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rainbow-sunglass-artist

Happy Pride, have some ship art of my fav canon lesbian aunties lol

(I actually started this awhile back, but figured now was a good time to finally finish and post it!)

#<3 #janaya #the dragon prince

chillyfeetsteak

this is what i mean when i type 👀 btw

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.

emmiriikka

#:3

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kozteskod

elnerdo19v2

This is how we burned cds 💿

noelismi

Kevät on ihmeellistä aikaa ku yöllä voi olla pakkasta mut sit päivällä aurinko paistaa ja tuntuu ihan kesältä....

Paitsi jos tuulee. Se tuuli on paha.

Mut ai että ku linnut laulaa ja tuntuu et kaikki tulee menee hyvin hästäg hyvästi kaamosmasennus ja tervetulloo rento letkee kesäfiilis <3

#rantaleijona #enosaaeesuida #muteisehaittaa #lomallelompsis #paitsioonainalomallakoskaoontyötön #muttäälomaonerilainen #uskokaamua #kesänlapsi #paitsioonsyntynysyksyllä #muttahenkisestikesänlapsi

twilight, dawn🌙

To the God of Eternal Youth.

"Since the day I first laid a lock of my maiden's hair upon your altar, many decades have passed. Now I am old and withered, but you are still beautiful as ever."

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#greek mythology #apollo