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Obligatory Masterpost!!

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rentry

spotify

last.fm

ao3

#~ever rambles #thaw nation #thaw #the house always wins #masterpost #figured it was about time i made one of these #pinned post

itsgnorp

jay “that lady bit me and i think i was into it” ferin

the icon you are

made this for the jrwigacha! not sure how well i actually followed the theme but i had fun! so! whatever!

i’m so sorry for the pun name… you have to believe me when i say it was the only thing i could think of lol

kotathebearr

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH JRWEINERS

viciouskorb

she jay on my ferin til i sureshot

haven't actually posted art online in like years #awkward i forgot everything

theblacktiecacti

thinkin bout ollie + missin him this fine evening. i’d like to think he was the one who started fnc rpf in the world of mana

krasnoarmeyets

i bet it feels good as fuck to intend to do something and then actually do it

ashynfoxes

Jay’s always my favorite to draw <3

ashynfoxes

Sketch of a scene from my dream last night

android-boywife

it is so important that you are a little bit ugly. please get comfortable with having unplucked eyebrows and nonexistent jawlines and wrinkles. let your blue hair grow out into an uneven pale green and your clothes be old and mend them and modify them until they’re unique to you. wear lipstick which doesnt compliment your skintone and mismatched outfits which went out of fashion 5 years ago. be a little bit too loud and a little bit too passionate and as weird as you can be because oh my god there is nothing more disturbing to me than perfection. beauty is manufactured and sold to us and you need to realise that you are a fucking animal to live a joyful life I am so serious. you cant obsess over aesthetics forever please just live messily and make your body your home however you please.

if you dont do it for you, do it for all the teenagers who will see u in the street and know that they are not obligated to be attractive

minirow11

norah moth :3 (inspired by @/fishieguy cuz they always give her little antennae and its the CYUTEST)

knighthearts

happy pride month for it/its users, polyamorous people, xenogenders, non-transitioning trans people, and other "weird" identities. btw

vashtim

You’ll see her in everything

(Sketch, may finish later. Happy pride! 🌈)

rac0oncrimez

Got back into riptide.. I have so much catching up to do... anyways have a multicolored Gillion because I couldn't choose a color palette

+ a pd doodle I liked

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)