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I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

phineas-and-ferb-heritage-posts

phineas and ferb heritage post

unyieldingsilence

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cuunos

*takes a bite of my cigarette*...... heh. the character...... *walks into a small puddle but it swallows me up like the ocean* *i am found dead years later in maine*

amblue02

lixel-5

djpachipikachu

happy pride month

bludraws094

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citrusfables

watches project hail mary. fucking loves it. finds out the whole thing was done with practical sets/puppets and minimal CGI. starts reading the book. gets on tumblr to see what people are saying. they are headcanoning ryland grace as aroace and talking about the power of friendship. they are calling the genre “cosmic hope”. chat we fucking won

mizuthe-cat

love how you can change the text colors on here yeah this word is green now

ruststhatloseronfandomiguess

mizu i remember youre greens

HEHE

GREEN

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the silence yielded and they greened

unyieldingsilence

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sharkfiinn

eridian oc based off my favourite periodic element, bismuth : 3

they are one of grace's students and are suuper hyper

goodgirl-inc

sophiesalacia

techiecentral

dont say that ur awesome sauce

lewadny

happy june to everyone, especially my fellow aroaces

lewadny

Listen

LISTEN

I'M SCREAMING THE MAIN SEQUENCE *IS* THE AROACE FLAG WHAT

lovertm

lobster cake by a_kelik

sakrafka

my gf made me a lobster bath

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.

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)