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im ready to die for this

here's the inexplicable little one sheet zine i made to give to oomfs at manga ichiba! the show was sooo fun, hope i get to table next year!

#cuuute.....#p4 #persona #art

secretgarden

#lelouch vi brittania

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.

#yeah like the actual Issue with using 'problematic' is that it's so vague that it becomes meaningless #i'm guilty of using it as shorthand in casual conversations where people don't want to be bogged down with specifics about shit they don't #really care about but even then i'm trying to use it less in favor of more specific language #and making that shift has been more conducive to having Actual Discussions about the content in question

frabjousdaily

nuclear family radiation poisoning

manzanamarim

do we see the vision

#i've been sayinggggggggg #i don't go to frieren but everything i know about it makes me feel like its inclusion in the 'new fantasy big 3' is moreso based on #superficial/visual similarities rather than thematic ones (which i Personally find to be more salient and important wrt grouping works #together and recommending them. but i digress)#dungeon meshi #dorohedoro #wha

dezalzer

Season 2's grip on me was so severe that the day after finishing it I spent 8 hours reading the entirety of the manga.

🩸

tried stitching together my favorite crawler from the spamton sweepstakes stream

#HDHDKGDKGDKHDKHDKH #deltarune

clubcope

thursday but it feels like friday conspiracy theory

saw some awesome gay sex art so i clicked on op's account to see what alse they've drawn and the whole thing was dedicated to: beatles rpf :/

#L.txt

cactusringed

I forget that most people ship things because they want characters to be in a happy relationship and not because they want them to have weird sex things with atrocious psychological consequences

#lowkey. they aren't even mutually exclusive . 🤐