elitism within the artistic community, the idea that art needs to meet certain standards to be considered art. SG’s viewpoint is really traditionalist, that art need to be “approved” and validated in order to be considered “really art;” while TG recognizes that art can be as little as just talking about what you love.

TLDR: Art is for everyone, not just some sort of social “artistic elite.”

abnormoinfo

ooh i love the explanation

trickstertime

Rebloging for that in depth and not even a little snarky explanation. 10/10

fullmetalfisting

Apparently when my grandma first came to America she didn’t know what a raccoon was and assumed it was a fucked up cat and adopted it. I just imagine this 13 yr old girl with a heavy Eastern European accent being like “this is my cat, Petr. He is not very friendly”