Rodrigo

24 yo | Gay Agender he/him etc | Chilean artists based in Europe | Art account: @Nugengen | Champurria / Mestizo | Minors don't follow me

[delicate-viscera]

usamerican soldier STUNNED into silence when he learns that his willing and paid participation in the murder and neocolonization of foreign people is a huge red flag to everyone with a conscience

[base-and-superstructure]

usamerican civilian stunned to learn that justifying and defending this willing and paid participation (even tho it's the only way to go to college/get a job/whatever nice thing that is apparently worth more than other people's lives and freedoms) is an equally huge red flag fr fr fr

[treecitysessions]

[icantspellthings]

Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible

Pronouns

An accent

Bias

[icantspellthings]

Im going to shoot you people with a fucking gun

[televisionenjoyer]

Everyone has an accent it came free with your language 🙄

[audliminal]

Congrats to every reply like this for failing to understand the fundamental definition of an accent. Of course you think you sound normal! It's the way you speak!

[salarta]

Gonna sign language at you in a very southern accent

[inthewaytoamultilinguallife]

Sign languages also comes with accents, you can easily watch people sign and tell the difference

You get different sign language accents, you get regional accents, and you even get "second language speaker accent"

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[strangegutz]

My favorite question to ask people!!

Given the choice, after death would you choose to be

1) A wet specimen 2) taxidermy or 3) jewelry

(this is assuming all of these were to be possible and ethical (?) I think that's the word I'm looking for)

oooh. I think jewelry. Lots of room to make weird or abstract art in that way, and the potential to give dozens of people the opportunity to say "my ring is made from human remains, by the way"

[loki-zen]

has anyone considered that it was probably her house too. where else was she supposed to put her chintz?

[littlenapss]

[shipsa-hoy]

Everybody needs to see this

[aaawunder]

read a story on reddit that reminded me of that study about a concerning amount of men who think they could win a point versus Serena Williams

[aaawunder]

[shouty-y]

Franchaela portraits ✨ - Prints

[ok91]

[hfml-deactivated20170210]

this scene tho!

[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.

[throathole]

please don’t fuck my dad

At the end of the day it’s up to him

[sailatina3]

[komainucomplex]

this ones a classic even tho i really really really wish it was not

[creekfiend]

we are broadly so fucking bad at being good friends to people who Cannot Leave

there are people who Cannot Leave. hopefully it's not the case for their whole lives but it is the case for them RIGHT NOW. and even trauma and abuse aware communities are shitassfuck bad at knowing how to be a supportive friend to these people and I find it soooo fucking frustrating. it's condescension and scolding and unrealistic standards and victim blaming and minimizing all the way fucking down .

[lailah-tov]

It's so important to educate yourself about why people stay in bad situations and how to help someone who can't leave or goes back. Any sentence starting with "You should just" is bad, but "You should just leave" is one of the worst.

[kittensnax]

you won't begin to believe how much I pace my house going "I like dry food! I like playing with shoelaces!" like I spiritually am this cat