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Lalala to ROMANCEZine

Tragedy and melancholy in art is escapism. Lets you put time and energy into being sad for a bit without thinking about the things making you sad in real life.

lobster-lover

little quick thing. i know how to wield a pen and paper sometimes

#(:#i feel this way sometimes #adventure time

hurlyburlytopsyturvy

june posting B)

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haruomicat

Tall buildings 🌃🌙🔦

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deckstrider

in my dream

#):#homestuck #damn

slthrt

the number of times i drew kanaya wrapping a piece of fabric around rose is insane

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the-suckiest-sburb-of-all

I love girls happy pride moneth

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tiktoks-i-enjoyed

Clip of Lucy Dacus on the Las Culturistas podcast.

calliedirk

thinking about them a lot as of late also i haven't posted on here in forever hiiiii

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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.