Maybe One Day I’ll Do More Than Lurk

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[persianmom-deactivated20251026]

what will it be, boss? the comfort of misery or the pain of change?

[maxshortt]

Billiards Night

[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)

[musiicpix3l]

Yes yes i know love is love. But they are still killing CHILDREN. over this.

[shartingan]

[spaghetti-explosion]

the guy from the bible

[shartingan]

this is actually neji hyuga from naruto.

[donutdrawsthings]

I was thinking of a pride art challenge people could do with their OCs, because I thought it'd be cute! A queer/trans artist with their creations.

but then I realised that same challenge would be infinitely more funny with folks who have atypical or horror OCs

[hard-times-paramore]

Rock OC slider

[mellosdrawings]

Yurifies your trolley problem <3

[seerya]

I will never be over how excited Rocky was to get Grace's laptop. I mean, if I went on a mission because my planet was dying and then I met an alien who helped me save it and he also gave me the collected knowledge of his species in an advanced little machine, like, he gave that to ME. ALL THE KNOWLEDGE HIS SPECIES HAS GATHERED SO FAR, sure, they don't know how to turn Xenon into a solid but they know about relativity and radiation and movies and so many amazing things I could have never imagined before I went on this trip. And he just handed it to me because we're FRIENDS, I didn't even have to ask him for it, he just did it. Without hesitation. He didn't even tell me "This is for your planet.", he said "This is for you." Like, hello? Can you imagine coming home after decades, your crew is dead, but you made it and you don't just bring the solution for the whole "the planet is dying" thing, you bring the collected knowledge of an advanced alien species?!?!? And it was a personal gift.

The happy little dance and grabby hands were fully appropriate.

[egg-ify]

THEY MAKE ME SICK !!

[soft-butch-cassidy]

everyone yelling "hide the yaoi" about fictional character shipping as if mark hasn't been put through the youtuber rpf trenches for years. he didn't survive septiplier only to be shocked by bloodymary

[jasethegooberton]

More bloodymary doodles for the soul

[nordreys]

james ortiz provided some of his own personal rocky backstory on the sag aftra podcast, transcribed by me because we all have to be miserable about it together.

link to the podcast, this section below is from timestamp 24.35

“andy weir provided a packet to the creature shop that was like a packet of eridian biology and stuff but there wasn’t much about eridian culture or eridian sociology and i made a bunch of choices going in because i just needed to have like a ‘who am i?’ right? 

[…] and i made a decision that rocky’s species, that eridians are really social animals that in fact are like a beehive or a pod of dolphins - it’s a unique and really integrated ecosystem of everybody doing their [specific] part. and the fact that rocky had to fly that ship for about 45 years - longer than grace has been alive, i wanna point that out - he’s been alone on that ship, having to run that by himself and- ryan and i would talk about that, one day we sat down and he was like “so what’s the movie from rocky’s perspective?” and i was like “oh it’s like ‘alien’, […] like he’s in a ‘contagion’ movie by himself and he has no idea what’s going on.”

he’s basically in castaway by himself which of course ryan is too but like, one reason why we never cut to the past of rocky is like, i think it was really horrifying! i don’t think rocky has slept in however many years and so a thing i was really struggling with is this idea of like “rocky must watch sleep” because how do you make that a need as opposed to like, a cute idea? and i just had to make the decision that […] he has a lot of unprocessed trauma around the things that he doesn’t understand and how much he is blaming himself because he’s the guy who fixes, he’s the guy who fixes and there was something really freeing about deciding that rocky was a deeply emotional, deeply anxious, deeply horrified person - being - that is trying to move through that in some way and how that affects the early scenes with him until there’s a point in the story where you can see we’ve physically softened rocky’s behaviour, because he’s finally feeling more safe and ok but all of that lore, all of that information [was essential].

i also decided, this is just a small nerdy thing, that there was actually some of his family, was on that ship too.”

[devilangel657]

"Average person makes at least one first contact with new lifeforms." Wrong.

Ryland Grace who makes first contact with 3 different lifeforms is an outlier and should not be counted.

[blueumbriel]

Choose your fighter looking ahhh

[nots27]

First of all, NO movie spoilers in the comments ❌ even if I already saw it, I will be deleting spoiler comments until the final ep is out on YouTube!

Anyways, I made this piece to celebrate the finale of this amazing series that has done irreversible damage in my head, and nothing makes me happier than enjoying the journey until the very end (please don't let it flop, lineart took forever 😭)

[ilikemusicandpears2]

so fucked up that she goes through all that at 17. she should be at home watching buffy the vampire slayer and eating dry cereal