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The Rules of the Game: A Fuller Thought on J. Hopper and Vampire Weekend

Yesterday I posted a fairly peeved note concerning Jessica Hopper’s Chicago Reader article about Vampire Weekend. (She’s responded to that note, very graciously, on her blog, but that seems to have vanished.) My note led to a spike in traffic, which was unexpected: if I’d realized it’d catch much attention, I might have explained myself more carefully. The essay below is an attempt to outline my thoughts beyond the mere pique of the thing. Some of you may have heard me talk about this stuff before, but it seemed worth setting down a full, coherent version of it; read at your leisure.

Let me note first, though, that the point here is not to snipe at Hopper, whose work I enjoy. More importantly, the issue I’m about to outline is not really about the music of Vampire Weekend. I do not need you to like their music. But I do want you to think about the culture of our criticism, because I feel like it’s ever more beholden to a kind of blind posturing that wants to stop it from saying anything useful or true. Let’s go ahead and call this posturing The Game.

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[takemotoarashi]

Wolves take a day off.

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Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind, 1896 by Jean-Léon Gérôme

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I’ve been thinking a lot about it and this is literally the best title of anything

[cumaeansibyl]

so I guess it was some ancient Greek who said “truth lives at the bottom of a well” and I don’t know what he meant or why it stuck, but I’ve seen a lot of 19th-century references to it (because people always love showing off how much they know about stuff)

but I like this because imagine how fucking pissed off you would be if you lived at the bottom of a well in the first place, but then you had to climb all the way out of it somehow because humans were such unbelievable assholes that you were forced to yell at them in person

[autumngracy]

“I CAME OUT OF THE WELL BECAUSE YOU NEED TO STOP”

[jake-clark]

[thekilljoyscomic]

The Killjoys: Furry Epidemic art by Pig-Demon Read more on Tapastic!

[beaky-peartree]

remember when lol meant “laughing out loud” instead of “this is to indicate that this brief text isn’t hostile”

[izzyink]

Late Nite Delite Comic

Jim will now have the most memorable death scene.

Got very busy these days, so here’s a little comic I made during my free time.

[evanskvrl]

So apparently that famous Zootopia poster was a crop of a much bigger image, which cut out Duke Weaselton and Gideon Grey entirely.

After finding out about this atrocity, I was able to track down (the admittedly European version of) the full image in all its 7200x5480 pixel glory. The above image is hyperlinked to it, so ENJOY!

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FUCK

[georgesquares]

Netflix and Chill was based off a joke about a person not wanting to have sex and I don’t get why people forgot that. 

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Japan vines are next level

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As a warm up, today I drew my first ever D&D character and her familiar; a nerdy elf time witch named When and her spider familiar, Neith.

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The SF

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saku1saya

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Bonus Gravity Free! comic: Council of Authority on Hot Boys’ Bods.

[hurricanesunny]

You’re filled with DETERMINATION.

haven’t gotten around to re-setting up my tablet yet, so i messed around with some spur-of-the-moment designs and a very frustrating mechanical pencil. once i have the time i’ll work on the designs a bit more.

playing pre-pacifist and true pacifist saved my heart from a lot of trouble